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I’ll try to keep this one short. In theory, I am the sort of person that this game was made for. I played the original Final Fantasy 7 on the original Playstation around 1999, when I was thirteen years old. I have a lot of nostalgia for it. Unfortunately, it’s been 25 years. Doubly unfortunately, the game, in ...

I always read about what school shooters or wannabe assassins have to say. I read or at least skim through manifestos, most of which are really poorly written and usually just have badly misunderstood ideas that are copy-pasted from diverse places. I read social media posts and discord logs, where available. Some of this is ...

Rising Impact is a shonen sports anime about a third grader who is really ridiculously good at golf. This is a review, along with some thoughts on shonen sports anime and what makes them tick. Spoilers for the first season follow. I don’t watch a ton of anime, so tend to just go in blind to ...

Cross-posted from my tumblr. Inspired by this post by @a-memory-a-distant-echo, this is a list of ongoing works-in-progress, where “in progress” I will define as “I have added at least one sentence in the last year as an indicator of actual mental load being used”. This does not include worldbuilding or planning documents, which spring up like ...

I picked up The Ministry of Time when I was in Berkley. It was prominently placed, it had a bold and colorful cover, and I’m a sucker for time travel of any kind. When I brought it up to the counter, the cashier told me that it was one of her recent favorites and really ...

Spoilers follow. Content warning: death, transphobia, homophobia I don’t review most things I watch. I’m a writer, not a reviewer, and most things just sort of pass by having been consumed and thought about in a way that I don’t feel the need to share with others. I’ll be upfront: I Saw the TV Glow did ...

This is not really a blog post proper, more of an update to an older set of posts made a year ago. Since that time, newer, bigger, and better models have come out. I gave a little talk about what it’s like to work with the AI and where my frustrations with it lie, particularly ...

It’s been 10 years since I wrote Metropolitan Man, and last night I read it for the first time in almost that long. Since writing it, I’ve written over 4 million words, and hopefully, grown as a writer. I’ve also forgotten parts of the story, so was looking at it with as ...

This isn’t a blog post about how to write a sex scene. I haven’t written many of them, unless you include erotica, and in erotica the whole purpose of writing and reading is different. Here, I’m talking about sex scenes that exist within novels, ...

This is a review for all four of Sanderson’s “Year of Sanderson” books: Tress of the Emerald Sea, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, A Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, and The Sunlit Man. Because these are all their own books, they’ll have their own sections, but this is at least partly a review ...