@TriflingTree Far "Our" Man or Far "Out" Man? 😛

@elysegrasso Subterfuge? Strategems?

@kagan Agreed about the context 🙂Anything set in the present day, especially if it touches on race politics, would need to talk about colour. I write SciFi set in a far future where I like to imagine that humanity has gone beyond racism to specism — so my own stuff doesn't rely so much on race/colour as on what species you are and how humans still cling to the old race/colour biases but in a new bottle (or glass), so to speak 😛

@crcollins

@kagan Yep, that makes it clearer and you are right, I don't like that either. If you're going to mention colour, then mention for all, don't assume a default.

@crcollins All I can say is, "Me too" 🙂 I like giving readers the option to imagine a character as they might want to because that's what I do when I read. So I stick to the bare essentials and try not to get too descriptive.

I'm still not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing, but that's what I do.

@kagan

@kagan I'm not white, and most of my characters are not white either. When I write, I consciously do not mention colour because I don't think colour is relevant. They are just people.

Of course, this is not what you are talking about with the writers who don't mention their characters because there, I'm fairly certain that at least a good portion of those writers (consciously or unconsciously) don't think there's anything other than white people 🙂

But personally, I don't think we should be focusing on colour in general because that too leads to rascism, just in a different way because we are saying it matters what colour a character is. And it shouldn't.

Sri Lanka has a million problems but I'm glad functioning democracy isn't one of them. A peaceful transfer of power is taking place following a peaceful election.

Sep 21: Presidential election
Sep 22: President (1st leftist President) elected
Sep 23: former PM resigns
Sep 23: New President sworn in
Sep 24: New PM (3rd woman PM) sworn in
Sep 24: Cabinet appointed
Sep 24: Parliament likely to be dissolved (with general elections planned for November).
#SriLanka

Good friend of mine was fired today because he refused to throw someone under the bus. If you have any leads for jobs for an experienced and highly talented senior full stack developer who has a spine, convictions, drive, and a willingness to advocate for his team let me know. United States, full remote or Colorado.

To my friends/colleagues in the professional fantasy field: writers, artists, programmers, anyone whose job involves making fantasy worlds and telling stories therein:

Please help me spread the word on your various socials that I'm looking for collaborators to help me develop an IP I've been working on. (1/?)

Well, regarding this catastrophic situation I’m free to get a new job (permanent role, no freelancing).

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Writers and artists: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it.

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"SIr Lanka Files": In an island city where the Cat Men of the Thieves Guild rule supreme, DaVic, a private eye with more quips than credits, takes on a job for the Thieves Guild from a mysterious femme fatale. This job lands him on the run through the dark streets of Sir Lanka, trying to stay one step ahead of those who pursue him.

In trying to unravel the mystery, he ends up finding a sidekick in the form of a Thieves Guild Tea Leaf, KarJa. With her help, the duo start cracking the case and when Sir Lanka is brought to the brink of war by way of a clash of ideals between the Guild and a nascent revolution, would DaVic and Karja be able to stop a bloodbath? Or will they be too busy helping tree-like aliens who are wary of human contact, or dealing with a bunch of alien scientists who are conducting experiments in the very heart of Sir Lanka?

https://books2read.com/b/mgw00v

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Today apparently Apple will announce the new iPhone.

This is the first year since I began iOS development where I don't care at all 🙂

I'm already about 95% out the door in terms of using Apple. I have found my replacements and they are at least half as cheap as Apple hardware. The only thing I'm not sure about is the when.

I'm probably going to let my current Apple devices come to point where I'm not happy with their performance (or they die) and then I'll be switching one by one to non-Apple hardware.

At least, that's the plan. I guess how this will turn out as the years go by, but I'm certainly not watching the Apple event today. That's a start.

@auguryignored I have a political satire set in a future Sri Lanka and it's sci-fi but not sure if it'll appeal to you since some of the stuff is in-jokes that only Sri Lankans will (probably) get 🙂

https://books.farook.org/sir-lanka-files/

One of my top 100 fave linguistics facts.

A calque is a word made by translating word-by-word from a foreign language. A loan word just uses borrows a foreign word - as it says.

The word loanword is a calque of the German noun Lehnwort. In contrast, the term calque is a loanword, from the French noun calque ("tracing, imitation, close copy")

#linguistics #words #writing

I have greatly revised my introduction. Whilst you might not want to take a look, I think you'll like that I clearly state that I boost posts that announce authors' work and publications. I do this pretty much unconditionally, as I believe it's the right thing to do, but there is a caveat.

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