Book 3 of WYLAMG? is out!
3 years ago
And thank God for that. Took me a long time to break out of a funk I'd fallen into at the start of the year, but a new puppy does a lot to break any malaise.
This won't be a long journal, just wanted to put something fresh up. I'm hanging around in Oregon for a while and will probably mosey on over to Montana a bit later to give my new Weimaraner time to socialize with a small pack of Vizslas owned by a friend of mine out that way.
I hope 2022 is treating all of you well, and I wish you the best.
Take care.
This won't be a long journal, just wanted to put something fresh up. I'm hanging around in Oregon for a while and will probably mosey on over to Montana a bit later to give my new Weimaraner time to socialize with a small pack of Vizslas owned by a friend of mine out that way.
I hope 2022 is treating all of you well, and I wish you the best.
Take care.
FA+

It's true, mostly. I mean, I picked up keyboarding later but most of what really matters you at least get TOLD very young.
I say that to say this: when I was young I was an introvert, but when pressed I was not afraid to turn to violence to convince people that I was not to be fucked with, or made the butt of their jokes. After fighting I was punished, more than once, by being made to hold hands with the person I'd fought with for the rest of the day.
There were any number of punishments the adults around us COULD have gone with rather than the one that was most likely to result in ANOTHER fight, but they chose that one, and they did it to me more than once, as I said.
Why do you think that was?
WYLAMG? is that writ large.
You can feed the hungry by simply giving them food. You can shelter the homeless by building their houses for them. Doing that doesn't teach people how to feed or shelter themselves. You know what DOES? Leaving them exposed and starving until they learn.
THEN when they eat food they grew themselves, and live in houses they built themselves, they'll won't take what they have for granted.
Taken as individuals, everyone needs a helping hand at some point.
Taken as a race, humanity only learns when FORCED. Anytime something is handed to us, we fuck it up.
So I don't write about places where sensible people take control of everything else and MAKE people get along. That's boring and - to me at least - even more dystopian than the world I dreamed up.
Let people stumble and fight and fail. Let them face the long dark night alone and afraid.
Those who do and survive will be much better company than those who never had to fight at all.
In this case, inevitable disaster is in the eye of the beholder.
Those cyborg cultists sure have a winning strategy. Beginning to think they’re the actual villain.
As a wise man once said, if you want to paint a beautiful picture, you need to use some dark colors.