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The Three Seas
Not many words today. You have to look at things. Like this. LOOK AT THIS! I was thinking about a Mediterranean-type sea, but with three outlets to the world ocean rather than two. Our world has the straits of Gibraltar … Continue reading
Ensuring Collective Prosperity
Here’s the answer to the linguistic puzzle I posted on Friday. I showed you what a passage on 22nd-century political theory sounded like, and perhaps the most common way it might be spelled. To help you along, here’s the maximally conservative … Continue reading
Future language!
I worked so hard on these lines. Vivek thrust his nose in the air and affected a slushy Present Day drawl, “Some undisciplintt fewp setch me, officah! ‘Z vrath smutt lait alcohol ‘n shradu chat ma calothas prrojectah! Wet des, … Continue reading
Flying Gangster Cars
I’ve been thinking about The Centuries Unlimited’s flying cars. Black Station split off from canonical history when a bunch of 22nd-century technology was dumped on it in 1929, so it has a Diesel-Punk aesthetic with gangsters and trenchcoats. I considered … Continue reading
Dhih tauj nayin Payauld Thayth
You what I want to do? Put modern English (of the General American variety) through the sound-changes that Proto-Indo-European went through to get here. In other words, what might English sound like in five thousand years? I /aɪ/ > … Continue reading
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Timeline 9
I’m watching a lot of DS9 right now and reading alternate history and I can’t help but imagine a drama centered around: Flightless vampire bats from a timeline where South America never connected to North America, the Fair Ones built … Continue reading
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Baby talks! (10 months) 2
I just came out of a grueling four-day weekend where the weather was bad, my wife and I were sick, and we spent almost the whole time locked up in our apartment with our children. I AM going to talk … Continue reading
Cold ghosts
The hardest part of fighting ghosts is you have to do it cool. Ghosts eat heat, so any energy you pour into your weapons systems only makes them stronger. That’s why we need to capture them, of course, but it … Continue reading
My Favorite Bit with Mary Robinette Kowal
What would it be like to meet a tyrannosaur? That’s the question that everyone who works with dinosaurs wants to answer. What did this animal look like? How did it behave? What sounds did it make? What smells? How did … Continue reading
The lazy hero
This is a response/continuation of a request posted on tumblr: “what I want to see is a story in which the practical dedicated young warrior receives a prophecy that one day they’re going to save the world from great evil and uses it … Continue reading
