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feral philosopher bug

I don't seem to be able to stop making things and putting them on the internet

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fiction

The Dragon Racer (webnovel)

Heaven Can Wait (novel)

Smashwords

Itch

Fanfic (Ao3)

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music
Bandcamp

Soundcloud

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podcast

(about Japanese RPGs)

Youtube

Libsyn & RSS

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streams

Twitch

Youtube (archives)

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#all my made-up mech pilots

(h/t: @Making-up-Mech-Pilots / @Scampir)

#Denis Urban, fictional sports pundit


In my case, this one

I wanted to see if I could tell a longform story that worked, structurally, the way actual sports work - not the way sports fiction works, I've enjoyed several things in that genre but they tend not to work like actual sports. Basically I've watched a lot of sports documentaries (Jon Bois/Secret Base stuff but also more conventional stuff like Rain City Redemption as well as a whole BUNCH of actual Formula 1 (a terrible sport for terrible people but I just can't hate a race where the cars look like spaceships), much of which is built around 'You couldn't make it up!' moments that only work because we know that, however corrupt a sport is, it's extremely difficult to actually fix results - I looked at the 'you couldn't make it up!' stories and thought 'well what if I did, huh?'

And here's the result, which unfortunately has to be very long because it turns out sports are very complex and tend to run for a year at a time and that takes a lot of words. This could easily have been 2-3x longer if I'd really wanted to cover everything that happened in the sports stories that inspired it.


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