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The word Camus is rhymed with a list of near‑rhymes such as “dancing,” “standing,” “hanging,” “having,” “asking,” “magic,” and many others, according to the Chorus Songwriting rhyme list.
Detailed Answer
The phrase “in Nothing Rhymes With Orange” refers to the well‑known idea that some English words are notoriously hard to rhyme. While orange itself has only rare perfect rhymes like sporange and Blorenge, the name Camus (as in Albert Camus) does have many usable rhymes in songwriting and poetry.
Near Rhymes for Camus
These are natural, singable near‑rhymes listed by the Chorus Songwriting App:
dancing
standing
hanging
having
asking
magic
laughing
acting
passing
flashing
crashing
getting
telling
happy
Paris
staring
begging
letting
wearing
heading
spending
daddy
carry
selfish
tearing
ending
pretending
candy
coming
something
The word Camus is rhymed with a list of near‑rhymes such as “dancing,” “standing,” “hanging,” “having,” “asking,” “magic,” and many others, according to the Chorus Songwriting rhyme list.
Detailed Answer
The phrase “in Nothing Rhymes With Orange” refers to the well‑known idea that some English words are notoriously hard to rhyme. While orange itself has only rare perfect rhymes like sporange and Blorenge, the name Camus (as in Albert Camus) does have many usable rhymes in songwriting and poetry.
Near Rhymes for Camus
These are natural, singable near‑rhymes listed by the Chorus Songwriting App:
dancing
standing
hanging
having
asking
magic
laughing
acting
passing
flashing
crashing
getting
telling
happy
Paris
staring
begging
letting
wearing
heading
spending
daddy
carry
selfish
tearing
ending
pretending
candy
coming
something
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Aug. 23rd, 2026 09:26 am...is not the "Mordversuch," 1) neither the injury, but dying, being drawn to the underworld. The Man who was tired of Life says that his ba draws him to death.2) Śṯ 3) is a discharge from a wound or as in this case a discharge from the eye, but there is no need for the eye to have been wounded or injured through Seth having struck Horus in an actual fight. But the Berlin dictionary conveys the suggestion that the eye is wounded by translating the expressions ḥkst 3) and nknknt or nkkt 4) as "das beschädigte Auge" or "verletztes Auge." Heerma van Voss,5) however, has translated ḥks as a verb as "reduce." There is no doubt that nkkt and nknknt are connected with nkk "Buhlknabe" 6) and nkỉ "den Beischlaf vollziehen." 7) This might indicate that Seth did not cause the suffering of Horus's eye by a blow, but by an act of a sexual nature.
The expression wḏỉ śṯ seems to be causative of śṯ.8) The preposition m can often mean "in," but śṯ m means "drag out," "pull out," "flow out" etc. The finger of Seth i.e. the latch of the naos, named elsewhere,9) in more plainly sexual symbolism, the phallus of Seth, is withdrawn from the face of Horus.10) Yet has śṯ a transitive meaning in CT IV, 236 a? There is no mention of finger or phallus as direct object. The translation, then, would be: "after Seth had withdrawn," suggesting an original unity of Horus and Seth, or at least a union consisting in a homosexual embrace, which was ended by Seth.
Seth, God of Confusion (1967), pg 36
That's a lot of talking around Set mouth rapes baby Horus, pulls out and squirts Horus in the eye, turning it yellow. Ho so? To Egyptians, it seems, semen is called "the poison of the scorpion."
Also:
He who carries out the ritual of filling the eye of Horus not only shields the cosmos from disintegration, but also comes into contact with the gods and benefits spiritually.
pg 46
So, take it in the eye to combat climate change...and for spiritual growth.
Prodigal Son
Aug. 10th, 2026 11:55 amPremise: Crime profiler is the son of a serial killer investigates a different serial killing every week in New York City.
Overview: Standard crime drama scripts. Introduce three people at the beginning of the show. The culprit is the one who gets the least screen time before the first commercial break and then is completely ignored for the rest of the episode. Usually, the secretary that brings in the tea as main characters are introduced to first suspect.
The main character is tormented by his past, of course, because this is a TV show and therefore lacks all creativity. He sleep jumps out of a window when he breaks the chains of his bed, for example. We get to see his hallucinations, which makes him look even worse.
His method is to spontaneously, without any thought, constructing a profile of a killer based on an initial assessment of a crime scene. Including a label for the "kind" of serial killer we're looking for. And then ignoring it for the next forty minutes while everyone flounders around getting into trouble.
Being of its time 2019-2020, it is racistly anti-racist with snide comments like "as this is a serial killing, the perpetrator will be a white male, of course"* and "I have exploited people my entire life...I am a white man."
Both the serial killer and his son are played by English actors, pretending to be American with English American accents that are a mixture of Boston and Valley Girl, unfortunately like Hugh Laurie's. The serial killer is the angel from Good Omens, and is very charismatic. The profiler's mother is hot and about eight years older than him. His sister is about twenty years younger.
Episodes
This is an episodic series featuring a single, encapsulated plot in each episodes, and ongoing character stories are developed through sub-plots. Minor contradictions and inconsistencies are common between episodes.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6 - A man gets killed. Not the wife, not the wife's lover. The son. Because he likes rabbits.
Episode 7 - Break from the normal routine. Lead and sister trapped in locked room with psychopath father being harassed by serial killer. Indications that we should think that father set up attack, although that's completely impossible.
* This first one is very mild, but also inaccurate. Not even close to accurate. Looks like less than half, but it could be almost half.
Overview: Standard crime drama scripts. Introduce three people at the beginning of the show. The culprit is the one who gets the least screen time before the first commercial break and then is completely ignored for the rest of the episode. Usually, the secretary that brings in the tea as main characters are introduced to first suspect.
The main character is tormented by his past, of course, because this is a TV show and therefore lacks all creativity. He sleep jumps out of a window when he breaks the chains of his bed, for example. We get to see his hallucinations, which makes him look even worse.
His method is to spontaneously, without any thought, constructing a profile of a killer based on an initial assessment of a crime scene. Including a label for the "kind" of serial killer we're looking for. And then ignoring it for the next forty minutes while everyone flounders around getting into trouble.
Being of its time 2019-2020, it is racistly anti-racist with snide comments like "as this is a serial killing, the perpetrator will be a white male, of course"* and "I have exploited people my entire life...I am a white man."
Both the serial killer and his son are played by English actors, pretending to be American with English American accents that are a mixture of Boston and Valley Girl, unfortunately like Hugh Laurie's. The serial killer is the angel from Good Omens, and is very charismatic. The profiler's mother is hot and about eight years older than him. His sister is about twenty years younger.
Episodes
This is an episodic series featuring a single, encapsulated plot in each episodes, and ongoing character stories are developed through sub-plots. Minor contradictions and inconsistencies are common between episodes.
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5
Episode 6 - A man gets killed. Not the wife, not the wife's lover. The son. Because he likes rabbits.
Episode 7 - Break from the normal routine. Lead and sister trapped in locked room with psychopath father being harassed by serial killer. Indications that we should think that father set up attack, although that's completely impossible.
* This first one is very mild, but also inaccurate. Not even close to accurate. Looks like less than half, but it could be almost half.
Strange Question
Aug. 7th, 2026 07:29 pmPicked up a book on the Epic Cycle that I'd last read for the Theban Cycle essays a few years ago, and was reading a essay on the place of the non-Homeric epics in Greek society, when someone comes up to me and asks what I'm reading. I had to go into more detail than I thought I'd need to.* Then after I'd gotten him to understand that it in some way related to a Christopher Nolan movie, he asked:
And it probably doesn't. But I hope, at least, that if I do know a little bit more about things like this then maybe, just maybe, I'll make judgements that are just a little bit better than the ones I've made before.
Because God knows those were shit.
Then, I met an old lady who knew all about the Commedia dell'Arte and wanted to talk about the stupid little comic I draw whose characters are based on archetypes from 16th century Italian improvisational street theater like Pantalone, Arlecchino, and Bob Ross.
* I would think some like, "There were some other Greek epic poems that connect the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This book is about them," would be sufficient.
The question I have for you is this: how will this make the world better. When I wake up in the morning, I always ask myself how I can make the world better. How does this make the world better, how does it help anyone?
And it probably doesn't. But I hope, at least, that if I do know a little bit more about things like this then maybe, just maybe, I'll make judgements that are just a little bit better than the ones I've made before.
Because God knows those were shit.
Then, I met an old lady who knew all about the Commedia dell'Arte and wanted to talk about the stupid little comic I draw whose characters are based on archetypes from 16th century Italian improvisational street theater like Pantalone, Arlecchino, and Bob Ross.
* I would think some like, "There were some other Greek epic poems that connect the Iliad and the Odyssey.
This book is about them," would be sufficient.
Cypria - Proem
Jul. 28th, 2026 07:31 amThere was a time when countless peoples roamed the lands, the entire breadth of Gaia's bosom, and Zeus took pity on Her:
His shrewd mind formed a plan to lighten the burden placed by men on the all-nourishing Earth. He unleashed Strife on them to fan the flames of war until such time as every hero rotted in an unmarked grave and no man remained to honor them.
His shrewd mind formed a plan to lighten the burden placed by men on the all-nourishing Earth. He unleashed Strife on them to fan the flames of war until such time as every hero rotted in an unmarked grave and no man remained to honor them.
Washing Machines
Jul. 15th, 2026 09:11 pm"Did washing machines make household labor 'more productive,'*" she asks, obviously continuing to answer in the negative. Someone said no in 1983, says she, because now people felt the need to always wear clean clothes. Not just on alternate Sundays. To reduce the stench, we increase the labor.
Doing all of our washing, drying and folding takes me about 15 minutes a week. Mostly folding while watching TV and going on sock hunts before turning the washer on. Another ten for the sheets. Two people's clothes for an entire week, including exercise and gardening. Twenty minutes of me actually doing stuff. This is much less time than would have been spent washing. How much time do you think this would take if I washed our clothes by hand every week?
I am afraid I have been in places where I was forced to hand wash all my clothes for three months, under extreme, military scrutiny. One person, two sets of clothes plus more underwear and stuff -- more than forty-five minutes a week, not including the ironing.
It's just not credible.
* I mean, really, if you want a vague idea, it's the "productivity" of uncompensated traditional maintenance tasks in a family compound in response to rapidly changing social standards.
Doing all of our washing, drying and folding takes me about 15 minutes a week. Mostly folding while watching TV and going on sock hunts before turning the washer on. Another ten for the sheets. Two people's clothes for an entire week, including exercise and gardening. Twenty minutes of me actually doing stuff. This is much less time than would have been spent washing. How much time do you think this would take if I washed our clothes by hand every week?
I am afraid I have been in places where I was forced to hand wash all my clothes for three months, under extreme, military scrutiny. One person, two sets of clothes plus more underwear and stuff -- more than forty-five minutes a week, not including the ironing.
It's just not credible.
* I mean, really, if you want a vague idea, it's the "productivity" of uncompensated traditional maintenance tasks in a family compound in response to rapidly changing social standards.
Today, I Do Need Bluesky
Jul. 11th, 2026 11:42 amThis is exactly what I'd post. It is too beautiful:
Judge (J): What do you do?
Defendant (D): I write poetry, I suppose.
J: No supposing! Stand up straight! Don't lean against the wall! Look at the court!
Do you have a permanent job?
D: I thought it was a permanent job.
J: Answer the questions directly!
D: I write poetry. I thought it would be published. I suppose.
J: We are not interested in what you "suppose." Answer: why weren't you working?
D: I did work. I wrote poetry.
J: We are not interested in that. We want to know what organization you were affiliated with.
D: I had contracts with publishing houses.
J: They say that. Do you have enough contracts to earn your livelihood? List the dates of your contracts and the compensation they afforded.
D: I do not remember exactly. My lawyer has all my contracts.
J: I am asking you.
D: In Moscow, two books containing my translations were published.
J: How long is your work record?
D: About...
J: We are not interested in "about!"
D: Five (5) years.
J: Where did you work.
D: At the factory, in the geological team...
J: How long did you work at the factory?
D: A year.
J: Your position?
D: A metal cutter.
J: And what was your occupation in general?
D: Poet, poet-translator.
J: And who recognized you as a poet? Who set you among the ranks of the poets?
D: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity?
J: Did you study it?
D: What?
[I presume the poet wonders if he was being asked if he had formally studied being human.]
J: How to be a poet? Did you finish a certificate at trade school? Were you properly apprenticed?
D: I did not think poetry was given to one by education.
J: By what then?
D: I think poetry comes...from God.
J: Do you have an appeal for the court?
D: I would like to know why I was arrested.
J: That is not an appeal.
D: In that case I have no appeal.
J: Does the lawyer for the defense have any questions?
Lawyer (L): Yes. Do you contribute earnings to your family?
D: Yes.
L: Are your parents working?
D: They are retired.
L: Do you live with them?
D: Yes.
L: So your earnings are part of the family budget?
J: You are not asking questions, you are making assumptions. Do not assume. Ask.
L: Are you registered at the psychiatric clinic?
D: Yes.
L: Did you go through treatment?
D: Yes. From December the rear before last until January this year in the Kashchenko Hospital in Moscow.
L: Do you not think that you illness prevented you from working regularly in one place for a time?
D: Yes. No. Maybe. Probably. I don't know. I don't know.
L: Did you translate poems for an edition of The Cuban Poets?
D: Yes.
L: Did you translate the Spanish Romantico?
D: Yes.
L: Are you affiliated with the Translator's Department of the Writer's Union?
D: Yes.
L: I request the Defendant be sent for medical evaluation to determine whether or not his health prevented him from holding a job on a regular basis. I further request that he be immediately released from custody as he has a permanent residence and can return to court at any time.
J: Very good. The Defendant is to be sent to police precinct #18, where he will be housed. There, he will be given psychiatric evaluation to determine whether or not he suffers from any illness that should prevent his being sent away for forced labor.
Judge (J): What do you do?
Defendant (D): I write poetry, I suppose.
J: No supposing! Stand up straight! Don't lean against the wall! Look at the court!
Do you have a permanent job?
D: I thought it was a permanent job.
J: Answer the questions directly!
D: I write poetry. I thought it would be published. I suppose.
J: We are not interested in what you "suppose." Answer: why weren't you working?
D: I did work. I wrote poetry.
J: We are not interested in that. We want to know what organization you were affiliated with.
D: I had contracts with publishing houses.
J: They say that. Do you have enough contracts to earn your livelihood? List the dates of your contracts and the compensation they afforded.
D: I do not remember exactly. My lawyer has all my contracts.
J: I am asking you.
D: In Moscow, two books containing my translations were published.
J: How long is your work record?
D: About...
J: We are not interested in "about!"
D: Five (5) years.
J: Where did you work.
D: At the factory, in the geological team...
J: How long did you work at the factory?
D: A year.
J: Your position?
D: A metal cutter.
J: And what was your occupation in general?
D: Poet, poet-translator.
J: And who recognized you as a poet? Who set you among the ranks of the poets?
D: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity?
J: Did you study it?
D: What?
[I presume the poet wonders if he was being asked if he had formally studied being human.]
J: How to be a poet? Did you finish a certificate at trade school? Were you properly apprenticed?
D: I did not think poetry was given to one by education.
J: By what then?
D: I think poetry comes...from God.
J: Do you have an appeal for the court?
D: I would like to know why I was arrested.
J: That is not an appeal.
D: In that case I have no appeal.
J: Does the lawyer for the defense have any questions?
Lawyer (L): Yes. Do you contribute earnings to your family?
D: Yes.
L: Are your parents working?
D: They are retired.
L: Do you live with them?
D: Yes.
L: So your earnings are part of the family budget?
J: You are not asking questions, you are making assumptions. Do not assume. Ask.
L: Are you registered at the psychiatric clinic?
D: Yes.
L: Did you go through treatment?
D: Yes. From December the rear before last until January this year in the Kashchenko Hospital in Moscow.
L: Do you not think that you illness prevented you from working regularly in one place for a time?
D: Yes. No. Maybe. Probably. I don't know. I don't know.
L: Did you translate poems for an edition of The Cuban Poets?
D: Yes.
L: Did you translate the Spanish Romantico?
D: Yes.
L: Are you affiliated with the Translator's Department of the Writer's Union?
D: Yes.
L: I request the Defendant be sent for medical evaluation to determine whether or not his health prevented him from holding a job on a regular basis. I further request that he be immediately released from custody as he has a permanent residence and can return to court at any time.
J: Very good. The Defendant is to be sent to police precinct #18, where he will be housed. There, he will be given psychiatric evaluation to determine whether or not he suffers from any illness that should prevent his being sent away for forced labor.
Age Verification
Jul. 9th, 2026 08:10 pmWell, Bluesky just asked for my SSN/Credit Card/DL Number.
So, it was fun while it lasted.
Goodbye, Bluesky.
Go scam someone else.
So, it was fun while it lasted.
Goodbye, Bluesky.
Go scam someone else.
Post-Mortem on Santa's Fried Chicken
Dec. 25th, 2025 11:42 amPost-Mortem:
Can't say I'm happy with all of these drawings or many of these couplets, but it does have the advantage of being "done."
Some things that I did because I sent a color version to Australia, which means I had a very short time to make it.
So short, the descriptions weren't rhymes.
1
Jim Wright
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meanwright.bsky.social
· 2h
The text is worse.
I was working on them until Christmas Eve while trying get done with IG posts (which include the color versions), and although I'm okay with some of the couplets, I wonder where some of the rhymes come from.
Door-Dour?
Them-Limb? Well, "'em" was "Grim" at one point.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 2h
I did read out the entire thing on a series of roguelike playthroughs on YouTube, and most of the couplets are serviceable.
At least I didn't wince when I read them aloud.
But that is the first thing I did wrong: I didn't read the rhymes aloud. That would have helped catch a lot of problems.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 1h
For the drawings a couple of things stand out:
(1) Perspective shots are a little off. Especially on early drawings (most of the late drawings are the fights).
(2) The ink work is often poor.
However, when looking at it while showing on YouTube I was very happy with most of the drawings.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 1h
Three drawings were redone:
(5) The Guardbot entrance. I never got that working. The guardbot was designed only in profile, so that's a lack of planning.
(8) The paw-to-hand battle. Really, this was a replacement for something worse.
(18) Santabot swarmed by elfbots. More dynamic now.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 1h
To improve:
(a) Designs should include multiple perspectives.
(b) More redrawing for complex items, e.g. pp. 4, 11-12,* and work on linework
(c) Be a little more careful with keeping designs consistent and with continuity (lost snow-shuriken on p 11).
[To self: Story post-mortem. Things I like]
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 1h
The Story:
There was too much action.
As much as I like a lot of those fight panels, they changed the character of the story by taking up most of the pages. They were the last things drawn and connected the three other parts (1) The Middle, (2) The Beginning and (3) The End.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 54m
I should have tried to plot a little more to improve this.
Instead, I ended focusing on the continuity of the fight scenes and limited what I could do plot-wise. I probably don't need two blow-by-blow fights like in a comic book when I only have 28 panels to illustrate (approx. 4-5 pages).
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 52m
What I liked:
As I did read this aloud - and displayed the panels - on YouTube, I did get to see things that I really liked.
Some of them are things I've said I have problems with: the perspective in p 12, although showing that it was done free-hand and the problems with the dude, is vertiginous.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 36m
I liked some of the framed backgrounds, page 3 and page 11.
I liked many of the layered panels. Some of them looked quite 3D, especially some of the fight scenes. Particular examples are page 10, 11, 12, 19, and 25.
I liked the foreground/background dual storytelling on pp. 21-23.
And the page 18 redraw is a favorite for its dynamicism.
Some of the fight panels also have great dynamicism 7, 18, 19 and 25.
And I love page 2.
I liked some of the more fun rhymes, with onomatopes and made up words. Not a lot to like, but some things I did.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 28m
The story got away from me, but I do like that it is coherent.
Things happen in order. Robots have motivations. I think that those come through in the panels and in the narration.
I like that the narrator was some unknown security guy looking through cameras.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 28m
This adds realism:
We all know that all NSA reports are in verse.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 16m
How to apply this:
(A1) I, Faustus
Santabot is most similar to I, Faustus in format. A single-panel page with some verse on the bottom. There should be some learning available.
The place that this works most for is in the verse, since that's where I got stuck when I was trying to write I, F.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 11m
I think just "finishing" this is the main thing for reigniting I, Faustus.
I, F. did not have the action problem. Maybe it could develop one, but I doubt it. It is much better plotted. Even if the plot is only part written, it is pretty well plotted out before I start drawing.
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Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 3m
(A2) A Comedy of Robots
The look of Santabot is based on A Comedy of Robots, so there might be something to learn.
The storytelling in ACoR is much more like a comic strip (which may have contributed to design problems of the guardbot), but I don't think there will be a need for fight scenes.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social
· 24s
So, I do not have a good idea of how to use this to improve A Comedy of Robots.
Yet.
Can't say I'm happy with all of these drawings or many of these couplets, but it does have the advantage of being "done."
Some things that I did because I sent a color version to Australia, which means I had a very short time to make it.
So short, the descriptions weren't rhymes.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 2h
The text is worse.
I was working on them until Christmas Eve while trying get done with IG posts (which include the color versions), and although I'm okay with some of the couplets, I wonder where some of the rhymes come from.
Door-Dour?
Them-Limb? Well, "'em" was "Grim" at one point.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 2h
I did read out the entire thing on a series of roguelike playthroughs on YouTube, and most of the couplets are serviceable.
At least I didn't wince when I read them aloud.
But that is the first thing I did wrong: I didn't read the rhymes aloud. That would have helped catch a lot of problems.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 1h
For the drawings a couple of things stand out:
(1) Perspective shots are a little off. Especially on early drawings (most of the late drawings are the fights).
(2) The ink work is often poor.
However, when looking at it while showing on YouTube I was very happy with most of the drawings.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 1h
Three drawings were redone:
(5) The Guardbot entrance. I never got that working. The guardbot was designed only in profile, so that's a lack of planning.
(8) The paw-to-hand battle. Really, this was a replacement for something worse.
(18) Santabot swarmed by elfbots. More dynamic now.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 1h
To improve:
(a) Designs should include multiple perspectives.
(b) More redrawing for complex items, e.g. pp. 4, 11-12,* and work on linework
(c) Be a little more careful with keeping designs consistent and with continuity (lost snow-shuriken on p 11).
[To self: Story post-mortem. Things I like]
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 1h
The Story:
There was too much action.
As much as I like a lot of those fight panels, they changed the character of the story by taking up most of the pages. They were the last things drawn and connected the three other parts (1) The Middle, (2) The Beginning and (3) The End.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 54m
I should have tried to plot a little more to improve this.
Instead, I ended focusing on the continuity of the fight scenes and limited what I could do plot-wise. I probably don't need two blow-by-blow fights like in a comic book when I only have 28 panels to illustrate (approx. 4-5 pages).
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 52m
What I liked:
As I did read this aloud - and displayed the panels - on YouTube, I did get to see things that I really liked.
Some of them are things I've said I have problems with: the perspective in p 12, although showing that it was done free-hand and the problems with the dude, is vertiginous.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 36m
I liked some of the framed backgrounds, page 3 and page 11.
I liked many of the layered panels. Some of them looked quite 3D, especially some of the fight scenes. Particular examples are page 10, 11, 12, 19, and 25.
I liked the foreground/background dual storytelling on pp. 21-23.
And the page 18 redraw is a favorite for its dynamicism.
Some of the fight panels also have great dynamicism 7, 18, 19 and 25.
And I love page 2.
I liked some of the more fun rhymes, with onomatopes and made up words. Not a lot to like, but some things I did.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 28m
The story got away from me, but I do like that it is coherent.
Things happen in order. Robots have motivations. I think that those come through in the panels and in the narration.
I like that the narrator was some unknown security guy looking through cameras.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 28m
This adds realism:
We all know that all NSA reports are in verse.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 16m
How to apply this:
(A1) I, Faustus
Santabot is most similar to I, Faustus in format. A single-panel page with some verse on the bottom. There should be some learning available.
The place that this works most for is in the verse, since that's where I got stuck when I was trying to write I, F.
1
Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 11m
I think just "finishing" this is the main thing for reigniting I, Faustus.
I, F. did not have the action problem. Maybe it could develop one, but I doubt it. It is much better plotted. Even if the plot is only part written, it is pretty well plotted out before I start drawing.
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Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 3m
(A2) A Comedy of Robots
The look of Santabot is based on A Comedy of Robots, so there might be something to learn.
The storytelling in ACoR is much more like a comic strip (which may have contributed to design problems of the guardbot), but I don't think there will be a need for fight scenes.
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Jim Wright
meanwright.bsky.social· 24s
So, I do not have a good idea of how to use this to improve A Comedy of Robots.
Yet.
Books 2025
Dec. 21st, 2025 10:08 amLast update in July. Make sense, but unfortunate.
( Books 2025 )
Apparently, according to Goodreads, everything is above average, but not great.
( Books 2025 )
Apparently, according to Goodreads, everything is above average, but not great.
The Mustache Effect
Jul. 27th, 2025 05:05 pmIt's a pleasant day for a drive.
Very much so. I love the Austrian countryside in May.
But these old cars didn't really have anything like a 'suspension,' did they?
No, not really. A shame, since the roads weren't paved.
And the horse carts. We have to dodge horse carts, there's real rhyme or reason for the traffic. People driving wherever they want to. I think I'd prefer it if you drive.
Linz is just ahead. We can lunch and gas up there. I'll drive us the rest of the way.
Oh, thank you. Look at the insects on the windshield. It's getting hard to see through them. Do you think that it's true, if you go back in time and squash a bug, the entire history of humanity could change...
Oh no, not really. That's just a purposeful misinterpretation of mathematics used as a plot device for science fiction stories. I've been going on these missions for ten years, and there's never been any noticeable effect.
But if history changed, would you notice?
Very astute question. Probably not. All history would change, including mine. And so would my memories.
So you can't reassure me that these bugs won't erase my Aunt Emma, cause her to never have been born?
Ah, but you have reassured me! Since whatever we do, we won't notice it, no one will notice it, then there are no consequences. Our existence is as morally neutral here as it is if we'd gone to the cafeteria for lunch.
But aren't there moral consequences? What if that bee there was to pollinate a field, and now there will be a famine in pre-war Austria?
Those would be the same consequences you have every day when you drive your car or even ride your bike. I know when I go for a run by the stream in the mornings, I sometimes cough up insects that I had no idea I was breathing.
That's gross.
But true. The moral consequences of time travel are no different than the moral consequences living a life. Purely consequential, some positive, some negative, all unknown. And, hopefully, at least balancing out. I mean you do believe that what we're doing is good for humanity, don't you.
Yes, of course, but I'm just worried... Crap, what did I hit?
A man. You look over the car, and I'll go see if he's alright.
Well, I think everything about he car looks okay. How is the guy I ran over.
Well, remember how you were worried about maybe changing history?
Yes. Oh, no. No. No.
I think you just ran over Adolf Hitler.
Very much so. I love the Austrian countryside in May.
But these old cars didn't really have anything like a 'suspension,' did they?
No, not really. A shame, since the roads weren't paved.
And the horse carts. We have to dodge horse carts, there's real rhyme or reason for the traffic. People driving wherever they want to. I think I'd prefer it if you drive.
Linz is just ahead. We can lunch and gas up there. I'll drive us the rest of the way.
Oh, thank you. Look at the insects on the windshield. It's getting hard to see through them. Do you think that it's true, if you go back in time and squash a bug, the entire history of humanity could change...
Oh no, not really. That's just a purposeful misinterpretation of mathematics used as a plot device for science fiction stories. I've been going on these missions for ten years, and there's never been any noticeable effect.
But if history changed, would you notice?
Very astute question. Probably not. All history would change, including mine. And so would my memories.
So you can't reassure me that these bugs won't erase my Aunt Emma, cause her to never have been born?
Ah, but you have reassured me! Since whatever we do, we won't notice it, no one will notice it, then there are no consequences. Our existence is as morally neutral here as it is if we'd gone to the cafeteria for lunch.
But aren't there moral consequences? What if that bee there was to pollinate a field, and now there will be a famine in pre-war Austria?
Those would be the same consequences you have every day when you drive your car or even ride your bike. I know when I go for a run by the stream in the mornings, I sometimes cough up insects that I had no idea I was breathing.
That's gross.
But true. The moral consequences of time travel are no different than the moral consequences living a life. Purely consequential, some positive, some negative, all unknown. And, hopefully, at least balancing out. I mean you do believe that what we're doing is good for humanity, don't you.
Yes, of course, but I'm just worried... Crap, what did I hit?
A man. You look over the car, and I'll go see if he's alright.
Well, I think everything about he car looks okay. How is the guy I ran over.
Well, remember how you were worried about maybe changing history?
Yes. Oh, no. No. No.
I think you just ran over Adolf Hitler.
I liked Wednesday when I watched it the first time. I think I watched it alone because Y. didn't like it then. I did need to get through the first episode or two to start enjoying it, but I have overall good feelings. Now, since Netflix is advertising the next season, she didn't recognize it and wanted to watch it.
So, I get to watch it again.
Unfortunately, although my general recollection that the show gets better after the clunky dialogue in the first half of the show, on the second watching, the basic plot structure for the series is good, but it's not as fun. I was
Despite the dialog she's given, Jenna Ortega does an excellent job of acting -- kind of like how David Tarrant was able to save Doctor Who despite the awful Mudhoney-like scripts he was given by Russell Davies ("No one knows what happens when the streams of two sonic devices cross!"[1]). With a director like Burton, it obviously looks beautiful as well. However, the writers do try their best to take me out of the story at every opportunity with already-dated political quips in the first four episodes -- which, I suppose, are what are supposed to form the humor in this "horror-comedy."
Emmy Myers' Enid is a great foil for Wednesday and that dynamic carries the show.
The kids at Nevermore Academy are really grating. First of all, they are separated by monster-race, rather than being uniquely weird, which is more Munsters then Addams Family. That never stops being a sore point. which goes 180o from the Addams Family. Second of all, everyone has a completely normal personality except Wednesday. Again, this is 180o from the Addams Family -- where no one had these superpowers.
The idea of rich, superpowered kids being "outcasts" tormented by their baristas who work after their public school gets out before returning to their broken homes at night is kind of weird.
I guess it comes from the producers' therapy sessions. "All your problems come down to how much the government-school redneck kids hated you as a teen."
Season 1
Episode 1
This was as bad as I remembered it. The teaser, with the piranhas in the school swimming pool, would have been enough to make me turn it off -- if I hadn't grown up with the Addams Family. I don't know if your high school had a swimming pool (I'm pretty sure mine did not), but pools that get that much use are highly chlorinated. I mean, turn my adolescent pubes white chlorinated. Fish don't insanely attack swimmers in that circumstance, they suffocate.
I know its petty, but it's like in Black Panther when the bad guy "Graduated from West Point with a Ph.D. at 15" (or whatever). I mean, the piranha scene, like this Marvel movie line, tells me the writers didn't care about the show...so why should I?
And there's the inevitable disappointment that comes with the realization that the Nevermore Academy is just yet another discount Harry Potter rip-off. But the show added some Twilight vibes with the Vampire-Werewolf-Gorgon-Mermaid racialist shit, so I guess it's all okay.
At least there's no sporting event that Wednesday helps her team win to get her accepted at the school, right? And no love triangles for the main character. That'd be lame.
However, after an actual plot emerges, the episode is good. Unfortunately, that's only the last ten minutes.
Sort of like Stand Alone Complex, you have to get through the dull beginning to get to the good stuff at the end. I hope.
Episode 2
I spoke too soon. There is a boat race, no holds barred.
Eugene had some good lines, but they they fell flat because of the delivery. Good character, but not a comedic actor.
However, except for the angsty dialogue and dull-witted and overused refrain of "hatred and bigotry," the base of the story is good.
Episode 3
This episode definitely has time problems. I hate it when it feels like there is too much or too little time for something to happen. In this case it was too much: Wednesday leaves her Pilgrim World [2] volunteer job in what already has to be mid afternoon to wander into the forest and get attacked by the monster...and has time to get to her late afternoon cello recital.
The melting of the Crackstone statue gets five stars for the pyrotechnics, but definitely dates the show and its politics...as malicious endangerment is presented as a reason we should like Wednesday. A second violent fantasy (after the testicle-eating piranhas) showing the hatred of normal people
Oh, and btw, normal people wouldn't call themselves "normies" any more than people who grow up in town call themselves "townies." Those are kind of derisive nicknames used but he rich kids who look down on the working class that supports their elite institutions...like Nevermore Academy or the College of Wooster.
Episode 4
This is really where Wednesday starts to shine, although the teen drama is high.
It has the infamous Goo Goo Muck dance (and I hope Tim Burton regrets introducing the Cramps with TikTok and IG models). I'd pan stealing the Carrie scene, except the like "They couldn't even spring for real pig's blood" and, of course, the Addams Family stole the contract scene from A Night at the Opera to good effect.
Episode 5
This is the family weekend episode. It's a problem because no one seems to get Gomez and Morticia. Not the writers. Not the actors. And certainly not the costuming. Why is Morticia wearing a Vampira dress?
The actors in the flashbacks, however, feel more like Gomez and Morticia.
Too much weird, fake drama.
Episode 6
Although as a story, this episode seems good, its purpose is to point us towards the wrong suspects.
In so doing, it fails on two of my biggest:
(1) It requires omniscient villains that can determine exactly the protagonists know and how to exploit it.
(2) It requires one or two people to perform what would be a four or five day cleaning job in two hours.
Both are common, but they're sloppy and underhanded.
So, the part of the story that I remember as good ends up annoying me on the second, closer watch.
Episode 7
Basic TV logic means that everything Wednesday does here is wrong, and this entire episode is wasted because you know that...as set up by the previous episode.
Episode 8
I'd like to say that the climax is unforgettable, but I'd literally forgotten all of it.
------
[1] Everyone knows: nothing. It sound is a linear wave phenomenon, so the beams will pass through each other without affecting each other.
[2] Is it based on Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, or the Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia? Probably the latter. I didn't see a roller coaster.
So, I get to watch it again.
Unfortunately, although my general recollection that the show gets better after the clunky dialogue in the first half of the show, on the second watching, the basic plot structure for the series is good, but it's not as fun. I was
Despite the dialog she's given, Jenna Ortega does an excellent job of acting -- kind of like how David Tarrant was able to save Doctor Who despite the awful Mudhoney-like scripts he was given by Russell Davies ("No one knows what happens when the streams of two sonic devices cross!"[1]). With a director like Burton, it obviously looks beautiful as well. However, the writers do try their best to take me out of the story at every opportunity with already-dated political quips in the first four episodes -- which, I suppose, are what are supposed to form the humor in this "horror-comedy."
Emmy Myers' Enid is a great foil for Wednesday and that dynamic carries the show.
The kids at Nevermore Academy are really grating. First of all, they are separated by monster-race, rather than being uniquely weird, which is more Munsters then Addams Family. That never stops being a sore point. which goes 180o from the Addams Family. Second of all, everyone has a completely normal personality except Wednesday. Again, this is 180o from the Addams Family -- where no one had these superpowers.
The idea of rich, superpowered kids being "outcasts" tormented by their baristas who work after their public school gets out before returning to their broken homes at night is kind of weird.
I guess it comes from the producers' therapy sessions. "All your problems come down to how much the government-school redneck kids hated you as a teen."
Season 1
Episode 1
This was as bad as I remembered it. The teaser, with the piranhas in the school swimming pool, would have been enough to make me turn it off -- if I hadn't grown up with the Addams Family. I don't know if your high school had a swimming pool (I'm pretty sure mine did not), but pools that get that much use are highly chlorinated. I mean, turn my adolescent pubes white chlorinated. Fish don't insanely attack swimmers in that circumstance, they suffocate.
I know its petty, but it's like in Black Panther when the bad guy "Graduated from West Point with a Ph.D. at 15" (or whatever). I mean, the piranha scene, like this Marvel movie line, tells me the writers didn't care about the show...so why should I?
And there's the inevitable disappointment that comes with the realization that the Nevermore Academy is just yet another discount Harry Potter rip-off. But the show added some Twilight vibes with the Vampire-Werewolf-Gorgon-Mermaid racialist shit, so I guess it's all okay.
At least there's no sporting event that Wednesday helps her team win to get her accepted at the school, right? And no love triangles for the main character. That'd be lame.
However, after an actual plot emerges, the episode is good. Unfortunately, that's only the last ten minutes.
Sort of like Stand Alone Complex, you have to get through the dull beginning to get to the good stuff at the end. I hope.
Episode 2
I spoke too soon. There is a boat race, no holds barred.
Eugene had some good lines, but they they fell flat because of the delivery. Good character, but not a comedic actor.
However, except for the angsty dialogue and dull-witted and overused refrain of "hatred and bigotry," the base of the story is good.
Episode 3
This episode definitely has time problems. I hate it when it feels like there is too much or too little time for something to happen. In this case it was too much: Wednesday leaves her Pilgrim World [2] volunteer job in what already has to be mid afternoon to wander into the forest and get attacked by the monster...and has time to get to her late afternoon cello recital.
The melting of the Crackstone statue gets five stars for the pyrotechnics, but definitely dates the show and its politics...as malicious endangerment is presented as a reason we should like Wednesday. A second violent fantasy (after the testicle-eating piranhas) showing the hatred of normal people
Oh, and btw, normal people wouldn't call themselves "normies" any more than people who grow up in town call themselves "townies." Those are kind of derisive nicknames used but he rich kids who look down on the working class that supports their elite institutions...like Nevermore Academy or the College of Wooster.
Episode 4
This is really where Wednesday starts to shine, although the teen drama is high.
It has the infamous Goo Goo Muck dance (and I hope Tim Burton regrets introducing the Cramps with TikTok and IG models). I'd pan stealing the Carrie scene, except the like "They couldn't even spring for real pig's blood" and, of course, the Addams Family stole the contract scene from A Night at the Opera to good effect.
Episode 5
This is the family weekend episode. It's a problem because no one seems to get Gomez and Morticia. Not the writers. Not the actors. And certainly not the costuming. Why is Morticia wearing a Vampira dress?
The actors in the flashbacks, however, feel more like Gomez and Morticia.
Too much weird, fake drama.
Episode 6
Although as a story, this episode seems good, its purpose is to point us towards the wrong suspects.
In so doing, it fails on two of my biggest:
(1) It requires omniscient villains that can determine exactly the protagonists know and how to exploit it.
(2) It requires one or two people to perform what would be a four or five day cleaning job in two hours.
Both are common, but they're sloppy and underhanded.
So, the part of the story that I remember as good ends up annoying me on the second, closer watch.
Episode 7
Basic TV logic means that everything Wednesday does here is wrong, and this entire episode is wasted because you know that...as set up by the previous episode.
Episode 8
I'd like to say that the climax is unforgettable, but I'd literally forgotten all of it.
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[1] Everyone knows: nothing. It sound is a linear wave phenomenon, so the beams will pass through each other without affecting each other.
[2] Is it based on Dutch Wonderland in Lancaster, or the Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia? Probably the latter. I didn't see a roller coaster.
Happy Fascinet Eve!
Jun. 21st, 2025 12:27 pmDon't get too singed in your mid-20th century recreation of a Victorian reimagining of a defunct pagan religion that we only know of from the writings of cloistered monks recording oral histories from third generation converts and modified to fit into medieval Catholic philosophy.
But do go outside and get naked and do naked things with other naked people and mosquitoes.
...and Fascinet will be with you in the morning, with apple pancakes and bacon doughnuts.
Fascinet be with you.
But do go outside and get naked and do naked things with other naked people and mosquitoes.
...and Fascinet will be with you in the morning, with apple pancakes and bacon doughnuts.
Fascinet be with you.
The Dark Barbarian
Dec. 26th, 2024 08:47 pm1. A Barbarian, A Merchant, and a Trickster God* walk into a Bar.
- I remember writing this chapter.
2. - N-1. Connecting Chapters
- I'm thinking the merchant has to make a circle: City to River to Another City and Back
- 1- N-1 (3,4?) should get rid of Barbarian and Trickster*
- Action-packed barge-building chapter.
N. Thrilling description of medieval grain haggling. As the grain barge leaves a town, the barbarian, carrying a princess* and the crown jewels* and chased by the , jumps on.
N+1. Barbarian's story about stealing jewels* and kidnapping princess*.
- Barbarian is fishing while telling the story.
- Makes princess* clean them.
-- "I'm a princess, not a 'wench.' I don't know anything about cleaning a fish."
-- "Cut from the back to the front, pull out the guts. Then, scale it."
-- "Princesses don't scale fish!"
-- "Just told you how. You're the smartest princess in the kingdom."
--
-- ... story ...
--
-- The barbarian absent-mindedly caught the fish head as the princess* tried to toss it overboard. "Don't waste that. Makes good soup."
--
-- ... story ...
--
N+2. Tense barge chase scene. Barbarian abandons princess* and keeps jewels.* Trickster* boards barge.
N+3. Trickster's story about swapping the real jewels before the Barbarian gets there and sleeping with the real princess while the Barbarian kidnaps a lower-ranking princess.
- Trickster sends real jewels back with princess*.
.
.
.
- I remember writing this chapter.
2. - N-1. Connecting Chapters
- I'm thinking the merchant has to make a circle: City to River to Another City and Back
- 1- N-1 (3,4?) should get rid of Barbarian and Trickster*
- Action-packed barge-building chapter.
N. Thrilling description of medieval grain haggling. As the grain barge leaves a town, the barbarian, carrying a princess* and the crown jewels* and chased by the , jumps on.
N+1. Barbarian's story about stealing jewels* and kidnapping princess*.
- Barbarian is fishing while telling the story.
- Makes princess* clean them.
-- "I'm a princess, not a 'wench.' I don't know anything about cleaning a fish."
-- "Cut from the back to the front, pull out the guts. Then, scale it."
-- "Princesses don't scale fish!"
-- "Just told you how. You're the smartest princess in the kingdom."
--
-- ... story ...
--
-- The barbarian absent-mindedly caught the fish head as the princess* tried to toss it overboard. "Don't waste that. Makes good soup."
--
-- ... story ...
--
N+2. Tense barge chase scene. Barbarian abandons princess* and keeps jewels.* Trickster* boards barge.
N+3. Trickster's story about swapping the real jewels before the Barbarian gets there and sleeping with the real princess while the Barbarian kidnaps a lower-ranking princess.
- Trickster sends real jewels back with princess*.
.
.
.
