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by Somes J
Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:42 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Challenge: make me a new religion
Replies: 5
Views: 10685

Challenge: make me a new religion

Copy/pasted from SB: A little worldbuilding exercise: think up a religion that has the following features without being basically just Crystal Dragon Christianity/Islam: Missionary: is a project of universal conversion. Exclusive: is in opposition to other belief systems, believes itself to represen...
by Somes J
Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:36 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)
Replies: 4
Views: 9106

Re: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)

Part V: Rosa and Alex I wonder how I can get somebody to have a baby with me if I don’t have any money maybe I should ask somebody. I’m hungry I want something sweet I don’t have any money now I didn’t pick up the money when I ran out of that woman’s bathroom the woman who smelled wrong maybe I’ll ...
by Somes J
Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:09 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)
Replies: 4
Views: 9106

Re: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)

Part IV: Sick Woman I think I can drive the car now. I watched her I watched the things she did I know how to drive the car now and I know how to buy gas now. We drove past a freeway I wonder what’s outside the city. I know the words for things like forest and town and farm and sometimes I see pict...
by Somes J
Thu Dec 13, 2012 3:40 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)
Replies: 4
Views: 9106

Re: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)

Part III: Imago Waking up Noisy noisy like my heart beating it’s a noisy place it’s dark can feel the other thing moving pulling pushing sharp its back has sharp things in it but they aren’t hurting me down pulling pushing moving push out push out feels good feels good feels so good nothing ever fe...
by Somes J
Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:52 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)
Replies: 4
Views: 9106

Re: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)

Part II: Boy Child I’m so hungry. I smell food, sweet, a little rotten. I crawl up in and start digging I follow the smell somebody’s thrown away a lot of food sweets there’s fruit and pudding and candy bars and half a pie it’s a little rotten but I can still eat it. I empty out some bags and put t...
by Somes J
Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:29 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: Peregrin's C.J. Motonow's Star Wars!
Replies: 2
Views: 7432

Re: Peregrin's C.J. Motonow's Star Wars!

I feel like I should offer some sort of commentary on this but I can't really think of much to say.

So it's kinda Star Wars done in the style of Jodorowsky's Dune? Sounds cool.
by Somes J
Wed Dec 12, 2012 2:05 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)
Replies: 4
Views: 9106

The Boy Child (Species II rewrite fic - v.2)

My ideas on the kind of story I wanted to write evolved as I was writing the story, and I didn't want to be stuck with a bunch of stuff locked-in because of the nature of the fanfic writing process, so... ----- Part I: Little Brother Sil It hurts it hurts so much it hurts like when the car hit me an...
by Somes J
Mon Dec 10, 2012 7:00 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Guys, I've been thinking... I feel like this story suffers from what I expect might be a common problem with fanfiction: my ideas on the story I want to tell have evolved as I was writing, but because of the episodic nature of the publishing process a lot of the stuff I now wish I could change is lo...
by Somes J
Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:11 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Part IX: Shopping [/b] Alex’s perspective Now that Rosa knows she’s pregnant I can tell her why she should eat better food than me. She should let me have the lentils and the ramen. She should eat the meat and the milk and the eggs and the fruit and the sweets. She doesn’t really like it but now th...
by Somes J
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:46 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Part VIII: Morning Sickness Cora’s perspective I’m tired. Working two jobs and having classes sucks. I spent until two o’clock in the morning last night finishing up that paper, then I have to come here at nine, then I get to look forward to a night class tonight. It’s a good thing I’m good at gett...
by Somes J
Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:08 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

N(SFW) Warning: references to nudity, sex and sexuality, the usual, also freaky alienoid deformagrotesquitude sex and implied incest. ------ Part VII: Mother Issues [/b] Alex’s perspective I’m awake. The door opening woke me up. I sit up, I turn on one of the lights. It’s not Rosa. How … the quiet, ...
by Somes J
Sun Nov 18, 2012 12:29 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Part VI: Night Episodes It is two in the morning. The room is dark. Rosa and Alex are sleeping. Blanco is awake and cleaning his paws. Alex is having a bad dream. If Rosa was awake, she would recognize the twitches and shivers, and she would wake him up, but she is deeply asleep. She is dreaming, s...
by Somes J
Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:17 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Interlude: From the personal correspondence of Davis and Kondraki To: Director Davis You asked for a quick and dirty summary re divergences from human baseline caused by alteration of fertilized ova with ‘alien’ DNA. - Skeletal abnormalities: we noticed these from X-rays of SIL-1 while it was still...
by Somes J
Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:03 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

(N)SFW Warning: this post contains references to sex, sexuality, nudity. Also, if Kane's death (the chestbuster scene) in Alien makes you uncomfortable there's a part you might want to skip. ------- Part V: Confusions Of Pleasure [/b] Rosa’s perspective The dervishes are dancing in the TV with thei...
by Somes J
Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:37 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Next part, rather minimalistic this one. This is the beginning of an experiment in writing technique I'm trying; writing the story in first-person narratives that switch between the perspective of different characters. (N)SFW note: contains some references to sex, sexuality, and bodily functions, so...
by Somes J
Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:34 am
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Warning: some discussion of sex and sexuality in this part, thought I should give people the heads-up. On a different note, "in-universe" Rosa's diary would be mostly written in Spanish (well, Spanglish anyway). Some of the diary entries might read a little weird if you don't know this (&...
by Somes J
Tue Oct 30, 2012 11:33 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

Re: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

Part II: Alex and Rosa Three days later, he met Rosa. She was carrying heavy bags. One of them tore and spilled groceries at his feet. He could hear her say something, he didn’t understand it, it was angry, soft. He helped her pick up the groceries and carried two of her bags up the stairs for her....
by Somes J
Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:49 pm
Forum: Literature & RPGs
Topic: The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)
Replies: 10
Views: 13233

The Boy Child (short Species II rewrite fic)

I've occassionally contemplated doing a rewrite fic of this certain schlocky movie on account of I actually really liked the first movie and felt seriously let down by the sequel, originally I had in mind some ambitious novel-length thing but I'm way not invested in this enough for that, but I got t...
by Somes J
Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:46 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Art Thread (Concerns)
Replies: 1014
Views: 593128

Re: Art Thread (Concerns)

A map I did based on a little alternate history thought. Copy-pasted from AH.com. I decided to go ahead and do a map for a scenario like this. I have a vague idea I find vaguely amusing for making a Roman-wank timeline where the Roman Empire never falls and maybe is bigger than OTL ... but then subv...
by Somes J
Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:35 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 235873

Re: Random ideas (again)

An idea I had, copy-pasted from a Hunger Games discussion on SB: Not really on topic, but from something I stumbled on while Googling : Given that the winning tribute’s district is “showered with prizes, largely consisting of food,” why isn’t it the poorer, hungrier districts that pool their resourc...
by Somes J
Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:12 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Book Thread
Replies: 203
Views: 162248

Re: The Book Thread

So I got Robert Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and the American Decline for somebody else and read a little bit in it. It's actually kind of interesting. He seems to diagnose the reasons behind present social trends in ways I'm inclined to agree with (e.g. the greater convenien...
by Somes J
Sun Mar 18, 2012 9:01 am
Forum: The A'millian Star Empire
Topic: Random notes and whatnot
Replies: 121
Views: 141893

Re: Random notes and whatnot

Man, I meant to reply to this way long ago but somehow I never seemed to get around to it. Better late than never, I guess... I actually think everyone should be poor. It's so much easier to keep your spending down if it simply isn't an option - you learn a lot from the experience and it shapes you ...
by Somes J
Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:54 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!
Replies: 600
Views: 283220

Re: YOUR DAILY EXPLOITS!

So I went to donate some blood again today (third time I've done it now) And the first time they put the needle in they didn't get any blood out! I guess I didn't drink enough beforehand or something, my blood was too thick and not watery enough or not under enough pressure or something to flow free...
by Somes J
Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:35 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 235873

Re: Random ideas (again)

On the other hand, maybe I'm just indulging in "the grass is always greener on the other side" thinking, the World Wars would just have been replaced by similarly destructive civil wars, the Third World would be even worse off than today as the empire just plunders it for resources while ...
by Somes J
Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:33 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Random ideas (again)
Replies: 325
Views: 235873

Re: Random ideas (again)

On the whole subject of gods and things: The problem I've always had with the whole system of gods being created and fed by belief<snip> I kind of like something along the lines of the Warhammer 40K approach to this: a god is something that comes into being as a result of a lot people similar thoug...