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[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Happy Storyteller Saturday! What's your favorite kind of villain (or antagonist)?

Happy STS!

I don't really care much for villains or antagonists — in what I write, most antagonists are either life itself, or some guy with a personal grudge, going for over the top revenge.

(If you have one puny little angry man who just wants to beat the shit out of someone, you can ignore all those pesky questions of whether that's legal or whether torture works or... 😅)

Well — that is because it's storyTELLER Saturday, not storyREADER. I actually do think my two bad guys with a cause (Ed/Firethorn) are the best ones, but I hate having to write them 😆 When I read, I can like just about every antagonist, as long as they're well written.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#20yrsago The music industry STILL owes you $20! https://web.archive.org/web/20030621074412/https://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,57111,00.html

#20yrsago New metaverse game launches https://web.archive.org/web/20030203141646/http://www.prod.there.com

#20yrsago Jon Johansen acquitted! https://www.wired.com/2003/01/dvd-cracking-teen-acquitted/

#20yrsago Paleospam: the first-ever spam and the reaction https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamreact.html

#20yrsago William Gibson has a blog https://web.archive.org/web/20030201231918/https://williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp

#20yrsago JWZ’s mom discovers interface cruft https://web.archive.org/web/20021203003049/http://mpt.phrasewise.com/stories/storyReader$374

#20yrsago Samuel Pepys’ diary in blog form https://web.archive.org/web/20030126062255/https://www.pepysdiary.com/

#20yrsago Microsoft subverts sunshine laws at state colleges https://web.archive.org/web/20030223094924/https://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=759

#15yrsago From Nazi collaborator to Fortune 500 — companies that got rich on the Reich https://www.cracked.com/article_15767_third-reich-to-fortune-500-five-popular-brands-nazis-gave-us.html

#15yrsago History of guerrilla knitting at 24th Chaos Communication Congress https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2358.en.html

#15yrsago Motley Fool: litigation isn’t a business model, sell RIAA short https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/01/02/were-all-thieves-to-the-riaa.aspx

#15yrsago Sears infects customer computers with spyware https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/02/AR2008010201051.html

#15yrsago New IO9 blog launches https://web.archive.org/web/20080220020221/http://io9.com/

#15yrsago Resigning from Napster takes more than 30 minutes https://www.wired.com/2007/12/why-and-how-i-c/

#15yrsago Neil Gaiman on Little Brother https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/12/changing-planes.html

#15yrsago One-armed man arrested in Belarus for clapping https://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/01/one-armed-man-arrested-for-clapping.html

#15yrsago My free reading of Alice in Wonderland https://ia800501.us.archive.org/21/items/AliceInWonderlandReadByCoryDoctorow/Alice_in_Wonderland_-_read_by_Cory_Doctorow_64kb.mp3

#15yrsago Cockney illustrated Bible from the 14th century https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/holkham-bible-picture-book

#10yrsago Hacker theatre troupe in Berlin to stage “When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth” https://web.archive.org/web/20130108201819/https://www.c-base.org/projects/c-atre/

#10yrsago Dad hires in-game hitsquad to kill his son’s characters https://kotaku.com/father-hires-in-game-hitmen-to-deter-son-from-playing-5972406

#10yrsago Telcos lobby North Carolina to make community Internet illegal, then abandon the state to second-worst Internet in the country https://ilsr.org/killing-competition-nc/

#10yrsago You need a 1.5 ton gamelan, and I know where you can get it https://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014711.html

#10yrsago Anatomy of a patent troll who wants $1000 from every scanner user in America: patents are totally, utterly broken https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/patent-trolls-want-1000-for-using-scanners/

#10yrsago XKCD on New Year’s resolutions https://xkcd.com/1154/

#10yrsago Congress decides every aspect of your electronic life can be spied on without a warrant and you can’t know how much spying is going on https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/congress-disgracefully-approves-fisa-warrantless-eavesdropping-bill-five-more

#10yrsago Soviet space-program Christmas cards https://www.mazaika.com/postcard01.html

#10yrsago Lord Buckley recounts the life of Christ: The Nazz! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0x5x8lyON8

#10yrsago Gary Gygax explains why Christians shouldn’t celebrate Christmas https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2012/12/gary-gygax-on-christmas-and-christianity.html

#5yrsago Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-rescinds-justice-dept-letter-asking-courts-to-be-wary-of-stiff-fines-and-fees-for-poor-defendants/2017/12/21/46e37316-e690-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html

#5yrsago Senator Bob Corker owed $120.5M when he was elected; now he’s worth $69M https://web.archive.org/web/20171222165110/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-bob-corker-corrupt-what-a-surprise-w514493

#5yrsago American inequality is unequally distributed, and got lumpier after the Great Recession https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/11/01/how-wealth-inequality-has-changed-in-the-u-s-since-the-great-recession-by-race-ethnicity-and-income/

#5yrsago Virginia is the most unequal state in the union, and is more unequal than at any time in (post-Reconstruction) history https://thehalfsheet.org/post/139863776503/virginia-is-exceptionally-unequal

#5yrsago 2018: the year that America’s ISPs hiked their prices https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Hikes-Prices-Increases-Sneaky-Fees-for-2018-140907

#5yrsago Woman who accused Roy Moore is homeless after her house burned down, fire investigated as arson https://www.al.com/news/2018/01/roy_moore_accusers_home_burns.html

#5yrsago Gwyneth Paltrow wants you to squirt coffee up your asshole using this $135 glass jar https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/01/gwyneth-paltrows-goop-wants-you-to-start-2018-right-with-a-135-coffee-enema/

#5yrsago Nebraska State Senator proposes constitutional amendment to allow corporations to create tiny, sovereign nations with no laws, taxes or rules https://journalstar.com/legislature/senator-proposes-sovereignty-as-a-way-to-economic-development/article_614923bd-b962-541f-8a6c-0d9c92b6fa0c.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-siderail-latest

#5yrsago The story of how sf writer and editor Judith Merril founded Toronto’s astounding sf reference library and changed the city https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/once-upon-a-city-archives/2018/01/04/little-mother-of-science-fiction-birthed-new-chapter-for-genre-in-canada.html

#5yrsago Astounding coincidence: Intel’s CEO liquidated all the stock he was legally permitted to sell after learning of catastrophic processor flaws https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/intel-ceos-sale-of-stock-just-before-security-bug-reveal-raises-questions/

#5yrsago Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there’s only a fix for one of them, and it sucks https://spectreattack.com

#5yrsago For 20+ years, Japan’s largest companies have been riddled with corruption and fraud https://www.ft.com/content/26d4843a-e743-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da

#5yrsago Print of “lost” britcom discovered in Nigerian basement and restored with X-rays and laser-cutters https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2017-12-morecambe-wise-video-film-archive-restoration

#5yrsago The guy whose DRM for juice company cratered last year now sells “raw water” packed with all the microbes and amoebas you can stomach https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/dining/raw-water-unfiltered.html

#5yrsago All that stuff that was “killed by the net”? The real culprit was hedge funds https://www.ft.com/content/17dfa7fe-eaf7-11e7-8713-513b1d7ca85a

#5yrsago Tehran’s police tell women that violations of religious dress codes will henceforth be treated as civil offenses, not criminal offenses https://apnews.com/article/iran-tehran-ap-top-news-middle-east-hassan-rouhani-6677791532f441e8a5bfadb0ef223229

#5yrsago China’s new army of nationalist trolls is an all-volunteer force https://www.ft.com/content/9ef9f592-e2bd-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da

#5yrsago The GOP tax plan will pay millionaires to subsidize failing religious schools https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/12/28/572587727/this-tax-loophole-for-wealthy-donors-just-got-bigger

#5yrsago Hoaxer with a history of fake bomb threats SWATs and murders a random bystander over a $1.50 Call of Duty bet https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/kansas-man-killed-in-swatting-attack/

#5yrsago Charlie Stross’s CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today’s sociopathic corporations https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future

#5yrsago California’s record poverty and real-estate bubble are creating a “wheel-estate” boom of people with good jobs living in their cars https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/sd-living-in-cars-in-california-20171227-story.html

#5yrsago Does capitalism breed greed, or elevate the greedy? https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/12/the-people-that-capitalism-makes

#5yrsago The GOP tax plan means millions in extra profits for private prison corporations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/28/private-prisons-investors-trump-tax-bill

#5yrsago Scotland is still a financial secrecy exporter, laundering billions for Russia’s crime-bosses and oligarchs https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/15793004.revealed-shell-firms-avoid-transparency/

#5yrsago Peter Thiel: the “libertarian” who loves mass government surveillance, monopolies, and censorship https://www.wired.com/story/the-libertarian-logic-of-peter-thiel/

#5yrsago After 8 years of archiving, the Library of Congress will stop ingesting the Twitter firehose https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/files/2017/12/2017dec_twitter_white-paper.pdf

#5yrsago Facsimile editions of the “Negro Motorist Green Books” from 1940, 1954 and 1963 are selling briskly in 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/19/travel-guides-to-segregated-us-for-black-americans-reissued

#5yrsago Utah’s paper of record calls for Orrin Hatch to step down: “his utter lack of integrity that rises from his unquenchable thirst for power” https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/editorial/2017/12/25/tribune-editorial-why-orrin-hatch-is-utahn-of-the-year/

#5yrsago Ayn Rand supercharged the anti-Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood, in which the FBI classified “It’s a Wonderful Life” as secret Communist propaganda https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/ayn-rand-helped-the-fbi-identify-its-a-wonderful-life-as-communist-propaganda.html

#5yrsago Zsa Zsa Gabor’s husband is pissed that his $50m house was barricaded by a bomb squad, called in to investigate a gift-wrapped box of horseshit that someone sent to Steve Mnuchin https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/12/24/a-package-for-steven-mnuchin-caused-a-bomb-scare-it-turned-out-to-be-filled-with-horse-manure/

#1yrago 2021 Daddy-Daughter podcast https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/03/party-like-its-1926/#voice-of-a-generation

#1yrago Neal Stephenson’s ‘Termination Shock’ https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/04/general-ludd/#geoengineering

#1yrago Science fiction is a Luddite literature https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/04/general-ludd/#loomsmashers

#1yrago Hospital beds are a monopoly https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/05/hillrom/

#1yrago Jackpot watch: How the klept operates in the UK https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/07/the-klept/#pep

[alltangledupinblue]

Amen. the SCA and the international folk dance community and a local storyreading group (and to some extent the local congoing community) were a really important part of my college years and I think while there were creeps to avoid, life was much richer for having models for what growing up could look like. Still having friends, still having crazy hobbies, still being polyamorous... it was good.

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

[sarahthechill]

oh, okay there is the https://sekai.best/storyreader , good

is there a place where one can accessibly read the prosekai story without doing the gacha stuff

[krishnapriyaji-blog]

If someone is looking for an excellent Bhagwat Katha Vachak in Virandavan, then people be able to meet Krishna Priya Ji Maharaj and organize the story of Lord Krishna in their town.

[lmargiva]

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[wenebojostoryteller]

Featured this week on #WB #PhoenixStoryHour was my friend, Robin Endicott's story, Princess Sparkle. Fun and entertaining, it can be played for free on #Wenebojo! Join us for more tales from our #Storytellers next Wed! https://bit.ly/2RsigUa https://www.wenebojo.com 

[loshabaka-dictionary]

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[important-writer]

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[wanderloststories]

Spider's Web, New York. At the beginning, there was love, or so I thought. He'd hold my hand and his eyes would twinkle everytime I laughed. He'd never let go. I thought I'd found love. And I was lost in a beautiful world full of dreams. I should have woken up. It started small, the outbursts, the paranoia, the questions and then came the isolation. I stopped calling my friends, I stopped talking to family. It was just me and him. It was a phase, I thought. A lonely isolating phase. And before I knew it, it became a way of life. It wasn't one particular day, it wasn't one particular moment. It was timed. It was intricate. It was manipulative. It was intentional. I could never breathe again, I was suffocated. My voice was muffled to silence. My world reduced to him. Just him. This wasn't love. I was left with one desire, to escape. He only had one desire, me. And so we danced. Me struggling to leave, him strengthening his hold on me. The more I struggled, the tighter the ropes got. I thought I'd explode. And when you're so close to an explosion, your mind works in mysterious ways. You find strength to do things you'd never be capable of. He brought me to the park again, to celebrate togetherness. A prisoner allowed sun light to remember what she could never get. We stood by the railing. He was holding my hand, a little too firmly, almost as if he thought I'd run. I couldn't run. He wouldn't let me. The river looked beautiful, free and mighty. I jumped, he didn't let go. He fell in after me. I was finally free. He was finally dead. The fly escaped the web. #wanderloststories #read #write #writersnetwork #readersnetwork #writersofinstagram #readersofinstagran #read #write #stories #shortstory #tinytales #tales #nycstories #nyc #newyork #fiction #hudsonriver #storiesfromnewyork #storyreading (at Hudson River Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMddD8-MsXt/?igshid=1xivpu5ucgdmf

[nightblossomasmr-blog]

ASMR Storytime - The Brothers Grimm - Cat and Mouse in Partnership [Ear ... Good evening Little Cubs. Welcome back to another storytime with Mama Bear and more Brothers Grimm. Sit back and relax as I read Cat and Mouse in Partnership, ear to ear, for your relaxation. Sweet dreams.

[johnpradeepjl]

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[lmargiva]

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[launchora]

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