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Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/books/item_id/1946560-Inner-Workings-of-the-Machine/day/5-10-2023
Rated: 18+ · Book · Other · #1946560
When one blog is filled, another one must open.
Coming soon: more work from someone creative, ambitious, and determined - often called a variant of insane/crazy.

Notes: Genderfluid. Preferred pronouns (they/them)

         [& denotes married couples]
Immediate Family: soon-to-be-ex-Dilbert, Tempest, Dogbert

My Extended Family: (s)Dad, cousins (K, D, G, J, F, N) I guess it's good to be on speaking terms with someone. Voluntarily. AuntS
Dilbert's Extended Family: SIL (+5 kids)& BIL, FIL's gf (only for holidays, mostly)
Important People I Don't See Enough: Owl + Partner, Paradise ICON crew (which owl is a part of)
People I've Known a Long Time/Long Distance: Doc & [husband], Sheer & DocSheer, Mrs. Light & [husband], Trillium & Diego (not married but close enough), Steph
Local People: MotherDroid, Owl&Partner ... There are about to be new people on this list, because, well, I'm evolving. And it hurts.

DnD: used letters, S (DM), D(doctor), Y(because I like him!), K(old RPGer friend who also attends church), P(church guy who does game night and is local and our families are also friends), A (went to church but moved back to Chicago, moved back locally then i moved)
Tempest's friends: I don't know very many of her local friends. She's got an internet buddy who also talks to CousinK's younger daughter. the younger daughter is DRAMA.
Dogbert's friends: Has a new group of friends based on a Pokemon thing and they have a DnD club at school and outside of school. Lucky kid!
May 10, 2023 at 12:43pm
May 10, 2023 at 12:43pm
#1049431
I need to find my to-do list again. There's a lot of stuff I should be doing, and it isn't getting done. I'm healing, though it seems to take forever.

https://www.patreon.com/RansomNoble
This was scary, but I did it. I'm glad. Figuring out how all the things are going together at this point. Trying to seek out the resistance to finishing the things and push through.

I went to DemiCon last weekend with my friend Owl. I consider us buddies, friends, but apparently I'm entering her inner circle of besties, so I'm working to find my path with that. We had a good time, and she was around doing family stuff while I did the con stuff with a few other writers. One of the authors who isn't in my cohort but is on her way to being a bigger deal was doing several panels, not just on her speculative fiction writing, but also on metaphysical topics. Lucid Dreaming and Past Lives. That makes me wonder, though, about how to get other people into a different mindset about that. L Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein created religions on a bet, and people followed them. While this author is using a pen name for these other books - I'm not sure she knows what she's getting into with a pen name. A lot of people don't. She's also very stuck on traditional publishing, and won't go any other path. But I'm starting to wonder about things.

So I'm using part of her Past Lives game as a way to rally my Present Life into some ideas. We didn't get to finish the game, but its' an interesting concept, and I think it has other applications besides what she thinks it is. Past lives are one idea, but I asked Owl on the way home and it could lead to appropriation. I don't think a lot of people understand that obsession with a race or culture is not very far from racism. Yet I could put different pieces together and understand some ideas about myself better in the present tense. The priest's wife helped me with my meanderings to bringing in ministry of presence, and that is very much something I need to explore more. My writer friends believe my superpower is that I can talk to anyone - and they're not wrong. So what are the past lives to teach me, if I can use the same basis to learn about my present self and my path?

Anyway. I have a lot to do, so back to the writing I go. Wish me luck.
May 10, 2023 at 12:43pm
May 10, 2023 at 12:43pm
#1049432
I need to find my to-do list again. There's a lot of stuff I should be doing, and it isn't getting done. I'm healing, though it seems to take forever.

https://www.patreon.com/RansomNoble
This was scary, but I did it. I'm glad. Figuring out how all the things are going together at this point. Trying to seek out the resistance to finishing the things and push through.

I went to DemiCon last weekend with my friend Owl. I consider us buddies, friends, but apparently I'm entering her inner circle of besties, so I'm working to find my path with that. We had a good time, and she was around doing family stuff while I did the con stuff with a few other writers. One of the authors who isn't in my cohort but is on her way to being a bigger deal was doing several panels, not just on her speculative fiction writing, but also on metaphysical topics. Lucid Dreaming and Past Lives. That makes me wonder, though, about how to get other people into a different mindset about that. L Ron Hubbard and Robert Heinlein created religions on a bet, and people followed them. While this author is using a pen name for these other books - I'm not sure she knows what she's getting into with a pen name. A lot of people don't. She's also very stuck on traditional publishing, and won't go any other path. But I'm starting to wonder about things.

So I'm using part of her Past Lives game as a way to rally my Present Life into some ideas. We didn't get to finish the game, but its' an interesting concept, and I think it has other applications besides what she thinks it is. Past lives are one idea, but I asked Owl on the way home and it could lead to appropriation. I don't think a lot of people understand that obsession with a race or culture is not very far from racism. Yet I could put different pieces together and understand some ideas about myself better in the present tense. The priest's wife helped me with my meanderings to bringing in ministry of presence, and that is very much something I need to explore more. My writer friends believe my superpower is that I can talk to anyone - and they're not wrong. So what are the past lives to teach me, if I can use the same basis to learn about my present self and my path?

Anyway. I have a lot to do, so back to the writing I go. Wish me luck.


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