Have you ever watched Shrek?

God fuck this is so wrong and disrespectful at the same time

Before reading the article: party politics is a 20th Century form of organization that worked in the context of 20th Century conditions; expecting it would work for the 21st Century and the digital era is, in my opinion, not going to work. From what I read on history of economics, a new paradigm is adopted when the current one fails repeatedly and the ruling class has no option but to pick some different framework that can still benefit their interests. I think this is the most likely (although not the most desirable) path to degrowth in the next ~20y.

Happy to hear you’re now employed, and hopefully the job will leave you enough headspace to put some words down at the end of the day!

I’ve finally started the second section of the Kanteletar novel, and the first half went very smoothly… until I got kinda stuck and I might have to tinker with the ending more than I had imagined. I wanted to complete it by the end of December, but it looks like I might need a couple more weeks.

I started taking part in a monthly anarchist writing workshop, so I hope I can get some new insights on my work AND I can provide mine to other likeminded authors!

Anyway, the target for this 2026 year is going to complete this novel and possibly write a quick fantasy novella I’ve had in mind for some time. Not too high effort, possibly Pratchettian, just to take my mind off the solarpunk genre before the next project.

Didn’t like how the plot hooks you in with Gustave & Lune having to deal with a world on the brink of the end, and then it becomes Verso & Maelle having to deal with family drama. Massive disappointment.

Thank god it’s not quantum computers

Expedition 33

I haven’t tried Obsidian on mobile actually, so I’ll give it a shot maybe!

As for LibreOffice, both reasons! Typesetting, more options, and partially comfort too

I can share the slides but since it was a lesson most of the things I said them by voice, including the experiments we performed in class 😔

Obsidian for notes and plans, worldbuilding on my personal site and LibreOffice for the actual text.

Sometimes I’m on the move and I have to sketch something down, so I send it to myself on Telegram and then move it to Obsidian once I can use the PC again.

We weren’t meant to do anything, no one exists and nothing happens for any particular reason, we are a chaotic yet structured event on the way from a big bang in a race towards the thermodynamic equilibrium and ultimately the heat death of the universe. This is a good thing, actually, because it means that you have the freedom to find your own purpose

Is this Cosmology Sartre? Astroexistentialism? I love the combination 🤩

It’s an incredible resource and I will definitely try and use it for my future stories! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this.

I spent an ungodly amount of time in school last month (for my teaching practice), and I’ve only written… slides for my lectures 😅 …which was an absolute blast! I even closed it out with a legendary story of our understanding of light, from optics to quantum mechanics, and the students loved it! This overshadows the disastrous failure of the crowdfunding campaign for the other book, from which I finally feel free. This last month will be entirely dedicated to writing Section B of the Kanteletar novel, which I can hopefully complete before New Year’s Eve.

So yeah, nothing new on the fiction front, but I got to try my hand at scientific outreach writing and I should absolutely do it again at some point!

I edit without issues many of my more recent stories, it’s no big deal in general. It’s just that I’m grown past fantasy and the thought of having to edit that thing simply demotivates me. I want to write solarpunk and scifi now, fantasy is behind me. I have no interest for it.

Anyway, if the crowdfunding goes well, I’ll be followed by an editor, and I know myself well enough to say that with a clear goal and a set deadline I’ll breeze through it when push comes to shove. :D

Glad to see our club is slowly growing!

Haven’t written a lot, but I put down a short story I’m very proud of, and re-sketched the second section of the Kanteletar novel. Now for the whole next month I’ll be busy with advertising the crowdfunding for the (still underedited!) fantasy books, although I’m not very hopeful about that going well 😅

But regardless! Goals for next month are mainly to be able to do the required salesmanship and maybe polish that short story so I can share it with you!

I’m sorry but whoever made this completely missed the point of solarpunk.

It also shows how much easier it is to repackage cyberpunk and make it look new, compared to actually imagining a positive future.

Great news! Soon the thesis is done, one last leg!

Congratulations! I’ll try to read it as soon as I have some time and get back to you with feedback, if you don’t mind.

bio/corp/hell/hope/punk

I think only two of these will survive by the end of it 😂

As I had predicted, this month has been absolutely hectic and riddled with deadlines; my customary bullet-point list will have to be shifted as-is to October 😓

Not only that, but I’ve been addled with a poisonous idea that can’t leave my brain and I know I can’t write either. It’s badass and it has potential, but the written page would be the absolute worst medium in which it should be told. Maybe I’ll save it for some comic in the future, if life puts some eager artist on my path.

The positive news is that one of the Meteorina short stories will be published in an Italian anthology at some point this month, so I’m glad something is bearing fruit!