Brian Edits Things
@brianedits.bsky.social
Editor, Author, and the Least Interesting Man in the World.
He/him, Ace-spec, mobility impaired, dx neurodivergent.
Proud father of a kick-ass trans son.
Check out the Rogue Writers writing community at https://roguewriters.net
He/him, Ace-spec, mobility impaired, dx neurodivergent.
Proud father of a kick-ass trans son.
Check out the Rogue Writers writing community at https://roguewriters.net
In the #nanowrimo farewell video, Kilby says that donations through the website have been shut down now that Nano is dissolving.
As usual, Kilby is full of shit.
The site let me get all the way to entering my CC number, where I decided I didn't want to spend $5 to go from 95% sure to 100% sure.
As usual, Kilby is full of shit.
The site let me get all the way to entering my CC number, where I decided I didn't want to spend $5 to go from 95% sure to 100% sure.
April 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
In the #nanowrimo farewell video, Kilby says that donations through the website have been shut down now that Nano is dissolving.
As usual, Kilby is full of shit.
The site let me get all the way to entering my CC number, where I decided I didn't want to spend $5 to go from 95% sure to 100% sure.
As usual, Kilby is full of shit.
The site let me get all the way to entering my CC number, where I decided I didn't want to spend $5 to go from 95% sure to 100% sure.
This is somehow even WORSE than the chart I used on a joke election poster during my LARP character's campaign for the in-game town mayor position.
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is somehow even WORSE than the chart I used on a joke election poster during my LARP character's campaign for the in-game town mayor position.
President Musk addresses his cabinet while Mr. Trump catches a quick nap, as photographed by the official White House photographer:
February 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
President Musk addresses his cabinet while Mr. Trump catches a quick nap, as photographed by the official White House photographer:
This is not a meme. I did not steal this from somewhere. This is a literal screenshot from MY monitor after legitimately performing this search through Bing, just now.
This is why I'm not afraid of AI taking my job any time soon.
This is why I'm not afraid of AI taking my job any time soon.
February 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is not a meme. I did not steal this from somewhere. This is a literal screenshot from MY monitor after legitimately performing this search through Bing, just now.
This is why I'm not afraid of AI taking my job any time soon.
This is why I'm not afraid of AI taking my job any time soon.
Authors, post something related to your last publication or WIP without context
January 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Authors, post something related to your last publication or WIP without context
Oasis from Sluggy Freelance. She's already shown a distaste for sentient objects trying to manipulate her into doing evil.
![A segment comic depicting a fight in a zero-gravity space station.
Panel 1: A woman with a crazy hairstyle (Oasis) uses a sword to stab an opponent armed with a kusarigama.
Panel 2: The sword (Chaz), having been awakened by absorbing the blood of the innocent, begins to glow with red and black light. It says "Greetings, New Master! I am a simple sword but I hope to serve you well." Oasis replies with "A talking sword?!?"
Panel 3: Oasis throws the sword away and holds up the kusarigama. She says "[b]That's[/b] needlessly distracting. This weapon will work just fine." In the background, the previous owner of the sword (Torg) prepares to catch it, with a big smile on his face. Another opponent angrily approaches from behind and below Oasis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mgxbt4o4jyzppnokgwahuq4k/bafkreihkrncrqadzpgbyazheitn63it6zy2jfptzyv5qix33c7lsvojgpu@jpeg)
December 24, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Oasis from Sluggy Freelance. She's already shown a distaste for sentient objects trying to manipulate her into doing evil.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
November 19, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Layla wants to make sure Americans remember to vote today.
November 5, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Layla wants to make sure Americans remember to vote today.
Finally, just what I've needed my entire life: an official certification that I am A Writer! Thanks, NaNo!
October 30, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Finally, just what I've needed my entire life: an official certification that I am A Writer! Thanks, NaNo!
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #amwriting
Is this late? Yes. But I *just* wrote a passage with the word "latch" today, and then remembered, "Hey, I saw that word somewhere."
Context: Del is being given the hard sell on joining the inner circle of the magic school cult.
Is this late? Yes. But I *just* wrote a passage with the word "latch" today, and then remembered, "Hey, I saw that word somewhere."
Context: Del is being given the hard sell on joining the inner circle of the magic school cult.
![“How can you be sure?” I asked, still not able to fully believe I was capable of the kind of ability Lady Orleans credited me with. “I mean, the tests could be wrong…”
“I have performed a few other, small experiments,” she said. “The easiest one to explain is the most recent. Tell me about the other door in this hallway.”
“I’m sorry, Healer,” I said quickly, “I know I shouldn’t have opened it—”
“Opened it?” she laughed, then saw my bewildered expression and laughed again. “Lamb, you shouldn’t even have [i]seen[/i] it! It’s the door to my private suite. It’s covered with a crosshatch of several types of shadow theurgy; it’s not only invisible, but the entire wall subtly unsettles people, discouraging anyone from touching it. And should an unwelcome guest come into contact with it by accident, the handle is enchanted to inspire intense fear and send them screaming back down the hall. Then you come along, notice it, feel [i]drawn[/i] to it, and open it without even suspecting the ill effects you avoided!”
I stared at her in shock, my words of protest stolen from my lips.
“When I heard the latch close, I nearly leapt out of my skin,” she continued. “Even if you never mastered all seven resonances—if you only ever mastered [i]one[/i] resonance—you’d still be among the most powerful shadow theurgists the world has ever seen.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mgxbt4o4jyzppnokgwahuq4k/bafkreihk23q6qcftac5hthgaillym3zubg2wrcu2tub73ocncfb3ztioji@jpeg)
October 30, 2024 at 8:05 AM
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #amwriting
Is this late? Yes. But I *just* wrote a passage with the word "latch" today, and then remembered, "Hey, I saw that word somewhere."
Context: Del is being given the hard sell on joining the inner circle of the magic school cult.
Is this late? Yes. But I *just* wrote a passage with the word "latch" today, and then remembered, "Hey, I saw that word somewhere."
Context: Del is being given the hard sell on joining the inner circle of the magic school cult.
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #authors #writesky
Context: Del is being put through an "evaluation of potential" that is meant to test her affinity with sky-resonance magic.
Context: Del is being put through an "evaluation of potential" that is meant to test her affinity with sky-resonance magic.
October 29, 2024 at 12:53 AM
#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #authors #writesky
Context: Del is being put through an "evaluation of potential" that is meant to test her affinity with sky-resonance magic.
Context: Del is being put through an "evaluation of potential" that is meant to test her affinity with sky-resonance magic.
#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts
This is a long excerpt, but it's not my fault that the single mention of the word "cat" in this work appears at the beginning of what is probably my favorite exchange in the story so far.
This is a long excerpt, but it's not my fault that the single mention of the word "cat" in this work appears at the beginning of what is probably my favorite exchange in the story so far.
![“Lord Myron, with all due respect—” Dr. Jerevai began.
“—He’s not risking his medical permits for you,” I interrupted. Lord Myron jumped like a startled alley cat and whipped around to face me. He opened his mouth to speak, but I kept talking over his feeble objections. “Even [i]if[/i] the Bishop of Education was the person to whom Dr. Jerevai was expected to file his first-look report, which is a dubious assertion at best, [i]you[/i] are neither an officer of the church nor a medical professional. Disclosing anything to you [i]may[/i] not represent a legal breach, which is another dubious assertion, but it absolutely represents an ethical one. If Bishop Damianus thinks he needs your legal advice based on the contents of Dr. Jerevai’s report, he can let you read it over his shoulder when he gets his copy.”
“And who in the Chasm are you?” Lord Myron sputtered.
“I am Doctor Madame Deacon Violette Josphine Bellflower, the Left Hand of the Bishop of Medicine of Widowsbridge, and the Medical Overseer of Widowsbridge,” I said. I paused for a beat, letting him absorb the list of titles I’d just dropped on his lap, then added, “Pleased to meet you.”
“As the Bishop of Education’s maîtres, I assure you that—”
“The only thing I want you to assure me of is that you’ll take your ‘legal counsel’ back down that hallway to the one person in this building who cares for it so that I can get on with my professional consultation with Dr. Jerevai. We’re both exceptionally busy. I don’t expect you to know what ‘busy’ looks like, but I don’t have time to give you a primer.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mgxbt4o4jyzppnokgwahuq4k/bafkreigi2qinwr2ryxokrvf4fyjkrlel2vtlr7xt4psvdrp6d2ytb6lfyu@jpeg)
October 25, 2024 at 9:35 PM
#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #authors #writingprompts
This is a long excerpt, but it's not my fault that the single mention of the word "cat" in this work appears at the beginning of what is probably my favorite exchange in the story so far.
This is a long excerpt, but it's not my fault that the single mention of the word "cat" in this work appears at the beginning of what is probably my favorite exchange in the story so far.
I'm fascinated to hear how you think US elections work. Why do you think there are more than two choices?
Oh, wait, is it because of the woman in the bottom left of this picture with Putin? Who only appears once every 4 years has never once actually tried to build a power base to do anything with?
Oh, wait, is it because of the woman in the bottom left of this picture with Putin? Who only appears once every 4 years has never once actually tried to build a power base to do anything with?
October 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
I'm fascinated to hear how you think US elections work. Why do you think there are more than two choices?
Oh, wait, is it because of the woman in the bottom left of this picture with Putin? Who only appears once every 4 years has never once actually tried to build a power base to do anything with?
Oh, wait, is it because of the woman in the bottom left of this picture with Putin? Who only appears once every 4 years has never once actually tried to build a power base to do anything with?
#writingcommunity #RAWR
50K words done!! 21 days is a new personal best, and I'm super happy about it. Now I'm going to see if I can hit 75K before November 1st!
Also, I was supposed to be posting these little pictures at milestones. I forgot. Part of my pace is coming from avoiding social media.
50K words done!! 21 days is a new personal best, and I'm super happy about it. Now I'm going to see if I can hit 75K before November 1st!
Also, I was supposed to be posting these little pictures at milestones. I forgot. Part of my pace is coming from avoiding social media.
October 21, 2024 at 7:14 AM
#writingcommunity #RAWR
50K words done!! 21 days is a new personal best, and I'm super happy about it. Now I'm going to see if I can hit 75K before November 1st!
Also, I was supposed to be posting these little pictures at milestones. I forgot. Part of my pace is coming from avoiding social media.
50K words done!! 21 days is a new personal best, and I'm super happy about it. Now I'm going to see if I can hit 75K before November 1st!
Also, I was supposed to be posting these little pictures at milestones. I forgot. Part of my pace is coming from avoiding social media.
From D&D:
Operation: Dino Drop. "This problem is nothing that an invisible T-Rex falling from 501ft in the air can't solve."
Also, "He's wanted for questioning." "Why?" "He asked questions. He's wanted. For questioning."
From Star Wars:
Our police sketches on wanted posters (example attached).
Operation: Dino Drop. "This problem is nothing that an invisible T-Rex falling from 501ft in the air can't solve."
Also, "He's wanted for questioning." "Why?" "He asked questions. He's wanted. For questioning."
From Star Wars:
Our police sketches on wanted posters (example attached).
October 3, 2024 at 7:33 AM
From D&D:
Operation: Dino Drop. "This problem is nothing that an invisible T-Rex falling from 501ft in the air can't solve."
Also, "He's wanted for questioning." "Why?" "He asked questions. He's wanted. For questioning."
From Star Wars:
Our police sketches on wanted posters (example attached).
Operation: Dino Drop. "This problem is nothing that an invisible T-Rex falling from 501ft in the air can't solve."
Also, "He's wanted for questioning." "Why?" "He asked questions. He's wanted. For questioning."
From Star Wars:
Our police sketches on wanted posters (example attached).
How old are you in internet years without telling your age?
October 1, 2024 at 7:16 PM
How old are you in internet years without telling your age?
October 1st! The RAWR writing challenge begins! I've set a goal of 50k, which corresponds to this cool egg, which will hatch into an emu as I chase that goal.
Check out more details on the challenge at roguewriters.net/rawr/
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writeRAWR
Check out more details on the challenge at roguewriters.net/rawr/
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writeRAWR
October 1, 2024 at 5:32 AM
October 1st! The RAWR writing challenge begins! I've set a goal of 50k, which corresponds to this cool egg, which will hatch into an emu as I chase that goal.
Check out more details on the challenge at roguewriters.net/rawr/
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writeRAWR
Check out more details on the challenge at roguewriters.net/rawr/
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writeRAWR
$10 thrift store score: an absolutely *enormous* thesaurus and a physical copy of the AP Style guide.
Sure, they're a little old. But the style guide is probably still 85% right, and I don't think I'm going to need a synonym for "yeet" or "sus" any time soon.
Sure, they're a little old. But the style guide is probably still 85% right, and I don't think I'm going to need a synonym for "yeet" or "sus" any time soon.
September 29, 2024 at 3:56 PM
$10 thrift store score: an absolutely *enormous* thesaurus and a physical copy of the AP Style guide.
Sure, they're a little old. But the style guide is probably still 85% right, and I don't think I'm going to need a synonym for "yeet" or "sus" any time soon.
Sure, they're a little old. But the style guide is probably still 85% right, and I don't think I'm going to need a synonym for "yeet" or "sus" any time soon.
!["I can't believe NaNoWriMo is endorsing a person/company who does [blank]!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mgxbt4o4jyzppnokgwahuq4k/bafkreieiqzxeotexammp25cwxe7xqc6w5ydba3pneskxxiculovjgah6ou@jpeg)
September 5, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Oh dear.
What does this mean?
I'm afraid the website people might think I was screwing around with them, but I really wasn't.
What does this mean?
I'm afraid the website people might think I was screwing around with them, but I really wasn't.
September 3, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Oh dear.
What does this mean?
I'm afraid the website people might think I was screwing around with them, but I really wasn't.
What does this mean?
I'm afraid the website people might think I was screwing around with them, but I really wasn't.
September 2, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Ideally, this Kevin Smith:
(He made me realize that I wasn't necessarily straight, just maybe really picky.)
(He made me realize that I wasn't necessarily straight, just maybe really picky.)
September 2, 2024 at 4:17 AM
Ideally, this Kevin Smith:
(He made me realize that I wasn't necessarily straight, just maybe really picky.)
(He made me realize that I wasn't necessarily straight, just maybe really picky.)
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid
September 1, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater as a kid