#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 3: Do you think there is a creative element to eating?

I'd say no, but I think my midriff would argue otherwise. XD

Jokes aside, cooking? Baking? Absolutely creative. But eating is literally consumption of that creation. And sure, there are food selfies, but that's not adding much to someone else's work. I mean I have an entire #BagelAdventure tag of nothing but dressed-up bagels, but they're bagels I dressed up! And then there's a tasting! And I would personally argue that that's not the creative part! More just reporting!

Like I'm trying to think of any way eating could be creative and everything I can come up with is some sort of performance and I positively cringe at that.

Edit: Reading other responses, I hadn't considered playing with your food. And thinking more on that got me to tea ceremonies. So I guess it can be, but most often isn't.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 4: How do you answer if someone asks you what you do? Is your answer different in person than it is online?

Online I tend to say I'm a programmer, but my primary duty is actually support. Programming is my profession and I even do it at home. Support is my job and it's spiced up nicely by the odd bit of programming when someone needs it. Frankly I do a little of everything despite my title.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 5: Could you do a scrapbook accompanying your current creative process?

In terms of where I draw inspiration? Maybe a little bit, but frankly a lot of it exists in my head only. I do save a ton of pics for inspiration, mostly characters, but honestly very little of that is actually directed into specific projects at any given point in time. Projects built entirely from such inspiration tend to collapse under their own weight since they don't have enough of "me" supporting them. That said, never say never.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 6: Some people have creative work inspired by their dreams. Have you ever had dreams inspired by your creative work?

Only extremely rarely and I have to be on an incredibly deep kick for a single project in particular. Unfortunately, such dreams, while fun, really don't render any sort of useful material since I don't dream of being any of my own characters and I really don't even interact with the cast directly. I kind of end up in the world for a night or two and do a little tourism, but I'm afraid my material comes from the ones where I'm playing through a screen.

That said, being able to predict that it's going to happen and be within a night or two of it at least means I know myself. XD

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 7: Would your current creative project make a good game? (If it is a game, is there another media where you think it could work well?)

I have the experience of having taken certain projects back and forth between books and games and writing for games is very different from writing for books. Writing a book that uses game logic is proving to be fun, but it was a game first that I knew wouldn't be feasible for a very long time. Making it a book is a compromise.

I think, honestly, that what makes a good game story and what makes a good novel are very different things because both mediums have very different strengths. Games are really good at putting you in the hotseat; books struggle with that. Games pace themselves with gameplay and books don't have that luxury. But games don't have the same benefit of imagination, and that is in its own way the highest fidelity and most personal experience any medium could offer. Books live and die on that.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 8: Victuals?

I've frankly never liked the word. Somehow it manages to have a silent consonant AND a silent vowel and neither of them is "E." Absolutely impossible to sound out correctly if you don't know what it is for no good reason, following exactly none of the standard BS English is infamous for. Unless you're writing a period piece or are using it ironically, just say "food." "Food and drink" if you must.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 9: Our next featured creator is a professor. Does any of your work involve professors and/or universities?

Jerako has the Scholar class and several NPCs with titles of "Prof." and "Dr." with appropriate credentials, but otherwise no, not really. Or rather my secondary WIP has the Mages' College, but it's an enemy faction. Even in an earlier swing at the same world, the MC has a rather antagonistic relationship with it, despite being treated very differently for the same "gift" and sent off with a professor. That's probably honestly later in the timeline and might maybe represent some form of gentler handling thanks to the massive failure from before.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 10: Our next featured creator writes Science Fiction. What's a feature of Science Fiction that you find interesting?

OMG, I have a whole blog post in progress about what a great time it is to be a near-future hard sci-fi writer. So much tech coming out that's SO COOL right now! XD

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 11:

(skipped the Q&A)

#" Apr. 12: Create a poll with three words that appear in your WIP and one that doesn't. Ask people to guess the one that doesn't.

• petrichor (33%, 1 vote)
• hoarfrost (33%, 1 vote)
• sundog (0%, 0 votes)
• rainbow (33%, 1 vote)

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 13: Reveal the answer to yesterday's poll.

The answer was...!

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"Rainbow!"

Ethan does have a plot-relevant heat-treated bangle that belonged to Aiden, but he would never actually describe it as "rainbow." People back home would never have let him hear the end of it if he'd let that slip.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 14: What's something that's going well with your creativity this month?

Doing little bits of editing here and there in The Temperature of Space, I feel like I kind of accidentally read almost all of it out of order. I don't know if that's "riveting" or just "getting distracted," but it did prompt me to at least attempt to do a full read-through until I realized 2:00 a.m. was maybe not the wisest time for it. XD

That said, I feel like a lot of what I'm doing editing from the start is undoing edits that softened Ethan too much. He self-bills as a jackass and I want more of that cockiness to come through until he gets his dramatic gut punch at the very least.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 15: What's a smell that has featured in your work?

Specifically? Petrichor. I mean I guess I've used quite a few smells in The Temperature of Space, especially in the beginning, but a lot of that is cleaners and one instance of really strong coffee.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 16: How do you feel about illustrations in (non-comic) books?

I'm assuming picture books are also excluded and this is about novels/novellas. In which case I just have to say a chapter picture can spice things up nicely as long as it's with the understanding that it's going to lower the perceived audience age just for existing. Which is a shame, really, because it's not like adults can't appreciate good art.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 17: What's something you've learned in recent research?

That the space shuttle's heat resistant tiles:

1. are partially ablative, i.e. single use
2. are at least in part fragile enough to be crumbled in the hand because they don't necessarily need to resist damage while they're at it

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 18: Do you ever read out loud, either to yourself or someone else?

My read speed is far faster than my speaking speed and reading out loud prevents me from getting fully immersed. Like maybe it's crazy, but when I'm immersed, I'm basically disembodied in that world watching a movie.

That said, I'm an aspiring voice actor and I see no better way of flexing that than doing my own audiobook.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 19: Have you ever been to a poetry reading?

Nope.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 20: Have you ever read or performed your work in front of an audience?

Also nope.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 21: You turn a corner on a dimly lit street and see...

Well, this is impossible to work with, isn't it? XD

My first thought was the very boring reality of my own dimly lit street where the answer was "more dimly lit street." That street leads somewhere interesting, but honestly, then what? I get a burger? I was going to do a poem or lyrics, but I cannot work with that rhythm (18/4). Somehow this makes me want to start riffing on "two wolves" again (which I find disproportionately amusing), but then a single post of that without the context of the rest doesn't work, does it?

Otherwise sometimes the problem with infinite potential is just plain paralysis. I could come across a werewolf and try to run away, but really, how far do I take it?

Maybe I'm just not prepared for any of these to start tossing in writing prompts.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 22: What fictional character (from any media) do you find the scariest?

Honestly, there are really none I can think of out of context. I'm assuming we're not just talking about appearance here because there are plenty of scary-looking monsters.

Honestly, horror really isn't my thing in the first place, despite somehow including a lot of short horror segments in my work.

Honestly, thinking about my own work for a sec, I suppose the one I'd probably least want to be locked in a room with is Hossum from The Adventures of Renard, because a) he has some very specific trauma making him hate humans and b) through no fault of his own has a taint of Chaos that makes him essentially a berserker and there are very few people he wouldn't hurt in that state, me being none of them. He's actually one of the heroes of the series, but we're talking about a guy for whom getting shot just makes him angrier. I don't know how long I'd last in that room. Especially if he found out who I was.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 23: Have fairy tales influenced any of your creative work?

Any particular story? No, not really. I grew up on Disney like everyone else and frankly they're a tough act to follow. I don't think I could say a whole lot that they or the original stories couldn't.

That doesn't mean some variation of the fair folk don't appear in my work. Quite the opposite; they're in quite a lot of it.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 24: Our next featured creator has a "love/hate affair with common tropes." What's your relationship with tropes?

TVTropes will ruin your life. Once you start picking things apart for tropes, you'll never see the whole is greater than the sum of the parts until you let go of them. The most damaging thing TVTropes does is present media as a list of tropes. It's entirely reductive.

You can think of tropes as bricks, but you can't build a decent wall without mortar and TVTropes is completely unprepared to handle that part. Without that mortar, it all falls apart. And you can't fully understand that wall if you're throwing off little bits of it everywhere that you think don't matter.

I wouldn't write around tropes any more than I'd get pumped to jam in a new word. Tropes are really best reserved for recognizing broad trends. They can be a useful tool for that, but you still need to understand their proper use.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 25: Our featured creator does "a bit of educational activism on the side." Do you do any activism through your creative work?

Superhero League of Wausau is nothing short of pure activism from the word "go." It punches left, right, and center, but it always, always punches up.

Apr. 26: Q&A (missed)

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 27: Reticent?

Love it! Such a crisp word, honestly, comes out quickly, almost nervously in its own right. Few words sound so much like the vibe they're trying to communicate.

That said, it's also an old-feeling word in US English and it's hard to find a place for it.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 28: Are you interested in etymology? Is there a word with an origin you find especially interesting?

Yep! Always a visit on Dictionary.com when I look up a word. I've been trying to think of a favorite for days now for this and I feel like there's a really good answer in my heart that I can't seem to squeeze out.

So you get a recent one: "entrepreneur," which comes from French "between" and "take," and is "one who undertakes [a task]." And I just find it hilarious that as far as professions go, entrepreneur and undertaker are about as different as I can think of and the type of thing that should absolutely not be mixed. XD

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 29: Someone else promotion day. Tell us about someone else's work. Let's boost away.

She's not on Fedi, but I'm currently helping with script editing for my writer friend. She's new to screenplays, so there's a lot of editing, but she's starting with a series treatment for Resident Evil and it's excellent! If anyone wants to read the edited copies, I can run it past her or maybe get her on here. I don't know if she's ever really had a writing community before.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr. 30: What's a problem you solved in your creative work this month?

Never having finished an original novel. I finished First Fantasy as a novelization of a modded run of Final Fantasy on the NES, but that was rather much both a reason to play it and a reason to write it and I fully thought it was a novella until I realized I wasn't able to finish it in one night.

The Temperature of Space still needs editing, but it's 100% mine! And I can, ideally, put it on my site for all the wonderful visibility I have there once I figure out a cover and stuff.

#ScribesAndMakers May 1: Are you starting any new projects this month?

Good Lord willing and the crick don't rise, no. XD

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#" May 2: When you finish a project, do you tend to feel that you have everything just the way you want it, or is it more like 'good enough'?

I generally only release things I'm completely happy with and any exceptions haunt me.

#ScribesAndMakers May 3: When you see the word 'read', is your first instinct to read it as present tense or past tense?

Out of context, I seem to read it in the past tense, but just in the question, there's an example of it being in context and my brain doesn't get tripped up at all. Maybe it's something I take for granted as a native speaker. I could imagine it being a nightmare for a learner.

#ScribesAndMakers May 4: How many songs are there where you know all the lyrics by heart?

There used to be a plethora of hymns and a handful of other music like Boston, but to be very honest, at this point it's more hymns and things I wrote. I just listen to less music without the hour commute after changing jobs.

#ScribesAndMakers May 5: Have you ever worked with collage?

Not since my school days. Even then it was a bit rough because my family was not one to get a bunch of magazines, so we ended up trying to photocopy things off DVD cases and such. In some cases I threw my hands up and just drew stuff and ate the points loss.

#ScribesAndMakers May 6: Ghoti (fish) is a word created to demonstrate the odd pronunciation variations in the English language. Create a word of your own or share one you've created.¹

You know what? I'm actually so annoyed by "ghoti" that I'm going to take this opportunity to rant early. "Ghoti" is one of those smug "gotchas" that completely ignores the rules of English in the same way as one might intentionally call jalapeños "je-lop-en-ohs" or how Republicans intentionally butchered Kamala's name and it makes me crave violence because it's just being obtuse. You KNOW the correct answer. You may not know WHY you know the correct answer, but it exists, just like adjective order or the "IAO" rule or the fact you can't end a sentence with certain contractions because of semantic reasons or why the "e" is silent.

And the whole thing HINGES on people being unable to pull out the rulebook to tell you why it's wrong.

It's gaslighting is what it is.

So no.

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti

#ScribesAndMakers May 7: When did you think of the idea for your current project? Do you remember how it came about?

October 2024 if my files are any indication. I more or less just started writing a teen thrust forward in time and his two robots, but ho-lee crud did I give away everything in that early version. XD

Kelvin came about pretty much right away as I kept writing, but it was something of a debate to avoid complicating things. I'm glad I kept him; he developed into an interesting man. 😀

#ScribesAndMakers May 8: Leviathan?

Oh, now you've done it! XD

One of the more interesting Final Fantasy summons, with a long history and probably fourth most appearances after Bahamut, Shiva, and Ifrit, probably just beating out Ramuh, and first to be replaced (Bismarck, FF6). Leviathan has been depicted as male, female, and unspecified unlike most, who retain a set gender. It was one of the few ways to get at the Water element until FFX brought a standard spell line and often appears as non-elemental when Water isn't in the roster.

Despite this long run, Leviathan is somehow not the series icon that Bahamut, Ifrit, Shiva, or even Ramuh is. And that's probably because it so rarely has story importance or ultimate status. It's only been king of the summons once, in FF4. It probably also doesn't help that the less it looks like Amano draws it, the better. It's gotten a ton of spotlight in recent games, though, maybe breaking that curse.

I could go on, but I'll spare you all. XD

#ScribesAndMakers May 9: How likely are you to embrace changes to language usage?

I am very much in camp "words mean things."

That said, language is dynamic. Zoomers will post "💀" or say "dead" when things are funny and it's just an evolution of "dying laughing" to "OMG, I'm dying" and I was here for it, so it doesn't feel as inscrutable as it's treated.

Totally a stickler on "literally," though. We have "practically" for things that are not actually literal.

#ScribesAndMakers May 10: If your project will be part of a series, do you know that before you start?

No, series happen when there are too many ideas to fit into one entry. Everything starts with a core entry and prequels and sequels are built around that.

#ScribesAndMakers May 11: Though it can be hard to choose favorites and you may not be a fan of his work, which of Shakespeare's plays would you say you like best?

The only thing of his I've read was "Romeo and Juliet," and then only for school. I considered it such an Idiot Plot that I never bothered with anything else, so... that, by default.

Not without merit, many of the jokes would land much better knowing the context ahead of time if I saw it today, but the ending could have been easily avoided with a note and I can't think of it without getting frustrated.

"West Side Story" did it better.

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#ScribesAndMakers May 12: Our next featured creator is a Table Top Role Playing Game designer. Do you play, or have you played, TTRPGs?

I used to play a ton of Big Eyes, Small Mouth (Tri-Stat). Still have the green book.

#ScribesAndMakers May 13: Our next featured creator is exploring pixel art. Have you ever worked with pixel art?

I'll let you be the judge. XD

Edit:
At some point I need to figure out how environments work and maybe swap out some of those placeholders. Ruby is my oldest first-person work and frankly I went into it not realizing even newer 2D stuff probably used affine transformations on planar art rather than trying to build every object. The problem is that that makes replacing all that old mock-up art much harder.

But I can do sprites, fonts, interfaces, top-down assets, and icons just fine. You can peep my gallery here and on bluestarultor[at]mastodon.social for more.

Let's see if I can link this without breaking threading with the "at." XD

tech.lgbt/@bluestarultor/11657…

bluestarultor

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#ScribesAndMakers May 14: Our #TTMD featured creator is Patch Arcana @patcharcana

Oh, hey! It feels like I've been following you for a bit!

I don't really have any questions, but if you want to talk mechanics and/or pixels, I'd be happy to talk mechanics and/or pixels. 😀

#ScribesAndMakers May 15: What's going well with your creative work so far this month?

Ya-whoops! Total regeneration here; the original response can now be found at WordWeavers where it belongs!

Honestly, though? Writing a 22-minute cartoon is proving quite fun. There's no way I could actually get the rights to the IP and I doubt Bandai would be interested or that there'd even be a market thanks to the death of 30-minute toy commercials, but it's enjoyable just to do.

And just the fact I'm officially in the editing phase for a novel that is legally uncomplicated.

• Google (100%, 9 votes)
• Urban Dictionary (0%, 0 votes)
• Behind the Name (0%, 0 votes)
• Wikipedia (0%, 0 votes)

#ScribesAndMakers May 17: Link to, reply to, or summarize yesterday's poll and reveal the answer.

The answer is Urban Dictionary and all one of you got it wrong. XD

Yes, I still use Google. Literally everything else wraps Bing and I am endlessly frustrated by how much worse it is than Google.

#ScribesAndMakers May 18: If someone were to write a character based on you, how often would exclamation marks be warranted in your dialogue?

"What you MEAN we ran out?"

#ScribesAndMakers May 19: You get locked in Ikea for a week, what will you build?

I mean I'd still have to sleep, so really, first stop would be a bed. Someone else mentioned a mattress and that and a blanket would be essential; a pillow is an easy add to that for night 1, probably also sheets or just another blanket to keep from chafing on the mattress itself. After that I'd need to focus on a frame and getting the mattress onto it would not be difficult. That's probably day 2. After that, a bedside table so I don't break my glasses sleeping in them. That might be day 2 or 3 depending on how much of the bed I get together day 1. I don't think I'd invest in anything beyond that since I wouldn't be keeping it beyond that week.

Unless you mean "assembling" food. I'm assuming the water is on for bathroom facilities and if so, drinking from the sink gets water. Remember "3/7:" 3 days without water; 7 days without food before it kills you. But not cutting it that close would be preferable.

#ScribesAndMakers May 20: You have $100 (or the equivalent in your currency) to spend on something to support your creativity this month. How are you spending it?

...Groceries? Like if I have to spend it on myself, I have a day job that means I do have better financial security than others. I have all the hardware and software I need. Fact of the matter is Marie Callender makes microwave meals for less than $5 a pop and that's half what it costs to get a burger and fries. I could get myself a variety of 20 meals and stick around the house. Add a gallon of milk, that's the work week sorted.

Cost of living varies wildly in this country. Where I am, $100 is, I mean, nothing to sneeze at, but it only goes so far. Especially in this economy.

#ScribesAndMakers May 21: What medium would you choose to depict a visual image of a lake?

My first instinct was pixel art, because, well, I'm a pixel artist, but actually it occurred to me that I might do it as pop art. I actually did some AR cards for a dormant game project and one of them was not so much a "lake" as a "pond," but thinking about it, the art style I chose for it would translate really well.

InkScape makes a certain style of pop art a breeze. I can see the scene in my head. I'm not going to make it, but I could.

And honestly, that realization makes this worth posting super early so it's not gone forever.

#ScribesAndMakers May 22: Which book world would you like to live in for a week, and why?

A Plague of Sorcerers, if only because a) Herbalism is one of the major forms of magic and that means I could probably get stimulants potent enough to stand in for my pills, and b) my specific set of skills would absolutely make me a Spellmaker, which is an incredibly sweet gig, not least because there are really usually only a small handful at a time. Imagine me waltzing in out of nowhere, a Spellmaker in strange clothes, sticking around for a week making miracles unlike they'd ever imagined, and then disappearing just as mysteriously as I came. That's the kind of shit they'd talk about for generations!

#ScribesAndMakers May 23: If you were going to tell a story about a cryptid, which would you choose?

Well, Bigfoot is the low-hanging fruit, isn't it? You could very easily tell very human stories with Bigfoot.

But actually, does a kelpie count? I know that's probably more fey, but I have a game idea about an ex-soldier traveling with a kelpie and their rather dubious adventures together, given how dubious it is for your steed/apparent human only friend to be a man-eater. Not that anyone is likely going to miss any of those highwaymen and such.

#ScribesAndMakers May 24: Warp?

♪Let's do the Time Warp again!♫

I have no idea why that's my first thought, but it KEEPS being my first thought. That's the only part of the song I actually know. I can't watch any amount of RHPS without getting weird dreams and I have only ever seen snippets, in part because of that.

I mean, really, you'd think with how huge Star Trek was in my life growing up that it wouldn't be such a distant #2. XD

But, I mean, otherwise that, the WARP spell in Final Fantasy, and being maybe just a little warped myself, it's a word I have positive association with and kind of like to use when it's appropriate in my writing. And it's fun to say, because it IS kind of warped in the mouth, starting in front, pulling back to mid, and then boomeranging back to the front for a strong finish.

#ScribesAndMakers May 25: Stella had been dreading this moment...

The music changed and her father nodded. Family she hadn't seen in ages turned and a multitude of jaws dropped. Her father leaned into her a little and she leaned back for support as he walked her down the aisle. Whispers and murmurs started flitting like fey, disorienting in the beauty of her special day. They reached the altar and the ceremony started.

"I OBJECT!" someone shouted immediately.

Everyone looked at the source.

"It's one thing for a woman to wear a suit, but for the groom to wear a DRESS? MAKEUP!? Is this a JOKE to you, Steve!?"

"Sit. Down," Stella's voice escaped her throat.

She had no idea where it came from, but it was strong, warm, and alto, spoken with the authority of a faerie queen. Jim's knees gave. He sank back into his seat in awe.

"You were saying?" Gina smiled at the officiator.

Stella looked into her dark eyes and saw the queen reflected in them.

It was her day. Their day.

#TootFic #SmalStories #Microfiction

#ScribesAndMakers May 26: Who's your favorite vampire?

I was going to say D (of Vampire Hunter D), but then I remembered he's actually a dhampir. My second choice would have been Alucard (Castlevania edition), but then I remembered he is ALSO a dhampir. So that would kind of just leave Dracula and Carmilla and to be quite honest, both characters have been done so many ways that the originals are probably the least interesting versions of either.

So I'll go with a bit of a side answer: I enjoy the heck out of writing lovable shit teen vampires in my TootFic, because no, they never actually can grow out of it. Imagine just having to go through life with a half-developed brain and raging hormones that turn peer pressure into drugs straight where your happy chemicals live. You could be 400, 500, or have seen the fall of the Roman Empire and as soon as a couple of your latest batch of friends have a bad idea, you're on it. XD

#ScribesAndMakers May 27: What advice would you have for yourself on day one of this month if you could go back?

"Honestly, don't hold yourself to anything this month. It's going to be rough. It's not your fault."

#ScribesAndMakers May 28: Our next featured creator is a serial writer. Have you ever written serials?

Not on purpose, but sometimes short stories get a lot of sequels.

Honestly, the serial format requires discipline I don't have. There are simply too many things dancing a jig in my head to commit to having any sort of buffer of any one thing ongoing forever. I'm working on a 22-episode season of cartoons for fun, with an existing IP I don't have the rights to, but it's done when it's done and honestly, even if I were to shop it to the rights holders, it wouldn't be until the whole season is done, just to have it, with ideas for season 2 that they could use with or without me.

#ScribesAndMakers May 29: Our next featured creator has done creative work with math. Does math ever feature in any way in your creative work?

Not so much in terms of raw numbers as things like physics calculations. Curie temperature, fractions of the speed of light, materials science, volume and density of a particular body to figure out what it weighs, that sort of thing. Very rarely do I actually show my work since that means I can't top it off with a little fudge. XD

May 30: TTMD (had no Q's)

#ScribesAndMakers May 31: How confident are you feeling in your creative project(s) after this month?

Kinda feeling an itch to meddle before I do that full read-through and it's just a bad idea. Hopefully I'll have more bandwidth coming up.

#ScribesAndMakers June 1: Choose an adjective to describe how you're feeling about your creativity this month.

Hopeful.

June 2 & 3: Skip. Asking me to even come up with a response I'm happy with has taken well over a minute. My process is very deliberate.

#ScribesAndMakers June 4: @#$&!?

Grawlixes have their place, but I would never, ever put one in a book. They're a solution to media constrained by space and propriety for the faint constitutions of busybodies. I use them in my blogs for anything below a PG-13 and I use them (usually with an age gate) in my games, but in books, you can just say someone swore without having it in quotes.

I mean I hate to say it, but I'd be flabbergasted if every American child hadn't heard "fuck" by the time they were 5.

#ScribesAndMakers June 5: Our next featured creator is heavily involved in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Are you part of any communities related to your creative interests?

Other than these hashtags, no. Whether that even really counts as being properly part of a community is a question of time, patience, and everyone else's block and mute buttons. XD

#ScribesAndMakers June 6: Our featured creator appreciates photos of abandoned places. What subject matter do you especially enjoy for photography?

Anytime the sky does anything cool, I'm taking pics for reference. I'll also do the same for cool plants, cool sticks, and anything else I find inspiring for game dev.

June 7: TTMD (no questions)

#ScribesAndMakers June 8: What's something you consider creative that other people might not?

My go-to answer is cooking and baking, but also coding. Coding is all about solving problems. My text writer is my pride and joy at this point, fighting to make it ever more efficient to scramble to reduce the frames it takes to produce a text box or read pre-formatted stored text.

Like I know it's limited to generating it all at once, where other systems often generate a letter at a time or sneakily do things in chunks. But it's flexible as a 2D graphics engine that can handle palette swapping, sheet swapping, icons, etc.

#ScribesAndMakers June 9: If you had a chance to ask an author or artist (living or deceased) one question, what would it be?

Jim Henson, on how he'd depict Heaven, because you know he'd have some interesting twist on it.

#ScribesAndMakers June 10: (Excluding time travel) Do you have a preference between books that progress linearly and books that jump back and forth in time (flashbacks etc)?

Strictly speaking, linear is easiest to parse, but done well, flashbacks can be as interesting of a second story as the primary story and the ghosts of the past can haunt the present effectively.

#ScribesAndMakers June 11: How much do you worry about what others think of your creative work?

Honestly, writing quite so many PG-13 blogs has maybe eroded how family friendly I can claim to be, but I still worry a lot about that. I prefer to keep things wholesome and it bothers me some that the things closest to release are probably going to be seen as far less wholesome than the main body of everything I've worked on for so long.

Never mind what might happen if anything blows up.

#ScribesAndMakers June 12: Say something kind about yourself and your creativity.

I have a handsome singing voice.