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Backup Post 39 - Snippets explanation
Dec. 16th, 2018 11:56 pmI’ve been putting off a few things because they weren’t complete. Some of them are just indefinitely backburnered in my head, such as “Conversion,” a short story on the premise that somebody has a trip and comes to believe he’s a robot, but can’t ever find the channel he was watching again that led him to believe this. I just really like the news bulletin and the bad sit-com I came up with, though, so I thought I’d toss it out there.
Others are simmering, the subject of frequent conversation on my part in real life. It’ll be a lot of work, but I really want to try writing a new DSM category called Shitty Person Disorders. The premise is that every time there’s a high profile mass shooting, somebody starts that BS about making it harder for mentally ill people to get guns. While I’m sure that could lower the suicide rate a little, it won’t do much for the homicide rate, since it’s not sick people with guns who kill people, but rather assholes with guns who kill people. In response, the APA widens the net by creating a new category of mental illness, Shitty Person Disorders. Obviously, though, it’ll be difficult to get the language to that tough Ballardian snarky verisimilitude, so I’m sitting on this one until I have the energy to write it.
And the other is that anthology show, Memories Of The Grave. It’s basically bog standard anthology show stuff, but the premise is twofold: people who die in D&D and Pathfinder become “petitioners,” and in so doing they lose their memories, but memories and thoughts have an actual place they reside in that cosmology; perhaps they remain there, collected, and tended. Somebody aware of that notion writes Memories Of The Grave as a framing device for speculative fiction during that transitional period between Pathfinder and Starfinder, after Golarion becomes a technologically advanced society but before they take to spaceflight.
Fact is, I don’t actually much care how these are received; I just kinda like them and want them getting lost, and this is as good a place as any and better than most.
Others are simmering, the subject of frequent conversation on my part in real life. It’ll be a lot of work, but I really want to try writing a new DSM category called Shitty Person Disorders. The premise is that every time there’s a high profile mass shooting, somebody starts that BS about making it harder for mentally ill people to get guns. While I’m sure that could lower the suicide rate a little, it won’t do much for the homicide rate, since it’s not sick people with guns who kill people, but rather assholes with guns who kill people. In response, the APA widens the net by creating a new category of mental illness, Shitty Person Disorders. Obviously, though, it’ll be difficult to get the language to that tough Ballardian snarky verisimilitude, so I’m sitting on this one until I have the energy to write it.
And the other is that anthology show, Memories Of The Grave. It’s basically bog standard anthology show stuff, but the premise is twofold: people who die in D&D and Pathfinder become “petitioners,” and in so doing they lose their memories, but memories and thoughts have an actual place they reside in that cosmology; perhaps they remain there, collected, and tended. Somebody aware of that notion writes Memories Of The Grave as a framing device for speculative fiction during that transitional period between Pathfinder and Starfinder, after Golarion becomes a technologically advanced society but before they take to spaceflight.
Fact is, I don’t actually much care how these are received; I just kinda like them and want them getting lost, and this is as good a place as any and better than most.
