Day: June 30, 2021

Humanity is fragile. Metahumans get a bad shake of it. If you believe the newsfeeds then Orks and Trolls die early. Dwarves are, well, dwarves, and Elves might get to live forever. Truth be told, I’ve never seen an old elf, so maybe there is a thread of anecdotal truth to that one. Truth also be told, I have a fascination for elves that stops short of fetichism because of how prominently they are displayed in the fashion and beauty world. In other words, its not a fetish because the media says it is okay to salivate over hot elves.

But I digress. Humanity is fragile. We tend to fight against that fragility with the help of science and technology. We fill ourselves with treatments, ointments, biotech, cyberware, even magic as a way to make us healthy and extend our lives past the point we ought to be living. This desire to prolong ourselves feeds the business model of places like Executive Body Enhancements. EBE makes its money putting high dollar, high grade cyber and bio technology into people. It’s all there on the net. They pitch themselves as a lifestyle company and do a hell of a job of it. No less than 5 AA rated corps are presently bidding to buy them out. Of course, EBE says it isn’t selling, but everything in the 6th world is for sale.

Day 3 of not writing this 10 minute bloganovella. I’m experiencing wicked back pain, and I suppose that is my excuse. It is only that though, an excuse. I am at that point where I am not excited about moving forward in the narrative and I need to change something to make something happen in order to jump start my joy for the story. I like the character and he’s building steadily, but I’m not quite where I need to be with it in order to make this a fun write and read.

Of course, that is all up to me. I’m absolutely a non-believer of some external writers block. That stuff is in your head. It lives in my head on occasion, but I can beat it. My demon is consistency. I’m Snowpiercer, The Engine Eternal, but if I stop I don’t know that I can start for a really long time. To continue movie quotes, I wind up in the Sunken Place.

Okay. well… on to…

Some Thoughts:

1. Here’s how I define my birth family: My kids are with my birth mom and I remain convinced she is straight up indoctrinating them to hate me and feel like they should never be in my life. It be like that. Some family exists in antithesis to the idea of family and she is that family.