Notices by forrest (buru5@mstdn.games), page 2

@NaClKnight i've always had this idea to write a sci-fi novel bubbling up in my brain, and i told myself i was going to start it this year but got sidetracked making magazines instead, lol. outside of reading a bunch of sci-fi (which i've been slack on, i read more non-fiction nowadays), your style is helpful in seeing how someone else might do it.

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you never will be (confident that you're a good writer)

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nice prose too. stuff like "and her magical staff trailed a precession of bubbles with each swing." is simple, unpretentious (opposite of my writing lol), and shows a good grasp of vocabulary and form.

(different styles in the Cool Collective = good)

shame about the footnote stuff. IF you like this platform and plan to continue using it, i encourage you to sign up at their official write freely forum; they have a feature request board:

https://discuss.write.as/c/feedback/feature-requests/11

@NaClKnight fine with me

@NaClKnight i want to say all of extended markup, from what i'm reading. which is a bummer, but is what it is, i suppose. i'll test it out in some draft posts later today.

@NaClKnight looks like you're right. i'll have to notate as a limitation in the guide. looks like there's some talk on the write freely forum about adding it, but doesn't work right now.

@NaClKnight my bad

@NaClKnight cool, keep it on your main blog for now. i'll think about this a bit more.

to me, there's obviously a difference between NSFW images and writing. imo, writing is far more artistic and meaningful (terrible way to put this, sorry, lack of better words right now) than, say, a picture of a nude dude/lady. i will likely end up putting a NSFW policy in if the work includes sexual images (unlisted or ban), and of course outright BAN anyone who posts illegal stuff.

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do you think that's fair?

the idea is that, if someone were to come across the public reader ... we probably don't want them inundated with kinky sex stuff.

(i am super on the fence about this if you can't tell, so i'm open to suggestion.)

in this scenario, since you can have 2 blogs, you could have a pure NSFW one that is unlisted and just share the material elsewhere via links etc?

@NaClKnight but really, what are we talking about? is the work purely sex stuff? like erotica? if that's not the only focus (for example, it's a fictional story that INCLUDES some explicit sex stuff) then i would not really consider that explicit by any means. this is really weird territory for me, as i've written some gore stuff (there's a gory passage in my recent RCT piece, for example). it's troubling to quantify this stuff for me.

you were probably not expecting this sort of response, lol

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this is a much harder question for me than you probably realize.

since the instance is still in its infancy and i don't like the idea of stifling anyone's creativity, i haven't written out a NSFW policy.

i imagine there probably should be some sort of NSFW policy, but what that should be is the hard part.

i am inclined to think, if your writing is NSFW (explicit sex stuff), then that writing should not be publicly listed for the reader page -- and that's about it.

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so, conclusion: there's not much material yet since this instance is in its infant stage.

i put together a "Getting Started" post that outlines some of this and other little nuances about the platform. the main draw of using this platform is to have a personal blog (without a character limit) that is federated and away from the big-blog bros like WordPress / Blogger / etc. which i feel are moving toward more ai jank. you can have 2 blogs per user as well, with 2 /name

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https://howdoyouspell.cool/cool/getting-started-guide

@NaClKnight (i read your first post, good stuff. glad to have you on the instance.)

@NaClKnight i'm glad you're stubborn enough to try. the /read page should have most everything if you keep going through the pages, but posts from blogs that are marked as "unlisted" (user controlled) or pinned to a user's page will not be shown there. currently there are only two user blogs that have any true material, and that's mine /forrest and /DigiVogayer ( @DigiVoyager), the later of which pinned his grear piece on Pakistan for some reason (accident maybe).

@rooneymcnibnug i also want to know #fediverse #feditube #froakiethepokemon

@NaClKnight all good depending on the context.

@varyag @NaClKnight

i am a huge fan of Subjective Beating of Games, and i support you wholeheartedly.

i, too, beelined for the Moonlight Greatsword, and it was my main weapon for the rest of my playthrough. those wave beams are just Cool.

i think this is what i'm going with

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"good reasons," bit of a loaded phrase, huh? my fault. lol.

your good reasons can be literally anything you want, obviously; but i would challenge things like, "well it looks dumb" or "that's a reddit anime lawl" or, idk if you're following me, anything that doesn't have a real concrete reasoning.

if you can't articulate why you dislike something beyond these superficial levels, then it's probably not a "good reason."