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I’ve been looking into getting a pair of ceramic tile cutters. One of those handheld tools that looks like a rotary can opener. But I’m not sure what kind I would need.

I want to be able to cut old ceramic plates into different sized pieces to make a mosaic backsplash for the kitchen.

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These are the two cutters I was looking at on Amazon. There wasn’t a very wide variety to choose from (only 7!). Still, these two look like either one would meet my needs okay (~_~;).

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“365 Prompts” is coming out December 10th, but will be available for pre-order after November 14th.

“What is it?” you ask. Well, “365 Prompts” is a collection comprising 365 subjects, each with three accompanying prompts. Which makes it great for anyone looking for a quick story idea, thought experiment, or creative writing subject.

So, you know, yay!

Plus it creates a handy reference when I post a story titled something like “Prompt Fill: 192. mushroom 2A[1]” without any further introduction. And it gives people something to request prompts from (“Can you give us a ‘Prompt 056. chainsaw 3A’?”).

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I’m half-heartedly participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve only got a very very few words written for my entry, which even this early makes me think that I’m not going to win 2016 ;_;

Though who knows, I might throw together a collection of short stories that consists of 50k. That would be neato.

Anyways, if you’re participating in National Novel Writing Month, I wish you luck that you win the year. Fighting!

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[1] Prompt Fill: 192. mushroom 2A

Unsure whether he was hallucinating, he stared at the tiny creatures and their mushroom house village.

The mushrooms had sprouted after the rain and were arranged in a loose circle next to the stump he used for chopping wood. Inch tall humanoid creatures were moving around the mushrooms, walking upright on their back legs while their forelegs and paws were used to burrow into the mushroom stems to create hollows they were climbing in and out of.

As he watched, one of the creatures chewed and swallowed several chunks of mushroom stem. Its sharp teeth flashed as the mouth worked the mushroom flesh. It ate and ate until its stomach was swollen and full. Then its body jerked and vomited up a long stream of greenish pulp that nearby creatures gathered up and began applying to the outside of the mushroom houses.

“What…” He rubbed his hand over his face and leaned closer to the screen.

He’d set up the CCTV cameras after several small thefts around the property. He’d thought it was kids messing around.

Yet now he was watching as strange little creatures used his missing Phillips head screwdriver to dig furrows in the dirt. Furrows that looked a lot like the beginnings of a garden.

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Kakushigoto 01 at Amazon

I’ve done a cruel thing to Canon Seth/Sunfire and Tony/Teen Steel/Steel Fury. Because of Warrick, Sonic Pulse survived for her reappearance in “Pulse of the City[1].” That’s the most obvious thing different.

But there were also the differences in how the Behemoth situation were handled, the events of “Tuesday Night” where Sunfire and Teen Steel spend a bunch of time together, and the reminder that they’re mortal–something the Canon Sunfire and Teen Steel never experienced.

These two guys are very important in All That Remains. (That’s all I’m going to say about that.)

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[1] The reason all of “Pulse of the City” is written in first person POV is because Ashley doesn’t even realize how other people perceive her.

She realizes that she doesn’t see herself as Sonic Pulse. So when she puts on her uniform, she forces herself to be a harder person than she naturally is.

I think that her time out of costume gave her a sense of perspective. Just not soon enough.

(Ashley has a whole story arc to her – “Pulse of the City”, “The Dark Harts”, “Beating Harts At Night” – and her family. And not just Evan[2].)

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[3] I think I’ve been cruelest to Evan most of all. He’s been fucked with, fucked over — and as a result he is a stewing bottle of rage. And in the Kanon-verse, because events never took place, the festering wounds in his mind were never cleansed.

He gets sidelined in “Tuesday Night”, which results in him being part of the raising of his grandson, and he finds a new happiness … But he also gets kicked out of being a superhero. And he eventually goes in and has certain sections of his brain biomechanically altered to control his rage-induced pyrokinetic psychopathy.

He doesn’t want to kill people.

But when he loses control…

Bad things happen. And the people he loves are left to pick up the pieces.

He’s happier without having to make those actions. Enjoys the life that he lives and the people he shares it with.

But sometimes …

Sometimes he wonders.

What would the world look like if the whole thing burned?

All Systems Red at Amazon

So I tried to go on Twitter this morning and got told the site wasn’t available. On checking whether Twitter was down, I found out some idiots have started a DDoS attack* on not just Twitter, but Netflix, Spotify, Etsy, Reddit and a bunch of other sites as some kind of extortion scheme. “We’re not going to let you use your favorite sites until you give us money” or some such nonsense.

Honestly, I don’t want to give these assholes money. I want to give them an ass kicking.

And if this turns out to be another attempt to mess with the election by preventing early voting?

Hopefully some assholes aren’t just going to go to jail and pay a fine. Hopefully some assholes get to go to prison, have their pictures splashed all over the Internet, and get to have their lives completely destroyed. Because you know what? Fuck those guys.

When I was young and dumb, someone calling down some rAIDS was just an annoying juvenile prank. “Oh noes, I can’t read my favorite fanfic today. Guess I’ve gotta do something else until the rAIDS clears up.”

But blackmail and extortion?

Fuck you very much.

GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL.
DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200.

Just because these kids have grown up with the Internet doesn’t mean they have the first clue about life and the world. Cyber-attacks and extortion don’t make a person Woke. It makes them a Criminal.

Wake up.

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*DDoS attack — basically, you gather a bunch of people and keep visiting a website until the site doesn’t work anymore. It’s the same thing that happens when a million people all try to look at the same cat picture at the same time… the servers can’t handle the load and suddenly no one can look at the cat picture.

Your information isn’t stolen or anything. It’s basically someone standing in the door of a store and not letting you in. It’s an annoyance tactic for the most part.

When it becomes a concern is when someone has a zombie army of slaved computers also hitting the sites. Why? Because to get a zombie army you infect a bunch of people with malware and use their IP addresses to commit your crimes from.

And that’s what they are: Crimes.

DDoS attacks aren’t funny jokes anymore. They cost people time and money they’re not going to get back, and a malicious DDoS attack can ruin someone’s business or ability to make money.

And extortion?

That’s totally illegal, bro. And it pisses people off.

Fortress in the Eye of Time at Amazon

Ugh, the first thing I saw when I checked my email was article after article about Donald Trump. And all I can think is, “When is this guy going to crawl back under the rock he came from?”

I understand that people have the right to vote for him if they want — but do I have to be constantly deluged with images and stories about him? I get it. He’s a fucking MONSTER. It’s something he even seems to agree with based on his comments about women and his actions on social media and television.

He’s spent his entire adult life screwing people over so he could make money. And now he wants to screw the whole country over so he can… make money. (It’s not like he’s changed his position on money.)

It’s gross. It’s tired. And you’ve won Donald, I’m fucking terrified of you.

Now get the fuck out of here. You’re fired.

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WHY WE SHOULD BE TERRIFIED OF A TRUMP PRESIDENCY:

1. that hair
2. that attitude toward women
3. that ignorance toward late-term abortions and what they are
4. the constant lying
5. the sociopathy
6. the environment
7. the long-term effect on children
8. the fact that he calls a Presidency a “regime”
9. fascism
10. rampant capitalism at the cost of the people
11. bad business practices
12. racism
13. the promotion of ignorance
14. rape-apologists
15. rape
16. nuclear weapons
17. war with Russia
18. Mike Pence
19. internment camps
20. murder of a 12-year-old girl (#WheresMaria?)

And there’s even more reasons why I would never vote for him.

He’s a loser.