She uses a lot of language concepts very well I doubt she got them all from one language.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams.

You know how usually the first thirdish of a detective novel is all the little clues, the middle thirdish is the adventure + a few more clues then like the last thirdish they have the fight scenes or whatever and solve it?

The first 95% was just gathering random clues. Like in a difficult to follow and almost absurdist way. I had to brute force my attention all the way through but did so because Douglas Adams is one of my favorites.

In the last 5% or so every single one of those random absurdist bullshit clues snapped together perfectly.

Oooh I really enjoyed ancillary justice. The pronoun use as part of the story is fantastic (among other things). A lot of sci-fi these days uses pronouns to be inclusive of modern ideas on gender but lecke uses it to hammer in how completely alien all of it is.

I assume that's just run of the mill monsterfucker shaming?

Surprised they don't do the consonant Hepatitises too. Maybe they do now if you've been out for a bit.

Lol I tried to write tentacle porn in highschool and I'm still writing it but it wasn't porn for a while because essentially this. Then BG3 had an illithid sex scene that pissed me off (illithid has a penis for some reason and enjoys fucking with it which is also dumb because you can get dick anywhere that's not why you'd fuck an illithid and as stated that's not what an illithid would get out of fucking you).

Now I'm considering adding a sex scene back in (in which most of what the illithid gets out of it is listening to the memories and sensory info of the person enjoying getting eaten out with their tentacles. Right now there's like. One mention in the chapter I just wrote, and if I was really going to add it in I'd need to plan pretty carefully for it to make sense (although it would come out suuuper trippy in some other ways because of where the story went in some other areas).

Anyway I have the outline written all the way through the end if anybody wants to know how it ends in exchange for beta reading but here's what's on ao3 so far.

Oh hey that's part of how I accidentally took 300mg as a first time dose. Pretty sure I saw god and it was pretty disappointed in me.

And like. I'd be fine with that if the primary function in practice was to ensure the original creator gets financially compensated for their work and then they can pay for copyright controlled distribution services if that helps therm make sure they get paid but that is not why or how current law is used and I'm kinda losing that it even can be.

Or your favorite niche flavor of dorito in the corner store at 2am Sunday morning. This is what I mean when I say that while yes most ecological damage is caused by large corporations, there would still also have to be fundamental changes to a huge number of people's everyday lives. Convenience culture would have to die and I don't even know if I'm personally ready for that.

or a new prophet / religion

interestingly, the OG rant is actually exactly how wildly manic patients talk / act when you're pulling their naked ass off the dayroom table in the middle of lunch

that, or this drunk dude driving a scissor lift on the highway entrance ramp

Yeah I'm a nurse and this article tracks. I get callbacks on applications within a week of submission or sometimes same day. Are they good jobs? Maybe. But there's no shortage of them.

But this article also highlights something I've always said about cops, whose degrees are basically worthless according to this article. A degree isn't necessary for their job while it's literally illegal for me to not have one as well as a license that can be revoked if I fuck up bad enough.

Cops imo have a similar level of responsibility if not for health specifically definitely for safety. They should have to be licensed and that license should be overseen by a public safety board that can remove it. You should be able to maybe get a 3-6 month certificate or something to ticket people for parking in handicapped spots or noise disturbances but you should need at LEAST an associates to carry a gun in the protection of public safety, preferably a bachelors and in addition to martial arts it should cover everything from law, basic / developmental psych, basic first aid and how to identify when a disturbance is probably being caused by a medical problem that needs eval after it's been safely contained etc.

I do actually believe there is a need for public safety officials who can show up and stop people from injuring each other but we really need to up our expectations for ethics and competency.