@outer@mas.toHere's the cover from a really great book of short stories, from 2010, named "Shadow Show".
The stories, written by a wide variety of top-notch authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Harlan Ellison, each celebrate Ray Bradbury's life and writing.
(The book cover art is by Tom Gauld--I found it searching online for Gauld's cartoons.)
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@smurthys@hachyderm.ioThe eternal fight between V and W, when transliterating Sanskrit व in English. (Also applies to other Indic languages.)
E.g., वर्ष ("year") is often written "varsha"; not "warsha" though w is the closest sound to व.
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@jake4480@c.imWrote a bit tonight, should have a small post coming in a bit. I write a lot in Jetpack or text files but sometimes just writing on a laptop is really nice, using a mouse, moving images around - easier and faster for formatting, really. Just so much faster and the placements feel more sure than on a phone, you can move the text around, copy and paste easier on a bigger screen. At least for me.
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@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaA friend from way back just got in touch. We used to work on comic books together back in the day. It was nice hearing from him. That's his blog. Great to hear he's still writing. "Hyperboreans is published by Beul Aithris and is about an astral pub crawl through Cork city in the 90s. " I had to buy this one. Pure Cork like 😁 #writingcommunity
@jake4480@c.im @outer@mas.to“In front of the United Cigar Store this evening the men were gathered to burn dirigibles, sink battleships, blow up dynamite works and, all in all, savor the very bacteria in their porcelain mouths that would someday stop them cold.”
--From Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
That man was tripping. It might have been brain chemicals alone, but nobody else used those chemicals like that.
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@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI’ve been getting beta reader feedback on my #novel and it’s the most magical thing hearing how other people have formed their own relationships to and feelings towards my characters.
I made up these characters in my own mind, they didn’t exist a few months ago, and now they are real to not just me but other living, breathing humans.
Artistic creation feels like one of the closest ways we have of approaching a sense of something almost divine.
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@smurthys@hachyderm.io @smurthys@hachyderm.io @smurthys@hachyderm.ioPoor example to introduce the `disabled` HTML attribute:
Lesson: Don't use the same/similar name as the concept being introduced.
```html
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="ch-box" value="disabled" disabled />
disabled
</label>
```
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