The new Kside word is for the weird almost English raving that shows up in youtube comments. Also known as trollspeak.
Sue’s dad died. He was over 100 years old, and she was planning on visiting him this week. Now her mum and dad are dead, her mum passed last year. She’s not the only person I know who is over seventy and lost a parent. mOm I am glad you made that scarf for her.
I09 talks about epistolary novels today. In SF format.
I am actually working on an epistolary sf novel. In my family there is a cousins’ letter that rotates between numerous people over the course of about three years. The cousin will write whatever he or she wants to and then send it along. Once it gets back to the origination point it is collected by mOm and the next iteration fires up.
The novel follows the cousins as they a) attempt social work with a trispecies gang in an orbital (blocked out) b) sell tickets to the only real tourist attraction (but it’s a doozy) on a fleabag planet (in process) c) found a Unitarian church on a wholly-owned planet and accidentally become the lightning rod for a debate on interspecies marriage (this letter is written) d) join the Forces to see the galaxy, kill monsters and blow shit up real good (this is in process) e) have boring lives on Earth (anything but, climate change and volcanoes) f) get old and have themselves uploaded so they can continue to work on family history projects they didn’t want to die in the middle of, thus becoming the de facto all purpose family elder.
