Writing stories
Oct. 28th, 2025 03:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khitteeIt's been a long time since I've written a lot, and the last year and a half haven't made it easy. I haven't posted about that here, but your head hurting continuously for a long time makes it hard to do things, and while it's not resolved, it's vaguely moving towards managed.
So here I am, making my own little corner of the Battletech world. It's a big universe, plenty of room for everyone. Especially my little band of skrungly salvagers. Nobody will even notice them. Probably. (We're going to get Stackpoled, aren't we?)
I'm hooking them up with the big archaeological team of the universe. Not for a big find, mind you, just to get them off-planet and some C-Bills in their pockets, get some new contracts, make some friends. I know, I know, it's *Battle*tech, not *Friendly*tech. Come over here and tell that to my favorite Thunderbolt.
I'm looking at some of their ship names for Interstellar Expeditions and I'm seeing things like the Cousteau, the Howard Carter, the Magelllan. Oh, named after explorers and archaeologists. I mean, other than Cousteau, pretty well known names that have bad reputations now, but were the top of the game then. Let's see, who can I shove in there now for a ship? How about Heyerdahl? I remember him being a dumbass, but I don't remember why.
oh.
OH
No.
NONONO
Not even in jest.
Fuck that guy.
I'll go find someone else.
(If you recommend Schliemann I will hunt you down personally. I just want to talk. I have a power point.)
And a quick turn through 'Famous Archaeologists' as produced by Google is a great list of 'old white racists' as well as a list of looters, thieves, and people who contributed to the British Museum, but I repeat myself.
I think I'll go with Zheng Zhenxiang, who discovered the tomb of Fu Hao.
Anyway, that was my emergency foray into Oh, even my enemies from childhood were worse than I remembered.
and a good place to have a first real post here. I'll have a few more coming as I think of it.
So here I am, making my own little corner of the Battletech world. It's a big universe, plenty of room for everyone. Especially my little band of skrungly salvagers. Nobody will even notice them. Probably. (We're going to get Stackpoled, aren't we?)
I'm hooking them up with the big archaeological team of the universe. Not for a big find, mind you, just to get them off-planet and some C-Bills in their pockets, get some new contracts, make some friends. I know, I know, it's *Battle*tech, not *Friendly*tech. Come over here and tell that to my favorite Thunderbolt.
I'm looking at some of their ship names for Interstellar Expeditions and I'm seeing things like the Cousteau, the Howard Carter, the Magelllan. Oh, named after explorers and archaeologists. I mean, other than Cousteau, pretty well known names that have bad reputations now, but were the top of the game then. Let's see, who can I shove in there now for a ship? How about Heyerdahl? I remember him being a dumbass, but I don't remember why.
oh.
OH
No.
NONONO
Not even in jest.
Fuck that guy.
I'll go find someone else.
(If you recommend Schliemann I will hunt you down personally. I just want to talk. I have a power point.)
And a quick turn through 'Famous Archaeologists' as produced by Google is a great list of 'old white racists' as well as a list of looters, thieves, and people who contributed to the British Museum, but I repeat myself.
I think I'll go with Zheng Zhenxiang, who discovered the tomb of Fu Hao.
Anyway, that was my emergency foray into Oh, even my enemies from childhood were worse than I remembered.
and a good place to have a first real post here. I'll have a few more coming as I think of it.
