Links of interest from this week that aren’t related to social media or writing/publishing.
Keffy S. Kehrli provided me with this distracting tale of a man, his cat, and text messages.
If you’re writing steampunk, this resource might prove useful when looking for Victorian slang.
Breaking Free of the Gender Binary is an interesting talk from Laura Lubin about changing gender identity from female to gender neutral.
I don’t know why I want to make a rainbow rose, and the process looks laborious, but the result sure is pretty.
Gauchopunk, from the Multiculturalism for Steampunk blog.
A couple of interesting pages from Scott Berkun’s site. A piece on why even wrong schedules are helpful and a review of a recent book, Why We Love Sociopaths, talking about sociopaths in recent television.
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(science fiction, flash story) Your kind didn’t make this Castle, only found it hundreds of years ago, and took it for their own. There are pictures of the original owners, who had silver eyes and dark scales and three long fingers on each hand, but they are long dead and gone. Now your people live here and the Castle serves them and those who are drawn to serve it know better than to cross any of you.
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