Rajiv Moté
@rajivmote
Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else.
Five years ago, WandaVision had me furiously speculating about an "Infinity Coven" and then Agatha All Along brought together a coven of different colors, and now SDCC is teasing Latverian witches with Infinity Stone colors. I feel personally taunted. rajivmote.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/w...
Made it to MOMA! (After some stoos at Vanderbilt Market and St. Patrick's Cathedral.)
Okay, time to see if I can figure out the Long Island Rail Road and local train setup. I've got a LIRR ticket via the app. Loosely-held goal: to get from Queens to MOMA. Reserving the right to change plans.
On the advice of rejecting editors, I dug deeper into a story I'm writing, expanding it past flash length, and deepening the conflict and stakes. This entailed adding a werewolf sex scene. That closes off some markets. But opens others.
My kid took a perfume making class and geeked out to me about the different accords/blends she used to create her concepts. Now I want to take the class.
Prototype for Pete Hegseth's integrated testosterone delivery system to be rolled out to all military servicemen. And what the hell—servicewomen too.
On July 27th, I'll have a new story, "We Must Love as God Loves," online at Mysterion, a Christian-themed speculative fiction magazine. How does an atheist do that? It's a meditation on parental love, and the stories we tell ourselves to be who we want to be, whatever the "facts." It's about faith?
YES! I actually do have a stash of Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers—at home. I've been meaning to bring a stash to the office, but keep forgetting.
Robert Downey Jr.'s Fathers Day post reinforces the theory of Tony Stark as adopted son/vessel for Doctor Doom.
Very early, ChatGPT was memed as a Shoggoth wearing a smiley face mask: an inchoate blob with a friendly face for people to interact with.
I am not a cat-owning writer, so I'd only heard of the cat/writing dynamic. But now I've experienced it first hand. How do you get work done?!
I just saw this GIF that clearly exists in the "Moksha" cinematic universe.
Today I learned that Roger Penrose sent M.C. Escher his impossible triangle sketch, and in response, Escher created Ascending and Descending, exploring the same concept.
Holy gods, THAT was on Disney+?! Anyway, P:OLK didn't validate my X-cameo theory, but it didn't quite debunk it either, with all those ghost hallucinations.
Huh. Interesting protest outfits on the finale of Daredevil: Born Again S2... Fingers crossed for foreshadowing of S3.
I took my kid to see the Indian nu-metal band Bloodywood ("System of a Brown" tour). She was thrilled by her first real proximity to a mosh pit, and I was thrilled with this hard-as-iron Ganesh t-shirt.
Hm. Is the implication of the purple-lit prisoner that The Collector has Apocalypse in his collection?! (Disneyland's Guardians of the Galaxy: BREAKOUT!)