Jack who wrote Aether Torrent

@jackscarab

Writer, teacher, socialist, somehow Oklahoman. Author of YA fantasy Aether Torrent. Buy it and then read and review it! 💙📚 #booksky

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Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· 28d

I had been vaguely aware that the term "Mary Sue" came from Star Trek fandom in the 1970s. Today I learned the source, which was a sarcastic parody one-page fanfic "A Trekkie's Tale" (with bonus Slaughterhouse-Five reference). And it came with an illustration. fanlore.org/wiki/A_Trekk...

A scan of a print zine from the 1970s, featuring a typewritten fanfic to the left and a pen drawing of a big-eyed smiling girl, wearing braces on her teeth and a bow in her hair, to the right.

The fanfic, "A Trekkie's Tale" from "How's Treks #5," is as follows:

"Gee, golly, gosh, gloriosky," thought Mary Sue as she stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise. "Here I am, the youngest lieutenant in the fleet - only fifteen and a half years old." Captain Kirk came up to her.

"Oh, Lieutenant, I love you madly. Will you come to bed with me?"

"Captain! I am not that kind of girl!"

"You're right, and I respect you for it. Here, take over the ship for a minute while I go get some coffee for us."

Mr. Spock came onto the bridge. "What are you doing in the command seat, Lieutenant?"

"The Captain told me to."

"Flawlessly logical. I admire your mind."

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy and Mr. Scott beamed down with Lt. Mary Sue to Rigel XXXVII. They were attacked by green androids and thrown into prison. In a moment of weakness Lt. Mary Sue revealed to Mr. Spock that she too was half Vulcan. Recovering quickly, she sprung the lock with her hairpin and they all got away back to the ship.

But back on board, Dr. McCoy and Lt. Mary Sue found out that the men who had beamed down were seriously stricken by the jumping cold robbies, Mary Sue less so. While the four officers languished in Sick Bay, Lt. Mary Sue ran the ship, and ran it so well she received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Vulcan Order of Gallantry and the Tralfamadorian Order of Good Guyhood.
However the disease finally got to her and she fell fatally ill. In the Sick Bay as she breathed her last, she was surrounded by Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Mr. Scott, all weeping unashamedly at the loss of her beautiful youth and youthful beauty, intelligence, capability and all around niceness. Even to this day her birthday is a national holiday of the Enterprise.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· 29d

Some bird courtship going on.

A male and female cardinal checking each other out in a tree.

The same aspiring couple, caught amid doing courtship poses.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 12

A screenshot from South Park, in which the boys have assembled outside a crowd at a water park and Butters notices that Cartman is alive.

Caption:
"Aww, you lived?"

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 12

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 11

"Red Leader to base. Caterpillars spotted within perimeter. Divert Paperchewer Squad to sting duty. Over."

A red paper wasp perched on a walkie-talkie.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 11

"Never."

The Judgement of Solomon, a notable attempted baby-division from the hit literature series Abrahamic Religion.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 11

Unsafe for any Americans, even members of Congress, unless they're apocalyptic Christians there to exploit all sides.

"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans," Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

The Israeli military said troops and police officers intervened after receiving a report of settlers blocking vehicles near Khirbet Zanuta, a small Palestinian hamlet whose residents were forcibly displaced by violent settler raids following the 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 10

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 10

[Tidus laugh (10 minutes).avi] I will not be doing that.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 10

Yep. Can confirm deer.social works, however.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 7

The only thing around here that actually likes the heat. Come July, everybody's crepemyrtles explode. Ours is no different.

A very large crepemyrtle, popping with pink-fucshia flowers.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 7

Mississippi Kite, common raptor of the suburbs here. Incidentally, I enjoy the zoom on this camera.

A Mississippi Kite, a smallish bird of prey with medium gray wings and a light gray head and torso, perched on a leafless branch.

The same bird, turning its head toward the camera.

The same bird as seen from further away. A smaller black bird, possibly a starling, shares the tree with it.

The same tree containing the same birds, but at normal distance. It's in somebody's front yard (not mine).

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 7

This is just what burnout does to an artisan.

A portion of a screenshot from Crusader Kings 3, in which an artisan approaches his emperor with an inspiration for an artifact. The artisan has a glitched-out torso, extremely thin with even thinner arms, yet ordinary-sized head and hands.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 6

Please be more specific, Bluesky, when you have "Donald Trump" trending at #1.

Hawkeye from Avengers: Endgame, standing in a rainy city and saying (captioned) "Don't give me hope."

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 6

I mean. My god. This is next-level catering to US anime nerds over 35.

A splash image of the cast of Tenchi Galaxy, indicating every main character has the same actor they did in the mid-1990s -- except for Ayeka, whose actor Jennifer Darling is now eighty years old.

A Tenchi Galaxy VHS. A VHS. As a Kickstarter backer bonus. In the year 2026.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 5

ME: "If they don't keep Ryoko's original dub actor Petrea Burchard, this project is futile." TRAILER: [narrated by Ryoko's original dub actor Petrea Burchard] ME:

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 5

For example:

A partial sample of a list of top-ranked video game things from readers of Famitsu magazine, here indicating favorite characters, favorite creator, and favorite developers.

Favorite character

1. Mario
2. Cloud
3. Tifa
4. Kirby
5. Link
6. Leon S. Kennedy
7. Pikachu
8. Slime (Dragon Quest)
9. Kazuma Kiryu
10. Joker (Persona 5)

Favorite creator

Masahiro Sakurai

Favorite developer

1. Nintendo
2. Square Enix
3. Capcom
4. Atlus

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 5

A page from Chainsaw Man, featuring The Star-Spangled Banner being sung over a scene of a bombed city about to be nuked.

The subsequent page, wherein two hazmat-suited people lay out rows of nuclear flash-burned corpses. The national anthem lyrics continue.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 5

Happy 4th of July!

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 5

From the puzzle company's side-hustle reporting (www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...) :

Campbell Robertson
July 4, 2026, 9:12 p.m. ET14 minutes ago

Campbell Robertson

In a social media post, President Trump said he would wait out the weather and still deliver his speech: “I don’t care if it’s 2:00 O’Clock in the morning, or in one hour from now.” Saying he was leaving the White House soon, he declared: “It’s Saturday night, LETS HAVE SOME FUN, even if we are out late tonight. They say 11:00 O’Clock for the speech. Who cares???”

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 4

A screenshot from an anime of unclear provenance. A blonde character in red glasses retrieves an American flag from a locker while another blonde character in a white shirt recoils.

Caption:
"Ugh! Put that horrid thing away!"

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 3

A screenshot from the Japanese videogame-focused variety show GameCenter CX, in which host Shinya Arino is overly brightly lit while seated in a chair.

"To hell with the sun," he says, captioned.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 1

Remember kids, if purchase isn't ownership, then piracy isn't theft!

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jul 1

I'm merely a spectator, but: It seems that a bunch of Catholics who dislike Vatican 2 -- the "don't hate Jews, don't nuke anyone, religious freedom is a thing" rules they made in the 1960s -- are ordaining their own bishops without the Pope. Here's a live-reaction thread about it.

A blue-armored character from Halo, specifically RoosterTeeth's machinima, looking off to the side, captioned "Wait. That's illegal."

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jun 30

An August 5, 2024 Tumblr post from one wolfythewitch, widely stolen for home goods across the Internet, reading:

"This too shall pass but like holy fuck"

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jun 30

Awoke at four, tried unsuccessfully to sleep again, gave up. Here's the soundscape of a suburb at five-ish in the morning.

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jun 30

When you turn 40:

A portion of a screenshot from Crusader Kings 3, listing various ailments befalling your player character in old age.

* Your body weakens...
* Your mind withers, but slowly!
* Your bones weaken...
* Your vision clouds...

Jack who wrote Aether Torrent@jackscarab· Jun 26

While @jasmineforok.bsky.social still has a runoff, I'm confident she'll make it.