I started actively working on a novella when I was 14ish or so, but I'd written plenty of stories before then. My first novellas (age 14 and age 16) are shining examples of what not to do when writing but they hold a tiny place in my heart nonetheless.

Me, I'm psyched. Especially loving this artwork as Kshatriya is one of my favorite gundams.

As others have already observed, this isn't the creation of a shoe fetish as much as it is a sexual association with an object, which is extremely common (all the people talking about colognes are an example of the latter.) At least for me, my 'fetishes' came about before I understood what sex even was, and are…

Reminds me of this:

Not helpdesk tickets, but related: I used to work tech support for a major phone company. Every now and then I'd get some random customer who would complain about being on 'infinite hold' if they called from their personal phone number, even if there were plenty of tech agents sitting around waiting on calls.

That's a ghost named Oiwa (arguably one of the more famous Japanese ghosts) coming out of a lantern, but same thing pretty much. Shinto belief states that any old object (brooms, teapots, shoes, etc) that hangs around for one hundred years obtains a spirit, which makes me wonder if Japanese antique stores are…

Hmm! As someone who used to spend long, long hours doing text-based roleplay online with my friends, this looks interesting. Of course this has a multiple-choice format rather than requiring the players to type everything out, but conceptually it seems very similar. Like a cross between Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story…

I'm with all of the others who pointed out that the digital copy wouldn't be "me", but a copy that thinks it's me.

'Hand count'? Is this some sort of geiger counter with ports for you to insert your hands?

I want this. I have wanted this since the freaking 90s when I played some "virtual reality" game in an arcade (one with an enormous HMD helmet) and it blew my preadolescent mind. I expected this technology to reach us far, far sooner but once it comes out all will be forgiven.

I admit that I would have been considered a part of various fandoms at one point, when I was younger. Fanfiction, fanart, conventions, that sort of thing. Tons of fun but lots of embarrassment too, especially when meeting people without the helpful filter of the internet. At least online you can skip over the fics/art…

This is why I stopped wearing my band shirts. If it comes up in casual conversation that I and Random Cool Stranger happen to like the same thing, fine. But I don't want rabid fanlets trying to befriend me because our tastes in one area are similar.

Speaking as someone who loves fanfiction/fanart from certain shows/books/movies, the thought of socializing (even online) with other people in said fandom terrifies me. Meeting them in real life sounds comically horrible; I certainly wouldn't want to be in a room full of other people as weird and awkward as myself.

Two ideas: food coloring, and a little flavoring. If they can reduce its resemblance to human bodily fluids I'm sure it'd fare much better.

I prefer paperback books above all, but that's purely from my nostalgia for cheaply-printed 60's/70's sci-fi paperbacks. (It's the way they smell.)

I don't know why, but I have trouble talking to people. I can communicate fine, and I'm told I come off as funny and laid-back, but in reality I'm constantly on edge during social situations. Something about people looking at me and thinking about me gets under my skin; most of the time I'd much rather be invisible.

Those of you who -have- eaten insects, how's the texture? Because that's the major thing that I think would bother most people, if it's like legs and antenna that you notice when eating them. (Taste-wise I heard the spiders taste like crab, but idk.)

I really can't wait for this. Partly because I juuust finished writing a novel about black gooey psychosis-inducing crap infecting a bunch of scientists inside an isolated weapons research laboratory. This is (likely) nothing like my story but I've got to see it anyway.

I heard differently about Stevenson's original draft of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. According to Wikipedia his wife heard him summarizing the half-finished story and she observed that it sounded like a moral tale — then Stevenson burnt the manuscript himself because he liked the idea and wanted to completely rewrite it…

I'm just amused that Bozo's riding in a 'jinrikishaw' in China — they call those jinrikisha in Japan. Chinese would call them 'ren li che'.