Sleep deprivation is the serial killer of word counts.

I would imagine that the story that had the greatest impact is one you don’t remember, that you heard very young, that wormed its way into your subconscious so that you don’t even think it’s a story, just the way the world is.

There may be no Gold-man, but there is Hieronymous Alloy.

Chary subtracted a model of the CMB from Planck’s picture of the entire sky

Most discussions of atheism I see in comment section start with “if you don’t believe in God, you’re an atheist” and then segue into long rants about other things you must be or not be to be a “real atheist”, and claims that various other commenters are not.

Dammit! I was just about to post this.

Why, yes it is. Is there any place special I should go? I tried looking at /d, but it’s a little tame.

I didn’t see any of them having a bizarre sexual thing going on... it could be just you.

That’s the ticket!

I’m happy whenever I get a chance to post my Noel Fielding gif...

That is very helpful, thank you.

I’ve tried looking at that, but I’m not entirely sure how it works. Do people just post whatever they want? I tried to find a FAQ and couldn’t - is there one?

I’ve found a good way around writer’s block is to grab a random sentence and just keep writing from that, something that’s not your story. It doesn’t matter what you write, because when you’ve got the creative juices flowing you switch cups and collect that glorious liquid in the bowl of your NaNo story. I think I…

I didn’t get it, but as soon as I tried to work it out, I thought: “What...it’s Putin on a ... ” and the song kicked in.

I thought the gif party was dead?

And then you can always take it back and complain: “You call this spangled?”

Classic stuff, love it. That was my humour in my late teens, early twenties... although when you do it in person people tend to think you’re a bit soft in the head.

Actually, you’re right. I really enjoyed reading all of the books (I read them all at once), but I do remember feeling at the end of the last couple that the best characters had ignored.