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Wish Fulfillment

Wish Fulfillment

For October, I want to re-post this flash fiction short story I originally wrote on 3 September 2018, called “Wish Fulfillment.” I share it here in its original form. I was probably rewatching a lot of old Twilight Zone episodes around the time I wrote it, because I have a

Close up view of sunlight falling across the keys on a white, Mac-style mechanical keyboard

The writing app I want

I have a pretty clear idea of the writing app I want, and I don't think it exists. What I'm looking for is an app which lets me control a document's content, structure, and presentation separately from one another, at composition time. Usually, content, structure, and presentation are all mingled

A man laughingly accuses someone (offscreen) of being the devil, with a scolding wag of his finger

Twilight Zone: “You’re the Devil!”

It's cold, dark, and wintry just now, so obviously I'm watching old Twilight Zone episodes (from the original series run) to feel cheery and festive. In any case, I was watching the episode "Escape Clause" when I thought to GIF this brief reaction. video2gif command video2gif Media/TV/The\ Twilight\

Irving tells his team (off-camera), “Let's burn this place to the ground.”

Severance: “Let's burn this place to the ground.”

Back in September, I rewatched Severance. I had intended to make more GIFs from this rewatch, but in the end, I only made a couple of Irving from the episode “Defiant Jazz.” I've included these below so you can download and reuse them. (Hotlinking would be rude, though.) video2gif command

3D art of a domino fall in progress.

Game development

Domino Effect

I've officially made something in 3D for the first time. I'm posting just to commemorate the occasion because I'm bizarrely proud of getting started finally with Unity. Unity is a framework for making video games, and the first thing I've done is play with rigid-body physics. Specifically, I created a

Cape Meares Lighthouse stands above the Pacific Ocean at a viewpoint in coastal Oregon

Where in the online is Emily?

Social media chaos reigns. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. Anyway, this post is just to update on where I am attempting to have a social media presence of any kind: * Website: emily.news (obviously) * Mastodon: est@emily.news * Bluesky: @emily.gay * Discord: emilyst * Twitter:

Image from Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which an eerie red light glows from within a keyhole in a door.

Close Encounters and Contact: “My God”

Realized this might be a good place to share the originals for some new GIFs I've made in the last couple of days.

Orion Nebula and its surrounding molecular cloud and nebulae of the region

Hyperfixations of the now

Not sure if or how I want to try to use this website, but I am going to add a list of my current hyperfixations to the site. "Hyperfixations" is probably not exactly the right word. This is more about my ever revolving Lazy Susan of special interests. Seems like