Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 2

Worried

You guys tend to get the impression that I’m Mary Sunshine. At least I assume so, from how hard some of you try to spook me/worry me.

The point is I worry just fine on my own, thank you so much. I’m a raging depressive, and I inherited the paranoia from Mom’s side of the family. I wake up knowing that the world is ending in mere minutes, and that everyone is going to blame me for it.

I’m not actually joking when I say I spent years psyching myself up before entering parties, large meet...

Dreaming of the Infinite

Why should people have babies?

Let’s face it, the little critters leak at one end and the other, and being a parent is an exercise in spending three to five years in smelliness and grubbiness. I remember days I didn’t even know what I was washing off my hair (but knowing my boys, it was probably peanut butter.) I remember the disturbed sleep patterns. I remember worrying obsessively about them. (Okay, that was last week.)

So, why have kids at all? Why does anyone bother.

Because we’...

Work On What’s Been Spoiled By The Father

The Chinese character ku represents a bowl in whose contents worms are breeding. This means decay. It is come about because the gentle indifference in the lower trigram has come together with the rigid inertia of the upper, and the result is stagnation. Since this implies guilt, the conditions embody a demand for removal of the cause. Hence the meaning of the hexagram is not simply ‘what has been spoiled’ but ‘work on what has been spoiled’.

At various times in my life I was friends wit...

Orphans of the Stars, a tiny peek

Chill! I’m not killing Skip. I SWEAR:

A Son Is A Son

Vic (Virginia Aurelia Millburn, Countess Harcaster aka Victoria Torrenes):

I buried my only son once. They sent his body home from his very first mission with the Interplanetary Diplomatic Service.

This all came back to me that morning, after the incident in the nursery. I remembered Scipio’s funeral

I received his coffin – embossed with the IDS logo – with all due ceremony, and planned his funeral, and received half the cou...

With SubTITLES!

Yes, I do need to finish Witch’s Daughter, but I’ve been down with some sort of virus caught on the trip. Much better today, as compared even to yesterday, and if all goes well, I”ll be fine tomorrow. And finish the book. BUT until then, I can’t sit still, so I’ve been doing lyrics videos….

Just when I got comfortable with Pinnacle Pro (2015, mind) it stopped working properly. Either the subtitles or the images wouldn’t be there. That’s been yesterday and today.

So, I tried Vegas which...

Waiter, There’s a Meme Post in my Saturday

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Learn To Tell Psyops

Today I come to you with tears in my eyes to beg you for the sake of little fishes and all the oceans they swim in, to learn to tell when you’re being spun.

No, guys, seriously.

I know, I know. We used to be psyopped without realizing it. For most of us my age and up to 40 years younger, this was simply how life was in our formative years. Suddenly some topic trended and was in all the news, all the entertainment, and everyone talked about it. We imagined, if we imagined anything, that...

Sing O’ Clanker!

Nights have been too short for sleeping, and not fully landed yet, but I’ve been clankering, and I learned new tricks.

First, the 10th song fo the sound track (I appropriated Strains of Earth for 9th, though) is up:

Of course the scene in the book doesn’t involve exciting gun play. Only someone does shoot at Skip.

BUT I was trying to capture his sense of betrayal when he found out the Draksalls had slavery.

And I made an exciting and bizarre discovery: apparently it’s my vo...

Unrepentant Memes

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guest post by Emma Hankins

Hello, lovely readers. Some of you know me but others may not — I am a frequent reader but only sometimes commenter. I’ve become friends with Sarah over the years through our mutual connections in the SFF community, and I can even credit her for a major role in the chain of events that led me to meeting my husband. But that’s a longer story, for another time.

Today’s topic addresses a pet peeve, which is how every single time some human-shaped monster attacks a school in America, the resultin...