Recent content by casval

Oh no, I'm fine with that! It's true! I used to be the kind of poor where I was shoplifting half my veggies, and broccoli is an actual, physical object. 🥦 😂

I don't know if the term is still in popular use, but I remember works with a 100-word limit were called "drabbles" when I was a kid. I'd see it in science fiction magazines and on fanfiction sites. They're a fun writing exercise!

Picked up Penguin Colony to play with my wife for the Halloween weekend. It's sort of an anti-colonial retelling of Lovecraft's At the Mountain of Madness where you play as penguins watching a doomed group of Nazis on a scientific exploration in Antarctica. Very cool story, and also each...

I love the lil evil snow globe! ❄️

There's a lot of wage theft in the publishing industry, and it's not coming from a couple of people who - let's be honest - probably just wouldn't have bought and read the book if they had to pay for it anyway. Let's deal with the publishers and the distributors before we worry about the small fry.

This is really more of a semantic argument than an ethical or legal one - it's obviously a criminal act, but whether that crime is 'theft' or something more like 'copyright infringement' or 'illegal reproduction of materials' is more the point I am arguing. I have nothing nice to say about...

Haha, don't worry about me! I'm already a published writer and have both professional and personal relationships with like-minded writers to beta or promo my work outside of these circles. I'll be fine if you decide this disagreement of opinion is a little too spicy for the vibes, that's up to...

Never said digital decreases the item's "value", though I disagree with what they are "valued" at. But it doesn't change the fact that the object is simply being copied - it is a copy of a file. If someone pirates 1,000 copies of Catcher in the Rye, the ebook for it does not go out of stock on...

Saluting you. 🖖 I'd throw my back out carrying a box of those third books! 😂

Happens all the time! I mostly ignore them, or write out a quick note on the idea for later. Sometimes, though, if I've hit a real wall in my current project, I'll write out a couple of chapters of something else just to keep myself consistent with my writing habits while I work out where I'm...

Suit yourself. 🤷‍♀️ I'm an author and I have no issue with anyone pirating my books, for the reasons I have laid out prior. I love libraries, and use mine regularly, but come on. That's certainly truer of large city libraries - though there are still limits, and it becomes less true the further...

I agree! This, in fact, what takes up the majority of my time. Hell, half the money I do spend on 'books' - in a sense - is spent on printing Marxist texts to hand out at protests and other gatherings for community organizing in the lower mainland, to get other people to read and think about the...

I've always loved going to events to sell zines, people are much more willing to drop a few bucks on a zine if they have the person who wrote it there to talk to them, and it's a great community-building experience. I would love to do it for a novel too... but not having a car does make it a...

It must be said that the vast, vast majority of indie books do not make it onto the largest book piracy repository anyway - and few to none of the ones that do have more than 3 downloads in total. Up to interpretation if that is because pirates respect independent authors enough not to pirate...

Totally, though I usually don't play games in the same genre at the same time because I will mix up the inputs hopping between them if I do. 😅 Right now I am playing Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (visual novel), Two Point Campus (business simulator), Final Fantasy: Strangers of Paradise...