tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post4956318521629295725..comments2024-03-28T11:19:07.506-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Do empty vessels make the most sound?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-28207061091053372762015-06-22T15:03:57.928-05:002015-06-22T15:03:57.928-05:00It's helped me reconnect with Jeff Duntemann, ...It's helped me reconnect with Jeff Duntemann, who improved my code and my understanding when I was starting out as a programmer.<br /><br />Thanks, Jeff.<br /><br />Yours,<br />TomTom DeGisihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14809757971111266101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62795761531267823632015-06-16T19:12:51.403-05:002015-06-16T19:12:51.403-05:00get enough small fry together and you can have a t...get enough small fry together and you can have a thunderstorm. let it grow some more and soon people take notice.kamas716https://westfargomusings.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-53215099868495137432015-06-15T11:22:14.567-05:002015-06-15T11:22:14.567-05:00Re: File 770 (whatever that is) comments.
I was ju...Re: File 770 (whatever that is) comments.<br />I was just over on Tom Kratman's site. Looks like you and he now can compare hate comments!<br />I particularly like the "living as a woman"(?) remark.<br /><br />@RK Modena - thank you for the wonderful essay about your father.Mike_Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-3854367388955797202015-06-15T10:58:54.202-05:002015-06-15T10:58:54.202-05:00The big revelation for me in the whole Sad Puppies...The big revelation for me in the whole Sad Puppies rumble is how many people are <i>finding</i> one another in what is starting to resemble a sort of alternate virtual fandom. I was reading Sarah Hoyt when the whole thing blew up, and I had heard (vaguely) of Larry Correia, but in short order discovered Brad Torgersen, John C. Wright, Cedar Sanderson, Amanda Green, Tom Knighton, R. K. Modena, and now you. To turn the old saying upside-down, no bad can come of this. I'm actually enjoying fiction again, have new friends, and new hope that SF will not drown in its own bile and vanish.<br /><br />Persevere. Write more. Illigitimati non carborundum!Jeff Duntemannhttp://www.contrapositivediary.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-37601086832651794482015-06-15T08:53:06.300-05:002015-06-15T08:53:06.300-05:00@ James Sullivan
Sure! feel free to email me at r...@ James Sullivan<br /><br />Sure! feel free to email me at rkmodena at affsdiary dot com =)<br /><br />*grin!* You have no idea how pleased I am to hear that my little essay moved you to write. You've become the first to fulfill one of my dreams as a writer: to inspire others to write as well. Thank you so much.Shadowdancer Duskstarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816622060704932669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-80563065982895737102015-06-14T23:48:52.535-05:002015-06-14T23:48:52.535-05:00No one is a small fry who speaks the truth with hu...No one is a small fry who speaks the truth with humility. Thank you for many things, sir. John Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15492341011399861469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19298645658517835032015-06-14T21:43:05.009-05:002015-06-14T21:43:05.009-05:00Ah, the little nobody. The speck of sky-water.
Th...Ah, the little nobody. The speck of sky-water.<br /><br />The tiny little rain-drop, fragile, shiny, buffeted by the wind.<br /><br />The nothing, the bit of first mist that they can ignore.<br /><br />A mere dampness that the overcoat can turn away.<br /><br />But it might be the first drop falling in Noah's flood, and the deluge headed their way could be downright <i>Biblical</i>.<br /><br />Hmmm... I wonder... Yes, it must be. I think popcorn must be Old Testament.Rolfhttp://www.thestarscameback.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-22758299477069531152015-06-14T20:54:16.300-05:002015-06-14T20:54:16.300-05:00Peter,
I've been lurking around Vox Day'...Peter,<br /><br /><br />I've been lurking around Vox Day's place for a couple of years now. I've started commenting there sporadically. His blog led me here. Now I'm a regular reader of your blog and just purchased one of your books. But I digress.<br /><br />I see an avalanche starting with big boulders and little pebbles. A few of the people over at Vox's place have said that they feel hope for the first time in a long, long time. I agree with them. People are coming out of the woodwork. It seems one of the few things they believe in is this $&@& has to stop. <br /><br />I'm reminded of C.S. Lewis: "Aslan is on the move." <br /><br /><br />Shadowdancer Duskstar,<br /><br />I not only found your essay on your father moving, but I found that it inspired me to write a short story. I have the outline down but I wanted to ask your permission to do so, since it's obviously a very personal thing for you and I wouldn't want to offend you.<br />I tried to leave a comment and ask at your blog but couldn't get it to work.<br /><br />J. Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00524149847037349007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60299329238226181782015-06-14T20:04:09.359-05:002015-06-14T20:04:09.359-05:00Small fry? Perhaps in comparison to the others on ...Small fry? Perhaps in comparison to the others on the list, but when you consider just how big the internet is, making 174,714 for US rankings requires that you actually have a pretty significant audience. <br /><br />Depending upon how close to the wire Tor is operating, you might have enough of an audience to give their bean counters and lawyers fits.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458628321409625605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-66701257081691890382015-06-14T19:25:55.795-05:002015-06-14T19:25:55.795-05:00Additionally, I see Peter mentioning saving innoce...Additionally, I see Peter mentioning saving innocents from communist terrorists where he mentions saving them from white supremacists. Opposition to murdering communist terrorists is only a trait of the left when leftists are running for office or funneling money to terrorists.<br /><br />Bob the FoolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62313123121419657892015-06-14T18:54:47.571-05:002015-06-14T18:54:47.571-05:00Jourdan:
It was largely conservative, plurally Am...Jourdan:<br /><br />It was largely conservative, plurally Americans who destroyed Nazism and Fascism.<br /><br />It was Republicans who destroyed slavery.<br /><br />The left would LIKE for those things to be liberal markers, but they are not.<br /><br />Instead, the left has the cause of making guns more regulated and expensive, and harder for poor (plurally black) Americans to get for self defense in rough neighborhoods (and actually invoke Cruikshank and Dred Scott to defend it), national socialism, The Parents' Music Resource Center, and the lifetime election of Grand Kleagle Robert Byrd, who, lies aside, never once voted for a black candidate for the judiciary, never acted in a fashion to suggest he thought of blacks as human beings, and was never a "Champion of civil rights." There are other items, but the left certainly has no more credibility regarding freedom and equality than the right, and probably a lot less.Michael Z. Williamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13543005122174458805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-78393428726141321062015-06-14T17:45:29.231-05:002015-06-14T17:45:29.231-05:00If you're small fry, I'm nothing at all.
...If you're small fry, I'm nothing at all.<br /><br />All of this... but we weren't talking about YOU... well, yes they were.<br /><br />And the thing of it is, we nobodies are just a little less afraid than we used to be because they're a little less powerful than they used to be. It's not about wanting a Hugo. It's about contemplating so much as a sale. It's about contemplating convention participation. It's about wondering if you'll get a fair shake.<br /><br />As such, it's super easy to imagine what it's like to be some other minority who expects to get a bum deal, who expects to have to figure out how to pass in order to get a foot in the door. Unfortunately, it seems impossible for the empathy to go the other way... because they can't imagine what it's like to be afraid to object to insults... because they never are.<br /><br />Whatever Tor does... everyone always *knew* you had to keep your mouth shut and your faith or politics or unseemly opinions on the down-low... which might be an ordinary sort of smart business practice (why piss off more than half of your potential audience?) if it weren't for the "or else" on the end of it that turns it into fear. Now it's simply more clear that what was always common knowledge was fact as well. Don't raise a fuss... the publishing industry is tiny and they *talk* to each other. Don't express opinions different from your editor or they'll ignore you at best and sabotage you at worst. <br /><br />It kept us hopeful nobodies completely silent this last while. More so than people who weren't nobodies. People who are somebody have more freedom, particularly if they sell well. <br /><br />Someone thinks this is about Larry.<br /><br />It's about the nobodies.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23510693965915925882015-06-14T17:36:49.746-05:002015-06-14T17:36:49.746-05:00I suspect you punch over your weight because
A. y...I suspect you punch over your weight because <br />A. you know what you are talking about.<br />B. have been in combat.<br />C. Are armed.<br /><br />That is enough to make any SJW piss down their leg Old Surferhttp://www.thesurfcanoe.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-57717132567509516012015-06-14T17:31:59.190-05:002015-06-14T17:31:59.190-05:00I was going to say something else but wanted to sa...I was going to say something else but wanted to say to Jourdan... Of course it won't help. The whole point of the kafkatrapping is that even bringing it up, proves the opposite. But the thing about Peter doing so, and Shadowdancer, too... is that sometimes you need to do so because it's not about *them*.Synovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311191981918160095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-57417222417062826712015-06-14T17:14:52.632-05:002015-06-14T17:14:52.632-05:00@Jourdan: I don't see them as left-wing marke...@Jourdan: I don't see them as left-wing markers at all. Oh, sure, the Left would like to take credit for that sort of thing, but I've never been that way inclined.<br /><br />If you read my articles about those years, you'll see I was motivated by my faith, not politics. Politics wasn't a factor. I suppose in political terms I'm a fiscal conservative, social libertarian and political centrist with right-of-center leanings. Is there a political version of Rubik's Cube?<br /><br />:-)Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-31892755513950891712015-06-14T17:03:56.654-05:002015-06-14T17:03:56.654-05:00I'm very happy to see you take a stand on this...I'm very happy to see you take a stand on this issue, but I am confused as to why you think referencing left-wing markers--like I fought apartheid, I fight racism--will help you? I don't see how expressing solidarity with a left that clearly hates white men is helpful. I know you don't mean it this way, but it comes off as "please kill me last."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90082877087686428412015-06-14T14:51:15.410-05:002015-06-14T14:51:15.410-05:00I knew I liked your books for a reason.I knew I liked your books for a reason.Chuck-Knoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18805930532783542522015-06-14T14:30:21.142-05:002015-06-14T14:30:21.142-05:00Keep going Peter. Keep going Peter. B https://www.blogger.com/profile/10586046436233366155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23953130225247639442015-06-14T14:26:20.835-05:002015-06-14T14:26:20.835-05:00Peter,
Yes, you are a small fry in this. In fact...Peter, <br />Yes, you are a small fry in this. In fact, I wouldn't know about you except for links from Vox(and I'm new to the resistance this year, I avoided most SF for about 10). However, your experience is real, against real oppression, and you do know what you're writing about. <br /><br />Conclusion: Send Tor a thank you letter for the libel and other smearing. They're increasing your readership.byronfrombyronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14646538774892484059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23348840894688602912015-06-14T13:12:09.807-05:002015-06-14T13:12:09.807-05:00Thank you for your bravery, Peter Grant. People li...Thank you for your bravery, Peter Grant. People like you give me hope.<br /><br />Shadowdancer Duskstarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816622060704932669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-48163885998001845022015-06-14T12:11:30.494-05:002015-06-14T12:11:30.494-05:00I sided with Sad Puppies for three reasons.
1. A...I sided with Sad Puppies for three reasons. <br /><br />1. A lot of the group that posts on the blog Making Light seems like the worst type of intellectual elitists and pretentious posers that I encountered in college as a literature major. <br /><br />2. I couldn't believe that Rachel Swirsky's story was worthy of an award because it was neither good nor science fiction. <br /><br />3. Tom Kratman is getting a lot of negative buzz about Big Boys Don't Cry just because it is published by Castlia House. It's a very good story, and it made me feel pity and sympathy for a tank. It deserves a lot more positive press than it is getting.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00713573861046463873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19593461176768060732015-06-14T11:50:03.234-05:002015-06-14T11:50:03.234-05:00Those of us whom have stood before the mast have l...Those of us whom have stood before the mast have little use for the collective SJW crowd. Except perhaps as sandbags in a firefight.<br />Jon LaForce, Cpl USMCJon LaForcenoreply@blogger.com