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[active_apathy]

ZOMG! jimbutcher posted.

...um, yes. Post. By Jim Butcher, who is a fairly entertaining author and whose journal is made mostly of good, clear posts on craft aspects of storytelling, especially for genre fiction.



In other news, my illusions of actually living in a city were brutally shattered by two kangaroos in an area of open park-like space. They were just sitting there, minding their own business, but still. There. Right there, watching nonchalantly and kind of annexing a shadowy patch of overgrown grass in the name of the countryside. Kangaroos? In my city? As it happens, much more likely than I'd thought.

At least wombats I could understand. If they were building a shiny new city, and were equipped with all the appropriate machines and technologies to move heavy things and flatten stuff and whatever else, they'd still have to build around the wombat. Some people think that cockroaches are the only thing that'll survive when we bomb each other flat with nuclear weapons, but I disagree; those people just don't quite understand the staying power of not-really-a-ton of occasionally-belligerent wombat.

Especially once all those gamma rays turn them into little wombat!Hulks.

Comments

[analise.livejournal.com]

I'm currently having a hard time actually picturing what a wombat looks like. My brain is thinking chinchilla with smaller ears, apparently.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Wombats are hella rad! They look kinda like This.

~Queen of the Wombats '06-'07

[analise.livejournal.com]

Aha!

Gotcha. :)

Thanks!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

They're kind of cute. They're also kind of like furry boulders with legs.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

I agree. If you're worried about running over a wombat - don't be. They aren't mammals, they're terrain.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

There's no such thing as 'running over a wombat'. There is, however, 'coming to a sudden wombat-assisted stop'.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

They say that when an unstoppable force hits an immovable object the universe will implode. Please, for the love of sunshine and humanity, never let Chuck Norris roundhouse kick a wombat.