yoshimi red
@yoshimired.bsky.social
there's no discharge in the war. author of short fiction, articles and MANCHUKUO 1987, a novel. links to all of that below. not actually a japanese girl
M: your mission is to make it from Troy to Ithaca, where agent Penelope will be waiting Q: now, look 007. This satchel here is no ordinary satchel. It contains the winds of Zephyr Bond, doing the worst smirk ever: id have thought there's enough windbags around here already
this story is sort of a test piece for "Illimitable Ocean", a sci-fi/alt history setting I've worked on for a while that I thought would be fun to try a story in. I've got notes about how most of the world is but most of its focused on the Royal Navy. And poor yearning Antigone
yoshimi red@yoshimired.bsky.social · 6d agoTwenty years after Emergence, The Royal Navy continues its diligent fight against the monstrous bone whales across the North Atlantic! Aoife is the pilot of a mighty strider warship, who has given up humanity to fight the deadly foe! But even a strider pilot can have feelings. God save the King!
VOLITION - No. Not a disaster. Weave this into the story of you. Walk out of its *ruins*. Save those who still can be saved -- *I'm* on your side.
Twenty years after Emergence, The Royal Navy continues its diligent fight against the monstrous bone whales across the North Atlantic! Aoife is the pilot of a mighty strider warship, who has given up humanity to fight the deadly foe! But even a strider pilot can have feelings. God save the King!
ANTIGONE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
I liked to stand upon the deck before a battle. That wasn’t technically disallowed, but often captains tended to disapprove of it; HMS Antigone usually at full speed hit around sixty knots, and she was a new, powerful, untrustworthy sort of strider, thirty metres high and without much space on her foredeck, and it wouldn’t really have done for her pilot to get knocked overboard, would it?
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i take my responsibilities seriously. will be the third translation of the odyssey ive read. so far its just as good as her iliad, i freely admit
A lot of people who are saying things like "Christopher Nolan made another blundering clunking stupid film with obvious dialogue for morons" are also doing things like misunderstanding every moment of the film where there isn't someone delivering obvious dialogue for morons
Achilles: I can't believe it! All the heroes of western literature meet at last! Odysseus: amazing! Dante: truly! Homer Simpson: mmm. Literature Aeneas: yeah!! Achilles: Aeneas we talked about this Aeneas: but Achilles: there's a room over there for you. Over there
Regarding Emily Wilson's review of Nolan's Odyssey: saying "obviously adaptations should do things differently" in your introduction doesn't quite obscure how much of the rest of your review is just a very scathing, elegantly decorated "however"
its the end of 2024! And I want to repost my favourite stuff I wrote. number one is THE FIRST WAR, a sad, horny story about a first world war that never ended and a nurse wandering the abyss of No Man's Land. Type of thing the UK makes me write lateralthinkingtechnology.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/t...
THE FIRST WAR
I tried as hard as I could to save them. You understand, that was the urge they’d given me – they had filled me with the right kind of chemicals and given me the meat to match, and told me to go ou…
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"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...
the boys tv show ending: after five seasons of Billy Butcher's Wacky Schemes, one of them finally gets 'omelandah by accident. Billy has nothing really going on after this so he kills himself. His friends don't really care much about it. His dog fell asleep I think
currently working on a main character who is a disillusioned office worker set on cosplaying as a heroic italian fascist despite her overwhelming social anxiety and/or gender isssues. im ready. are you?
straight people probably do fucked up shit like "bikini play", "breast fetish", "sex kink" and so forth
Goodnight. Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Cleopatra in a London stage production of Shakespeare’s “Antony & Cleopatra,” Angus McBean, 1953.
theories as to the melancholy of the german character, in alternate 1994
The "McDonald's scene" in MANCHUKUO 1987 is of course a moment of cosmic horror. I believe 100% that the Americans are inevitable in every timeline. I hope to explore this more in the current project for sure
(explaining to my gorilla friend) no look. look im sorry i said it okay. but "going ape" doesnt - it isnt a pejorative. it isnt a species thing. its just (lapsing into hand signals as our conversation becomes increasingly emotional)
Go to the gym? Eat healthier food? But my hero Indiana Jones was never shown doing either of those two things onscreen
LAWYER: The shooter shared your post: “Bugs Bunny is a two-pump chump. I’d show Lola how to smash ‘Animal Style!’” What did you mean by that? ME: That Bugs Bunny cums fast. LAWYER: He lacks sexual prowess? ME: Yes. LAWYER: Did you consider that posting something this inflammatory might be dangerous?
this is a little about how prussia is doing in my central powers victory timeline (with a brief bit of character introduction at the end)
This thin-skinned narcissist cannot handle any criticism at all.
being asked about bible verses on live television and pretending to flip through my bible for a few seconds before I start reciting the lyrics to that one talking heads song
between MANCHUKUO 1987 and my current Austrian writing it seems im slowly developing an alt history setting where the central powers win and everyone wants to be German but all the focus is on stupid loser countries that aren't Germany. Its a subversion of every paradox mod
