Inappropriate, Wil Robinson!

[elfs]

To show how easily my brain is infected with strange and silly memes, I managed to work the phrase "a super-space-age miracle of science" into a Journal Entry. Not only that, but it came naturally and it fits perfectly in context. And I wrote 1900 words of a new story. It's just an idea, but it's probably completable without much trauma. I figure five to six thousand words. It's mostly a "setting" tale, and it shows one of the responses, a particularly protective one, that a culture of insanely long-lived people might have towards children.

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[halloranelder.livejournal.com]

You better watch those memes, they're infectious!

That reminds me, I really need to allocate some time a read through the Journal Entries again. It's been so long and you have added so much since the last time I did it will probably be easier just starting from scratch and reading everything.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

it shows one of the responses, a particularly protective one, that a culture of insanely long-lived people might have towards children.

Don't know if you've been reading any of the Heris Serrano-centric novels by Elizabeth Moon... they've got a drug-based process called rejuvenation, which is of course expensive and creates a bit of class friction... and then they come out with a less expensive process, and start using it on their senior non-commissioned naval personnel.... only there's a spanner in the works: The drugs cause mental instability after a few years.

Dealing with it..... would be telling, but let's just say it's an interesting read.... Moon is a lot like David Weber in the way he carries characters, but with two improvements: A lot less skippable political discourse, and.... well, his characters have flaws. Getting them into and out of the situations that come up is a lot of fun.

[(Anonymous)]

Seeing the word "meme" used on LJ is not uncommon. Seeing it used correctly, unfortunately, is.

Very much looking forward to seeing the new work when it's finished cooking, as always. Thank you for the writing you do!

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

The drugs cause mental instability after a few years.

...which turns out to be another plot device; the drugs work properly, except that Fleet got a substandard batch turned out to squeeze a little extra profit -- or was it deliberate, to discredit the cheaper process? Which gives them another problem to investigate...