Wry Ramblings From A Hot Wing

[Jason Rimbaud]

So because I have a really busy day tomorrow, a day I reserve for posting chapter of Tyler's Dilemma, I will post the /"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""_________________________________________________________________________p

Sorry, just my cat saying hello.  

As I was saying before I was distracted by head rubs and a few nose licks, I will post Chapter 17 early, if anyone responds to this post within ten minutes. The time is 5:09 and I will wait until 5:19.  

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

Greg Winters wasn't thrilled that his employees threw him a surprise birthday party. At 42, birthdays didn't mean that much anymore. But when an anonymous gift showed up, he might just be drunk enough to recount the story he's kept inside for twenty years. Through grieving the loss of his parents, Greg runs away to his family's vacation home. But this vacation home is in Glacier Bay, where all things are possible. 

Coming Soon, Time Stood Still, the fourth installment of Glacier Bay Stories. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

So I've been having a hard time reading this new story from @ChromedOutCortex Ring. I kept trying to make the screen bigger, squinting because I forgot my reading glasses at home today. 

It was really frustrating, this feeling of getting old, I used to write everything in 10point font and could see for days. I can still see far away but I need readers to look at my phone. 

Then I noticed there was a way to make the font bigger and suddenly, I feel like a right worn dumb ass. Over a year I've been struggling to read stories on GA, then @Myr was so kind to point out I could make the screen black, which helped a lot, and now, I discover I can make the font bigger. I'm thinking I can come back in from the ledge I've been perched on. 

 

[CassieQ]

23 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

So I've been having a hard time reading this new story from @ChromedOutCortex Ring. I kept trying to make the screen bigger, squinting because I forgot my reading glasses at home today. 

It was really frustrating, this feeling of getting old, I used to write everything in 10point font and could see for days. I can still see far away but I need readers to look at my phone. 

 

I'm 44, just had cataract surgery on both eyes, and am awaiting my new bifocal lenses.  I feel this.

[Myr]

39 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Then I noticed there was a way to make the font bigger and suddenly, I feel like a right worn dumb ass. Over a year I've been struggling to read stories on GA, then @Myr was so kind to point out I could make the screen black, which helped a lot, and now, I discover I can make the font bigger.

There are other features too... like indenting and changing width of text on page.

 

[Jason Rimbaud]

31 minutes ago, CassieQ said:

I'm 44, just had cataract surgery on both eyes, and am awaiting my new bifocal lenses.  I feel this.

Nothing went wrong until I turned 48 and then things started dropping off. Luckily, for me, my taste hasn't gone, but my eyes are getting worse, even with corrective lenses, and my hearing is going in my left ear. 

Someone asked me if I wanted to go back to 21 and I still don't. 21 Jason was a dumber jason than all you know. But 38 Jason is looking better and better. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

17 minutes ago, Myr said:

There are other features too... like indenting and changing width of text on page.

 

Thank you for even more tips, sometimes I am too scared to touch things because I fear I won't be able to go back to default if I doing something crazy or really mess up my reading experience. 

[Jason Rimbaud]

'Allo 'Allo, so I have some good nose and bad nose. 

The bad nose, I will not be posting the final chapter to Tyler's Dilemma today. Matter of fact, I might not be posting at all today. 

The good nose, I was off yesterday and I had an idea that I got a bit carried away by, so Part one might have two more chapters.

So once I finish a few things, shoot them over to @Lee Wilson to peruse, and whenever he has the time, I post them. 

Unless some kind of miracle happens, I will not be posting todays chapter until late tonight, no later than tomorrow. 

But I did find the fallen Madonna with the big boobies in my cellar, so there's that. 

[Lee Wilson]

8 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

'Allo 'Allo, so I have some good nose and bad nose. 

The bad nose, I will not be posting the final chapter to Tyler's Dilemma today. Matter of fact, I might not be posting at all today. 

The good nose, I was off yesterday and I had an idea that I got a bit carried away by, so Part one might have two more chapters.

So once I finish a few things, shoot them over to @Lee Wilson to peruse, and whenever he has the time, I post them. 

Unless some kind of miracle happens, I will not be posting todays chapter until late tonight, no later than tomorrow. 

But I did find the fallen Madonna with the big boobies in my cellar, so there's that. 

Ready, willing and Abel. Able, I mean. Able.

[Jason Rimbaud]

So I've been going through another manic phase. Instead of working on my own stories, I'm editing and re-imagining someone else's story that didn't ask me to do it, and since this author is dead, it's not like anyone is ever going to get a chance to read it as I can't ask for permission. And I would never post any author's work with such editing and additions without getting permission so its a giant waste of time. 

Yet for the last two weeks, all my spare time has been thrown into this mammoth undertaking. Using that author's premise and characters and making it the story I had in my head while reading it the first time. I'm pretty sure this is arrogant on the highest level, but if no one is ever going to read it, is it arrogant or just foolish? 

Either way I'm twenty chapters in and only have a metric fun ton left, I need to put this aside and delete the files like I did all the other times I got trapped in this cycle. At least the previous times it was a public domaine story. 

 

 

[Thirdly]

13 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I'm pretty sure this is arrogant on the highest level, but if no one is ever going to read it, is it arrogant or just foolish? 

Dagnabbit, I want to read it.

[CassieQ]

22 hours ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

So I've been going through another manic phase. Instead of working on my own stories, I'm editing and re-imagining someone else's story that didn't ask me to do it, and since this author is dead, it's not like anyone is ever going to get a chance to read it as I can't ask for permission. And I would never post any author's work with such editing and additions without getting permission so its a giant waste of time. 

I have a Twilight crack fic on my computer that I tinker with when I need to practice my writing but can't write for my usual WIP for some reason.  If you're writing, it's not a waste of time.  It's never a waste of time.  

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 hour ago, CassieQ said:

I have a Twilight crack fic on my computer that I tinker with when I need to practice my writing but can't write for my usual WIP for some reason.  If you're writing, it's not a waste of time.  It's never a waste of time.  

I kind of agree, I do love my favorite past time, and I am learning as I go through this overly long story. But I need to get back to focusing on things I can actually share. I like the idea of calling this practice. 

[Ron]

On 5/23/2025 at 4:12 PM, Jason Rimbaud said:

I would never post any author's work with such editing and additions without getting permission so its a giant waste of time. 

Ooh, Ooh! I did this.

Despite my apologies for doing so (unaware of protocol; considering the author's implied free-for-all indication that they would be open to it; I continue to believe that my input should have been welcome);* after the insistence that I had overstepped (shall we call it: subtle investigations), and them being from people who shall forever be unnamed ... The author of said work had the (dare I say it?) audacity to admit (after my many apologies and attempts to save face; my very congruity) that my edits had improved their work.

 

* Am I the first person to use a semicolon inside of a parenthetical followed by a semicolon? I may be! I'm so excited! 

* Correction (admitted oversight): Whoops! I may in fact be the first person to use not one but two semicolons inside of a parenthetical followed by a semicolon. Now, (can you guess?) I am doubly 'so excited'! 

Edited May 24, 2025 by Ron

[Lee Wilson]

1 hour ago, Ron said:

Ooh, Ooh! I did this.

Despite my apologies for doing so (unaware of protocol; considering the author's implied free-for-all indication that they would be open to it; I continue to believe that my input should have been welcome);* after the insistence that I had overstepped (shall we call it: subtle investigations), and them being from people who shall forever be unnamed ... The author of said work had the (dare I say it?) audacity to admit (after my many apologies and attempts to save face; my very congruity) that my edits had improved their work.

I kind of did this, although I didn’t edit the previous chapters, I did write a closing chapter to another’s story. But doing it as a tribute Comsie has apparently saved me from being struck dead by lightning.

[Jason Rimbaud]

8 hours ago, Ron said:

Ooh, Ooh! I did this.

Despite my apologies for doing so (unaware of protocol; considering the author's implied free-for-all indication that they would be open to it; I continue to believe that my input should have been welcome);* after the insistence that I had overstepped (shall we call it: subtle investigations), and them being from people who shall forever be unnamed ... The author of said work had the (dare I say it?) audacity to admit (after my many apologies and attempts to save face; my very congruity) that my edits had improved their work.

 

* Am I the first person to use a semicolon inside of a parenthetical followed by a semicolon? I may be! I'm so excited! 

* Correction (admitted oversight): Whoops! I may in fact be the first person to use not one but two semicolons inside of a parenthetical followed by a semicolon. Now, (can you guess?) I am doubly 'so excited'! 

Unlike my other forays into changing someone else's work, they were all public domaine, this time it is a beloved story hosted on GA. 

In the past, I, like many authors, re-imagined Peter Pan. When I first read Peter Pan, I always thought it was a dark story, like many of the popular fairy tales popularized by the Brother's Grimm, it was too kid friendly. My version was dark, and targeted for adults. 

Over the last two years, I have read a handful of stories on GA where I loved what the original author gave us but my mind just went somewhere else. So I edited and re-imagined their story into what I saw when I was reading it. 

In my head, it is paying homage that an author inspired me to write their story as if it was in an alternate universe, like they do in comics. But I know if I were ever to approach these authors and ask for permission to post my version, there would be hard feelings and probably rightly so. 

I also finished more than a few stories that were incomplete for whatever reason. Those authors can't be found or have passed away so I could never get permission to complete it. DomLuka was one of those authors with one of their abandoned stories With Trust. Hands down the second best story they wrote, the first one being Fishbowl, I mean In The Fishbowl. One of the best on this entire site.

I wish we could have a re-imagined section at GA that offers an alternate take on completed or in-completed stories. Especially if the story is fifteen or twenty years old that no one is really interested in anymore. 

 

6 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

I kind of did this, although I didn’t edit the previous chapters, I did write a closing chapter to another’s story. But doing it as a tribute Comsie has apparently saved me from being struck dead by lightning.

I only read one story by this author that I liked, of course it was a western with vampires, two of my guilty pleasures. The rest of their body of work is a hard pass for me. 

[Lee Wilson]

34 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I only read one story by this author that I liked, of course it was a western with vampires, two of my guilty pleasures. The rest of their body of work is a hard pass for me. 

Western with vampires?  Where’s my garlic. Those are a hard pass for me. Specifically, the vampires.

[Jason Rimbaud]

1 minute ago, Lee Wilson said:

Western with vampires?  Where’s my garlic. Those are a hard pass for me. Specifically, the vampires.

I hope you know it wasn't you I was referring too but the author whose story you finished as a tribute. 

[Lee Wilson]

6 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

I hope you know it wasn't you I was referring too but the author whose story you finished as a tribute. 

I do, yes. But if you ever write a vampire story, you’ll need to find a new editor for it.

[Jason Rimbaud]

8 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

I do, yes. But if you ever write a vampire story, you’ll need to find a new editor for it.

Wow, no vampires for you? This is so intriguing to me. Would you care to share why you don't like Vamps!

[Lee Wilson]

49 minutes ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

Wow, no vampires for you? This is so intriguing to me. Would you care to share why you don't like Vamps!

Hard to describe. It’s like trying a food and not liking it. Hell, I couldn’t even finish Dracula, the one that started it all. I guess it’s that I find the topic too hard to pretend to believe.

[CassieQ]

5 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

I do, yes. But if you ever write a vampire story, you’ll need to find a new editor for it.

I volunteer.   No problem with vampires as long as they don't sparkle.

[Jason Rimbaud]

13 hours ago, Lee Wilson said:

Hard to describe. It’s like trying a food and not liking it. Hell, I couldn’t even finish Dracula, the one that started it all. I guess it’s that I find the topic too hard to pretend to believe.

You gave us a sentient room that murdered people and could project images onto surfaces in a hotel and you can't believe a story about the dead moving around drinking blood! You were one of my favorite people already but I might like you more than I like my current best friend now.  . 

9 hours ago, CassieQ said:

I volunteer.   No problem with vampires as long as they don't sparkle.

I am currently writing a vampire/werewolf story as we speak.  Maybe I look you up when it gets closer to needing the tons of editing I'm sure it will need. 

[Lee Wilson]

1 hour ago, Jason Rimbaud said:

You gave us a sentient room that murdered people and could project images onto surfaces in a hotel and you can't believe a story about the dead moving around drinking blood! You were one of my favorite people already but I might like you more than I like my current best friend now.  . 

The room incited suicide or murder, didn’t actually commit murder. And projecting memories, or past events is more believable to me than returning in any way from dead. Dead is dead. You might bring up ‘After the Light Fails,’ but Red was non-corporeal in that one. Coming back in any physical way just don’t cut it for me.

Thanks for the one of your favorite people, though.

Edited May 25, 2025 by Lee Wilson

[CassieQ]

43 minutes ago, Lee Wilson said:

And projecting memories, or past events is more believable to me than returning in any way from dead. Dead is dead.

@Jason Rimbaud's story sounds like fantasy: the presence of magical or supernatural elements that are not scientifically plausible or grounded in reality.  I eat that stuff up.