Jason Fuesting

For any future followers that find their way to following this account, if you have questions about my books, be it about a character, scene, event, or really any part of the world building, feel free to ask about it. I like the engagement; just be forewarned you might get spoilers.

$$$ 2nd Draft of Harvester is finally complete. Current length after the first complete pass using my wife's feedback: 277.5k words. Going to take the rest of the night off, maybe tomorrow, and then I'll go through all the beta feedback and see what needs tweaked. I have definitely learned just how inadequate my ideas were to speeding this up at the start of editing. Bleh.

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

In my current WIP, the isekai'ed MC's sister is better than him... at using magic. Jenna was a DARPA engineer, so it makes sense that she'd be better at that whole arcane thing. Sufficiently advanced physics is already functionally indistinguishable from magic for most people. Thing is, Sam's Delta. He's a hell of a lot better at uninviting people off this mortal coil and generally being a sneaky bastard than she is. Both characters have their relative strengths and weaknesses.

It do be like that underway.

Extinct? More like the entire herd picked up Chronic Wasting Disease.

Yeah, my first impression when the gibbering communists wet their pants and start smearing crap on the walls over some guy is to assume that person is probably an effective person on our side.

Never claimed it'd solve all the problems, just that those steps were needed. Athens and Rome fell apart for a reason.

Trying to think of what long-term consequences the main characters in my series are walking off with... Uhm, all of them get a free car, I mean raging cases of PTSD, some worse than others. Sci-fi series: Eric has a massive case of survivors guilt from losing his wife and so many friends along the way, along with the previously mentioned PTSD from getting through more than a few scrapes he should not have survived. Before the first book is over, he tries to drink himself to death and gets close to succeeding. By the end of the third book, it looks like his career is about to be politically sabotaged because he did the right thing. Nobody is a more radioactive political football than the guy who assumed command when shit hit the fan and didn't die after making the wrong people look bad. Urban Fantasy series: Technically PTSD and survivors guilt is what *started* the series. Without that, Tom would never have been in a position to trip over to the Nevernever and would not have met the Morrigan. Anyone skilled at reading between the lines in Dusk Knight might notice the real price for even trying to finish the Morrigan's task is going to be a lot higher than initially disclosed. Harvester: Sam is already a little twitchy when the series starts. Anybody who has done multiple deployments to the sandbox is, and then he goes volunteers for Delta and ends up getting truck-kun'ed to world on its last legs.He hasn't lost anyone by the end of the book, but literally everyone around him has... so he's in an unenviable where he feels he can't let anyone down, including his sister... and then ends up getting brainraped by a spiteful deity. Calling what he has PTSD at the end of the book is... an understatement. So yeah, every last one of my MCs... might make it out at least mostly in one piece, physically, but spiritually? Not so much.

Considering he got his principles out of the bottom of crackerjack boxes, it's no surprise.

There's a big shocker, another Navy admiral who forgot what the uniform meant, provided he ever knew at all.

No way around it, we need to ban mail-in voting that isn't overseas service related. We also need Congress to pass explicit laws (either by statue or Constitutional amendment) outlawing non-citizens from voting in any election and authorizing the DoJ to enforce that. Will we ever get either of those? Probably not. Not without some seriously bad shit happening. The Dems will fight it tooth and nail and the Republicans simply don't give a fuck beyond what giving them lip service does to their donation rates. We need a party that actually gives a fuck about this country, and quite frankly, I'm willing to burn down the GOP to get it.

Fuck cancer. Biopsies aren't much fun either. Had a cancer scare almost 15 years ago. Biopsy came up clean, but they cut nerves getting it out. Literally can't feel half of one of my nipples. So fscking odd and irritating sometimes.

What point do you think I proved? You said something stupid, I called it what it was, you cried like a bitch and demanded a debate, and I pointed out no debate was necessary. You were the one who was all "Ur stoopid cuz no debatey werds!" as if unsupported assertions constituted a debate. Every post you make is progressively more retarded. Also, did you know it's trivially easy to counter-troll low-effort retards like yourself and simply waste their time?

Yep. The difference in end-point location between 1 degree and 1.1 degrees only seems small if your circle has a small radius... like, say 10 feet. Make that circle radius 300,000,000,000 miles and suddenly nobody's laughing. I generally point people at KSP and tell them to use only the mk1 eyeball to do transfers. It usually gets the point across, eventually.

I hate to break it to you, but people are allowed to simply comment on what they see. The internet is not a formal debate venue. If I see something stupid, I'm allowed to say, "Huh. That's pretty stupid." I don't need to present a 10-point deconstruction of your stupidity and wax poetic on the depths of your retardation while explaining each and every shortcoming in your presentation. Nor do I need to justify my position or qualify your mistakes as such. Most truly stupid posts are self-evident and expending effort on debating with idiots is generally a waste of time, though, as an idiot yourself, I don't expect you to know or understand that last part. In short, I don't have an argument because you're not worth the effort and anyone with a room temperature IQ can see you're not here as an honest actor and wouldn't put any effort toward a serious discussion because its obvious you're not just a troll, but a low-effort one that doesn't even understand the finer points of getting under people's skin at that. Sad, really.

Considering you're not bright enough to recognize when someone is merely making a statement and not an argument, the bar for me having the higher IQ between the two of us is a trip hazard in hell. Is it too much to ask for people to at least put some effort into trolling anymore?

Why am I quitting? Because I'm tired of waiting for the Republican party to realize they're expected to actually do something. They talk a huge game and immediately fuck it all away the first chance they get, either by deliberate inaction or "but we have to work with the other side!" sabotage. I've waited almost thirty years, a third of that in the military. The entire party, at least where it counts, is filled with self-serving, blind, servile backstabbers. If it's not a Romney clone, it's a McCain or a Grassley, a Thune or a Massie. The only thing I've received from the GOP after making the mistake of donating back in the Tea Party era is an unending flood of "GIVE US MONEY!" texts. And that's what the GOP has always been about, selling false hope while stabbing their constituents in the back when they weren't looking. Fuck the GOP and fuck each and every weak-kneed Quisling who lied their way into office. I spent the last thirty years voting against the Dems, but I'll have no more part in pretending I'm saving my country by voting for the lesser evil. You might be the lesser evil, but you're still evil.

Wow, that winner sure is divorce from reality... and also not that bright.

You know, when you're trying to preen and be all "Look at how superior I am" it generally helps that you're actually superior. What you're doing there is "Look at what a huge shitstain I am! I'm so proud! I don't even know how to speak English, but my side won anyway!" Yay, good for you. You got the gold medal at the Special Olympics. News flash: You're still retarded, and you're still not smart enough to understand what racism is... but something tells me you're going to find out. Probably the hard way.