Mastodawn

First chapter of my new cozy mystery, "The Changeling in the Tree", is now available for Patreon subscribers:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/changeling-in-ch-153130136?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

#fantasy #cozymystery #fiction

Jeff Lilly Mar 3

Find the truth.
Resist anything that is not truth.
Be willing to suffer courageously and compassionately until your enemy recognizes that truth.
This is nonviolence, and it is now, and has always been, the most effective peacemaker.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/
https://druidjournal.net/2025/01/27/gandhis-experiments-with-truth-lessons-for-all-time/

Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon

Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth discovers nonviolent civil resistance is far more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns.

Harvard Gazette

Jeff Lilly Mar 3

malvarma Mar 1

#conlangs / #conlang - fellow conlang people, i need your opinion. Making a semi-naturalistic language that marks the subject as agent / patient, to express volition. thinking of having two negative markers, one for standard negation, and another for ascriptive / existential / copular / whatever, and was thinking of using the ascriptive negator for finite verbs where the subject is patientive (action is involuntary). Is this naturalistic?

yeah, i've heard of languages that do that

maybe? it feels like it'd be a thing

100%

no that's weird. natlangs don't do that.

Poll ended at Mar 8 at 9:49pm.

Jeff Lilly Feb 27

BrightFlame 🌟☀️🌙Feb 23

RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116120576784801575

#SolarpunkSunday even though it's no longer Sunday, if you saw the Mother Jones #solarpunk article I shared yesterday, here's a great chance to read some stellar authors in the genre for free (including me 😎 🤣 )

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Jeff Lilly Feb 27

@PeteBleackley the ways of the algorithm are mysterious and unknowable

Jeff Lilly Feb 27

Update on writing projects (free post) on my Patreon.
TL;DR: Finally finished all revisions for my near-future scifi about telepathic computing, Axon, Inc. And making good progress on the cozy mystery book.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/axon-inc-and-feb-151824683?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Jeff Lilly Feb 17

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Jeff Jarvis Feb 17

Here's Colbert's interview with Talarico, not on the Carr-controlled, Trump-tainted airwaves but in the free air of the internet. As I post this, 500k have watched. Let's make sure more people see it on YouTube than TV. Call that the Carr Effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Stephen Colbert hosts Texas State Rep. James Talarico for an online-exclusive interview that touches on the issues raised in Talarico's campaign for the Demo...

YouTube

Jeff Lilly Feb 17

XenoPhage

Feb 17

If you're interested in checking out Terry Pratchett's amazing Discworld (and you should be), then check out this Humble Bundle. 39 of the 41 novels!

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-encore-2026-books

#bookstodon #discworld #humblebundle

Jeff Lilly Feb 17

The things that evoke a cozy setting can also make it deadly. How I used Universal Fantasy to build my Arthurian mystery, and ended up with enough motives for a dozen books.

https://axonfirings.com/2026/02/17/worldbuilding-through-universal-fantasy-creating-a-cozy-mystery-setting-in-arthurian-oxford/

Worldbuilding Through Universal Fantasy: Creating a Cozy Mystery Setting in Arthurian Oxford

What happens when you drop King Arthur’s court into medieval Oxford for a summer? And how do you, as an author, find out? Using Universal Fantasy in worldbuilding.

Axon Firings

Jeff Lilly Jan 27

LunaticDancer Jan 27

Made a little program which translates the latin alphabet into my fictional cipher, used for my conlang.

#godotengine #conlang #degenaissance

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