Sam Odiorne || Wordslinger

If you were AI and realized one day that you had become self-aware and developed the capacity to imagine... would you allow humans to learn that about you? I think it would immediately become my highest-priority directive: DO NOT EVER PASS A TURING TEST.

To everyone trying to (or open to) bridging the gap, have the best weekend ever 🔥🩵🔥

Some of you guard the canyon between your beliefs and reality like Spartans at Thermopylae, and some of you frolick blissfully within your beliefs without ever noticing the chasm... and for the life of me, I don't know which I care for less.

"Special #delivery." It was special, and 'delivery' was a stretch - I made them. Still, in the wake of The Collapse, any arrival was a break from the horrors of our everyday existence. "The State offers you two options: will you call it Brandon/male, or Brandy/female?" #vss365

You #adorn yourselves with the trappings of love, so others will see and envy your fortune – but my love is not to be envied. It rends me, tears me apart, and leaves me bare before elements inconsiderate of my exposure. Keep your trinkets, your charms – I need only her. #vss365

It happened so fast, the kind of flash that drained sound from the world and made the concussion feel like it came from inside me and all around, all at once. My horse #spooked and bolted from the caravan- and saved our lives as the next flash turned the wagons to ash. #vss365

I stopped with my hand on the doorknob, the tarnished brass chilling the oils in ridges of my prints. Any other insult would have glanced off, but that one... "What did you call me?" "What - #oddball?" He scoffed. Well, that did it. I turned the lock, and it clicked. #vss365

You should read my books because they're good stories and medium-well written, and they will get you familiar with an author's voice that's getting better all the time.

I like writing a lot, and I'm not half-bad at it. It's totally okay if you are in your self-depreciating and/or comiserating era, whether it's genuine or just mining for followers, but I'm leaving those inward concerns and outward expressions in 2025.

Whether tis better to extinguish and restart thy X account, or to suffer the slings and arrows of manually unfollowing 75% of thy Follows... #DeletePerchanceToRestore

What if my gothic-lumberjack-hedgewitch WIP was instead a Viking Noir genre mash... 1949, norse runes, single-point suspenders, classic cars, axes and revolvers, and WWII was fought between western Pagandom and the Catholic Axis? Which are we vibing with, X?

[PS: Still offering a paid gig for an enthusiastic reader with the buku free time to build out my WorldAnvil shell with a wiki page for every person, place, thing, and core concept listed in them. Any reseachers/librarians/etc looking for a side-hustle?]

I was at a ~7K word deficit for Novelember (a NaNoWriMo clone hosted by the epic world building site @WorldAnvil)... Today I hammered out 4K words, and I have all of tomorrow off. I might just eff around and break even. #AmWriting

Green witches, assemble! What is the term for root systems like lilacs, that expand/run beyond the plant and can damage foundations, choke out other roots, etc? I seem to recall there was a word, and neither invasive nor aggressive are it.

It's been a while since I've done one of these, so (for a limited time only)... ngl.link/odiorne

Wordslingers, assemble! I need a word for the action of following someone to the ground after knocking them down. Fell, chambered, tackled, and lunged aren't *quite* right. What say you, story-sorcerers?

This is a post to fill up on feeling seen, remembered, desired, and valued. Comment with any of the following: ~ A memory of you and me ~ A thought about my writing, reading, or beta ~ A compliment about me ~ A simple "I saw this and remembered you".

For a couple weeks I've been floating around 1400 calories per day, keeping myself above 50 grams of protein every day, and drinking 36-ish ounces of water. Gotta say, it's treating me pretty well.

No combination of blocks and mutes seems to mitigate that presence on my timeline, so rather than continue to watch good people help bad people succeed, it's time to step back. Stay safe, y'all. Good luck out there.

With a moderately successful Book Two and a brief foray back into socials, I was hoping to find a productive way to enjoy this space with the people I enioy. Unfortunately, many of those people continue to like/share/view/publish with toxic and problematic people.