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Half Baked Spud

@halfbakedspuds

| He/Him (but I don't mind other pronouns) | I'm a writer focussing on mostly YA fiction (Scifi, fantasy, some HFY from time to time), and I'm using Tumblr as a place to practice and promote my hobby. For now I'm PanAce but watch this space. Tag friendly
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Alright, I see other writing blogs doing this, so here's my writeblr intro. Still needs some work but this'll do for now.

Hi! I'm Logan (Yes, like Wolverine), I'm 19 years old, use He/him pronouns, and I'm from South Africa. My main interests are writing, philosophy, history, binge-reading entire series' at a time and any kind of experimental artistic media. All my characters' sexualities and gender identities are up for interpretation unless explicitly stated.

Despite being an English language writer, English is not actually my first language and thus I do still have my fair share of idiot moments in it. If you notice that I used a word wrong, or if my grammar or a phrase seems little bit off, don't hesitate to let me know.

Below are my current WIP's:

#writeblr#writing#writeblr intro
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There's a joke that all South Africans believe that every animal on this Earth of ours knows what 'Voetsek' means, and if you've ever seen one of us getting rushed down by an animal (usually a dog but I've seen videos of it happening where rhinos or elephants are involved) you know exactly what I mean.

Anyways, given that two of my protagonists in the Tempest Prince are South Africans and the story revolves around monster hunting, I genuinely have the urge to include a scene where one of them yells "Hey voetsek, wena!" at a monster while hauling ass the other way.

#The thing thats stopping me is that literally only our people will understand or find it funny#but my fellow South Afticans: you see the vision yes?#writeblr#writing#wip#the tempest prince
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I am expected to edit together and beautify our presentation for this subject's group work which for some reason was mostly recorded on ms teams and guess what? The guy who hosted the meeting didn't set it so that we can download the file.

'n Boer maak 'n plan, I know and I have a way around this but this is gonna waste nearly an hour that I could've used to be done with this already

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This one guy stole my part of the presentation and you can hear that he's improvising but he's improvising like a long-term DM so respect to him

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I am expected to edit together and beautify our presentation for this subject's group work which for some reason was mostly recorded on ms teams and guess what? The guy who hosted the meeting didn't set it so that we can download the file.

'n Boer maak 'n plan, I know and I have a way around this but this is gonna waste nearly an hour that I could've used to be done with this already

#not writing
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Oh dear. I have just remembered how much I adore HTML and CSS styling. Goodbye A-Levels, hello neocities

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I'm so glad there's a lot of programming (R, Python, and excel macros mostly) in actuarial science <- what I'm studying

I love coding so much

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In response to your tags:

We used to have Scratch installed on all the computers in our primary school computer class (which as a class is literally just 7 years of how to use MS word and basic ass operations on Windows), and during free periods our teacher let us screw around either on MS paint, some old games we could boot using DOSbox, or Scratch.

I was the weird kid who would always spend the period screwing around on scratch, and as stupid as it sounds I'm like 90% sure that that and Minecraft redstone are the reason I took IT in highschool and am studying software engineering now.

Also good luck with arcturial science, I am too stupid for such things.

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reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

#I've been wesring glasses so lomg that I don't even remember a time before I had them#Not sure of my exact specs but my glasses help a lot and even then my eyesight SUCKS#In school I used to sit right at the front of the class just to see on the board and even then I had to ask someone to read some things#Honestly it sucks but I'm so used to it that I barely even notice it in my daily life#Also if you consider how many medical problems were on my bingo card for potentually inheritting I thank God that only my eyes suck
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I feel like warmed over shit but I want this Network Sec project out of my life so I can just chill next week.

Yes, I only need to submit by Friday but stubborn Afrikaner pride means that I don't care that I relate to Charles Darwin right now: I am very poorly today and quite stupid, but damnit this will be done by tonight.

#not writing
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go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

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Screenshot of a world map with a location marker pinned into antarctica

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I can swim but not that well, and even on the off-chance that I can make it to shore I need to deal with Spinnekopland™

(Also I haven't had a chance to teach myself how to do image IDs yet, but it's a map with a pin quite a ways south-east of Tasmania)

#Between “Life of Pi” without a boat and how Earth is described in every HFY story idrk where I'd take my chances#but the odds are that I am not making it to Tasmania before I drown
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I love working with esolangs because I don't know what's going on, I'm fairly certain that my laptop doesn't know what's going on either, however somehow something is making this code work.

Conversely, it spent about half of today not working and I had no idea if the language was just that cursed or if I was just that stupid. I still kinda don't but I'm thinking it may have been the latter

#not writing#To be fair its a bit of a meme language and this self-same thing would've taken maybe 4 lines and ten seconds in any other language#Anyways; my head is too flat for such things (I say as if I wasn't having a weird amount of fun the whole time)
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Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.

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It’s not good when skilled tradesman are standing in the middle of your room pinching the bridge if their nose, is it?

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Mark just referred to the wiring in our bedroom as “creative” and “interesting”.

This is fine.

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And now he’s taking apart the ceiling. I’m not worried, are any of you worried? I’m not, haha, it’s not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselves…or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcove…

Ha ha…

Ha.

Hm.

Fuck.

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO NEUTRAL WIRES??!?

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S GROUNDED INTO THE SCREWS HOLDING UP THE CEILING LIGHT???!?!!

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It's WHAT?!

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Well, first assessment for my Network Security class is today, wish me luck.

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You know that was actually nowhere near as bad as I was expecting.

That, or I seriously overprepped

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