I’ve been talking a bit about my Talespinner lately, so inevitably, as night follows day, that’s prompted people to ask ask, “Your Talespinner? What’s that?” (Like, seriously, I've had dozens of folks on Quora, several emails and PMs, and one Facebook Chat question about this.) If you’ve been…| tacit.livejournal.com
A few days ago I uploaded a smartphone pic of my wife being test-fit with the alien xenomorph hiphugger strapon to Twitter and Facebook. I’m in Florida right now taking care of my mom, so I thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity to do a test fitting of the latest prototype with her. I posted…| tacit.livejournal.com
I’ve now been in Florida for over a month and a half, helping joreth get her new (to her) RV set up and situated...a project that involved gutting the entire inside, adding 600 watts of solar to the roof, and replacing the house batteries with a very large lithium battery bank.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
I like spinning poi. I haven’t done it since I returned to the US from Canada waaaaay back in the distant Before Time of 2018, so a few weeks ago, something finally snapped. I woke up at 3AM, decided it's been far too long since I spun, and ordered a set of LED poi from Amazon. You know, as one…| tacit.livejournal.com
Last night, at 12:42 AM Eastern time, my Talespinnter and I finished the first draft of our novel Spin , by far the most difficult, ambitious writing project I’ve ever been part of. This novel has a story. I mean, it also is a story, but on top of that it has a story. Lemme take you back. I met her…| tacit.livejournal.com
Every second of every hour Let your actions speak your will Raise your head up high Raise your head up high So the heavens hear you cry Light the brightest fire From the highest mountain So the whole world knows That your spirit can't be broken — VNV Nation, Resolution I love dancing. I've loved…| tacit.livejournal.com
A couple of years back, my co-author Eunice and I started work on a new erotic novel, told in two parallel narrative streams: odd-numbered chapters taking place in Buffalo, New York in the present day, and even-numbered chapters taking place in London in 1871. The even-numbered chapters follow a Victorian doctor struggling to find a cure for furor uterinus, the formal name for “nymphomania;” the even-numbered chapters, a group of college friends who find his diaries and decide to replicat...| Franklin Veaux's Journal
If you could move inside my head, you’d...well, honestly, you’d probably find the experience a little disconcerting, because who does that? Moving into someone else would likely be unsettling no matter who you did it to, unless they were, like, an identical twin or something.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Okay, so sit back, and ima tell you a story. It’s a story of kink, and depravity, and surprise serendipity.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
It’s not necessarily her fault, mind you. And yet, and yet, the sex party blew out my knee, a fact for which Ms. Weaver bears some responsibility.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
In which Franklin makes everyone on all sides of the political divide angry| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Waffle House is a strange place at 2AM on a Saturday.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
This morning, I answered a question over on Quora , the social media site where I spend most of my time these days. The question asked, What do partners say to each other in sex, like when you are thrusting and such? As it turns out, I had an example from some rather spectacular sex last night, the…| tacit.livejournal.com
For years, my wife Joreth has teased me about getting me a RealDoll—you know, one of those horrifyingly realistic sex dolls that almost but not quite looks like a wax figure that almost but not quite looks like a real person.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Some time ago, I found 45 meters of electroluminescent wire on Amazon. A few months after that, I found thin sheets of edible 24-carat gold foil on Amazon. When one finds EL wire and gold foil, one’s mind, of course, wanders to thoughts of old-school cyberpunk dystopias and the nude female form.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Regular readers are no doubt aware that I quite like tentacles. I don’t mean I like tentacles the way a marine biologist likes tentacles, but rather I like tentacles the way a schoolgirl in a dodgy Japanese animated movie of the sort you don’t share with your parents likes tentacles.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
I am currently unable to post any comments anywhere on Quora. It seems moderation has suspended my commenting privileges. Buckle up, the reason is a wild ride. In the past few months, I’ve noticed more and more often that Quora is being used as a platform for malware distributors to ply their…| tacit.livejournal.com
Last night, whilst casually doomscrolling Elon Musk’s weird hatesite Twitter (if he can deadname his daughter, I’ll deadname his propaganda engine), I randomly came across a long screed from a MAGA True Believer that I screencapped, because it offers such an interesting insight into the alternate reality of MAGA.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
In November of last year, I noticed something interesting.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
A short time ago, I started thinking about the fact that I will often do things that are Type 2 fun when I’m having sex.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
We are living through historic times right now, and I mean that in the worst possible way. We’re witnessing, in real time, a slow-motion coup against the United States government, one that may already have reached a point of no return.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Almost exactly two years ago, when I was in Florida helping care for my mom who had terminal cancer, I tweeted a photo of myself wearing a Stand Up for Science T-shirt. Cape Coral, Florida is antivax central, ground zero of the know-nothing Ron Desantist anti-intellectual craze, so I made a point of wearing that shirt around town.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
I sleep in a loft bed, to make more room for my computers and one of my 3D printers, which I keep under the bed.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Ever since I was in high school, I’ve suffered severe allergies, a trait I inherited from my dad. Pollen, ragweed, animals, dust mites, you name it, I’m addicted to it. For most of my life, I’ve had a persistent low-grade cough from about April to about October.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
Price: free (donations accepted but not required). I only have a few, but there are more on the way.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
This afternoon I crossed an amazing threshold: I officially shipped out my 1,500th free “Resist” and “Empathy” stickers. I started this project because I felt helpless about the wholesale dismantling of the United States government and the slide into authoritarianism. I designed two vinyl stickers,…| tacit.livejournal.com
A new billboard appeared recently next to the grocery store where I do most of my shopping. Image by author I don’t mean the “now leasing” sign, but the one next to it. The one with the country singer on it. Back when I was in middle school in Venango, Nebraska, I didn’t know a thing about Dolly…| tacit.livejournal.com
