bulwark_of_the_week
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Hello! I'm bulwark (they/them), nice to be here.
Professionally I'm a computer science PhD student in my 3rd year. I mostly work on data visualizations for my work. I've also worked as a software engineer in the past. I have also been making video games for about a decade, primarily programming and game design. We successfully self-published our first commercial project this year (me and one other person). We're knee deep in the prototyping stage of our second project right now, and I'm trying to wrap up some of my research and its relevant papers for publication so I'm starved for a more creative outlet.
I really want to practice getting my stories written, since I find writing very meditative and I find thinking about my stories to be enjoyable. So that's why I'm here! Mainly to get feedback, but also because I'm curious about the writing journals, and the competitions, so I might give those a shot.
I read a TON (67 books this year), mostly Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Horror and Thrillers. I like stories that are a bit sentimental, and I'm a sucker for a strong romance (not as the main conflict though). I also crave novelty to an intense degree. I'd usually rather read a book with some issues that has an emotional core, lovable characters, and an interesting premise than a traditionally popular and well received book that is treading old ground (no matter how well it does it). Not to say I don't like familiar stories done well, but it's usually not what I'm in the mood for.
Some of my favorite books are The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisen, The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine, The Devoured Worlds series by Megan E. O'Keefe, The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I also love the writing in Disco Elysium and Caves of Qud. If you have suggestions send them my way!
I am also a huge linguistics nerd. I am only fluent in English right now, but I have studied Dutch (4 years pretty consistently and recently with a tutor. About B1 proficiency), Japanese (12 years, very inconsistently. mostly reading), and Spanish (big time out of practice, but I used to be comfortably conversationally fluent). Because of this I like to get weird with grammatical structures and to use a lot of archaicisms.
Professionally I'm a computer science PhD student in my 3rd year. I mostly work on data visualizations for my work. I've also worked as a software engineer in the past. I have also been making video games for about a decade, primarily programming and game design. We successfully self-published our first commercial project this year (me and one other person). We're knee deep in the prototyping stage of our second project right now, and I'm trying to wrap up some of my research and its relevant papers for publication so I'm starved for a more creative outlet.
I really want to practice getting my stories written, since I find writing very meditative and I find thinking about my stories to be enjoyable. So that's why I'm here! Mainly to get feedback, but also because I'm curious about the writing journals, and the competitions, so I might give those a shot.
I read a TON (67 books this year), mostly Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Horror and Thrillers. I like stories that are a bit sentimental, and I'm a sucker for a strong romance (not as the main conflict though). I also crave novelty to an intense degree. I'd usually rather read a book with some issues that has an emotional core, lovable characters, and an interesting premise than a traditionally popular and well received book that is treading old ground (no matter how well it does it). Not to say I don't like familiar stories done well, but it's usually not what I'm in the mood for.
Some of my favorite books are The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisen, The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine, The Devoured Worlds series by Megan E. O'Keefe, The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey, and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. I also love the writing in Disco Elysium and Caves of Qud. If you have suggestions send them my way!
I am also a huge linguistics nerd. I am only fluent in English right now, but I have studied Dutch (4 years pretty consistently and recently with a tutor. About B1 proficiency), Japanese (12 years, very inconsistently. mostly reading), and Spanish (big time out of practice, but I used to be comfortably conversationally fluent). Because of this I like to get weird with grammatical structures and to use a lot of archaicisms.
