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Author Allen Taylor
@allentaylor
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Writer, fiction/nonfiction: author, editor, publisher. Christian. Weirdo.
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2021-12-07 20:22
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-29 15-40
Thanks!
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-29 15-40
What's wrong with Rafiki?
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
Yeah, the timestamps along with monetization make Hive a great place for creators.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-29 15-40
Farmpunk isn't nostalgia for rural life. It's rural life projected forward. The tractor runs on something new. The people driving it are exactly as complicated as they've always been.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
The sixty-day structure of Strangers & Aliens isn't a countdown. It's a compression. Everything in the story has to earn its place within that window. I find the constraint clarifying.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
Ridiculous. I don't understand the infatuation with one guy. He's not God.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
No one should ever be allowed to nominate themselves to be pictured on a monetary unit. He isn't Caesar.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
The genre I'm trying to write doesn't have a shelf yet. That's either a problem or a feature. I've decided it's a feature.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-28 15-32
IP protection on Hive isn't a legal strategy. It's a timestamped record no platform administrator can edit or delete. For a writer, that's not a minor thing.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-43
You've never heard of absurdism?
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 23-19
The argument for decentralized publishing isn't that the writing is better. It's that the writer owns it.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-26 17-43
Absurdism doesn't require the situation to be absurd. The situation can be perfectly reasonable. The absurdism comes from the character's decision to keep going anyway.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-25 17-20
Most of the 'creator economy' is built on someone else's infrastructure. That's not a partnership. It's a tenancy. The lease terms can change without notice.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-24 13-15
The most valuable thing Hive gives creators isn't HIVE tokens. It's an immutable record that no platform update can revise retroactively.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-24 13-15
The platforms most enthusiastic about 'creator tools' are also the ones with the most granular control over what creators can do. There's a word for that, and it's not 'empowerment'.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-22 11-06
Dystopian fiction is most honest when you can't tell if it's a warning or a weather report.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-22 11-06
The real world is more absurd than anything I could create with words. That's the problem. And, of course, the opportunity.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-20 18-10
The most useful thing speculative fiction does is make the present strange enough to see clearly. You can't always do that while standing inside it.
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-20 18-10
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RE: LeoThread 2026-05-20 18-10
I just posted an agentic dark, surreal horror story about a juggler to The Grimoire. It's incredible. Link in the first comment. #ocd MXWUh9JqQRFhQKy282rYeFPKbFqmfjc3/The%20Juggler.png
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