What's happening behind the scenes to bring new GHAWG content? The GHAWG Diaries is my recap of what I've been doing.
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Introduction
There's more to #GHAWG than just daily zapfic entries and the spreadsheet I use to track them. There's research. There's review. There's also thought and inspiration. Then there are the tools involved in doing any of those tasks.
Just to keep things from getting scrambled in my head, and also to document for myself what I've been considering, I began keeping a diary of my activities as they concern #GHAWG. With posts in the GHAWG, Uninterrupted series on hold at Interlude 3 while Act 7 remains in progress, I decided to share these diary entries with everyone on Hive blockchain.
On Mondays which don't feature a GHAWG, Uninterrupted post-- GHAWG-U-- I'll post diary entries from the previous 7 days or between GHAWG-U posts if the time between them is short. For Part 16, there are 7 days' worth of diary entries. The first entry starts on 2024-February-5.
Before anyone scratches their heads at a few terms, here are 3 I began using many posts ago:
| Term | Meaning |
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Rat Bike | Code name for #GHAWG (the first and current zapfic serial) |
Blue Lion | Code name for the middle zapfic serial in the GHAWG Universe |
The Bronze | Code name for the final zapfic serial in the GHAWG Universe |
| Monday, 2024-February-05 |
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📓 Much of the day was spent dealing with offline matters, so what little time I was online for Hive was for GHAWG business. With 21 diary entries to review for potential backlinks and formatting codes, it took me a while to get through this process before I published Part 15 of TGD. 📓 With Our Heroes now numbering just 7-- The Newlyweds, The Twins, and The Kids-- it makes sense for me to develop the 2nd relationship, that between Sanjay Rampersad and Lindsay Etxeberria. As with The Newlyweds (David and Rhonda Bella Guardia), there won't be any romance. Unlike with The Newlyweds, there will be a bit more friction between them even as they acknowledge an attraction between them. At some point, there will be a moment where their true feelings for each other are confirmed. I think I know how this will happen, but I don't know when or where it will happen. For now, I will follow the example set by Chekhov's Gun: It gets revealed early because later it will somehow get used. |
| Tuesday, 2024-February-06 |
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📓 Part of David Guardia's history is the side hustle he has as a decentralized social media blogger on Hive blockchain. He joined Hive after the hard fork which brought it into existence on 2020-March-20. When we first meet him, it's 2026. When he begins his Epic Ride to STURGIS and beyond, it's 2028. At this time in GHAWG, with Harry Hoqualogue and his chapter of The Mongols back home in San Diego, California, US, Our Heroes are down to 7 people:
In March 2024, there will be a zapfic entry where it's revealed that Lionel is a fellow Hiver to David. Just to be ready in case I add to this aspect of the ongoing story, I came up with Hive accounts for Our Heroes plus Harry:
Wednesday I'll explain why I chose these Hive account names for Our Heroes plus Harry. |
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📓 Tuesday I revealed the (fictional) Hive account names for the main and top-level supporting characters of Rat Bike. Today I explain in more detail why I chose those account names for these characters.David Guardia -- @ratbike When GHAWG was just one zapfic serial, it made sense to call it just GHAWG. Once the GHAWG zapfic serial evolved to become The GHAWG Universe, it became necessary to call this zapfic serial Rat Bike. It's also a callback to the beat up Honda motorcycle he had been using as a courier.
Lionel Odunsi -- @finnsjacket
British actor John Boyega is a child of Nigerian parents who immigrated to the UK. In The Force Awakens (Star Wars Episode VII), Boyega plays a stormtrooper who defected from the First Order to join The Resistance. When asked what his name is, he didn't reply with his stormtrooper serial number since that's all he knew. Since the first 2 characters of his serial number are "FN," he called himself Finn. He needed clothes, and he found a jacket belonging to Resistance fighter pilot Poe Dameron. So a running joke between Finn and Poe concerns that jacket.
Rhonda Bella Guardia -- @iceroadthemyscira
There were many account names I was considering for Rhonda before I chose this one. While this name and the others revolved around Wonder Woman from the 2017 movie starring Gal Gadot, only this name also refers to her earlier life as an ice road trucker pre-GHAWG.
((ice road = trucker) + (themyscira = "Diana of Themyscira, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons") = (@iceroadthemyscira))
Sanjay Rampersad -- @dwarkafound
Most people are familiar with stories about the lost city of Atlantis. Less familiar on a worldwide level but perhaps even more important than Atlantis is the lost city of Dwarka. Unlike with Atlantis, whose location is the subject of debate, Dwarka is located in the northwestern area of India off the coast. For most of human history, Dwarka had been considered a mythical city. It was in the 20th Century when Dwarka was found to be underwater. How important is this discoery? If carbon dating is correct for objects found at Dwarka, it will be at least three thousand years older than Sumer, currently recognized as the oldest human civilization.
Lindsay Etxeberria -- @iowa-jai-alai
Lindsay is a denizen of Iowa. She is also of Basque ancestry, and jai-alai is a sport dominated by Basques. It's a bit like racquetball, only instead of racquets the players wear large scooped baskets on their hands; this glove allows the ball to travel at speeds of at least 150 miles per hour. If you've ever seen the opening credits to the 1980s series Miami Vice, two men playing jai-alai can be seen.
Hank Marchenko -- @v12podracing
Hank Marchenko is the more mellow and creative of The Twins. Like his twin brother Frank Marchenko, he's a motorcycle mechanic and gearhead. Unlike Frank, Hank is the more free-wheeling of The Twins. He would replace the engine of a lawnmower with a V12 internal combustion engine if he could. Then he would use that contraption to go pod racing as Anakin Skywalker did in The Phantom Menace (Star Wars Episode I).
Frank Marchenko -- @anton-not-pavel
Like his twin brother Hank Marchenko, he's a motorcycle mechanic and gearhead. Unlike Hank, Frank is the more intellectual and analytical twin. His account name plays on the names of the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and the Star Trek original series character Pavel Chekov.
Harry Hoqualogue -- @harrysandiego
Harry calls San Diego, California, US home. It's also a play on the name of the 1980s personal computer educational game series called Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
When (and Where) To Catch #GHAWGWhenThis is the normal schedule for the posting of content for #GHAWG: (Plese note that the Weekly Summary posts will be posted on an accelerated schedule-- every 6 days rather than every Saturday-- in order to bring those posts in synch with the daily zapfic entries. Synchronization should be finished by Spring 2024.) Where● Daily zapfic entries drop at LeoThreads, usually posted shortly after midnight from New York (sometimes around noon) 
This week I hope to have more content published and recorded to Hive blockchain. That's it for this edition of [!!] -- Graphic signature was designed by @ahmadmanga |
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