Naming, correction, colonization

This is the first 💦 Quickie from Angelo Dias

So, I chose the name of the two different types of newsletters. This one is the Quickie, with small and fast snippets of stuff for us to discuss. There’s even a separate space for it in Substack.

The other one, longer, is called… well, I lied, I didn’t find a name for it yet. I wanted something sex-related but not explicit — something opposite of Quickie but without technical meaning (like Tantra or similar).

Why sex-related? Well, subscribe now (or keep yourself subscribed), and you’ll know soon enough.

Please suggest names, and don’t forget to leave your comment after reading.

The Quickie is a section of the main newsletter. I’m not 100% familiarised with this function in Substack, so please bear with me as we explore all this together.

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🔡✅❎

One of the perks of living abroad — and earning “abroad” currency — is the possibility of buying stuff that was always not accessible to us from the third world.

I invested in something I wanted to use in its entire spectrum: Grammarly. The free version offers spelling corrections and warnings when misusing words. The premium version is meant to give a plethora of tools — like rewriting entire sentences to better sounding ones.

I’m still evaluating it to see if the premium version is worth it. I’ll let you know.

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📹📺😎

Today I found out my old tryout to become a Youtuber is still live, back from 2016. Sadly, they are only in Brazilian Portuguese. This video below speaks a lot about my current (or always) situation with internet content.

I did a few videos about several subjects and, well, I loved to do it back then.

I used the videos as output for stuff I wanted people to know. There are organized versions — like the ones above — and weird stuff like the one below.

I miss doing videos.

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🐒🐆🐩🦎

I added a new (old) project to my portfolio.

I wrote an adventure for “Através das Trevas” RPG, a crowdfunding hit written by my close friend Ramon Mineiro. The 20ish-page booklet is based on H.G. Wells's “The Island of Doctor Moreau.” I even illustrated a pretty map for the book.

I wrote an article with a making-of, mainly focused on the sandbox feature of the adventure — the players do not have a clear path and can choose virtually any direction.

Click here to read about this fantastic job — and please invite me for more projects like this; remember: I’m cheap.

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🗺🔥🤬

I finished the Poppy War trilogy: 1825 pages of (highly recommended) fiction that differs significantly from whatever you have ever read.

Unlike regular Medieval-ish English-based fantasy (Anna Martino calls it "the Anglaterra"), the books are based on China's story and their conflicts (like the China and Japan wars)

With incredible ups and downs, the story is a rollercoaster of feelings, filled with flawed characters doing silly stuff and facing almost impossible situations. It starts as an "oh this is another YA novel" until it gets to the gruesome dismemberment and impaling.

I recommend it to those who like fantasy — it's time for you to try something new — as well as for those that do not like fantasy — it's time for you to try again.

Ironically, I started Frantz Fanon's "The Wretched of the Earth" just after finishing the last Poppy Wars. Fanon's book is an angry and violent collection of words against colonialism — one of the main issues of the Poppy Wars people comes from the bastard Hesperians' wish to colonize and convert.

Well, my next reading has to be something lighter, please.

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🏠🔀🏠

I’m moving from a fully furnished small kitchenette to a larger but completely empty 1-room apartment. This will, at minimum, provide me with good subjects for this newsletter.