Why Not Share?

I hope you can stand paint pictures. Because I don't have enough art skill for much more when I want to illustrate what I mean. The above is an alien space coral squid, for reference. Hopefully I'll get around to explaining why I designed an alien space coral squid.

I spend a great deal of time wondering how the fantastical is, or could be, grounded in reality. What would the demographic effects of an alien invasion of WWI earth be? How profitable would slavery actually be for the Bartarians? How exactly does one manage to be space faring and poor? How would a realistic mech actually work, if at all? How would a Leman Russ tank actually be set up internally?

And I figured, if I found these ideas interesting, maybe others would too, and I could at least claim I achieved something productive, throwing my thoughts at the great internet void and see what sticks.

I am a regular reader of Atomic Rocket, to inject that little bit of extra hardness into my science fiction. I took a fair bit of economics, and will often explore a setting or problem, big or small, through that lens. I have a deep, though more or less purely amateur, interest in the messy art and science of politics.

Hopefully, I will be able to combine these interests in economics, science, and politics, to say something interesting, and help make some fantastical fantasies only partial fictional.

Till I post again,

I won't be completely lazy with the images. Though I probably will be pretty darn lazy.