Hello,
This post is a bit late as I am travelling to a comedy gig in the morning and have been very busy visiting family and packing my bags. Perfect timing, right?
I am going to be doing standup about time travel, and maybe some comedy poems about darker topics. If you are about in Banbury (UK) please do come along. » Tickets here «
If not, here’s Free Fiction Friday for December 6th 2024.
I’ll make it short. My pal Patrick Abbott (who interviewed me recently about comedy and time travel - you can expect that on my main newsletter soon) created this big shelf of weird funny people.
Patrick hasn’t just organised this shelf of free excerpts, stories, and novellas which make Fantasy and Sci-Fi funny, he’s also doing his own podcast. He interviewed me just over a week ago about time travel and comedy, and I think I surprised him with the depth of my reasoning for writing about time travel in new and weird ways. Of course, I had to balance my points with improv, so it’s a nice mix of mind-bending sci-fi ideas and weird humour.
When the episode is live, I’ll post a link to it on the free part of my personal substack. And before then, the full, unedited episode will turn up on my paid tier, which you will soon be able to access via Patreon, as well as Substack.
Weaving everything together. It’s like Minecraft, but with words.
I’m working a lot of ideas into one whirling story at the moment. My synaesthesia has birthed a few theories about human perception and the nature of time which I would have put in my 2017 PHD, but after just missing the one slot available, I got bored of applying for them and became a comedian instead.
Perhaps next year. Phillip Carter, doctor of time travel.
Sounds good.
Time Travel
If you missed last week’s post, this is the link to that freebie shelf
Minecraft?
Thinking back to my earlier Minecraft reference, I’ve also got a lot of traction recently with some Minecraft videos. For those unfamiliar, it’s a cube-based video game where you can build anything and explore a functionally infinite world. Not only does this tickle the simulation theory part of my brain, it’s also like living inside Lego, which is brilliant. I use Minecraft to tell stories, and have been playing the same world on and off for two years now, meaning I have built machines which I do not remember the inner workings of. This place has history. If you’re interested in seeing the videos on Youtube, just comment and I’ll reply with a link. I tend to explore and build and invent and tell improv jokes to my livestream audience along the way - then post recordings of those to Youtube.