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  1. Dreams are weird. This thing could rupture universes by will alone and cause stars to supernova by looking at them.

    Its galaxies were breathtaking works of art. Somehow it knew I pitied it and that pity was an insult. For all its power it just didn’t have that spark required for life. Like having all the ingredients for a recipe but still somehow missing a vital component. Sorta like wanting to make a pizza but not having an oven.

    It said life was pointless but I’ve never known the answer so inherently.

    I said the point of life was to live. That it had no right to insult even a single living cell. Since they just by existing were doing what they were meant to.

    Its worlds were beautiful. In a sad sorta away for the one thing they all had in common was that they were devoid of life and always would be. It is the height of tragedy that all that beauty and breathtaking views were for it and it alone. And I couldn’t help but pity it.

  2. Keep yer fingers crossed that we get staffing issues finally settled for where I work.  It has been BRUTAL.  Sixty hours worked since Saturday.  And I’m not done.

  3. Dreams are weird. This thing could rupture universes by will alone and cause stars to supernova by looking at them.

    Its galaxies were breathtaking works of art. Somehow it knew I pitied it and that pity was an insult. For all its power it just didn’t have that spark required for life. Like having all the ingredients for a recipe but still somehow missing a vital component. Sorta like wanting to make a pizza but not having an oven.

    It said life was pointless but I’ve never known the answer so inherently.

    I said the point of life was to live. That it had no right to insult even a single living cell. Since they just by existing were doing what they were meant to.

    Its worlds were beautiful. In a sad sorta away for the one thing they all had in common was that they were devoid of life and always would be. It is the height of tragedy that all that beauty and breathtaking views were for it and it alone. And I couldn’t help but pity it.

  4. I got the internet today! What did I miss?

  5. I got the internet today! What did I miss?

  6. Internet will shut down any day now and moving day is next week! Time to go on a frantic search for free kindle books to download! Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some free erotica en espanol to help me learn. 

  7. Internet will shut down any day now and moving day is next week! Time to go on a frantic search for free kindle books to download! Maybe I’ll get lucky and find some free erotica en espanol to help me learn. 

  8. Seems the internet situation will not be better. Home for a weekend, but it seems these homeward visits are gunna be few and far between.

  9. Barely home at all, and already I’m taking off tomorrow morning. At least the internet situation should be better, and I hope to get some writing done at least. 

    Good luck all, see ye on the other side.

  10. Was getting coffee at the office when I suddenly had the unbidden thought, “I oughta smurf you right up the smurfhole, you smurfing smurfer!”

    Thankfully, I don’t think anyone heard me laughing for no apparent reason.

  11. I’m home, finally home! For… about 2 days. Bloody fuckin ‘Ell.

  12. Next prompt on the list is ‘scary’ so how’s this for a title: “Pregnant in Alabama”

  13. So someone read and reviewed every chapter of a 7 year old fic, individually and then complained it was finished, despite it clearly being very old and plainly marked as abandoned. 

    Brilliant!

  14. This has not been one of my better weeks… :blink: 

  15. I get to put creamcheese maker on my resume before my book. Life is truly weird.

  16. Just finished a first draft at 5008 words, which is the most I’ve done on a oneshot in a very long time. Now I need to roll it in glitter.

  17. I finally took the plunge. I am now one of those people… I joined reddit.

  18. Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah. 

    1. InBrightestDay

      InBrightestDay

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      What if you decided to go with “Ken cloned himself twice so he could have a threesome with himself”?

      Seems a tad narcissistic, doesn’t it?

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      I see the next week’s prompts are “reviled, repulsive, revolting” so I guess that one’s gonna be an autobiography for me…

      :lol: Honestly, though, those prompts are perfect for just about anything horror-related.

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  19. Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah. 

    1. InBrightestDay

      InBrightestDay

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      Chapter 5, with an encore all character fourway would probably be a step too far and leave Ken in a "The spirit is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised" situation.

      I have actually thought about ending it with a foursome, but I keep waffling on whether or not to try it.  I’m not planning on it for now, but I’ll see how it goes writing the rest of the story.  If the 3Plus tag should suddenly appear on the story, you’ll know what I’ve decided.

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  20. Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah. 

    1. InBrightestDay

      InBrightestDay

      Don’t get the wrong idea, this isn’t going to be a sci-fi equivalent of WitS.  I am trying to give T_B roughly what he asked for.  To give you some idea (chapter titles are tentative):

      • Chapter 1 (Apocalypse): character introductions, establishing the Ark, Abaddon impact.
      • Chapter 2 (A Mother’s Decision): minor world-building, mother/son pairing
      • Chapter 3 (Sibling Love): minor world-building, brother/sister pairing
      • Chapter 4 (More than Friends): best friend pairing

      So there will be sex in all chapters except the first one.  The science is more for the setting than anything else.  I just really got into doing research for the setting. :D

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  21. Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah. 

    1. InBrightestDay

      InBrightestDay

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      But quadrille? I’ve knocked out 1000 words easy. Not my best work, but with a bit of polishing it’ll be reasonably avagerge compared to some of the dribs drabs prompt fics I’ve done!

      Well, if it works it works!

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      It needs a new start and a new ending and some more character florishes in the middle, and the first new start I wrote I’ve I don’t really like, so I’ve come up with a second one but was having issues getting it down.

      I’m currently fighting a bit with Repopulation over a similar issue.  I’m trying to work out where to put the physical description of each character in the first chapter, which is especially hard since I get distracted every time I learn about some other cool feature of the Ark (that’s what Ken calls the Stanford Torus for fairly obvious reasons), like the chevron shields on the glass ceiling.  I swear, half of my author’s notes on this thing are just going to be “Isn’t science cool?!” followed by “Oh yeah, some character stuff and sex happened in this chapter too, I guess.”

      So I definitely understand the issues with getting a proper beginning on a story, and going through several variations on it.

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  22. Quadrille. Ok. I do a flashfic using this word as nothing else seems to work. I can’t even get the darn re-write to work! bah. 

  23. Things which literally never happen to me:

    1. Hearing Nuvole Bianche without mentally melting into a blissful rapturous puddle
    2. Seeing “Woozle” snoring with his mouth open and his little tongue hanging out without snickering
    3. Smelling an old book without the urge to huff it like a lunatic regardless of who’s watching
    4. Tasting a well-prepared quality tea without being thankful for life in general
    5. Feeling Heiferlump step on me with her pointy little toes without shrieking in pain then apologizing for startling her.

     

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