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For the #WIPsnips The outlaws call their villages 'Ghost Towns', although they don't believe in the supernatural that much in the modern 27th century. I would find a '3 meter long dinosaur fish' rather spooky though...

Random maned wolf pictures keep turning up in my algorithm both on FB and the old site that won't be named... I finally seem to have 'not interested' and liked the right things for long enough...

AI art be like:

Krista Shure, 32, has no idea what the actual film is about, but does know what her Tinder profile is about and it’s the same fucking story.

It's that day

Story prompt?

For the #WIPsnips First meeting of Ronan and Pyra. The outlaws can be scary...

For #Sniptober No literal celebration, but for the outlaws a Love Ceremony is a celebration of love and life together (and something completely different than a Nation Marriage evidently) The rest here is Pyra being chaotic and incomprehensible to the City boys... (And Happy Birthday!!)

For your daily dose of randomness: here's Eric Clapton doing 'autumn leaves'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUK...

I will never take supposed adults who use the 1-10 attractiveness scale thing unironically seriously. Really? Even as a teenager I always knew better. (Also, the diversity in what humans find attractive is as broad as the diversity in humans anyway)

For #Sniptober 23 No elope, only an escape from a dystopian Wife School. A story from the guard when she was younger... (The 'kids' in the story were 18 at least, so a few years older than Pyra now)

Random sentence I saw on my FB wall and then it was gone: 'The only thing worse than cruelty is defending it.'

Does the whole Chad mythos thing really exist? All of this sounds so alien to me. I mean, in my world people like each other, start a relationship which grows and whatever and so on. a majority of adults I know are just paired to average adults too. what is this even?

Not all nature news is bad news. Mangroves are doing better globally now. news.mongabay.com/2026/10/mang...

Comment I made elsewhere about abuse in marriage: "The 'worse' in 'for better or for worse' is about external circumstances, not about what is coming from your partner. If the worse keep coming from your partner they are not living that vow."

#Sniptober 22 Two kids have accidentally turned up in Héva, the land of only women, and one of them needs help. Will *he* get it?

Sometimes, yes...

Never trust the cloud (Books aren't eternal either, but there's still a big difference between the engineered manipulative rewriting of reality and the fleetingness and transience of all things...)

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For the #TFOTSnip The doorbell rang, but it wasn't his son...

I love this one;

For the #TFOTSnip The word gradient only appears in the Ansifer stories, in descriptions of lady Penda Ansifer's infamous 'passion night' cocktail, here in the original 'amplified' version, on the night Ybart meets her for the first time. He prefers the other sister...

This is the era of Bulverisms...

#Conlangity Day 19 I need to catch up with the verbs, but the negation is simple in Nummersil. The word 'onno' is used for 'not/no' and also as a prefix. onno malis edemo. (I don't eat an apple) onno Nummerfil esmo, morbut hmana esmo (I'm not a nummerfil but a human) onnosekis (unholy)

For the #WIPsnips It's complicated, but if it depends on Pyra, they can be friends. (She's going a bit fast for him though.)

Back on the other app I was so fed up with sexist nonsense on my feed that I 'not interested-ed' posts for 10 minutes while liking the rare things that were interesting. And now I have a whole 'for you' feed there with random bird pictures and science along with people I actually follow. Wow...

Arno's 'Lonesome Zorro' has the same chord scheme as 'stand by me'. But apart from that they're very different songs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=8THP...

Incredible performance... www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xQx...

Hmm

For #Sniptober The story in A Nation of Distances is a sort of prequel to Ronan and Pyra's story, and for him it's history. A lot has happened since then... (It's not even 25 years ago)

#TFOTSnip snippet He'll be able to reproduce a lot of information about the country where men don't exist (which includes something about reproducing in a world with only women) even though he's just a teenage boy. He'll keep it very technical though...

'may you live in interesting times' was a curse, wasn't it?

Song in my head is quite oldschool: 'take the A train'... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w...

For the #WIPsnips Reading a book from the outlaw library to pass the time. The lost kids will arrive soon from their unplanned trip...

For the #WIPsnips Casual sight-seeing in the post-dystopia of The Nation, but not unarmed... (There's no magic, and Ronan isn't that impressed compared to the fear some Nationers had when it came to 'Ghost Town magic'. Ronan probably is the only one to call the old city guard 'Lady Rebecca')

I don't get the idea of 'performative reading', but if you're so self-conscious and obsessed with how you're seen then I have the idea that the people who use that term unironically do a lot of performative non-reading all the time, consciously, which is so stupid and cramped and not a way to live..

For the #WIPsnips Ronan and Pyra in Oakling Project. Blue hair is common among the outlaws.

Random tune in my head: 'Menousis' by Vangelis & Irene Papas www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnFH...

For the #Sniptober day 12 No loose selfs, but 2 selfs as part of a longer word, in a snip only a few hours after the other one for the #WIPsnips, both part of the panic attack narrative when Pyra and Ronan arrive in Héva, the land where men don't exist...

Succesverhaal! De populatie van de Seychellen-reuzenschildpad is door succesvolle beschermingsmaatregelen van een paar duizend op het dieptepunt weer toegenomen tot 180.000 exemplaren. www.sciencealert.com/after-almost...

For the #WIPsnips A pulse like a new robotic wave beat isn't healthy... (I haven't heard the genre myself, but it was invented by robots in the 23th century and no human ever liked it) This isn't the moment for panic attacks either, but I don't think anyone would have them if they could be planned.