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Challenge #04517-L133: Enlightened Self Interest

They noticed that their vampiric lover had begun to change their diet. Less bread was being offered, fewer potatoes, fewer baked treats. Instead, leaner meats, more vegetables and fresh fruit, more water, and even a change in the tea.

When confronted, the vampire looked into their eyes with immense worry and said softly, "Your blood is getting far too sweet." -- Anon Guest

[AN: Calling back to https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04494-l110-agreement-on-amends ]

Love is a strange beast and takes many shapes. The worst shape is the obsessive love that smothers in the name of protection. That forces the loved one to reshape themselves in the name of relationship maintenance. That hurts and harms in the name of devotion.

Count Dragomyr had more respect for Marzanna to do that. He never demanded, only invited. He made sure she knew what he was. He sought permission. Which was honestly more than most humans would bother with in her experience. It was what made visiting his castle such a relief from the village life that she thought, again and again, of moving in.

This evening was one of the incidents that made her dubious about taking that decision up.

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Tuesday, Patreon and Other Shenanigans

So the video editor is ludicrously easy to use. Hooray. So now I'm recording myself reading archive stories. One per day seems to be a decent limit. I'm still working out how to do subtitles without crashing the dingdang thing. Messing about in PeerTube first may make me look more professional in YouTube. When I have enough of a swing in motion to post daily.

I will be digging up my published novels for the long form reads. Eventually. I have LOADS

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Challenge #04516-L132: Unknown Peace

While almost the entire world knew who Wraithvine was, ze was unknown in this village. It was a peaceful, quiet, place, mostly. Though they had their issues like everywhere else. But unlike most of the world? Here? The name Wraithvine was entirely unknown. -- Anon Guest

[AN: This prompt has been corrected from having erroneous pronouns]

A wandering Wizard walks the road less traveled. It's the way ze finds the most interesting situations. The places where ze may be needed the most

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Monday, Writer's Group and Video Plotting

My lovelies have now created a PeerTube instance. The moment I can make something and post it on there, it's joining my link hoard in the menu. There's a few technical hitches...

  1. I can't log in to the instance
  2. I currently lack a video editor
  3. I haven't made any videos.

Just a slight snag. I will be working on that as time goes by.

Further bulletins as events warrant.

I anticipate some hours of gassbagging with my fellow writers, before I move

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Challenge #04515-L131: A Taste of Home

Just like Mother used to make. A childhood treat, comfort food. There are thing that bring back memories from 'Granny's apple cake to 'Stretch the budget stew, where the vegetable crisper gets cleared out 3 days before pay day. -- She Who Knits

Far from civilisation as they knew it, far from the places they called home, scrounging together a meal out of whatever they had, the Adventurers were homesick. Huddled around the campfire, watching their meagre scrapings becoming part of their

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Challenge #04514-L130: Craft Chaos Chamber

The one thing about being a space trucker is you took on projects to pass the time from place to place. Heh, but I seem to have taken on too many at once. You've ridden with me quite a while, and while I don't mind being a free taxi, you think you can help me finish some? -- Anon Guest

Sanity Projects exist to help an idle mind and idle hands stay out of trouble. The description is right there on the

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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs

I did token sorting this week, so I'm testing myself next week by walking as far as I can before my heel starts to hate me.

We'll see how well that goes. Next week.

This week, I'm not running D&D so that I have time for Mother's Day stuff. She's getting more stash, some play time with my chainsaw, and a lift to acquire more stuff and things.

Meanwhile, an experiment in the Writer's Group has resulted in one of

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Challenge #04513-L129: Permission Denied

Weapons were banned on the station save for trained security personnel. You wanted to bring your weapon? Fine, it was either locked in a specially sealed display box, or left in security until YOU left the station. Sadly, WAY too many knomiras scream, when they find out . "I have right to be armed!" -- Anon Guest

[AN: The right to bear arms should always come with the responsibility to handle and use them as safely as possible.]

There were up sides and

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Friday, Back to Old Patterns

The instant I finish this blog entry, I'm cleaning the catio. Now fully functional and accessible to the household felines. Then I move onwards with the daily offerings and an attempt to do a thing.

And already my plns have crashed because a parcel has arrived with subscription meds. Yay. So now my plns include putting on clothes, going place, and fetching thing.

Yay.

I'll still have a go at kicking something. Briefly.

Offerings very soon.

But first... the meatspace stuff.

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Challenge #04512-L128: Ordinary Household Chemicals

An experienced soap maker is treating the burns of someone new to the craft.

"I told you to add the lye to the water, not water to the lye!"

ow... that hurts... what's the difference?

"Severe burns and scalding hot water jetting back at you due to the reaction! At least pouring it in to the water rather than having it under the water allows the gasses to escape BEFORE you mix it!" -- Lessons

The tap was whining at Zienn as

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Thursday, Appointment Day

For one glorious hour, I thought I had a solution to the Zrythm thing. The potential fix didn't work and I don't know what I did to make it not work. I mean, apart from having the Fickle Finger when it comes to tech.

I have faith that it will get unriddled in good time.

I have a shrink appointment, and physio happening today. At least I only have the minimal offerings to fret about today.

And I got out all the

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Challenge #04511-L127: To Choose Peace

"Would you side with these people against me?? You are just like me! Trufel!"

I am nothing like you. I believe in compassion.

"They will hate you and destroy everything you love!"

And I will forgive them.

"WHY??"

Because someone has to be the first to let go of the hate and try something else. -- Anon Guest

[AN: I looked up 'Trufel' and couldn't find more than a corruption of 'truffle' So I'm assuming that's a name]

Trufel took a deep

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Wednesday, Overdue Offerings and Rant

Since I have just about finished reading the Sharing Knife series, I think I should probably go on a bit of a rant and rave about that one.

I'm collating chapters for Book 5 one folder at a time and I'll be posting my owed Patreon content very, very soon.

The PLN for to day is do a little bit of one thing, work on another, then go back to the thing. Until the thing is done. Until all my things are

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Challenge #04510-L126: Not So Helpless

I may be in a wheelchair, but I can still kick your tail before you raise that blade. I'm limited, not helpless. -- Fighting Fit

[AN: Tempted to use Kosh's all-terrain wheelchair with caterpillar treads for this one, but nah. Should aim for the normal model]

The streets are paved well, and for that I am grateful. I've seen the perambulatory chair favoured by a noble or two, but that thing is frighteningly complicated. My main wheels are from a velocipede, and

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