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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12615 posts

Ch-ch-ch-changes...

Every morning, I have been waking up to something new happening on this site. And it's all because of Beloved. They're spending their precious free time on tweaking, primping, and otherwise fancifying my blog for you.

Today's feature is a Subscription button WAAAAAAYYY down on the bottom of the menu. Don't worry, it's free.

What you get out of subscribing is a simplified feed of everything that goes into my blog. I have to assume that it's mobile friendly because said feed removes everything pretty that goes onto the webpage ;)

You may also notice that the post previews are more tastefully arranged than yesterday's arbitrary block of text. Featured posts let you read more directly, and past posts now have a very lovely "Read More" button.

Fun times.

I still want to have a donation feature. Writing is about the only reliable skill I have, and it hasn't started to pay for itself yet. You will be able to donate as little as a dollar towards paying my bills and buying some of the expensive things I kinda need to keep doing what I love.

And since it seems like my Mac is making wheezing noises, those bills might include AU$2.5K for a new Mac. Le sigh.

Don't fret yet, dear readers. I have everything I'm working on backed up to both Cloud and Drobo. No data loss from dead compy's THIS time, haha! Plus, this Mac of mine can still be rejuvinated by a good reboot. All is not lost. Yet.

There's always a way around things. It's just that most ways are made easier with money.

Challenge #00961-B230: One Gloomy Evening in a Dimly-lit Tavern

Person #1: Everyone knows there are no female dwarves because dwarves reproduce through beards, stone, and beer. :p

Person #2: No, somewhere deep in the mine lies the Dorf Queen. Whale-sized, eyeless, telepathically controlling the entire dwarf species and continuously giving birth to new “drones.”

Person #3: This also explains why dwarves all act the same. They’re just appendages of the same collective mind. Which is an aggressive alcoholic miner for some reason.

(Prompt from RecklessPrudence on Tumblr)

Jolli Eskutrebe kept

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The Pact

Disclaimer: Steam Powered Giraffe belongs entirely to Isabella and David Bennett, as well as Sam Luke, Steve Negrete, and anyone else they draft into their dramatic musical shenanigans. I just write fic based entirely off my own loony ideas. Please don't nick what little I have.

AN: SPOILER ALERT! This fic contains massive spoilers for, and wild-arse head-cannons inspired by, Steam Powered Giraffe's magnificent album, The Vice Quadrant: A Space Opera. Read no further if you don't wish to be spoiled or

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Fanficcery!

Ever since the second time I listened through Vice Quadrant, I have had rampant plotbunnies for an epic fanfic.

Fret not! I concentrate on my Instants, my novel, and some other upcoming features first. But in my spare moments, I've been working on this fic until my wrists start to ache.

I expect to be away most of the day, so please enjoy the start of something good.

Addendum: Crossed lines again. I'm actually running around tomorrow. I get to write more

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Challenge #00960-B229: One Stormy Evening in a Former Enemy's Tool Closet

“What, that? That’s a sword that shoots lightning. That one’s a giant walking disco ball that shoots lightning. That guy’s Albert Einstein shooting lightning. Look, just assume that everything shoots lightning, ok?”

(for context, Google Privateer Press’s miniatures Game Warmachine, specifically the Cygnar faction)

"I'm detecting something of a theme," rumbled Wulfenbach.

"Well, when you conquer the self-declared Lightning Lads, you can expect a little thematic monotony, my Lord."

Wulfenbach rolled his eyes. "Feh. I've seen someone make

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And speaking of technical hitches...

I hadn't ticked a checkbox that I really should have checked, and the two prompts I thought I had are -uh- not there.

It's all in working order now. To give me a prompt, all you have to do is click "Feed the Muse!" in the menu. You will then be able to create a New Topic with your prompt.

Yay.

This is the only place that I allow anons to play like this, so I kind of expect a little responsibility

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Challenge #00959-B228: Slight Technical Hitch

People’s relation to tech has not changed:

On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?“ In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage

(Prompt from recklessprudence on Tumblr)

"HA! That's

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Challenge #00958-B227: Mortal Mutant Powers

(I’ve had this prompt for ages. I have to use it now, because they’re finally starting to make plugs and ports that this doesn’t matter for)

USB connectors are at least 4-dimensional. Proof: a connector doesn’t fit. You turn it 180 degrees and it still doesn’t fit. after a THIRD 180 degree turn it now does.

(prompt from RecklessPrudence on Tumblr)

Tambry had no idea why she'd gathered a crowd. All she'd done was hook up her

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Termination of Services

Flashing red lights greeted Pamela as she woke from Stasis again. Something mechanical in the Vault Complex had gone wrong enough to need repair. It was the only reason that the system had to wake her.

The only reason that those in the Cryo-vaults needed her at all.

Pamela rose from her bunk and sat in the automated medical chair. If she did not do so promptly, the system would declare her dead and shut off the power to her survival suite,

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Salutations and Best Wishes to you, my dear readers

What you are witnessing is a brand new blog to combat the inanities of what the bromonkeys at Tumblr are calling "design". Frankly, I'm moderately certain that a crowd of pre-schoolers could do better. I mean, Beloved managed to whip this up literally overnight.

Pretty, isn't it?

And Beloved ported ALL of my Tumblr posts over including the "going dark" message that was my last Tumblr post.

Managing prompts is going to be interesting. So far, the mechanics include "go to the

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internutter: This blog is going to go silent, and I am telling you why. Tumblr's shitty reblog system with the unnecessary graphics has...

internutter:

This blog is going to go silent, and I am telling you why.

Tumblr’s shitty reblog system with the unnecessary graphics has made reblogs unreadable for people with dyslexia and other sensory processing issues.

For the last two years, I have basically made my career out of being readable. I need to be readable. And I especially need to be readable when I’m reblogged.

Reblogging my shit gets my shit seen. It gets me an audience. It sells my

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This blog is going to go silent, and I am telling you why.Tumblr's shitty reblog system with the unnecessary graphics has made reblogs...

This blog is going to go silent, and I am telling you why.

Tumblr’s shitty reblog system with the unnecessary graphics has made reblogs unreadable for people with dyslexia and other sensory processing issues.

For the last two years, I have basically made my career out of being readable. I need to be readable. And I especially need to be readable when I’m reblogged.

Reblogging my shit gets my shit seen. It gets me an audience. It sells my stories

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Challenge #00957-B226: Obligatory Baby Adventure

http://outofcontextdnd.tumblr.com/post/127351161618

“Dwarven baby sleeps like anvil. Wait shit, that is anvil. Where is baby?”

Hroogar the Mighty removed the swaddling to make certain. Yes. It was the actual anvil that she used for the head of her war-hammer. The handle lay innocently right next to Nagdar the Sorcerer’s staff, where it would get looked over by the casual eye.

Hroogar breathed deeply and slowly, lest she fly into a berserker rage and lay waste to everything

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tea-and-outer-space:Title: Not Dancing AloneSummary: Dancing has always been something Iris kept to herself, but after walking in on her...

tea-and-outer-space:

Title: Not Dancing Alone
Summary:  Dancing has always been something Iris kept to herself, but after walking in on her one night, Peter offers to teach her how to slow dance.
A/N:  because Iris is totally a secret hopeless romantic and Peter is a total dork
and because there’s a startling lack of fluffy, sappy peteriris fics and i just had to fix that.
also just note that i have barely any idea about the 18/1900’s sO

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