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Wednesday, Rant, Plumbing, and... My Soul?

There's another episode of my weekly thing due today, we still have plumbing to deal with, and I've just been to the physio.

Their new jackhammer hurts and stings, by the way.

As for the plumbing, we have a new magic ingredient - Dawn dish soap. According to a self-proclaimed redneck I know, it's just the thing for dealing with stubborn clogs.

As for my soul... it's apparently in peril for mocking the Powers That Be. I can't fathom where that mockery is, immediately.

It's a stretch, but this is the best I can manage to wrap my head around the issue:

Mocking the self-righteous, arrogant, and vainglorious "followers" who never once actually followed a teaching of the faith -> mocking the faithful -> mocking the faith -> mocking the originator of the faith.

It's a very long reach, but it's the best fit of the illogic that I can comprehend. Either way, if they're worried about my soul in regards a silly story that didn't even earn me one cent, they should also be worried about the souls of: the Monty Python cast and crew [The Life of Brian], Sir Terry Pratchett [Small Gods, Good Omens], and Andrew Lloyd Webber [JC Superstar]. Just to mention a few.

Eh. The longer I linger on this, the worse my anxiety gets and I don't need any more assorted horseshit in my life.

Onwards with the expected output.

Challenge #04874-M125: Educating a Royal Pain

The Swan Prince Odilio Magustine Jestarion Francas has learned from Trudy that there is no easy way out of his curse. His only hope would be to earn the love of a lady. But what can a swan offer a damsel or maiden fair? Perhaps something to do with flight could open the door he’s looking for…

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04851-m102-with-adequate-reason -- Deathshead419

The kiss of a virgin wasn't hard to obtain if you didn't mind the slobbery attempts

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Tuesday, Crammed For Time

What has two thumbs and got told off for yesterday's story? ::points thumbs at self:: This nerd. Apparently, I was mocking Jesus.

What I said about Jesus: He was "a wise teacher who worked miracles like a divinity. He explained the laws of the faith he followed and gave simpler rules for the people to follow. Chief among those were: don't hoard wealth, and be kind to each other."

I think that's accurate.

The rest of the story is about the followers

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Challenge #04873-M124: Fishing For Converts

A new faith in a single God has captured a polity, raising or replacing the old temples and extinguishing the old gods. All except one, a "Tree Mother" whose grove Deep in the wilderness has been out of reach, for all who have tried to burn her put have returned shaken, wounded, or not at all.

Yet one priest is insistent, and takes the task of eradicating this last bastion of paganism to heart. -- Deathshead419

The story is told of a

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Monday, Fuck My Life

I had everything put together. Dressed, pressed, set and ready to go on my Great Leyland's Tour...

Except the right day for that to happen in.

It's all going down TOMORROW

Derp.

All dressed up, as the song says, and nowhere to go.

I've gathered some buddies to read through ADT and taking a survey on replacements for copyrightable things.

So when it filters down - and it will filter down, there will be alterations. I might just republish on Patreon when

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Challenge #04872-M123: Best Defence

Yu-Cian was conscripted for his year of service in the city watch some months ago. Since then he has been mocked mercilessly by the veteran who signed on for life, has had his wages stolen by his sergeant, and was even spat upon by merchants leaving the city who assumed he was there for a shakedown.

So imagine his surprise when one of the horsemen of the plains arrived one night and had a civil conversation with him after all this time.

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Sunday, Stream Stuff

Got some further bullshit happening with the drains, but literally boiling hot water seems to be doing something to solve it. I have another trip to Bunnings in my future. Sigh.

We will get this thing unfucked for good.

But I don't need extra expense because I also have had to pay for my car and my license this week.

One last shot from the Chapter Thirteen Curse, I guess.

Fuck.

Can life stop shitting on me and my loved ones for

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Challenge #04871-M122: Clutch Clowder

A basket of kittens is left at the doorstep at one of the rare times that Wraithvine's portable tower is visible to those around hir. The mother had died of illness, and the person caring for them finds they don't have the skill, patience, or fortitude, to bottle feed and tend all six. Which requires getting up every couple of hours to feed them, then tending to them to get them to go to the bathroom, then keeping them warm, and feeding

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Challenge #04870-M121: The Right Fulcrum

"You can have money or you can have Justice." - Which do you choose? -- Prompey

[AN: Very sorely tempted to do so many Leverage riffs]

The right to reign is often accepted to mean: anyone who reigns has all the rights. And when anyone is both rich and powerful, they can take what they want and make consequences happen to others. Naturally, the people on the wrong end of that exchange tend to get irritated by that attitude.

So rebellions rise

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Challenge #04869-M120: Medically Necessary Dangerous Friend

I have the rare type - O negative blood, a universal donor. I'm also scared of needles. My kind, at least to me, pax humanis friend helps me with this anxiety so I can donate and save lives. --Anon Guest

Medical practice always needs blood. At least, it does in this particular neighbourhood of the Edge Territories. I heard from some traders that the Alliance can just make whatever blood they want. There's like special cloned bone marrow units that do it.

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Thursday, Freedom?

Well, kind'a sorta. The blockage is clear enough for the sinks to drain, though there's still bubbling coming up. I'm running sinks full of hot water down that thing on the daily in an effort to sluice any remaining blockage away.

Next sinkload is going to have some dish soap added just before I pull the plugs. Perhaps it can loosen a little more blockage.

Tried to get hold of the sleep study people. I even waited until the text said the

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Challenge #04868-M119: Tested Not in Vein

Legend holds of a harsh God, who’s marked have the blood drained from their bodies until expiring, this life force fueling the God’s power. The God has no use for the souls of those who are not devotees. So what happens when Elizabeth is dragged into the body of a ghoulish divine and accidentally invokes the right rite to bind her soul to her blood and become a simple blood cell inside the sepulcher halls of Godly flesh? -- Deathshead419

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Wednesday, Mor Shenanigans

Well, we managed to fix the toilet for slightly less than forty dollarydoos. Meanwhile, the hose, connectors, and bits to fix the kitchen sink are up to roughly two hundred dollarydoos even though we have to go back for a couple more parts.

It shouldn't cost more than twenty extra bucks and my own brief humilliation.

Note for future beans: Measure always. Don't assume that everything's standard and will automagically fit.

I have already mocked myself to the Promptcast crew, so take

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