It's 11AM and the fam needs the car, so I'm deliberately taking a walk to the local shops to get the one thing I've just run out of.
I'm shopping tomorrow, but I need this before tomorrow. So up to the shops I go.
Writing happens when I get back.
Challenge #04964-M215: Her New Pet
I love your monster -- Luna
[AN: This accidentally got me thinking of the followup to Purchased Loyalty ]
Alle devoted herself to learning everything she could about animal care. How to feed, train, and care for a Hellkin. Or a Human, which Hellkin came from.
Wars were still raging between Elvenkind and many others about how Hellkin came to exist. Amongst other nonsensical objections.
Some of the books were contradictory, so Alle chose the kinder options and blended them with her babysitting
Read more »Monday, Time Windows
I want to co-ordinate a day off. This may mean going shopping after my shrink session today.
Because if I knew what the fam is doing on Tuesday, I could go shopping then, but I don't. And if I want fun cool lazytimes on Wednesday, I need to prepare.
Also plotting to begin refilling the freezer with good things. Vegetables. Treats. Maybe some meats.
I'll see what I can do for sausages since my lovelies appreciate the barbecue and the brazier at
Read more »Challenge #04963-M214: Purchased Loyalty
My life for yours -- Luna
Beware walking alone in the wild places, the elders warned. And if you must go, give no food nor drink to any creature that finds you there.
Alle presumed it was a caution against bears and wolves. If they viewed someone as a source of food, they might view that someone as food. It was better that the wild things of the wild places feared those who walked upright, and may have blades in their favour.
Read more »Sunday, Stream Stuff and Other Things
The Promptcast is going to be reading sixteen stories this week. Including some of my own good work.
I certainly hope the hosts can survive the marathon.
Meanwhilst, I attempt the daily fiction whilst monitoring the stream, and clinging to what sanity I can manage.
Huzzah. 'Tis time to allegedly focus.
Read more »Challenge #04962-M213: Impossible Law
In the Post Apocalyptic United States, the remaining industrial cities of the North trade with the last regions of arable land in the South. No one can sleep, everyone does speed, on these Drug Trains rolling up and down the ruined highways, byways, and wrong ways. -- Deathshead419
[AN: Humans can not stay awake forever. It has mental consequences]
Humanity cannot end the world. Humanity can only end itself. In the era of devastation, it came pretty darn close, I tell you
Read more »Saturday, And a Cat!
We found and transported the errant feline! There are now four more people and a cat sharing my domicile. Yay.
We now have more fucking bread than we know what to do with. Adorable made sure we'd have plenty to tide us over the three-day baking process. So we have loaves all over the place.
I've put all of the purchased baked goods out in the open for easy predation consumption. My hope is that sandwiches help erode the supply there.
We
Read more »Challenge #04961-M212: The Ultimate Weapon
Humans accidentally create a weapon that can speed up a black hole's dissolution. Come to find out, black holes have enough material in them to nearly create a second universe. -- BKF
[AN: This has to happen in a different universe to my usual one. It just doesn't fit]
If there is one thing true about Humanity, it's that there's an intense desire for a bigger, better weapon. Not always to use against their eternal enemy - other Humans - but to
Read more »Friday, Maybe This Time - and a Cat
Waif was scared off by noisy door yesterday. And there's evidence that she found, killed, and consumed a rat. Maybe she can teach my fiends a few things...
The big, awkward, hard-to-shift furniture is up here, in pieces, and everywhere related to "in the way". We will be consolidating our assorted nonsense when it's all up here.
That includes two households worth of cutlery, crockery, cookware, gadgetry, and accoutrements to sift through. Yay.
And I have comics to catalogue [later to sell]
Read more »Challenge #04960-M211: Conceptually Cursed
This.
[Image of an anthropomorphic hotdog with Nicholas Cage's face raising both its feet to expose it's lower pinchpoint to the sun. The sun shows a dubious, doubtful expression] -- Tergon
[AN: I don't normally take picture prompts, but I don't have many to spare. You can give me more in the Emergency Prompt Supply of my Discord once I make sure you're not a bot]
"All art is political," said Professor Balend as they put a conceptually cursed image on the
Read more »Thursday... And a Cat (We Hope)
Heavy furniture delivered and placed, extra people settling in. There's just a couple of small issues:
- The cat - Waif - did not like the truck and bolted while it was there.
- Our chest freezer decided to die a couple of days ago.
There is a hope that Waif will come running for her people when the truck is no longer there. Then it's a question on keeping the little menace indoors until we get the greater catio patio accomplished.
The good
Read more »Challenge #04959-M210: Made With Feeling
“I was taught that what you approach your work with, it will be infused by. Food made with love, clothing woven with care.
“I think I may have too much fury in me to make what is good for others, for all I care for them.” -- Weirdlet
Rage. Wrath. Fury. There is not much time between when I wake and when I encounter something to be mad about. Not that I'm looking for it, it just... happens that way.
News from
Read more »Wednesday, Bread and Truck Day
I got clearance to make bread. My lovelies are getting a truck to move the tricky bits, and this house is going to be CROWDED-crowded.
C-R-O-W-D-E-D.
But it is very good to get back to bread again.
The downside at the moment is the lack of bench space for the bread-making accessories. I foresee this being A Thing for continuing bread adventures.
We will figure things out. Eventually.
My hobby for the day is progressively putting moved food substances away. All the
Read more »Challenge #04958-M209: A Grab at Destiny
Eons after the Kingdom fell into ruins, a lost and bastard line scion feels called to return. What will this lost branch of a dead family find in city which became the overgrown crypt of the line? -- Deathshead419
This was where hir dreams lead hir? A set of ruins almost overwhelmed with the invading wilderness. Empty windows or doors peeked out between trees or had trailing vines in the place of ancient curtains. Some streets were throttled with weeds. Some buildings
Read more »Tuesday, Confounded PLNs
Here's my PLN:
- Wait until the fam has shenanigans with the truck/pod and difficult furniture
- Steal the car to go shopping and get supplies
- The next day, I start bread
I even fed my starter because I 'knew' that it would be a while before I got the car.
Delivered my PLN to the Cule who then informed me that they've gone out of their way to give me car access today -_-
So the instant I'm done with my
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