Realm of the InterNutter

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

Yours for only $2.99 at Smashwords! Django would, when he was cross, throw his weight around. Raven often complained, when he wasn’t...

Yours for only $2.99 at Smashwords!

Django would, when he was cross, throw his weight around. Raven often complained, when he wasn’t prone to parody. And right now the prospect of becoming the Saviour of five systems worth of humans was making him fairly angry indeed.

“Do you have any idea what my people did to me?” he demanded. “They gave me a golden crown of thorns! They made me king of an island that nobody

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Challenge #00537 - A162: Panelbeating

“Wow, how’d you get it to work?”
“I ran a Physical Impulse Mechanical Stress Routine”
“Huh?”
“I kicked it.”
“Ahh.” – RecklessPrudence

It really only took ten minutes to fix, in the end. A little heat. And a lot of whacking with the right kind of maintenance.

She charged them an Hour for her work, part of which was a ‘luck tax’. As in, they were lucky they reached

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tonidorsay: lisaquestions: impuretale: addictinginfo: I think restricting how much executives make as a low multiple of lowest pay in...

tonidorsay:

lisaquestions:

impuretale:

addictinginfo:

I think restricting how much executives make as a low multiple of lowest pay in the company is a fantastic idea. 

h/t Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future

Let’s fucking do this, but ADDENDUM: among the employees they have to count interns. If they don’t pay their interns, then THEY DON’T GET PAID EITHER.

Totally down with this.

I have been advocating this for at least twenty years now.

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Now available to buy at Smashwords! Hevun fell Those words could not be censored out of existence because they passed at the speed of...

Now available to buy at Smashwords!

Hevun fell

Those words could not be censored out of existence because they passed at the speed of panic. From mouth to mouth. By filthy human trader and pristine Tu'att military vessel. Whispered in hallways, shouted at deaf grandmothers, passed in code by those who feared it being read by other eyes.

Even by flickering human fingers behind their Tu'atta masters’ backs.

Hevun fell to human rebels.

They had the Majestrix.

Undisputed ruler of six

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Chalenge #00536 - A161: Mercy Maintenance

I’ve made jokes about “Reboot… with steel toes” and “troubleshooting with a 12-Gauge - PULL!” plenty of times! – RecklessPrudence

A certain sign of doom amongst engineers is whistling backwards. It means something expensive is about to happen. When they hiss through their teeth whilst breathing in… there’s very little to be done.

“It’s bad, isn’t it?” asked Rael, off-the-books-apprentice.

“Eh,” the engineer currently in charge shrugged. “Pass me

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Your attention please.

You may have noticed that I finally got the lead out and published the long-awaited third instalment to my trilogy: Hevun’s Gate.

You may have also picked up on the fact that I am more or less slightly broke.

So here’s a short list of things you can do that don’t cost you shit, but still help me out.

  1. Reblog anything you love. Like my short stories? Reblog them. Like my post about my book? Reblog

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(potential prompt) What's a Faiize?

Faiize are a gengineered species designed to be a better, bells-and-whistes-rich version of the popular Wave of The Future product known as Cleaners.

Cleaners, of course, resembling labrador-sized blue slugs.

The Faiize were designed, according to their sales shill, to be largely self-sufficient and capable of solving elementary problems. And, as a bonus, they can get into places regular Cleaners can’t reach. They were alleged to have no more than an Augment’s level of cusp-cognisence and were therefore

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Challenge #00535 - A160: Reve-rie

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde c/- RecklessPrudence

Everyone who met her knew that there was something wrong with Sai’dut. She would talk to herself, or stop her appointed tasks to stare at something irrelevant, she would grow forgetful or latch on to some asinine entertainment and learn everything that nobody wanted to know

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Challenge #00534 - A159: Exceptions to the Rule

An Outside Context Problem is the sort of thing most civilisations encounter just once, and which they tend to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encounters a full stop.
-“Excession,” definition of an OCP c/- RecklessPrudence

Thus it is that the Cogniscent Rights Committee has passed numerous laws to prevent them. Shipping through inhabited systems with recognised intelligent life native to them is generally forbidden until such time as that native population has regular and reliable space flight.

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