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Challenge #04534-L150: Ameliorative Measures

They said the eclipse would only last minutes. It's been a century. -- Anon Guest

We know the sun is still there. We can see its corona around the shadow of the moon. We're lucky that we have the technology to grow crops without sunlight. We're very lucky that our energy sources aren't causing more problems than they solved.

If this had happened half a century earlier, we would be looking to our extinction in a mere handful of years.

If it had happened a mere decade earlier, we would have perished because greater industry would have put global survival behind a paywall. Thus ending civilisation as we knew it in favour of useless profit. More rational minds, thankfully, prevailed.

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Challenge #04533-L149: Sweet-scented Poison

I got these new flowers today. They whisper to me, while I sleep; whisper secrets nobody can know. -- Anon Guest

They look like nice flowers, don't they? The way they gleam in the light. They're so pretty. I received them in an opalescent vase three months ago and they haven't wilted. They only need fresh water once a day. They're beautiful... and they're driving me mad.

They whisper to me whenever it's quiet. Soft words that I can barely understand. They're

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Thursday, Physio and Proceeding Apace

I almost forgot to finish off the video I made myself have due, last night. But I made myself get up and finish it, and then post it. Which means that I am free and clear to start sharing on my socials.

Next week, I record a little outro advertising my Peertube posts earlier than whenever they find them on TubeTube.

Maybe it'll work. It's worth a shot.

But my lovely followers get the Peertube video before TubeTube does.

I have to

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Challenge #04532-L148: Surprising Discovery

There is a hollow world held together by the great spider web, spun by countless arachnids led by their queen -- Anon Guest

The Impossible Nebula should not exist. Nevertheless, it exists anyway. If there's enough gasses orbiting a sun to provide air to breathe, with asteroids mixed in, it should form a planet. Or even two of them.

Humans and other Deathworlders have made a sport of navigating the entire orbital circuit without major injury.

Most of the landmarks, stopping points,

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Wednesday, Rant Due, and Other Things

I don't know what I'm going talk about this week. Maybe state of the WIP, maybe state of the Author. Maybe a little bit of both. Maybe something about my new video editing work.

I dunno, but I'm doing it first.

It's the only way I can be certain it gets done at all. I can't do a "Reasons to Love" on Murderbot: The Series because I'm still evaluating it on its own merits. I'm running out of stuff that can be

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Challenge #04531-L147: Oh, the Deprivation!

Poor, poor, pitiful me. -- Anon Guest

This had to be the worst day. She couldn't find any of her servants. There was nobody to dress her and she'd been wearing the same nightgown all day. Nobody had fed her breakfast. None of her tutors had come to give her any of her lessons, and she was well overdue for Elementary Dressage.

She had had the rudest awakening with a slave grabbing her out of her bed and setting her loose -barefoot!

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Challenge #04530-L146: Oddly Desired

Gifts. And sometime the person gifted has non-stand 'want it's' - Inspired by Mother's day Lady who got a trailer of horse manure for her roses. -- She Who Knits

Felice squealed in joy at the sight of the cart and what she could see inside it. Logs of hazel wood. Baskets of dragon eggshells and scales. Careful shelves of assorted gemstones. Vials of creature blood and mats of felted creature hair.

"Oh you shouldn't have," she cooed.

"It's all ethically sourced,

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Monday, Backup Reads, Fetch Quest, and Compromise

I have to wear clothes, go place, and do thing today. Because there's mail I need to get from the post office. BLARGH.

Going place and doing thing on a Monday is not my favourite idea. But Tuesday is too late to do it.

Bothery.

I have a vague idea for a future schedule for my story reads. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday seems like a reasonable spacing to keep both PeerTube and TubeTube satisfied.

It's going to be "fun" keeping that schedule,

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Challenge #04529-L145: Flaws Flayed Bare

Yes, I am a killer. Don't worry, none of those I kill ever suffer. Your death will be completely painless, unlike what you did to YOUR victims. The warnings to others like you come later. You are, after all, going to be quite a lovely statue when I'm done. Your muscles out for the world to see.

( The displays are based off of this. https://bodyworlds.com/ ) -- Anon Guest

[AN: FTR the bodies used for that art are donated for the

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Sunday, Taking it Easy

I am sticking to the bare minimum offerings and only thinking about doing anything else. I've been told I might overwhelm my audience if I post story videos every day.

I might slow down when I get close to the stories I've written this year. There are a LOT of stories to read. And a lot more past entries to the Writer's Group that I could stitch into one reading sesh.

Not that I have an audience yet. It's early days on

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Challenge #04528-L144: Eye of the Needle

Seeing the pain in their eyes, the tailor promised this.

"I will love this child as my own blood, care for them to the best of my ability, and ensure they have a good life. But, they will know, you are also their parents. Even away, you will be in the heart."

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04495-l111-fated-family -- Anon Guest

Kismet Foundling's first memory was the careful flash of a needle and thread through soft cotton cloth, dyed with madda. Rennie

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Saturday, Parkrun and Hairdo Stuff

I got my roots recoloured, and the whole QPP got their hair extravagandized. Miss Chaos just decided on a trim rather than more purple.

In parkrun news, I've managed another 5K without needing my cane. The physio is really effective.

I managed to finish a chapter whilst waiting for my colour process to finish, so there's another win.

I've decided to use PeerTube as backup for my VTTRPG VODs, and I can only hope that it works because those files are firkin

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Challenge #04527-L143: Prodigal Return Protocol

The universe loves unexpected plot twists. The human is still alive, just barely, suffering oxygen deprivation. A cranky old space-trucker manages to haul them into the otherwise empty cargo hold, turn the air on, and help.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04503-l119-so-long-and-thanks -- The New Guy

The odds of being picked up by a passing vehicle when close to death in a Livesuit are millions, possibly billions to one. Fortunately for Human Zain, million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten[

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Friday, Proceeding Apace

Working out the routine for the storytime videos, I think I have a rhythm now.

  1. Record story
  2. Send to Adorable
  3. Receive Subbie file
  4. Edit the final nonsense

Huzzah.

This time, I'm going to try making my preferred subbie format before I get going on the video project. Maybe I can get the format to stay this time around. Nevertheless, I have NOTES so I can replicate them at will.

By hook or by crook, I will get this WORKING.

I can do

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Challenge #04526-L142: The Power Within

They were from a place that mistreated them for their weight and was upset. Twii, and a kind therapist who realized that the main problem was a genetic disorder, helped them realize that their life was worth keeping. That hope was not just an obscure word in the dictionary. -- Anon Guest

Therapist Kremp said he needed a confidence boost. Peej was almost entirely certain that she was going to set up some easy test to pass or some false scenario in

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