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Challenge #00468 - A093: Or Are They Wearing You?

“I consume giants and crush cities with a push of my thumb and you challenge me with shoes?”

“They’re fancy shoes, you brute.”

The Mighty Magniscience  glared down at her. “They’re still shoes. And only shoes. The rest of your -ha- wardrobe is not in the slightest bit battle appropriate.”

“Who said I challenge you to a battle?” scoffed Malela. “I challenge you to a dance-off!”

It only took five rounds for the impartial judges to recognise that, not only had the Mighty Magniscience never danced a step in his life, but that he also had all the rhythm and music of a comical bear.

For the first time in centuries, the Mighty Magniscience lost a challenge. According to the rules, he had to forfeit his crown and vanish into obscurity. Malela got the crown, which allowed her to rule over the assembled kingdoms formerly under Magniscience’s iron fist.

She also got the dubious privilege of defending her crown from anyone who thought that her reign was even the slightest bit authoritarian.

…but that’s crowns for you…

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Challenge #00467 - A092: Bad Day at the Office

http://snazzapplesweet.tumblr.com/post/77643252675/weh

Aelki rejected or signed off on proposals pending their explanation to Ambassador O'Ranges. He would never hear about the rejected proposals. They were the ones that, like candy in the back of the legendary van, were too good to be true and very obviously dangerous.

She was not exactly an administrative assistant. More like a human filter. In combination with adoptive mother, nursemaid, therapist, dietician, transit authority, private tutor… Either she had to sew

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Challenge #00466 - A091: Here There be Dragons

Got another one for you

http://scienceisadesiretoknow.tumblr.com/post/77518618397/katrani-imagine-guardian-dragons-that-protect

It’s a well-established fact that humans normally do not get along with other cogniscent species.

The Dragons know this. They teach their hatchlings.

Beware the humans. They have made extinct almost every other creature larger than them. The ones that they don’t make useful. And becoming useful to a human means that they will make you and your kin docile and stupid.

Dragons are proud and

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Challenge #00465 - A090: The Importance of Love

http://anastasiyacemetery.tumblr.com/post/76249084163/not-sorry-for-my-english

Text reads: “Don’t forget to give a little love to beings which nobody loves”

[AN: Sorry about the brief one. I can’t brain today]

It was perfect love. But, physically speaking, they never went further than hugs and kisses.

Temptrotica never stopped being amazed at the feeling of it. Love. It was new and amazing and almost overwhelming. And every time she tried to explain it to Mythologics Anonymous, she got the

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Challenge #00464 - A089: The Trouble With ELFs

It sounds like Uplifts have a bit of a stigma attached to them- their origins were illegal, so they themselves are considered sort of dodgy.  Some further exploration of that, please?  After this long, they can’t be the only people to have experienced origins/modification for the use of others and had to fight their way up to ‘people’ status afterwards (super-soldier attempts, etc).  Perhaps there’s a ‘Lab-breds of the Galaxy Unite!’ sort of club for mutual support.

From the

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Challenge #00463 - A088: The Death of Gendered Clothing

http://beltaguise.tumblr.com/post/76801104188/fantasy-lizard-people-where-the-females-dont-have

Found another one

Tom Katt sidled up to the lizard lady at the bar. He thought he could tell by her buxom figure and elegantly-styled dress in Botanic Greens.

“Hey, there, beautiful,” he smoothed. “Can I buy a lovely lady such as yourself a drink? What’s your pleasure?”

The lizard, towering over him by some five inches, glared down at him. “I’m a male,” he

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Challenge #00462 - A087: Portents of Doom

“I’ve got an idea! It’s crazy, it defies all logic, it’s illegal in 16 solar systems and my mother would most assuredly not approve, but it just might work!”

Ax'and'l froze, fighting the primitive desire to burrow under a layer of dirt and conceal himself from predators that no longer existed. Humans had Fight or Flight. His kind had Dig and Ditch. “Hwell,” he murmured in a calm and soothing tone that most definitely did

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Challenge #00461 - A086: True Mens' Rights

A Men’s Rights Activist who isn’t a jerk, but has genuine grievance and wish to live in a world where female rapists aren’t lauded and institutionalized rape isn’t assumed to be a standard feature of incarceration.  Possibly working to start and/or save a battered-men’s shelter.

“Save the men’s shelter?” Nobody was taking Lee’s pamphlets. Nobody was putting a coin in his tin. “Save the men’s shelter?”

Someone stopped. “Why

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Challenge #00460 - A085: Like Humans Do

In terms of romance, compared to humans, all other sentient species are incredibly awkward, stumbling over words, blurting nonsensical sentences, accidentally changing colour, releasing/commenting on pheromones, and/or bluntly stating their piece in a deadpan manner.

Conversely, compared to everyone else the most nervous and awkward of humans is a veritable poet.

She had been trying to speak to the idol of her heart for a Standard Month, now. They came to the same places at that she did. Showed evident

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Love will find a way...

It’s a pity that things like true love and soulmates and finding that special someone aren’t more obvious in their identification and verifying - would be so much easier if there were a special personal sort of dim glow or subtle sound or faint scent or somesuch to point out the one we’re destined to be with the rest of our lives. Far less troublesome or confusing than all this dragging-on about dating and courtship and

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Challenge #00457 - A082: San Check

If you meet Yog-Sothoth, you’ve gone too far on the axis of comprehension; back up slowly and call for reality assistance. – RecklessPrudence

Ow. It had happened again. OW! It wasn’t getting any better with experience.

Katie looked up from her pained huddle, halfway expecting somebody yelling at her to ‘avaunt’ and calling her names. One more time. One more time, she swore, and she would start calling herself a foul shayde from out the blackest

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Challenge #00457 - A082: Beautiful Hostile

http://cnvvj.tumblr.com/post/76196333269/sharped0-gobigorgoextinct-steve-irwin-in-a

That is all.

[AN: Out of respect for the Irwin family, I’m making a very Steve-like character]

“Damn crazy Australians,” muttered Pentecost.

The team for Beautiful Hostile had arrived. Jaeger, pilot and… co-pilot. If such a term could be used for a crocodile that Harry Banks sort of kept as a pet.

That was part of the winning strategy for Beautiful Hostile. It beat the Kaiju by literally fighting like

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Challenge #00454 - A079: This Always Happens...

“I leave you guys for ten seconds and you all become rabbits? Why does this happen to almost everyone I know?”

“Uhm,” said Twyll. Who currently resembled a tortie lop.“We’re… not… rabbits.”

“Twyll… when’d you become a liar?” he asked, confused. “You’re like Little Miss Truth…”

“Jor…” said the angry-looking white bunny with amazing eyeliner game. That had

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Challenge #00453 - A078: Humanity in a Nutshell

Has there ever been an instrument more representative of humanity than the Zeusaphone? (I highly recommend checking out their Youtube page) – RecklessPrudence

“So… the Terran Exhibition.”

“Yeah, it’s docking next week. Should help defuse Silly Season for another month.”

‘Are you going?“

"Only with adequate shielding. I heard they have the Lightning Meisters playing with this circuit.”

“Lightning… I don’t think I’ve heard of

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Challenge #00450-451 - A075-76: Whuffo/The Inauguration of Mayor McToilet

(Can I do this? I’m doing it anyway.)

Free day! If there’s a drabble you’ve been wanting to write but haven’t had the right prompt to do it, now’s the time.

[AN: I don’t know when I’m going to get one of these again, so I’m going for broke. Be warned: the first one included feels inspired by this post. The second one is just a

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