A robot falls in love with its regular mechanic and, not knowing how to take it further, keeps breaking itself in important, but non-fatal ways.
Challenge #00649 - A284: Reality? Just a Suggestion
Sara and Pinkie Pie trade recipes
[Since you said Sara, I’m assuming you mean my favourite mutant OC and not her alternate ponysona, Star Wishes. If you meant the ponysona, then re-send the prompt with the right name]
“Wait, so you’re not one of those weird beings from the other side of the magic mirror?”
“No,” said the aqua-coloured human with the brown mane. “I came here through Kazooland. Steam Powered Giraffe showed
Read more »Sacrifice...
Read more »“You dare say that to me?! That my choices, my actions caused all this? As if with you in my place, if you had to shoulder all my burdens and responsibilities for as long as I have, that you would do things differently? You deceive only yourself to claim you would ‘succeed’ where I had ‘failed’. Anyone would do the same as me in these circumstances. I’m just like you. Just like everyone else. Tell me with a straight face,
Challenge #00647 - A282: Scary Handy
On an individual basis, moments when humans go from “big, scary, too strong and menacing” to “big, protective, safe and ok still a bit scary”
Just little things, like being able to catch a falling numidid, deflect a blow, walk or swim in currents that bowl over little guineafowl people, or bodily grab them out of the way of danger etc.
An adult Human was twice the size of a Numidid in relaxed posture. Four if the Numidid was in a defensive
Read more »Challenge #00645 - A280: Performance Art
”The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is so culturally engrained now that starting it is just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away…
Open Mic Night at the Tunnel Cafe…
It was where many a young performer honed their act before taking it further out into the open. People came here to steal other people’s jokes. People came here with dreams of stardom. And Shayde came here, apparently, to hold a guitar and tell jokes.
Having done some research
Read more »Challenge #00611 - A246: Every Apprentice Does It
My god… it’s full of spelling errors.
Alani was going after Extra Credit. Finding the Original Source was always good for that. She traced it from planetoid to planetoid, from reference to reference to sub-reference and finally… in the Dark Rooms where only special lights were allowed… a yellowed and rather small booklet kept in its own rarified atmosphere and handled only through waldoes.
To show willing, Alani used the special scope to view the myopic scribble of an
Read more »Challenge #00585 - A220: One Life in Song
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Doe, a deer, a female deer…
Doe crept between the parked storage containers, heart pounding. She could still see the peak of the ship. She was headed the right way.
Ray, a drop of golden sun…
Shadows made her jump for all of five seconds before she realised it was her own shadow. A skinny stick of a thing. Undersized, underfed, under-represented and, so far, under notice.
She
Read more »Challenge #00584 - A219: Rocky Start
Human: *sneezes*
Other cogniscient: What the hell was that?!
Ax'and'l had been dubious from the get-go about joining forces with a human… but he’d run the numbers and this venture was profitable in the extreme.
Insanely profitable.
Now it was just looking insane.
They were standing in an abandoned hulk of a spaceship, looting it for anything they could get out of it. Both had their survival suits on. Ideally, they were protected from everything the ship could throw
Read more »Challenge #00583 - A218: Draco Nobilis
“Which is better,” asked the ancient dragon, scales dull, horns broken, but eyes bright as he regarded the one sent to slay him, “to be born good, or to overcome an evil nature through great effort?” – Josh
[AN: JOSH! You live! You’re one of my fave anons :D I was getting a little worried that you’d fallen down a hole or something]
The Knight Gainsborough lowered their lance and became lost in thought.
Read more »The most feared dance in the universe
Read more »(character) crept through the undergrowth, barely daring to breathe, as they followed the pulsing rhythm. Parting the bushes slightly, they sucked in a horrified gasp, seeing the flickering firelight and the Humans dancing around it.
There, in the light of the burning branches, were people skipping and hopping, drinking out of cups from large nuts and doubtlessly containing fermented grain juice. That, they could handle. But the dance, that caused all non-Humans to shake in fear … .
The dreaded funky chicken!
(there have
Challenge #00589 - A214: Like a House on Fire
Shayde and Ambassador O’Ranges
or
Julie, Nanny and Ambassador O’Ranges
[AN: You didn’t say ‘xor’ :D ]
Julie was still moaning. A constant monotone that, Shayde could tell, was starting to get on everyone’s pec’s. She was huddled in Nanny’s lap. Nanny couldn’t do much for her but be a living teddy-bear and mutter “Good girl, good girl,” at random intervals.
“Puir babby…” Shayde
Read more »Challenge #00588 - A213: Explaining a Lot
Was trying to figure a way to rephrase this, but I reckon it’s probably best to send it to you in its original form: “(s)he/ze had a troubled childhood” == “They had a troubled evolution…” (a lot of the questions were me) – recklessprudence
“…and this is Ambassador Shayde. Her species had a difficult evolution.”
The assembled welcome committee aahed and nodded.
“Must ye do tha’ every time we go somewhere?” Shayde murmured.
“
Read more »Challenge #00587 - A212: Confusing Hilarity
Someone being chased by a goose while others laugh too hard to help.
The humans saw her coming in to the launch pole.
“Up! Up! Up!” They called, using their fleshy hands to gesture the same thought. “Danger! Up!”
She scrambled for the little platform before she dared look down. There, in one of the grazing paddocks, one of the humans’ domesticated avians was chasing a young human keet. Kid.
It was a large bird. Semi-aquatic, judging
Read more »Challenge #00584 - A209: Don't Speak
Challenge: No dialogue. Any ‘verse
What struck her at first was the alienness of the world. Even before she had to ponder how she got here or what ‘normal’ was supposed to be.
Everything had right-angles to it. The things that were not cubes of… stuff… were flat, two dimensional objects, things that looked like paper props from a tinkertoy town, or moving creatures also seemingly made of cubes.
But it was real. She was there. And she
Read more »Challenge #00583 - A208: Big, Blue and Mostly Harmless
Challenge prompt: Try a MLP / Monster in Paris crossover WITHOUT Fluttershy being the one that shows everyone he’s really a very sweet giant flea.
Cornered. Trapped. Pinned. And no doubt about to be eaten by the Beast from the portal, Rarity hunkered in place and shrieked.
One of its four arms reached inevitably towards her…
…and began carefully combing her mane.
“Jolie petit poney,” cooed a voice that could easily have come from Heaven itself. “Vous êtes perdu?
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