"I wish to return this time machine."
"Why?"
"It is not accurate!"
"The circuits are calibrated to-"
"I mean what it shows is not accurate!"
"How?"
"Women warriors wielding swords!"
"Yes? Documented in-"
"Black people in Europe!"
"Yes, there has always-"
"Not accurate!"
"It is."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
@kara while your post is technically good and right about Bandcamp, let's not forget it's not as good as it used to be.
We lost a lot of good features put behind paywalls or simply disappeared with time. I guess it's due to popularity, but yes, it's still one of the best platform for what it does in their field.
Gumroad.com is very similar, but for authors. Highly recommended.
@kara itch.io?
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mel, mel, mel
mel is probably either artificial intelligence, endurance, fear, shapeshifting, or endurance, fertility, journeying, sun. we might be able to narrow this one down more, but we don't really want to
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our dear little cain is....predictable enough. deception, fire, and peak human are the most fitting
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alkali, probably artifice, health, and journeying, if we had to pick three. artifice is a bit clunky for what we're trying for here, but intoxication is the only other close option and that's definitely not right
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knives—cities, protection, and, since we're not sure exactly what's what of these three, one of either murder, sword, or vengeance
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nima was pretty obvious. sorcery and time, of course, and given cer more futuristic associations network made sense as well
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kai, on the other hand, fit half a dozen. desire, shapeshifting, dance, even journeying....
we settled on artificial intelligence, faerie queen, luck, music, and passion. kind of a lot for one person to bind, but any less feels like something is missing
we could probably drop music and be fine, though. kai is more of the musician than kai is
Being able to say 'yeah and?' When your opponent is trying to deligitmize you unfairly is such a power move. It also shows that your movement is at least mostly honest about its goals. If even the warped version of the goals your opponent spits back at you seem reasonable, that's a great sign. It makes you seem reasonable.
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moriel's first two words were simple: night and knowledge. we already knew that. it was tougher finding a fitting third, but fate worked out surprisingly well
@AudreyJune this is exactly what I mean when I make the lightning bolt analogy
lightning doesn't get it right on the first try, instead forking off this way and that, trying out various possible paths, but eventually all that forking about finds the path most suited to the lightning bolt, then it commits
the forked paths don't lead all the way to the ground, but that's fine, those were there to find the path that not only did, but did so in the best way
the lightning bolt discovers itself by continuous experimentation
a bug, not a feature.
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