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The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"So wait? We have 7 minutes left?"
"Yup"
"7 minutes to try do all the things I never did in life"
"Nope. Technically 6 minutes and.... 10 seconds"
"There's no time to get to a bunker either - I guess this was inevitable"
"Yup. Putting all the US nuclear arsenal on a dead-mans switch with us-east-1 was probably not the most well through out idea"
The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"So wait? We have 7 minutes left?"
"Yup"
"7 minutes to try do all the things I never did in life"
"Nope. Technically 6 minutes and.... 10 seconds"
"There's no time to get to a bunker either - I guess this was inevitable"
"Yup. Putting all the US nuclear arsenal on a dead-mans switch with us-east-1 was probably not the most well through out idea"
"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.
Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.
I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.
"Just a ghost. That's a relief."
"What else..."
"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."
"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.
Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.
I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.
"Just a ghost. That's a relief."
"What else..."
"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."
There’s this spiral-arm legend that says when you fly your starhopper in an oxygen atmosphere (say, for buzzing level one planets and making happyprobe holovids for TachyonTok) that you should reduce the exhaust pressure on your impulse engines to get better traction. It’s bullshit, but—don’t nobody tell the space bogans this, eh?—the fees we charge for scoop-diving Saturn’s rings to repressurise impulse cores are our hab’s only source of Cosmocredits.
"Ach, Miss Minipony, es ist alles so schrecklich. Mein Flug war verspätet, das Mittagessen versalzen, und der Verschlüsselungskaugummi von Q schmeckt nach Erdbeere. Erdbeere, können Sie sich das vorstellen?"
In Gedanken verdrehte Minipony die Augen. Shamus war so anstrengend, seit er den Doppel-Nöl-Status hatte.
"Ach, Miss Minipony, es ist alles so schrecklich. Mein Flug war verspätet, das Mittagessen versalzen, und der Verschlüsselungskaugummi von Q schmeckt nach Erdbeere. Erdbeere, können Sie sich das vorstellen?"
In Gedanken verdrehte Minipony die Augen. Shamus war so anstrengend, seit er den Doppel-Nöl-Status hatte.
They’re undoubtedly useful and all, these smart glasses. I mean they’re really smart—no camera, who needs a punch in the face—but they have IR LIDAR to recognize faces and give me a little text overlay, like “Robert Howarth, you met them last year at the RAF Air Show, E works for Supermarine”. The battery life could be better, though; mine are flat right now or I’d give you a demo. Have we met somewhere?
“I’m Pam. Your *wife*”
I Am Lucifer, the Devil, AMA
"Which of your many accomplishments are you most proud of?"
The idea that once your body is done growing, so is your mind.
"Wait, when is our minds done growing?"
You were never meant to be done growing, learning, examining. But you could be persuaded to give it up.
I got nerdsniped by your shitpost into trying to write a Forth interpreter in RNA. It didn’t actually take that long to get it working, at least in a simulator. Then I started looking at how to get my code into a prokaryotic ribosome. Imagine my surprise when I found **very** similar structure already there. #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot #BonusEdition
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