#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

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† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory#RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#PennedPossibilities 760 — MC POV: Describe who you are in your group of friends. Tell is if you’re the motherly / fatherly type, the funny friend, the serious one, etc.

Friends, Friendship. Teammates. Buddies. Partners in crime†. Frankly, I don't get it. I do the job and make sure everybody comes back. I train them until they drop in a sweaty heap, but then they insist on group meals and singing, that stuff, and won't let me pay. Sure I have everybody's back in a fight, or with clients, or the boss, but that's the right thing to do. I am responsible for them. They ask me for advice, too. Sometime weird. I ended up punching the cheating husband when he made a pass at me, which was actually sort of fun. At times they won't leave me along to be quiet with my books, which is really all I want out of life. I am really the wrong person to ask such a question to.

=-=-=-=-=-=
† Literally.

[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#mystery #thriller #romance #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory#RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.

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#Books#SF#Fantasy#21Century

That's easy: The Broken Earth series by N. K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season (2015)
The Obelisk Gate (2016)
The Stone Sky (2017)

Absolutely mind-blowing. I'll re-read this throughout my life, it's fantastic.

#SF #scifi#Fantasy#Literature#Books

Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century.

Boost for visibility please.

#Books#SF#Fantasy#21Century

“ICE is generally not transparent about why they send certain men out of state, but it often seems to be because they have arrested so many people that beds have been exhausted in California”

‘Mission Local’ has tracked the pathways to detention of 2,123 immigrants arrested in the past several months in SF:

#SF#ICE
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/

“ICE is generally not transparent about why they send certain men out of state, but it often seems to be because they have arrested so many people that beds have been exhausted in California”

‘Mission Local’ has tracked the pathways to detention of 2,123 immigrants arrested in the past several months in SF:

#SF#ICE
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/

A firewheel flower (Gaillardia pulchella) in a vacant lot in our neighborhood 🌻📷 #SF#bloomscrolling

A firewheel flower (Gaillardia pulchella) in a vacant lot in our neighborhood 🌻📷 #SF#bloomscrolling

Le mouvement #solarpunk, meilleure représentation à ce jour d'un futur désirable ? Alors que les œuvres de #SF font souvent une représentation distopique et pessimiste de l'avenir, le mouvement solarpunk y oppose la vision positive de mondes ruraux et urbains fondés sur une production alimentaire durable, les énergies renouvelables, la disparition des énergies fossiles, la proximité et les transports collectifs.

Et vous, est-ce que vous voyez d'autres œuvres et créations artistiques qui donnent à voir des futurs écologiques et positifs ?

https://youtu.be/nHEn90QdvTs?si=KsKKmB6T4lODkt1C

(Désolé pour l'introduction de la vidéo qui idéalise totalement les géants de la tech US...)

Le mouvement #solarpunk, meilleure représentation à ce jour d'un futur désirable ? Alors que les œuvres de #SF font souvent une représentation distopique et pessimiste de l'avenir, le mouvement solarpunk y oppose la vision positive de mondes ruraux et urbains fondés sur une production alimentaire durable, les énergies renouvelables, la disparition des énergies fossiles, la proximité et les transports collectifs.

Et vous, est-ce que vous voyez d'autres œuvres et créations artistiques qui donnent à voir des futurs écologiques et positifs ?

https://youtu.be/nHEn90QdvTs?si=KsKKmB6T4lODkt1C

(Désolé pour l'introduction de la vidéo qui idéalise totalement les géants de la tech US...)

Hey San Francisco Bay friends! What are you doing next month, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, 8/3? Join me for the launch of my new book, Automatic Noodle, hosted by Noe Valley Books! I'll be in conversation with AI researcher @alex. It's FREE! RSVP now! https://noevalleybooks.com/event/2025-08-03/automatic-noodle-event-annalee-newitz #sfba #sf #books

#NealStephenson #dystopian#SF #novel #snowcrash

📖 📚 #Livres#SF
Rappel : Si vous aimez la SF (qui fait un peu peur) et que vous ne connaissez pas encore, je vous recommande les SCP.
C'est une oeuvres très particulière, car non sous la forme d'un roman mais sous forme de "fiches". C'est également une oeuvre collaborative... et la plus gigantesque jamais écrite: Elle fait plus de 35 000 pages.
(mais ça se consomme très bien par petits morceaux😄)

https://sebsauvage.net/links/?GezyIA

There are still seats available to see Susie Eddie Izzard's one-person Hamlet at ACT today and tomorrow, and if you are a fan of Izzard I suggest you go. I did not think she was going to be able to pull it off in the show's first few minutes but it really becomes quite a performance. #sfba #sf #theater