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Challenge #05039-M290: Improvements Are Impossible

Beware the furballs of orange, for they are the most cunning. Oh who am I kidding? They're all sweethearts, just the orange furballs are usually the ones most apt to start mischief. -- BKF

[AN: Have you not heard of the mythical Orange Cat Braincell? All orange cats share one braincell. Who has it is a total mystery. Then again, they may start mischief because action and consequence refuse to be linked]

Earth's pets made it into Galactic Alliance space decades before the first Humans did. Dogs were the best known, as they could easily be modified for the task they were assigned to do. Cats, on the other hand, were mostly useful for one thing: small pest control.

There were problems to solve.

Cats are a fecund animal. One pregnant queen can turn a station into a cat-infested facility in the matter of a very few years. So the gengineers went to work on the "base model" to make the creature functional biotech.

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Saturday, Whoopsy Doopsy

Don't expect a lot out of me, today.

  1. I managed to cut myself whilst futzing around with bread organisation, yesterday [Typos +5]
  2. After finishing my daily tale, I proceeded to play Dressmaker
  3. Until A QUARTER PAST MIDNIGHT
  4. For reasons unfathomable to me, I don't feel very well today.

I think I might write my tale and take a nap. [And probably play more Dressmaker when I wake up]

I might take a nap and then write the daily tale.

I might write

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Challenge #05038-M289: Mending Melancholy Moggy

They were sitting and softly crying. No real reason other than being overtired and homesick, first time traveling so far, even for work. Then a skitty crawled in their lap and began to purr, and they began to feel a little better. -- BKF

First-time Spacers are fine until they're suddenly not. It's all fun and games until the homesickness hits like an apophis-class asteroid. As Trainee Engineer Nauf just found out while staring at the stars.

Ze had just found the

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Friday, Onwards?

I could have a book page from Ingram, but it costs $7USD a month and I don't have that reliable an income yet [Still paper-chasing for the Disability Pension] so that one has to wait. Nevertheless, Not With a Bang is available in all good e-bookstores everywhere Ingram Spark chooses to advertise.

[Shown here: The cover of Not With a Bang featuring a man looking over a ruined flatiron building while the rest of New York is covered in Kudzu]

Look for

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Challenge #05037-M288: Toxin Replacement Scheme

The Havenworlder-safe confectionary competition! Complete with legumes that taste just like peanuts but are not, in fact, peanuts, and havenworlder-safe chocolate! -- BKF

[AN: Was prompted in relation to yesterday's story, but has wound up being in relation to Pistil-Packing Researcher ]

There are many Humans who are psychologically incapable of keeping a treat for themselves. They find joy in sharing. And it is a regrettable fact that some things are just too dangerous for Havenworlders to enjoy. Which, once Humanity realised that,

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Thursday, Publish Maybe?

I just have a few more steps before putting Not With a Bang out there. A little bit of "thanks for reading" at the back of the book. Assigning an ISBN, and looking into the print version while I'm there.

Not a lot to do, and I should stop procrastinating on that.

The Promptcast is having an early stream today. I'm also treating my stupid fucking ankle and making some dough that I'll be baking tomorrow.

I never fucking stop, do I?

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Challenge #05036-M287: The Extra Mile

"I need Chocolate!" -- Knitnan

"Attempted security breach detected in junction B-9," intoned the computer. Security Operator Vic stumbled out of his bunk. Why did this shit always happen on his rest cycle? He scrubbed the grit out of his eyes and attempted to focus on the screens. Which were needlessly tiny, lowest-bid, grainy-as-flakk monitors from the absolute dawn of screen technology. The only thing stopping the corp from using Cathode Ray Tubes was the radiation restrictions for the fluffiest Havenworlders on

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Wednesday, Things Done Early

The Weird Writer Wednesday is out in the universe. I have completed the Promptcast thing, and sent it off.

I finally got the cover art ready to roll, so now it's a question of working around my various editor program's quirks to get a legible copy into LibreOffice. For example: Copying from Ellipsus directly into LibreOffice will give me GREEN TEXT where the italics are For Some Fucked Up Reason... so I had to copy it into GoogDocs, copy from Googdocs, and

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Challenge #05035-M286: Pistil-Packing Researcher

The human had a warning sign on their quarters: "Do not enter without mask". They had sealed their air vent and brought in their own supply. When one of the crew came in, they understood. The human was hand-pollinating a hybrid plant they were trying to develop, and was taking all precautions. -- BKF

Humans know they're dangerous when they're bored. Those knowing they were destined for long-haul travel got involved in long-term hobbies. Alternately, Humans who have long-term hobbies are destined

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Tuesday, Early Start

I was up at 1AM with asthma so... fed the cats, plugged myself in, and started writing. I have derped and published my Weird Writer Wednesday a day early. Whoopsy doopsy.

I shall get rattling on today's tale and the Promptcast entry anon.

I'll definitely be treating my stupid fucking ankle today. I have no idea why I didn't do it yesterday other than inconvenience.

I can tell you right now that the pain from skipping treatment is worse than the inconvenience

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Challenge #05034-M285: A Good Turn

They saved a young hellkin who had fallen into a pit-trap years ago. Now, they were sick and their farm was struggling, and a party of hellkin and halfbreds came and helped them. -- BKF

Fifteen years ago...

"Hey! Hey out there! Help! Please?" The voice was young, tearful, and on the very edge of utter despair. It was coming from a patch of weeds beyond the verge of the road.

It was because Naesel Dirgeye had been having a good day

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Monday, Shopping Done and Other Stuff

I have SO MUCH writing to do today. For the Promptcast newsletter, for the Promptcast, for you, my lovely viewers. And I still have to treat my ankles and work on the dingdang book cover.

...and I plan on trying to enlist the writers on Tumblr later today.

I'm doing my best to get as many words as possible towards that 1 million total.

It's nasty hot, but I also have my post-shopping ice cream to keep me cool enough. And a

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Challenge #05033-M284: Guidance of the Gods

Ereshkygal herself talked a young teen out of self-harm. -- BKF

It was a long way down. They said a lot of things about the heights of Pinnacle Peak's tallest towers. Some said that a copper coin tossed from the top could kill an innocent civilian below if it hit. Some said that if you jumped from the topmost parapet, you would be dead before you finished falling.

Tevan leaned on that parapet and stared down at the streets below. Further below

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Sunday, Streams and Nonsense

The Promptcast is streaming soon. I shall be moderating as always.

The story will be occurring after that.

My ankle hates me, and treatment takes time away from moderating. Fortunately, I have various means of easing the hatred.

I'm going to have to do a little bit of shopping tomorrow. Nothing huge. Just quality of life things. So therefore nothing overtly expensive.

I am almost-nearly done with the cover. I need to do a bit of precision shading. And then it's title

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Challenge #05032-M283: Small Moments

Small joys, the little things that lift your heart when all the world seems grey. -- Knitnan

Some people have all the luck. This is just as true as when that luck is only bad. A very unfortunate few get the kind of luck that is never enough. Enough bad luck would allow Hope to gain help. Enough good luck would mean that she would be managing well enough to not have a need.

Well, not many needs that could easily be

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