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Question: Had Shayde run into Unicorns during her adventures in fantasy realms after her idiot professor made her device go kerblooie? If...

Yes, some of the dimensions Shayde travelled through were full of magic. What they were usually not full of was unicorns. Unless someone had made them with the help of magic. Though there was that one realm where they were predators…

Anyway. The fact that unicorns are real, coupled with the fact that unicorns are a bona-fide intelligent species has her regressed to about Age Five in terms of weeaboo glee. Thrass has had to ask her to not plait her

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Challenge #00946-B215: The Houyhnhnms' Arrival

A new species  arrives on the station, and the humans Will Not Stop Staring.

New species is worried. Did it offend them somehow? Is it edible?

Meanwhile all the humans are thinking is “Holy ***,. a unicorn.”

G’pux soothed her new companion by petting her neck. “There, now. It’s all right. It’s natural to be a little tense when meeting the Galactic Alliance.”

Thrass tossed her head and stamped uncertainly, Though she fit the pattern for Horse, she was undoubtedly

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Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming

Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming

profeminist:


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"Congratulations, gamer girls--you're officially at the top of the food chain when it comes to games. A new study released by the Entertainment Software Association has revealed that adult women now occupy the largest demographic in the gaming industry. Women over 18 made up a whopping 36 percent of the gaming population, followed by adult men at 35 percent.

Teenage boys, who are often stereotyped as the biggest gamers, now lag far

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Day 5 of mail-watching

internutter:

Yep. The postal system has lost track of my parcel.

Highly sarcastic yay. With a pile of WTF on the side.

I know for a fact that a postal plane can not stay aloft for 24 hours or longer, so it’s highly likely that my copy of Vice Quadrant is in this country.

Either today, or Monday, I get it in my grabby little hands.

And THEN, my dear readers, I will turn into a ravening, foaming, weeabot spoilerbeast and

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Challenge #00945-B214: After the Revolution

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The Pyro Plague had finally run its course. The only plants left to make the air marginally breathable were the ones that were too toxic for the Plague to attack. Which was nice for those plants, but not so great for the humans who needed them to live.

Of course, the people revolted against the companies who had made the plague possible. And who insisted on monocultures of food crops, genetically engineered to be delicious. When the plague

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Day 5 of mail-watching

Yep. The postal system has lost track of my parcel.

Highly sarcastic yay. With a pile of WTF on the side.

I know for a fact that a postal plane can not stay aloft for 24 hours or longer, so it’s highly likely that my copy of Vice Quadrant is in this country.

Either today, or Monday, I get it in my grabby little hands.

And THEN, my dear readers, I will turn into a ravening, foaming, weeabot spoilerbeast and liveblog

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