Plus Mary Shelley gets Piss-Off Points for being a teenage girl when she wrote Frankenstein, A Modern Prometheus. [those fake geek guys always forget the full title]

Okay, so change 5 to the first identified author and we're good. I have to write this down, somewhere.

Looking at these old comments reminded me of your story with the inappropriate aunt who teaches her niece how to pick locks and handcuffs and subdue a kidnapper.

THAT is the trope I was hoping someone will/would build for this! Everybody should teach their daughters to protect themselves the same way their sons do. I did. And I'm still not sorry.

I did play with it, but I got flagged as spam?

...er...

Readability is an issue. It's fun, I grant, but I think I'll stick with intermittent numerals.

Heh. Okay, fair enough.

Only I can make arenas for such. Allow me to twiddle with things a bit.

I both concur with and endorse the opinions in that blog entry.

Though my objections are more end-user oriented. Like - the autosave doesn't always, or its alarming habit of crashing JUST when you're in the flow so you enter a whole bunch of random commands before you wake up and realise that your document isn't there any more. OR the ever-reliable BSOD...

When/if I finally get a nice enough lappy [I may have to settle for a cruddy Windoze micro-lappy] I will probably use Google Docs for all my travelling fic needs. Maybe Novl'r for my pro WIPs.

Clouds are nice and don't often crash. And they have the benefit of an autosave that DOES.

I haven't played with Scrivener because broke.

@Daniandshali Very interesting because I've caught that name off of my Ko-Fi donors and forgot or decided not to give full creds because it's been a while since the donation (blush)

Every time I need a handy name, I check the people who interact most with my daily tales first

Heh. fair enough.

@Daniandshali That would be The Amity Incident and you can find it on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/503207

There are Smashwords associates, but you might have to use the search function over there. Most people can't be bothered.

[I also have another one out called Kung Fu Zombies and it's not as well-received]

@germanizacja Yes. Most definitely.

It's fixed, now. And I'll make sure it's fixed in the anthology

@Bard2dbone - Yeah, this was one of the Things Mum Told Me, so I have no other source than the story.

Perhaps a better historian can weigh in?

@Bard2dbone - the circumstances of their meeting have changed, but the book-in-progress is available on my Patreon. There's a link in the menu

"Why not Both?"
Can do, small Mexican girl!

So the version I've seen is the same as that one, but with one additional post:

"It’s not even consistent; it varies wildly by geographical region, ancestry and personal history of the individual, which, like, how is a poor anthropologist meant to know that sort of detail? How do humans divine this sort of thing upon meeting new members of their species? Do they have some sort of associative telepathy? No? Argh!"

And I will post this as a prompt after the story for your prompt appears, so I know which number to use as reference.

Yes! That counts. I'll be using that link for you in future.

As for the prompts, I routinely erase all traces of past prompts I have used. Before I imported my Tumblr feed to here, though, I used to get prompts via my Tumblr inbox. And, on the rare occasions that I actually run OUT of prompts, there's a few writing prompt tumblrs I follow just to get some to hold me over.

All prompted stories are labelled, "Challenge #SERIALNUMBER:" so people can keep them straight.

All others are based entirely on shits and/or giggles.

I just had to say that now I want to name a band Ambassador Killbot.

Ah, okay - I thought I could choose something other than Gravatar, not that I had to change my Gravatar. Comprehension fail.

Whoops! Once again, my kingdom for an edit button!

'Stopping the Christians from doing their thing (which is illegal)' - the thing that is illegal is what the Christians are doing, not the act of stopping them. That could have been worded better...

No worries. I warned my younger or more emotionally frail readers anyway