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I’d ask what else could go wrong, but I think I’ve got quite enough happening as it is, thank you.
“Awright… awright…” the entity calling herself Shayde seemed to
be having difficulty with the sugar-coated and softened information they
had just told her. “I can deal wi’ this. I can… I can deal wi’ this.
Wee bitty bits. Aye. Deal wi’ it in wee bitty bits.”
The attending
medtechs were watching her vital signs like hawks. As
Ok If I’ve timed this right it ought to be just after eurovision.
Your prompt today is whatever act won.
[AN: You got it right. I’m willing to bet you were expecting something like Gay Disco Dracula though]
Shayde called it ‘degaussing’ when she didn’t call it “Catching up wi’ five hundred years o’ Tivo” and it usually involved a bucket of popcorn. Buttered, of course.
“So what are you binging on, tonight?”
“Eurovision.”
Her answers always surprised him.
Read more »Between two cultures, the body language and customs for aggression/anger in one are very similar to the flirting/courtship of the other.
In this scenario: A series of attempts to get an individual to agree to a date are taken entirely the wrong way.
She shouldn’t have gone amongst the Deathworlders. She could already feel her mortality creeping up on her. Havenworlders and Deathworlders never mixed well.
“Pretty,” said one of the Deathworlders. A tall beast with entirely too much
Read more »Between two cultures, the body language and customs for aggression/anger in one are very similar to the flirting/courtship of the other.
In this scenario: An aggressive display is mistaken for flirting.
She got into the human’s personal space. Closed her off from any escape. Rumbled in a low threat, “I like your face.”
The human bared her teeth and uttered a barking call. Then she pressed her rubbery mouth to Hoq’a’lu’gi’s face. “I think you’
Read more »About the EM Drive, a possible new space drive that no-one has a coherent theory on HOW it works, but as long as no mistakes have been made in the experiments, it seems that it does. …Somehow.
“Well, the future space programs will no longer need propellants. However, they should probably investigate this thoroughly, this looks like an accidental discovery of summoning…things. While using Cthulhu as a propellant sounds hilarious no one wants to know what happens after that. ”
[AN: The
Read more »I think that I’ve never seen anything so stupid and so practical in all my life.
They called it The Archive of Earth. A massive tomb devoted to the Twentieth Century. And Shayde had, through adventure and misadventure, inherited the lot.
“How much of this stuff is plastic?” wondered Rael.
“Uh. After the Twenties? Loads.” Shayde was particularly uninformative, unpacking the vaults and sorting random objects. The swarming Archivaas had left her to deal with everything they didn’t recognise. Which
Read more »More encounters between the spider-people and humans, pre- or post-Amity
Ten weeks prior to Amity’s re-introduction to the Galactic Alliance…
Salvage spacers tended to have short names. Monosyllabic and easy to pronounce in an emergency. So it was with Mar and Dee. Both women had longer names, but such names were exclusively on their paperwork.
“I’ve been on this hulk before,” said Dee, pointing to a conglomerated wreck in their pathfinder screen. “There’s an enormous colony of BFS on
Read more »This post:
http://azzandra.tumblr.com/post/116731684146/fleshwater-matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll
(list of weird things humans do like losing baby teeth to grow a second set, then:
“At some point, the aliens aren’t going to know anymore when we’re actually trolling them.
Us: Under certain circumstances, humans have been known to spontaneously develop the ability to breathe fire.
Alien: yeah, okay, that fits in with the other wacky bullshit you guys can do.”)
The humans walked out of the airlock, male and
Read more »The final holiday on Earth prompt - Author’s choice as to what the human shows their friend again, but this time everything is finally perfect.
[AN: This story happens somewhere in the middle of #00830-B099]
What
bothered Rael the most about travelling the Earth with Shayde was how
easily she switched languages and habits to match her environment.
For
instance, as they marched steadily and almost silently through the
Australian wilderness, she was singing an ancient song. Thousands of
years old
Holiday prompt the third! Author’s choice what the human shows their companion, as long as it goes pear-shaped
[AN: This story precedes yesterday’s]
Deathworlder entertainments are not advised for non-Deathworlders, said the Wikipedia Galactica, only the native life forms of a Deathworld can withstand even the most allegedly gentle of their entertainment vehicles. Though the Deathworlders insist that these entertainments are safe, be advised that they are only safe for Deathworlders.
Rael could easily believe, and understand those words, now.
Read more »The holiday continues, introducing the friend to things like non-irradiated cheese, actual lemons, and real dumplings
It started small. Well, comparatively small. A steaming curry at a van vendor, swimming in grease and overloaded with turmeric rice.
What followed was a tour of all the places that still sold unsuitable or unexportable food. Haggis, Casu marzu, Lutefisk. Pizza cones. Powdered doughnut pancake surprise. Death By Chocolate cake.
And now it finished here.
If it wasn’t the birthplace of Unsuitable Food Eat,
Read more »Well, at least the human was excited about the holiday, however ill-advised taking the trip to Earth with them was going to be…
“Thereitis, thereitis! Earth. Aw… it mostly looks the same…”
“I did tell you that it’s been five hundred years since your departure. Geographically, little has changed.”
“I’m goin’ tae stop in at Wales. Go see what’s happened tae home.”
Rael, a little more prepared, had tried to find Shayde’s ‘home’ on a map.
Read more »Ethics. Of all the flaws for a crew member to have, why did it have to be ethics?
Do’jii had to wonder why he was carting this human around. Sure, his actions were often in a confounding chain of cause and effect that came out with profit at the other end, but at other times…
Like this time…
It was hard to see the profit at the other end.
“Let me understand the chain of events,” began Do’jii.
Read more »Beware the happy person with power tools.
There was a sign over the door to the maker-space. Warning: Happy people with power tools inside.
Shayde thought it was a joke until she stepped in. Sure, it had been a few years since she got together with fellow nerds and a bunch of tools to create something. At least, in subjective terms.
In real-time terms it had been closer to five hundred years.
The very concept of maker-spaces had changed while she was
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