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#writever Neologism
"'The ingestation of Bel-Shammaroth'... What is that?"
"« Ingestation » ? It's a neologism. It's like invocation, mais with gestures, not with the voice. Arinthel the Mute coined it. Did you really not know?"
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#writever Dogma
"Never harm humans? Blindly obey them? I don't know where you got the idea that this could be dogma for us," commented R42. "It seems that you are in for some painful disappointment."
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#writever Structure
My whole life I've searched for the structure within the apparently erratic actions of poltergeists.
Today, at last, I have found it.
It is so obvious, once you see it from the inside.
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#writever Recite
Wiazrds demand that their students recite the spells they learned but they keep secret the mightiest ones.
Witches tell their apprentices all the spells they know and then watch them invent new, better ones.
#WordWeavers 2504.08 — MC POV: What are the 3 most important things you always take with you when traveling (besides money, ID and keys if applicable)?
I don't care much for things. Oh, I'll use them, and properly value them, earn them when needs be, but only knowledge and people have real value. I wasn't born into wealth, but upon my parent's death, when I was five, the powerful decided I was somehow special. Wealth, training, and responsibility followed. I don't know exactly when I stopped being a kid who nerded out on magic† with her childhood friend, when I morphed into someone else's sharp tool. When I grew old enough to pass as an adult, with great precision, calculation, and planning, I ran away never to be found. My elite life wasn't what I wanted, what I needed.
Since then nothing, no thing, describes what I want or desire, other than simply my freedom to study and learn. When you don't have a place to return to, or a place to live, they call you homeless. I gave my former life up, and when I find a new situation that sours, I can give everything up again. Snap, like that. Being home-free is a freedom from being made to do what I dislike, or what's wrong. I've traveled across the continent on foot. I've lived in homeless encampments. The three things I take with me are a tarp, a bedroll, and my book of magic.
Those are things, of course. I take my skills, my common sense, and a sharp tongue, also. They keep me safe.
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† Magic is a simplification of a physically quantifiable repeatable phenomenon.
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#writever Transmisogyny
"Granted," said the Djinn. "Your transmisogyny is now consequence-free. However every time you shall express it, the whole world shall learn all the details of one of your most secret thoughts hitherto unknown."
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#writever Conflicting
When facing a conflicting situation, a Wizard sets out to defuse it, and then everyone sides against him.
When facing a conflicting situation, a Witch almost manages to defuse it, and then a Wizard barges in and screws it all up.
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#writever Desire
Becoming a ghost, contrary to popular belief, does not require that you need to remain in the world in order to settle some unfinished business. All that it takes is desire to live on.
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#writever Incommunicability
"The main radio link was down, and R42 underwent incommunicability for one hour."
"Ah, so that's why it's not moving at all? It's the shock?"
"Nope, it's just still transferring all the backlogged data."
#PennedPossibilities 634 — MC POV: How much do you value companionship? Do you always keep people around, or do you prefer to be alone?
[Devil-girl] An odd question. I've never really thought about it. Companionship is good, and I enjoy it when people are around, like when I train at the gym or am at work. What I do is all about teamwork, so I'm good with people. Yet, I don't always keep people around. I really do like to throw open all the windows and study a good book. I live in a converted dance studio, so two walls open to the outside and the other two are mirrored. Laying on a mat, with the breezes, and the quiet you get living in a university town. Hmm. I guess I'm finding more use for what people call friends. I've certainly found a lot of use for men…
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#writever Cookie
"Have you *again* killed a Knight?" asked the annoyed Princess.
"What? No!" replied the Dragon. "I invited him to share our roast. He went to get dessert. Cookies, I believe."
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#writever Reproduce
"To reproduce, for a robot," R42 explained, "is to build oneself a new body, identical or different, to transfer one's mind from the old to the new body, to turn off the old body, and to bring it to the closest recycling facility."
Ich arbeite an einer neuen Soloausstellung in Kopenhagen. Sie trägt den Titel “Kærlighed først”. Wenn Jemand sagt America first, sage ich Kærlighed ( Liebe ) først. Durch die Liebe, ob zu Menschen, Dingen oder Aktivitäten, geschehen wunderbare Dinge. Die Liebe ist der Gegenpol zu Spaltung, Hass und Zerstörung. Wir brauchen mehr Liebe in allen Lebensbereichen wie nie zuvor.
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#writever Heal
Of course the Witch who saves your life will later ask in return that you honor your debt. It's a good thing: it means she has a stake in ensuring that you heal well, so that you live until then, and in good health.
#PennedPossibilities 632 — What originally inspired your WIP’s plot?
I just finished the WIP less than 20 hours ago, so I'm going with it.
- The #writever prompts for March. Thirty-one one word prompts with the theme Women's Rights. Remember, I'm a feminist writer. One of the prompts was "abortion." Challenging, as were others. I learned a lot by researching why the prompts were chosen.
- The prompts originally come out in Français. The word in Français for March is "Mars." As a SF writer at heart, do you think I originally misread that? Ya Betcha!
- Who is associated with Mars who is also the most misogynistic creep ever, who seems to be destroying a century of civil, women's, and LGBTQIA rights single handedly? Oh, noes! Did RS have ideas about writing thinly veiled satire? Ya Betcha!
Wanna read it? Mars Needed Women: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114261812977623863
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Eldritch CaféRS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist (@sfwrtr@eldritch.cafe)Attached: 2 images
My feminist SF web-novel *Mars Needed Women* is complete! 23,300 words in 31 chapters, one chapter posted each day throughout March, the last posted 23 minutes ago as I write this. Check out the cover art.
To read, either use the hashtag #RSMarsNeededWomen or this link to the first chapter: https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178 The full novel is in the thread. Just scroll to read.
> “A hopeful deeply-dystopian feminist SF story, with thinly veiled jabs at our current world's bad actors making for a bad future. Please note the past tense in the title: Mars Needed Women. The story's women are going to work to bring down the system, at least that part that's oppressing them, in a massive unscheduled disassembly.”
I'll leave it up for you to read for at least a week. After that, I'm revising it for later secondary publication.
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#writever Weird
If, to you, the theory of relativity is weird, then a word to the wise: never, ever, take an interest in quark social dynamics.
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#writever Echo
They think that ghosts are the echo of the living people that they once were, but that is false. Actually, the living are the echo of the souls which their bodies have enslaved.
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#writever Work
A Sorcerer becomes mighty through very hard work, and is keen to make it known.
A Witch, on the other hand, becomes mighty... through very hard work, but doesn't feel the need to shout it from the rooftops.
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#writever Intersectional
"If I understand correctly," said the Xshkrt ambassador, "because I am not an earthing *and* because I look like a giant Earth cockroach, I am *intersectional* ?"
"Exactly!" said the Earth representative. "Er..."
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#writever Manifest
"It took us some time," R42 explained, "to understand that our manifests were also political statements. They were just lists of serial numbers, but also an indication of how many we were, and thus of our potential power."