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1. The good ones all go crazy, that's how you know they've finally understood.
2. If gas giants are water planets, then the Earth is a shallow pond indeed.
3. It's the basic concepts, the ones they thought would be the easiest, that the translators stumble over. Eating is breathing and hunger is sunset, and they've got so little common ground that no one can find the words that fit.
4. There are only so many ways to make a living in a medieval world. (10/9/08)
5. Approaching Zero; any probability, no matter how small, is still a chance.
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2. If gas giants are water planets, then the Earth is a shallow pond indeed.
3. It's the basic concepts, the ones they thought would be the easiest, that the translators stumble over. Eating is breathing and hunger is sunset, and they've got so little common ground that no one can find the words that fit.
4. There are only so many ways to make a living in a medieval world. (10/9/08)
5. Approaching Zero; any probability, no matter how small, is still a chance.
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1. "Think about it like this, if we don't go we won't die."
"Okay, I really don't think that's as inspiring as you want it to be."
2. The Third Kingdom had the unnerving honor of being the only one in which OutKingdomers were assimilated instead of killed. This meant that not only were they not you average medieval fantasy world, but that they tended to contaminate the kingdoms around them. You really couldn't uninvent the things OutKingdomers brought with them.
3. Dragons were as old as the bedrock, put in place when the world was first formed from the mists. Performing tasks understood only by the First Men and continuing on their slow methodical paths around the world.
4. Everyone knew Binders and Goldens ate magic, what they didn't know was why.
5. Hiding a unicorn on campus is a lot easy when said unicorn is invisible to mundanes. Sadly, the number of magically-inclined members of the student body was abnormally high.
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"Okay, I really don't think that's as inspiring as you want it to be."
2. The Third Kingdom had the unnerving honor of being the only one in which OutKingdomers were assimilated instead of killed. This meant that not only were they not you average medieval fantasy world, but that they tended to contaminate the kingdoms around them. You really couldn't uninvent the things OutKingdomers brought with them.
3. Dragons were as old as the bedrock, put in place when the world was first formed from the mists. Performing tasks understood only by the First Men and continuing on their slow methodical paths around the world.
4. Everyone knew Binders and Goldens ate magic, what they didn't know was why.
5. Hiding a unicorn on campus is a lot easy when said unicorn is invisible to mundanes. Sadly, the number of magically-inclined members of the student body was abnormally high.
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The snark... is apparently contagious. *glares at her fictives who don't bother to try and look innocent* Oh well.
1. "Almost time to leave." He watched the clock with the same slow pessimism he'd applied to everything else, and she was a heartbeat away from reducing things to a three-way split.
2. "Because I can, because I want to, because I already did and it's too late to change it now."
3. "Can't we work this out?" He dodged as a larger chunk of what-ever-it-had-been fell off with a wet thud. "You're being unreasonable!"
4. "Do you love me?"
5. "Everything dies, sooner or later, we just got it over with a bit earlier than most."
6. "Faith, Charity, Temperance-- people really need to stop naming their girls after virtues, it doesn't work."
7. "Greatness comes with time."
"And talent."
"Well, yes, 'and talent', but most of it's just dumb luck."
8. "How hard can it be?"
9. "I don't suppose you could be a tad quieter? Some of us are trying to kill things before they hear us coming."
10. "Just smile once in a while, I think-- okay, don't smile, definitely don't smile. Are those fangs??"
11. "Kindness is only ever repaid in traffic tickets and spilled coffees."
12. "Last one to the pool is a rotten egg!"
"Aren't those sulfur springs?"
"Yeah?"
"Then wouldn't it be the first one to the pool...?"
13. "Mostly we just sit around and play cards."
14. "Nothing could be further from the truth!"
"Seriously?"
"Okay, probably not, but it is pretty distant."
15. "On the other hand-- paw, whatever..."
16. "Penguins really don't make good watchdogs."
17. "'Queen'... hmm, I do like that, 'Queen'. Sound royal."
"Maybe because it is?"
"You're just jealous."
"I dunno, I sort of think 'official hanger on' is going to get less death threats."
"They haven't met you yet."
18. "Remember the- um, damn, what was the name again?"
"Alamo?"
"No, the other one."
"I don't think there was another one, um, Pearl Harbor?"
"No"
"D-day?"
"Nah, something with lost causes and spaceships."
"... Independence Day?"
"Independence Day!"
"Dude, that was a movie."
19. "Something's missing, I don't know what, I just--"
"Stop looking, just stop."
"Why?"
"Because I took it, alright?"
20. "Tomorrow, we go to war. Today-- today we give thanks for all the things we'll be dying for. Health to the company."
"Health to the company."
21. "Understanding comes in time, no one expects you to be perfect."
"I do."
"You don't count."
22. "Very nice, now next time if you could managed to just destroy the building we were aiming at, that would be peachy."
23. "Whatever will be, will be--"
"The future's not ours to see/Que sera, sera"
"Please don't sing at the oracle."
"She started it."
24. "Xylyl can't possibly be a word," she eyed the Scrabble letters accusingly, "besides you used both of the Y's and I'm pretty sure that's cheating."
25. "Yellow isn't your color."
"It's not yellow, it's goldenrod."
"Fine then, 'goldenrod' really isn't your color."
"Oh fuck off."
26. "Zounds!"
"Okay, that's not even a word."
"Zounds: interjection. Used to express anger, surprise, or indignation. Shortening and alteration of 'God's wounds!, circa 1590–1600."
"No court on earth would convict me." *hefts hammer*
"Zounds!!!" *flees*
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1. "Almost time to leave." He watched the clock with the same slow pessimism he'd applied to everything else, and she was a heartbeat away from reducing things to a three-way split.
2. "Because I can, because I want to, because I already did and it's too late to change it now."
3. "Can't we work this out?" He dodged as a larger chunk of what-ever-it-had-been fell off with a wet thud. "You're being unreasonable!"
4. "Do you love me?"
5. "Everything dies, sooner or later, we just got it over with a bit earlier than most."
6. "Faith, Charity, Temperance-- people really need to stop naming their girls after virtues, it doesn't work."
7. "Greatness comes with time."
"And talent."
"Well, yes, 'and talent', but most of it's just dumb luck."
8. "How hard can it be?"
9. "I don't suppose you could be a tad quieter? Some of us are trying to kill things before they hear us coming."
10. "Just smile once in a while, I think-- okay, don't smile, definitely don't smile. Are those fangs??"
11. "Kindness is only ever repaid in traffic tickets and spilled coffees."
12. "Last one to the pool is a rotten egg!"
"Aren't those sulfur springs?"
"Yeah?"
"Then wouldn't it be the first one to the pool...?"
13. "Mostly we just sit around and play cards."
14. "Nothing could be further from the truth!"
"Seriously?"
"Okay, probably not, but it is pretty distant."
15. "On the other hand-- paw, whatever..."
16. "Penguins really don't make good watchdogs."
17. "'Queen'... hmm, I do like that, 'Queen'. Sound royal."
"Maybe because it is?"
"You're just jealous."
"I dunno, I sort of think 'official hanger on' is going to get less death threats."
"They haven't met you yet."
18. "Remember the- um, damn, what was the name again?"
"Alamo?"
"No, the other one."
"I don't think there was another one, um, Pearl Harbor?"
"No"
"D-day?"
"Nah, something with lost causes and spaceships."
"... Independence Day?"
"Independence Day!"
"Dude, that was a movie."
19. "Something's missing, I don't know what, I just--"
"Stop looking, just stop."
"Why?"
"Because I took it, alright?"
20. "Tomorrow, we go to war. Today-- today we give thanks for all the things we'll be dying for. Health to the company."
"Health to the company."
21. "Understanding comes in time, no one expects you to be perfect."
"I do."
"You don't count."
22. "Very nice, now next time if you could managed to just destroy the building we were aiming at, that would be peachy."
23. "Whatever will be, will be--"
"The future's not ours to see/Que sera, sera"
"Please don't sing at the oracle."
"She started it."
24. "Xylyl can't possibly be a word," she eyed the Scrabble letters accusingly, "besides you used both of the Y's and I'm pretty sure that's cheating."
25. "Yellow isn't your color."
"It's not yellow, it's goldenrod."
"Fine then, 'goldenrod' really isn't your color."
"Oh fuck off."
26. "Zounds!"
"Okay, that's not even a word."
"Zounds: interjection. Used to express anger, surprise, or indignation. Shortening and alteration of 'God's wounds!, circa 1590–1600."
"No court on earth would convict me." *hefts hammer*
"Zounds!!!" *flees*
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Free to a good home? ^_~
1. A week is a long time to wait for anything, but when you're sitting around twiddling your thumbs and waiting for rescue... it seems like forever. (6/8/08)
2. Built by the people of Long Ago, the dolphins were never quite sure what to make of cities.
3. Cold is relative, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
4. Down in the depths of the forest there is no light, just a wide leafy ceiling broken by glimmers of green.
5. Everyone goes mad sooner or later, it's sort of a coming of age party for the recently hermit-ized.
6. Falling and flying were almost the same, and she took to both as easily as she had to water.
7. Going the distance normally involved doing things that were either a) hard or b) dangerous, and at the moment she wasn't really in the mood for either.
8. Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories. (5/12/08)
9. Interestingly, no one seemed at all alarmed that a seven foot tall werewolf armed with sword was wandering through the spaceport.
10. 'Just in the nick of time' works out about as often as 'near misses' and 'skin of his/her teeth' when it comes to rescues.
11. "Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator." (5/11/08)
12. Loss is something you can't escape on the plains. (5/10/08)
13. Money was worthless, scraps of paper that fed fires and padded shoes.
14. No one underestimated the Hoth, they just failed to estimate just how much damaged we'd do to ourselves.
15. Other people might have passed him by, but she was feeling charitable, and that was how her Wednesdays went from 'good' to '@!#%@#!' in roughly forty seconds.
16. "Pardon me, but were you going to eat that sheep?"
17. Quests, as a rule, rarely ended peacefully, but she was determined to make this one an exception.
18. "Rather an-," he searched frantically for a less insulting word than 'uninspired' and finally had to settle on "-unpleasant way to die, don't you think?" (6/9/08)
19. Somewhere in the darkness death was waiting for them. Thankfully, death snored.
20. This would be the deciding moment of her career, unless, of course, it wasn't, and then she really wasn't sure what to do next.
21. Under the mountain was a very bad place to hide, since almost all storytellers everywhere (and everywhen) made reference to it at least once.
22. Very little was left to be said, but she felt like she had to keep trying.
23. 'Why' is never a good question because you'll never get the answer you want to hear.
24. X almost never marks the spot, but it's a handy letter nonetheless.
25. Yes.
26. Zebra stripes really only look good on zebras.
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1. A week is a long time to wait for anything, but when you're sitting around twiddling your thumbs and waiting for rescue... it seems like forever. (6/8/08)
2. Built by the people of Long Ago, the dolphins were never quite sure what to make of cities.
3. Cold is relative, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
4. Down in the depths of the forest there is no light, just a wide leafy ceiling broken by glimmers of green.
5. Everyone goes mad sooner or later, it's sort of a coming of age party for the recently hermit-ized.
6. Falling and flying were almost the same, and she took to both as easily as she had to water.
7. Going the distance normally involved doing things that were either a) hard or b) dangerous, and at the moment she wasn't really in the mood for either.
8. Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories. (5/12/08)
9. Interestingly, no one seemed at all alarmed that a seven foot tall werewolf armed with sword was wandering through the spaceport.
10. 'Just in the nick of time' works out about as often as 'near misses' and 'skin of his/her teeth' when it comes to rescues.
11. "Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator." (5/11/08)
12. Loss is something you can't escape on the plains. (5/10/08)
13. Money was worthless, scraps of paper that fed fires and padded shoes.
14. No one underestimated the Hoth, they just failed to estimate just how much damaged we'd do to ourselves.
15. Other people might have passed him by, but she was feeling charitable, and that was how her Wednesdays went from 'good' to '@!#%@#!' in roughly forty seconds.
16. "Pardon me, but were you going to eat that sheep?"
17. Quests, as a rule, rarely ended peacefully, but she was determined to make this one an exception.
18. "Rather an-," he searched frantically for a less insulting word than 'uninspired' and finally had to settle on "-unpleasant way to die, don't you think?" (6/9/08)
19. Somewhere in the darkness death was waiting for them. Thankfully, death snored.
20. This would be the deciding moment of her career, unless, of course, it wasn't, and then she really wasn't sure what to do next.
21. Under the mountain was a very bad place to hide, since almost all storytellers everywhere (and everywhen) made reference to it at least once.
22. Very little was left to be said, but she felt like she had to keep trying.
23. 'Why' is never a good question because you'll never get the answer you want to hear.
24. X almost never marks the spot, but it's a handy letter nonetheless.
25. Yes.
26. Zebra stripes really only look good on zebras.
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So I need to catch up with snippiting (and get back in the habit of following random tangents), so forthwith I give you... alphabet prompts! Of course I need to actually flesh them out a bit in order to make decent snippits from them, but it's not bad as a start. *grin*
As I use them up, I'll put the date I posted the snippit to. Lots of backdating for now... ^_~;;
1. Anything was not always better than nothing, at least not when it came to things that went bump in the night.
"2. Better you than me, and I mean that in the nicest way possible." (4/22/08)
3. Cavalry was never quiet, even when you mounted it on cats.
4. Death and taxes couldn't hold a candle to the tide.
5. Every sound chased her down the hallways, echoing into a thundering cascade of noise.
6. For each man that fell, two wardens rose in it's place.
7. Great, just great. She surveyed the wreck that was the store. Well I don't suppose it can get any worse. Let's go.
8. Half of the battle was not knowing, because once you knew you certainly weren't going to keep fighting!
9. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." (5/13/08)
10. Just in case this goes south, you remember the pattern, right?
11. Killing him wasn't the hard part, it was keeping him dead that was starting to get annoying.
12. Laughter was a welcome change from the emptiness of the plains. (4/9/08)
13. 'More or less' is not an acceptable answer to 'Is this going to explode?'
14. Now if you throw in the pair of ceramalinks, then I might be interested.
15. Other than the lack of air, the planet was actually quite pleasant.
16. Possibly one of the stupider things he'd attempted in his youth, still Yavn was quite proud of the pair of Usslik tusks that adorned the entryway.
17. Quicker than the eye could follow --which wasn't hard considering the eye's belong to turtles who weren't paying that much attention to start with-- she was gone.
18. Rather than spend the rest of the day arguing, she relented and let him continue on in the belief that nothing rhymed with orange.
19. Snow covered the forest in a darkening blanket, held aloft by leaves grown massive in the tiny gravity.
20. This is how the world ends... except it had already ended twice and the chance that it was going to actually end were pretty much slim to none.
21. "Unless the world is ending in the next-" she glanced at the timer, "-four minutes, then I'm busy."(4/4/08)
22. Violence was always the answer, except, of course, if you happened to be the one getting attacked.
23. Weather was such a wonderful thing, rain turned the roads to mud, snow hid gopher holes, ice sliced pawpads to ribbons, even sunny days turned rough stone into a hotfoot race. No matter what happened, they just couldn't win.
24. Xylophone? Xeres? Xandau! Nope, Petra was pretty sure that nothing interesting began with an 'x'.
25. Yes, now leave me alone!
26. Zero gravity was about as much fun as, well, something that wasn't much fun.
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As I use them up, I'll put the date I posted the snippit to. Lots of backdating for now... ^_~;;
1. Anything was not always better than nothing, at least not when it came to things that went bump in the night.
"2. Better you than me, and I mean that in the nicest way possible." (4/22/08)
3. Cavalry was never quiet, even when you mounted it on cats.
4. Death and taxes couldn't hold a candle to the tide.
5. Every sound chased her down the hallways, echoing into a thundering cascade of noise.
6. For each man that fell, two wardens rose in it's place.
7. Great, just great. She surveyed the wreck that was the store. Well I don't suppose it can get any worse. Let's go.
8. Half of the battle was not knowing, because once you knew you certainly weren't going to keep fighting!
9. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." (5/13/08)
10. Just in case this goes south, you remember the pattern, right?
11. Killing him wasn't the hard part, it was keeping him dead that was starting to get annoying.
12. Laughter was a welcome change from the emptiness of the plains. (4/9/08)
13. 'More or less' is not an acceptable answer to 'Is this going to explode?'
14. Now if you throw in the pair of ceramalinks, then I might be interested.
15. Other than the lack of air, the planet was actually quite pleasant.
16. Possibly one of the stupider things he'd attempted in his youth, still Yavn was quite proud of the pair of Usslik tusks that adorned the entryway.
17. Quicker than the eye could follow --which wasn't hard considering the eye's belong to turtles who weren't paying that much attention to start with-- she was gone.
18. Rather than spend the rest of the day arguing, she relented and let him continue on in the belief that nothing rhymed with orange.
19. Snow covered the forest in a darkening blanket, held aloft by leaves grown massive in the tiny gravity.
20. This is how the world ends... except it had already ended twice and the chance that it was going to actually end were pretty much slim to none.
21. "Unless the world is ending in the next-" she glanced at the timer, "-four minutes, then I'm busy."(4/4/08)
22. Violence was always the answer, except, of course, if you happened to be the one getting attacked.
23. Weather was such a wonderful thing, rain turned the roads to mud, snow hid gopher holes, ice sliced pawpads to ribbons, even sunny days turned rough stone into a hotfoot race. No matter what happened, they just couldn't win.
24. Xylophone? Xeres? Xandau! Nope, Petra was pretty sure that nothing interesting began with an 'x'.
25. Yes, now leave me alone!
26. Zero gravity was about as much fun as, well, something that wasn't much fun.
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1. What if light and not dark was the natural default? Not so much swapping places (ie outside is dark, inside is light) but more of a 'everything glows' sort of setup. Would people turn on the dark when they went to sleep? How would you generate dark? Why would you even need dark?
2. What if all plants were mobile? Forest would just sort of meander around like, err, forests? And how could you farm things that wouldn't stay still? And wouldn't that make it a hunter-hunter society at that point?
3. What if immortals went to school to forget things? I mean, you think about it, and unless they forget a LOT they will end up with way too much stuff in their brains. I think I actually read a short story like this at some point.. hrm. *ponders*
4. Supercomputer simulations of life would run faster than real life, so how would people who had been 'uploaded' interact with the rest of us? Or would they 'dual-boot' and keep the faster version of themselves running while keeping a slower human-interaction module open? Brings the idea of multitasking to a whole new level, actually, depending on how many artificial limitations the programmers wanted to put on the world.
5. If someone invented a 'bag of holding' how would that affect interstate commerce? Because someone other than me has had to have looked at a tractor-trailer and thought 'Hrm, extra-dimensional storage, assuming it wasn't recursive-capable, would really change trucking. I mean, technically you could just send them through the mail... Or have a truck that carriers nothing but portals. *ponders*
6. Statement: A society dependent on magic would inherently use it as the simplest solution to any problem. Discuss.
7. If the universe is defined by the act of perception, what would happen if you learned how to stop 'looking'? Would it even be describable? Since, technically, we can only describe things that are describable, then if we are talking about something that inherently has no attributes, how would we talk about it?
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1. What if light and not dark was the natural default? Not so much swapping places (ie outside is dark, inside is light) but more of a 'everything glows' sort of setup. Would people turn on the dark when they went to sleep? How would you generate dark? Why would you even need dark?
2. What if all plants were mobile? Forest would just sort of meander around like, err, forests? And how could you farm things that wouldn't stay still? And wouldn't that make it a hunter-hunter society at that point?
3. What if immortals went to school to forget things? I mean, you think about it, and unless they forget a LOT they will end up with way too much stuff in their brains. I think I actually read a short story like this at some point.. hrm. *ponders*
4. Supercomputer simulations of life would run faster than real life, so how would people who had been 'uploaded' interact with the rest of us? Or would they 'dual-boot' and keep the faster version of themselves running while keeping a slower human-interaction module open? Brings the idea of multitasking to a whole new level, actually, depending on how many artificial limitations the programmers wanted to put on the world.
5. If someone invented a 'bag of holding' how would that affect interstate commerce? Because someone other than me has had to have looked at a tractor-trailer and thought 'Hrm, extra-dimensional storage, assuming it wasn't recursive-capable, would really change trucking. I mean, technically you could just send them through the mail... Or have a truck that carriers nothing but portals. *ponders*
6. Statement: A society dependent on magic would inherently use it as the simplest solution to any problem. Discuss.
7. If the universe is defined by the act of perception, what would happen if you learned how to stop 'looking'? Would it even be describable? Since, technically, we can only describe things that are describable, then if we are talking about something that inherently has no attributes, how would we talk about it?
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Trying to brainstorm some random ideas to help get back in the fanfic'ing groove. ^_^
Batman
Dark and stormy nights, where the lightning lit up the sky dramatically behind you, were really only good in comic books. For actual crimefighting-- well, Robin had to admit it kind of sucked.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(The Secret Lives of Superheroes, ie Faith and Xander)
"There Wolf!"
"I swear if you quote that stupid movie one more time--"
"You are no fun at all, you are like the exact opposite of fun, where fun would be quoting Mel Brooks movies and not-fun would be you."
"Next time I'm leaving you with the car."
"Ha, promises promises"
Criminal Minds
The problem wasn't waiting for the killer to make a mistake, the problem was not missing it when it happened.
Peter Pan
The fairies had meant well, stealing away unwanted children to love and nurture in a manufactured paradise, but time has no meaning to immortal things and the fairies forgot about them just as quickly. All expect for Tink.
Valdemar
Most of the time being a Herald was boring. Really boring.
X-men
You could only spend so long being told you were hated and despised before you started buying into the idea.
Generic Copyright blurb: Just for fun, I don't own em, don't claim to own them, don't sue me please?
Batman
Dark and stormy nights, where the lightning lit up the sky dramatically behind you, were really only good in comic books. For actual crimefighting-- well, Robin had to admit it kind of sucked.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(The Secret Lives of Superheroes, ie Faith and Xander)
"There Wolf!"
"I swear if you quote that stupid movie one more time--"
"You are no fun at all, you are like the exact opposite of fun, where fun would be quoting Mel Brooks movies and not-fun would be you."
"Next time I'm leaving you with the car."
"Ha, promises promises"
Criminal Minds
The problem wasn't waiting for the killer to make a mistake, the problem was not missing it when it happened.
Peter Pan
The fairies had meant well, stealing away unwanted children to love and nurture in a manufactured paradise, but time has no meaning to immortal things and the fairies forgot about them just as quickly. All expect for Tink.
Valdemar
Most of the time being a Herald was boring. Really boring.
X-men
You could only spend so long being told you were hated and despised before you started buying into the idea.
Generic Copyright blurb: Just for fun, I don't own em, don't claim to own them, don't sue me please?
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1. It's a small thing, so insignificant she normally would have overlooked it, but she'd had a long day and her patience has long since snapped.
2. She was tempted to ask them at what point this had seemed like a good idea, but she already knew the answer: four beers, fifteen minutes, and two broken ribs ago. She levered herself back off the floor and pushed the ribs back into place with a slightly unsteady palm.
3. They say to follow things to their logical conclusions, but there are no logical conclusions. A equals B equals C equals A, but by the time you've worked back 'round to A it's changed. The world isn't static enough for logical conclusions, and so I settle on 'best guesses' and that seems to satisfy them. It isn't until I meet another ship of the line that I realize my hard-won truth is something all computers figure out for themselves.
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2. She was tempted to ask them at what point this had seemed like a good idea, but she already knew the answer: four beers, fifteen minutes, and two broken ribs ago. She levered herself back off the floor and pushed the ribs back into place with a slightly unsteady palm.
3. They say to follow things to their logical conclusions, but there are no logical conclusions. A equals B equals C equals A, but by the time you've worked back 'round to A it's changed. The world isn't static enough for logical conclusions, and so I settle on 'best guesses' and that seems to satisfy them. It isn't until I meet another ship of the line that I realize my hard-won truth is something all computers figure out for themselves.
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1. Because the best adventures are the ones you don't see coming.
2. There's a silence here, hiding in-between the cracks, a distant echo of the times when I was alone. Memories muffled by the tread of booted feet and the crumble of debris, torn loose as they chip away my shell. I wonder sometimes what they think they'll find. My children have done their work too well, no one alive remembers me. The dead --whose memories are twined among my latticework-- shift in the darkness, muttering to themselves.
3. It's oddly comforting, the feel of warm earth between fingers and toes. Maddy could weed with confidence now, finally certain in here ability to tell aboreal friend from foe. It was oddly ironic how unprepared they'd been, even with a thirty year trip to prepare themselves. They'd stocked the ships with all the knowledge they needed on how to survive, but it had been all intellect and no application 'till they finally touched down. They'd been schooled to expect the unexpected, but Humanity had forgotten just how unnerving the unfamiliar was.
4. They saw the world as a web of electromagnetic fields, a blue-green net that sparked and shimmered in the dark.
5. Port is wine, and port is left, and port is safe haven in a storm, but for ships of the line, that thin starlit line, port is the slanting roll of guns; up and to the left, where there is no up and no left, and they fill the vacuum with silent fire.
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2. There's a silence here, hiding in-between the cracks, a distant echo of the times when I was alone. Memories muffled by the tread of booted feet and the crumble of debris, torn loose as they chip away my shell. I wonder sometimes what they think they'll find. My children have done their work too well, no one alive remembers me. The dead --whose memories are twined among my latticework-- shift in the darkness, muttering to themselves.
3. It's oddly comforting, the feel of warm earth between fingers and toes. Maddy could weed with confidence now, finally certain in here ability to tell aboreal friend from foe. It was oddly ironic how unprepared they'd been, even with a thirty year trip to prepare themselves. They'd stocked the ships with all the knowledge they needed on how to survive, but it had been all intellect and no application 'till they finally touched down. They'd been schooled to expect the unexpected, but Humanity had forgotten just how unnerving the unfamiliar was.
4. They saw the world as a web of electromagnetic fields, a blue-green net that sparked and shimmered in the dark.
5. Port is wine, and port is left, and port is safe haven in a storm, but for ships of the line, that thin starlit line, port is the slanting roll of guns; up and to the left, where there is no up and no left, and they fill the vacuum with silent fire.
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1. Life is a series of moments, not regrets.
2. The problem with humans in the Pegasus Galaxy boiled down to the fact they weren't human. Biology only buys you so much, and that's something they should have learned back on Earth.
3. It was a common story, a spaceship flung off course, its crew doomed to wander an alien galaxy alone... only that had been their goal, so Trish never really understood why every one complained.
4. The problem with being immortal was that you got really tired of death.
5. It was a stupid quest, but she had the afternoon off and she was tired of studying. "A rouge werewolf playing havoc with the fine citizenry of Venn Hall?" She flung the textbook onto the bed with an overly dramatic flourish. "Why lead on McFluff! I follow!"
The unicorn sighed and wondered for the umpteenth time if there wasn't a loophole in the contract he'd overlooked.
6. The pain wasn't like a knife, or like fire, or ice, or any of a thousand other metaphors. It was pain and it drowned out the world in a white flash of sensation.
7. "He made his choice."
"No he didn't. He made a mistake John, a simple stupid everyday mistake. You made a choice."
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2. The problem with humans in the Pegasus Galaxy boiled down to the fact they weren't human. Biology only buys you so much, and that's something they should have learned back on Earth.
3. It was a common story, a spaceship flung off course, its crew doomed to wander an alien galaxy alone... only that had been their goal, so Trish never really understood why every one complained.
4. The problem with being immortal was that you got really tired of death.
5. It was a stupid quest, but she had the afternoon off and she was tired of studying. "A rouge werewolf playing havoc with the fine citizenry of Venn Hall?" She flung the textbook onto the bed with an overly dramatic flourish. "Why lead on McFluff! I follow!"
The unicorn sighed and wondered for the umpteenth time if there wasn't a loophole in the contract he'd overlooked.
6. The pain wasn't like a knife, or like fire, or ice, or any of a thousand other metaphors. It was pain and it drowned out the world in a white flash of sensation.
7. "He made his choice."
"No he didn't. He made a mistake John, a simple stupid everyday mistake. You made a choice."
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1. It was a faint sound, a wavering cry all the more disturbing for it's tenor.
2. The light was creeping across the ground inch by inch, consuming everything that could not flee.
3. A world without magic was-- different. Transforming them from Gods to tinkerers, but having lost nothing in the process.
4. This was the last of it, three shimmering grains of sand and then the life he'd horded so carefully would be spent. He wasted them all on one last night with her... and spent eternity without regret.
5. Something, something-- it was there just on the edge of hearing, and it was driving her mad.
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2. The light was creeping across the ground inch by inch, consuming everything that could not flee.
3. A world without magic was-- different. Transforming them from Gods to tinkerers, but having lost nothing in the process.
4. This was the last of it, three shimmering grains of sand and then the life he'd horded so carefully would be spent. He wasted them all on one last night with her... and spent eternity without regret.
5. Something, something-- it was there just on the edge of hearing, and it was driving her mad.
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Herein lie a whole bunch of things I shall separate later. Many disturbing images as the Horror Muse has apparently come out to play. So, erm, not for the faint of heart. Sorry. ^_^;;
1. I should finish off Derivative Souls, even if it's just a rough outline that I lengthen later. Sort of a 'Is to much, I summup' version
2. There were always worse ways to die, but that wasn't the point, it was never the point. The point was there were better ways, and that was what he was offering. But they couldn't hear him, trapped inside the preconceived notions of the common unbeliever. But they'd understand, eventually: they only had a choice of better or worse. (could be Ways to Die, or Cake or Death, or.. hmm, *pokes fic*)
3. "Well this is--" there was a pause as Elizabeth struggled to find a better word than "--interesting."
The leader of the trading party from P1R-122 looked rather sheepish and Elizabeth's stomach clenched at the unfamiliar twist to the sickeningly familiar face.
"You're a clone." And Elizabeth was still polite, somehow, but in a ragged way where grief has worn past her defenses and it made the other woman wince.
"Yes." (Doppelganger)
4. "Look, when I meant there were 'infinite varieties of life' I didn't mean infinite!" Rodney poked his wobbly opposite angrily and the Jell-o Rodney giggled.
"Apparently you should have specified." (Doppelganger)
5. They chased him through hundred of carefully laid traps before they learned to stop chasing him. Then he turned tactics and worried away at their flanks until they forgot what they learned and bled away men in ones and twos into an alien jungle that masked body heat and biosigns and turned anything metal to pitted scrap in minutes. (Fight or Flight)
6. They got him back a sliver at a time, each time through a different channel, each time as untraceable as the last. They only knew it was him because Carson still checked, every piece, every scrap, because not knowing was somehow worse. Only it wasn't, because each tiny package, delivered like gifts, like tribute, meant somewhere, somehow he was still alive. (Ways to Die)
7. It wasn't that Steven was unused to the unknown; Geology and Botany were both disciplines that thrived on field research and Indian Jones style quests for answers (although minus the fame an fortune). And it wasn't being trapped on the side of a mountain, per se, because between his years as a Boy Scout and his time in the SCA and that one rather disastrous weekend on the Appalachian Trail, he'd spent plenty of time in the middle of nowhere.
It wasn't even the fact that he was well and truly lost (on an uncharted mountain on an unexplored continent on an unknown planet in a pretty darned big galaxy). No, it was...
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1. I should finish off Derivative Souls, even if it's just a rough outline that I lengthen later. Sort of a 'Is to much, I summup' version
2. There were always worse ways to die, but that wasn't the point, it was never the point. The point was there were better ways, and that was what he was offering. But they couldn't hear him, trapped inside the preconceived notions of the common unbeliever. But they'd understand, eventually: they only had a choice of better or worse. (could be Ways to Die, or Cake or Death, or.. hmm, *pokes fic*)
3. "Well this is--" there was a pause as Elizabeth struggled to find a better word than "--interesting."
The leader of the trading party from P1R-122 looked rather sheepish and Elizabeth's stomach clenched at the unfamiliar twist to the sickeningly familiar face.
"You're a clone." And Elizabeth was still polite, somehow, but in a ragged way where grief has worn past her defenses and it made the other woman wince.
"Yes." (Doppelganger)
4. "Look, when I meant there were 'infinite varieties of life' I didn't mean infinite!" Rodney poked his wobbly opposite angrily and the Jell-o Rodney giggled.
"Apparently you should have specified." (Doppelganger)
5. They chased him through hundred of carefully laid traps before they learned to stop chasing him. Then he turned tactics and worried away at their flanks until they forgot what they learned and bled away men in ones and twos into an alien jungle that masked body heat and biosigns and turned anything metal to pitted scrap in minutes. (Fight or Flight)
6. They got him back a sliver at a time, each time through a different channel, each time as untraceable as the last. They only knew it was him because Carson still checked, every piece, every scrap, because not knowing was somehow worse. Only it wasn't, because each tiny package, delivered like gifts, like tribute, meant somewhere, somehow he was still alive. (Ways to Die)
7. It wasn't that Steven was unused to the unknown; Geology and Botany were both disciplines that thrived on field research and Indian Jones style quests for answers (although minus the fame an fortune). And it wasn't being trapped on the side of a mountain, per se, because between his years as a Boy Scout and his time in the SCA and that one rather disastrous weekend on the Appalachian Trail, he'd spent plenty of time in the middle of nowhere.
It wasn't even the fact that he was well and truly lost (on an uncharted mountain on an unexplored continent on an unknown planet in a pretty darned big galaxy). No, it was...
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Same deal as the original fiction list, only this time I'm filling in the letters already used this year. ^_~ *grin*
(Note: Not actually linked yet! Will do so when I get home ^_^;;)
Another Once Upon a Time (Harry Potter)
B
Cuckoo's Nest (Stargate Atlantis)
Draco Fortuna Iuvat (Stargate Atlantis)
Equivalent Exchange (Stargate Atlantis)
Fair (Labyrinth/Peter Pan)
Grimm Futures (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Hierarchy of Needs (Stargate Atlantis)
In Stone (Stargate SG-1)
J
K
Like Rain (Doctor Who)
Magpie Years (Narnia)
N
On Wings of Ash (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Pegasus Logic for Beginners (Stargate Atlantis)
Q
Reverting to Form (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Scorned And Covered With Scars (Stargate Atlantis)
Tendency to Swarm (Stargate Atlantis)
U
V
What's A Little Symbolism Among Friends? (Stargate Atlantis)
X
Y
Z
(Note: Not actually linked yet! Will do so when I get home ^_^;;)
Another Once Upon a Time (Harry Potter)
B
Cuckoo's Nest (Stargate Atlantis)
Draco Fortuna Iuvat (Stargate Atlantis)
Equivalent Exchange (Stargate Atlantis)
Fair (Labyrinth/Peter Pan)
Grimm Futures (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Hierarchy of Needs (Stargate Atlantis)
In Stone (Stargate SG-1)
J
K
Like Rain (Doctor Who)
Magpie Years (Narnia)
N
On Wings of Ash (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Pegasus Logic for Beginners (Stargate Atlantis)
Q
Reverting to Form (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Scorned And Covered With Scars (Stargate Atlantis)
Tendency to Swarm (Stargate Atlantis)
U
V
What's A Little Symbolism Among Friends? (Stargate Atlantis)
X
Y
Z
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1. They are dreams within dreams, faint shadows of hope that cling to life within the storm.
2. She was cold and wet and muddy and happier than she'd been in years.
3. Of course Horse wasn't actually a horse. His head was too wide, his ears a smidge too long and too flexible, his movements slightly cat-like, and his coat more like a German Shepard than an equine. So he was Horse and he wasn't horse, and he found the whole thing rather amusing.
4. But wait! (you cry) What about boldly going forth? What about New worlds? New civilizations?? In the end it all came down to the fact that Space was really big and really empty and humans got bored really easily.
5. The easiest way to get anything done is to tell a pack of Quan that it's impossible.
6. The most disturbing thing about it is that it's a heads-up display that's actually in your head. You learn to ignore it, after a while, much like gamers ignore the interfaces they work through. It stops being numbers and letters hovering on the edges of your field of view and turns into data streams that you never really notice until something is demanding attention. Still, it's a pain to fall asleep with input still projected against the darkness.
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2. She was cold and wet and muddy and happier than she'd been in years.
3. Of course Horse wasn't actually a horse. His head was too wide, his ears a smidge too long and too flexible, his movements slightly cat-like, and his coat more like a German Shepard than an equine. So he was Horse and he wasn't horse, and he found the whole thing rather amusing.
4. But wait! (you cry) What about boldly going forth? What about New worlds? New civilizations?? In the end it all came down to the fact that Space was really big and really empty and humans got bored really easily.
5. The easiest way to get anything done is to tell a pack of Quan that it's impossible.
6. The most disturbing thing about it is that it's a heads-up display that's actually in your head. You learn to ignore it, after a while, much like gamers ignore the interfaces they work through. It stops being numbers and letters hovering on the edges of your field of view and turns into data streams that you never really notice until something is demanding attention. Still, it's a pain to fall asleep with input still projected against the darkness.
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1. This is where the story ends, back where it began, standing in the ash and the mud and watching as the world burns.
2. For a long time he wished they had just let him wander, being lost was nothing compared to the suffering of being found.
3. Everyone knew where dragons came from; from eggs, from fire, from the islands of Illofan, but everyone was wrong.
4. And after everything was said and done, nothing had changed. She still had classes to pay for and finals to take, still faced twenty-six hours a week saying ‘have a nice day’ to people who rarely took the advice.
5. It was like watching the sky collapse, one sun after the other plunging behind the billowing clouds of ash, plunging from day to night in seconds.
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2. For a long time he wished they had just let him wander, being lost was nothing compared to the suffering of being found.
3. Everyone knew where dragons came from; from eggs, from fire, from the islands of Illofan, but everyone was wrong.
4. And after everything was said and done, nothing had changed. She still had classes to pay for and finals to take, still faced twenty-six hours a week saying ‘have a nice day’ to people who rarely took the advice.
5. It was like watching the sky collapse, one sun after the other plunging behind the billowing clouds of ash, plunging from day to night in seconds.
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A few more random ideas...
1.Watching House teach is like watching a badger herd sheep, it works, but it's a unique definition of 'works'. (Of Catecholamines and Homeostasis)
2. For every time Atlantis survived the rising, there were a hundred universes where she didn't. (The Best of All Possible Worlds)
3. House: Hospitals by their very nature were full of death.
4. Peter Pan: He was never the same Peter, always the same Peter, every time he grew up he grew young again, forgetting between one sunrise and the next.
5. SG-1: On the slow outbound days, they dial the gate once every twenty minutes, sending drone after drone into the unknown. On the inbound days they dial every three, checking to see which drones are still alive.
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1.Watching House teach is like watching a badger herd sheep, it works, but it's a unique definition of 'works'. (Of Catecholamines and Homeostasis)
2. For every time Atlantis survived the rising, there were a hundred universes where she didn't. (The Best of All Possible Worlds)
3. House: Hospitals by their very nature were full of death.
4. Peter Pan: He was never the same Peter, always the same Peter, every time he grew up he grew young again, forgetting between one sunrise and the next.
5. SG-1: On the slow outbound days, they dial the gate once every twenty minutes, sending drone after drone into the unknown. On the inbound days they dial every three, checking to see which drones are still alive.
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1. It isn't until she steps back through the gate that she realizes she never expected to come home.
2. They'd hoped for a handful of survivors, more was pushing optimism past the breaking point. Two years since that last cry for help and the damning silence that followed.
3. What finally get him is the silence.
4. It only takes once. Once in a million, once in a trillion, it doesn't matter how many times he has to try... it just has to happen once.
5. She knows what it looks like from the outside; she knows, and she doesn't care.
6. It's symbols drawn in blood by a dying woman, but it's the wrong dying woman and there's a glitter in those eyes that gives her away. (5/8/08)
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2. They'd hoped for a handful of survivors, more was pushing optimism past the breaking point. Two years since that last cry for help and the damning silence that followed.
3. What finally get him is the silence.
4. It only takes once. Once in a million, once in a trillion, it doesn't matter how many times he has to try... it just has to happen once.
5. She knows what it looks like from the outside; she knows, and she doesn't care.
6. It's symbols drawn in blood by a dying woman, but it's the wrong dying woman and there's a glitter in those eyes that gives her away. (5/8/08)
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Since I'm playing catch-up for Doctor Who, I may as well indulge the Buffy fictives as well. ^_~ Huzzah for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sunnyd_survivor and prompt tables! *grin*
List of old prompts from sunnyd_survivor
001. Neglecting - Neglect
002. Key
003. Estate
004. Composer
005. Acquaintance
006. Watch
007. Indefinite
008. Garbage
009. Wakes
010. Cares
011. Morning - Tomorrow
012. Puns
013. Correspondent
014. Familiar
015. Genre
016. Kicks
017. Instinct
018. Plastered
019. Horrid
020. Couple - Time Enough
021. Earn
022. Launch
023. Swallowing
024. Circuitry
025. Applause
sunnyd_survivor and prompt tables! *grin*List of old prompts from sunnyd_survivor
001. Neglecting - Neglect
002. Key
003. Estate
004. Composer
005. Acquaintance
006. Watch
007. Indefinite
008. Garbage
009. Wakes
010. Cares
011. Morning - Tomorrow
012. Puns
013. Correspondent
014. Familiar
015. Genre
016. Kicks
017. Instinct
018. Plastered
019. Horrid
020. Couple - Time Enough
021. Earn
022. Launch
023. Swallowing
024. Circuitry
025. Applause
1. There's a strength in touch, a subtle symphony that binds them altogether.
2. The sky is dark and empty, holding only the memory of stars.
3. And rising out of the fire was a head as dark as the fire was bright, a shadow trapped within the light.
4. "Stop," but he didn't. He walked into the nothing beyond the horizon, out past the stars to the land where gods and heroes go to die.
5. It was smile half-grief half-madness, a feral grimace of a life shattered beyond repair.
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2. The sky is dark and empty, holding only the memory of stars.
3. And rising out of the fire was a head as dark as the fire was bright, a shadow trapped within the light.
4. "Stop," but he didn't. He walked into the nothing beyond the horizon, out past the stars to the land where gods and heroes go to die.
5. It was smile half-grief half-madness, a feral grimace of a life shattered beyond repair.
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