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Quest
'Still not the right one', sighed the Princess.
'WHY",' asked the Dragon, 'MUST I NOT HEAT THEIR ARMOR TOO MUCH? IT GIVES THEM TIME TO GET OUT OF IT.'
'I have to see them *au naturel*. I am, after all, on a quest for a perfect Knight.'
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To secure
The Elder had told them that, given the number and might of the demonic creatures that would attack it, securing the village would require the powers of at least seven sorcerers.
So they returned with Elena the Curious.
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To secure
The Elder had told them that, given the number and might of the demonic creatures that would attack it, securing the village would require the powers of at least seven sorcerers.
So they returned with Elena the Curious.
#MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction #writever
Mutual aid
For a Wizard, "mutual aid" means "help me, and maybe one day I will help you if that is in my interest."
For a Witch, "mutual aid" means "I'm helping you in hope that you will help me when I need it for the benefit of all."
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Mutual aid
For a Wizard, "mutual aid" means "help me, and maybe one day I will help you if that is in my interest."
For a Witch, "mutual aid" means "I'm helping you in hope that you will help me when I need it for the benefit of all."
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Deus ex machina
'So they were small but surrounded and outnumbered you, had better weapons, were intent on killing you, then saw R42 and flung themselves at its feet?'
'Now that you say it, it sounds a bit like a…'
'… Deus ex machina, yes.'
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Deus ex machina
'So they were small but surrounded and outnumbered you, had better weapons, were intent on killing you, then saw R42 and flung themselves at its feet?'
'Now that you say it, it sounds a bit like a…'
'… Deus ex machina, yes.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Embody
The Creator, overwhelmed by humans' capacity to be fruitful and multiply, sometimes cannot produce the needed souls quickly enough. Thus He holds the souls of the recently deceased on Earth, to embody them in those soon to be born.
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Embody
The Creator, overwhelmed by humans' capacity to be fruitful and multiply, sometimes cannot produce the needed souls quickly enough. Thus He holds the souls of the recently deceased on Earth, to embody them in those soon to be born.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Heroine
'So,' said the Princess, 'freeing me fron the Dragon's claws made you a hero?'
'Worthy,' boasted the Knight, 'of wedding you!'
"Then,' the Princess went on, hefting the sword, 'freeing myself from your hands will make me a heroine.'
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Heroine
'So,' said the Princess, 'freeing me fron the Dragon's claws made you a hero?'
'Worthy,' boasted the Knight, 'of wedding you!'
"Then,' the Princess went on, hefting the sword, 'freeing myself from your hands will make me a heroine.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Dice
The men gave her the sword and told her to 'not mistake it with a kitchen knife'.
The barbarians attacked. She proceeded to slice and dice them. Literally.
Once done, she turned toward the stunned men and said coldly:
'Oops.'
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Dice
The men gave her the sword and told her to 'not mistake it with a kitchen knife'.
The barbarians attacked. She proceeded to slice and dice them. Literally.
Once done, she turned toward the stunned men and said coldly:
'Oops.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Cliffhanger
On this planet, the dominant species has evolved from lemmings.
This explains why their language contains twenty distinct words for "cliffhanger".
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Cliffhanger
On this planet, the dominant species has evolved from lemmings.
This explains why their language contains twenty distinct words for "cliffhanger".
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
"I DO NOT REMEMBER ORDERING THAT SOMEONE RETHINK THE END OF THE WORLD, LUCIFER."
"Indeed You didn't order that, Boss. And before You ask, I was not involved either. They managed it on their own."
"AS THEY DO EVERY TIME."
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"I DO NOT REMEMBER ORDERING THAT SOMEONE RETHINK THE END OF THE WORLD, LUCIFER."
"Indeed You didn't order that, Boss. And before You ask, I was not involved either. They managed it on their own."
"AS THEY DO EVERY TIME."
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Game
Every year, Foster lines up the Tin Locust at the start of the Fast Game, a hundred-light-year sprint, and finishes in the top three. Rumor has it he gives his bonus to the families of competitors who didn't make it to the finish line.
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Game
Every year, Foster lines up the Tin Locust at the start of the Fast Game, a hundred-light-year sprint, and finishes in the top three. Rumor has it he gives his bonus to the families of competitors who didn't make it to the finish line.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Benevolence
'Witches,' said the Devil, 'deserve my benevolence. After all, they do the same job as I: eradicating the least flattering aspects of the human species. Besides, I'd rather stay on their good side.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Benevolence
'Witches,' said the Devil, 'deserve my benevolence. After all, they do the same job as I: eradicating the least flattering aspects of the human species. Besides, I'd rather stay on their good side.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Players
When the swordsmen emerged from the shadows and charged the countess, her lute players seized the opportunity to demonstrate several ways to neutralize an opponent with a stringed instrument. They received some hesitant applause.
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Players
When the swordsmen emerged from the shadows and charged the countess, her lute players seized the opportunity to demonstrate several ways to neutralize an opponent with a stringed instrument. They received some hesitant applause.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Fumble
'I have bad news for you,', the Devil said, making a face. 'Actually, God *does* play dice with the Universe. But what you don't realize is, on the very first roll, he'd managed a fumble. All of this is the consequences.'
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Fumble
'I have bad news for you,', the Devil said, making a face. 'Actually, God *does* play dice with the Universe. But what you don't realize is, on the very first roll, he'd managed a fumble. All of this is the consequences.'
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Imagination
For a long time, we had refused to believe that collective hallucinations were possible; but when we ddicsovered emitting telepaths it became obvious that the former are caused by the literally overflowing imagination of the latter.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Imagination
For a long time, we had refused to believe that collective hallucinations were possible; but when we ddicsovered emitting telepaths it became obvious that the former are caused by the literally overflowing imagination of the latter.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Fantastic
'Well yes,' said R42, 'I do have metal armor, but no, there is no human inside.'
"FANTASTIC!" exclaimed the Princess and the Dragon in unison.
"I WILL NOT HAVE TO FIGHT YOU!"
"Nor I to marry you!"
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Fantastic
'Well yes,' said R42, 'I do have metal armor, but no, there is no human inside.'
"FANTASTIC!" exclaimed the Princess and the Dragon in unison.
"I WILL NOT HAVE TO FIGHT YOU!"
"Nor I to marry you!"
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Creature
It was written: one day, Man would face a Great Old One.
On one side, a vile creature whose hideous form fills the strongest mind with horror, and whose soul is even more terrifying.
On the other, Cthulhu, shivering, tries to flee.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
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Creature
It was written: one day, Man would face a Great Old One.
On one side, a vile creature whose hideous form fills the strongest mind with horror, and whose soul is even more terrifying.
On the other, Cthulhu, shivering, tries to flee.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
@aaribaud brilliant
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@aaribaud brilliant
@Garonenur Thanks! 😊
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Creature
It was written: one day, Man would face a Great Old One.
On one side, a vile creature whose hideous form fills the strongest mind with horror, and whose soul is even more terrifying.
On the other, Cthulhu, shivering, tries to flee.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
@aaribaud Ouch!
(Nice!)
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@aaribaud Ouch!
(Nice!)
@leiawelsh Thanks! 😊
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Creature
It was written: one day, Man would face a Great Old One.
On one side, a vile creature whose hideous form fills the strongest mind with horror, and whose soul is even more terrifying.
On the other, Cthulhu, shivering, tries to flee.
#writever #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction
Brink
Known trick: you fall straight toward a black hole, and you switch into hypervelocity just on the brink of the event horizon.
You emerge on the other side with enough kinetic energy to get anywhere you want…
… Or you get stuck inside.
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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5-year-old: "What is that?" (pointing to my computer screen)
Me: "My website" (technically the homepage of my blog - with a big feature image about the Fediverse)
5-year-old: "It's beautiful"
And now excuse me while I recover from the shock. Do you know how rare are compliments by a 5-year-old? Especially concerning things that are not toys or arts and crafts?
Planning to spend the rest of the day on cloud 9 ☁️ 😆
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me who was an idiot - should just have said "object storage", s3 is what amazon call their object storage provider.
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@aeva 1 TB seems to be 3.20 EUR per month: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/
There are probably similar offers from other companies as well, because offsite backups at a different provider are a common requirement for professional deployments.
OVH also has something, but their website is confusing, rather than a base price they charge per GB and month.
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@aeva after a lot of looking my answer to this was crickets
but I have two not-quite-adequate-but-still-worth-mentioning solutions
there's several nextcloud vendors that have pretty decent prices, I rent my stuff from hetzner, about $5/month for 1TB of storage. if you don't know nextcloud, think "open source dropbox"
but for my projects, what I settled on is a private forgejo instance. I have a little home cluster with 2TB in RAID1, and offsite backups at two different locations...
and the only reason I can justify the maintenance cost of setting up and doing all this is because my particular brand of autism inexplicably classifies all this work into "leisure activities"...
but yeah, if you happen to find a way to self host something like this, I can tell you it's going to be very snappy. if you've ever thought: "git doesn't work with binary assets files for games", that's just because you didn't have a full instance to yourself
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@aeva yeah god
also like. my history isn't in reality linear, right? like I'll try something and then I look at it and it's shit. so I go back a revision or two and start again and next time I save I probably save with whatever number is next up
the linear history doesn't really reflect that
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@finnmyrstad @pluralistic Dette er fantastisk! Gratulerer med helt nydelig video! Godt å se at forbrukerrådet er på ballen! Denne kommer jeg til å spre for alt det er verdt.
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@aeva Backblaze, it's cheap as hell, you can encrypt your storage and the first 10gb is free
I have 100GB sitting in it and it costs me $1 a month inc. tax
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The video itself is pretty shitty. How it "informs" about enshittification without even using the c-word (capitalism) makes me wonder: is this a conscious choice (if so: what's the rationale behind this choice?) or a lack of consciousness?
