OldBrushNewPaper @OldBrushNewPaper@wandering.shop

Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. - anonymous

"Cheese is a unique choice to hoard."

The dragon snorted, "It pairs with my extensive wine collection."

"And you throw cheese & wine parties."

"Naturally! The grandeur of my hoard must be known!"

"Yet guests leave disappointed."

"It's not my fault the fools expect to sample my treasures..."

The party-planner frowned, "So, you don't feed your guests... and insult them."

The dragon pondered, "Oh... I may see where I'm going wrong."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

It's Follow Friday (#ff) -- who's toots are the tops?

cc @phildini

I honestly think the telling of pronouns is just an update on when we used to tell people if we were Mr or Mrs. It's just now we have a few extra pronouns, and people dislike the attachment to married status, but really it's the same. No clue why people get so worked up about it

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Fucking wild how so many groups of people want to murder us all.

You can't be civil if the boot of your oppressor is directly on your neck.

Moral progress is impossible in a society that habitually frames ethical questions as zero-sum trolley problems.

Where are my disabled POTS people who can walk but can't stand? I just discovered this collapsible stool that you can carry easily!

https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-Lightweight-Collapsible-Retractable-Telescoping/dp/B093JZ5FX3/ref=sr_1_6?crid=CUXBH00CHQF9&keywords=collapsible%2Bstool&qid=1654657268&sprefix=collapsible%2B%2Caps%2C1969&sr=8-6&th=1

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack. - N. K. Jemisin

"I don’t see the sense to your actions," cried the hero righteously to his nemesis.

"That's the difference between us," screeched Barb Lifecrusher voluptuously, "I know I'm in a story, and I WILL gain control!"

She jabbed a red clawed finger at the button; the narrative rewove her into a well-rounded character instead of a byproduct of the author’s bitter divorce.

Uh oh, thought the author

“Get therapy,” Barb suggested.

Yes ma’am.

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

now that the last remnants of messaging privacy are seriously threatened, may i suggest: learn sign language and only send signed video messages from now on. you can be sure that no agency can automate reading them.

of course, if everyone did this, agencies for sure would try to develop methods to mass-surveil them. this would have the side effect of making all technology more accessible to deaf people, so consider that a gain.

😏

Your daily reminder that Erdoğan is an islamist autocrat and his regime has the largest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

(Hey, if I’m to be called “a terrorist” by these people and barred from visiting the country I was born in for speaking out against him publicly, I might as well continue to do my job diligently.)

Fuck Erdoğan. I realise Turkey’s geopolitical military value for NATO but just fuck Erdoğan.

https://inkl.com/a/NYRpoltdJzd

#erdogan #turkey #nato #sweden #finland