More mindless data entry for an hour or so.
What's the scariest story you can tell in one sentence?
*shudders* Scary Stories for Tech, Vol 1!
@MLClark I forgot to pay a bill.
😬 In this economy?! Dangerous!
@MLClark I am taking Calculus next term.
🤔 Are you taking Calculus, or is Calculus taking *you*?
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It was Dad on the phone, calling at 2 am.
Oof. This one could go in so many directions. Is dad dead? Super scary! Is dad alive but in trouble? With news of someone else in trouble? Also worrisome. ☹️
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It is fright month and all. 🙂
Points for both brevity and monstrosity!
They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers - Huxley
He loved Big Brother - Orwell
It was a pleasure to burn - Bradbury
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. -Atwood
Oof. You brought out the big guns today, Museek. Every single one still gives me shivers.
@CanisPundit @MLClark Have you ever read the The Diving Bell and the Butterfly? There was a film made, also...
@CanisPundit @MLClark it was quite a story, too.
@CanisPundit @MLClark would love to have this shown on a movie night
@CanisPundit @MLClark hoka hey
That’s a Lakota phrase. I haven’t seen the film but I know the meaning
awww
Excellent. I’ll have to finally see it
@CanisPundit @MLClark it can mean a few things.. one is, as you said, making peace with what is inevitable knowing you gave it your best. Or that you’re ready to fight and you’re not afraid..
Nowadays it’s like Skoden. Or. Let’s go then! I’m at peace. If I should die today.
@Museek @MLClark and please know I understand the indignities of aging and/or significant disease is a negotiation with boundaries that expand in decline. I discussed it with my father in his strokes and Parkinson’s journey. And to quote Dirty Harry “A man’s got to know his limitations”. I would like to say I’d be free of attachments and be “spiritual” about it, but I know better for me. And you two?
Awww I'm sorry... *hug
but i understand well what you mean by negotiation with boundaries... I admire how you balance realism with acceptance, knowing what you have experienced.
i've pushed limitations and did alright, for awhile but i also know its necessary to be realistic when it comes to things like aging and significant illness or injury.
@CanisPundit @MLClark humor makes all of the difference.
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She stopped breathing and it was going to take an hour to get off the mountain
Oh, now that is an amazing first line for a story!
@MLClark An ambiguous one from me:
"And they were never seen again."
When I wake, soft flesh again encases my carapace... yeilding, misshapen, vulnerable, *wrong*.
😬 Did you wake up as a human today?! You poor beetle!
@tyghebright @MLClark Well that's a total mood.
It's multiple lines in from my cryptid story condensed into one... and kinda better than what I originally wrote.
@tyghebright @MLClark speaking as a cryptid, it’s a great line.
The whole story idea started from a bad dysphoria morning, where I'd been in my right body while dreaming and waking up was especially hard.
@tyghebright @MLClark That has happened to me too.
About a year ago I woke up and I felt like I was sleeping above the body, curled up in tight little ring, my muzzle resting on my forepaws and then something grabbed and I got slammed down, my eyes snapped open and I was gasping. Hard way to wake up.
@MLClark Oh that's an easy one from this morning's meeting:
"There's a problem with the timezone calculations not properly taking into account Sydney's shift to summer time this Sunday - any chance of a quick fix?"
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