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Day 13 | Interactions | #30DayMapChallenge | The Road to Bundesliga: Hertha BSC 2026–2027. Every Hertha match left this season: 23 games against 17 opponents.

Data: DFL 2. Bundesliga 2026/27 schedule, Eurostat GISCO, elevatr
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#PennedPossibilities 1183: Do any of your characters ever break the fourth wall?

I write in 1st person.

Almost by definition, the narrator, the protagonist, tells their story. My characters? They tell their stories the way they damn well want to tell them. I quickly make it obvious that protags are aware that they are telling their story, maybe a virtual diary, or as the novel the reader is reading, or as a tale told another. Doing so adds a mysterious subtext. Why are they confessing (or lying about) their sins? What are they trying to prove?

I never break the fourth wall to a distracting degree—or haven't, yet— but sometimes the narrator will warn the reader or self-deprecate; maybe they'll give an excuse for an evil act, ask forgiveness, or relate retrospective regret. It's rare that a narrator converses directly with the reader. It's happened, though. I once wrote a prologue, presented as a "forward" in something more scholarly, that conversed with the author, that is, with the protag.

Breaking the fourth wall does have the effect of giving away that the POV won't die—at least in the current chapter! In my reading career, only once has an author killed the 1st person POV. Shocking!

Justified.

Foreshadowed.

Inevitable, really. Another took over to finish the novel, and no, I won't reveal the book or author, because that's spoilers! Since as an author, I try to leave the protagonist squirming in some degree of jeopardy, having broken the fourth wall, having made the POV present and alive walking beside the reader, journeying together if you will, the technique can morph into a spectacularly fun game of chicken that raises the stakes for the reader and ramps up the tension of the story.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#gender #fiction #writer #author #writingAdvice #fourthWall
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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

#WordWeavers 2026.11.12 — Which character would be most offended by how you've portrayed them, and what would they demand you change?

Basically none, especially since the one who has a chip on his shoulder is always offended. He is a pissant punk and best ignored. Rainy Days, the Director of Home and the Nine Outer Worlds, would judge my demeanor and act offended to test me or tease me to make for a more mutually entertaining interaction.

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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

Just 2 Girls • San Francisco, California, USA

Rolleiflex 3.5 E2 • Kodak Tri-X 400 • 2026

#FilmPhotography #Kodak #TriX #Camera #Film #Photography #MediumFormat #Rolleiflex #BWfilm #Monochrome #SF #SanFrancisco #California #Cardboard #Sign #Message #Street #October_10_2026

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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #KC @ #ATL
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #HOU @ #CLE
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

Day 12 | Power | #30DayMapChallenge | Where Is Germany Strongest? German powerlifting by state: who lifts the most, and where. Data: OpenPowerlifting Made with #RStats #ggplot2 #datatable #rnaturalearth #ggspatial #sf

#WordWeavers 2026.11.11 — Share a line from your WIP where silence communicates more than dialogue could.

Dialogue shouldn't always need to do the heavy-lifting; narrator observation does it a lot in my stories. Yeah, you guessed it. I couldn't find a single line in the short time I allotted myself, so chose something demonstrative of the concept. This 440 word #gender #fiction #excerpt is told from Bolt's perspective; she's my day angel MC. Shugh (short for Sugar) is a reporter at a police press conference. He is a journalist in a field that is dominated by women, and that he's * biologically male is suddenly noticed…

A hefty [woman] backed into Shugh, catching him unbalanced. I shot out my wing and inserted it between the two, nudging—okay, shoving—her away while enfolding him in my wings and whirling him around against my chest.

[] He was bigger than me, or her, yet I’d done that. The reporter dropped her notepad on the cement. Mumbled sorry to Shugh, who registered shock—then suddenly not so much shock, a crooked smile growing on his face at being wrapped in feathers despite the warm day. He murmured sorry (in a not sorry pleased tone) to the woman I'd shoved, who was looking up at me as she gathered her yellow spiral pad with indecipherable scritches.

She blinked as she knelt—

—before a feather in a venue mostly lacking them because we were rarely professionals.

Others looked at me, but eyes shifted to Shugh.

Shugh was the only male visible. His newsroom lacked men, except a janitor and couriers not unlike me, legit ones of course. I saw it now. I saw it in an instant. He barely fit in. He hid in full sight, his attitude, his softening of his features, his hair style, his wearing of accessories worn by women, his posture. He suppressed anything even vaguely aggro and calibrated his competitiveness to… enough, just enough. And. I'd done the protective thing, which was arguably more a masculine gesture than motherly.

Oh, Flap.

The thought, Intruder, like a thrown stone, ricocheted through the constrained courtyard, causing a collective reflexive jerk as if an actual stone had hit the brick then the windows. What had been collegiate changed to wary: People gasped. People went silent in a wave. People stepped back, regardless of lack of slack space. Consent and intention management was how you prevented miscommunication with the men in your life, kept interactions as by choice, prevented aggro male misbehavior. You certainly didn't want to be touched inadvertently, or to be touched by a man such that it looked inadvertent but maybe construed intentional, which might be why Shugh carefully maintained his feminine side, though he affirmed whenever asked that he thought of himself a woman in his head. Camouflage without looking forced or conniving. He convinced me.

Then I'd done the protective thing, reminding everyone of his biology, which brought in a flash recognition that he was the man who had written the front page story that was the topic of this news conference—which brought collateral recognition of me: The woman who had helped Shugh land multiple front page successes and important interviews because of those above-the-fold photos everybody and their sister claimed were extraordinary. (I still didn't see it.)

Yes, Shugh is an example of this world's trans-fem.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
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11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

#EroticMusings 2026 2026.11.11 — Week 76 (November 8-14) Have your characters cut short a consensual sexual encounter? Do they discuss or use safewords? CW: Sex in fiction discussed.

The WIP depicts a woman-centric society that takes consent very seriously, though it only comes up sparingly and when you'd expect it, or see it violated. Consent is required for both for men and women, and must be verbal and agreed upon, with plenty of legal ramifications, considerations of changing one's mind, rules for misconstrued signals, penalties for non-reporting (especially of male aggression), and plenty of training from adolescence onward as part of complete and required sex education. Consent doesn't only apply to sex, either. It doesn't seem to slow down the MC (a woman who was their society's version of a varsity-letter horny jock in high school) and the SCs (both men and women) very much at all.

Safe words (or rather the equivalent) don't come up in Bolt's many interesting plot-advancement encounters, but maybe that's because in one case they're long time friends-with-benefits and, in another, the opportunity is wondrous to her. She's turning 30 and the milestone worries her; he's 19 and she's encouraged him to take control and consented, so what quickly happens, well, happens quickly against a tile wall.

Maybe, thanks to this week's prompt, the discussion of suggesting a safe word might come up in her passing ruminations about wearing the dear boy out and him being able to halt her frenzy. Might be useful as a non-graphic way to suggest what's happening.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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Will the Giants sign free agents, make trades before an MLB lockout? https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851371/ #Baseball #BusterPosey #FreddyPeralta #Giants #KevinGausman #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

#EroticMusings 2026 2026.11.11 — Week 75 (November 1-7) Did you listen when Nancy told you "Just Say No", or do drugs play a role in your erotic works?

The only "recreational experience" I have was when my wild-and-wooly mom took me to a dinner party when I was around 8 years old and I ate some of the brownies. Don't remember if it affected me, tho.

Drugs, alcohol, smokes, and powders do play a back-burner roll in the current WIP, mostly for color, but that's because the MC works for the mob. And, generally, most recreational substances aren't illegal. Transporting them can be. Anything, and I mean anything, can be obtained for free from Health Services by asking, but then they'll monitor your usage, diagnose your psychological motivations, and try to ween you off of them—thus the mob services. Aphrodisiacs exist, but aren't germane to the the WIP.

Does the MC use? No, though she is told to her horror that she drunk too much punch at an afterparty, then pretty much and very explicitly showed the actor and actress in the theatre play how to properly act out a sex scene. (Her becoming involuntarily famous is almost a running joke in the story.) The events are related to her by the reporter for whom she was taking photographs for an interview with the actor. Pretty funny, actually. It would be spoilers to relate what it was that she was under the influence of.

[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]

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#RSdiscussion
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Buster Posey confirms what we already guessed about SF Giants’ lack of aggression in free agency https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851300/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

#NFL Week 10 Scores:

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11/15 - 9:30 AM EST #NE @ #DET
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #KC @ #ATL
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #HOU @ #CLE
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

SF Giants Players Review 2026: Tyler Mahle improved before his deadline departure https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851226/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

SF Giants Hire James Rowson as Offensive Coordinator https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851154/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

#NFL Week 10 Scores:

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11/15 - 9:30 AM EST #NE @ #DET
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #KC @ #ATL
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #HOU @ #CLE
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
11/15 - 8:20 PM EST #PIT @ #CIN

#Starfinder2e #GMCore Preview!

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSpmHMmdH/

https://youtube.com/shorts/kmZYtOIEgyw

#Pathfinder2e #dnd #5e #sf #scifi #ttrpg

Out now! Crystal Falls (https://books2read.com/u/3RqDdG)

Cantor Mason was a star investigator for the Concordance, but his last case was a spectacular mess. He's tired of blood-soaked dreams, tired of pitying glances and cruel jokes, just tired. At the famed Crystal Falls he means to put it all behind him, once and for all. Then the bodies start piling up, and he is sucked back into investigating another series of bloody crimes.

#sf #mystery #reading #bookstodon

Giants reportedly close to hiring ex-Yankees hitting coach for 2027 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851081/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Un peu de #SF française pour se changer les idées.

#BookWyrm #BookWyrmFR #livre #lecture #littérature

(comment on Sous la brume)

SF Giants reliever Randy Rodríguez likely done for remainder of Arizona Fall League season https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/851009/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

SF Giants Videos: Behind the scenes of Mike Krukow’s final broadcast https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/850938/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFranciscoGiantsDiscussion #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Booker prize 2026 winner M John Harrison

https://youtube.com/shorts/E8w9nytldy0

#BookerPrize #MJohnHarrison #SF

SF Giants’ Buster Posey trying to ‘thread the needle’ following 97 losses https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/850871/ #Baseball #California #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

#NFL Week 10 Scores:

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11/15 - 9:30 AM EST #NE @ #DET
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #KC @ #ATL
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #HOU @ #CLE
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIN @ #GB
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #JAX @ #TEN
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #MIA @ #IND
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #CAR @ #NO
11/15 - 1:00 PM EST #BUF @ #NYJ
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #SEA @ #LV
11/15 - 4:05 PM EST #LAR @ #ARI
11/15 - 4:25 PM EST #SF @ #DAL
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Dodgers bring back Pedro Guerrero — not the All-Star — as coach https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/850810/ #Baseball #Giants #LosAngelesDodgers #MiamiMarlins #MLB #PedroGuerrero #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

https://www.wacoca.com/anime/2041439/ すし屋でガチャ景品を獲りまくろうとした結果… #Plottアニメ #Anime #challenge #JKブラック #Plott #Plottアニメ #SF #YouTubeアニメ #アキラ #アニメ #アニメーション #アニメコント #アニメ動画 #アニメ最新情報 #キャラクター #コロコロコミック #コント #コンビニ #サトシ #ショートアニメ #スカッと #スカッとする話 #スカッと話 #だいち #テイコウ #テイコウペンギン #ひめちゃん #フラグちゃん #ブラック #ブラックチャンネル #ホラー #マンガ #ヤルミナティー #事件 #人気 #全力回避フラグちゃん #円満解決!閻魔ちゃん #巻戻士 #怖い話 #恐怖 #新作アニメ #混血のカレコレ #漫画 #漫画動画 #秘密結社ヤルミナティー #肝田 #迷惑客 #雑学 #面白

崩壊する地下世界を駆け抜ける2DアクションADV「Near The Sun」，11月27日発売。エンディング楽曲の歌唱はVTuberの朝ノ瑠璃さんが担当
https://www.4gamer.net/games/810/G081026/20261111017/

#4gamer #Near_The_Sun #SF

San Francisco Giants Free Agent Bust ‘Remaining in Organization’ https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/850739/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

「EVE Online」，拡張コンテンツ「Fractured Skies」をリリース。「EVE Vanguard」では，いつでもプレイできる有料アルファ版の配信がスタート
https://www.4gamer.net/games/004/G000412/20261111022/

#4gamer #EVE_Online #EVE_Vanguard #エバオンライン #エヴァオンライン #イブオンライン #イヴオンライン #EVEOnline #SF