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A baseball legacy at stake, plus the Lakers’ shocking sale https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777546/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

Giants drop game, series to Astros after outfield loses ball in sun https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777479/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFranciscoGiantsScores&Standings #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

Willy Adames leaves early with back injury as SF Giants fall to Astros https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777407/ #Baseball #California #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#NFL #Preseason Week 2 Scores:

Upcoming Games:
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #DET @ #CIN
8/13 - 7:00 PM EDT #GB @ #PIT
8/13 - 7:30 PM EDT #IND @ #NE
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #ARI @ #LV
8/13 - 8:00 PM EDT #LAC @ #HOU
8/13 - 9:00 PM EDT #TEN @ #SF
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #DEN @ #ATL
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #TB @ #NYJ
8/14 - 7:00 PM EDT #MIA @ #WSH
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CAR @ #BUF
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #CLE @ #CHI
8/15 - 1:00 PM EDT #MIN @ #NYG
8/15 - 4:00 PM EDT #LAR @ #KC

#PennedPossibilities 1098: What is a relatively recent invention that dramatically changed the world in your WIP?

Oddly enough, it is a world with an economy based on human labor. They've had railroads and paved roads for centuries and air transport for longer than that. Now someone has invented the road locomotive and gotten it licensed for lading. It fills the same ecological niche as an 18-wheel tractor trailer, but has power wheels similar to the ones on a steam locomotive. Oh, yeah, it's steam powered and can be piloted by a single individual rather than requiring a dozen. A shiny brass-appointed example figures prominently in a devil-girl story that takes place 200 years after the moonshot. It is so controversial that transportation unions have called strikes where they have been introduced for freight carriage. The one the devil-girl rides on was converted into an RV bus. The urbanized modern world in the Reluctance series is quite unlike ours.

The tech doesn't show up in the current WIP.

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

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#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#PennedPossibilities 1098: What is a relatively recent invention that dramatically changed the world in your WIP?

Oddly enough, it is a world with an economy based on human labor. They've had railroads and paved roads for centuries and air transport for longer than that. Now someone has invented the road locomotive and gotten it licensed for lading. It fills the same ecological niche as an 18-wheel tractor trailer, but has power wheels similar to the ones on a steam locomotive. Oh, yeah, it's steam powered and can be piloted by a single individual rather than requiring a dozen. A shiny brass-appointed example figures prominently in a devil-girl story that takes place 200 years after the moonshot. It is so controversial that transportation unions have called strikes where they have been introduced for freight carriage. The one the devil-girl rides on was converted into an RV bus. The urbanized modern world in the Reluctance series is quite unlike ours.

The tech doesn't show up in the current WIP.

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

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

Can Bo Davidson Make the Giants’ Opening Day Roster in 2027? https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777333/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Houston Astros: Bullpen game higlights limited starting rotation https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777256/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Willy Adames leaves early with back injury as SF Giants fall to Astros https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777181/ #Baseball #California #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

Houston Astros slip past SF Giants for series-clinching win https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777104/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

How to watch San Francisco Giants vs. Houston Astros https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/777029/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFranciscoGiantsGameInformation #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

#WordWeavers 2026.08.12 — If your main character had a comfort food, what would it be?

Probably squid, but I haven't asked. Bolt grew up in a forest on a rocky coast with high cliffs and her mother used dried squid for teething. It was an inexpensive common seasonal food, so she ate it a lot. In the story, she does eat chopped squid grilled on a stick. The honey sesame tomato sauce brushed on becomes very gooey as it cooks, turns a deeply delicious ruddy brown chewy treat that is more savory than sweet.

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#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

#WordWeavers 2026.08.12 — If your main character had a comfort food, what would it be?

Probably squid, but I haven't asked. Bolt grew up in a forest on a rocky coast with high cliffs and her mother used dried squid for teething. It was an inexpensive common seasonal food, so she ate it a lot. In the story, she does eat chopped squid grilled on a stick. The honey sesame tomato sauce brushed on becomes very gooey as it cooks, turns a deeply delicious ruddy brown chewy treat that is more savory than sweet.

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

#BoostingIsSharing

#gender #fiction #writer #author
#Cozy #mystery #sf #sff #sciencefiction
#writing #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon #writers
#RSdiscussion
#RSstory #RSReluctanceStory

Sacramento River Cats reveal 2027 schedule, including Giants exhibition and July 4 home game https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776954/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SacramentoRiverCats #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

森纳映画
穿越回1981年的東歐，體驗極致的噩夢〖遊戲不止〗（時間旅者：重生曙光）
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RPJA7K2nI8

One SF Giants outfield prospect who could play his way onto the roster before the end of the year https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776880/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

How to watch Astros vs. Giants: TV channel and streaming options for August 12 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776808/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Giants Release 30-Year-Old Pitcher During Astros Series https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776734/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

Carson Whisenhunt, Bryce Eldridge headline SF Giants’ win vs. Astros https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776660/ #Baseball #California #Giants #LatestHeadlines #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

#reticulum #munich #germany #de #lora is using the same settings popular in #thenetherlands #holland #nl which has a developed LoRa radio #mesh #rns #reticulummesh #meshchat
[[ReticulumNet LoRa]]
type = RNodeInterface
port = e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0
frequency = 869463000
bandwidth = 125000
spreadingfactor = 8
codingrate = 5
see also https://loramesh.org#settings
#frequency 869463000 Hz = 869.463 MHz
#Bandwidth: 125 kHz
#TransmitPower: 22 dBm (max allowed)
#Spreadingfactor #sf: 8
#codingrate: 5

#reticulum #munich #germany #de #lora is using the same settings popular in #thenetherlands #holland #nl which has a developed LoRa radio #mesh #rns #reticulummesh #meshchat
[[ReticulumNet LoRa]]
type = RNodeInterface
port = e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0
frequency = 869463000
bandwidth = 125000
spreadingfactor = 8
codingrate = 5
see also https://loramesh.org#settings
#frequency 869463000 Hz = 869.463 MHz
#Bandwidth: 125 kHz
#TransmitPower: 22 dBm (max allowed)
#Spreadingfactor #sf: 8
#codingrate: 5

Carson Whisenhunt & Seymour pitch Giants to 4-1 win https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776520/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFranciscoGiantsScores&Standings #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

SF Giants beat Astros behind contributions from rookies, sophomores https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776447/ #Baseball #BayArea #California #Giants #GiantsHq #InsideSports #LatestHeadlines #MLB #peninsula #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoCounty #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants #Sports

Houston Astros Announce Demotion of 6-Year MLB Veteran During Giants Series https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776375/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

San Francisco Giants Release 25-Year-Old Player From Organization https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776302/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

How every SF Giants player dealt at the trade deadline is faring one week later https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/776225/ #Baseball #Giants #MLB #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoGiants #SF #SFGiants #SFGiants

"We journeyed through the forest of the frenzied fists,” Armella said. She had her hands on her hips, frowning. “I got punched in the eye by a maple.”

“She got punched in the eye by a maple.”

“We crossed the living mountains. Triyn almost became a rock-husband to a village of stone maidens.”

Daniel Deisinger's #funny #fantasy story "Portculia" in issue 20

#shortstories #fiction #humor #humour #humorouswriting #SF #funnystories #funnystory #quest #FunnyFantasy

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/portculia/

"We journeyed through the forest of the frenzied fists,” Armella said. She had her hands on her hips, frowning. “I got punched in the eye by a maple.”

“She got punched in the eye by a maple.”

“We crossed the living mountains. Triyn almost became a rock-husband to a village of stone maidens.”

Daniel Deisinger's #funny #fantasy story "Portculia" in issue 20

#shortstories #fiction #humor #humour #humorouswriting #SF #funnystories #funnystory #quest #FunnyFantasy

https://onceuponacrocodile.wordpress.com/current-issue/portculia/

From the archive: "Morning Ships - San Francisco Bay" — San Francisco and outbound freighter, seen through Goldne Gate Bridge cables. (2007)

#sanfrancisco #sf SanFranciscobay #fog #ship #goldengate #goldengatebridge #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite

#sf #sff and historic #fantasy authors in the #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon, here's some light #science reading you might find thought provoking.

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https://dino-world.com/17-facts-about-the-ancient-world-scientists-have-quietly-revised-1-77131/

🏘️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐮𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨'𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐄

#ai #realestate #sf #sanfrancisco #housing #realestatemarket #remarket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKq-XmlfzG4&list=PLVz16niX2rGe3-uBlgX5ZNiH4PNaa3kwa&index=1&pp=iAQBsAgC

#TrainTrackTuesday

Powell Street

(Details In The #AltText)

#AltText #NoGenAi #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #SanFrancisco #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #PhotoOfTheDay #POTD #CamelCase #UrbanPhotography #City #Cityscape #Street #California #US #USA #SF #SFBA #NorCal #CableCar #StreetCar #PublicTransport #Track #Tracks #TrainTracks #TrainTrack #Rail #Rails #RailTrack #RailTracks #People #StreetPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome

I am at the stage of my #flurocil treatment where I resemble the protagonist in Derm Fool.

#SF #TheodoreSturgeon #SFF #SFInRealLife

Page 114 onwards.

https://archive.org/details/UnknownV03N01194003/Unknown+v03+n01+(1940-03)

#PennedPossibilities 1096: MC POV: When was the last time you got lost?

Kinda hard when you have these babies since I can fly anywhere above the city. [Bolt flexes her blue-feathered wings, inadvertently knocking a box off a high shelf in her teeny-tiny aerie apartment.] Anyway… When? Probably taking the metro midcity where it's all underground, but I only take it when my companion can't fly cross town with me. When he gets lost… [Scratches the back of her neck, glancing away with a sheepish grin.]

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#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#EroticMusings 2026.08.10 —Week 63 (August 9-15) Setting: Do you create cultures, ethnicities, or even sentient species for your work? How do you go about it?

It shouldn't be surprising that I answer "yes" and "all of the above" since I write #sf and #sff stories. That they are spicy at times is important to the story, not an end in itself. That sex ends up being important is that, for most humans, it's important either personally or politically. I like making it a feature, with the above caveat, that readers will enjoy. That gives a clue as how I develop these things.

I generally want to point out gender inequities. In stories, as well as in photography, extremes in contrast often highlight specifics. I once created an alien species where the death of one gender was part of the natural life cycle, but humans marooned on the the planet quickly saw a technological solution, to save friends they'd met, unthinkable to the equally but differently technological sentients, disrupting every level of the alien and human societies. This singular detail let me address religious hypocrisy, morals, ethics, gender, overcomplicating sex, and violence against women. The story came together neatly, and it's another case where one of my stories inadvertently predicted something mostly below the radar at the time (1990s): artificial meat. Impossible Burger, anybody?

In a sense, what you want to show—act as a foil for what you want to say, or make possible to happen—gives clues to the culture or ethnicity you want to create. I wanted to depict a culture where patriarchy never existed. To a large extent, I made this work by making it impossible to inherit property, or power since it usually requires property. This implied family would be predicated primarily on who your mother is, and who her siblings were. In a pre-gene savvy world, it's a failsafe method that doesn't require one gender sequestering and oppressing the other. Doesn't create a utopia—humans don't work that way—but it does change perceptions, significance, and emotions tied up with gender, sex, and engaging in sex. Dramatically. Throws a monkey wrench into concepts tied to fidelity. Turns out culture and ethnicity write themselves when you posit something like this.

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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy

> On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

#sf #scienceFiction #book #technology #fascism

#ScribesAndMakers »2026.08.09 — Have you ever switched perspective (1st, 2nd, 3rd person, 3rd close, cinematic, etc) mid-chapter/story? Was it successful in your opinion?

My biggest headache as a 3rd person close POV author was keeping truly solely in the character's perspective. C.J. Cherryh is the master of this. I failed way too often. I switched to 1st person. It limits the perspective identically, comes with a built-in narrator, includes superior error-checking, and is familiar as this is how we naturally tell stories about our experiences. I rarely fall out of POV these days.

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photographer chef cooking
#cozy #mystery #thriller #romance #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction
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#RSstory #RSInklingsStory #RSReluctanceStory
#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory

#WordWeavers 2026.08.09 — What's the smallest detail you've researched for a story?

Since word choice matters, I was going to say finding the proper word to use for a train whistle (toot), but then I remembered my on again off again quest for a single correct word. For reasons I won't go into, the types of people in the story have the names of Abrahamic subdieties, except for one. I've written various stories and over a hundred-thousand words with a placeholder name first of Rook and later Knight. They're often pejoratively referred to as horsemen, thus the placeholder (and you can use your imagination to guess why). Mostly it's about stature because even their women are exceptionally tall. Then, searching the other week, I encountered the word nilphilim. Bingo! You're welcome to look the word up and explore the rabbit hole for yourself.

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#PennedPossibilities 1095: Are any of your characters named after colors, food, or objects?

For verisimilitude, no names from our world are allowed in the Reluctance series. That kinds of people (chromatypes) are called angels, daemons, nilphilim, etc. are a different mystery. The day angel MC named herself Lightning Bolt. She's an exceptionally talented flier. Names are descriptive and there's no specific rules, except their barer usually chose them. Other names in the story are Rainy Days, Night Terror, Mead Flows Swiftly, Night on Fire, and Pigeon. The last one is a day angel who has feathers the color of a pigeon's neck and growing up got bullied with the name until he fought back by keeping it.

NB: If you examine the etymology of most names, even in English, you will find represent concepts, sentiments, places, and things. This is especially true in Japanese.

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This video is good for people (like myself :queer: 🇬🇧) who are always hoping 'somewhere else' ( #PDX, #SF, #ButteAuxCailles, etc) is at least a slightly greener pasture then where they presently live

#ParkrosePermaculture

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8oS1RrkJwk

Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky (audiobook)

This was my in-car listening for the drive to France, and it took me a couple more weeks to finish.

It’s another in the author’s endlessly inventive series of books about uplifted animals. There have been Dogs, Bears, Bees, Spiders, Crustaceans… and now we have a whole petting zoo of small animals uplifted in order to be the invisible servants who keep a “utopian” human civilisation running.

Mice, rats, squirrels, possums, reptiles, amphibians, pigeons, crows, cats… and a trash panda (raccoon) named Skotch. Originally created by a human corporation to (of course) collect trash, Skotch has followed his independent nature and now scratches a living as a private investigator. This is a hard path to follow, not least because of Rule #1, but also because all the uplifted creatures are dependent on a regular supply of a serum, which keeps them smart. In Skotch’s case, the serum must be taken in the form of eye drops—and if he misses a dose, he loses his verbal acuity, his ability to think, and reverts to his raccoon self.

Hired by his old company to find a missing mouse, with a fee too big to refuse, Skotch finds himself pitched into the titular war between the Reds and the Greys. Everybody seems to be after the missing mouse, and nobody will say why.

Like that other PI in a different genre universe, Philip Marlowe, Skotch is constantly assailed, assaulted, captured, imprisoned, and generally irritated by his various adversaries. It’s tremendous fun. At the same time, try explaining to your spouse what you’re listening to!

The audiobook is narrated by John Pirhalla, who does a lot of genre stuff and manages to imbue the various uplifted species with personality, though you will (I say again) be hard-pushed to explain the silly voices emanating from the speakers in your car.

“What on earth is that?”

“It’s a smart pigeon talking to a raccoon.”

“Is that another raccoon?”

‘No, that’s a stoat assassin.”

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

#FotoVorschlag "Objekte die mit S beginnen" :

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Shaman Space Part 5
14 months after leaving Mother of All. In final jump to Mother of All.

Sparks and Alaine were in the engine room checking over the engines before exiting jump. It had been a much busier jump than usual, as the Captain and Suri, the navigator, were bringing in the captured raider ship. At least, the crew hoped they were. Once they entered jump, there was no way of communicating or even locating the other ship.

"How are you and Seeker holding up?" Sparks asked, without looking up from the diagnostics display.
"One point five seven - what?"
"How are you and Seeker holding up? It was a pretty intense thing with that raider ship."
"We're" Alaine paused and started again "I'm still having some rough nights. I'm looking forward to meeting with a counsellor at Mother of All. Seeker says they are very good at dealing with trauma."
"And Seeker?"
"She's not as shaken up as the first time. Partly because of the first time, and partly because those people were her ancestral nemesis. But I think she's looking forward to some counselling as well."
"Good. How's that coil looking?"
"Uh, one point five seven above spec. Within acceptable limits."
"One point five seven? That's about as close to perfect as you could hope for."

The intercom chimed "Bridge to Engineering. Are we clear?" the voice of Engel the First Mate came from the grill next to the diagnostic station. Alaine glanced at Sparks who nodded.
"All clear bridge" he replied.
"All hands, all hands, stand by for re-entry into normal space."

Alaine watched as the jump engines collapsed their private universe around them, and dropped them back into normal space.
Engel's voice came over the intercom again "We are now in normal space. Resume duties."
"Reaction drives active" Alaine reported after checking his instruments.
"Confirmed. All systems online" Sparks responded as she did her own checks.
"Confirmed" Alaine replied.
"OK, off to the bridge with you, Alaine. I've got things here."

He nodded, and started to head forward. He paused at the hatch "Sparks?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks for asking."
"No problem. We're as good as family on this ship. We look after each other."
"I know, but still, thanks."

Alaine continued forward to the bridge. Engel, Dyani, and Seeker were there.
"Any word from Bright Sky?" he asked as he entered.
Seeker looked up from the comms panel "Not yet, but they could be a few minutes away."
"I'm not picking up any other ships in the immediate area" Dyani added.

Seeker frowned "Hold on" she tweaked the gain control, and listened. There was a pause. "I have Bright Sky. She's about fifteen light minutes away. She came out just before us. Sending our position."
Engel looked back at Seeker "Are they OK?"
"Yes, yes, all systems nominal."
"OK, Alaine, calculate a rendezvous that we can make into an approach to Divesen Station. Dyani, stay on the scope for any trouble."
"On it" they both replied.

Seeker looked towards the distant sun. She was almost home. She had news.

#SFF #SF #SciFi #microfic #tootfic #microfiction #IAmWriting #ShamanSpace

John Wyndham’s second novel, written sixteen years before The Day of the Triffids catapulted him to international success, is a rip-roaring tale of the race to be the first to reach Mars, and the strange life forms found on the dying world.
#books #johnwyndham #sf #sciencefiction #sci-fi
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTbvbJ-JjwQ
This reminds me of the #sf novel by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom: The Lazarus Effect in which the planet was one big ocean with almost no land and the kelp grew everywhere and became sentient. The sacks filled with gas and the kelp became airborne in it's latest stage of development.

#PennedPossibilities 1094: Saturday Word Edition: Share something from your WIP pertaining to the word “sorrow.” (For @thatwriterellie.)

Maybe if I write how the chapter will end, I'll finally write the rest of the stalled chapter! 🤞Here goes! The POV, Bolt, is a day angel, a human with wings. Warning: 1st draft. #excerpt

We watched the daemon float Molt's last box of books into the baggage compartment of the train in silence, me helping prop Molt up as he was still groggy from having his broken arm mended.

Companionable? Was silence that? Unsaid words felt awkward.

I flipped the porter a silver as my departing neighbor had been so desperate to leave town he hadn't thought of the coin necessary for fare let alone crate space. Another sign he wasn't thinking. He'd been assaulted. Arm broken. Covered in purpling bruises. I imagined not safe repeating over and over in his head.

He reached and wiped a tear from my cheek. Green eyes met mine as he said, "Not your fault," refuting my worry of having earned his hate and resentment.

He was a good man making a mistake. "You're giving up a scholarship—"

"And a friend." He coughed, looked away, maybe afraid of also losing his resolve. "Friends at school, and a neighbor who taught me to apply theory to real life. But…"

"…you must." The toot of train whistle stopped me from begging again, as did the hiss of steam.

He said firmly, "I must… Bolt?"

I was gazing reflexively at a passenger car not him, unaccustomed to my emotion flooding out toward a man. When I looked, he immediately held my chin with his good hand and swiftly kissed me, deeply, like that first time when we'd both given into the fever we felt.

Another toot. A bell, clang-clang-clang.

He said, "You've got to quit that job or run away from whatever crazy you've got yourself messed up with… before it kills you."

My mouth, lips still moist, dropped open as he rushed to the boarding steps where a conductor who I'd earlier discreetly given coin reached and helped him climb, shoes clanking on steel once, twice, thrice.

I didn't see him through the windows. I blinked too much, and it was blurry so not happening, before I stumbled turning away, thumping a few times before realizing I could glide away. I fled the length of the wood platform, not looking back, soon out of sight, breathing hard.

I had been blackmailed to work for the mob. I'd kept that secret. Details, at least.

Today hadn't gone as I'd hoped. Soon silver-sided aerodynamic cars accelerated and whizzed by. Arrow trains lived up to their name. Where I squatted atop the roof of the station, the trailing red lights were lost half a league away in the time I could have held my breath, were I not sobbing.

When I finally found the strength to fly, I flew swiftly home, exhausted already lightheaded from lack of sleep. Nearly a day had passed since I'd returned home anticipating his happy smiles. Now, when I entered my aerie, the first thing I saw was shiny magical gift I'd bought, for him, for us to share, wrapped in green satin, scented with thyme oil, tied with red ribbon, laying on the floor under the desk where I'd tossed it hearing him injured.

I collapsed to my knees. A word popped into my mind from a dodecade ago. I might have previously applied it to myself. Erroneously. All the mistakes I'd made to get myself to Molt being assaulted. Me living blackmailed. That feeling of being inflicted. But. I realized. Then. I could not feel this word, this emotion, unless I could apply it also, at the same time, to another: That would be Molt and myself. I pounded a fist on my sternum.

Is this sorrow?

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

#BoostingIsSharing

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I know I'm super behind the times, but I finally watched _Good Luck Have Fun dont Die_

Friends, that movie is a HOOT. Highly recommended. Not even remotely what I expected it to be.

In reading the notes, apparently Gore Verbinsky really drew on The Ware series by Rudy Rucker. I've never heard of this, so it's been added to the reading list.

#movies #sf #books #dystopia

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6665901-the-ware-tetralogy