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gryphonrhi.bsky.social
She/ze. Fan, reader, writer, hiker, cook. Chronically ill, damn it. Source of plots, help with fight scenes, and even good advice, sometimes. 0.000083% (thereabouts, might be slightly more) owner of a Hugo. #nobridge
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Post 1 sentence/day, any project, for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 22: “So you searched every inch of his apartment, because if he was really spying for another country, this,” and Alan waved his hand at the cubes around them, “is where he’d be taking his files and evidence *from*.”

When @bradtakei.bsky.social and I first got together, we never imagined we’d one day celebrate Pride openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

"It was the third of June Another sleepy, dusty Delta day . . ." One of the best examples of storytelling in song: youtu.be/cJZ_ViDADOE?...

For the curious, snafu is stage one. Stage Two: TARFU, Things Are Really F*cked up. Stage Three is important: FUBAR. F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition. :looks around:

It's really that simple.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 21: "Tell me what not to mention, hmm, or watch your plans gang aft agley." (There are good lines in this one. I should finish it.)

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 21: The mint had made it this long and was putting in a bid for immortality, as mint liked to do.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 20: El usually preferred wine, but her potential customer had ordered a microbrew after looking over the menu of beers the way she'd scan a cheese display.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 19: He's got added momentum on it now -- it's instinct not to drop your weapon, and that jerk upward is always fun to add to his next strike -- 1/2

@amandabf.bsky.social

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 18: The bank clerk had his hands up and was speaking real slow and careful, not being of a mind to add any lead to his late lunch. (On vacation and forgot this, oops.)

'Typos' - embarrassing - show a lack of care - invite ridicule 'Written Bloopers' - funny - humanizing - often better than whatever you were going to type

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 17: “Like you, I cannot yet see what shape is under the water, but I feel as if we have something far bigger, and with more teeth, than we had expected.”

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum marks the 400th anniversary of the Yamaki Pine, an ancient tree that survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and has since become a symbol of peace.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 16: "Tell me, did D.C. throw you under the bus to us or did you think this up all on your ambitious own?”

Please join us tonight!

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 15: The cloud blew up the mountain ahead of him, impossible to catch, but Henry chased it anyway. (Sometimes, the opening lines just *work*.)

Show me someone that looks good in sunglasses

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 14: Elizabeth MacRae, Liz’s mind kicked out; the AD was also watching this with a complete focus on both the events and probably the politics behind them.

Day 13: No one in the surrounding systems mourned when the Supreme Intelligence was torn out by the crystals and power circuits, shredded to backups, and then those backups blown to microparticles that washed out into the solar winds to be irradiated and scattered across solar systems.

If you pay attention to just one thing tonight, make it this

Nobody fucking listens to me.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 12: Every free minute he had, most of them taken out of his sleep, had been spent trying to figure out what he’d missed.

The european citizens' initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU only has 250k signatures and needs to amass 1 million in the next 7 days... If you live in the EU, please sign it (you can't otherwise); if you don't, please share it around.

Post 1 sentence per day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 11: "You brought in the implication that you were paying me and were automatically entitled to the information, so I am now working on the assumption that you absolutely are not."

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 10: Feeling life signs while also watching for his shot should have been distracting, but at this point in Pegasus, not using Ancient tech was the part that felt weird.

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 9: "When I realized what could have happened to Colby in prison if the Chinese hadn’t believed he was still their agent, I gave up on sleep, too.”

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 8: Each time she heard a new piece of glass shatter, Amanda kept hearing herself think, 'Marcus is going to hire hit squads over this.'

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 7: It took him a full twenty minutes of steady work to finally break the stillness – such a pleasure, a man who used small talk properly.

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 6: But tell you right now, walking trees can’t sign a logging contract.

Your evening timeline cleanse - irises opening today: By Jeeves with a deep purple velvety falls and an unknown frilly lilac colored tall bearded iris from the previous owner. If you happen to know what it’s called, please let me know. Sweet dreams, Bluesky.

A shameless plug for the TV show “Andor” but it was just May the 4th and this quote felt like it was talking right to us. Goodnight friends. 💚 Get some rest.

Post 1 sentence/day from any project for 25 days. No explanations or judgment. Day 6: I could be happier about *how* you did it, but at the end of the day, most of ours are alive, a serious leak is plugged, and you didn’t start a war doing it.