@MicroSFF But the dodos outlawed those!

"Will there be treasure in this dungeon?""I'm sure there are some silver candlesticks, but we're after the library.""Books again? Last time we almost died just so you could read the final volume in the Nightraid Saga.""This is the library and archive of the Dungeon Builder's Guild.""Oh? Oh!"#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@MicroSFF I am choosing to believe that because the knight said it was for "a valentine", that means they have multiple valentines

@leafygreens @MicroSFF Is Leafy going Mega?

@MicroSFF [later, on subquantum channels] REPORT ON SOL III: DENIZENS NEVER THROW OLD STUFF OUT; RECOMMENDATION: HOARDER QUARANTINE

@simon_brooke Deleted my first reply for being unnecessarily snotty. Sorry about that. I have the Witcher books on my to-be-read list. Looking forward to reading that story.

@DarkHolmePublishing My pick is "Haunt".

@starchturrets And I try to stay on topic, because another Wayland v X11 fight is not needed in my timeline

@MicroSFFthat's awesomea bit more on the nose than some may imagine

@MicroSFF how many recharges can it take?We might need some spares rn.

#microfiction #wasps #hymenoptera “Its like how I’ve heard your kind describe the galls you get in your teeth—““you mean cavities!?”“Just so! It is like how when examined by the tongue the cavity is said to seem large. And yet, in reality it is small. That is how it is with mine ovipositor. I can see the cell walls, yes, the holy scriptures in the language of the enzymes… and I just reach in and? I make little correction. I make little change. That is how I make the gall.”1/

@MicroSFF True to his legend, I guess, but...... I never understood the living backwards thing. Communication problems aside... Would he just randomly work in places until the day he actually signs a job contract? How would he be able to do anything without changing the future he had just come from? What if he bumps into something - would somebody go and carefully arrange a broken vase on the floor, just so it can become whole once Merlin bumps into it?

@metaphil ach soich mach hab die TL meistens nicht ganz zu oberst, dann scrollt sie nicht bekommt aber trotzdem neue posts reinaber ja, wäre wirklich ein nices feature wenn es bei mouseover automatisch stoppen würdevlt request machen im repo?

"Air force One, please turn heading to 135. You are diverted to Hungary. You are not allowed to enter Swiss airspace. Please confirm.""Swiss airspace control, you do know that we have the president on board to go to Davos?""Air force One, we are aware. Please confirm heading 135 and divert to Hungary"#Microfiction

@MicroSFF 🫣

"Do you know where I can look up Frungal's Extractor?"The magic school librarian sighed. "That grimoire is locked away.""Why?""That spell extracts your anxieties and fears and turns them into a creature.""Yes! To slay!""In theory. In practice, nobody can slay the new pet they created."#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

@gdinwiddie @MicroSFF Librarians are high in my pantheon of Really Great People.

@MicroSFF Ah, that explains the magical images coming from JWST then

@MicroSFF Or as somebody illustrated it:

The young woman chanted. Before her swirled a mass of inky black magic."Good," said Mistress Agathie. "Now, focus! Imagine the magic taking the form of your familiar - whatever you imagine that to be."The magic cloud coalesced into the form of a raven. The bird blinked in surprise. "I live!" the bird exclaimed. "But - what am I?""You are my raven familiar," said the young girl."Ah, cool, I see," said the bird. "Just one question. What is a raven familiar?"#microfiction