Bonus points to the comment that used almost the exact same terminology, one chapter ahead of time.
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2022-10-28 08:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-10-25 04:04:49 +0000 UTC View PostThanks again for everyone's continued support. It means a lot to me, and not just because of the whole 'rent and food' thing.
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“For people who hate socialism, libertarians sure do like being publicly owned.” -Aubry G-
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“James’ phone, this is James.” James said into the phone he’d hastily pulled out of his pocket and left on his kitchen counter as he made breakfast for his partners.
“You know that it’s imposs...
2022-10-23 06:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-10-21 06:21:47 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-10-18 02:21:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Un jour je serai de retour près de toi” -Cindy’s message, Disco Elysium-
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Twelve hours later, well after the sun had abandoned the September evening, but before it was so absurdly late that everyone had gone home, James sat on one side of a desk in the gathering warehouse, fiddling with a magic item and helping Liz find stuff in the stacks of documents on the surface between them.
They weren’t monstrous stacks, not like you’d see i...
2022-10-15 19:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-10-13 19:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostBack from vacation. Posts resuming.
Also, as seems to be a trend for me, my chapter length slowly creeps upward. I might change to one longer chapter a week in the future, we'll see. Honestly, the rapid shorter chapters was less how I felt like writing and more what was needed to be seen on RoyalRoad, so this is probably fine.
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2022-10-10 17:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere *might* not be a chapter next week, as I may be on vacation, but I am not sure. Either next week or the week after. This is a warning in potentia.
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“I think there are four or five serious philosophical questions. The first one is: Who started it? The second is: Are we gonna make it? The third is: Where are we gonna put it? The fourth is: Who's gonna clean up? And the fifth: Is it serious?” -Alan Watts-
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“Nate!” &nbs...
2022-10-02 01:10:40 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-30 04:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-27 01:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals-
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For a while, James’ life threatened to approach something resembling a routine. One that would baffle anyone who thought that a routine meant what time you got up to go to school or work, and maybe what you liked to eat for lunch, but a routine all the same.
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2022-09-23 00:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostAN : I'm going to try to aim for Monday and Thursday as weekly releases of this story, going forward.
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I'm glad I made a bit of a backlog, because *wow* is editing eating up my time and emotional energy.
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“People often accuse me of tearing up tradition, but what is tradition, apart from peer pressure from dead people?” -Magid Magid, The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change-
“I talked to some of the more leader-y camracondas yesterday.” James spoke softly as he got dressed in the bedroom he shared with his partners. A bout of interio...
2022-09-17 16:03:51 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-13 20:02:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m gonna throw this out there; I think I’d trust an evolved AI more than a designed one. I dunno who designed that AI! But I feel a deep kinship with one that, like me, evolved from complete nonsense and uses a VPN to avoid getting caught doing stuff.” -Jordan Holmes, Knowledge Fight (Episode 722, Space Capitalism Is Still Capitalism)-
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“Hedgehog.” James thought to himself forcefully. He was lounging against a wall in one of the ...
2022-09-10 11:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-08 18:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-06 02:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-09-03 05:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostNow with epbus.
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2022-08-31 11:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostQuick author's note : let me know if you find the PDF's useful. I dunno if anyone is actually using them.
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“Violence is the language that those in power use to destroy their own world. Violence in turn is the only way they can be forced to listen.” -Noah Gervais, Souls Inheritors-
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“Rufus!” James exclaimed, high-fiving the growing strider as he passed by in the basement hallway.
James had just come from the main h...
2022-08-30 03:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-08-28 02:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post“I am going to show you how to kill your landlord.” -Omicron, ELDRITCH VOIDTUBER VIRIDIAN S. LAUGHTER HUNTING BLOOD-STREAM-
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In the open air above the clear space within the library, an optical illusion took place.
Well, it wasn’t much of an illusion. Arrush stared up at where the shelves began to bend and coil, until their edges started to connect in ways that were clearly meant to be evocative of a glass dome. On a well honed reflex, he held...
2022-08-25 07:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-08-24 20:15:43 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-08-22 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post“All the world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first… they have to catch you.” -Richard Adams, Watership Down-
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Over the last few years of his life, James had ended up in a lot of weird places. And not even dungeon-weird, either. Just the simple real world oddity of spaces that were strangely designed, or became unsettling when you were in them under unusual circums...
2022-08-22 20:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-08-20 23:13:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Alas poor Yorik, it’s clobberin’ time.” -Ben Ulmer-
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A thumbtack entered a pin board, bringing with it the sheet of paper that had just been moved. A moment later, a loop of green yarn around the tack was pulled taut as it was once again connected to another point on the board. “Like this!” Sarah’s voice cut through the hum of a powerful air conditioning unit and the rustle of a half dozen people working on their own stuff in...
2022-08-19 02:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed - Apparatus Of Change
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2022-08-18 17:35:47 +0000 UTC View Post