🎶catching up on 3 #wss366 prompts in one post, tra-la!

Little Uchuma, a piranha lass, was about to turn one, and her parents had invited the whole school to a birthday party in celebration. They #lavished a whole pirarucu on the partygoers, who tore into it with furious abandon, sending bits and flakes and chunks into the water until resembled a fish stew, a scene Uchuma's parents observed with #affection, while on shore, human observers reacted with #revulsion.

#microfiction

Star-Cross Cookies: Part 1

#FanFiction #AscendanceOfABookworm
#Wss366 Revulsion

Having finished giving the chef the next recipe she wanted to try, Aub Rozemyne looked around the kitchen. Sometimes she got an idea when she saw something new. This time, it was a row of brown ceramic pots, each with two blue stars, that caught her attention.

“Milburn, what are those?” she asked the chef.

“Those would be pickles, Your Grace. They’re for Star-Cross Day.”

He took down a jar without further instruction, something he would never have done for another noble, let alone the Aub. But Rozemyne was different. She was relaxed about etiquette and had an insatiable curiosity.

He opened the vessel, releasing the smell of vinegar, wine, and spices. Then he reached in to extract a large, flat, brown bug. “This is a coach beetle,” he said, showing it to her.

“Ughhh.” Her response was involuntary as #revulsion swept over her. To her, they looked like giant cockroaches.

"Why would you eat that?" she asked, scrunching up her face.

“I suppose you wouldn’t know, Your Grace. Next week is a local holiday when the twin stars align. It’s said that proposals made on that day are blessed. Also, if your partner eats one of these, they’ll never stop loving you. Young men make quite a show of swallowing them.”

“Yuck! Why those?”

“When these little devils mate, the male rides around on the female’s back for weeks. That’s how they got the name coach beetle. Some people believe that men who eat them will be as faithful as the beetles themselves.”

Rozemyne thanked the chef and departed. “I know one thing: I’m not giving Ferdinand one of those. Revolting!”

[To be Continued]

Tags: #MicroFiction #TootFic #SliceOfLife #NMFic #Bookworm #AoaB #ValentinesDay

The TNG era had some really fun, creepy #Alien monsters-in-the-dark episodes:
#Impulse - Enterprise
#Macrocosm - Voyager
#Revulsion - Voyager
#Juggernaut - Voyager
#EmpokNor - DS9
#Genesis - TNG

Of course, for my DS9 pick the monster turned out to be #Garak, dat rascal!

#AllStarTrek #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekDS9 #StarTrekEnterprise

Le podcast est là : https://pyongyangcityrockers.wordpress.com/2025/06702/평양-city-rockers-395-hecatombe-et-resilience-02-07-2025/

Hier soir y n'n'avot qu'un, mais soutenu par les trois mousquetaires du backstage Manu, Majid et Philippe - la playlist louvoya entre hardcore, garage, grind, punk, protopunk, et powerpop, avec même un reggae avant la fin : #Revulsion, #Pleaser, #Perpetual, #Kritiek, #Gutter, #Turquoise, #Kræng, @spacebucket, #JodieFaster, #District105, #RasMichael & The Sons of Negus, #Richarichar, #PinkFairies, #TheLambrettas, #ModernEnglish et #Identité... Merci !

평양 City Rockers 395 – Hécatombe Et Résilience (02-07-2025)

On est pas bien là, à la fraîche, décontractés du LBD ? Un génocide palestinien dans une main, un naufrage de réfugiés dans l’autre, et on crèvera quand on aura envie de crever.

Cet instant fatidique n’étant pas encore arrivé, vos Grandes Leadrices et Deurs vous donnent rendez-vous avec dans leur petit sacquelet la meilleure programmation punk, oi!, hardcore et louchement bruyante de l’univers.

Pyongyang City Rockers #395 c’est ce soir, rendez-vous 20h. sur Campus Lille 106,6fm, en DAB+ (7C) vers Arras-Béthune-Lille, ou encore en streaming web tout partout grâce au http://www.campuslille.com.

Est-ce la canicule, la fatigue estivale, l’attrait de la Carapils chaude ou la myxomatose, on ne saurait vous l’dire avec certitude mais cette édition 395 de Pyongyang City Rockers fut désertée par quasiment toustes les Grandes Leadrice et Deurs – n’en resta donc qu’un, armé de courage et de Jupi fraîche (chacun son truc) et soutenu par les trois mousquetaires du backstage Manu, Majid et Philippe – la playlist louvoya entre hardcore, garage, grind, punk, protopunk, et powerpop, avec même un reggae avant la fin : Revulsion, Pleaser, Perpetual, Kritiek, Gutter, Turquoise, Kræng, Space Bucket, Jodie Faster, District 105, Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus, Richarichar, Pink Fairies, The Lambrettas, Modern English et Identité… Merci !

La liste :
Revulsion – Living Hell
Pleaser – My Fantasy
Perpetual – Bloody Leaders
Perpetual – Pai Ulung-Salah Pai
Kritiek – Prison Bars
Gutter – Stranded
Turquoise – Fosse Commune
Kræng – Kræng
Space Bucket – Néo Naze
Space Bucket – Komplot
Jodie Faster – S.O.R.G.A.
District 105 – Not Worth Saving (Live @ Enter the Dragon 2024)
Ras Michael & The Sons of Negus – Sufferation
Richarichar – 1000 Islands
Pink Fairies – Do It!
The Lambrettas – Da-a-a-ance
Modern English – Life In The Gladhouse
Identité – Sous-Sol

#District105 #Gutter #Identité #JodieFaster #Kræng #Kritiek #ModernEnglish #Perpetual #PinkFairies #Pleaser #RasMichael #Revulsion #Richarichar #SpaceBucket #TheLambrettas #Turquoise

A quotation from Orwell

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-09), “Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver’s Travels,” Polemic, No. 5

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/76157/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #body #disgust #food #horror #humanity #nature #pleasure #revulsion #wonder

Le podcast est là : https://pyongyangcityrockers.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/평양-city-rockers-381-neuf-et-exclus-26-03-2025/

Hier c'était jour d'émission... Vous êtes gâtées, Ô Auditrices et Teurs, vlà une avalanche de nouveautés et d'exclus dans ce Pyongyang City Rockers #381 (#Belljars, #Cantagrel, #JodieFaster, #EdMudshi, #UltraRazzia, #TheMercenaries), y a aussi les annonces concerts (#GutsPieEarshot, #Précipice), des sons étranges venus de bien loin (#1186, #YatKha), et les vieilles marmites dans lesquelles on commence et termine les meilleures émissions (#TheShocks, #Revulsion)... Merci !

PS : avec un remerciement à @Ortie vers 16:54 !

#punk #oi! #hardcore #shoegaze #throatsinging