Kem Herkes8 Apr: Victuals?
#TIL this word for "food and/or provisions" is pronounced vittles which rhymes with skittles, which is a game not a food.
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Yeah, that's all I've got.
Ellen's Very Southern Voice#ScribesAndMakers April 8: Victuals?
Which I automatically translate to vittles which leads me directly to the Beverly Hillbillies which I always hated. So, no, no victuals in my work. Food, maybe.
Quasi#ScribesAndMakers 8: Victuals?
Have legitimately never heard this term before. Is it like nuptials? (reads tag) Nope. Okay, I got nothing.
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.07 — Would your current creative project make a good game? (If it is a game, is there another media where you think it could work well?)
I'm the last person someone would ask for game ideas, but the current project has plenty of flying scenes. I don't mean aircraft, or spacecraft either. The main character is a day angel, and most of the cast have wings. There's even a night angel to mix things up. One has feathers, the other doesn't. They all fly. Human powered flight, but the how is spoilers. The POV flies fast and trains hard, is an air courier, and speeds between buildings and through alleyways like a daredevil. No shoot-em-up, but there are chase scenes. It's a lot of 1st person flight, including flying tandem. The latter is NSFW, but the rest might be pretty exciting!
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Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET#ScribesAndMakers Would your current creative project make a good game?
Not content-wise. Of course, using the general idea would be great to spread awareness about #AIPsychosis and the #LonelinessEpidemic, but this would have to come in a much different form. Actually, I imagined it to be a chamber play, though this will probably never be put into action
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Sifaseven#ScribesAndMakers Day 8. Victuals?
Today was ramen noodles, water and mocha chocolate yogurt. I'm trying to eat healthier nowadays.
Kagan MacTane (he/him)#ScribesAndMakers day 8: Victuals?
That always makes me think of the shortened/variant form "vittles", which in turn leads me to wonder: The phrase "beer and skittles" predates the candy by quite some time, right? (I'm positive I heard the phrase in my youth, and then later when the candy appeared on the market, I thought, "Oh, they must've named them after that phrase.") But what did it mean before then?
(Okay, I just looked it up. Apparently it was a game often played in pubs.)
Emme Klama#ScribesAndMakers 8. Victuals?
Food? Yes please? Every single one of my stories has what food the MC/SC eats...like this new one about Macaroni (see?) Penguins who own a hotel in Antarctica but go on an adventure to rescue their South African cousins - they throw a rave before they leave.
Kit Author#ScribesAndMakers 8. Victuals?
Mine? I had oatmeal for breakfast, though quite often I have a smoothie because that's all my stomach can tolerate.
In my books? When I write cozy fantasy I try to bring in all the food, especially from Eben, my half-orc chef. In fact, I'm hoping to experiment with hand pie recipes because of what he makes in the stories.
Other fantasy? I mention it and I try to be creative, but quite a few of my characters live on office coffee.