#ScribesAndMakers ∆ 2026.04.17 — What's something you've learned in recent research?

The percentage of shared DNA between siblings is 31% to 61% and between aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews is 17% to 34%. Since the percentages matter to the story, it was good I looked it up. Since I'd made an error, I'm going to have to change a few things.

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#PennedPossibilities 989 — Is your MC an immigrant or newcomer in the place where they live? If so, where did they emigrate from and where do they currently live?

Bolt used to live on the northwest coast in the cliffs that formed after the ocean receded past the continental shelf, a place populated by home trees and day angels. I haven't named it, yet. When she rolled a van down a hill and threw a torch through a guild window, she ran. Superfast trains cross the continent, and you could travel faster passing through demonic gateways faster (city on world A, to world B, back to the same world but city C), but she came to Home City under her own wing power. It's inland from the south coast. She lives in Lowtown; let's just call it the low-rent district. Where she lives now is a daemon majority-region, unlike the place she lived which was predominantly day angel. Day angels are discriminated against, but Home City does have a vibrant day angel food culture, so she's not completely homesick.

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Pepper doffed his. "You don't tell her where I was. That's for me to know and her to find out." He finished his wine and went for seconds, "Go on, have a seat. Sit down. Bunny, did you throw me out of here last night?"

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Starfield auf der PlayStation: Erster Hotfix löst Abstürze im Enhanced-Modus der PS5 Pro

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.de/new-starfield-hotfix-ps5-crashes-enhanced-settings

ARC Raiders: Embark ändert kurzfristig das Expeditions-System – Spieler üben Kritik

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.eurogamer.de/arc-raiders-embark-aendert-kurzfristig-das-expeditions-system-spieler-ueben-kritik

Amazing Stories vol. 5, no. 6 (September 1930)

The guy looking out of the window is rotated 15º anticlockwise but the Chrysler building [the Empire State wasn't finished when this magazine came out] is slanted 30º clockwise. This is genius because, which way is up, literally?

A classic of the genre.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n06_1930-09_Qshadow-cape1736

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The three #ScienceFiction books in April's second Galactoscope run the gamut from crap to celestial—ahh, but that summit is worth apexing!

https://galacticjourney.org/april-17-1971-second-may-galactoscope/

Rose went and immediately sat on a chair in the corner. Woodard wandered toward the table.

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