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#PennedPossibilities 844 — Tell about your MC’s stress behaviors.

How's about a spiffy list?

Difficulty concentrating and then making stupid decisions.
Devaluing her real talents. (She's an amazing photographer, but regrets being convinced into let a newspaper use her "hobby" photos. Now she's in demand, which is actually a bad thing...)
Memory loss. (Maybe. Possibly spoilers.)
Constant worry or racing thoughts.
Irritability and snapping at others.
Feeling apathetic or uninterested in life. (Her distinguishing quality.)
Avoiding people, places, and situations. (Does this much of the story, except when she ignores her fears, sometimes stupidly or hedonistically—which may be the same thing. See below.)
Seeking out and riding men. (Yes. A euphemism, but you get the gist I'm sure.)

@floofpaldi, I used your list and modified it. 😇

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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist 1h ago

#PennedPossibilities 843 — Antagonist POV: What keeps you up at night?

The Director of Home and the Nine Outer Words is an antagonist with more than a world-wide power base, one she knows she cannot rule by herself. She delegates her authority through ministers she appoints as well as the Board of the Elected, maintaining civilian heads for the air, water, land, and space militaries. (One such MC for the army is the subject of the most of modern stories in the Reluctance Series except the current wip.) She even delegates property using a concept called property stewardship: Nobody owns anything permanently, and if they don't steward it properly or ethically, they can lose it. The system more or less runs itself in the direction (as The Director) she sets. Yet, there are policies she wants to ensure, the big one being that humanity does not go extinct. As the total rather infertile population has dropped from closer to 300 million to closer to 200 million, keeping little things like contraceptives legal is a recurring ethical concern she sometimes has to fight for.

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Ricardo Harvin 1h ago

FYI: Apparently Apple is dropping new episodes based on something other than
the typical Eastern Time used by U.S.-based streamers.

I don't know if it's GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), the literal IDL (International Date Line), or something else.

Anyway, the Friday release of episode 3 is now airing on AppleTV 👏🏿

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Stephane N 2h ago

Trailer Cold Storage https://trailers.zouluvo.com/cold-storage/

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Reno's World 3h ago

Is Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ just hype? – Review

The title of this post, "Is Guillermo del Toro's ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ just hype?" is a question I asked on X a couple of days before watching this movie. I got so many replies from people telling me "Yes! It's a masterpiece." or "I watched more than 3 times already". I actually got many replies from people telling me they already watched it multiple times, so I had big expectations for this movie. Overall, it was a good movie. Yeah, a good movie, not the best movie I have ever seen, and I […]

https://renos.world/is-guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-just-hype-review/

So many dynamos 3h ago

Five of my micropoems "[satin paramecium]," "[accumulations]," "[record what I say]," "[climaxes]," and "[papa's whereabouts]" are online at Five Fleas https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/11/afternoon-of-november-13-2025.html
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Afternoon of November 13, 2025

SciFi/Fantasy Magazine Covers 4h ago

Fantastic Adventures vol. 10, no. 6 (June 1948)

This creature should be more scary but its big bulging eye is goofy and it is literally toothless. It's going to gum you to death. I feel the whole thing may just be a misunderstanding.

Original magazine: https://archive.org/details/Fantastic_Adventures_v10n06_1948-06_unz.org

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