639. Does your MC have any pets?

No, there are Terran configured ships that have animal companions of all kinds but first they are no pets & even have functions on board, one ship has a group of rats that inspects the structural system etc, another has Whales on board that are part of a think tank (quite literally) but most are Union ships in he civilian sector (not the Think Tank thou). Similar ships exist from all other 5 core worlds of the Union. It's quite rare to find AC species in the military but test ships exist a.a.e. for falcons or owls where their flying patterns are used to steer the ships in an virtual environment, not every AC species has a function onboard ships. Still on ships like the Ghoz'Tarc it's considered tortures for an AC & with several weeks away from home most of the crew only have AC's at home if they have family or friends who can care for them, Terra is still a Humanoid centric world.

#PennedPossibilities 639 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #writing #SciFi #WIP

PennedPossibilities 639 addendum

the think tank especially only has space on ships like the Unions Flagship the Phoenix which by all means is more a city in space, and seen as the Unions mobile government, where the think tank consisting of several aquatic species has enough room.

Rarely Humanoid species are able to communicate without assistance from translation AI's with non Humanoid species. Terran Rodent scatter is quite complicated.

Whales are known for their extrem good long Term planins and strategic thinking while dolphins and similar Xeni Species more for the shifting Tactics quick decisions etc.

But as mentioned before this are Rare instances most ACs in space have been select do to their closeness to Humanoid Terrans (Homeworld or Xeni) & shown interest of communication via AI tools.
It's not like branches of the military exists that go out & scan the oceans for such individuals.

#PennedPossibilities 639 addendum #StarRyde #Animals #WorldBuilding #writing #SciFi #WIP

640. MC POV: Tell us about the good habits you have.

Kira:"Uoargh do you know how unpleasant self assessments are? Well here it goes. I'm reliable, I have leading abilities that include listening to my crew taking in their opinion but also pull unpopular decisions. I'm fair and try to lead by example, this is why I take time for everyone if the needs arise after all we are a family here on board even if we aren't related we need to align as good as possible, since we are military that means we have certain traits/goals in common but it is still work to do. I train every day before breakfast running my laps through the ship, I do my paperwork as soon as possible, I care for my crew and I even cook for them, okay the last part was originally Anikas Idea but I will keep it alive and I kept my promise to eat at least one not liquid meal a day for several weeks by now.

#PennedPossibilities 640 #StatRyde #KiraKnox #Writing #SciFi #WIP

Side prompt: Elevator quick pitch of your WIP, only the worst pitch ever.

StarRyde, the blatant rip off and re dressing of your favorite SciFi franchise as an LGBTQIA+ friendly mix of every other successful SciFi franchise you know, that might end up as the never finished, ultimate fanfiction and trope rethinking, riddled with bad jokes.

Bad enough?

Since it's an elevator pitch...
A new one came to my mind

Space Elevator, the daily routine of a space lift boy.

-- Edit 13.04.2025 Fake Review for Space Elevator.
"This Story has it all you can really feel for the protagonist and the author delivers all the ups and downs..." --

Thanks to @Maelguerra for this one.

#PennedPossibilities #sidepeompt #StatRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

0.044. What is the most altruistic thing your MC has ever done?

1/2
Kira: well she is a soldier, often enough she had to cover retreating soldiers or evacuating civilians and risk her life. She once took in a seemingly drunk Talith who turned out to be on the brink of Terran Talith cross intoxication and also a fellow soldier who got attacked by nefarious "creatures."
She spends her excess money for equalisation efforts on projects for lifting up and raising living standards on associated, trade and rim worlds around the Union territory.

Arkham: she bought out her favorite noodle restaurant in London with her savings as the owner wanted to shut down business do to not having any customers. It worked out for a time but had to shut down eventually, 5 years later do to health issues... but well the rooms are hers. That's is one reason why she likes her flat in London so much no neighbors underneath...

#PennedPossibilities 0.044. #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #writing #SciFi #WIP

0.044. 2/2

Well I think Ashlei isn't truly altruistic or maybe she is... Depending on how you measure this with an AI that highest priority is to protect it's crew.

If we would take human standards of today as an indication she shares her body with and cares for ~40 persons and this 24 hours a day...
If that doesn't sounds like a single parent I don't know and single parents are altruistic right?
Minus the body sharing thing... That sounds more like a psychological challenge but who said different forms of existence aren't challenging for our perception?

#PennedPossibilities 0.044. #StarRyde #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

641. How do you relax and recharge when the muse is depleted.

Shut it down and connect it to te charger like with my cat if it's shiny eyes don't work at night... Just kidding, I have no cat.

I can't tell really, in one way or another creative energy always flows through me. If it is a stupid joke or rage fueled revenge fantasies.
I'm not a nice person all the time especially if someone crosses me or backstabs me emotionally. Happened several times, that said I never act them out, sometimes its the most silly but sadistic ideas.

Like: I hope you need to pass gas everytime you want to kiss, or; may butterflies poop on your candies all the time & than I plan to "mind control" butterflies.

Imagine taste combinations while eating & than testing them. Improving flawed designs or repairing broken household items.
And if I listen to music it just paints scenes in my mind.

In one way or another I am creative all the time but often in not so useful ways.

#PennedPossibilities 641 #writing

642. How old are some of your characters?

Terran's in Star Ryde live up to a 150 years if everything goes well. 120-130 is more normal 1. case got to 200 & people are still unsure how. Thus it's harder for people of our time to pinpoint an exact age of a person while in universe most people do not really care, the age range on board the Ghoz'Tarc starts with 20 - goes up to 65. A lot of Terran people prefer to not work on the military after their 65 year of life because even with all advances it's still a hard job to do. That said brass often is composed from older soldiers & an unwritten rule seems to be that you have to be past your 30es to enter.

Kira is around 35, her closest friends on board minus Arkham are all in the range of 30-40 ish.

Arkham is 25-30.

XO Jenkins is in the same range as Kira.
XO Troika is around his 50.
Dr. Waberie & Dr. Kaiden are in their 30.

Ash as the ships AI is merely 6 years old. The Ghoz'Tarc itself is 10.

#PennedPossibilities 642 #StarRyde

643 Ketchup
How does your SC respond to the quiet? Do they take comfort in silence, or seek to fill the void with noise?

In space no one hears silence.
Wait what?
It's true at least if you are onboard of a working space craft.
The ships are quite but they have mechanical components, the hull vibrates while traveling and even with dampening solutions a ship is humming in a certain way.
And if you are in an area that has enough particles to transmit sounds to your Space suit it gets quite loud inside. Stars and geological active worlds even atmospheres produce a quite noise. And if sound ever is absent from the outside you would t believe how loud your own pulse can get.

And as always with SC questions it depends on the crew member.

Mondira likes short periods of 'silence' in which she can relax.

Dr. Kaiden prefers quite music in the background until his favorite song plays than he blasts out the lyrics.

#PennedPossibilities 643 ketchup #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #writing #SciFi #WIP

644. Does your MC’s current actions reflect their past experiences?

Yes and No.

Kira despite all that happened to her has become an outgoing, open minded and people interested person that deeply cares for her society she lives in, she has a more somber toned down side she rarely let people into that close. As a soldier she seems to be able to prevent others from her expirience.

Arkham pretty much. She still tries to distance from people until she knows them enough but she doesn't go out of her way to know them. Why she started to feel something for Kira is beyond her understanding atm but she decided to not wasting it by questioning it to much.

Ash hasn't made to many experiences yet and her basis is a different one as for humanoid of biological creatures.

#PennedPossibilities 644 Ketchup #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

645 What was the most unexpected challenge you encountered while writing your WIP?

The story itself and how little I am actually progressing.

I can create worlds giving hints about stories that unfold but developing the stories itself is incredibly hard for me.

My progress is slow and barely worth mentioning atm and I still find details I want to add to the existing parts....

And since I am struggling again with a lot of other stuff i also struggle again with keeping my WIP active.

#PennedPossibilities 645 #StarRyde #writing #WIP #SciFi

646 How would you describe your MC’s job or occupation? (You can be comedic about it, if you like.)

Kira Knox: "Punching people until they behave properly. Because that's surely how it works, right?"

Arkham: "Plowing through space."

Ashlei: "I would describe my occupation as how to serv people. Correction. How to serve for people. Correction. How to serv forty people. Correction. How to serv for forty people."

Arkham: "Was this an attempt of a joke?"

Ashlei: "Did it work?"

Arkham: "No."

Ashlei: "Did I 'butcher' the timing? Or was my attempt to 'intelligent' was it to 'artifical?'"

Arkham smirked: "That was a good one."

#PennedPossibilities 646 #StarRyde #writing #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

647 This is a prompt for visually impaired authors. How do you focus on the senses in your writing? Do you think that makes your writing any different from what you’ve encountered before?

It depends on days my eyesight is worse than usual I tend to write more blinded scenes in which I focus more on other senses.

I have a very vivid reaction to smells or touches as I have for sounds or on good days vision. It's not that I have synesthesia but an very deep emotional response. All my senses exist in a dull state, usually my daily state, but occasionally get "hyper charged" as my sense of taste got while having COVID. Yeah everyone got numbed down I could taste my teeth.💀🤢 How does that make sense?

In such cases I tend to write other sense focusing stuff. Arkhams hyper sensitivity & pilot skills are one of that results. Some ideas I got while talking to my main partner who is also hypersensitive in more than one way came up as we both had "a bad" day.

#PennedPossibilities 647 #writing

648
MC POV: Tell us about your home

1/3
Kira: "Home like Terra where my mother lives? Home like the Ghoz'Tarc? Or the House I inherited from my biological parents?
The first is near London, close to the coast & the Alliance Academy. Anika & I lived there together with Mum & Dad. It was mostly because its easy to access the Terra Unika/Union Central Government for Terra & the Alliance Academy Dad teached at.
The Ghoz'Tarc for obvious reasons.
I have the captains quarter since Anika went MIA which is basically a 16² mtr 1. room apartment.
My house on Terralysium is way to large for me alone & we originally planned to move their together when Mum would leave the government job behind, even for 3 people it would be quite big. I only have a small section furnished which I use as an apartment. Don't know how I feel living their without Ann & only Mum in the future ...
Maybe Arkham and I could live their..."

#PennedPossibilities 648 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP #writing

648 2/3

Arkham:"Do you mean my hyperpod here onboard the Ghoz'Tarc? Or my Apartment in London? I live over an empty Restaurant, I own the parts of the building since I paid the restaurant owner to help him survive but he wasn't happy how it worked at all and left for his home colony. After we made an agreement that I take this part of house as a payment...
I don't have any idea what to do with it and I would need to come up with a development plan for the other owners in the building. It's at least quite comfy to have no neighbors underneath, it's a quite part of London far away from the Waterfront of the western (northern) sea. The district is quite, a lot of different species around and not to far from the academy. A lot of restaurants, the apartment is only a two room one. Maybe I turn the empty restaurant into a dancing studio or make a deal with the Alliance Pilot Division, who knows..."

#PennedPossibilities 648 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP #writing

648 3/3

A.S.H.L.E.I.: "I am home to 40 crew members as long we are on mission, I could hold up to 60 more persons in my Cargo bay and the passenger quarters if we remove/rearrange the added service module containers, for a short time. My personality is stored inside my main frame onboard the Ghoz'Tarc. This might sound confusing but as the AI of the Ghoz'Tarc I am integral part of the ship. By all definition we are one but I don't like to refer to my body as the Ghoz'Tarc. I assume you could argue that it is a form of Synthetics Body Dysphoria or maybe not. The Ghoz'Tarc is my body even if it doesn't fit my personal understanding as a synthetic female person. But this doesn't answers your question right?
My home as the Ghoz'Tarc is space.
I feel most at home in Union space especially in the Union/Alliance Phoenix Fleet. It is like my home herd. Does this make sense to non Spacecraft persons?"

#PennedPossibilities 648 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP #writing

649 What research did you conduct for your WIP, and did you uncover anything surprising or fascinating?

I am very curious by nature & at least until COVID hit me had a enormous storage for facts & anecdotes. I am still have them but I more often forget them nowadays if I don't back them up somehow.

I tried learning more languages to get a feel what I could do in Star Ryde.
I try to get into arts like drawing and painting again which can fill whole university courses & a lot of anecdotes stuck with me like the probability that people painting good hand or foot pictures is increasing with their personal preferences for some sort of erotic interest in them.

I learned that without sexwork the Internet & our society wouldn't be the same, which role alcohol played in almost every part of human evolution & why it was a helpful tool in survival. That we have a natural preposition to spot snakes.
How censorship works, what queer coding is.

#PennedPossibilities 649 #writing #research #SciFi

650.
What profession would you have if you lived within the world of your WIP?

Well mystical, civilian cyborg, SciFi author_ity demigod or something like that. At least that's what "I"am, besides part time hostage and trouble maker, in the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe (SR:SIRAU), that's simply exists to have me answer the otherwise weird interactions between "ME" and my characters, that some prompts want to know. And yes the hashtags are there so if you are interested in my mental "creations" of that particular kind just klick it.

Edit: its 29 toots if I counted correctly mostly English some are German.

#PennedPossibilities 650. #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU #writing #SciFi #WIP's

651. Name one person that would willingly hold your MC back if they were ever in the “raving lunacy” stage of anger?

J. 198 cm tall muscle lady with a heart of gold and the capability of hugging bears... Most people can't resist and it's not really a matter of character (even as a sweet soul like her) if she don't want you to resist she probably can enforce it especially since she is a flexible person too.

Ash in a more ... Dystopian way ...

AJ at least they did it in the self insert romance alternative universe at one point before shooting at the author_ity.

#PennedPossibilities 651 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #JHarveyGladstone #Ashlei #AJ #AntagonistJunior #AJohnsen

652. Do you ever use cliffhangers at narrative breaks and/or chapter endings?

If appropriate yes especially in RPG rounds it can happen that playing folks or the DM have to leave earlier & since the narrative is dependent on the characters, players & dice rolls deciding over the progress cliff hanger are a regular occurrence.

In writing stories I tend to not like them but I also don't like pulling long explanations if something can be addressed in 2 sentences in the next chapter, like someone felt asleep. So they can be useful, as a mental tipping point if the final approaches slowly & you want the people to stick to the story.

And than there was this story of Clifford in my teens, I wrote for a school project, he always showed up at the perceived finals of an arc but he newer sticked around till the end, nobody knew what happened to him. He was an angry yelling one. His full name was Clifford Henrich Ænger, the story never got finished...

#PennedPossibilities 652

653. MC POV: Your best friend comes over at 3 am to go on an adventure. Where are you (both) going?

Kira:" Ten Forward... Obviously that's a joke, 10 Forward is what we call a quiet corner on smaller ships, most likely in the Cargo bay, in our cases for this mission we even have a modular container called 10 Forward, it has something to do with this antique SciFi they forced us to watch in that Academy I think it was Star Tack or Solar Trek something like this and their was this person running a bar in a society without money and they didn't had alcohol but something that tasted like it but didn't make you drunk ... So absolutely made no sense but it was good to talk and so brass back then took Ten Forward, 10F or TF as a a concept, made it a big lounge area and ran with it... Yeah turns out lounges don't work on war... Scout ships so 10F is just a quiet container in the Cargo Bay."

#PennedPossibilities 653 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #KiraKnox #WIP

1/3
Before I answer the prompt 654 today let me tell you a little story, it was around 4:30 am in the morning as I red the PennedPossibilities 654 prompt. I thought to myself oh that has to go to a not so often named character of mine so I opened 365 co pilot... You know that app formerly known as Microsoft Office 365 but now infected with AI. I opened the who is [Dr.] who in the Star Ryde universe (another one with notes for worldbuilding is called a hitchhikers guide to Star Ryde) and scrolled a bit before realizing I haven't made any new entries to it for stuff I answered on Mastodon in half a year or so ago.
So I wrote everything down for ven for the new additions I was planning to answer for today. Turns out after renaming the file to a current date and saving under the new name I checked by closing and reopening the file. To my surprise neither the new or the old one had any changes. I was pi$$3d and instantly deleted the app after checkin 4 ->

#PennedPossibilities Storrytime

3/3 which is an unpleasant thing since a Chinese Kooperation bought out Kingston office and filled the app with a trash load of advertisement, which is why I ended up using Microsoft Office in the first place...
I know have libre office viewer installed that doesn't allow inverted backgrounds and only has an experimental editor with a warning sentence...

So & this dear children is the story how I met your mother... Well not really it's more how I ended up without a usable office app on my phone. 2025 I have to fear that people use my phone to spy on me, we can emulate PCs on our phones that emulate 20 year old videogame consoles by now (well I doubt mine can but you get the jist...).
2025 where your mobile office solutions have to be cooperate friendly even if the cooperation behind is as friendly as a punch to the throat...

Fin (I don't know who Fin is but he argued with me I should put his name underneath this story...)

#PennedPossibilities #writing #MobileNonSolutions #Storrytime

654
How would your SC introduce themselves?

Charlston Trawella aka Tack or Karl.

"Hello I'm Karl the Ghoz'Tarc's main engineer or grease monkey how they like to call us, basically your one for everything that can break."
A human male looking person of 165 cm looks at you, holding up a hand, he has black her, a burning red beard & piercingly yellow eyes. If Terran Standard would have accents like we do today you could think of an Irish person speaking Scottish or vice versa.
He looks at his very clean hand than at you & grabs yours if you don't grab his.
"Na don't mind the eyes, my liver & pancreas are fine, I lost a bet as a teen & they let me see in the dark so I kept them. My pronouns are he/him & I'm pleased to meet you." His handshake is firm but welcoming & he doesn't do it longer than necessary. He looks at you:"more the quite kind eh? No worries if you want to talk you can find me in the engine, probably literally."

#PennedPossibilities 654 #StarRide #CharlstonTrawella #SciFi

655 What’s the most unusual source of inspiration you’ve found?

The question is for what.
I try to build citys in Fallout 4 so everything city like or nature like
If I try to design or build space ships everything is possible from a YuGiOh card to a flower.
As teen I drew scenes outside of windows wherever I was. I collect dices and before I lost my first bag i could tell every dices story.
I designed clothing based on Frankenstein.
I created monsters in DND that took inspiration from Mud.
Sometimes a white van is inspiration for a Horror Story with Happy ending (turns out the van is on "our" side).
Songs inspired me for scenes & characters in DND.
On of my characters is the question how many bear can you pack in a human before it becomes obvious a new one is the question okay but what if we set said bear on fire & let them almost all Pronouns.
The part with the Pronouns comes from a Song.
Star Ryde draws from everything.

#PennedPossibilities 655 #StarRyde #Writing #WIP #DND #Design

655 extra.
The question and the answer above led me to an new inspiration together with my character Karl and Cyberpunks Dexter DeShawn.

Bear is also a word for Gay man that are a hairy and don't care much about body shape. Since in my story people can do whatever they like with their hair and no one bets an eye as long as it seems maintained well and carried for enough, why shouldnt a chubby man with a lot of belly hair not also be able to wear a belly free top?

Dex was an ass in Cyberpunk but he didn't looked half bad even with his belly exposed.

And why shouldn't a person like this not be the leader of a city or colony.

So now I will create a colony which is led by a very less dressed chubby man with a lot of body hair just because is can and like the idea.

#PennedPossibilities 655 extra

656. How forgiving is your MC?

Kira lives the rule of three which has become a major guideline in the Union. First time you will be forgiven but corrected. Second time the correction will have bigger consequences to make sure that you don't repeat the deed. Third time is the final chance after which you suffer drastic consequences. That said she is more forgiving than others would say it's okay...

Arkham you can cross once and land on her naughty list. Second time you better have a damn good reason otherwise there is no third time possible.

Ashlei is programmed according to the rule of three, as an A.I. she also operates under the guideline to protect her crew and in extension to that the ship which is basically herself since she and the Ghoz'Tarc are one Vessel.
Her consequences are aiming at preventing further damages.

#PennedPossibilities 656 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

657. Continuing with last night’s questioning, tell us if your SC is one to be forgiving as well.

It depends on the SC in case of Chief Engineer Charlston Trawella, sometimes Karl or also Tuck
(because if the German word "der Tacker" which means stapler the German A sounds very similar to the u in words like tucker, trucker, runner etc) is a really forgiving person. He is someone who fixes things, to fix things they need to break first right?

Dr. Waberi is a nice person but she has a mental list of deeds person done that she did not approve of. She is like Kira more on the forgiving side but lives the rule of 3.

Security Chief Silas Crosby tends to take such things more like Arkham one more chance should be enough.

2.XO William Troika is very forgiving and maybe even softer than Kira, He doesn't think much of the rule of 3 and is more the one who would give 4 or 5 chances.

#PennedPossibilities 657 #CharlstonTrawella (#CharslstonTuck) #DrWaberi #SilasCrosby #WilliamTroika

658. When asked about SCs, do you talk about your side or supporting characters, or both?

I usually say secondary characters for the fact that they haven't had the change to enjoy so much energy as I spent on my main characters.

That they are secondary doesn't mean I don't invest time into them but not as much as in the main.
They hopefully get a time to shine too.

#PennedPossibilities 658 #writing

Owei owei Mai... Rest easy traveler the end is near. That sounds more dangerous than it should...
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659
MC POV: Tell us about your idea of a perfect day.

Kira: "Well that certainly changed over time ... Just waking up in my bed having real weather outside my window, now with Arkham and I have no idea how we could incorporate Ash ..."

Arkham: "It sounds great having a real breakfast and just having time for a day I guess I would just do nothing and relax."

Ashlei: "If the local IT allows a hosting solution I could isolate a copy of my personal interaction files and submit them to run in the house systems while my main system would be still connected with the Ghoz'Tarc."

Kira:"Sounds really good. Deal for after the mission?"

Arkham & Ashlei unisono: "Deal!"

#PennedPossibilities 659 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

660 What is your MC’s relationship with their family like?

Kira:

1. Family
Mother: loving, dead.
Father: loving, dead.
Older sister: loving, dead.
Younger sister: loving, dead.

2. Family
Mother: estranged, cold, harsh, loving/carrying?
Father: loving, protective, supportive, dead.
Sister: Missing in Action, assumed dead by most. It was loving, carrying best friends almost like twin sisters to a level that they even had the same lovers (not at the same time).

Arkham
Mother: estranged, cold, challengeing, hateful? Dead.
Father: loving, supportive, dead.
No siblings.

Ashlei:
Was developed by secretive scientists on behalf of the Alliance.
The base was attacked by Eltaryn only one scientist survived long enough to flee & bring Ash's program to the Alliance.
Ash knows that her voice & her unused avatar are based on the likelihood of the lead scientist, she would call her mother.

#PennedPossibilities 660 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #writing #SciFi #WIP

661 How does your antagonist/villain handle criticism?

Villains:
Eltaryn:
I doubt that they even listen between the screeching, screaming and shooting.

Antagonists:
AJ: ignoring the topic, they would most likely not remember what was the reason for the criticism and probably won't remember the critic after one or two days if they didn't write it down.

AI: turning the tale around how this is the necessary to secure our place in the universe. Throwing the critique back to the critic and make sure that they see their approach is shortsided, simple minded etc.

#PennedPossibilities 661 #StarRyde #AntagonistInfernale #AntagonistJunior #AJohnsen #writing #SciFi #WIP

662 Imagine This: Would your MC be a sore loser or a sore winner?

my brain & my mind are not computing the prompt.
I do not imagine any of my MC's to be either or more neither nor.
A loss/win doesn't mean the MC can win and be only nasty or that the MC can loose and only be nasty.

As I said me does not compute, maybe I'm missing something here (language barrier? Second meaning unknown to me? To great difference in cultural thinking patterns? Overthinking?) after all's it's almost 4 am and I should be sleeping...

#PennedPossibilities 662 #writing

663. Catch-up
How do your characters strive to progress, thrive, and better themselves in a positive way?

Well they have principals and they try their best to uphold them.
You don't choose to be a protective force and it's all good. It's work, discipline according to some researchers, maybe an emotion like others but following a moral code isn't a one and done thing. It's constant work and it can drain out ones already tired persons ridiculously fast. But some things are simply worth striving for. and apperantly I can't think of any metaphor that isn't ableistic in nature... Let's put it with Yoda from the OG Star Wars: "Do or do not!"

#PennedPossibilities ketchup 663 #StarRyde #writing #SciFi #WIP

664 [one step closer to the beast 🤪]
What was the most rewarding moment you experienced during the writing process?

Can't say I hade ONE moment but in my writing endeavors I love if things falling into place nicely like a puzzle.

Especially as a GM/DM in many games I often just adjust some ideas into specific possible actions of players in programming one could phrase it like If -> then scenarios and sometimes my players do exactly that.

Similar feelings I get when open threads start to merge in an organic way. Clever written foreshadowing stories have this "WOEI WAIT WHAT WOW!" Moment. Where you think "holy hedgehog breaking speed limits on a broom"* nobody has written that into existence before and than you browse back and you see the patterns emerge as your brain connects the dots in the aftermath.

If I manage to put that onto players/readers that is absolutely worth every hour spending before.

*I definitely had to much 1960 Batman as a child.

#PennedPossibilities 664 #writing

Blood, blood, blood & ash, smoke, fire, burning metal, blood, burning meat.
Burning meat of sentient creatures.
Sentient.
No.
Terrans.
No no.
Mama? Papa? Dasha? Ranja? Cooking flesh?
Can't breath. Smoke, heat, fire, ash in my lounge, smoke in my eyes, Mama help please!? Papa? Help! I'm hurt! I'm to week.
I'm hurt.
My arm hurts.
I can't move it, it's wet. I can't move, I'm stUck. Stuck, it's so hot. I'm tired. Is that blood, is that my blood...?
Mama? Papa? Dasha?! RANJA! PLEASE HELP ME!? WHEre are YOU? My eyes hurt. Need to see... Eyes... SEE... no...no...no...NOOO!
_________!!!"

Kira pushed her body up from the madres, she screamed in tears, pain & terror, her wounds ached, the blood in the bandages was fresh.

"Why... why... why... Why again?"
She puked.

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666 Does your MC believe in a higher power? What about evil?

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Kira smirked as she clasped her hands in front of her face, the lighting on board changed & throw a shadow over her face, only her heterochromatic eyes where still reflecting some light in the darkness, keeping her voice low as she started speaking.

At the same time, in another part of the galaxy, a speaker started gently humming as AI started to talk to some nefarious guest.

" "Good, Evil, aren't that 'cute' ideas? The universe doesn't work like this.

I fought hard to protect what we have, every inch of our society is build on achievements of others.

Some had do be dealt with others had to be supported, some needed saving.

Ask the ones, that my deeds saved, ask the ones, that my deeds stopped, ask the ones, which lives I had to end.

They all will tell you about their Stories, about me & you will get very different pictures.->

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666. 2/2

Yes, evil exists. It's not an unseen force, that influences us, it's part of us, it is what we do, what we decide to do & how others tell our story.

The thiefs, the monsters, the murders, its us.

After all, in our own stories, we are the heroes right?""

At the same time, in two different places in the galaxy, the same speech was given.

Editnote: reworked the phrasing and hopefully made it clearer for the reader.

Thanks @VVitchy and @anderlandbooks and my not Mastodon friends to remind me that not everyone has the same understanding of my texts as I do.
Thanks a lot.💚🙏

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