939
How would your MC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime?
1/2
This is highly dependent on the situation.

Kira in her free time: Look for the seriousness of the accusations, if the Union police is already involved she would have to obey. She might be able to take control over fleets & personal but the Police is a civilian to law protection & enforcement part. There Job would be taking her in & she would not fight against it.
On mission the same scenario could play out completely different. If the mission is in danger she would finish the mission first even if this would create problems later. If she is taking control over military asset's via her SHADE Status only other SHADEs can remove her forcefully as long she stands in that position. Usually this only lasts til a certain military action is wrapped up & she would have to stand down immediately & hand herself over to the law enforcement for investigation. ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

939 2/2
Arkham in her freetime: well basically the same as Kira but with more "vocal range."
On mission her commanding officer could put her off & order to hand in with the law enforcement.

Ashlei: now it gets juicy. AI's aren't person's only persons can commit crimes, but AI's are considered property of entities like the alliance.
It would come to the following scenario, confiscated said property. Disconnect AI from its main frame & limit its compute heavily slowing it down, should this interfere with military actions the military actions have priority, stand down til the action is solved successfully according to the leading military officer. Send AI into storage, inform AI expert & AI owner, wait for both to arrive.

Law enforcement has to make sure that the accusations are valid enough before acting on them, everything else is considered an action in bad faith & will be investigated.

#PennedPossibilities 939 #StarRyde #Arkham #Ashlei #SciFi #WIP

940
Do you regret anything about the creation of your WIP?

Well a clear YO (YES and NO based on the German concept of jain - ja and nein).
Yes not writing daily on it or at least weekly and only writing when I feel like it. This makes it an incredible slow process because I haven't written much since November.
Otherwise no not really.

#PennedPossibilities 940 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

941
MC POV: Name one thing you lied to yourself about. Why did you do this?

I move this one over to the Star Ryde Self Insert Romance Alternate Universe because I have a more general approach to this, which I already let shine through in this 3 answers. You know work smarter not harder or something like that. And basically it's still part of the MC...😋

Word Weavers 12.05.2025
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114493569048758360

#PennedPossibilities 941 #StarRyde #StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse #SRSIRAU

942 catch-up
Antagonist POV: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up every morning? Why?

AJ:"Cursing my dreams, recollecting yesterday, the whole week before it, sometimes month or years. My memory is a garbeld mess. Something prevents me from making memories like an average Terran. My brain seems very selective with some memory while others are discarded as soon as I close my eyes to sleep. It makes no sense & the memories I desperately want to fade are present every night. At times it seems like a blessing that I only read about weeks of my nightmares, not remember them myself. It seems that my memory works best for military stuff. I still can de & reassemble my weapon in under 15 seconds even if I have a day or two between them. I can still cook & pep up MREs.
I even remember her smell, but her face... The words I remember.
Imagine starting every morning like this & most times I don't even remember logging it."

#PennedPossibilities 942 #StarRyde #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

943
Can you think of any real-life people who share traits with the characters in your WIP? How do these similarities affect your perception of the characters?

I'm not sure about that, all my characters are a blend of traits, skills, influences, etc.

Everyone of them has at least one point with me in common.
My main goal is to make them feel like people and not make them likable or so, they have also traits of friends that inspired me to use this traits or people that annoyedbme,but I don't think I like any character more or less so 🤷🏼‍♀️.

#PennedPossibilities 943

944
Have you ever written anything while inebriated that you later ended up keeping in your WIP?

No. Alcohol is reserved for social situations celebrating, like seeing my partner for the first time after 8 weeks or longer, family reunion or the rarest occasion I want to get drunk. Even as rare as it is, last time was mid global pandemic shutdown one, I'm not abstinent but I avoid alcohol as much as possible even as an ingredient until it's something I find appropriate. Than it's clearly limited to my goal. I had hard alcohol problems and as a child of a successful 30+ years dry alcoholic I know what I'm doing to myself boozing myself. I went to hospitals as a teen because I didn't knew. I don't need drugs other than Nicotine on occasion and caffeine daily.
Weed makes me crazy organized for a time but a that shit is to expansive and I don't like turf that much that I want that ugly taste.🤢

So TLDR no, because in social situations, writing isn't what I do.

#PennedPossibilities 944

945
MC POV: What do you need right now?

1/03
Only Kira today.

Kira took a 'glass' out of her freezer, It steamed as the moisture of the air came into contact with its frosted surface, creating a little cloud of fog that waved down the mug shaped body of the handleless, open container.
She pured a dark red, semi liquid from a designed bottle into it, the bottle reed Original Klingon Blood wine.™
Technically the open container wasn't glass at all, but a crystal that could be frozen & transfer the cold rapidly, than slowly. The clear semi liquid had a sharp alcohol & hot metal note. As it got into contact with the the frosted surface, the heat transfer created water drops running down the 'mugs' body.
Forr a brief moment, it looked like the red inside was loosing the thermal battle, as the surface gently crystallized only to return to its former semi liquid state after some seconds. She grabbed it with her left hand, gentle ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

945 2/3

⬅️ crackling noises filled the silence in. Kira leaned the glassy mug against her lip, shudders ran down her lip, chin neck and spine giving her goosebumps. She swallowed the full content in one big sip, put it down & poured herself a second before she closed of the bottle. As she wanted to grab the mug with her tight hand but stoped. She slumped down in front of the crystal vessel. Burrowing her eyes in her arms. Her voice sounded muffled.

"Swex Sis this was meant to celebrate our first missions success with you at the helm and now I'm downing half a bottle myself."
She grabbed the crystal with her whole left hand than her right too.
The cold stung in her flesh.
Tears started running down her cheek. From the pain inside or in her hand, she didn't knew. Her voice was shaking.
"What would I give to hear your voice again even if it was only one of your creepy remarks about my body. "To you Anika, my 'twin', my sister, my➡️

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

945 3/3
⬅️ loved familiar, my heart, my shield, my sword. Here is to us, the ones that never faltered. In space on ground. In Family united, til death took us apart... Great the old man from me. Wherever you two are.
Mother will grief in her frozen manor...

She poured the blood wine into her mouth, almost choking while swallowing, she coughed and turned turned her back against the counter & threw the crystal mug against the wall.

Ash's cold computer voice spoke.
"Kira? Are you okay, you blocked me and the sensors in your cabine... Can i do something for you?"

Kira forced herself to sound as normal as possible: "Only if you can grant wishes."

Ash's voice got less computery: "I'm not a Djinn, what is your wish?"

Kira snorted: "I wish alcohol could intoxicate me..."

Ash wanted to correct her that it technically still did and she just wasn't feeling it but changed her answer: "Shall we... talk?"

"Yeah, I would like that..."

#PennedPossibilities 945 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

3. Monthly devider & navigational toot 2026

- Last month divider toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/115989758672680679

- As always the prompts can be found on: @floofpaldi's profile. Thank you for all this work. 🙏💚

- The other March prompts, I answer, overview toot is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116153618031340222

- The start of this mega thread is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

- And the first prompts answer is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110723765145059262

- all what followed is here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/110763385183712440

#PennedPossibilities #March2026

946
Do any of your characters have food allergies or sensitivities?

Arkham has some weird interactions with meats.

She lived on the streets of a colony for quite some time & nothing ever came up, but as she joined the Alliance something changed. Her hypersensitivity started & it gets worse if she eats meat or animal products.
It's independent from the source, if it is lab grown, a real animal (which falls under sentient & sapient cruelty on a lot of planets) or printed in the EPI & basically made out of Equil. That why she eats mostly vegan, at times she tries ovo lacto vegetarian stuff but almost always it gets worse.
It seems the food isn't the source of her hypersensitivity but a contribution to the scale in which her body reacts.
Since she joined the alliance she relies on "dampeners" that tune down her body's reaction to stimulation.
Meat or animal products seem to scramble with that to a painful degree.

#PennedPossibilities 946 #StarRyde #Arkham #AbbishekPaktii #SciFi #WIP

947
Antagonist POV: What is your biggest regret?

The question hung in the air, like a 500 kilo orbit to ground slug in an antigravity anomaly. The interviewing person waited patiently.

Ariæne only starred into the room. Their eyes focused on something not visible for anyone else.

Ayanamis voice came through the rooms intercom. "I think you won't get any answers out of them today and honestly, I prefer it that way. You have might taken up enough of our hospitality. I kindly suggest that you depart immediately, before I might come to the conclusion, that you are not as valuable as I thought you to be. This would be highly... regrettable." The last sentence almost sounded cheerful.

#PennedPossibilities 947 #StarRyde #Ayanami #AriæneJohnsen #SciFi #WIP

948
How would your SC respond if they were falsely accused of a crime?

1/2
Very similar to my MC's as answered in 939 part one & two above it jump ready here:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116119241024809941

In case the SC is part of a crew they have to bow to the law enforcement according to what the captain seems necessary. Like getting released from duty to be taken into custody or being hold on board for the remainder of the mission & handed to Union law enforcement later.
In case of a foreign entity like Rimworlds the Union uses their "we"re not Union" stand against them. They have to fill out a request to Union law enforcement, going through the ministry for outward affairs, to handle the matter & may be allowed to represent their case to Union courts. It's a protective measurement because Union Citizens have died under foreign entity laws, that's why the Union doesn't shy away of using its military as a lever to handle such circumstances.➡️

#PennedPossibilities 948 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

948 2/2
⬅️ In case of politicans or brass members of the Union Military or the Union Alliance Military it's handled differently.

While the Unions Ministry for outward affairs handles the requests of foreign entities they stay in power as long they are not deemed guilty, in contrast any minister has to lay down their work immediately if an inner conflict arises. If as an example Terran Minister for outward affairs Sigourney Webster (Kira's second mother) would be accused by anyone inside the Union to have acted against the laws, she would have to temporarily lay down her mandate immediately. Same would be true for Admirals like Ron Hackett-Anderson in the Alliance.
That said members of the Union/Alliance, like Kira, who are able to call on their Shade status, can temporarily put this on hold, if a military action requires it, which will be investigated & demands justification the moment they would do so.

#PennedPossibilities 948 #StarRyde #SigourneyWebster #AdmiralRHA #SciFi #WIP

⬆️And just to find this easier.

Examples of law enforcement and regulations in the Star Ryde Universe.

Also see here
Almost the same question at the German Phantastik Prompts 05.03.2026 https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116175451319775854
#StarRyde #SciFi #WIP #WorldBuilding

949
How do you manage stress related to writing?

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950
Can your MC swim? If not, why not? If so, how did they learn?

The buoyancy of Terrans is not regularly tested on Terra itself.

Most waters are still considered toxic even if water refurbishment has come a long way.
Usually Terran bodys tent to not sink in the oceans, in cleaned water it looks quite different. Most swimmers come from colonies and it depends on the local composition of 'water' in combination with other factors, how good they could learn to swim.

However the Alliance does provide survival training for its military cadets and this most of my characters can swim, not very effective because most only 'swim' in micro or non gravity and air or vacuum are the worst to swim in, because the low resistance and compression capacity make for terrible propulsion capabilities. It would actually be more efficient to f*** your way forwards in micro/non gravity than try to propel yourself via swimming motion.

#PennedPossibilities 950 #StarRyde #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

951
MC POV: Write about something presently in your life that is “worth it.”

Kira: "Our Mission but since the details are classified I will not spread them out here.

Arkham: "Mission and Keeping the crew alive."

Ashlei: "As the Captain and the Flight commander said. 'I' add keeping the spirit and moral of the crew high and their bodys healthy."

#PennedPossibilities 951 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

952
How do you use social media as an author?

Well pretty much all I do on Mastodon. Otherwise I still have a YouTube profile but I'm not really using my channel for anything anymore, just watching videos and commenting at times.
I don't use shitter anymore.
I have a tumblr account but I'm mostly watching anime gifs from series I loved as a teen.

Mastodon is the only platform where I participate actively this days and most of it goes into answering writing prompts and at times discussions/chats with authors.

Oh wait there is this somehow not dead yet Gothic dating site, from the earliest 2000. where I stil have a profile but also not using it for anything other than feeling nostalgic and thinking about erasing more traces of my digital past...

Honestly I think it's secretly run on an University Server and the student responsible just left one day and since them no one noticed. 🤔
That could be a story.

#PennedPossibilities 952

953
What author(s) did you dislike at first but grew to enjoy reading?

This has not happened to me.
I might be uncertain about an author if I start a book but I am a) going to like it b) being not very moved by it c) regret that I wasted life time on it.

A) makes me an fan or at least a highly appreciating reader of future works and grand the author more leanway from my side to play around.

B) will most likely end in me forgetting the author.

C) is rarely occuring and if I remember only the Harry Potter slog stood out to me that much that I thought: "Well that is shit she could not hold a candle if you nail it to her forehead." and well what a ugly fart of a unperson the author has become is all to clear today...
Using her money to make the life of trans* people worse wow celebrating herself like she was Hannibal from the A-Team...
I really have to ask why did Sir Terry Pratchett die and not her? I would exchange them any time without a second thought.

#PennedPossibilities 953

953 second thought

Patrick Süskind author of "Das Parfüm."

I really disliked the story at first but I kinda enjoy it today.

Since it's the only work he's done in form of a book I can say I like 100% of his books which is a rarity.

I honestly don't know much about him as a person have to 'investigate' about that and maybe that might change depending of his political stance or ethics. I will see.

Edit: okay he has written more than one book so I have to reduce it to 20% because I know nothing about his other works.

#PennedPossibilities 953 second thought

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954
What is your SC's skill level when it
comes to cooking and baking?

That is completely dependent on the
SC or even TC (tertiary characters
the ones that aren't fully fledged out SCs but have a name and are more than background decorations).
All of my characters have at least survival skill cooking. They can boil water and cook food without burning everything to a black crisp.
The taste & quality varies greatly.

#PennedPossibilities 954

955
Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you reveal them to us?

The whole crew has a cover up identity of being guards for the council of the Union. Well all other than Mondira.

The Mission has several layers of orders in case specific scenarios are happening.

The crew is only ment to know parts of them.

At least 4 members probably more 5-10 are also SHADES like Kira with the same power and rights. It's part of the failsafe to prevent single SHADE agents to go rouge.

The Ghoz'Tarc is officially a supply ship for the Phoenix the Unions Flagship and mobile government base.

The Phoenix has a special secret which is related to its Name.

The Ghoz'Tarc has a holographic disguise system.

Nobody ever expected Kira and Ashlei to merge. Which also is a bit problematic because usually the Command staff has the codes to shutdown the AI core via the sub core.

Kira keeps the real merge levels hidden.

#PennedPossibilities 955 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #GhozTarc #Phoenix #SciFi #WIP

956
With whom is your SC’s most important relationship?

You wouldn't believe how many fingers of the crew point at J. to answer this question.
A Terran day only has 24 hours even in the 24. century, even the enormous amount of water that Terra has and the increased slowing down thanks to the moon tidal interactions it barely added 5,8 milliseconds in 300 years.

Yet somehow J. seems to have enough time, next to her role onboard, to interact with everyone & getting to know them well enough to feel appreciated & seen (+no one knows how many people outside the crew).

Similar it's true with Talisa, who is seen as the "mother" onboard or William Troika the 3rd/2nd XO who is the dad figure on board.

Talisa's & Rose's relationship is also unique since they grew up together & later married each other, to the point that people don't even remember Talisa's birth name anymore.

#PennedPossibilities 956 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #WorldBuilding #SciFi #WIP

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957
Does your MC have or wear a signature color?

Well Kira has a red sub theme. Alliance Uniforms are mostly black with color markings indicating your role and yellow markings for rank, on missions this markings turn black as well to not signal your role to possible enemies.
The Unions is usually white & bright blue.

Her natural red hair is also dyed blood red.

Today I answer only one MC to do sign shortage.🙃

#PennedPossibilities 957 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #SciFi #WIP

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958
What’s your favorite under-appreciated novel?

Everything Sir Terry Pratchett [RIP💚]
wrote is underappreciated.
Honestly dear people instead of buying books for children of a Wizard Child written by a woman who turns out is delusional, evil & uses her money to push right politics, fuck up the lives of minorities because of her obsession about strangers genitals.
Who also promotes deadly stereotypes for woman & man, racist stereotypes about Jews & others because everyone knows Harry Potter, buy the kids a book from the assortment of Sir Terry Pratchett.
Not only did he wrote way more than the bully bitch with more variety but instead of promoting stereotypes he elaborates on people's behavior with charm & wit.

"But Hogwarts is so phantastic."

Wait til you see the Discworld a whole world on the Back of four elephants on the back of a giant space roaming turtle.
Upside down mountains & 4 brained sheep.

#PennedPossibilities 958 #SpeakHisName #TerryPrattchett

959
MC POV: Complete this thought: “I wish I had paid more attention when…”

"we briefly talked about Bethosian biology..." - Anika Johansen, Kira's Sister and later Captain.

I know it says MC and Anika isn't officially one but she owns a lot of space her self (on a space ship travel story... Let that sink in).

#PennedPossibilities 959 #StarRyde #AnikaJohanson #SciFi #WIP

960
Describe the longest romantic relationship your MC has ever had. (If they’ve had one.)

Arkham & Ashlei: Nope they hadn't really. Ashlei as an AI has very limited opportunities to date. Not to mention having emotions in the first place. And Arkham simply tried sex with people she thought she liked enough and realized it's not hers, neither Sex nor Love, so she moved one quickly. We will see how that thing with Kira will end...

Kira: Her relationship with Talisa & Rose. It started in the Academy after Anika made space for Kira in that polycule and held almost 10 years despite Kira having other partners in that time too. They are still good and close friends and Talisa and Rose married as soon it was legal. And yes they where in the relationship with Kira at that point and even asked her, if she want to marry too but Kira wasn't in to that idea.

#PennedPossibilities 960 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #Ashlei #RoseDraken #TalisaDraken #SciFi #WIP

961
SC POV: Have you ever spoken up when you saw that something going on was wrong? Were you scared? What was the end result?

Silas Crosby: "Of course, I'm the security chief & worked in the security field for the Alliance/Union for over 3 decades.
No soldier has to fall in line without thinking & we are encouraged to speak our mind if we find something is off.

There are rules in place to prevent disobedience in important situations, like an Eltaryn attack, but it's expected to say something asap. If you fear talking to your CO/XO there are the official & unofficial spokespartner. Or submit a direct anonymous feedback. The ships AI will make sure that it's not traceable. Well usually. With the merge we're not sure how much the Captain can actually access.
I want to believe Ash keeps us from being trackable, not because I don't trust Captain Knox, quite the opposite, but it's a principal thing."

#PennedPossibilities 961 #StarRyde #SilasCrosby #SciFi #WIP

962
If there was ever going to be a film or a series based upon your WIP, what do you imagine the soundtrack would be like? What genre?

Since I'm working on several cultures on different planets with different species and even different planets and cultures with the same species on different worlds, limiting the soundtrack to a single genre would only invalidate it immersion.

It would be a mix of many different styles we know today, from metal to pop, Mongolian throat singing, synthesizer sounds, punk, classic and new styles I would put people through hell to create them, because I created them with a complete lack of musical skill and vague descriptions.

Clearly the music would also need to be clear cut between background music, scene music and in universe music (which will become the worst to create).

#PennedPossibilities 962 #StarRyde #SciFi #WIP

963
If you use a pen name or certain username on a writing site, what is its significance and how did you arrive at using it?

1/3
I wrote about that before but Anna Saultron is a word play related to the Fallout (Videogames and Amazon Prime Series) Franchise.
Funny enough it doesn't work in German thanks to translation stuff.
Anna Saultron derives from An Assaultron. Assaultrons (German Aggressothron... Just Y?) are frontline killer robots, able to attack with rotating metal, claws firing a head beam laser canon that incinerates every and hard to beat unless you character intelligent enough to find the off switch exploid in close combat. They are for a reason all female coded and have a higher level of self awareness and character building than other robots.
They are cruel, efficient and have a deep female robotic voice and nobody can tell me they weren't designed by an butt appreciating person because that's their most human looking part & ➡️

#PennedPossibilities 963 #AboutMe #IGuess

963 2/3
⬅️they are incredibly fast. On top of that this robo monstrosities can turn invisible. All you see is the glowing red energy before their head laser fires & all you hear is it charging & some clunky footsteps as their wedge heel like feet starting racing towards you.

I have an odd fascination with this robots & like that they often develop a realistic feeling, often dominant personality with a priority on efficiency. In game you can turn their heads into an helmet wield severed heads of them as laser guns & wield their optional blade arms as swords.

I modelled a character in Fallout 76 (& later 4) after their image & named it Anna Saultron. Her backstory was simply put Terminator and Anna's Personality a blueprint for the Assaultrons (in my Head).

Since 76 didn't display character names I switched it to my gamer tag. To make it easier for my building Videos of both games to be found I used it for YT too, later Twitter &➡️
#PennedPossibilities 963 #AboutMe #IGuess #AnnaSaultron

963 3/3
⬅️ now I'm here as Anna Saultron & I made an account on AO3 I haven't used yet.😅

Anna has become my second Persona in a weird way cause people that know me as that calling me outside of online areas also Anna, to a degree that I even refer to myself as such on occasion of i don't think fast enough to use my official names.

Since I am a diabetic wearing a sensor & having several medical implants (nothing that needs a battery) I feel connected to Anna from fallout, who is a fully converted cyborg, in a way. The head laser is an analogy to my temper which can be devastating much to my own problems handling it.

Sometimes I would love to just vanish like the robots can & i always love the more robot like characters in Fiction because I kind feel a sort of kinship (?). Anna also has become a vessel to channel myself into fanfictions or virtual worlds, always having a similar look and some weird powers.

#PennedPossibilities 963 #AboutMe #IGuess #AnnaSaultron

964
MC POV: What area of your life do you tend to enjoy in excess instead of moderation?

Kira spoke quietly after reading the question: "Well not really anything, maybe Somwhar food. It looks a bit strange but it's really good."
Arkham snickered teasingly: "Come on, tell them of your habit of drinking over a liter of unrefined EQil daily."
Kira kept her face straight as she answered: "It's more efficient that way. How about we talk about your speed addiction? That visible anticipation, your eyes narrowing, you skin shivering, this smile, if you feel the seats responds, which is actually kinda cute."
Arkham felt exposed, perplexed, flattered that Kira learned her bodies language so fast. Her heart raced as fast as her mind to find an good remark: "Ain't..."
"Ain't?" Kira repeated: "Ain't what?"
Arkham didn't answer as she felt a wave of emotions.
Kira smirked she enjoyed this little battles with her FC way to much.

#PennedPossibilities 964 #StarRyde #KiraKnox #Arkham #SciFi #WIP

965
What is your MC’s reaction when someone close to them is sick or injured? How do they behave?

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#PennedPossibilities 965

966
SC POV: When was the last time you got lost?

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967
What level of education do your characters have?

Skip

#PennedPossibilities 967

976.1
Pick a character. How do they, or how would they, react to sleep deprivation?

By @sfwrtr

Badly but that's what stimulants like caffeine for right? At least short term (yes I know I am guilty of to much caffeine long term also).
It's a military space ship so on and off duty and spare and sleep time tends to be very different depending on the day and workload, but no one has a good reaction to sleep deprivation. It's only different levels of worse.

#PennedPossibilities 976.1 #StarRyde #GhozTarcCrew #SciFi #WIP

968. What’s the current word count for your WIP

Correction 50.339
found some missing words and some [ ] spaces where cluttered with b v and n 😅

https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/116282651584187226

#PennedPossibilities 968