Mastodawn

Uncle did not speak of his humble origins. My presence must be an anathema to him. A statement in flesh and bone, not of what he had been, but what he would become if he were to lose everything he had gained.

#MastoPrompt #Writing #MicroFiction

Jon Mar 12

Micro SF/F by O. Westin Mar 12

RE: https://mastodon.art/@MicroSFF/114149050576447349

** Reposting this story I wrote last year
#GnuTerryPratchett
**

Jon Mar 12

@Emmacox Granny Weatherwax has a message for world leaders:

"And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is."
“It’s a lot more complicated than that . . .”
“No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried that they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.”

Jon Feb 25

Spring is in the air. Time for a bath.

Jon Feb 22

I was all right up to 1200, but struggled after that. I got the gist of 1100, but missed a lot of nuance. 1000 was more or less beyond me. ( I studied Chaucer in the original and know a few words of Old English). How far can you get?

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

Dead Language Society

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Jon Feb 19

@cunobaros @daibhidc Oh, he turn Papist if he likes (since 2015) and still be in the succession. I suspect that being 8th in the list means nobody will ever bother to do anything about it, even in the unlikely event of him doing any time.

Jon Feb 14

@Emmacox I don't think any of the authors I follow have an actual study. Most of them don't have that kind of money.

Jon Feb 14

@Emmacox I agree entirely. Leads to a lot of DNFs, but so it goes.

Jon Feb 9

Daibhid Ceanneadeach Feb 9

Here's a fun bit of royal trivia; when King Charles handed his previous titles over to William he gave William most of the documentation with his right hand, but ancient tradition demanded he used his other hand for the documents related to Cornwall.

This tradition is immortalised in the well-known phrase "Pass the Duchy on the left-hand side."

Jon Feb 7

This month (and this month only) I get my full time salary *and* my state pension. I was wondering what to spend it on. The answer, it turns out, is a new washing machine.