bay-bull-write@Babelwright

Story maker, wannabe futurist, food enjoyer. Alum of @WeldersDC. (X/100 1-Tweet Tales #microfiction)

 Washington, DC
babelwright.wordpress.com/
Joined July 2009
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(1-tweet tale #0) With these 1-tweet tales I aim to make 1) full *narratives* with character + need + choice + consequence (not jokes, poems, gotchas, “what ifs”): beginning, middle & end 2) practicing story in brevity 3) for the joy of myself and whoever likes #microfiction
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(1-tweet tale #18) The gods warred. My patron god was killed and I was left apostate. What good did my former devotion do me now? I sat in the desert, waiting for death. Death came - and said, make Me your god now. It’s Purpose that matters. So I started killing other gods.
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(1-tweet tale #17) These aliens live on color. Show them orange, they love you, purple, they attack, gray, laugh. We almost feel guilty manipulating them so easy. They come to Earth, multiply. We have to outlaw purple. Then green, red, white… Easier to just put them in charge.
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morality gets arrested at whatever life stage a person first became happy
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some people confuse the shit that comes out of you after you eat delicious cake for the cake itself; it is the end-product, after all. and so they think if they can speedrun a pile of shit, they've done the world a service by saving all the time you would have had to spend baking
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i need to put in more work to ensure my "strawberry rhubarb pies eaten" score at the end of my life is in high triple digits
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if Netflix etc spend too much on AI storyteller and video enhancement tools etc, they will force them into your shows (after nobody uses them) to justify the cost
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community is just people who give a shit about your stupid shit
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I hate bumping up against the limits of my intellect
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that's a bizarre argument you made. a bizarrgument
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the problem with the modern world is you're not my friend
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(1-tweet tale #16) The Evil One razed Bookish Ben’s village. He couldn’t fight. What revenge for Ben? Maybe he could be a hero’s mentor. He studied and aged. 50 years on, Strong Sam’s home was razed. Ben went to him- and purposely sent him into an ambush. He preferred the books.
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if you're Complete and you date someone Complete what do you need each other for
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We all have a strong desire to have our worldview validated, it prevents dissonance and feels good. Therefore people whose worldview is "life isn't fair, it's all against all, people suffer and die" will feel a tinge of satisfaction whenever they hear of something horrible.
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the possibility space of stories is greater than the capacity of the universe
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you could plaster the cosmos with AI and they would not produce the stories that i would
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what are some good "what are some good" posts for someone just getting into snowclones
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(1-tweet tale #15) I could see his silhouette on the floor mattress juddering from his heartbeat. Mine was too. One of us had to cross that moonlit room. -the morning alarm rang. We made eggs. We blushed and we ate. We left. No worries. For sure there’d be another chance.
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(1-tweet tale #14) The dictator saw the end was near. Oil drying up. The internationals vulturing. Might as well secure a legacy. So he threw festivals, distributed resources. Then new shales were found. The iron fist seemed old hat. But maybe… he could pay to get invaded?
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high status is to be friendly but not helpful, inspiring but not explaining, open but not curious
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what makes a doctor decide they're gonna be a butt doctor. like. spend a lifetime up peoples butts. why not hearts. all the magic in a heart, butt got nothing but fart (feelin grateful 🙏 for my butt doctor)
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