Sixy (Soul Embraced)
m.j.banks
What I've been doing is going to a title generator site and getting six random titles, then using them as chapters of a short story, making a draft, giving it a title myself, then abandoning it in my drafts folder. Typically I let the story replicate the titles' implications and write it start to finish, some adjustments. Let's do that.
Give me some titles..... wow, okay...
1 Sharp Dreams, 2 The Laffing Memory, 3 Stream of Sword, 4 The Time's Voyage, 5 The Stones of the Flying, 6 Sword in the Dreams
Some regret for committing to this, but whatever. It did print "laughing," no need to spell it with the wrong letters. The goal is be germane and on second draft make each chapter a page, long enuf to read, short enuf to finish. I'm going to make it extra short and then sleep.
Q music.
1 Sharp Dreams
Man walks in field, but it's a dream, wakes during attack, but their numbers are too small, spy makes it into his tent, stabs with a magic blade that puts him into a coma, a nightmare to him, his first battle and none of his experience, or armor, more difficult than memory,
2 The Laffing Memory
With the awake, the invaders attack, but only the outskirts and only to irritate, attrition, psychological, sending requests for impossible demands, coupled with the coma of the man, they are depressed, the coma-assassin comes back with the poisoned knife and the blood on it, giving it to a warlock, aftereffect of magic done on the nightmare blade, yes I fit this into a ton of my stories, not so much the star this time, a moment for the affect and glow of the evil foe
3 Stream of the Sword
Warlock takes the nightmare blade, drops the blood onto his sword on tented altar, short like a footstool, itself curved in a shinto-like fashion, let's just go with samurai warlock and likewise ceremony, attire, colors, red and black only, clothing, tactical, the blade glows a hue and color that fires can have, his complexion darkens away from light, radiating only the energy weapon, not a fire/light saber, just a vibration or energy signature, blue steel*, the assassin sees in its reflection the room slide from right to left, but the warlock sees no reflection, but a window into the soul of the man in a coma, and for whatever reason, stabs the assassin in the chest, while the warlock kneels over the dead assassin, his eyes burn with the same fire as prior, yet in the dream world, the warlock manifests astral (projection) w the assassin's body
4 The Time's Voyage
Warlock gets to see a time before the countryside was different, ravaged less, brighter more, still the ongoing conflict, still a spy, can see the coma dude's side, but not his own, because the memory of the comatose, learning the terrain of their encampment, finding people dressing as spy's against the warlock's side, sees someone rush into the scene, hears them tell about their enemy has found a warlock to their side, a nod to himself, a vision of the next chapter, approach the younger coma dude, but coma dude starts into fear and chaos, starts to recognize the assassin, launches into a fight with the warlock in assassin skin, but it's a dream, and yet the assassin's soul carries the nightmare blade, coma dude in the real world is part physicality and all stress asleep, so in the dreamworld he's sortof fading, insight being that weak tether to the dreamworld makes the dreamer's ability stronger, idk, and wrests the nightmare blade from the foe/villain, stabs him and the blade's magic shows a light, extremely overwhelming to the dream dimension, everyone is thrown from the dreamworld, the warlock opens his black blood eyes, turns the blade into the assassin's body to end him, agony, certainty's gaze
5 Stones of the Flying
maybe it's, ok right, the warlock goes on warpath, the stones are explosive and send people flying or he throws stones that go 'flying thru the air' and when they land, the stones swallow the souls of opponents, how many of those does he have, he knows is way thru, maybe stones help people fly and there's an aerial battle, final fantasy fanfix way, or the longest to write, dragons controlled by stones, or people controlled with stones against their will, with a backstory on controlling power anchored earlier, not important, but he knows the layout and where the secret lair is and heads right for their leader, woke coma guy ha
6 Sword in the Dreams
speaking of backplants, he sees the warlock and recognizes him, guy gets the upperhand against the warlock, but the warlock traps him, the guy snatches the nightmare blade, in his hand it's bright and blinding to stare-at, warlock starts losing, tries to leave, the stones work against him when guy has the knife, tons of interstitial dialogue i imagine to what extent im not really sure, the blade draws blood, the warlock's wounds bleed black, but each stab shines with bright darkness as the warlock screams the coma guy can read the warlock's mind, a vision cascade of who hired the warlock, to surprise its someone he trust, and that there are spies within, all sorts of bad news, the warlock dies with cut throat with quick delivery, the coma doesn't waste time, he's got enemies w/in ukno, is there a twist, hell yes there's a twist, the assassin that the warlock had killed, groans and moans, struggles to reach into the muddy tent earth, ahead of himself pulls himself toward the warlock's sword, struggling toward the low altar of the blade, toppling it cuts his fingers around it, the assassins eyes grow black, the blade glows the same color, the assassin starts to stand, and drinks the same specific mixture of tea the warlock had drank, two of this, three of that, one of these, stir counter-clockwise
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I've 16 of these now, oh right the title. Thinks. Open to suggestions. Looks at phone.
'Soul Embraced'
Thanks for reading.
m.j.banks
Answers are the way. Don't chase dreams, but believe in them. Don't believe goals, but chase them. Emotions are limited only by the culture you reflect. TLDR.SPQR.LLAP
22 November 2017
Graffiti Complex
[This took an... hour to write... must press... publish... button...]
m.j.banks
So there's this bullshit called "net neutrality" and I've already written about it and okay so whatever call it that eventho it's not a network and isn't neutral, you're doing something, trees do something, I'm not mad at trees, I'm not mad at you.
However.
For years there's a saying "in capitalism bread waits for you to buy it, in socialism, you wait to buy bread, and there's no fucking bread, because nobody's making any bread because a law that says there should be magical bread doesn't actually make any" I think is the actual quote, or it is now. This is #literally, the #actual problem in Venezuela, in your world.
There's this idea going around that capitalism somehow also means monopoly and I don't fear that because there are mobs of angry idiots that have gathered and collected a monopoly government of their own, and sometimes there are protesters now that you mention it, and the hypocrisy waits like a loaded gun, but let's put another metaphorical bullet in it.
If you live in a country without guns, you don't live in a country without guns, btw.
Thereof, those groups of people represent a free and open internet citizenship, whose use of a private company's services are the verifiable capitalism unadulterated, you adulterers of innocence itself, the very same allowing me to blog this, which is a society that protects collective bargaining, and in a truly free and open internet, the way an employee union can cripple a company from within, the people can change how the internet is delivered.
I'm not familiar with how unfair the internet is in your minds, the prevalence of any protest is for surplus of presumed accessibility, more of what's hidden, and yet nobody complains about the actual speed of the network, which can be improved by quality of hardware, funded by a capitalist society, (sorry, Cuba, you still kinda suck) by means of profit margins, and even in the island dungeon near Florida, they've censorship, not in anyway neutrality, where if i'm making the case for a utopia they perpetually destroy by not understanding the mathematical ADDITION principle, they allow growth.
I assume they think Usa is a place with technology stolen from crashed extraterrestrial time travelers of the future. Fuck you, Cuba, get a clue.
The response will be to find a theoretical hole, and jump thru it, but I can tell you this: The internet is not a technological singularity where a technocrat in a mid-level bureaucratically-funded gov't job can will away problems that don't exist. As much as you want to run that simulation again in your head, it's a waste of energy without all the variables. You can be prepared to be upset about everything, you still won't have spent a few hours at two in the morning writing a blog about net neutrality.
I've even gone as far as propose that communism, doesn't even exist. I could ask - by the way, anything existing is preposterous - you if it does or if you've ever seen it. You hear about it all the time, you talk about it, others talk about it, you've read about it, you can research it, you can even practice it, but maybe you haven't.
There mightn't be any way to know.
If a taxable (vomit) product is bad, it fails as a product, or someone improves it, but the company has to provide quality or suffer consequences. Capitalism is the largest risk pool in healthcare, but people stopped looking at the bill and started looking at the bullshit. That collective of negotiators is only 'once-removed' by representative gov't, but can negotiate nevertheless.
Circle peg, three dimensional cube in theoretical space.
Not getting the results your apolitical bias prefers is a matter of switching search engines and/or their algorithms bypassing the filters designed to see queries, AND, their answers passing over ISP lines to see if they were fair, with "fair" being defined by a) a human, b) infinitesimal lexical combinations, and c) temporary societal norms not relegated to amalgamate political climate but somehow defined despite that, opinions change.
The larger boundary is also weird, because of complexity, censorship countries rely on keyword filtering, to remove bad content, to push political misnomers, etc, all made possible by the - wait for it - .... free and open internet, so that if you're going to shitpost, the internet wraiths can find it and devour your soul. (Halloween was last week or something.)
Universal basic income, more basic than universal, you're still going to need physical blockchain counterparts, if not merely the ledger for every grain of sand - that's a long story - anyway it's a perfect model for industrialization for those of you that don't understand capitalism, the shifting solution of another world halfway behind us, a third world in shouting distance, while half of the new world doesn't watch tv on any given night of the week, and capitalism works so well we didn't even have to adopt the metric system, ratio 1:all, you know, the system the rest of the planet uses even on those islands nobody goes to and the inhabitants are one family for generations, my metaphor of earth.
By the time blockchain is taught in grade (primary) school, we'll be two planets. Content filtering doesn't increase customer appreciation, your games and shows still stream, your websites still load, a neutral intersection is empty or jammed, premium services can be better or ultimately are abandoned, there are show about it called 'remember the last decade' and nobody remembers them, one day Cuba is going to be a Usa state, and nobody is going to remember when it wasn't. Toll roads are paved, bank parking lots are smooth, if you want a gov't run internet, go to your computer and log into one, oh wait, you can't, there's only the private sector lines.
Gov't does it's job, or it doesn't, and i just realized the entire thing might be a red herring and I've prolly spent 20 minutes writing a piece of shit.
Well fuckety doodah, aren't I a witch's tit. Let's look at quotes for a while and publish this.
From people who preach socialism but don't allow it, neutrality by getting in your way. Okay, let's find a good quote. Maybe something about cookies, people love cookies.
And why do ppl think socialism develops the soul? Is not the case for morality possibility of risk and not the promise of safety?
It's a political ecosystem, don't be a parasite. Punishment teaches subservience, not the ethical output of cooperative survival. That's some sort of emotionless recidivism.
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m.j.banks
So there's this bullshit called "net neutrality" and I've already written about it and okay so whatever call it that eventho it's not a network and isn't neutral, you're doing something, trees do something, I'm not mad at trees, I'm not mad at you.
However.
For years there's a saying "in capitalism bread waits for you to buy it, in socialism, you wait to buy bread, and there's no fucking bread, because nobody's making any bread because a law that says there should be magical bread doesn't actually make any" I think is the actual quote, or it is now. This is #literally, the #actual problem in Venezuela, in your world.
There's this idea going around that capitalism somehow also means monopoly and I don't fear that because there are mobs of angry idiots that have gathered and collected a monopoly government of their own, and sometimes there are protesters now that you mention it, and the hypocrisy waits like a loaded gun, but let's put another metaphorical bullet in it.
If you live in a country without guns, you don't live in a country without guns, btw.
Thereof, those groups of people represent a free and open internet citizenship, whose use of a private company's services are the verifiable capitalism unadulterated, you adulterers of innocence itself, the very same allowing me to blog this, which is a society that protects collective bargaining, and in a truly free and open internet, the way an employee union can cripple a company from within, the people can change how the internet is delivered.
I'm not familiar with how unfair the internet is in your minds, the prevalence of any protest is for surplus of presumed accessibility, more of what's hidden, and yet nobody complains about the actual speed of the network, which can be improved by quality of hardware, funded by a capitalist society, (sorry, Cuba, you still kinda suck) by means of profit margins, and even in the island dungeon near Florida, they've censorship, not in anyway neutrality, where if i'm making the case for a utopia they perpetually destroy by not understanding the mathematical ADDITION principle, they allow growth.
I assume they think Usa is a place with technology stolen from crashed extraterrestrial time travelers of the future. Fuck you, Cuba, get a clue.
The response will be to find a theoretical hole, and jump thru it, but I can tell you this: The internet is not a technological singularity where a technocrat in a mid-level bureaucratically-funded gov't job can will away problems that don't exist. As much as you want to run that simulation again in your head, it's a waste of energy without all the variables. You can be prepared to be upset about everything, you still won't have spent a few hours at two in the morning writing a blog about net neutrality.
I've even gone as far as propose that communism, doesn't even exist. I could ask - by the way, anything existing is preposterous - you if it does or if you've ever seen it. You hear about it all the time, you talk about it, others talk about it, you've read about it, you can research it, you can even practice it, but maybe you haven't.
There mightn't be any way to know.
If a taxable (vomit) product is bad, it fails as a product, or someone improves it, but the company has to provide quality or suffer consequences. Capitalism is the largest risk pool in healthcare, but people stopped looking at the bill and started looking at the bullshit. That collective of negotiators is only 'once-removed' by representative gov't, but can negotiate nevertheless.
Circle peg, three dimensional cube in theoretical space.
Not getting the results your apolitical bias prefers is a matter of switching search engines and/or their algorithms bypassing the filters designed to see queries, AND, their answers passing over ISP lines to see if they were fair, with "fair" being defined by a) a human, b) infinitesimal lexical combinations, and c) temporary societal norms not relegated to amalgamate political climate but somehow defined despite that, opinions change.
The larger boundary is also weird, because of complexity, censorship countries rely on keyword filtering, to remove bad content, to push political misnomers, etc, all made possible by the - wait for it - .... free and open internet, so that if you're going to shitpost, the internet wraiths can find it and devour your soul. (Halloween was last week or something.)
Universal basic income, more basic than universal, you're still going to need physical blockchain counterparts, if not merely the ledger for every grain of sand - that's a long story - anyway it's a perfect model for industrialization for those of you that don't understand capitalism, the shifting solution of another world halfway behind us, a third world in shouting distance, while half of the new world doesn't watch tv on any given night of the week, and capitalism works so well we didn't even have to adopt the metric system, ratio 1:all, you know, the system the rest of the planet uses even on those islands nobody goes to and the inhabitants are one family for generations, my metaphor of earth.
By the time blockchain is taught in grade (primary) school, we'll be two planets. Content filtering doesn't increase customer appreciation, your games and shows still stream, your websites still load, a neutral intersection is empty or jammed, premium services can be better or ultimately are abandoned, there are show about it called 'remember the last decade' and nobody remembers them, one day Cuba is going to be a Usa state, and nobody is going to remember when it wasn't. Toll roads are paved, bank parking lots are smooth, if you want a gov't run internet, go to your computer and log into one, oh wait, you can't, there's only the private sector lines.
Gov't does it's job, or it doesn't, and i just realized the entire thing might be a red herring and I've prolly spent 20 minutes writing a piece of shit.
Well fuckety doodah, aren't I a witch's tit. Let's look at quotes for a while and publish this.
From people who preach socialism but don't allow it, neutrality by getting in your way. Okay, let's find a good quote. Maybe something about cookies, people love cookies.
And why do ppl think socialism develops the soul? Is not the case for morality possibility of risk and not the promise of safety?
It's a political ecosystem, don't be a parasite. Punishment teaches subservience, not the ethical output of cooperative survival. That's some sort of emotionless recidivism.
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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