Sorry To All My Readers On Ao3. I'll Come Home To You.

does anybody remember fun. Nobody even remembers fun. anymore, give me a second I— I need to get my story straight my friends are in the bathroom getting higher than the empire state my lover she's waiting for me just across the bar my seats been taken by some sun glasses asking bout a scar but I know I gave it to you months ago I know you're trying to forget but between the drinks and subtle things the holes in my apologies you know I'm trying hard to take it back so if by the time the bar closes and you feel like falling down I'll carry you home

Cyril Edward Power

The Age of Speed, Linocuts, 1920s-30s

@happinessisntfun and I have been discussing who should find Robby mid breakdown in Pedes (assuming anyone finds him) and I....

Best- Dana, Collins, maybe Kiara? Mel would do her best but I don't think he'd want to be seen by her like that.

Worst- Langdon, Santos, any hallucination of a dead person, the reporter guy who faked being injured.

Unhinged???- Myrna (have we found her yet?), Random SWAT man that just backs right out of the room.

I am NOT ready for tonight, regardless.

WHITAKER???

@happinessisntfun and I have been discussing who should find Robby mid breakdown in Pedes (assuming anyone finds him) and I....

Best- Dana, Collins, maybe Kiara? Mel would do her best but I don't think he'd want to be seen by her like that.

Worst- Langdon, Santos, any hallucination of a dead person, the reporter guy who faked being injured.

Unhinged???- Myrna (have we found her yet?), Random SWAT man that just backs right out of the room.

I am NOT ready for tonight, regardless.

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

Do y'all have any favorite card games?

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Being a fanfic author is spending two hours fact checking every detail of a real life assassination that happened 80 years ago for a Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel chapter that you know damn well absolutely no one will care about.

It's always something with these motherfuckers

The Republicans have decided we no longer need bees and are defunding the USGS Bee Lab. Please tell your friends, your representatives, local beekeepers, crafting clubs, your classmates, and everyone who has ever seen a bee that this is happening and that the Republicans are behind it. Scream about this. We in the professional bug world make fun of the bee people for having some of the only consistent funding and support in the whole field, but now even that is going away. Write it on your car. Tell someone at the store. Email your professor. Make a tiktok. Draw it on the sidewalk. Do NOT let them sneak this by.

Government Executive

Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently

Employees fear diminished capacity after RIFs are tacked on to existing mass exodus.

I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

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