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"Yes, the Fun Meal comes with dessert. But this is *second* dessert!"
Tau ruffed, his forehead wrinkled.
Bebe gasped. "Bebe is *not* gorging herself! Tau is the one who gorges himself. He eats his whole meal in a single bite!"
Tau studied her.
"Bebe will buy you one too!" she wheedled. #wss366 (2/2)

Tau escorted Bebe. The other Angels wanted to rest after dinner, but Bebe wanted to take a walk through the Truck Stop.
"Ooh!" she squealed. "Bebe wants a crepe!"
Tau barked.
"Yes, I had a Fun Meal for dinner. But this is dessert!"
Tau barked again. (1/2)

[ima just leave this here] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljr2wMSBHqU

I dreamed last night I was trying to show someone a shell command, but my hand was asleep and I couldn't type. I was trying to type a long path and kept flubbing it. When I woke up, I found that my hand actually *was* asleep.

#WordWeavers Would your MC look forward to a family reunion?

"Do your parents know what's happened to you? Have you been home to see your family since you left?" the Baron asked.
"No," Revin said. "They could never accept that… that I would never be the docile little girl they wanted. That I wasn't going to let myself be married off to an older man and beaten into submission to bear his children and do his housework."

(from Rewriting the Rules, Part 7 of Revin's Heart)

Drenched with sweat, we drove over broken pavement returning from a long morning in the #field. The jeep turned left, cleared the hill, and the hypnotic blue of the Caribbean came into view. The students cheered.
"We have to move the traps with the swisks in before you can swim," Keok said.

#wss366

Mom is home and, for five minutes, all is right with the world.

#WritersCoffeeClub How consistent are you with your writing?

My writing is highly variable. Sometimes I'm very productive and other times I do very little. I like to have several projects going at once and will sometimes write a short story when I feel like doing something completely different. But I learned a long time ago that my creative output is variable and so I don't worry about it. I've always thought that the people who try to keep a schedule and force themselves to write are craycray.

This morning, I'm hanging out with my li'l hime-sama while my son goes to visit his grandma in the hospital. Tanuki-chan wishes she could go to pull on all the oxygen hoses and IVs. #DogsOfMastodon

Someone left the fortune from a fortune cookie on the table. It says, "Let your Mondays be filled with passion and purpose."

I guess the rest of the days can go hang.

My mom is still in the hospital, so I sent her a cheery, good-morning message. I worried for a moment I might wake her up. But then I remembered she won't have her hearing aids in, so no danger of that.

"Check it out!" the tourist said. "It's a gaboon viper!"
"Oh, no," the guide said. "That's a puff adder. The color is different and the pattern is more zigzaggy."
"Rats! I always wanted to see a gaboon viper!"
"Watch where you're putting your feet, or it'll be the last thing you see."

#wss366

"neoliberalism has created so much precarity that the commodification of the self is now seen as the only route to any kind of economic security" — Naomi Klein https://www.vox.com/culture/2024/2/1/24056883/tiktok-self-promotion-artist-career-how-to-build-following

The most positive thing you can say: "It doesn't look as bad as a spinal tap."

Pro tip: If you ever look up "thoracentesis" on the Internet, don't look at the pictures.

"I try shaking it," Lord RazorFell said.
"You can perhaps feel some slight shift or change of balance," Tseluna said.
"I try sliding the raised region."
"It slides forward and the cylinder begins to emit light from one end. You can see that you're inside a room."
"Woohoo!" the boys all cried. (4/4)

"What do you suppose it it?" Lord GapTongue said. "Some kind of club?"
"I #resume searching the floor."
"There is nothing else on the floor."
"Hmm. I try pressing the raised region of the object," Lord RazorFell said.
"Nothing happens."
"Try shaking it!" said Lord LightStrike. #wss366 (3/4)

"You cast the spell, but nothing happens. There is no light."
"I will begin to feel around in the darkness," Lord RazorFell said.
"The floor is smooth and cool. You reach a wall. At the base of the wall is a small cylindrical object. You can feel a rectangular raised region on the side." (2/4)

"You find yourself in total darkness," Tseluna said to the boys. She was acting as Game Master for their weekly game of Demon Quest.
"I'll cast light," Lord FrostFire said.
"Nothing happens."
"What?" he said, totally flummoxed. "What do you mean, 'nothing happens'?"
"Like I said," she replied.(1/4)

Happy Boxer-dog Day! #DogsOfMastodon