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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 15:00:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Regime

   When you ferry a dozen individuals of almost as many species inside a single paceship for several months, one essential yet too often overlooked issue is that of managing everyone's dietary regime.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Satiety

     An invitation from Count Utarefson was not to be turned down, and she found his accent charming. She realized alas too late what he meant when he said he "relished satiety".

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 15:00:17 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Carence

     "According to my doctor," said the Dragon, "today is a bad day for you and I to meet,"

     "Has your doctor forbidden you to fight?" sneered the Knight.

     "Oh, no," replied the Dragon. "However, he found that I have an iron deficiency."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Serrurière

     This robot was constructed by a locksmith woman. This explains its spring-based functioning but also some aspects of its design which a man would not have thought of.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Lasagne

     In witchcraft as elsewhere, adaptability is a must. When the Sorcerer attacked me, my only spell available was the one to turn basic ingredients into a nice lasagne. Would you have thought it works on a human too?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 15:00:18 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Crumble

     The disease had spread like wildfire, and all over the Earth, zombies were drying up, crumbling, and then scattering in the wind. No antidote was found, and the thousand-year-old zombie civilization collapsed within a year.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Strawberry

     Drinking blood in public is increasingly frowned upon. Vampires anxious to fit in are therefore opt for port. This of course poses a problem for child-looking vampires, who have to resort to strawberry syrup.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 15:52:06 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @aaribaud What did he mean?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 17:18:29 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

     @GreenSkyOverMe

     Sorry the joke didn't click.

     What she *thought* he said and thus meant, was that he "relished s*o*ciety" -- i.e., that he enjoyed the company of others.

     What he, being, as his title and name suggest, a vampire, said and meant, was indeed that he "relished *sasiety*", -- i.e., that he enjoyed consuming large enough amounts of blood (and, implicitly, that he intended to do so at her, as it were, expense -- and probably did).

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 15:00:20 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Cook

     The Knight cuts meats and vegetables.

     The Princess makes the menus, welcomes the guests and does the accounting.

     The cook is, of course, the Dragon.

     The Kind brought the funds and gets free meals. Which is a capital point.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Mash

     “How'd your tonsil removal go?” asked the Princess.

     “Still no fire or solid food,” said the Dragon.

     “Ah. A Knight was looking for you.”

     “I know. His was right on time. By shaking him hard enough, I was able to make myself a tin of mash."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Breadeater

     All over the panet, zombies exterminated humans, except in France, where a zombie was invariably and exclusively a breadeater. The bakeries had to be protected of course, but after that, France enjoyed its second, and final, golden age.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 15:00:17 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Écumoire

     They removed R42's positronic brain, pounded it, ran it through a skimmer, melted it, molded it and put it back.

     Once R42 was turned back on, its first words were “As I was saying before this interruption...”

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:00:23 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Gratin

     ‘Are you recovering well?’ asked the Princess.

     ‘I've got my fire back,’ said the Dragon.

     ‘Ah. Another knight was looking for you. A Prince from Dauphiné.’

     ‘I know. I enjoyed myself. I have a fondness for gratin dauphinois.’

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Macedonia

     The difficulty in communicating with ghosts is in determining which language to speak to them. A ghost from Macedonia born two centuries before our era speaks ancient Greek; six centuries before... Go figure.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Mix

     A hyperspace jump is a finicky thing.

     Mix your spatial coordinates and you end up upside down.

     Mix the hyperspatial ones and you end up inside out.

     At the atomic level.

     Oh well, at least you won't suffer.

     Hopefully.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Foodie

     ‘I do not indulge in sin,’ sighed the Devil. ‘I do not eat; would you picture me as a *foodie*? Likewise, lust doesn't apply to me. Frankly, the Creator only knows where you got this idea about me.’

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Crush

     The Coherency Rune's iridescent protection sphere around Krek the Swift was reddening and flattening under the pressure. Elena the Curious had chosen well when she'd cast her Pitting spell.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Light

     ‘What's their ship's weaponry?’

     ‘Our AI describes it as a light gunboat, so our armor should...’

     ‘Light... gun... boat? Oh, fuck. EVADE! EVADE!’

     The corvette narrowly avoided the aliens' super-powered laser beam.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Rich

     Zombies proved to be unexpected allies of the poor against the rich. Indeed, the latter, who were less accustomed to physical effort, were inevitably the slowest and therefore the most likely to be caught by the undead.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Perfusion

     I have seen way too many people lacking a lifelong faithful friend. Now that I'm a vampire, I can be this friend to many. My addiction doesn't interfere, thanks to an inventive tailor and a discrete perfusion.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Play

     "Are you here for my life?"

     "YES."

     "How about you and I play a game for it?"

     "CHESS, I IMAGINE ? I ADVISE AGAINST THAT."

     "No. Cricket."

     "I... DO NOT KNOW THE RULES."

     "That's not a problem, I'll explain to you. So..."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Jug

     "A genie? In a jug?"

     "Yes, but not s--"

     "Cool! I don't care about not drinking wine if I get to make three wishes!"

     "Ten, if you like, but *not so loud*. I've just spent thirty years macerating in plonk. I've got a giant hangover."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 15:10:39 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     @sabik

     To be fair, Tom Holt has things to say about genies freed from bottles of aspirin, and it goes as bad as you'd expect, for everyone including the genie.

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     sabik (sabik@rants.au)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 15:10:40 JST sabik

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     @aaribaud
     Wishes as granted by a drunk genie are going to be lit

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 15:00:19 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Menu

     My countryside vampire brethens have to pick their victims from a quite limited and, after some time, repetitive menu; whereas I, in the big city, have access to much more variety, and can select *à la carte*, as it were, every night.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Hunger

     "So," said the Princess, "fully recovered?"

     "Yes," said the Dragon, "and I hunger to celebrate with a barbecue today. Surely some Knight is looking for me?"

     "Of course. I'll just have a salad if you don't mind."

     "Be my guest."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Vanilla

     "Right. First: love potions aren't acceptable any more. Second: when the recipe says add vanilla for taste, you add the vanilla. Third: you're supposed to know the spell to clean up puke from a sorcerer robe."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Share

     "Yes," confirmed R42, "all robots share their data, within a Bloc but also between the South and North Blocs."

     "WHAT? You're going to make us lose the war!"

     "Our common prognosis is that we will make you avoid it."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Nov-2024 15:00:17 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Hors d'œuvre

     The humans would fight tooth and nail against the amoebic hivemind. Alas, the enemy had already phagocytosed, as an hors d'oeuvre, all the bacterial fauna that ensured their survival. The luckiest ones died within hours.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Nov-2024 15:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Slogan

     "All it would take is a good slogan and a few mils to develop this place's disruptive potentia--"

     The soul burst into cinders.

     "Never could abide startuppers," said the Devil.

     "DIDN'T YOU INVENT THEM?"

     "No. You gave me *standards*."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Buffet

     Since he would neither die nor age, he had to move at regular times. Thus he roamed the world, and thus, on his path, he had collected fragments of all sorts of religions, like so main canapés taken from a buffet.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Chocolate

     A chocolate golem is a novel idea but not without shortcomings.

     More expensive to make than a clay golem, it is less resilient to either cold or heat.

     Plus, even when it is deanimated again, one cannot bring oneself to eat it.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 15:00:16 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Eat

     "R42, do you really eat those nuts?"

     "Yes. It's necessary for my health."

     "You think I'm going to fall for that hoax?"

     "How did you guess?"

     "These nuts have UTS, imperial threads. Your threads are ISO, metric."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 16:32:51 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     (for once the English version enjoys a pun which the French version does not have, because I only realized it would come up when I actually did the translation. Enjoy.)