Category: Mourners, Abednego, Persistence
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Homelessness Is Hilarious Until It Isn’t
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “… When you live in someone else’s shadow, trying to distinguish yourself is a very natural human thing to do. That was why it first caused some disquiet when he so regularly evinced tangible frustration, just as his elder brother did. Over time, though, it became clear that his vexation came…
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Gerrymandering of Opinion
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Do you want to know what I did the first time Pennat Gate came out behind in a game of war? I reunited with my Lady, returned home, nearly wept over the unfairness of it all, nearly shrieked over the unfairness of it all, nearly snapped a tree in half over…
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Friends and Stupid Decisions
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “BREAK THE WALLS DOWN! THEY HIDE GOBLINS, AND THE GOBLINS LIVE OFF OUR GOLD!” -Sanni, Sanni Juhinmkoltspeeéee’s Journey From All Phantastes To All Madness, Act IV Seven, as usual, remained in a corner. Its head cocked to one side, watching the proceedings. In this instance, Friend Lord Artaxerxes had told it,…
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Bully Ol’ Boys
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Every person to ever be deserves life, and life abundant. For all those who would otherwise die broken or fall to pieces in the wasteland of the gem, the Yrdkish estate of Pennat Gate offers succor.” -The Pennat Gate Haven Edict, as first paraphrased by the Parrot of Rhaagm Sebastio Artaxerxes…
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Time’s Inconstancy
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “As we grow, we reproduce. As we reproduce, we extend ourselves to meet our needs. As we extend ourselves to meet our needs, we require larger fields of unused volume in which to plant seeds of self and domain. To keep ourselves from becoming carcinogenic, we must trim ourselves with humility,…
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Going Outside Requirements Analysis
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Those attacked by a Beast of the Purple will suffer sorely until cauterized or amputated. Wounds rot and destroy those who receive them without fail if untreated. An atemporal force, or power, always plagues those who so perish. If they have a stored copy of their gestalt elsewhere in existence, it…
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Choking On Numbers
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “When you have a problem, blame numbers. You will always be correct.” -Ast aaned proverb The reaching-fellow Seven Plus Two Minus Three Times Three, or Seven as it was known in an abbreviated capacity, stepped through the hole in Home and into a new place. It didn’t concern itself with why…
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An Inductive Proof
<< Mourners, Abednego, Persistence “Why do unwinged people like flying about in the air so much? It seems inefficient to extend journeys by an entire additional dimension.” -Quote attributed to Molly Nonakufa, founder of the Third Path Philosophy of Aidenism The human watched his younger brother make an undignified jink in his swoop, and for…