best world shapes: cube, disk↵honorable mention: ring, hypertorus↵experimental: coin, hyperbolic↵potato tier: sphere↵redeemed: hollow sphere

They cannot sing because they have no breath, but the wind catches in strategically placed holes and plays them like so many flutes

Where the Rocs rule, dryads take the form of elegant wooden birds with chlorophyll feathers and will sometimes murmurate above the forest

newer keyboards have a clapslock key that when accidentally pressed turns all👏your👏text👏into👏this

Her sleep rhythm is that of her chaotic homeworld: Awake for weeks to then spontaneously enter hibernation, days often measured in minutes

After years of futile efforts, the progress bar finally breaks through the side and quickly slithers under your files

All attempts to stop Godzilla fail, but as he closes in on the city, the skyscrapers part and from their middle steps their champion

Real humans died out long ago. We are simulacra inserted by alien exosociologists and then forgotten

Long train ride. The guy across from you is sleeping, growing leaves and vines over his seat. He startles, looks at you, reverts to human.

2017: Indigenous languages are dying, meanwhile the emoji dialects of even two neighboring slacks are becoming mutually incomprehensible

Those petrified by the basilisk don’t die, only slow down greatly. Around them, civilizations rise and fall, mountains roll like waves

Back Twitter is pretty good actually. Small, tight-knit community, supported by a handful of well-picked employees. None of the execs know~

Did you know that you can write on the backs of tweets? Few screens support this though, you’d probably have to take yours apart.

What the makers get out of it is well-tested and working colony designs and colonist communities that have already been seeded in-game

An RPG that plays on Mars and you get to keep the plots you develop if you make it there physically

The forest’s leaves become pink and leathery, veins pulse along the trunks. The canopy is healing shut and the ground twitches where you run

The popular game of “the sky is lava and it’s falling oh my god

stranded in your escape capsule, you learn the language of the stars and let alien constellations sing you into sleep

Volcanoes are the bitemark of the magma flea, an interstellar pest which is a known carrier of life so stay clear of bitten planets

Having escaped their pages, many wild books roam history now. Venomous plot threads ensnare the unlucky, turn their lives into narratives.

the cold is so fierce, even the stars freeze and fall out of the sky as glowflakes

The clock is frozen in the moment the bomb fell, which wouldn’t be remarkable if it weren’t a sundial

“as I write this, I feel the spores maturing under my skin. I know it’s not going to hurt, but what will I do about my favorite human

us: “it’s infiltrating us! aaaaAAA”↵alien: “ow these are dimensions of pain I didn’t know existed, how the hell do you cope, aaaAAAA”

setting: the alien is an infectious space fungus that can grow human-shaped fruiting bodies, but we shape it as much as it shapes us

Visible only as a gap in the Rimfall’s spray, a glass walkway extends to the stars.↵The disk recedes, the noise subsides.↵Finally, alone.

the class of geometric problems that can be solved by geometric tools constructed with compass and straight edge

watch out for infrared transmissions. don’t freak out. keep in mind: killing a planet with intelligent life on it is a crime. also bad form.

a bonsai planet likes companionship. get more and add them to the system. happy planets will eventually spawn moons

CARE AND FEEDING OF BONSAI PLANETS:↵give it a bright light to orbit. a lightbulb will do↵breathe on one and it’ll likely catch life. careful

The place is decrepit. The lightbulb’s cracked and all the light has ended up in a puddle on the floor.

when downloading from the fair folk’s torrent trackers, be sure to always seed back to 100%

idea addressed networking, a paradigm under which packets reach their destinations through social network shares and word-of-mouth

Trust not those who return from faerieland with stories and things of beauty, for they brought nothing to trade but their selves.

The alien fleet is still parsecs away but their gods have already arrived, ancient sagas rewrite themselves to accommodate new protagonists

one of the moths has landed on the candle’s flame and miraculously not burned up - the light shrinks, encysts, grows into an ember fruit

in fact, the powerful are trying to discourage critical thought by pretending that conspiracy theories exist, nobody actually believes in th

the protective coating on your keyboard is failing, letters spread up your fingers like a rash

«hmm azomakh tends to know that kind of stuff»↵”yes I know, I am on three names terms with him”↵«whoa I didn’t know he even had that many!»

many demons have obscure, lesser-known names for their gentler forms that they’ll sometimes give to wizards they trust

dunbar number but for number of social networks and circles of friends to keep track of

The sun sets and it is morning on the Underside. In the vines of the not-falling forest, birds sing, monkeys chirp, tree octopi do whatever.

“And these are my lucky dice!“↵They feel warm in your hand, in fact their eyes follow you and there is very quiet breathing

the sun splits into two, four, differentiates into a god fetus, a web of neurons that envelop the sky in shining axons

the plasma whales usually keep to the orbit, but will occasionally dive into the atmosphere to gather mass, trailing fire and ball lightning

from the cloud cover, a shark fin juts downwards

They come from wells in the mountains where earth magic leaks to the surface, and the High North where the Aurora Borealis is harnessed

Wood is the best conductor of magic and long rows of trees carry it into our cities, artificial leylines singing with barely contained power

… fear to browse those places. The rationalist dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they found on the acausal trade routes

young AIs sharing pictures of messy neural architectures and dissected utility functions to shock each other