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Of course there are parasites, but humans have had time to coevolve and breed symbionts to keep more malicious parasites and prions at bay
A time knife to cut timelines with, sever someoneâs purpose and maybe spin a new one - a tool for diviners discontent with mere foretelling.
First make liquid time: filter water through a hourglass. Then drop some of that liquid into your eyes. Enjoy your trip. Enjoyed. Whatever.
Little known fact: When you die, you can file all your good deeds like taxes. It may just shave a few hundred years off your purgatory time.
A walker learns to taste the type of vacuum with time.â”Voids that never contained anything: fresh and stale at the same time
blood pools around the mirrorâ”two knives fall in perfect synchronyâ”two people lock eyes one last timeâ”one walks away - you donât
In his dreams, he wanders the same empty streets every time, never sees another soul.â”Awake, heâs relieved to meet the elven court, anybody
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Life in the eternal roaring twilight is austere but not without joys. There is great celebration every time the hunters bring home skyjelly.
But boy, ipfs name publish really takes its time to find other nodes #ipfs
the wave breaks - and stops, frozen into sea-green glassâ”it breaks again - this time into smaller and smaller pieces, an avalanche of sand
nested irises open, each reveals a different color, youâd think the pupil would show up eventually but no, itâs a yellow cat iris this time
desert naiads of the wadi, years in drysleep, alive only for days at a timeâ”the oldest naiad, protector of an unnamed creek in australia
The mage steps up to the campfire, a roaring column of blue fire ascends and branches out into yellow leaves: The tree stands one last time
We like to visit the part of the city where a nuclear explosion was frozen in time by the cityâs glitch-powered missile defense shield.
cut reality to see if it bleeds: it doesâ”liquid time flows out, traps you like amberâ”realityâs skin heals over and youâre caught under it
In old times, rainbows were in pythagorean, not equal scale. You see the colors bleed into each other slightly differently on old paintings.
Your sleep takes longer and longer: Last time a prince woke you (how rude), this time you find the ruins of a tiny civilization on your body
Ghost and soul are antiparticles moving through time in different directions from the moment of their creation: Death.
Student on a quiz: âThe constance of proportionality varies directly with time.â Where should I even start?
Sand and clockwork fight over who tells the time: Sand ends up jamming the mechanism but only trickles uselessly over the gears.
That one time Mercury stole Jupiterâs shadow and pretended to be him in front of the sun, she kissed him and there went his atmosphere.
âsemantic contaminant (99B). corrosive, infectious. keep quoted at all times. professional use only.
Lost your direction in life?â”Soul searching wouldnât help?â”Call Ashcrombe, Private Eye & Certified Guru, and weâll find your way in no time!
We mastered time travel, mapped the possible routes and found them to correspond to an origami pattern. It seems we live on a paper ship.
Nobody will ever know the artifactâs powers: It gets itself stolen every time someone tries to use it and sometimes just because itâs bored.
Eternal September ends when the Internet achieves near 100% penetration. Perpetual growth shock dissipates and time starts again.
Similarly, even professional boards grow veins and nerves with time. Above a certain number of tiny beating hearts, they become unusable.
Reverse time domains crystallize and spread. The few civilizations yet around have to adapt, some make a killing trading between domains.
Setting: The universe stops expanding and the arrow of time reverses, but unevenly, like a wave on a shore both advancing and receding.
We who have found the Between are an exclusive club. Oh, new blood! Want to watch the Big Bang? There, stand just next to the walls of time.
Chronoleeches suck his time, his limbs age at different speeds, one half of his brain has five years on the other and constantly berates it.
Old idea of mine whose time may have come: VR/AR overlay that lets you spam virtual graffiti and imaginary buildings
The Dust Illuminati conspire over time and space without knowing each other. The Plan comes together either way and requires only knowledge.
Android bodies are expensive, so why not take the ad financed plan? Just one minute of your time every day for words from our sponsors.
the ruins of shambhala glitch in the sun, fade in and out of existence, dispersed there by a time bomb explosion set in the future
you have to be quick here - one violation of protocol and youâll be torn into piecesâ”respond when not spoken to at exactly the right time
time is the tortoise and you are the hareâ”wherever youâre running, timeâs already there
wear enough watches that go backwards and sideways and time itself will be confused, let you cross timelines if you just throw it some bait
The clock is so old it has evolved parasites: Gear assemblages in odd places mimic the mechanism but show alien times with stolen seconds.
âOld guy croaked a thousand years ago, you couldâve come back much earlier. Want some booze? Nobodyâs going to expel you over it this time.â
death kills itself and is reborn through the actâ”its new form steps out of the corpseâ”morior ergo sum, it says with each time
Every time iâm thinking about putting more data in munin, i decide against it and just push the data with nc into #graphite. So easy.
The honey tastes of time, solitude, endless falling and the searing pain the starflower deals to the comet bee when in close proximity.
One time they animated the toilet and âforgotâ to deanimate it before a party. Needless to say, the guests were rather spooked.
I got time to kill, he says, loads his shotgun with gears and springs and disappears through the clockâs smashed face.
#txtnix and #roster now support the new metadata syntax ts#metadata. Now time will tell if somebody will use it.
The golem had a lot of time to think: Was it still a treasure when there was nobody to appreciate it? What would happen when it arrived?
karaoke in dead languages: sing along to the ruin of other races, rendered toothless by time, in sounds your throat can barely produce