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i wanna do this again…. assign the person you reblogged this from a representative emoji like they’re a kpop idol

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It’s been ages since I’ve done one, but the @flashfictionfridayofficial prompt today matched up with a nice chunk of what I wrote today!

So in honor of the coincidence, have the first draft of what Ash discovering she has horns now.

When I wake up, it feels like it has been less than a minute, but I find myself in a different bed than the one I’ve been sleeping on in my room, laying on my stomach with my arms folded beneath a pillow that supports my head.

That’s not how I usually sleep, which only heightens my disorientation. I push up with my arms carefully, conscious of the healing wound on my right forearm, and try to sit up. It must have been one hell of a nap; my muscles feel tight and stiff, like I was sleeping on them funny. Which I guess is what I was doing, since I woke up on my stomach.

I was placed on some sort of a cot, which makes more sense once I sit up and swing my legs over the edge to recognize the apothecary. Nobody else is in the room with me, human or otherwise. That puzzles me, until I realize that they must have thought that I was stable enough to attend to other matters.

Still, I would have thought that Zach, at least, would have been here. We seemed to be on pretty good terms after our conversation yesterday, but maybe he is in a separate room, working off his portion of the pain price.

That must have been what happened to me. I must have taken the price in the head. That’s the only thing that makes sense. I remember it the blasting pain that happened, and it only happened after the last of the ritual’s light had faded. And I’m still dealing with it; I have the most blinding headache. It makes it hard to think straight, so I sit there, numb without thought, for a long moment before it occurs to me that head wounds can be pretty serious.

That’s another reason someone should be here attending me. But when I look down at the flat pillow in concern, there isn’t a spot of blood on it. That seems pretty unusual to my eyes. It’s not that I don’t trust in the healer’s skills, but I don’t even feel any bandages on my head.

I lift a hand to my temple to make sure, and forget about my headache for a second. There might not be any bandages on my head, but there is a hard lump an inch or two above my ear. It’s protruding out of my hair, but poking through the thick locks makes it seem flush with my skin. So it isn’t like the healer put something on my head to dull the pain.

I take my fingers away for the quickest of seconds just to check for blood. They come away clean. My tired brain catches up and I realize that, if I was actively bleeding in the area by this lump, it would have hurt when I started poking around.

Trying to give myself some grace, I shake my head. The movement feels… strange. It’s almost heavier, but in a way that feels like the way my head moves through the air is different.

More confused than when I woke up, I go back to my tactile inspection. The thing, whatever it is continues further up and backwards, away from my forehead, getting thinner as it goes. It’s subtly ridged, like if the centerpoint of a tree ring had been raised, and every subsequent ring grew out thicker below it until the whole thing appeared like a conical tower. But thinner, and subtle, and almost curved and arching, making a space between the top of my head and…

I freeze, forming a thought that might be a realization. To confirm, I raise my other hand up to the other side of my head. Sure enough, I feel another one.

Are these… horns?

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Detail from a walk. Maybe I’m losing it but everything looked so lovely yesterday.

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Is there a word that’s a mix between angry and sad

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I’m far less interested in fiction where it’s like “This power/ability/prophecy is gender specific but trans inclusive” and for more interested in fiction that just… doesn’t do that

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Lyctorhood ✨

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Have you read Blindsight by Peter Watts? It's a whole different kind of fucked-up sci fi.

I have not!

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hi this is your daily writing reminder that I am so proud for opening that document and adding a line to it, or for thinking about those characters, and reminiscing about that plot twist.

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Writing tip of the day: whenever you can, plug a plot hole with a character flaw!

Every time you realise that it makes no sense that the characters didn't do some super logical thing in the first place, figure out which character could have prevented it by simply the way they are as a person. You're not only solving the problem of the plot hole, but also the issue of writing flaws into your characters in a way that doesn't feel gratituous and contrived.

Why did the characters not use this weapon they had access to the whole time? - The character who could have told them about it wants to have control over people and had personally decided they shouldn't have it.

Why didn't that one genius character just tell everyone how to dismantle the robots? - They meant to, but being an absent-minded genius, they literally just forgot.

How did nobody notice that this little girl has been hanging out with an actual demon for seven years? - The demon made her pinky-promise not to tell anyone about it, and being naive and overly trusting, she didn't find that sketchy at all.

Why didn't the characters go to The Big Cool Guys for help in the first place? - The character who is stubborn and overly proud wanted to choose death before dishonour and didn't want to ask for help.

Every time there was a perfectly reasonable solution accessible to the characters all along, that could've resolved the whole plot in minutes, always try to find an angle where someone prevented it just by who they are as a person.

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Something I've been wondering about Protocol production:

Are y'all given full scripts for each episode, or do you only get stuff that's relevant to your character (i.e. scenes they're in, conversations they've overheard, etc.)?

Full scripts!

Occasionally, cases are left out if they're still in the process of being written and edited. But other than that, full scripts (though not all of us choose to read them from cover to cover ...).

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It makes me happy when they listen

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John used all his simussy in that line

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I think my number one fear with LORE Series is that I build up the answers to the mysteries that Ash has been pursuing. And then what if I get to the answers and they aren’t interesting or fun to read.

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Holy shit, they got Voyager 1 working again!

15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.

Incredible!