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by
John Scalzi
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February 3 - March 4, 2025
If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out,
Haha
“Sergeant Brenja Pitof.”
Captain Blinnikka
Haha
“Ling Xi.”
Gazson Magnut.
Haha
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Taffyd and Chun Lewyyn
Geork Broshning
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Che Isolt
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“Someone I’m pretty sure can speed up the process of getting my house off the hook a whole fucking lot.”
Marce Claremont
Haha a running gag. “Cardenia realized that “ornate” was a design motif she was probably stuck with now; she couldn’t just burn everything down and start with clean lines and spaces, tempting as it might be. She was emperox but even they had their limits.” p. 77.
The Duke of End’s palace too: “It was overly plush in a manner that suggested that the residents had confused excess for elegance…. the duke’s office, as vomitiously ornate as any other part of the palace.” pp. 53, 54.
Grayland II
Nadashe Nohamapetan.
Hatide Roynold.
When the emperox told him the things she knew, everything, appallingly, fell together.
Che Isolt
“Your man at customs
he identified and acted as a go-between between you and immigrants from End. How you would either use them or fra...
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“Apparently fratricide was too much even for him.
“You don’t understand,” Marce said. “Roynold was wrong. There’s no shift coming. There’s a collapse coming.
Upeksha Ranatunga.
Hibert Limbar
We did the very same thing here. In the space above Hub.
it’s End where humans will survive when everywhere else has gone dark. We need that planet.
Attavio VI
Cardenia,
Haha - memories are not supposed to have judgment.
assonant
I decided it was good enough.”
“I’m busy with the end of everything,”
Haha
Countess Lagos and her daughter Kiva,
both of whom were profanely delighted at the fall of the Nohamapetans,
the majority of the parliament still thinks it’s nonsense even though we have proof.”
“I don’t know that it will matter even then,”
Haha
some people are both.
“I’m dead. I don’t feel bad about anything.” “Must be nice.” “It’s not,” Attavio VI said.
regardless of what either of us wanted there is the fact of what is.
Grayland
“You’re asking a heuristic computer network for its opinion.”
Haha
Knowing that we created the Interdependency for our benefit, and pretended it was something that benefitted everyone. It makes this collapse feel like it’s the universe commenting on our choice.”
“That’s the human brain,” Attavio VI said. “It creates patterns when there aren’t any.
Conspiracy theories too.
