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August 8 - August 31, 2025
A new adventure begins. But first, cake.
“Always remember, knowledge is a product of labor. It is to be shared but never taken. For if you set out to rip knowledge away from others and hoard it like a jealous merchant hoards their wealth, you too will be shunned like this sphinx and banished from the circle of your peers.”
“Nothing can ever be easy,” he said. “Nope. We can’t even just walk into a trap like normal people. We have to work really hard first.”
Their first option is murder, their second option is murder, and if that fails, they go straight to murder.” “Well, at least they have their priorities straight.”
“Bringing a child into this universe is a grave and sacred task. A parent’s obligation is far deeper than a simple contribution of genetic material. One must guide, educate, and love one’s offspring, putting their needs above one’s own.
“The Dominion doesn’t want my child to bend their neck backward and address them with their face upside down?”
As Caldenia once told me, life gave us few opportunities to put our best foot forward, so when a chance to shine presented itself, it was best to take it.
He was about to debate a space fish, and their discussion would be presided on by a space chicken.
No matter how powerful you are, there are enemies one cannot crush.”
If you wish to secure safety, you must become a coral. Help others. Make yourself indispensable to them. Show them that apart you struggle but together you prosper.”
“Since every being is unique and unlike any other, so too their love and the microcosm it creates are unique. It cannot be defined, but only experienced.”
In theory, everyone agrees that the realm must evolve or die. In practice, people resist change because it threatens their way of life.
The Under-Khan is a smart man. I simply showed him he isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.” “None of them really are, dear,” Her Grace said.
Why waste a perfectly good assassin?”
“Life is stumbling from one catastrophe to another.”
