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Feeling a little underinspired today, so there's no plot to go with this vignette, but hey, there's characters and maybe vibes, so...?

Today's prompts are: 

Animals: Dolphin leucrocuta
Halloween: N sculpture
Meat: a humanmonster with scissors for hair
Clockwork: SMALL CLOCK TREE


Interlude With Leucrocuta )
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Today's prompts are:

Animals: Roquefort dingo
Halloween: Omlette
Meat: a human skeleton with gearsattachments
Clockwork: DARK-GREEN LASER-SHAPED BOAT

Took me a while to figure out what to do with them all, but here is today's Botober story:

River Raid )

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Apparently I didn't do this last year, but two years ago, when Janelle Shane posted four lists of AI-generated art prompts for "Botober", I decided to do a short story/vignette/text fragment/whatever for the combination of the four prompts for the day. It seemed to go well enough. So when she posted this year's prompts I decided I'd give it another go.

This time the four prompts are from one of each of the GPT-3 AIs, vaguely themed with "Animals", "Halloween", "Meat", and "Clockwork". And once again I have tried to combine them.

Animals: Golden forearmadillo
Halloween: aaa
Meat: a creature with razor sharp teeth
Clockwork: CLOCKWORK KNIFE

The Next Challenge )

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Okay, fine, let's ring out Botober with a big crossover event.  I'm going to blame Ceej for this one.  Not that it might not have occurred to me anyway, but...  The prompts for the last day of Botober were:

  • Things: One Hundred Billion Bats
  • Concepts: self-destruct code
  • Advanced: Another copy of this same image
  • Terrible: A bin full of garden worms pulsing in a black light

Disentanglement )

So yeah, I guess if I'd been trying I could have tied things together earlier.  The space worms and the space butterfly and maybe the talking worm trying to help Bennet could all be the same things.  Probably Master Selden knows Augustina the Pastamancer and Myrilla and Helene and all the rest.  Demonax may have passed through Catriona's space station.  Maybe Trina's dog is related to Allonia's chickens.  But that way, perhaps, lies madness.

Anyway, I suppose it was kind of fun.  Always a nice challenge to try to tie together these disparate elements.  Like my old four-word stories, as I mentioned, or even the crossover fanfic I would do from time to time.  I suppose now I should return to my revisions of Bleen & Grue sometime this year...we'll see if I've managed to condition myself to do daily writing, or if I've just exhausted my creative stores for the year.  If you're reading this, then feel free to leave a comment to let me know what you thought, here or on Twitter or wherever.  Because sometimes I'm okay just shouting into the void, but sometimes it's nice if the void shouts back.
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Not continuing the story from the last couple of days, because I had a better idea for this one.  The Botober prompts for today were:
  • Things: An uppercase infinity
  • Concepts: What is it like to be a dog
  • Advanced: An artifact that teleports every few minutes to a new location, where it waits for someone to actually want it
  • Terrible: A piece of bark

To Be A Dog )
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Looking at today's Botober prompts, it suddenly occurred to me that a direct sequel to yesterday's story would be an easy way to make use of them.  I have to watch that, though; I'm not as good at pantsing longer stories as I used to be, and the last time I tried a weekly short story challenge I bogged down after three parts of the same story.  But whatever, it's fun.  (The tricky part is figuring out where to stop...so I 
just stopped when I got tired.)

Oh, yeah, what are those prompts?
  • Things: A lowercase infinity
  • Concepts: You Will Find That You Cannot Escape From This Research Station
  • Advanced: An apple made out of matter that cannot exist in our universe
  • Terrible: A shopping cart filled with cabbage

Rupture 2 )
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Random prompts mostly lead to random story.  It's just a fact.  I mean, what would you do with these prompts:
  • Things: 'How Howie Trained the Hogs'
  • Concepts: Enzyme-Scooped Salad It Is Actually More Than 100% Natural
  • Advanced: Sea anemone skiing down flaming volcano nearly kissed by descending giant cephalopod
  • Terrible: A shard from an exploded particle accelerator

Rupture )
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This one links to two of the earlier stories.  I guess I'm just building up my supporting cast now.  Almost makes me wish I had a plot to go with them or something.  Today's prompts are:
  • Things: spherecat
  • Concepts: Terror Monger
  • Advanced: A vacuuming spaghetti manatee
  • Terrible: Houseflies on a slice of bread

Pastamancer )
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And now I do a second sequel story.  Clearly I am running out of ideas, or something.  Today's Botober prompts were:
  • Things: Fifty thousand years of night
  • Concepts: Mouths
  • Advanced: Several sentient gourds
  • Terrible: A piece of string


Privacy )
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Less than a week left in Botober (though there are still a couple I could make up); today's prompts are:
  • Things: We really don't want to
  • Concepts: Superior Tea Service
  • Advanced: A red abyssal wedge clam
  • Terrible: A pile of rubbish

Inferior Tea Service )
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On this day, the 24th of Botober, the writing prompts of the day are:
  • Things: Something that is both a bunny and a shark
  • Concepts: The number m
  • Advanced: A cat on the first three steps of a hypothetical staircase
  • Terrible: A small hole

Hypothetical Staircase )
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Prompts for Botober 23 are:
  • Things: Two Invisible Friends
  • Concepts: Lava.
  • Advanced: Sir Isaac Newton in a bucket
  • Terrible: Not an imitation of a pile of logs

Invisible Hide And Seek )
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This piece came out a little better than I thought it was going to.  Today's Botober prompts were:
  • Things: Shookswobbler
  • Concepts: Space butterfly
  • Advanced: existing/non-existing distinction
  • Terrible: Wood shavings

Chrysalis )
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Botober story 21 here...a little bit juvenile perhaps, but they started it.  The prompts, that is:
  • Things: A soft pillow that can fly
  • Concepts: Pudding
  • Advanced: A flatus cloud
  • Terrible: A plug

The Stinky Mountain )
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Couldn't come with much to fit the prompts today, so I guess it's time for a pandemic-era slice of life vignette as I imagine life is for somebody out there...
  • Things: Llamaofdoom
  • Concepts: Pretzels As A Being
  • Advanced: A shark fixing your car
  • Terrible: An egg yolk

Llamaofdoom )
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One thing about the Botober prompts is that they are often fantasy and science-fiction themed...but it can be inconvenient when we have both, as in these promps, which contains both "machine" and "wizard.  But then, if I wasn't trying to challenge myself I wouldn't be trying to use all four prompts all at once anyway:
  • Things: A staircase of cherry blossoms
  • Concepts: Coffee I Am A Machine That Is Built To Drink Coffee
  • Advanced: The snide gaze of an unkillable wizard
  • Terrible: A pile of black pepper

Singleminded )
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The Botober prompts for today seem nice, kind of thematically grouped, so not too hard to fit together:
  • Things: Two cups of yogurt
  • Concepts: What is food
  • Advanced: Mole delivering pizza to tiny pterodactyl
  • Terrible: A spigot

Pizza For Pterosaurs )
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Almost forgot about this, so here's a quickie.  Today's prompts were:
  • Things: An oddly specific book about spiders
  • Concepts: A river that runs like this- --->
  • Advanced: Rock, usually under a large sheet of something
  • Terrible: An oyster

Signposts )
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Botober 16 is here, with its enigmatic prompts:
  • Things: Eleventamnesia
  • Concepts: Gravity
  • Advanced: Queen squid waving as she rules planet
  • Terrible: A page in a book

Above The Barrier )
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October 15th: we're almost halfway through the month.  Isn't that exciting?  Today's Botober prompts are:
  • Things: Coots of magic
  • Concepts: An object 1 cm tall that is metallic
  • Advanced: Boy sorting space worms
  • Terrible: A single strand of hair

A Single Strand )
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