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MrOmega
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I’m just tired.

Forever Dungeon Master/Relapsed Nintendo Fan/Wannabe Writer/YTP Enjoyer/One Piece Feed Lurker. He/him.
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#WiPSnips #Fantasy
Going with vibes. An arrangement that looks disorganized, but there's a method to the madness. So basically what a lot of kitchens are going to look like today.
“Try not to mess up the tables. I spent a good chunk of the morning getting things properly organized.” It wasn’t a neat, orderly arrangement, but I’d seen enough offices and workbenches during my years of breaking and entering to know when someone was just piling random junk and when someone had a system. Now my reading had some ambience; the grinding of a mortar and pestle, burners igniting, leaves and petals being plucked all with the occasional puff of smoke. Said smoke was pulled towards some runes painted into the ceiling. It swirled like water going down a drain, then was absorbed into the wood. The discoloration of the wood was concerning, but I was going to trust Maxi’s expertise that they weren’t weakening the foundation of the house. It was an improvement; I got further into the work than just sitting by myself. But the next time I needed to take my eyes away from the text, I decided to try passing the time with a little more conversation.
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#WIPSnips #Fantasy
Longer one today. Explaining how people are fed in a city with limited ground for growing food. It’s been so long since the magic was discovered that most people take it for granted now.
Sure, it was easy enough to make food cubes; you could put some water in the dishware, you could stick it in sunlight for a few hours if you had a special model or put some plant or meat scraps on it and the magic would convert them into enough calories and nutrition for a meal. Problem was they were like solidified air. No taste at all, barely any texture. The guys making the runic matrix were so busy determining what vitamins and minerals and how much protein needed to be generated in the conversion they didn’t stop to think about the fact that people actually needed to eat the damn things. That or they were more concerned about cost. The plates, bowls and pots used to hold the spells are cheap to buy, and the city has passed laws allowing free repair and trade of food generators, so they had to be cheap and easy to make and distribute. An impressive bit of practical design, I guess. Look, the point I’m making is I can acknowledge the system made to feed a multistoried city of people with limited land for agriculture is nothing short of miraculous while also saying I’d prefer to have something with actual taste. I’m willing to pay money for the luxury, and apparently so are a lot of other people.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Spent way too long on this. Couldn’t fit any more lines, either.

Behold, Silver Chariot. #jojo #jjba #kirby #airriders
A custom design of the Chariot in Kirby Air Riders meant to resemble the stand Silver Chariot from Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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From a cyberpunk ghost ship story.

Going with "world" since I don't have global. How the floating micronation the crew is infiltrating attempted to fund itself. Did the plan work? Reread the first line of this post.
The pitch was simple; use electronic commerce, remote office locations and blockchain currencies not bound by normal regulations to function as a mini economy. You needed to be able to prove you could make money remotely to finance the ship’s planned resupply stops across the world, but intraship commerce would keep the wheels turning. Tiny transaction fees (that aren’t taxes) would go to paying for the maintenance of the ship. They’d offer to take in all sorts of local products from wherever they had to pull in to resupply and use their online presence to give these small businesses a PR boost, letting their goods be associated with the splendor and luxury of the world’s elite.
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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#WIPSnips #Fantasy
MC is watching a play after a stressful job. Gave me a chance to
A: write a mythologized piece of history in the setting which he MC summed up before the snippet
B: show magic being used in less combat-focused ways
C: establish one of the MC's hobbies
That was the section I was watching now, seeing the arcane special effects go into overdrive during the climax; Umag’s duel with the Earthbound’s sorcerer priest, wielding a corrupted magic crystal to assault the walls. As a bunch of extras rushed towards the actor playing Umag, who was kinda overdoing his lines in my opinion, he made grand gestures with his sword to send them tumbling down, making his way closer and closer to the priest. He raised his staff, the dark purple crystal glowing and sending arcs of lightning across the stage to small nodes doting the edge. The audience jumped, and I chuckled as I remembered doing the same thing the first time I saw it. The Falmare’s magical application crew earned every coin they were paid. The dark mage’s voice boomed across the theater. “We have brought your god to his knees! Now we shall do so to your city!” He slammed the staff on the ground and the wooden planks rose and fell to replicate an earthquake. A large paper boulder was launched from backstage, carried at a safe speed on a wire, and Umag made a big slash to cut it in two, the halves getting moved to the opposite sides of the stage by the quaking planks.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Well then. Screw that. Guess no Shiny Charm for me. Time to go back to Hundred Line and get more of the endings.
A screen from Pokémon Legends Z-A. A bunch of side quests are listed, with only one incomplete, tasking the player to win 1000 battles. This unlocks right after the player would have completed the one to win 500. This is how you reach research level 50 and get an item called the Shiny Charm to get shiny Pokémon easier.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Some worldbuilding. An ecological disaster cursed the land. The city couldn’t build outward to give people homes… so they built up. It was done in desperation, so it wasn’t an act of perfectly organized city planning, but it worked, so they could do better the next time.
The difference between the second and third level was level 2 originally had mansions and bigger homes near the center mixed with the cheap houses, as several wealthy folks were among the first to move up. It was a bold move the first time, and the city wanted to show how confident they were to the normal folk who needed to move up in vast numbers. As decades went on, most of the monied families changed location to the outer limits of the plate, wanting to get away from the commoners now that the point had been made, and their old lands were either turned into public spaces or government buildings. It gave the level a less organized structure, but I like to think the landmarks gave sections their own sense of identity. The south side had the park with the old manor in it, the northwest had the cathedral to the Earth God, the eastern edge had the college and so on. But despite the relocations, a few stayed in the middle of the city, and apparently Duretti was one of them.
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This week’s #MondayReads has me completing my fall trilogy of third entries. I’m reading Children of Dune by Frank Herbert. Gonna be honest, wasn’t as interested in the second book as I was in the first one. Hoping this one picks things back up. 💙📚 #AmReading #BookSky
A screenshot of the Audible app showing the cover for Children of Dine by Frank Herbert. It shows lush green fields and a ln oasis with a bird flying towards it and sandy dunes in the distance.
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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MC decided to be petty and take some extra stuff in a heist. That got him caught. Now he has to get out before he's surrounded.
“Look, a quick snack ain’t gonna hurt anybo…” I heard the door open and two of the guards walked in, clearly not expecting to see a stranger stuffing his face in an open cold storage device. The awkward moment of silence stretched on for way too long. Thankfully I made the first move, taking my sling, shooting a ball into the first guard’s knees, grabbing a tray and slamming it into the man’s face before he could scream. The dent in the tray and subsequent low groan of the guard told me he was out, but his friend, rather than try and deal with me, went out into the hall and screamed at the top of his lungs “INTRUDER IN THE KITCHEN!” I had hoped he would just run off so I could slip out towards the ballroom, but instead he turned around and drew a club once he was done calling for reinforcements. Of course he had to be smart enough to call for backup before engaging.
November 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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MC is talking to the guy in charge of the caravan bringing him across the cursed plains. He makes a little extra money delivering letters between the cities.
“It’s gotta take weeks or even months in some cases for letters to reach their destination.” I said, unsure of why he felt some civic duty about this. “Plus there’s always the chance they get lost in an attack like this. Nobody would send anything important.” “Yeah, anything urgent enough will get sent magically. Most of the stuff here is just correspondence between friends and family. Nothing dire, just letting them know how things are going.” Shogum picked up another bunch, stuffing them into the nearly full sack. “It’s easy to look at the state of the world and draw inwards. Isolate and write off everywhere else. But simple letters like this help remind people that there’s more in the world than just what’s in their city walls. I think that’s important enough to take up a little extra space on a wagon, don’t you?”
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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From a cyberpunk ghost ship story. The team is examining the infirmary and is discovering just how unprepared the ship was for a medical emergency.
(...)Darius held up a marked bottle from one of the cabinets. “They just put vitamin supplements and exotic sounding herbal remedies in pill bottles to look official.” “Oh, it’s worse than that.” The kid butted in. “I recognize some of the names here. Some of my favorite podcasters push this crap. The best ones are glorified protein powder to build muscle, and the rest are hocked by conspiracy nuts to grift people terrified of chemicals in food making their kids girly.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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From an urban fantasy wip still in the early stages. MC stops by his favorite shop after a stressful cold open.
The shop itself wasn’t what drew me to it; the fact that it always seemed to be a new one every time I decided to stop by was. That storefront had to be under some supernatural effect, because it felt like every other year it had a new eaterie set in. Last time it was a Thai place, before that it was a donut shop, a bakery, a burger joint… always food. I was almost tempted to personally step in and take whatever flak would come my way when someone wanted to make yet another smoke shop, but my petty intervention wasn’t necessary. I sent a newly winged angel here once to confirm my pet theory, but they were promoted before they could get me a definitive answer. So what was it this time?
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Using synonyms like painting and image. The target of the second heist and what the objects put together will do. The idea of magic image-generating runes being the key to this was loosely based on the idea of printer tracking dots and messing with coding in stuff.
“The job, Mr. Cade, is for you to take a painting. Another Locuti work, Valco Canyon.” “So what exactly do we need the painting for?” I asked. “According to the diary, both Kakorin Falls and Valco Canyon were painted during the advent of image replication. Apparently Locuti was fascinated with the mechanics of them and studied them extensively.” Maxi explained, holding up the diary. “He tampered with the matrices of their image replication equations and made them into a third image. This third image is where he hid the treasure.”
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Last set, including the haul. #photography
A man in a dark cloak standing ominously… at the food court. A tent to make your own stuffed animal A line for people to try throwing axes or archery. Two bags of tea, two sets of dice, two bookmarks, a teaspoon, a little scrap dragon, a box of fudge and a book
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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A couple more. #photography
A man in a costume and two women on horses, also in costume A skeleton with a steampunk hat and goggles in a well Several people in costume on stage for a costume contest Multiple tents and people looking at them.
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Some more vendors and shows. #photography
A falconer and the falcon A tent called the Gaming Glen where people could play board games A man working at a forge. Shelves of dice boxes carved to look like mimics and colorful dice towers
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Out and about today at the Delaware Renaissance Faire. Last year was when I had just started using this account. A lot of pics were messed up the sun. But I still had a great time. #photography
Gonna make a thread for some more.
A skeleton on a prate ship A sleepy doggo in a chair helping sell tea Two comedians on stage in costume worn a crowd looking, many in costume themselves. A pic of a stage by the food vendors. A man is play the fiddle.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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From the end of a cyberpunk short story, surrounded by spoilers. A cyborg is confronting the mastermind, and catches herself taking too long trying to fill in every insignificant gap in her knowledge of the case. Old data harvesting habits die hard.
(2nd try, actually quoting the post now)
He was about to answer her, but she held up a hand. "You know what? A minor detail. You didn't care about that, so I shouldn't either. Just got caught up in my desire to have every little thing accounted for. A bad habit. The machine despises null entries in the spreadsheet."
November 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The aftermath of the second heist. The crew is getting the funds to bail the muscle out of jail after things got noisy the previous night. Thankfully the authorities don’t know what was really happening.
Good news is I’ve already had a word with some of the authorities to get a better idea of what was going on.” Maxi continued while counting gold coins. “Thanks to witnesses on the street and security guards on campus, he was considered a bystander. A good citizen who saved two unfortunate students who stumbled across a gang of masked thugs and a crazed arsonist who had just robbed an art gallery. His testimony strengthened the Arbor Spiders’ working theory, he’s just being held for property damage and excessive use of force in the course of self defense.” “Damn. The guy’s usually so straightforward, I didn’t think the old man could think so fast on his feet.” I was genuinely impressed. He was able to throw the guards off our trail and on the backs of our attackers. “Actually, any word on said crazed arsonist?” “He got away.” Ginra huffed. “There’s a dead guard and a couple with some nasty burns. It’s been the talk of the branch level streets. So I think I’m going to be staying inside for a few days once Shogum is out of holding. Don’t want anyone thinking that I’m the missing firestarter.”
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Vibes, since robots usually have some steel parts. Nice and simple one today.
The last of the boxes had barely been unloaded when a pair of the ship’s robotic laborers came tromping up to the quartet. The frames were bulky and boxy, but the makers insisted on keeping some human-like features for the sake of marketing, so there was this square box with rounded corners to work like the “head” and the arms ended with human hands made of a shinier metal. The box had a line with glowing cyan light to resemble the shape of a mouth, and the crew all knew there were likely cameras and sensors behind the casing. “Please submit manifest and wait for examination.” It chimed in English before making poorly translated repetitions of the request in other languages.
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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This week’s #MondayReads is Inspector’s Holiday by Richard Lockridge. A library was clearing out its inventory, so I got this for almost nothing. According to the copyright, this book is over 50 years old, so I’m curious how it’ll read. #BookSky #AmReading 💙📚 #TBR
The cover of the book Inspector’s Holiday by Richard Lockridge. The cover has a blue tint, depicting a well-dressed man falling off the side of a large cruise ship. The title includes the series name, “An Inspector Heimrich Mystery”
November 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The thief has secured the main objective. Now he’s going to hide what that objective was by taking as much extra stuff as he can carry.
Knowing the guard’s path meant going from room to room and helping myself to trinkets was easy enough. A few combs, some shirts meant for guests to pad my own bag, a candelabra, a couple books left on tables and so on. I even found a watch. I might actually keep this one; no intricate design, no initials carved in it, nothing that screamed wealth which would draw the eyes of other thieves or watchmen who think I don’t “deserve” something that nice. Rude of them to think something like that. Sure I did steal it, but they wouldn’t know that for certain.
November 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I could only find one instance. From a detective story on the back burner.

I saw advice that for cozy mysteries, you should give the detective a pet. I thought "that's a nice way to show this detective has been at it for a long time, and also things aren't going well for him".
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting. Would have thought the great sleuth would have a home as orderly as his mind. But age had worn away his sense of decorum faster than any of his other senses, so why wouldn’t that extend to his own home? The big cozy chairs were the only parts of the room not covered by books, newspapers or boxes. The walls were littered with framed photographs, highlighting his many accomplishments. One corner had a dusty dog bed, complete with a little bowl with the name “Boris” that had cobwebs inside it. Despite the mass of junk, Baker knew exactly how to move through it. He wove through the piles of boxes to reach the dining room, opened the ornate box on the table and pulled out a pipe, offering me a cigarette. “I’ve had to downsize in recent years. Never have gotten around to actually unpacking all my documents after the move.”
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Describing a monster. Basic idea was “hairless skull, lots of fur as a defense against cutting, long claws to groom the fur and slash prey.”

Visual inspirations were Sabretooth from X-Men and the first form of Hirudegarn from one of the DBZ movies.
Something had come barrelling down towards the stream, and the sight of two comparatively small things nearby must have given it ideas of an easy meal. The creature was as long as one of the wagons, and about as big as one without the cover. Its claws extended to just short of the length of a human hand, and the shaggy brown fur clumped up especially thick on the back in a hump, but was still notably long that some at the stomach nearly dragged on the ground. The only part of its bulk that wasn’t covered in hair was the head, which was smooth as a freshly cleaned plate. The sickly white skin seemed to conform around the skull, which had a small snout, sunken eyes, no visible ears and dozens of fangs.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Got the word, but I’m going for vibes. Got a silly one today, early point in a story I’ve only got a couple scattered scenes and ideas for. Undead seniority, warlock royalties, the weird place mummies occupy within pop culture views of the undead/monsters…
Despite her best attempts at stoicism, she couldn’t help but gulp. A high-stakes case. “And what exactly is the nature of your legal trouble? It can’t be anything brought about by the laws of mortal men. As much as I wish we could try corrupt landowners before the angels for poor treatment of tenants, it’s just for the city magistrate to deal with.” “I have been accused… of plagiarism.” “............Pardon?” Her disciplined act slipped. She had to have been mishearing that. “The great mummy lord, Amun-Tek, has risen from his tomb in the east, ready to lay waste to modern civilization to avenge his fallen kingdom. But before he sends his eternal hoard outward, he wants to settle matters of credit and glory before his pantheon.” He said, just casually dropping potentially apocalyptic information to the solicitor. “According to his claim, he is the creator of soul-containing technology. The arcane art of the phylactery is derivative of his enchanted canopic jar. He seeks to restore his place in history as the true first sapient undead. He’s suing me before the gods as a stand-in for all of lichdom, claiming our arts were stolen from the mummies of his long-dead land.”
October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM