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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the inaugural meeting of the Doggerland Restoration Project.
As you all know, Doggerland was submerged at the end of the last Ice Age, and with it enormous economic and social potential. This project exists to reverse that event, and restore Doggerland as the great link between the United Kingdom and Europe once again. With Doggerland restored, there will never again be a thought of "Brexit" because there will be a tangible link between the traditional lands of Europe and the British isles.
During the course of the next two days the induction teams will take you through the various sub-projects that will be a part of our great vision.
First there will be the CO2 reduction teams - reversing the trend of the carbonisation of our atmosphere will be a key part of this project. We need to reduce the sea levels, and the best way to do that is to increase the ice caps.
Second there will be our dyke construction teams. Initially they will be working entirely sub-surface, until we can bring the water levels down somewhat. Once the water levels have dropped sufficiently, we will activate the third leg of the project.
Initially, the pumping teams will have little to do, but as soon as the dykes start to emerge, they will be working around the clock for an estimated four years, removing water from Doggerland.
Lastly, the fourth leg is the land restoration team. Once the pumping has advanced enough, the land restoration team will move in and work in two groups. The first will be recovering archaeological materials, and the second will be desalinating, stabilising, and building up the land areas.
Again, welcome to the Doggerland Restoration Project, your Euros at work to better the world.
ELRIC AND THE COLD DRAKE (2018)
Oil on Canvas - 11" x 17"
I had a quantity of the pigment left on my palette while working on an H.P. Lovecraft painting. I fished a canvas scrap out of the wastebasket in our print room and sketched this scene with the leftover Payne’s Grey and white. 1/2
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We are now at $898 in donations towards #TheNightDancer and we have about a week to hit the target. I still need about $100 which would cover one actor's payments. Thanks to all who have shown me this kindness, I'm now in pre-production and finally making this short film that I first thought of in 2021. All I can give as rewards is my art, including a first look at my #wip stories. Details https://www.dilmandila.com/crowdfund-for-the-night-dancer-short-film
#PennedPossibilities 679 — What was your SC’s childhood like? How has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged?
She wasn't the type to listen and didn't agree with her parents that she should study and aim for college. Her parents were kind and strict, but when she told them essentially that she wanted to become what they saw as a menial laborer, they grounded her, got her tutors, and left her no choice but to rebel.
Later in life, blackmailed and working for the mob, she understood she'd been stupid and could recognize it in others, or simply empathize. Be there. Listen. Say the right thing that might make a difference. It's what led her to think she could be friends with the devil girl, who was far smarter than the rest, and in her quietness more dangerous. But her reflection on her childhood made the difference; when it counted, the devil girl took her along when she broke free from the mob.
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#PennedPossibilities 679 — What was your SC’s childhood like? How has their upbringing affected them as they’ve aged?
Every SC, because of where they live, had a bad childhood and young adulthood. There are, however, two exceptions to the idea complete and utter misery, despite how they struggled to make ends meet for years.
Dante and his family, although they truly did struggle, managed to survive and find their happiness. They were able to make ends meet. His siblings are an interesting bunch as well. They're all quirky. He's a family-oriented choom, and honestly looks at the gang like siblings.
Junk, too, is close with his parents. He sends them money weekly to help them get by. He's a good son. He even pays for their groceries and the cyberflat rent. He sees them whenever he can. He's also rather family-oriented. Despite what some might say, he's actually very sweet.
(she/her) I would smash this into the concrete.
Early in the AI assault-on-everything, I wrote a few short stories about this endless thirst for data, how they would never stop & the invasiveness would quickly go Black Mirror.
Anyway, you can get those stories here: https://susankayequinn.com/books/closet-full-of-time-and-other-dark-tales
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Feed your TBR pile! We've got a ton of reviews of the latest short SFF fiction and novels for you over at locusmag.com
Toto wants you to go take a look ;)
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I've finished: The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
A different and refreshing take on the vampire trope. Exploring a society of information eaters.
But this is first and foremost the story of a young mother's rebellion against the patriarchy. A long emotional journey with no easy choices.
On one hand it is a very extreme novel, with evil and cruelty that would in many cases seem cartoonish. However Sunyi Dean manages to build a world where the characters motivations are clear and their actions are a understood as logical within their own frame of reference.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/5cdc96b2-7c2c-450a-89ff-b76c44c33a77
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#PennedPossibilities 678 — How important to your SC is their hometown or where they came from? (For example, are they proud of it, or are they considered a hometown hero?)
Zilch. Nada. Bupkis. She was born there, but never graduated high school. She was one of those girls who was interested in boys (with muscles) far more than studies, and had her eye on a trade. It was constraining. She was discriminated against because of who she was. She hated the place; felt it constraining; knew everyone wanted her to do things she would hate doing. Later, she broke some windows and rolled a moving van (not hers, but one of those that wouldn't hire her) down a hill. Whether anyone figured out she was the guilty party and whether she's wanted by the constables, who knows? She's certainly not a hometown hero! She ran. In another city, she got tangled up with the mob.
Now that she's been offered (and has accepted) a place in the praetorian guard (not Roman, but otherwise the same idea) and is training, she might get some press in her hometown. She's certainly not going to tell anyone back home. Definitely not her disapproving parents, for starters, even if they might finally be proud of her.
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#WordWeavers 2025.05.23 — Have you made up any swears or unique sayings for your characters? CW: Crude Language, duh.
There is almost never an opportunity to use conventional or "modern" foul-mouthed language in any of my stories because there is no connection to 19th-21st century Earth. In Mars Needed Women, one character just uses the word asshole; his using it comes off as very quaint since he's a rough character now in his early fifties (but still sexy), talking about how awful he was when young. There are plenty of other made up or repurposed words, but no defined martian "swears." Instead, here is May Ri listening to her daughter:
The teenager, her green eyes sparkling with the same fire her father's eyes often evidenced, explained what she meant in great unvarnished detail. The words "hypocrites" and "misogynists" featured along side martian swear words that made May Ri's ears burn. Mari had studied her father's "situational" rhetoric thoroughly.
In the Reluctance Series, I make up "words." But first, for those who have followed me long enough to have learned about the devil girl, she's funny in that if someone is about to swear, she warns, "Language!" In most contexts (mob, prizefighter, "princess"), whomever she says this to abides, or regrets it if they don't.
The following words may seem like cheats, but give them a moment to sink in before you conclude that. It's amazing how quickly a reader can get used to even nonsense when it has a definite context.
While these are day angel slang, Thorn Rose uses them without much situational awareness (she's a daemon). Day angels have feathered wings and control surfaces, double-shoulders and extra joints to make it work, and use reluctant forces to let them fly. There's also night angels—too many spoilers there—but day angels so far are portrayed as lower class. These "swears" come from them; bear in mind, these people are very human.
Flap v. as in, "Are you flapping crazy?" or intr. "Flap it all!" Not a synonym for sexual intercourse, but it does imply getting hit up side the head with a feathered wing. It serves the purpose.
I originally used in a teen-rated YA!
Flap and fluff n., NSFW originally involving wings and someone male, but you can use it generally for what's implied. Yes, the novel is "racy."
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#PennedPossibilities 678 — How important to your SC is their hometown or where they came from? (For example, are they proud of it, or are they considered a hometown hero?)
First off, my SCs are all from the area of Ethera (the city where our story takes place), and they've stayed. It's a major city. They never moved away. It's the type of place where people arrive and never leave. It sucks you in (and usually eats you alive).
Their hometown, as terrible as it can be, is also where they met their friends and joined the gang. Alexios is the reason they have a true /family/ now. The gang is a band of misfits. On the one hand, it might be a terrible place, but on the other, it's /home/ and they'll never leave. They've never been proud of the city, though. How could they? They've never been hometown heroes, either. They're feared, not loved.
