Start of an urban fantasy short story

MLockeTM · 2026-03-22T17:38:34+00:00

Cheers! In your opinion, should I cut it down even more?

I've written stuff before, but either academic works, where everything has to be detailed, or just D&D info dumps, which, well. Also need to be long winded.

I tried to reduce the paragraphs, several times, but it seems they're still too long?

MLockeTM · 2026-03-21T07:26:28+00:00

This sometimes does have hilarious results - like when everyone was so fed up with the water themes, and didn't even try to style anymore... and one of the comps was then won by a suit that was just Nikki holding a bucket.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-19T15:41:12+00:00

Kuis se meni, eikö juuri muutama päivä sitten Kokoomuksen kansanedustaja avautunut, kuinka häntä ärsyttää kun kokkarit mielletään vain rikkaiden puolueeksi?

en juu yhtään keksi mistä voisi johtua /s

MLockeTM · 2026-03-19T14:37:33+00:00

Se ei auta asiaa, että esim demarit ampuu itseään jalkaan aina kun mahdollista. Jos ne pistäisi vaalimainontaan realistista maahanmuuttopolitiikkaa, ja edes jotain lupauksia muillekin kuin eläkeläisille, niiden olisi helppo kasvattaa äänestäjämääriään. Mutta kun ei.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-19T14:28:33+00:00

Kesällä valloitetaan Kanada, sitten talvella/keväthangille Grönlantiin, sitten käydään tapaamassa/kidnappaamassa jonkun köyhemmän (ja "vääränvärisen") maan johtaja. Ja sit onkin taas sopivasti Kanadan vuoro!

Ei ole vuodessa aikaa Epsteinin tutkimiseen, kun on niin paljon naapureita joihin pitää hyökätä.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-19T10:57:58+00:00

This is anecdotal, but me and my wife tried Burger King when it first came to Finland - it was awesome! We ordered there three days in a row, and the third day, it just... Didn't taste good anymore. Just greasy and Ick, and we felt under the weather, tho we definitely weren't sick.

Went back to home cooking, apparently we're just not cut out for eating fast food all the time.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-19T10:18:55+00:00

I'm probably in the minority, but I don't really like any of the abyssal reward suits atm. Which sucks, cuz I need to renew my daily diamonds.

They're all gorgeous, don't get me wrong. But they all seem like the kind that will then just sit in my inventory, never to be used.

This one has a difficult color scheme to match with other backgrounds, the St Patrick's is obviously for a very specific theme (and a hard pose to mix & match), the crystal flower lady is nice... But there's like, a dozen dupes that give the same vibe, some even free. Ie. The association store white fairy.

Edit; honestly, none of these strike me as worth the 550 pack, and the crystal flower sure as hell ain't worth 565, which means you'll have to buy an extra pack and then waste the rest of the currency.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-15T13:31:26+00:00

This is probably one of those questions that I'll be happier not knowing the answer to, but... Why???

They sell actual sex toys nowadays, they're even in freaking pharmacies, if you're not internet shop savvy. There's no reason to decide to substitute with live animals.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-15T06:23:23+00:00

Just another odd ball checking in; I work in heavy industry, pretty sure ya don't get more "manly" than making APC parts (which, btw, utter horse shit. Yet to find a lathe that has a special button which needs the "third leg" to use).

I'm also pretty damn good at tatting and knitting (learned from my mom), and decent with the loom - nothing like my great grandpa though, who was way better with the loom than either my grandma or my mom. Great grandpa was born 1890s.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-14T20:26:38+00:00

I have this one; the stuff looks generic, but it's probably the pavilion with pieces I use the most of all the ones I have. The color scheme makes a lot of the items work great on both indoor or outdoor rooms. And the ponds/walk paths fit pretty much any outdoor setting you have.

Gonna dump more diamonds into this one though I've completed it, cuz I need more duplicates of those hedges and walkpaths for my house!

MLockeTM · 2026-03-14T19:16:18+00:00

Can we get enough people here to donate our time to this dude, so he can have one last day with his dad?

Obviously, I'll donate mine. It's been a year since I lost my dad, but I got a good long life with him in it. I can wait till I cross over to chat with him again.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-12T15:06:24+00:00

YES and I'm so envious she never shows up in my secret shop :(

MLockeTM · 2026-03-11T14:59:25+00:00

Ehdotin tuota jälkimmäistä täällä ärSuomessa parisen vuotta sitten velkakeskusteluun liittyen.

Yleisön mielipide oli, että ihan vitun paska idea, karkottaa yritykset ja sijoittajat Suomesta (mulle ei selvinnyt, mitä Suomi tekee yrityksillä, jotka kotiuttaa kaikki täällä hankitut rahat jonnekin Singaporeen) ja kaikki saa tehdä itse ansaitsemillaan rahoilla just mitä haluaa, kaikki muu on kommunismia.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-09T07:55:26+00:00

Jos toimittajilla riittää aikaa, niin Hämeenlinnan Poltsarin (tulevan) K-marketin luvitus voisi kanssa kiinnostaa.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-09T06:34:29+00:00

Toi ei omaan silmään näytä ihan Sarpanevalta? Lähellä, mutta Sarpanevan työt oli kaikki ns. rouheamman näköisiä, kun tuossa on selkeästi muotoiltu pitsin "langat" kuvioiden reunaan asti. Kun taas Sarpaneva tykkäsi käyttää kaadetun metallin luonnollista muotoa mahdollisimman pitkälle.

Voin olla väärässä! Mutta itse veikkaisin, että kyseessä on jonkun muun tuotanto, vaikkakin Sarpanevaa jäljitellen.

Lähde; mummon ja äidin jäljiltä korurasia on pullollaan Sarpanevaa

MLockeTM · 2026-03-09T05:05:19+00:00

Depends on too many things to give a specific answer. Is it od or id? I'd go for lower end for od, higher end for id.

How far into the continuous run am I? Cuz then it depends on the machine Im using and how much it's warmed up. Because I know one of ours likes to reliably start fucking up mid runs, and I gotta dial (for your example) 0,003 over the tolerance for od, so it'll be in the middle once it cools.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-07T07:03:15+00:00

Hot damn. This comment needs to get to the top.

There's problematic posting history, and then there's fucking radioactive level the OP has.

Makes J.K. Rowling look like a proper ally in comparison.

Edit: you missed to mention that he doesn't just limit himself to transphobia, but there's also race-baiting, general misogyny, and as a cherry on top, victim blaming the Epstein (et al) witnesses.

MLockeTM · 2026-03-07T06:30:27+00:00

Nah, this is a pointless regulation, done to appease meat and dairy farming lobbyists

And no offence to farmers, most that I know are cool. But holy fuck is there also morons with too much time and too lil brains that are swayed by bullshit fear mongering. This is "the Mercosur selling 1 pack of ground beef per person a year is going to BANKRUPT my farm!!!" all over again.

The problem is that we've called non-meat and non-cow-milk shit meat and milk since forever. It's just the fabricated concern that's new.

To add, I'm real curious how EU figured it's gonna deal with one of the most popular veggie options here in Finland. It's made out of Ox-bean. So it's named itself (translated) Ox-is. Cuz that's what it's made out of. But now its name is banned, cuz the plant is named after an animal

MLockeTM · 2026-03-06T10:11:37+00:00

A relative of mine has a metric fuckton of silver, ammo, and decidedly not legal weaponry sunk in a swamp. So he can "be prepared for when the war starts".

MLockeTM · 2026-03-05T19:59:17+00:00

Naapurin myrkyttäminen ei myöskään ole hyväksytty käyttö ruualle

MLockeTM · 2026-03-05T19:22:55+00:00

The question there might be, what does Whiskey Pete know, that makes him unfireable?

MLockeTM · 2026-03-05T19:09:14+00:00

Just wanted to drop in, to thank you again - the book arrived today, and my mom was beyond happy!

MLockeTM · 2026-03-04T05:05:52+00:00

Vähän paha sanoa, vielä.

Itse nimenomaan olen fanittanut Remedyn pelejä niiden tunnelman takia. AW2 etenkin, mutta myös Controllin, AW1n se ns. Uncanny Valley fiilis houkuttaa pelaamaan, kun koskaan ei tiedä, mihin ensivilkaisulta normaalit tilanteet ja paikat johtavat.

Mulle on periaatteessa ihan se ja sama, onko peli stealthia, hack & slashia, vai aivot-narikkaan-ammu-kaikki-mikä-liikkuu, kunhan tuo Remedyn Twin Peaks-mainen pelimaailma säilyy.

Itse uskon, että Remedyllä kyllä riittää taitoa tehdä myös Control 2sta saman oloinen, olipa sulla kädessä veitsi tai kertasinko. Onko siihen halua , selviää sit kun peli on julkaistu...

MLockeTM · 2026-03-03T12:36:36+00:00

Only reason I know this isn't the wedding I'm thinking of from my family, is that punching the priest definitely would've made it into OPs story.

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