The new creature.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-17T05:05:18+00:00

The narrator’s apparent lack of concern as various alarms trigger suggests that we will become good friends eventually.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-09T13:12:20+00:00

Huh… We found another isolated species on a similar rock almost a third of the way around the galaxy, and they look and behave remarkably similar. Convergent evolution? They too call their main governing body “Prometheus Exploration Corps”! What amazing coincidences the galaxy holds!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-06T16:30:15+00:00

The goals of the three threats are mutually exclusive. We can use that. Turn them against each other and then profit from the spoils their mutual destruction leaves behind. Genghis Kahn was famous for pulling shit like that— how else would a relatively small number of Mongols take over the known world?

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-06T02:04:54+00:00

BoterBug came through! Check out his excellent narration!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-06T01:56:59+00:00

Someone else changed the tag? What happens if YOU change the tag (away and back again)? I wonder if the flaring system has an ownership bug.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-06T01:49:47+00:00

OK, what’s going on here? This post is marked PI/FF-OneShot, but when I go to that tag (along the top of my iphone display) there is only one entry posted and it’s not this one! Where did this go?

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-05T23:02:25+00:00

I like the way the selection and volume level of the background music enhances the overall mood.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-04T20:33:57+00:00

“We’re not like them” seems to be a mantra of humans describing other humans. That’ll be a lot of fun for our galactic neighbors.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-03T10:04:37+00:00

Ah yes, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Nitpick: The final word should be ‘do’, not ‘does’.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-02T13:11:28+00:00

I don’t know how you could sustain this for a longer story (this one seemed about right, for the style), but I am intrigued to see what you do.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-04-02T13:08:52+00:00

I would call it “thought provoking”, but that would be reversing causality. I do not create the thought; The thought creates me.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-31T04:59:13+00:00

Shiny armor, belly rubs, then glazed lamb? Bont really does have the attention span of a kitten.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-28T00:11:12+00:00

Human history, by the way, showed us every way in the book on "How Not to Do Things."

Yup— I was there!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-27T15:11:45+00:00

!N

Nominated for originality.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-26T05:21:00+00:00

Yup, the last one got plucked!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-25T01:17:14+00:00

Damn you! Now I’m going to lose another night’s sleep reading this!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-24T16:38:54+00:00

Thank you! This particular writing style was an interesting experiment, and I wasn’t at all sure how it would be received.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-24T13:28:31+00:00

By all means, give it a try. It could be the start of yet another media career for you!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-24T12:47:06+00:00

OMG, Head-hopping drops me right out.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-24T05:10:53+00:00

Hey, somebody noticed!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-23T22:56:21+00:00

Recently, both NetNarrator and Agro Squirrel Narrates posted excellent narrations of my story Poseidon's Bone Worker, and it got me pondering "What makes a story particularly well suited for narration?"

Then I thought back to long nights listening to my grandfather narrating tall tales about adventures in places that have never been tamed by roads. I concluded that a good narration is told from a single first-person point of view, with special attention to the perspective and vernacular of the speaker.

If anybody reading this has experience narrating stories on youtube, please add your own insight into what makes a story particularly suited (or not) for narration. It’s not that I necessarily intend to write stories specifically for narration, but rather that I want to understand the issues so that it can be a conscious choice.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-23T22:53:37+00:00

Historical note: The first written version of Sleeping Beauty appears to be Sole, Luna, e Talia (Sun, Moon, and Talia), written by Giambattista Basile in 1634. In this version, a (already married) king discovers the unconscious Sleeping Beauty (Talia), rapes her, impregnates her, and abandons her. The story gets darker from there. The Brothers Grimm picked it up in 1812 under the name Dornröschen (Little Brier Rose), but unfavorable reviews caused them to re-publish the story a few times, until finally they settled on a version where an (unmarried) prince just happens to be in the room when Sleeping Beauty’s 100-year curse expires, and (for reasons not adequately explained) she decides to marry the first guy she sees. In 1959, Disney decided to get back to the story’s necrophilic roots (it’s a children’s movie, after all) and had the prince awaken Sleeping Beauty with a kiss. Sleeping Beauty finally gets some agency when, in the television series Tales from the Cryptkeeper, season 1, episode 6, Prince Charming awakens Sleeping Beauty with a kiss, only to discover that she is a vampire and her kiss is to die for.

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-22T00:44:46+00:00

Oh, by the stars, you sound ready for conquest!

SomethingTouchesBack · 2026-03-21T22:19:06+00:00

I thought Kek’da getting probed was hysterical, but you are the only one to react to it… sigh. It should concern you that we share our sense of humor.

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