"...Due to pacts made with the locals, the city directed their architects and engineers to design downtown skyscrapers to allow dragons to perch on top without causing excess sway. This resulted in additional steel columns to..."
- Article excerpt from 'Mystic Construction Quarterly' magazine
a defensive card called Forgotten Memories that can only be played face down
TONIGHT'S DREAMSCAPE: Standing atop a mesa, viewing a field of cerulean pillars stretching to the horizon all droning in atonal discordance while around them, children play hide-and-seek. You think you see your younger self there but can never quite tell from this distance.
INVISIBLE NETWORKS 2026
April 1st to 14th
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[cellphone help forum] tried that game of clicking through my phone's suggested words but it was just "blood and gore and blood and gore and blood and gore" for a full 300 words or so until all the suggestions became "HUNGRY" in all caps and now it won't suggest anything else
Remember:
If you don't have anything nice to say, let your enchanted dagger speak for you.
a sword driven into the ground is a kind of obelisk, right down to the blood running through its crevices
One of the few things most realities have in common is the feeling of déjà vu in sentient creatures, whether they are hallucinations, produced by the brain, created by higher powers, or a symptom of reality twisting around itself.
meet interesting people
it’s friday night and you know what that means. i’m covered in glue
paying a $150 fine for expressing joy outside of the legally defined Happy Hour
an obelisk appears:
it's just a plain stone pillar, only a few feet high. nothing unusual or eerie here. just an extremely normal, stock-standard hunk of carved stone. please continue with your day and pay it no mind. it was barely worth mentioning, really, so don't think about it any more.
To get an idea of what is going on in the minds of the people affected, we talked to 4 lumberjacks, 6 lumbermill owners, a wood economist, and 3 megadonors to the Cut All Trees PAC.
WEATHER ALERT: The Noospheric Weather Service has issued an Anxiety Storm Warning for the following hemispheres: Negative Manhattan, Dark Trenton, and the entire east coast of Pennsylvania. Officials advise immediately seeking shelter in comfortable places and performing breathing exercises.
I enjoy slice of life: thickly cut through flesh and bone, leaking fresh blood and marrow and stringy tendons still barely attached
Not Enough Teens Are Choosing "Becoming Trees" as a Preferred Career Path and What This Means for the Future of the Firewood and Logging Industries
contrary to popular belief, it is book mimics, not sentient trucks, that cause the most people to get isakai'd
an obelisk appears:
it is covered in LED screens displaying a cacophony of videos, from news programs to comedy compilations to three hour essays to static to traffic cameras to static to marathon gaming streams to static to static TO STATIC TO STATICTOSTATICSTATICSTATICSTATICSTATICSTAICSTAITCICSTI
Neurological Construction has begun building the piers for the bridge over the Knowledge Gap to support several Attention Spans. The main span, a three hour Video Essay, is set to be built soon after.
emerging from a chrysalis of translucent amethyst, bleeding shimmering purple across the ground that reflects the stars - not the ones above, but from a former life, a different world
The bicephalous jackalope leads a complex and short existence due to only one of its heads being materially real. Though it may at first seem cumbersome, this grants it an evolutionary advantage over its better known cousin, the common jackalope, as the...
www.greaterrealityarea.net/an-endangere...
her love was like seawater: the more I drank, the deeper my thirst
Forget milk and cookies. If the immortal dark elf from the cold lands breaks into your house later tonight and doesn't find whiskey and raw meat left out, his wrath will be terrible to behold. You have been warned.
bringing a sort of 'haunted stare into oblivion' vibe to the party that nobody asked for and are too afraid to interact with
We're sorry, the obelisk you are trying to reach is unavailable. Please reset your prayer circle and try again later.
The Mangrove Man-o-War was technically a warship, but acted more as a druidic ship crafted to enforce wildlife preservation. It's hull was intertwined tree roots with wind catching their branches and leaves. Even in polar regions, the craft's flowers remained in bloom and trees bore fruit.
there are obelisks everywhere for those with eyes to see their forms, ears to hear their humming, and hearts to love them
garden eels
screws sticking up from discarded wooden boards
rust-stained streetlights
individual blades of grass
a child at the beach burying their feet in the sand
an obelisk appears:
it is a cylinder of concrete. its cement is celestial dust from a long dead star, mixed with water from the deepest oceanic depths and bones of a recently murdered god. the likeness of a ram's head has been formed on its surface
"Okay chat, like I promised, here's my One Million Sub official Face Reveal!"
Viewers gasped at his visage: a swirling black hole in place of his face just below a New York Yankees cap. Screens worldwide vibrated violently with a buzzing hum, bursting with a pop.
He never streamed again.
an obelisk appears:
it is a pillar of inspiration that transports your mind to fascinating worlds and fills you with wonder, intrigue, and awe.
(if you follow me and don't know uel's writing, then you're in for a treat)