"Suit, what is that body of water ahead?" "Lake Schultz. Avoid at all costs. Hostile to all life, except the #feral version of the water species of the Blort." "Poisonous?" "Negative. Full of rage and hate." "The lake is sentient?" "Affirmative. And by all accounts, an asshole." #vss365

Pick a Bond from the photos ypu already have in your phone.

Most people lived in the cities. If you traveled, you flew or took a train to another major hub. The outskirts were considered #barren, lawless, and bleak, according to the news. But there were murmurs it wasn't like that, and if it weren't, people might try to leave the cage of the city. #vss365

“89 seconds before the refugees can spacefold,” the AI says. “We are the last escort.” “Seconds to the enemy fighters intercepting them?” “75.” “Intercept time if we interdict and force them to destroy us?” “95 seconds.” “Hard to port, Ship. Do it.” #SciFanSat #vss #sff

Report on system SJ325: Yellow star: still young, like ours. Planet 1: closest to star: #barren. Planet 2: in the habitable zone, but no water; no life. Planet 3: all water, no surface land. Aquatic life abundant. Planet 4: varied biomes, volcanoes, jungles, 3 headed giant lizards. #vss365

Whitby at night, photo by Denise Bartlett.

You may have noticed that the word for ‘night’ in many languages appears to be that language’s word for ‘eight’ with an ‘N' in front of it. English: N + eight = Night German: N + acht = Nacht French: N + huit = Nuit Spanish: N + ocho = Noche Italian: N + otto = Notte Portuguese: N + oito = Noite ⬇️

Carmilla, the unsung hero of the vampire literature. Without her, there may have never been a dracula, for Brahm Stoker was inspired by the early Irish story about a female vampire.

#vss365 #evenfall #poetry #blueskypoet The #prompt made me think of sunset, and that made me want to play with sunsets. Which leads to change, which leads to here, and here is a #poem.. (Also are these 'process' blurbs enjoyable or are they pretentious and I should just post the damn things?)

Scientists had boring names for planets, such as Cygnus 4 and Aves 7. Early explorers had a much more creative streak, poetic in the naming, almost to a fault. Jeremiah was grateful for this difference. His homeworld could have been Ralton 8, but the alternate designation was #Evenfall. #vss365

"Oh, and madam, would you tell her it's Barnabas Collins?"

As the world slows and lights soften, #evenfall wraps everything in quiet magic. No rush, no noise - just that perfect pause where day whispers goodbye and night leans in close. Who else feels most alive in the twilight? 🌅✨ #evenfall #vss365 #Poetry #Twilight

It takes 6 hours of sublight travel to get to New Roma from its furthest moon, Augustine. 6 hours, thought Barb, is plenty of time for all my ghosts to #haunt me. #vss365

Each night a new message was revealed in the #moonlight. The first message was friendly, "Hello" but then the messages got weirder. The Man in the Moon quickly grabbed his phone back from his toddler and reset the moon back to its default settings. #vss365 #writing #stories

SPACEBOY Spaceboy kneels beside the heather, green eyes full of rain and light, a moonbeam threads the thorns above him, sewing mercy into night. He touches moss as though it’s holy, lifts a moth from wind and stone, and all the stars grow kind around him, knowing goodness as their own. #vss365

"It's me or the Androids, Gibson!" Stella shoved Tommy to the side. "You can't lose your life over a corpse filled with metal!" Gibson firmed their step. They couldn't bare to see the Androids suffer as they were #dear to them. "Take me! Not the Androids!" #vss365

I am watcher #251. It feels like I've been alone forever, existing in a vacuum of silence, devoid of conversation, starved for #affection. Only another 3 years of this purgatory until the next watcher takes over and I sleep until landfall. Or that was the plan until the sensor anomaly. #vss365

Somewhere out there Someone is listening to birds instead of breaking news And the world feels kinder there ❤️ 📸MFCarter

"Of course," the old holo-cleric droned on, "we don't know what the Barnardians call themselves. They've never told us their #name. All we know now, in 3285, is that their superstructure is nearing completion." 3285, Barb thought. 100 years ago, and we still know so little. #vss365 #scifisat

"Earth had one main settlement on the moon at the time of the Worlds War, #Lunar Stadt, named that way because the Germans..." The holoreel sputtered here and shut off, leaving Barb wondering how the Germans were involved and why the Vatican archives had a large empty space after that. #vss365

They were out of sync. The proud colonists insisted on following the #lunar month while those still on earth were calendar devotees. And the clocks ran faster on the moon. He sighed as he tried to arrange a conference call. It was going to be another crappy day. #vss365

The first #lunar missions made an impression on my father. He made sure we were in front of the television for every important stage. The day Neal Armstrong set foot on the surface, Daddy quit smoking. He figured he could muster up some courage, too. #vss365

Just finished A Desolation Called Peace by @byzantienne.bsky.social. Brilliant! 10/10!

❤️🍞 🍯, May we long feast this weekend on great words such as these. 😊

"There are just so many of them now, and all united, calling themselves "Ultharians", which we both know is just the old #cat cults rebranded, and they've been around since ancient Egypt." "Yes...been meaning to bring this up, but have you noticed that statuette of Bast in Michael's room?" #vss365

Support your local bookstores & artists. Support your local witches & goblins who wander through the woods. Support your local ghosts & spirits who haunt historic theaters. Support your local cosmic horrors, who slumber and wait for your call.

Through a series of unfortunate events, they accidentally interrupted a #psychopomp in the course of its duties There was only one remedy for their transgressions Their souls would be forcefully ripped from their bodies and led into the afterlife #vss365 #vsshorror

Invisible Galactic Gale Image date: 11 October 2021, 06:00 NGC 4666 takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic spiral galaxy lies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and is undergoing a particularly intense episode of star ...

"Dawnlee started when the fisher folk from Rahlee decided it made sense to settle there, creating a trade route and a port, all because Jethra Dawn's feet were tried." "I don't understand this lesson, Prelate." "Could they have imagined, Malko, that it would become the Great Space Port?" #vss365

The old sub-light engine's pistons #hammered away, the din getting louder and louder, as the ship approached light speed. "How can you stand that noise?" Barb asked Kaikron the corsiar. He twisted a knob on his head. "I turn my hearing down. Lost my actual ears in the war." #vss365 #scifisat

By the time #word reached Earth that the Starburst Confederation had broken through their line, the line was gone. Earth's colonies at Vega and Proxima broke away from the Alliance and joined the confederation. New Roma, the only colony with the resources to do so, stood alone. #vss365

Your daily affirmation: Humans are simply animals like all the rest. Don't be afraid to show your fangs and use your claws once in a while.

"Time #Loops are child's play," said the old scientist to his protégé. "You can loop time?" "Me? Certainly not! Haven't you been listening? It's child's play. I forgot how centuries ago. And so did you." "Centuries?" #vss365

Sinead O'Connor was an angel who touched us for a time. And she knew how to kick out the jams. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PweU...

To: Admiral Falcon, Space Fleet Command From: Lt. Warbler Re: Revastar B Sit. Additional: The #waters of the River of the Dawn have turned #inky black. Land along drying up. Cause unk. Dawnlee attempted evac before...whatever. Failed. Bodies everywhere, unlike empty Rahlee. #vss365

Otis is here to say hello for National Pet Day and to remind you to show some extra love to your senior pets today, they deserve it ❤️

They couldn’t land on the surface of the planet, because there was no surface. The smallest gas giant in the Five Systems. Anything trying to stop on the topmost layer of the atmosphere would #sink and become lost. Where then, Dylan thought, had the last raider ship gone? Into the clouds? #vss365

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Amongst the millions of grains of #sand were a handful of deadly ones A simple touch could prove fatal, but there was no way of knowing which ones they were It was a terrible situation made all the worse by the fact someone was hunting him across the dunes #vss365 #vsshorror

Barbara watched as the #rings began rotating and remembered her first time. Oma had taken her to Vega 5, a resort world with #sandy beaches and city-sized fish. "See, Barb? The rings spin, the portal snaps open, and we step through to another world." #vss365

"It's about to #collapse, last chance for a #lift back to our time," said the man on the other side of the energy #ring. "But I, wait..." I pleaded. "Timeline changes? Anything big?" I watched as the villagers threw my iPhone between them. " #Tiny. " #scififri #vss365 #2wordprompt #sff Img: Pixabay

Spirited away

People who assert science fiction should not be political have never read any… much less watched any actual science fiction

He came promising to cure their ailments, and for that they #exalted him They treated him like royalty, when he was nothing more than a con artist with a few powers He gave them the illusion of health, then slipped away with their money, leaving them to die horrible deaths #vss365 #vsshorror

" #Which one you wanna be?" she asks. I #examine all the #sprites. "But these are all 2D characters," I say. "So?" "You said we'd go into the computer to play, like in Tron." "Yes!" "What happens to our third dimension?" "Don't worry," she smiles. "It gets backed up!" #vss365 #2wordprompt #sff

Hubble image of Arp 194, also known as UGC 6945. This interacting galaxy group includes a pair of merging galaxies with two nuclei and trails of blue super star clusters at top and a single large spiral galaxy at bottom. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team Source

Report to Admiral Falcon, secured and scrambled: Re: Rahlee Sit. What happened to Capt. P. Raptor remains #illusive. Suitcam cut out as flew towards holy city. No idea what he was running from. Raptor himself remains in regen chamber on HospStat 5. Prog unk. Please advise. Lt. Warbler #vss365