The City of Names

Fairies of the library in lamellar armor made from treated book scraps, covered in countless tiny runes and enchantments

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Deodand Street has grown two additional alleys overnight. Housing might develop over the next few weeks, depending on precipitation and moon phases.

Number of ancient foretold prophecies fulfilled today: 2. Thankfully, they cancel out each other.

Number of ancient foretold prophecies unfulfilled today: 17.

An entire age just passed by into an uncertain future, leaving behind small ripples and rivulets of time in the now.

Learn a really good secret tonight.

I love Terry Pratchett because he was a wise and humane student of life capable of profound insights and brilliant observations and who was also the kind of person who would name the ancestral home of his fictional vampire clan Don'tgonearthe Castle

Today is going to be superliteral. Make of this what you want, but take the necessary precautions.
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One of my oldest names means 'conflict' in five different languages, all of them long extinct but for that one word. Yes. The irony does not escape me.
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Somewhere, in a house so far removed beyond broken streets, decades of thickets, and the neglects of time, someone just turned on a light.
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Last night's aurora is frozen to the sky this morning. A few dragons are trying to chip away bits of it, undoubtedly to sell them for exorbitant prices at a later time.
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That stray thought which you forgot about five weeks ago still remembers you.
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Ukiyo-e modern Japanese woodblock print, illustration of a window pane, with an outdoor view of black branches crawling with cute colorful insects, with green mountains and blue sky with white puffy clouds in background Japanese text on top translated as "The window pane of the inn at the top of a mountain looks like an insect specimen box." Titled, numbered, signed, dated, and stamped along bottom margin

Yamada Kiyoharu (Japan, b. 1948)
Natsu no Yado (The Summer Inn), 1995
Color woodblock print
Text: "The window pane of the inn at the top of a mountain looks like an #insect specimen box."
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Name one thing that you would like to see painted on an untouched wall.
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Mild showers of errant inspiration are expected in Thorn Hills and above today. Local citizens should prepare accordingly.
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Sometimes, I look at older maps of myself to remember where I did not use to be.
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Explore the depths of my old streets if you dare, or venture out into the ones that won't exist until tomorrow.
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Number of letter openers used as impromptu weapons today: 23. So far.
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Fungal Abbey is regrowing earlier this year thanks to all the rains of the past weeks. Ferries are already taking passengers to its outskirts, for the right price.

Reading texts all day and being obnoxious (but still friendly) regarding grammar and orthography.

Be the howl you want to hear in the dead of night.

Yes, there is fog coming out of the sewers and the lanterns have started making strange noises. This is nothing to be worried about.

The trees are breathing out again.

Remember to turn all your clocks upside down for the polar reversal tonight.

It is only following you because it does not want to be alone.

Use an extinct word in conversation today.

An expedition into the upper reaches of Marble Pass was last seen in an ancient manuscript on glaciers.