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People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

What is the most important right our government allows for?

Liberty. With that, you can get most of the others; without it, you're screwed.

Life is also important, but America has ample evidence of people valuing freedom over mere survival.

Though I should point out that the government is terrible at supporting rights. Most things have devolved in to paid privileges or prizes for winning the crotch lottery.

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Here are the content notes for "The Most Precious Heritage."

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These are the location notes for "The Most Precious Heritage."

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Here are the character and location notes for "The Most Precious Heritage."

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This poem is spillover from the August 5, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from

librarygeek,

chanter1944, and

see_also_friend. It also fills the Deep Waters square in my 8-1-25 card for the Crime Classics Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the Rutledge thread of the Polychrome Heroics series.

Warning: This poem is mostly fluff about a language nest, but it contains a few intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes refugees, a grandmother raising two grandchildren as the last survivors of their extended family, impact of war on childhood development, family adoption due to child marriage and a deadbeat father, children playacting graphic scenes of war and death, reference to parental death in a car crash, and other challenges. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Today we went up to Amish territory.

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I got to talking about low-carb meatloaf ideas with a friend. There are plenty of options. I'll sort out some ingredient lists and include some recipes. If I were starting from scratch, though, I'd probably go with meat, onions, and mushrooms at 1:1:1 because that is delicious, moist, meaty in texture, low in carbs, and lower in calories than pure meat. Sage, juniper, and sea salt is a traditional seasoning but you can use others. Then just think what binder to add, probably egg.

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Today is partly sunny and hot. It's 89°F in mid-September. :P

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. I saw a fox squirrel running through the trees along the east edge of the yard.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 9/12/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 9/12/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 9/12/25 -- I watered the new picnic table, telephone pole garden, and a few of the savanna seedlings.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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If you are as up-to-date as it is possible to be on COVID and/or influenza vaccinations for your country, I will write for you. Southern Hemisphere people: as up to date as possible means for your flu season, not the Northern Hemisphere's. Prompt away.

My fandoms.

Recently experienced:

K-Pop Demon Hunters - OT3!

Thursday Murder Club (movie) - ALL THE SMOOSH HANDS.

Slow Horses - I'm caught up on the TV show, have listened to all the books shy of Clown Town, and have a massive soft spot for Shirley and Louisa especially. Ho needs to never, ever get laid ever, but I adore him too. I want to introduce him to Jason Mendoza (The Good Place) so they can have a low wis/high int vs. low int/high wis trolley problem.

The Expanse - I'm halfway through Nemesis Games book-wise, and am slowly making my way through the show. I love everyone in this galaxy, and if anyone prompts me for Avasarala/Bobbie I will have feelings all over the place.

Please format your requests: Drabble or Poetry (you're likely to get a limerick), Fandom(s), character/pair/group (crossover pairings are fair game), any other prompt material (which I may ignore).

If you prompt me with something I can't write, I will ask you for something else.

On a personal note: if I don't get back to you rapidly this weekend, it's because I've been knocked out by my own one-in-each-arm strategy of vaccination. Go go gadget immune system!

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ChrisCalledMeSweetie at Tumblr proposed a Cabin Pressure limerick challenge of a poem every day based on Cabin Pressure's episodes, in alphabetical order as per the canon.

The example provided was gen, so I wrote a set of gen limericks.

Then I reflected that gen limericks are not really in the spirit of limericks, so I also wrote a set of dirty limericks.

And then I got too down to post poems for a while, so today I spammed everyone subscribed to me with Fitton through Limerick's limericks.

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Today's theme is Iron Man.

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Designing for Decay

The products of growth-driven design are easy to recognize. They gleam. They dominate. They shout, “I will last forever.” From reinforced skyscrapers to single-use electronics, the ideology is the same: resist entropy at all costs.

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We made this tonight.

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These are the content notes for "But an Empty Shell."

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This poem came out of the July 1, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from

dialecticdreamer. It also fills the "Independent Woman" square in my 7-1-25 card for the Western Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by Anthony Barrette. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series and is the prequel to "Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful."

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Today I'm making Edwards family meatloaf. :D This should go well with what's left of the tomato-basil bread, which is about half gone now.

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Today is cloudy and warm.

I haven't fed the birds yet.

There were lots of sparrows and house finches at the red birdbath though. The honeybees drained the small metal one again.

We walked around the yard listing things that need to be cleaned up or cleared out, since a tree service left us a flyer. :D At minimum we want to get the two downed tree-sized branches removed. Hopefully we can get the parking lot cleared of brush and a path re-established to the east edge of the yard. Maybe something else. They're willing to break down the quotes for sub-projects so we can figure out what will fit into our budget.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I fed the birds.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I did more work around the patio.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I watered the irises, patio plants, and old picnic table garden.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I watered the new picnic table garden, septic garden, telephone pole garden, and savanna seedlings.

I picked 2 red cherry tomatoes.

EDIT 9/11/25 -- I sowed 2 pots with crabapples.

I did some work around the yard.

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

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petra

Siderea's post on the subject, which points out that there are more "exceptions" that allow people to get the vaccine than there are people who are too healthy to qualify under the rules as written.

Your doctor can write you a prescription for one even if you are perfectly healthy and your only issue is wanting to stay that way. Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom.

Don't let RFK Jr. win! Get your jab!

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cosmolinguist

I can hear lots of geese honking overhead. I'm so jealous of them getting to warmer and brighter places for the next six months.

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ysabetwordsmith - Philosophical Questions: Rights
ysabetwordsmith - Content notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"
ysabetwordsmith - Location notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"
ysabetwordsmith - Character notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "The Most Precious Heritage"
ysabetwordsmith - Today's Adventures
ysabetwordsmith - Low-Carb Meatloaf Recipes
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
petra - Vaccinated? Get a drabble or a poem!
petra - Cabin Pressure Limerick Challenge, Abu Dhabi - Limerick posted as of today
ysabetwordsmith - Follow Friday 9-12-25: Iron Man
ysabetwordsmith - Sustainability
ysabetwordsmith - Recipe: "Edwards Family Meatloaf"
ysabetwordsmith - Content notes for "But an Empty Shell"
ysabetwordsmith - Character notes for "But an Empty Shell"
ysabetwordsmith - Poem: "But an Empty Shell"
ysabetwordsmith - Today's Cooking
ysabetwordsmith - Birdfeeding
petra - US Politics: COVID-19 Vaccines for Everybody, Fuck RFK Jr.
cosmolinguist - Geese

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Philosophical Questions: Rights

Content notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"

Location notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"

Character notes for "The Most Precious Heritage"

Poem: "The Most Precious Heritage"

Today's Adventures

Low-Carb Meatloaf Recipes

Birdfeeding

Vaccinated? Get a drabble or a poem!

Cabin Pressure Limerick Challenge, Abu Dhabi - Limerick posted as of today

Follow Friday 9-12-25: Iron Man

Sustainability

Recipe: "Edwards Family Meatloaf"

Content notes for "But an Empty Shell"

Character notes for "But an Empty Shell"

Poem: "But an Empty Shell"

Today's Cooking

Birdfeeding

US Politics: COVID-19 Vaccines for Everybody, Fuck RFK Jr.

Geese

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