{"id":10033,"date":"2024-04-10T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2024-04-11T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:33:42","slug":"aha-thought-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/aha-thought-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Aha! Thought I"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>described in orientation documents as \u201chuman lasagna.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>a ritual in which<\/li>\n<li>how sarcasm works<\/li>\n<li>no one wants to hook up with a lemon-scented lizard-person<\/li>\n<li>All claws and teeth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 892 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aha! thought I, that confirms that Yolanda is there. But not alone. I remembered a bit of detail then about yodeler subculture, something that didn&#8217;t actually come up in my time at Enigma Fortress but was <em>described in the orientation documents as &#8220;human lasagna.&#8221;<\/em> It was <em>a ritual in which<\/em> the yodelers would layer themselves and then &#8220;bake&#8221; together in a sweaty pile. I wondered, would an airship journey be an appropriate occasion to observe this custom?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure she&#8217;ll be thrilled to see you no matter how you&#8217;re dressed,&#8221; Fleur said haughtily.<\/p>\n<p>I was drunk, but not too drunk to know <em>how sarcasm works<\/em>, so I shot back, &#8220;And I&#8217;m sure <em>no one wants to hook up with a lemon-scented lizard-person<\/em> no matter how you&#8217;re dressed.&#8221; Evidently I was too drunk to know when to just keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Fleur did sometimes seem like a lizard-person. <em>All claws and teeth<\/em> and cold, shimmery scaly armor plating. As she gazed at me with intense calmness, I wondered what it would take to make that cold blood of hers boil.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>described in orientation documents as \u201chuman lasagna.\u201d a ritual in which how sarcasm works no one wants to hook up with a lemon-scented lizard-person All claws and teeth Tune in next time part 892 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Aha! thought I, that confirms that Yolanda is there. But not alone. I remembered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,403,486],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10038,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}