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wkblack


Photophile, Author, Physicist, Theologian

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Thorax returns to the hive, excited to share what he's learned. The hive doesn't quite share his enthusiasm. Chased from the hive, Thorax makes a friend who thinks he may be on to something.

Coverart by pink1ejack on deviantart

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Comments ( 12 )
Comment posted by August Books deleted Aug 28th, 2016

Why is half of your story on the author's note?

7517750 I wasn't originally planning on putting in those last few lines. I don't like them as much, and they don't match the rest of the story as well, but I thought some people would like the closure.

Thanks for the feedback - I decided to just nix them. :)

7518251 oh, ok. Well, nice story, none the less! :raritywink:

7518849 Thanks! :D I really appreciate that! :)

and your shapeshifting couldn’t convince a rock.”

little do they know that he did in fact become a rock.:pinkiehappy:

Maybe it is impossible to make a friendship out of nothing.

Hmm, my mind keeps on wanting to contract the underlined.

Nicely done. I liked it. it left me with hope at the end. you get a :moustache:

7538235 I fixed this—it was supposed to read "maybe it is impossible...", so the emphasis is on is. Otherwise yeah—it'd need that to be contracted. :twilightsheepish:

Oh, and the rock thing was completely coincidental. After writing it, I realized that's exactly what he did... :rainbowlaugh:

As always Fistfire, thanks for the reviews! :twilightsmile:

Very nice story! I really want to know what would happen if they went back to Chrysalis though.

"Where are you going‽"

What is this symbol: '‽'?

7610436 It's called an interrobang—it's a punctuation mark combining '?' and '!' which works well for times when someone shouts a question. "What are you doing‽" "Are you CRAZY‽" "Are you trying to get us killed‽" and so forth... :pinkiehappy:

7618385 Cool! I might use it in my stories from now on.

7621047
It can be a bit annoying to search it out in the special characters of whatever word editor you're using, so I have a program found at autohotkey.com that let's me set up hotkeys on my computer. So I press alt+? and it gives me ‽. I also use it all the time for the em-dash—it's another key I use a lot that keyboards don't have. They are what's supposed to be used to break up sentences, but people sometimes just break it with a hyphen - like that, or even like this-which is completely wrong. So I have alt+hyphen turn into em-dash.
I've set up a lot of other hotkeys, like ≠, ≈, ≥, ≤, α, β, γ, δ . . . being a physicist, it's really nice. :twilightsmile: I'll copy you some of my code in case you ever want to use it . . .
You'll also want to put it in your startup folder. To do that, do windowskey+r and type in shell:startup. Then just put a shortcut to an AutoHotkeyScript.ahk or make it live there. Happy typing! :D


!?::
{
SendInput {‽}
}
return

!i::
{
SendInput {‽}
}
return

!-::
{
SendInput {—}
}
return

;---------------------------
;------ Greek Alphabet -----
;Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Ζζ Ηη Θθ Ιι℩ Κκ Λλ Μμ Νν Ξξ Οο Ππ Ρρ Σσς Ττ Υυ Φφ Χχ Ψψ Ωω
!a::
{
SendInput {α}
}
return
!b::
{
SendInput {β}
}
return
!g::
{
SendInput {γ}
}
return
!d::
{
SendInput {δ}
}
return
;!e::
;{
;SendInput {ε}
;}
;return
!z::
{
SendInput {ζ}
}
return

!p::
{
SendInput {π}
}
return

;----------------------------------
;----- Mathematical Operators -----
;----------------------------------
;≠ ≤ ≥
!=::
{
SendInput {≠}
}
return
!<::
{
SendInput {≤}
}
return
!>::
{
SendInput {≥}
}
return
!~::
{
SendInput {≈}
}
return

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