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.
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Photophile, Author, Physicist, Theologian
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
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!
7518849 Thanks! :D I really appreciate that! :)
little do they know that he did in fact become a rock.
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
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.
Oh, and the rock thing was completely coincidental. After writing it, I realized that's exactly what he did...
As always Fistfire, thanks for the reviews!
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...
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. 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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Thanks!