The Gift

[aldersprig]

In line with two thank-you stories on Patreon (Learning the Language & With a Cage), this is a thank you for an anonymous gift I received off my wish list - the Speedball printing kit, an awl, and linen binding thread!



There came a time when the Queen of the Gods, the Mother of All,was t

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XD XD XD XD XD

[alexseanchai]

(She was, however, not surprised to learn, some decades later that her new Deity of Printing had invented limericks, nor that several of their most bawdy, rude limericks involved a name which could be easily substituted for that of one of the Deity of Printing’s deific siblings.)

omfg

And for the first time in nearly a thousand years, the Mother of All, the Queen of the Gods, was able to take a nap without interruption from her children.

*dies*

Re: XD XD XD XD XD

[aldersprig]

I am literally beaming. You made my day. Thank you for this awesome comment.

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[alexseanchai]

Well, hell, you made mine posting this delightfulness, so turnabout's fair, right? XD

[sauergeek]

Did the Fae Apocalypse happen because the kids woke Mom up and she threw them out of the house?

The limerick writer is acting rather like a sibling; entirely typical of gods. I suspect that they'll have a limerick for each one of each sibling's names — gods nearly always have multiple names — in short order.

[kelkyag]

<giggles>

Did the one who proposed flight get back to mom with something else?

This does seem less than fair to the kids, and mostly an excuse for mom to pick flavors of things to bind them to. (In defense of humans, which I appreciate, but had she at least told to behave better before that?) Sure, the humans collectively are more creative -- but I'm going to bet there are many orders of magnitude more humans, and the inventing is done by relatively few of them, not necessarily quickly or solo or in distinct leaps. That one out of eight kids actually came up with something new in a decade is pretty impresive.

<heads off to look up timelines for printing and electricity>
<gets distracted by stencils, seals, stamps, and molds>

[clare_dragonfly]

Delightful! I love the idea that you can only know the names of the gods through writing or printing.

But the last line is the best XD