Thimbleful Thursday: Parts and Points

[aldersprig]

“You, uh, really take trying out your product seriously, don’t you?”

The man was nervous. Sheen’s workshop did that, got people thinking about all the pieces coming to life, or about all the meat parts they still had.

That was, however, no excuse for rudeness.

“Mmm?” Sheen made like he didn’t know what the guy was talking about.  

“Your, uh, your arm?”

He’d actually said it.  Sheen marked a point in his favor.  

“This?” Sheen sent a thought through the wiring and detached his metal arm — mostly composites and ceramic, but “metal arm, meat arm” sounded cooler.  “Does this—” he waved the stump “—  look like something I did to myself?”

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Mirrored from Alder's Grove Fiction.

Comments

[kelkyag]

<points out the earlier crosspost>

[aldersprig]

Right. I really need a better crossposter. *glares at it*

[kelkyag]

It's a hard problem! I'm pretty sure dreamwidth tackles that by having a database of what was imported from where to where on what date, so that it can avoid creating duplicates and check for updates from the original source. When you've copied things from LJ&DW to WP and are then cross-updating back to DW (having moved to WP (and patreon and kofi and mastodon) as primary, it gets really complicated.