• tetris11
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    2 months ago

    There is the Great Ghost Cluster in the distant void, passing messages up and down its endless stream of ghost bodies in order to log world events at the speed of voice.

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      2 months ago

      This is actually an awesome writing prompt: The older ghosts get updates from the younger ones, and send stories back from their own lives, like a long telephone wire…

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        2 months ago

        That story wouldn’t get to the beginning of the line without being completely changed to be unrecognisable

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          1 month ago

          That feels like practically a feature, when you have an eternity to fill and only a finite number of original stories with which to do so.

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        2 months ago

        the question is what do they do with these stories