Post AupTXOkGdXd2IQnIae by futurebird@sauropods.win
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 (DIR) Post #AupTXOkGdXd2IQnIae by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-06-05T19:01:36Z
       
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       I'm kind of struggling to write about this  (fictional) ant colony. I think "they can't have a stream of consciousness" because that's just not how they think. It's all tiny individual impulses adding up to complexity. Writing about individual ants is also hard because they don't see the whole picture. I will figure this out, though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupTm2jckkdENNTbeK by caramelyoghurt@troet.cafe
       2025-06-05T19:04:10Z
       
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       @futurebird I love where you're going with this.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupTrXhd2ieTrwAKNk by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-06-05T19:05:15Z
       
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       I mean.Maybe I need to go hard and make it really strange. Just lists of tasks marked complete or incomplete and totals of the ants involved. Now that might work. Eg.Soil Removal South. COMPLETE (384 ants)Exploration of Spaces North: IN PROGRESS (14 ants)Human Removal: PAUSED (1384 ants)etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupTxcv8YWSpn0NwHI by lauerhahn@sfba.social
       2025-06-05T19:06:17Z
       
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       @futurebird have you read Le Guin's "Author of Acacia Seeds"? I only remember bits, but it left an impression on me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupUbbMnkgyeYOO1Qm by Jestbill@mastodon.world
       2025-06-05T19:13:32Z
       
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       @futurebird I once read a sci-fi/? that was a really short internal conversation of a baby bird.The story was short "thoughts"  interspersed with bird sounds.Tough to do in longer form.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupWYBsAHYAoWaYdFI by Moss@beige.party
       2025-06-05T19:35:18Z
       
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       @futurebird The Human Removal one makes me think their planning department made an error in target analysis. They had previously observed that it only took ~20 ants to effectuate the removal of a human from a bed pillow, or a plate of pie. But to relocate an unconscious human requires ~20,000 ants. They should have hired me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AupXxLkum3KuN0j9Cy by llewelly@sauropods.win
       2025-06-05T19:51:05Z
       
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       @futurebird technically the story of the four hobbits and thier companions wasn't written in English; it was written Westron, the language the hobbits spoke. Tolkien had to translate it. Your story was written in ant thoughts, but you must translate it for human readers.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aupcp2TH5aPS0xKg7M by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-06-05T20:45:32Z
       
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       @apLundell You may get the chance this summer :)