This is sure to raise some red flags, because today's ConWorkShop theme is Things that are or can be red. Unfortunately for me, I can not use the old riddle "What is black and white and red all over?" as it depends on homophones in Human that fail entirely to have even the slightest counterpart… Continue reading Lexember 19 (2025)
Author: prettydragoon
Prettydragoon lives in a middling sort of city on Earth and writes about other planets, none of which she has actually visited.
Lexember 18 (2025)
O brave new world, that hath such objects in it! Today's theme from ConWorkShop is Objects you could not explain to someone from 200 years ago. Trains of course are 200 years old just now, in 2025, and science fiction as a genre is not that much older. But telephony in general and smartphones in… Continue reading Lexember 18 (2025)
Lexember 17 (2025)
I'm sure there is no cause for concern, even though today's ConWorkShop theme is Feeling under the weather. There is absolutely no reason to assume you have caught Schnurdlich's Disease just because you are feeling off your feed. Only hypochondriacs (vitupipi) are susceptible to Schnurdlich's Disease anyway, so you can be perfectly reassured of continuing… Continue reading Lexember 17 (2025)
Lexember 16 (2025)
Adventure, excitement, and really wild things are in the offing, as today's theme from ConWorkShop is Things adventurers and explorers carry. Many obvious things that adventurers and explorers would do well to bring along already have their names in Rireinutire, but at least one thing was missing. A pair of compasses can be used to… Continue reading Lexember 16 (2025)
Lexember 15 (2025)
By reasoning from clues that anyone with sufficient powers of observation may discover, I have deduced that today's ConWorkShop theme is Logical relations. Now my naive assumption was that logical relations refers to the Vulcan side of your family tree, but after having interrogated the specifics of the matter, it appears that this may not… Continue reading Lexember 15 (2025)
Lexember 14 (2025)
It's a mixed blessing that today's theme from ConWorkShop is Things you would not want to recieve for your birthday. I was stuck for inspiration since I already have words for many disagreeable things, but then I noticed what I took for a typo in the theme. In the spelling of Human, most rules are… Continue reading Lexember 14 (2025)
Lexember 13 (2025)
As counterpoint to yesterday, today's ConWorkShop theme is Midsummer words. On the Eastern Seaboard of Ruñosañe, the largest continent on Rireinu, where Haru, the capital, is located, tave or Wet Season falls around Summer Solstice, so the middle of the year is the season of rains. Obviously I then had to coin the word for… Continue reading Lexember 13 (2025)
Lexember 12 (2025)
It seems that ConWorkShop have jumped the gun slightly, since today's theme is Midwinter words. Winter Solstice is New Year's Day on Rireinu, and that means housecleaning, so as to have an auspicious beginning for the new year. As the sun sets on New Year's Eve, the people gather around a community bonfire and everyone… Continue reading Lexember 12 (2025)
Lexember 11 (2025)
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. But what if your culture doesn't do T-shirts? Or any clothes, really. How then do you show off where you have been (or what you have done)? Why, just buy one of those enamel or plastic pins from that souvenir vendor over there and stick it on your… Continue reading Lexember 11 (2025)
Lexember 10 (2025)
What is to be done? Today's ConWorkShop theme is themeless. So now I've got my work cut out for me, desperately trying to thwitch themelessly on to a substitute theme. But necessity is the birthmother of invention, as the saying goes. When I wrote what I thought was a simple and straightforward sample sentence, I… Continue reading Lexember 10 (2025)
Flowering Fields 