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halfshellvenus) wrote2025-08-21 03:44 pm
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LJ Idol: Wheel of Chaos: "Going BATty"
Going BATty
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 7 | 1460 words
BAT (intersection with rayaso. Read my story first.)
x-x-x-x-x
As a free-range scientist, John Thornbuckle was one of the foremost BAT experts on earth. He had wowed the world with his earlier work in Bovine Accelerated Transport (culminating in cows that jumped over the moon) and Bogus Association Tendency (where conspiracies are born). Previously, he had also studied Blind Acquisition Theory (the compulsion to grab everything in sight) and Bat-Affiliated Trauma (which included pervasive paranoia about bats getting into one's hair).
Thornbuckle knew people were in awe of him. Whenever he met someone and explained what he did, they just stood there gaping at him. They were speechless with admiration! And he certainly cut a striking figure, with his black, geek-chic glasses, his pomaded hair, and his bedazzled pocket protector.
He was used to the stares and whispers. What celebrity wouldn't be?
But Thornbuckle knew that science was serious business. Those facts and correlations wouldn't liberate themselves! No, they required prying and digging–like juicy gossip in a movie star's background. And Thornbuckle, who thought secrets were for the weak, was just the man to do it.
Each day, he rolled off the sofa-bed in his office and set about exposing those hidden truths. What made cows want to be airborne? Why was "stuff" so appealing?
And why were bats so rubbery that they seemed to stick to everything?
( Read more... )
Voting information to follow next week...
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 7 | 1460 words
BAT (intersection with rayaso. Read my story first.)
x-x-x-x-x
As a free-range scientist, John Thornbuckle was one of the foremost BAT experts on earth. He had wowed the world with his earlier work in Bovine Accelerated Transport (culminating in cows that jumped over the moon) and Bogus Association Tendency (where conspiracies are born). Previously, he had also studied Blind Acquisition Theory (the compulsion to grab everything in sight) and Bat-Affiliated Trauma (which included pervasive paranoia about bats getting into one's hair).
Thornbuckle knew people were in awe of him. Whenever he met someone and explained what he did, they just stood there gaping at him. They were speechless with admiration! And he certainly cut a striking figure, with his black, geek-chic glasses, his pomaded hair, and his bedazzled pocket protector.
He was used to the stares and whispers. What celebrity wouldn't be?
But Thornbuckle knew that science was serious business. Those facts and correlations wouldn't liberate themselves! No, they required prying and digging–like juicy gossip in a movie star's background. And Thornbuckle, who thought secrets were for the weak, was just the man to do it.
Each day, he rolled off the sofa-bed in his office and set about exposing those hidden truths. What made cows want to be airborne? Why was "stuff" so appealing?
And why were bats so rubbery that they seemed to stick to everything?
( Read more... )
Voting information to follow next week...
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