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“The rest, regardless of gender, I’ll call “Doug.” You’d be surprised how common the name is across worlds. Oh, some spell it “Dug” or “Duhg,” but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancakelike beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not—one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell attached when the word was “spoken.” “Doug” is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done. Anyway, there was at least one woman actually named Doug on the Crow’s Song, but I can’t remember which one she was—so for the purposes of this story, they’re all Dougs.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.”
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“Please believe me.” They didn’t, of course. A boring truth will always have difficulty competing with an exciting lie.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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