Fediverse hastag prompts: August 2025
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The following scraps all feature the same "mad scientist" character.
Aug 1: #wss366: edge
His solitude was not a personal decision so much as it was thrust upon him. As someone who seemed to exist on the border of sanity and madness, he tended to be shunned by others. Fortunately—or perhaps unfortunately, depending on from whose perspective you wished to consider the matter—he hadn't a mind to be concerned with societal judgment. Rather, he delighted in the unfettered freedom his seclusion provided, permitting him to unabashedly dance upon the edge of reason.
Aug 19: #wss366: fix
(The mad scientist has taken on an assistant.)
"What on Earth are you doing professor?"
"Trying to fix it."
"Fix it? It was working perfectly."
"Indeed it was. Up until I started hitting it with a hammer."
"What!? Why did you do that?"
"Well I can't very well fix it if it isn't broken."
"But it didn't need fixing!"
"Yes, that was precisely the problem."
"But why would you not just leave it be if it was working perfectly?"
"Look, even if it's working just fine today, that's no guarantee it will still be working well tomorrow. All things eventually break down and need repairs. I merely sought to speed up the process."
"But why not just wait for it to break down naturally and repair it then?"
"Because I had free time now. I may not have free time later. Best to take care of these things when you can so they don't become an emergency in the future."
Aug 25: #wss366: still; #mastoprompt: review
"Professor, are you still awake?"
"Indeed. I must complete my review of the results of the day's experiment."
"But aren't you tired? It's the middle of the night."
"Nonsense. It's still two in the afternoon. See the clock?"
"...Professor, that clock broke when your experiment exploded. It's stopped."
"So it is. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. And as a new day has not yet begun, there's still an opportunity for it to be correct once more. Who's to say whether that time is now?"
"But even if that were the case, that would make it two in the morning. Of a new day."
"Well if it were that early, then would be too late to be worried about how late it is. And if it were indeed morning, then you should be making my morning coffee. Chop chop! Time's a wasting!"