Worse than slavers, who at least had a fucked-up business model, were free-lancers. Most of them just collared and hoped for the best. Slavers? They couldn’t Keep her – not when she had a Kept back at her cabin – but only about a third of the slavers bothered with that sort of thing. They were being pretty subtle, but they weren’t being good enough for Mieve’s paranoia-heightened senses.

īut she did like things she couldn’t make on her own, and so here she was, wandering around the market, being stalked. The one bonus of the end of the world, in her opinion, was that it let her be a hermit without it being all that weird.

Not that she didn’t always know why – people. She hadn’t left the clearing in almost six months and, as she walked around the market, Mieve remembered why. What you need to know about the setting/story: Mieve is a hermit who can talk to/control insects the apocalypse is rather recent most trade right now is in barter. Sorry Momerath, I was being a bit of a brat (I prefer not to write continuations of extant long series as part of a prompt call. This story is Fae Apoc, BeeKeeper – it is set before the Beekeeper series. That might explain why drawings are easier for you.Īll of this is probably related somehow to my difficulties in recognizing faces, which we've talked about before here on DSL.This story is the sixth one to my Squish-Squash, Pumpkins and Gourds Prompt Call. A competent artist creating an image by hand would never allow something like that to sneak into their composition. if someone's left arm is before a building, I might parse the silhouette as missing an arm at first. I'm very susceptible to misparse shapes when the background interferes, e.g. Like you, I also have problems with some photographs or other images that are 'too busy'. I also wrote a syntax highlighter for my (text-based) todo list, just so I can quickly distinguish done from undone items. the outline of the proof in red, notes on the details in blue, and side thoughts / geometric intuition in green. When I'm working on math on a whiteboard, I tend to use 3 different markers to distinguish different types of thought. My visual perception is very strongly color based. Color or even grayscale shading helps a lot with that.

Black and white line drawings have lots of ambiguity between positive and negative space.

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