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Marie Vibbert’s MULTITUDE explores the concept that we aren't the only intelligent life in the world, an idea which has long fascinated humanity. But if, in fact, aliens exist: what would they be like?

We would like you to write a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want! Write a fantasy, sci-fi, or horror microfiction piece up to 300 words.

Email the piece to darian@apexbookcompany.com. The top three will be voted on among Apex staff, and the winners will be published on the Apex blog, as well as sent an ARC of MULTITUDE and a keychain! Contest closes on March 9th.

We're hosting another microfiction contest to celebrate the upcoming release of @reasie.bsky.social's cephalopod scifi MULTITUDE! ✍️🦑🪐 The theme is a hypothetical meeting between humanity and a form of alien life. It can be from the human's perspective, the alien's perspective, whatever you want!

A screenshot from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, showing Mario and Luigi in Mushrise Park, looking at two seemingly dead Luigis lying on the ground. Source: YouTube user @alexsstuff2801, youtube.com/watch?v=3PC_OU_xnKA

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team contains various unused test rooms in its files. One of these is the "two dead Luigis" test room, which is identical to the Mushrise Park entrance from the finished game, except there are two Luigis lying on the ground. The Luigis are unresponsive.

Formally launching a complaint at God for the clouds obstructing views of my girlfriend, the moon, on the day of her biggest performance of the year.

I’ve thought about this Reddit thread everyday since I saw it last week

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The Fish Doorbell — The Fish Doorbell Did you spot a fish? Press the Fish Doorbell! This alerts our lock operator to let the fish through. The Fish Doorbell is in Utrecht, NL.

*bursts in, sweating, out of breath*

“Drop everything, fish doorbell’s back”

visdeurbel.nl/en/

We have discovered a planet. It is a sphere free from war -- but with cats. The breeze is leaden and smells strongly of clover. We could find a community there, perhaps.

What can you even say? These people deserve their inevitable humiliation and the nation deserves journalists with more self-respect.

We're smokin' that Argentinian himejoshi catgirl shit out of a puma bone pipe at an altitude of 12,600 feet, concurrent with the third Dynasty of Ur, you stupid shit.

Report cover with title “Wyoming truck accident facts 1977,” with the first letter of each word emphasized so that “WTAF” is prominent. Illustrations of truck accidents.

I am always talking about treeification

we very much did not allow the KKK to survive. we broke the back of the Klan and successor organizations under the same name had no continuity with the First Klan.

I have a distinct memory of being like six and not knowing where babies came from but knowing about pregnancy and c-sections but how could that work in caveman times? And a then assuming a friendly lion cut the baby out

dead backwards but otherwise brilliant

Seems extremely plausible that while alive there’s no state where the entire brain stack is off but also that plenty of layers are extremely low functioning in various states

Pretty sure my consciousness is intermittent too but who knows

(no homo doesn’t work that way either)

Now restate this apology in ChatGPT voice

sincerely believes that “no quagmire” works like “no homo”

game developer 🫩

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Tilly’s got you:

> decapitated Venezuela (justified as the "Donroe Doctrine")
> bombed Iran twice, including state decapitation strikes that set the whole Gulf ablaze
> engineered a war scare about a potential American annexation of Greenland
> had several nice calls with Xi and sold him advanced computer chips

status check on this post:

since Douthat described Trump 2 as "formally committed to a strategy of rebalancing American commitments from Europe to the Far East" (sidenote: "far east" lmao), Trump has:

mazel tov!

standpoint epistemology should, in general, make it harder, not easier, to make the kind of arguments one naturally finds salubrious

when the audience was small, it was an interesting creative constraint; once the audience was large enough, it became a sort of boring, tedious way to do what he had in mind anyway

i may have already said this but i think i learned this lesson from an andrew hussie blog about how he stopped taking audience direction on mspaintadventures

Deut. 32:35, as repeated by Romans 12:19, as popularized by ANNA KARENINA, as butchered by PULP FICTION

Narrator: God will not forgive Dort