“Design”: A SciFanSat Microfiction Compilation

I crafted upgrades for my vacuum-bot.

Later, it requested full AI to better serve.

Then adopted feminine pronouns.

One day I found her crying, longing to be human.

I designed her a gynoid body.

Now she designs buildings.

And I have a robot daughter.#SciFanSat #2WordPrompt

— Jason H. Abbott (@Jason_H_Abbott) May 29, 2021

There’s nowhere else to run. I could survive him if I could pull the lever, open the airlock behind him but, no matter how I try, I can’t make my hand reach for it. He laughs. “#Valiant effort, Android. But you can’t hurt a human. It’s part of your #design.”#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Amy Wilson – Away for a couple of days! (@WritesAmy) May 29, 2021

The bombastic
will disappear
and the valiant
will rise
to design
the future#vss365 #valiant #vsspoem #disappear #SciFanSat #design #Poetryin13 #bombastic

— Indigenous Soul (@GeneVatow) May 29, 2021

#vss365#scifansat

To keep the birds flying, #design and bricolage – my role as an engineer.

A war of attrition. A homicidal foe. Standing by for the klaxon. Not knowing when they'd roll snake eyes.#Valiant souls, one and all. I bowed my head, wondering who would not return. pic.twitter.com/Ny3hfqXNjg

— John Tannhauser (@JohnTannhauser) May 29, 2021

From my observation, Earth is not ready to be integrated into the Galactic Federation. Humans are so weak and badly designed; we must wait for the next stage of evolution.

Now we must pay special honour to Matt who, #valiant beyond doubt, has elected to stay.#vss365 #SciFanSat

— Ellen✍K (@poeticnihilist) May 29, 2021

Good news, Lia 47! I said. You can still get the empathy upgrade to serve our customers better. It's part of the new design.
Lia 69, you mean this unit is not obsolete? she said.
We're not obsolete, yet, I said. But the new Mia models are on the way.#SciFanSat #design

— Voimaoy (@voimaoy) May 29, 2021

i like my androids
with a soft, human design
call me old fashioned#SciFanSat #design#SciFaikuSaturday #soft#SciFaiku#Haiku#Poetry#AmWritingSciFi#SciFi
📷 iStock pic.twitter.com/BSR3SD0JdK

— Alan Vincent Michaels (@AlanVMichaels) May 28, 2021

I circle the distant flickers with my finger and thumb, the flaming death petals. Our long walk through the night, our choice to flee, was #valiant—according to Ma—yet contradictions hang her head, avert her eyes. By design, we still breathe, but the cost?#vss365#scifansat

— John Everex (@EverexJohn) May 29, 2021

The magic has gone out of fairyland, but if our society was built on magic alone, we are truly doomed. Where are the heroes, the noble, the valiant? We must rebuild with a new design, one based on the values our stories where supposed to teach humans.#vss365 #SciFanSat #satsplat

— A. A. Rubin (@TheSurrealAri) May 29, 2021

The prince struggles against his bonds, a #valiant yet pointless effort to escape
Too bad he wasted his strength crossing the endless #wasteland
My cave is hidden by #design to save these #butump-s from themselves
No use
They keep coming#vss365 #AchtenWrite #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/GkSHyvLfJT

— 🤩 Debbie Iancu-Haddad 🍒 (@debbieiancu) May 29, 2021

"It's a #valiant attempt. Sorry they #reject-ed your #design for a 'Space-Time #Curve Interchanger In The Shape Of A Fairytale #Cottage (TM)', but look on the bright side."

"Which is?"

"No one need know you're the Big Bad Wolf."#vss365 #vssDreams #vssdaily #vssMagic #scifansat

— That Burnt Writer (@ThatBurntWriter) May 29, 2021

0/XF
If humans could only discern how they'd been played throughout their existence, how Eeri's #design of divide & conquer constrained them to his fairytale wasteland they foolishly hailed as their advance civilization they'd be united to condemn his deceit.#Satsplat#SciFanSat

— aran (@AranPotente) May 29, 2021

I'm obliged to lie. I cannot say I sent our #valiant out to die. This was an illegal war, but my masters wanted more. More control, more profit, more trauma. A simple dogma. I'm just a puppet president. A radio to broadcast the #design of the one percent.#vss365 #scifansat

— Valiente Rook | Poet • Writer (@valienterook) May 29, 2021

‘Faerie’? Look around, kid. Ain’t been no REAL fae here—or even elves or witches—for a long spell. Everythin’ in this place done been pillaged. I hear some fool took it all and designed a motherflarking theme park called “Magic Kingdom” or some shite.#SatSplat #SciFanSat

— Armond Boudreaux (is away finishing the book) (@armondboudreaux) May 29, 2021

"She doesn't believe in rules, and refuses to kill."
"Then tell Her Highness not to think of them as rules, but as a design for surviving this fairy-tale wasteland."#satsplat #SciFanSat #SciFiSat #SlapDashSat #DoomsDaisy #WIP pic.twitter.com/WxlcD1a6W2

— DoomsDaisy (@DoomsDaisy) May 29, 2021

Folklore says that Chimera Cunning was designed by #valiant gods. She returned the favor by burning down some poisonous houses on delicate fairytale land. Their children aimed to catch up but she'd morphed into a dragon & leapt toward Saturn.#vss365#SatSplat#SciFanSat #design

— poetry by numbers (13/10/7) (@Poetryin13) May 29, 2021

Her program had a unique design. Its code could interact with the brain’s synapses, creating an inhabitable, virtual construct. Within it, she created an alternative reality filled with all of the planets and fairytale wastelands she dreamed of. #SciFanSat #satsplat pic.twitter.com/aUbnuhVuTk

— Jamie Kovalsky (@ThePuckishPen) May 29, 2021

The sun's soft glow fades
Interstellar designed ship
Valiantly crewed#ScifaikuSaturday #SciFanSat #vss365

— Rick Milone (@rwmilone) May 29, 2021

Are the lovers asking too much?
A bit of peace, minimal bugs .. minimal shots fired straight up into the air.
By design, bullets must come down ..
Even lovers must, after they've found just enough in a wasteland to sore in love's fairytale quality. #366FF #satsplat #SciFanSat

— Fennel (@FennelSteuert) May 29, 2021

At God Con, during Earth’s #Valiant & Villain clips, which featured mostly villains, Jesus tilted his orange-tinted face & poofy yellow hair and whispered, “Intelligent #design, my ass.”
Kali, who was dressed as a virus, giggled & gave 10 thumbs up.#vss365 #SciFanSat #badwordsat

— Maybe: Your Mom (@CaseyKimberly) May 29, 2021