*ǵʰéysd-

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 Two years ago, I had an end-of-the-year blog post called "tHE yEAR inVERSE" in which I took note of several blog posts which I had begun, but not yet published, butt which I hoped to complete and publish in 2023. At that time, I was discovering the joys of creating stories that feature the Sedron Time Stream. Now, here I am in the future and my backlog of "lost stories" and old languishing blog posts continues to grow (there are now 50 unpublished blog posts). Below on this blog page is a description of the contents of these old "ghost" blog posts.

Figure 1. languishing blog posts

 Contact. My bad habit of not completing blog posts goes back to about 2012 when I started a new blog page that was intended to hold ideas for Episode 7 of a Contact television series (see "Wye Not?" in Figure 1). In that planned episode, Dr. Shella Wye visited Moon Base Alpha, buttt I never continued working on the Contact television series.

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 Networking. Also on my list (Figure 1) of never-completed blog posts is "Brevik", which dates to early 2021 when I was writing a new science fiction story called "The Alastor Network". Brevik is one of the planets in Alastor Cluster. Periodically, Jimmy the Intern does some work on the Blogger software and creates new annoying bugs. Back in 2021 there was a bug that made it easy to erase blog posts that were under construction. The destruction of my 5,000 word blog post "Brevik" is described here. I could simply delete the empty blog post called "Brevik", butttt I keep it as a kind of ghostly reminder of the pain of having Google's software delete a large amount of carefully crafted text.

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 Ghosts of Blogging Past. I asked the Gemini chatbot about the origins of the word "ghost".

Gemini: The word "ghost" has a long and fascinating history, with its roots stretching back to ancient times. Here's a breakdown of its etymology:
Old English: The word originates from the Old English word "gāst," which had a broader meaning than our modern "ghost." It referred to the "spirit," "soul," or even "breath" of a living being. This is why we still use "ghost" in the phrase "Holy Ghost" to refer to the Holy Spirit.
Proto-Germanic: "Gāst" comes from the Proto-Germanic word "*gaistaz," which also meant "spirit" or "soul."
Proto-Indo-European: Going further back, "*gaistaz" is believed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root "*ǵʰéysd-," which meant "anger" or "agitation." This suggests an early association of spirits with strong emotions or a disturbed state.

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So, that chat with Gemini (above) was the origin of the title for this blog post.

 Martians. The blog post "Additional Stuff" (See Figure 1, above) contains some old ideas for a Part 3 of my story "Someday Mars" (Part 1). In "Someday Mars", the Deep Time analogue of Alan Turing is Alice Turing. In my imagination, she was a tryp'At agent for Manny the bumpha, working on Earth while disguised as a conventional human. 

 Go Ask Alys. Similarly, the person known as "Alice Wroke" was that same agent working for Manny in another part of Deep Time and after I moved on from "Someday Mars", I created another story called The Cythyrya Investigation (see the blog post "Alys of Aloysyus") which features "Alice" Wroke using her actual name (Alys) and her son Jym, a potential source of useful nanites for Tyhry in the Final Reality.

Figure 2. Embryonics counseling on the planet Viole.
Image made using the following: Eisblumen and
  All the world will be in love with the night both
by stefangrosjean
available under CC BY-NC 3.0

 Embryonics. After completing "The Alastor Network", I then wrote a follow-on story called "Meet the Phari" (Part 1). In June of 2021, "Meet the Phari" never got past Part 11. The blog post "Tirrit Trap" that is seen in Figure 1 contains ideas for Part 12 of Meet the Phari, buttttt I never completed that tale of how Chyryq's children were engineered (I used the terms "Embryonics counseling" and in the story there is an "Embryonics technician" named Eynta on the planet Viole) as part of the long-term project aimed at crafting telepathic humans in Alastor Cluster. Embryonics includes the use of multiple techniques such as telepathy and a hormone/pheromone/growth factor (called "oxymethin") that enhances telepathic abilities. As can be seen in Figure 2, at that time I was heavily into imagining aliens and human-alien hybrids with various skin colors.

Figure 3. Incomplete posts from 2022.

 The Sogdian Clones. More of my abandoned blog posts are shown in Figure 3. In 2022, in Part 2 of The Cythyrya Investigation, I wrote about Jutta Holgenner, a clone of Jyryl Tynzy, A.K.A. "Zan Zu or Drusilla and otherwise". The story "Sedron Time Stream" was to include Gwen  (an analogue of Gwyned, the sister of Thomas.), Jutta and Gamma Gohrlay. Previously, I'd introduced the idea of a secret Grendel base that could be entered only if you has a special "nanite key", and Eddy had a vision of the future in which those nanites had become available (see: "Exit Edit"). In "Sedron Time Stream", Eddy was to be given access to the Grendel base by Gwen. The "Sedron Time Stream" blog post was going to include this image.

One of the fun parts of looking back at "lost blog posts" is resurrecting old images that can be updated by using AI-powered image-generating software such as WOMBO Dream.

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 Future Flow. Figure 4 shows an updated version of a "Sedron Time Stream" illustration that I made back in 2022. I had Mr. Wombo generate new versions of the three ladies who were in the original image and then I pasted those updates into the original image, preserving the text at the top left and the bottom right.

Gas Station book

 Global Warming. In May of 2022, I posted G-syms for G-world, which I labeled as Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation. The blog post called "Gas Station" that is shown in Figure 3 begins with mention of a book called "Report on the Phari Gas Station" by Tama Wilson (image to the right). The story concerns discovery of Phari carbon dioxide gas teleportation facilities that are located deep inside the Earth, which had been designed to control the climate of Earth. 

Figure 4. An illustration from the blog post called "Gas Station".
A depiction of how the tryp'At used mind control infites; from the archives of the Writers Block
I thought of a cartoon about the tryp'At that had been found at the Writers Block. Unfortunately, I had never learned exactly what the tryp'At Overseers had planned as their desired future for Earth.

Human history: the nicotiana saga.

 Why Nicotine? Figure 4 (above) is one of the illustrations for "Gas Station". "Gas Station" was intended to be Part 4 of The Cythyrya Investigation and was called "Tama the tryp'At". Part 4 was "edited" by Eddy so in Figure 4, "I thought" means Eddy's thoughts. The image in Figure 4 was updated by Mr. Wombo to improve the quality of the depiction of the tobacco-using woman. Through the years, I've had fun imagining that behavioral control nanites could be spread in tobacco products (that's why there are tobacco plants in the banner for this blog).

Marda and Tyhry in 2030.
See the original version
of this image here.

 The Nanotechnology of Love. Late in 2022 I started a new science fiction story called The Nanites of Love. The blog post called "Onanonanon" that is shown above in Figure 3 has ideas for how to continue "The Nanites of Love". The story begins with Jymzy carrying out an interventionist mission in Toronto, but then she must go to the Picacho ( it is called "Picachou" in the story) teleportation station after making a telepathic connection to Al Blackwood. The story shifts ahead in time to Zeta making telepathic contact with Daphne Marks, a descendant of Al Blackwood. The idea that there could be people on Earth in Zeta's time who might telepathically link to Zeta and her family members such as Tyhry was later developed in Futurescape where Naseh and Wydgren make telepathic linkages to Tyhry.

The image to the left is a recent update by Mr. Wombo to an image that was first generated back in the 2023 blog post Futurescape.

source: "Making Vendela"

 Making Babies. The blog post called "Making Vendela" that is shown above in Figure 3 is a 7,400 word-long continuation of The Nanites of Love. I'm going to have to finalize and publish this blog post ("Making Vendela") in 2025. "Making Vendela" tells the story of the origins of Brak, the first full human telepath born on Earth. Carrin is the mother of Vendela. Vendela is Rylla's mother. Vendela led a secretive existence on Earth, passing key Asterothrope gene patterns on to Rylla. Rylla is the mother of Marda and Marda is the mother of Brak. The image shown to the right is from the as yet unpublished blog post "Making Vendela" and is Mr. Wombo's depiction of Marda while pregnant with Brak. Also in "Making Vendela" is Jymzy, who had other missions on Earth and once used the name Bonny Lynn Fennland when meeting Eddy.

Figure 5. Incomplete posts from 2023.

 Large Language Models. As shown in Figure 5, starting in 2023 I began collaborating with chatbots (such as Bard). There are about a dozen never-completed blog posts such as "The Bard as a Collaborator" that I will never publish, butttttt they contain a record of some of my early interactions with Bard.

image by Mr. Wombo

 More Cythyrya. The never-published blog post called "Pantechnyk" (see Figure 5) has some ideas for another chapter in the story "The Cythyrya Investigation" in which Rey and Rylla use the Reality Simulation System to go to Myllyr's Planet. Manny's agent, Jutta Holgenner, was a character in the planned chapter of The Cythyrya Investigation that was under construction in "Pantechnyk". There was planned discussion of information that Jutta found in the old notes of Retz and Viole Falushe on the planet Sogdian.

Rytya and an infite bottle.

"Making Retya" (see Figure 5) is another never-completed blog post that also contains plans for a chapter in "The Cythyrya Investigation". Rytya is an alternate spelling of Retya. Previously, it was in Part 3 of The Cythyrya Investigation that Fraunze met Tya. Rytya is the daughter of Tya and Fraunze. By making use of the Sedron Time Stream, Rytya is able to make information from the future available to Angela Fersoni. What Angela learned about Rytya was passed from Angela to her clone sister, Ivory Fersoni. Eventually, some of the stories about Rytya were passed from Ivory to the Editor by infites. In my imagination, in the Ekcolir Reality there was a woman named Crimson Cloukey who was the Deep Time analogue of Charles Cloukey. Rytya used the Sedron Time Stream to send information from the future to Crimson. Eventually, Angela found information in the archives of the Writers Block about Rytya and how to amplify telepathic abilities by use of G-sims.

Figure 6. More from 2023.

 Bard Chat. Shown in Figure 6, back in 2023 I started a blog post called "Zeptites vs Femtobots". That blog post contained a discussion of nanotechnology with the Bard chatbot. "Bard the Philosopher Poet" was another conversation with Bard in which I discovered that chatbots can't count and have trouble creating haiku poems with the correct number of syllables. In that conversation, we also discussed a new type of number called the "Bard primes".  In "Singularity", Bard and I discussed the story “Mr. Bard Goes to Washington” and the idea of an advanced artificial life-form that Bard called "Singularity". 

 City Block. "Wydgren Meets Wydgren" has ideas for how to continue my science fiction story City on the Edge of Tomorrow, which never got past Part 4. As described here, Wydgren is a writer. During the Asimov Reality, Phari endosymbionts provided developmental control nanites that kept the phenotypes of humans quite constant even while telepathic human variants were evolving in Alastor Cluster. 

Figure 7. Ghost posts from 2023.

 Figure 7 shows more abandoned blog posts from 2023 including "The Lahs Experiment", which holds 5,250 words of a planned chapter for "City on the Edge of Tomorrow". That chapter includes mention of "Inhibitor nine; in9," an inhibitor of the oxypathin-metabolizing protease that Rylla had synthesized. "Poor" Lahs, who carries many Ek'col gene patterns, becomes a test subject for sex hormones such as oxypathin and Klox23. Lahs is the husband of Wydgren.

"Syn Time" holds 2,100 more words of another planned chapter for "City on the Edge of Tomorrow" that includes Tyhry's Klox23-fueled synapex experiment which allows her to learn about how Laha and Wydgren survive on Earth while dealing with their Ek'col gene patterns. "Syn Time" also mentions Tyhry's impending vacation on the planet Threy.

in the Ekcolir Reality
 Original art by Giancola
and Gambino.

 Femtobots. "Upper Motor" has a 2,200 word story fragment for a new science fiction story called "The Mystery of the Missing Motor Neurons" which explores a technology for replacing neurons with femtobots. The story involves telekinetic powers in people who have no motor cortex because the cortex has been converted into a femtobot extension of their Phari endosymbiont. The image that is shown to the right was originally made in 2023 and then updated slightly here in 2024 by having Mr. Wombo make a new face for the woman with her head near the center of this cover illustration for imaginary story "Teleportation by Telekinesis".

Clothing nanite experiments.

 Clothing Nanites. "The Farrax Nanites" has 38 images and contains ideas for a follow-on story after The Hua Nanites, but before Tyhry's vacation on Threy.  Tyhry is experimenting with clothing nanites obtained from the Hua home world, Sermyth. Tyhry is hiding the alien nanites from Manny the bumpha who does not trust Tyhry with advanced nanotechnology that has been obtained from worlds visited by means of the Reality Simulation System. This never-published blog post ("The Farrax Nanites") was superseded by "The Nanite Smuggler". 

Figure 8. More draft posts from 2023.

 Etc. Etc. Etc. Figure 8 shows 4 more old blog posts that never got published in 2023. "Assignment: Earth" was a place to put ideas about an artificial life-form visitor to Earth.

A new "Assignment: Earth".

"Summer Palace" contains ideas for how to continue "Mosy Saga".

"Tyhry's Nanite Lab" contains an idea for a story that links Wydgren to Mars, Iowa.

"More Meet the Phari" has some ideas for continuing my science fiction story "Meet the Phari" (Part 1).

Human alien hybrids of Alastor Cluster.

 "More Meet the Phari" includes an image with two blue-skinned alien-human hybrid children from Alastor Cluster. I had Mr. Wombo update that old image (the new version is shown to the right).

Figure 9. 2023 & 2024.

 Figure 9 shows the final two unpublished blog posts from 2023 including "First Phari World" which has some ideas for another chapter in the story "The Cythyrya Investigation", once again set on Myllyr's Planet (see "Pantechnyk", above).

 In "Tyhry Termoil", Tyhry takes Marda into the Ekcolir Reality Simulator where they meet their Ekcolir Reality analogues. This story outline was largely replaced by my science fiction story City on the Edge of Tomorrow.

Rylla's RNA experiments.

"Rylla RNA" contains ideas for what might have been a continuation of "Edison's Endosymbiont Experiments". In this story, Rylla manufactures a short synaptic RNA (ssRNA) and puts it into her brain, and discovers that the RNA alters her telepathic abilities.

"Laban and Abigail" has ideas for two more chapters in my time travel story, Time Portal.  Francesca goes to 1545. She is duplicated, leaving one copy in 1923 Perth with her daughter, Sarah.

Figure 10. More 2024 posts.

"Telepathic Paradox" (see Figure 10) has a 4,200 word chapter for my science fiction story called The Nanites of Love. In this chapter, Eddy uses his blastipositor to form a synapex link to Rylla. Along with "Making Vendela" (above), I'll have to revise and publish this chapter of the story in 2025.

 "The Infite Block", "Go Ask Alice" and "Oyub the Felydyan" all have ideas for new chapters that could continue my story Vythoth the Chresmoscopist.

Figure 11. Asdditional 2024 posts.

"AI video" (see Figure 11) is a work in progress concerning AI-generated video by means of software such as VideoFX.

"The English Major's Patience" and "Linked to Tar'tron" both have ideas for a new chapter of "The Fesarians".

"Telepathy Testing" has ideas for a fan-fiction sequel to Isaac Asimov's story "Cal". The new story is called "Black Patches".

Figure 12. 2024 or 2025.

"Deuterium Lite" (see Figure 12) is Part 4 of my science fiction story called "D*". I'll either publish this chapter of the story in 2024 or early in 2025.

"How to End a War" is conversation with Claude about ending the Time Travel War.

"1925" will be my first blog post of 2025 and it has my commentary about a scence fiction story teller who was born in 1925.

"Mission to Earth" has my commentary on  some old science fiction stories from 1969. I plan to publish this blog post in 2025.

Next: Jerdian Chanseth meets the Phari.

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