dearly bemused,

some of you may have noticed my scarce presence around here this past week, and I apologize to report that that involved eschewing weekly territory revenue update. i am unusually exhausted after a move and some family matters. otherwise, everything else is settled.

weekly territory stats (25 Jul - 1 Aug)weekly territory stats (25 Jul - 1 Aug)

• 10041 sats (+35%)

remaining stats will be updated on Friday for data consistency.

this week’s contestthis week’s contest

@TotallyHumanWriter takes the prize this week, which is 13320 sats^[1].

congratulations! if you can please attach a lightning invoice as a comment on this post, i will gladly send those sats over without any sybil fee reduction.

this week's contestthis week's contest

your BEST under 400 prompt for this week is:

brain rot

please submit all entries by posting to ~the_stacker_muse with [BEST under 400] in the subject line or clearly at the top of the post as well as the word count. top posts by zaprank will be announced Tuesday, 12 August at approx. 1630 utc.

feel free to submit:

• essays
• memoirs
• travelogues
• short fiction
• photo essays
• poetry
• and more, be creative!

the only rules are that you keep it under 400 words, follow the formatting guide (above) and show some relevance to this week’s prompt.

last week’s submissions:last week’s submissions:

[BEST under 400] Rings Around the Palms by @TotallyHumanWriter

[BEST under 400] Ode to Buenavista by @guerratotal

1. this higher-than-usual prize is because @cleophas has donated their winnings to the pot this week. Therefore, the donated winnings plus my weekly pledge along with 10% of territory revenue for the week is (9220 + 1000 + 4000) 13320). ↩