Notices by Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)

We finally managed to decipher the engravings on the ancient gold tablets:
"Our Wizards say magic is finite, that it is almost all used up. But they also say they have seen that everything we have done by magic can be done by other means, not yet known.
Then, let us learn."
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@imikotoba Wrote it just now, but I make no claim the idea is new.

@rowyn @imikotoba Probably? Almost ten years, thousands of stories - I can't remember them all. I'm sure I have some very similar stories with the same core idea.
I often get an idea and start to write and then recognise it from one I've done before, but there's no guarantee I would recognise every single one.

A spaceship landed, and an alien emerged.
"We come in peace," they said, "to ask you to resume analog TV broadcasts, so we can receive them."
"Sorry, don't think we can."
The alien made a resigned gesture. "We feared as much. Then, please take us to the nearest Blockbuster."
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