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Name: Another Kind of Love
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Michael, Robert, and Stephen
Colors: Warm Heart #29: Pleasure
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Silhouette, Cartography, Stained Glass, Mural, Gesso, Sculpture, Calendar Page (National Self-Awareness Day), Tempera (Used dailytarotdraw.com and got the Seven of Pentacles: The Seven of Pentacles also reminds us of the importance of patience and persistence as we wait for the fruits of our labor to manifest. It encourages us to have faith in ourselves and remain committed to our goals, knowing that our dedication will eventually pay off. This card serves as a gentle reminder that success often requires nurturing and nurturing takes time.), Novelty Bead ("You give me fever - when you kiss me, fever when you hold me tight/Fever - in the the morning, fever all through the night." Fever, Michael Buble, given here)
Word Count: 11,976
Rating: T
Warnings: There's a lot of really strongly implied sex/hookups in here, but nothing higher-rated than T actually happens onscreen. Stephen and Jasmine say some bad words, and there's some really vague and unspecific discussion of past mpreg.
Important Onscreen Characters: Michael Wolf, Robert Bren, Stephen Bren, Victoria Ramirez, Jasmine Rai, Theo Huffington, Philip Marsh
Important Offscreen Characters: Bethany Ramirez, Oliver Bren, Archie Daniels, Simon Upsnott
Main Relationship is (the beginnings of) a Michael/Robert/Stephen QPR, and secondarily a Michael/Robert sexual relationship, but also:
Important Onscreen Relationships: Robert/Victoria, Stephen/Victoria, Stephen/Jasmine, Robert/Philip
Important Offscreen Relationships: Theo/Bethany, Oliver/Victoria, Michael/Archie, Theo/Victoria, Simon/Jasmine, Frodo/Sam, Michael/Philip
(There are also numerous unimportant characters and relationships in here, onscreen and offscreen, but I'm not listing them all.)
Summary: Michael, Robert, and Stephen survive college. Nobody survives Victoria Ramirez.
Notes: Sorry that this wound up becoming almost twelve thousand words of relationship drama and aspec nonsense. This is Sculpture with respect to this, which comes basically immediately after the end of this piece, and this, which happens at some point between Michael meeting Victoria and Michael and Robert getting together.

Another Kind of Love )

Gesso Notes (363 words) )

Sim Pictures and Notes (1275 words) )
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Buffy: Those are pretty flowers.
Debbie: Thanks. Pete brought them for me.
Pete: Yeah. Well, I-I'm sure Scott does that kind of stuff for you, too, Buffy.
Scott: Oh, well, we're not up to flowers. (to Buffy) Are we? Up to flowers? Did I miss flowers?
Buffy: (reassuringly) No. We're pre-posy. Definitely.

~~Beauty and the Beasts~~


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GILES: I never wanted you to see that side of me.
BUFFY: I'm not gonna lie to you. It was scary. I'm so used to you being a grownup, and... then I find out that you're a person.
GILES: Most grownups are.
BUFFY: Who would've thought?
GILES: Some are even, uh... shortsighted, foolish people.

~~BtVS 2x08 “The Dark Age”~~



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Name: Dazzled
Story: Starfall
Colors: Azul #23 (Let your actions speak); Warm Heart #5 (Need); Vert #20 (Reunion)
Supplies and Styles: Portrait + Thread + Silhouette + Pastels (also for [community profile] allbingo Colour fest square "Red Flag").
Word Count: 5364
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Calla Island. Viyony Eseray, Eollan Barra, Tess Hyan, Velin Ienkallis, Leion Valerno. Continues directly from Calla Island.
Summary: Viyony explores a sacred cave and gets considerably more than she bargained for.

Dazzled )

Challenge #1060: distract

Sep. 27th, 2025 11:29 am
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Welcome to [community profile] dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge 1060 is distract.

The rules:
  • All stories must be 100 words long
  • Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season
  • You don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration
  • Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post
  • Please use the challenge tag 1060: distract on any story posted to this challenge
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TARA: Good god, that's a lot of shake. (Dawn nods) I mean, I know, part of our... big... movie and milkshake fun day, but... good god, that's a lot of shake.
DAWN: (laughs) Helps to wash down the Raisinettes.
TARA: Promise me that you will eat something green tonight. Leafy green, not... gummi green.

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Book review: Road to Ruin

Sep. 26th, 2025 09:06 am
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I have a job again! \^o^/ This means I am back on the audiobook train and today I wrapped up Road to Ruin by Hana Lee, book 1 of the Magebike Courier duology. This is a low fantasy dystopian novel located in a place called the Mana Wastes, where protagonist Jin works as a courier transporting goods between protected cities. Jin runs a lot of odd jobs for various clients, but her most lucrative by far are Prince Kadrin and Princess Yi-Nereen. Jin has been ferrying love letters between them for three years--while hiding the fact that she's fallen in love with both of them. But everything changes when Yi-Nereen decides to run away and asks Jin to help her.

First, don't let the hokey title put you off. I started this one a bit warily, but it turned out to be quite a lot of fun! The worldbuilding is pretty light, but the novel seems aware of that and doesn't overpromise on that front. What is there serves its purpose well. It's not anything particularly novel, but not every book needs to be.

Jin, Yi-Nereen, and Kadrin are all wonderful protagonists; each of them has a distinct personality, perspective, and motivations, and I really enjoyed all of them. I was rooting for them the whole book and it was great to watch their various interpersonal dynamics unfold. If you're a fan of stories about mutual pining, this one is definitely worth checking out. However, if that's not really your speed, I didn't feel like the book spent too much time harping on about feelings we all suspect or know are requited. The romance element is definitely there, and it's a significant motivator for all three of them, but there's plenty else going on in the book too. 

The book avoids falling prey either to the Charybdis of black-and-white morality where everyone who stands in the way of the protagonists is evil, or to the Scylla of "everyone is friends if we just talk things out," which is a relief after some recent reads. There's definitely a sliding scale of antagonism here, with some characters who are obstacles but not necessarily bad people, and others who run much darker. 

I also enjoyed the presence of the "Road Builders." Jin and her peers inhabit the Mana Wastes, a treacherous desert wasteland where little survives and almost none of it without human intervention. They sustain themselves with "talent"--magical abilities common among humans, but becoming less common by the day--and travel along ravaged roads built by some culture who came before, about which Jin and her peers know very little. These are the "Road Builders" and are, I believe, strongly hinted at to be us. Lee keeps them a pleasant mystery humming in the background of everything else going on.

There were a couple contrivances near the end to aid a dramatic conclusion, but nothing so egregious I wasn't willing to continue to play ball with the book. Similarly, I'm on the fence about where this book leaves the relationship between the main trio, because it feels a little too much like Lee felt it was a necessary hook into book 2, but I'll reserve judgement until I've actually read book 2. And perhaps it's better that everything doesn't wrap up too neatly here. 

On the whole, I had a lot of fun with this book and I will definitely read the next one. 
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DAWN: Candles?! We can't have candles?
BUFFY: Dawn, it's magic clearance. Everything must go.
Buffy looks over at Willow, who is sitting cross-legged on the bed. Willow nods.
DAWN: B-but they're just candles!
BUFFY: (sighs, stands up) Well, yeah, you know, to you and me they're just candles, but to ... witches they're ... like bongs.

~~Gone~~


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Oz: It was intense.
Xander: Yeah, for a minute there I thought you were gonna make an expression.
Oz: Well, I felt one coming on, I won't lie.

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Light Black #27 [The Fulcrum]

Sep. 24th, 2025 04:09 pm
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Name: Dreamstuff
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #27: Break
Styles and Supplies: None
Word Count: 1289
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Peatäro
Summary: Qhoroali experiments with the "dreamstuff" compound.

Dreamstuff )
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Xander: Who sponsored career day today? The British Soccer Fan Association? Giles: We had a, a rather violent visit from the Order of Taraka. Xander: You wanna talk Order of Taraka? We just met the king *freak* of the... (sees Kendra) Hello. Giles: Oh, forgive me. Uh, Xander, Cordelia, this is Kendra. Uh, i-it's rather complicated, but she's also a Slayer. Cordelia: Hi. Nice to meet you. Xander: A Slayer, huh? I knew this 'I'm the only one, I'm the only one' thing was just an attention-getter.

~~Buffy Episode #22: "What's My Line, Pt II"~~



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Fic: 299 (1/1, all ages)

Sep. 23rd, 2025 12:11 pm
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Title: 299
Fandom: Doctor Who
Characters/Pairing(s): Donna Noble
Rating: All ages
Word count: 1,408
Spoilers: None
Summary: The intersection of coding and design satisfied Donna's restless brain in ways it hadn’t been satisfied since before ... well, before whatever she’d lost had left her adrift again and her mother and Gramps tight-lipped but supportive.

follow the fake cut to the fic
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SPIKE: Come up against this Slayer yet?
ANGEL: She's cute. Not too bright, though. Gave the puppy dog 'I'm all tortured' act. Keeps her off my back when I feed! (laughs)
SPIKE: (laughing) People still fall for that Anne Rice routine. What a world!

~~School Hard~~



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Vert #4; Warm Heart #3 [Starfall]

Sep. 22nd, 2025 08:14 pm
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Name: Calla Island
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #4 (Waypower); Warm Heart #3 (Jealousy)
Supplies and Styles: Portrait
Word Count: 5053
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Notes: 1313, Calla Island; Viyony Eseray, Vollo Hyan, Lynah Allin, Eollan Barra, Tess Hyan. The first part of a continuous sequence. (It's divided into 5 sections at the moment, but it might wind up at 6).
Summary: Viyony visits Calla Island, the ancestral seat of the Allin family.

Calla Island )
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ANGEL: You're not afraid of me, Lilah. You're afraid of what's coming. Maybe we can help each other, huh. The enemy of my enemy—
LILAH: Can kiss my ass too. You wanna play hero? Go find another sandbox.

~~Apocalypse Nowish~~




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Challenge #1059: asylum

Sep. 21st, 2025 09:43 pm
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Welcome to [community profile] dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge #1059 is asylum.

The rules:
  • All stories must be 100 words long
  • Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season
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SPIKE: You lookin' for me?
BUFFY: Really not.
SPIKE: Oh. Right then. Off you go. Did you cry?
BUFFY: What?
SPIKE: The wedding. Two hearts joined for eternity, great pelting showers of rice and so forth.
BUFFY: You didn't hear.
SPIKE: What? Families get out of hand? Tear the place apart?
BUFFY: No. Well, yes, absolutely. But... Xander left. The wedding didn't happen.
SPIKE: Well. Gotta say... I didn't see that coming. (sits on a bench)
BUFFY: It was awful. (sits nearby) Anya was devastated.
SPIKE: Is that right.
BUFFY: And, Xander... thinks maybe they can still get back together, but... he hurt her a lot.
SPIKE: Yeah, well... some people can't see a good thing when they've got it.

~~BtVS 6x17 “Normal Again”~~



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Last night I finished Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a sci-fi book about a motley crew of spacefarers who "drill" wormholes to enable rapid travel across space for the diverse galactic alliance known as the GC. At the start of the book, they are offered a bid on a particularly difficult, lucrative job, and can't resist taking the bait.

This should be (another) lesson to me in not going all-in on a creator because I've enjoyed one of their works. I loved Chambers' To Be Taught, if Fortunate, and I've heard plenty of internet praise for The Long Way, so when I saw it at the bookstore recently, I dropped $20 on it readily. If I hadn't, I probably wouldn't have bothered finishing it.

First - if you picked up this book looking for the femslash, it's barely there, and it's a lot more friends-with-benefits than romance. The other two romances in the book get a lot more attention. If what you really want is F/F romance, it's not really here.

This is a character-driven book with barely a plot, which wouldn't be a problem if the characters were interesting. As it is, they are functionally interchangeable: a crew of people who are all optimistic, friendly, emotionally open, painstakingly polite, and obsessively well-intentioned (except for the one guy who's a Jerk, who exists to be a jerk whenever the scene calls for someone who needs to be less-than-fanatically-polite or there's a chance for Chambers to squeeze in another instance of his being a jerk, even when he's technically right). There is no character growth to speak of; none of these characters changes at all between the start of the book and the end. There's no complexity to anyone.

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Light Black #24 [The Fulcrum]

Sep. 19th, 2025 07:08 pm
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Name: Nyufeisyälye Ciria
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #24: Steal
Styles and Supplies: Gift Wrap, Panorama, Pastels (September 19: Scavenge, from this list), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 3200
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mention of child murder
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
Summary: The double full moon arrives.

Nyufeisyalye Ciria )
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Giles: I cannot believe that you are fool enough to do something like this!
Xander: Oh, no, I'm twice the fool it takes to do something like this.

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