Free Sketch Day! Free Icon Day!

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Just visit this journal and sign up. As always, a tip is a nice thing to do.

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catfaice is doing an Icon Day! Go check it out and leave a tip! :D http://catfaice.livejournal.com/332781.html

30 Days Second Semester: 8, Going In, Misc Apoc

For the 30 Days Meme Second Semester, for the prompt "8) write a scene in the middle of a novel called 'The Long, Dirty Afterwards.'"

Actually random apoc. In re. wordcount, the actual "excerpt" is 250 words. ;-)
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They had defeated the alien invasion and won back their planet.

…Now all they had to do is clean up the mess.

The All-Counter* read clean on all immediate threats to life and mostly clean on the long-term threats. Becker’s ears and nose told him the ship was most likely empty of slightly-less immediate threats as well, but he still moved in like clearing a building, shooter at the ready and taking one room at a time, his team behind him guarding his flank.
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Fishbowl Open!

ysabetwordsmith (ysabetwordsmith is having her monthly Poetry Fishbowl!

The theme this month is "Corruption and Redemption;"

Some of my prompts were:

"Corruption and redemption;" the first thing that comes to mind is the Prophecy movies, Gabriel fighting God for the salvation of mankind. So. Redemption through corruption; the grey, the place where something looks evil, becomes an enemy to remain a friend, falls to succeed.

The English Language has been called "as pure as a cribhouse whore," but there's a melody and a music and a rebirth to its corruption, isn't there? (rhyming couplets, or sonnets, in honour of Chaucer and Shakespeare, who corrupted and shaped the language, maybe?)

I've been watching a lot of Criminal Minds lately: the virgin/whore complex. Does it have a male counterpart?

A rite meant to corrupt that instead purifies. Or vice versa.

What happens when the witch hunters visit Monster House? We haven't seen them in a while.

Poll Poll Poll (not mine, for once)

meeks has put up a poll to pick which sketch for her to clean up, as an incentive for her five new sketches in her call for prompts.

She has illustrated three scenes for me, which I would love to see worked on; they are visible here.

I love them all but, if you couldn't tell, am feeling a particular love for the Rin sketch this week.

Vote!!

Prevention v Cure, Year 9 Penstemon

This is a short story in response to rix_scadeau's commission: Penstemon giving birth, after this story(LJ) and this one (LJ Link)

Penstemon is Rix's character; for more on her read her fanfic adventures, starting here.

Icon by djinni on Rix's request, duplicated here for LJ users (sooo many less icon slots than DW...



Luke hated having pregnant students in his class.

He hated having girls in his class – he wasn’t his son, to collect the young woman warriors – but there was nothing to be done for it and, besides, some of the young amazons were far stronger than their male counterparts.
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Want to commission your own story? Read how here!

Winter: The Way Things Flow (FULLY Sponsored)

Last week, I opened up this story for sponsorship.

rix_scadeau has sponsored part of the story (Approximately 46%), and so I will post the sponsored part here.

Yes, even though that ends in the middle of a sentence.

The remaining story can be sponsored for $5.45 until Saturday, at which point it rises to normal price. :-)

There were times when Winter thought his mother had chosen to have him first, to be there for the girls when their father was gone.

It wasn’t a possibility he ever talked about; Mom, who would know, he’d never ask. Other people would either think he was crazy for at least three facets of that thought, and the ones who wouldn’t, well, were either just as close to the situation as he was, or would have reactions to it he wouldn’t find comfortable.
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