Summary-to-date of the GenderFunk Giraffe Sale

FIRST: Go check out ellenmillion's free abstracts day!

SECOND: Go check out all the awesome (and on LJ) I linked yesterday. (I won't take it amiss if you save me a buck or two ;-)

THIRD: This is a summary of all the microfic & drabbles I've written so far (Still have several prompts to go!) for my recent call for prompts on Gender-funk:
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As always, you can request a continuation/longer story for any prompt, at the going rate of 80 words/$1. I'm still working on prompts, probably through the end of tomorrow, looking at my list.

Let me tell you a bit about this giraffe. See, we're in the final stages of buying a house, a real fixer-upper, our first home. The bedroom is the only room we plan to carpet long-term, and I fell in LOVE with this giraffe-print carpet. Lush, beautiful carpet, for a teeny, tiny bedroom. A luxury, yes. But a small one, in a house we will spend the next decade working on.

Incentive goals: for every $50 from $75 ($125, $175, $225, etc) reached, I will write and post publicly another short story as an expansion of one of these drabbles.

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Free Icon Day, Again, and Free Pretty Little Abstracts

FIRST: Go check out ellenmillion's free abstracts day! Really


NEXT: If you haven't gotten enough of the free icons (check out all the awesome (and on LJ) I linked yesterday)...

fossilizedtoons is having a free icon day! Tips are welcome but not required.

Sniffing it Out

This is for lilfluff's commissioned prompt in my call for prompts which, loosely, was for more Cali Catpeople/Bay-the-catgirl.

This also includes the "vibrassa" story-bit, and the character from the story to clare_dragonfly's prompt on a Cali slavegirl who wants to be a slaveboy.

Tír na Cali has a Landing page (and on LJ)

Bay was discovering the advantages to her new form, as well as the strange disadvantages. Shoes no longer fit comfortably, but her walking was getting smoother and easier. She liked the claws; always a small woman, she had learned early to fight dirty, and liked the added advantage of a hidden weapon. She liked the teeth, too, although they took some getting used to, to talk around, to eat with. But the vibrissae, as their handlers insisted on calling them... those took more than a little adjustment. They felt as if the whole world was pulling on her face with every move. And, while they gave her a sense of body space that was new, and windflow, she wasn’t sure they were worth the drawbacks.
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Vocabulary! New word of the Day - Uxoricide

I took this vocabulary test, and was, being me, a bit miffed at the words I didn't know. But I wrote them down, so I have a new word-a-day for the next month!

Today's word is Uxoricide:

1: [Medieval Latin uxoricidium, from Latin uxor wife + -i- + -cidium -cide] : murder of a wife by her husband
2: [Latin uxor + English -i- + -cide] : a man who murders his wife

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/uxoricide

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I asked myself, "in which setting would a character kill his wife? Tir Na Cali!

"What got you here?" Only two types of slaves ended up working for the Agency: really exceptional ones, and convicts deemed not yet releasable into the general public. Camden was betting the new guy was the latter. Something in his grey eyes shouted trouble.

"Uxoricide," he answered, in a voice as dead as his eyes... and no wonder.

"Ux... fuck, man." Camden took a step back, in case crazy was catching. "You're lucky you're still alive." Grey eyes like that, no way his wife had been anything but a royal.

Variations on a Theme - Genderfunky Giraffes of Two Varieties

This is for twisted_times's prompt in my call for prompts (posted here:
Most media depictions of bisexuals are that they are:

1. always promiscuous
2. sexually greedy
2a. necessarily dating persons of both genders simultaneously
3. just going "through a phase"
4. actually going to end up reverting to just being gay/straight (delete as applicable) by the end of the story.

I'd like to see writing that deals with bisexuality without managing to make use any of the above incorrect tropes.

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