Wordcount Update, Two weeks

Week before Last:
Rin/Girey - Goal-1000, actual - 1359
Addergoole Bonus - Goal - 750, actual - 0
Calinovel - Goal-1000, actual -1002
Addergoole main - goal-750, actual -1051.5
Blog non-Giraffe goal-600, actual-400
Giraffe - goal - 4700, actual-6435
Short for submission - goal, actual-0
Total goal - 9600, actual - 10247.5

Last week:
Rin/Girey - Goal-700, actual - 340
Addergoole Bonus - Goal - 500, actual - 0
Calinovel - Goal-800, actual -691
Addergoole main - goal-750, actual -584
Blog non-Giraffe goal-0, actual-269
Giraffe - goal - 6250, actual-8732
Short for submission - goal 600, actual-803
Total goal - 9600, actual - 10247.5
Total goal - 9600, actual - 11419

Submissions 2012 goal 2, actual 2

Teasers for the Friendly Neighborhood Anonymous Prompt/Donor

So Anonymous knows I'm working on their commissions from the December call. ;-)


Porter stared at the strange girl who had so tidily taken control of their lives – Arundel’s more than his, certainly, but still. Then it hit him. “Right. Come on, Arun.” He dropped to his knees and got a shoulder under his friend’s arm. “Stand up, that’s it.”

“Ow,” Arundel complained weakly.

“Yeah, I know. Those look like they’re gonna hurt worse than a tail and my ears did. But you gotta stand up.”

“Stand up,” Sylvia echoed, and with a muffled whimper, Arundel made it to his feet. “That’s better.” She slid herself under his other arm.

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Flying, Arundel was learning, was hard work, and exhausting. Even though Mr. Hawk told him that it wasn't all in the muscles - "If you were doing this all with physical strength, you'd never get off the ground. Your flight is as much a part of your magic as, well, whatever you innate power is going to be," - there was certainly a lot of something going on with his body, moving these new, strange, massive wings, keeping himself going.

And, of course, there was the falling. He wasn't, he discovered, frightened of falling, but it hurt, and he liked to avoid the pain...

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pretty icons... Someone tell me not to make the February Giraffe Call theme "wine and roses" or some such drivel.

Scrounging for History, a story of Fae Apoc for the Giraffe Call (@Inventrix)

For The inventrix's prompt

Fae Apoc has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ

"I don't know what we're looking for," Amalie complained, as they made their way over the rocky terrain. They'd left the wagons, with the rest of the company, on the last smooth place they'd found, the old road still standing, the encroached trees making it a deep, dark tunnel.

"Same thing as always," Dor answered, as he always did. "Food. Livestock someone let wander. Plants we can eat. A lot of this area was settled and then abandoned, when the bandits moved in. Come on, Ama, you know this."

"But why is it always us?"
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Next is: Digging through History (LJ)

Scrounging for History, a story of Fae Apoc for the Giraffe Call (@Inventrix)

For The inventrix‘s prompt

Fae Apoc has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ

“I don’t know what we’re looking for,” Amalie complained, as they made their way over the rocky terrain. They’d left the wagons, with the rest of the company, on the last smooth place they’d found, the old road still standing, the encroached trees making it a deep, dark tunnel.

“Same thing as always,” Dor answered, as he always did. “Food. Livestock someone let wander. Plants we can eat. A lot of this area was settled and then abandoned, when the bandits moved in. Come on, Ama, you know this.”

“But why is it always us?”

“Okay,” Karida inserted tiredly, “that’s just a stupid question. Amalie, if you can’t come up with a new song, work on the tune to this one. It’s gone flat.” Turned to look at her cousins, she missed seeing the low outcropping until her shins barked against it. “Blasted returned gods!” She kicked the rock again angrily, then looked at it. Not rock, but a wall. “Like Dor was saying, settlements, see? Here’s a foundation.”

“That doens’t look like anything I’ve seen before.” Dor crouched down next to her feet, studying the remnant of a wall, tracing the lines with his fingers. “Is there anyone else around, Ama?”

With a swallowed grumble, their youngest cousin whispered the Working that would tell her if they were being observed. “Far away,” she answered after a moment. “Over that way,” she gestured out in front of them. “Ten, fifteen minutes’ walking, maybe longer. They’re faint. Maybe three of them, maybe five.”

“Should be safe.” He traced the wall while Karida walked along it, seeking a corner. She could hear him, as she found a stairway, murmuring “Idu eperu… hunh. This is some sort of formed rock, like the roads.”

Turning the corner brought Karida around the tall stand of trees that had grown up inside the foundation. She caught her breath, looking at the crumbled buildings, the trees and vines taking over, and, in the distance, the monoliths still standing. “It’s a lot more than that,” she murmured. “We’re going to need the whole company for this one.”

Next is: Digging through History (LJ)

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Mirrored from Alder's Grove Fiction.

Family Legacy, a story of #Addergoole for the Giraffe Call (@Cluudle)

For cluudle's prompt

Addergoole has a landing page here and on LJ

This story requires, I think, some background to really understand.

Her father was scolding Falk again.

Regine could hear every word through the library wall. If she moved to the other side of the library, she wouldn't have to hear them anymore, and would be able to focus on her studies. She was fascinated with this book, with the whole series of them her father had found and brought for her and Falk, one at a time, plying them with scholarly works the way some girls' parents brought them toys or clothing.
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Parting Advice, and Mother Bears, a story of Boom!Post-Apoc for @Inventrix

After Separation Anxiety (LJ), in the Boom! roleplay timeline.

They'd managed benign small talk while they packed, and while they drove, Viddie and Ankara pestering each other in the back seat while Cya and Yoshi tried to pretend there was nothing to be uncomfortable about. They were nearly at the school's wards when she managed to say anything at all.

"There's things..."

"I know, Mom. Every adult in the ranch and half of your Kept over the last decade have tried to tell me. Including the rabbit." He sighed impatiently. "It's not like I'm going in blind and without back up. I'm practically the last of the Brood to go."

"Hardly," Viddie complained from the back seat. "There's me, and Ruki, and Kitten, and..."
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