I'm doing another Bingo, perhaps

Patterns From the Family Library	Frankencritters Jason's Roses	Alternative Professions Cousin Artemisia	Hero Rosaria, Cady, Lily	Relative values: Families Aud and Zizny Back Fence
A Murder to Solve	Early Morning Summer Solstice	Everything Changes	Enemies Regine & Cya	Jealousy
A Battle / Fight / Confrontation	Teenagers Beryl and Chalcedony.	Wild Card Wild Card	Tragedy Deborah's backstory	Sensory Deprivation
Close Crop/Zoom	Wabi / Sabi	It will be a Terrible Scandal Grannies/Aunt misdeeds	Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics Genique	Electromagnetic Waves
Virginity / Sexual Inexperience	All the Dead Characters are Living Together	Alpha / Beta / Omega	Mutation / Transformation Unicorn/Factory	Outsider POV

This is ladiesbingo, which means each prompt should involve the relationship between women.

Now taking prompts! I'll mark the squares above as they are prompted, and your prompt has a better chance of being written if it is in line with previous prompts (so I can make a bingo, you see).

Any setting of mine and any fandom I can write comfortably is up for grabs. Not sure about the fandom? Feel free to ask!

Edited to add: The prompt explanation post

Flying by the seat of his pants...

okay, so I have listened to too much Hamilton over the last few months, and I woke up with this line in my head:

I’m a girl in a world in which
My only job is to marry rich
My father has no sons so I’m the one
Who has to social climb for one
—Satisfied (http://genius.com/7912429)

Historically, this is untrue, but it got me thinking, what about a situation where it was?

And, uh, being me, slavery ended up involved. (Have I ever told you about like the first time I can remember slavery being involved in a fictional world of mine?)

“Take the knee,” she urged.

In another world, in another place, she might have said Join the priesthood and be my confessor, and then we can be together. He may have given her the same face as he did in this one: dubious skepticism.
“Marry me,” he countered. “Be my bride, and we’ll change the world together.”
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A Worldbuilding Digression: Limiting your Scope

After a brief conversation with Rion the other day, I thought I'd talk about limiting scale.

The thing about worldbuilding in a fantasy or sci-fi world is that your space if effectively limitless. On a fantasy world, you might only have one planet, but you also have the possibility of other planes (or underground worlds, or sky-worlds, and so on).

Sometimes, that's a bit much, and you want to keep your characters in one place and/or just focus on a small area of world-building.
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Edally Academy Chapter 45A: On Foot Or Over Goat-Back

They were really doing it.  They were carrying everything they had found, and they were taking it to an adult.  Enrie swallowed around a lump in her throat.

"There are so many ways that this could go wrong," she whispered.  They'd picked the route to the House Monitor's office least likely to p

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http://www.edallyacademy.com/2016/10/05/chapter-45a-on-foot-or-over-goat-back/

Ladies' Bingo: Tragedy - Aunt Pearl

Written for my ladiesbingo card riffing off of The Strength. See also Deborah's Tag..

Short Summary: Aunts in the Family hold the magic, channel it, and generally direct the family - although the older women (grannies and mothers) often hold as much secular power, if not more. Aunts are childless, unmarried...

...except sometimes, it seems, when they're not.

Pearl was worried. She was more than worried, she was terrified. More than just terrified, she was living in fear of her grannies and sisters, a fear that no normal woman would have grounds to understand, much less feel.

She'd kept it a secret as long as she could, and that had been months longer than she'd thought she'd be able to. She'd used every charm she thought safe and some she wasn't sure about; she'd used every deceit and a few fashion tricks from her friends not in the family. Those friends knew - and if the grannies found out that, Pearl was doubly and triply doomed. She'd gone out of the family for help.
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