Today's prompt list is: Halloween Orange

Theme: Music 1. It's just 'til my evil plan comes into flower. 2. I'm all alone, and I think someone left me. 3. Nothing in my pocket but a hand and a prayer. 4. Blood burns like fire, and it always burns through. 5. An island's not a prison -- that's what men make bridges for. 6. By the time you see the patterns, it's a hundred times too late. 7. In mercy's shadow, nothing grows. 8. Our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost, but we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost 9. When there's no redemption to be found, there are still a few who'll hold their ground. 10. You can't unmake your own mistakes. 11. The past is a road where the bus doesn't run, and there's no station called "Yesterday." 12. Some little things get broken, and a little means a lot. 13. Guard your eggshell heart, for the moon tells lies. 14. Do you follow it because it's true, or just because you must? 15. A moment and my simple, careless plans were all unmade. 16. There’s no way to run or hide when the thing you fear’s inside. 17. I think you'll find the line is fine between the saint and sinner. 18. All I long for is to roam -- must this be my only home? 19. I am nothing you should trust. 20. Don't think I've ever been betrayed, for that was never true. 21. While he just might tell you stories, he won't ever tell you lies. 22. Don't be chosen; make the choice to choose. 23. There are laws we must obey, certain ways this story goes. 24. I can’t promise to obey you, I can’t swear I won’t betray you. 25. No one gets to tell me if I've lost or if I've won. 26. Though I’m somewhere off the beaten track, that’s no guarantee that I won’t come back. 27. I was a little more than they expected. 28. It’s a shot of ‘dumb idea’ with a ‘bad plan’ chaser. 29. I find relationships so often are an awful bore. 30. Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear.

from the songs of Seanan McGuire

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@julybreakbingo - attempting to get a few fills in before the end of the month.

Fill 1: Postage Stamp N1, N2, G1, G2

"Why don't you stay?"

"You should've said that."

Sex while high/intoxicated

Zombies or Came Back Wrong

Title: Stifled Word Count: 1800 Rating: NSFW. Warnings: Mentioned drug use, luxury, implied sex, medical procedure mentions, discussion of being kept in a location against one's will. Second-Person POV. Summary: You begin to learn a bit more about why you're here, and how it differs from what you've been told. Continuation of this: https://rainbowfic.dreamwidth.org/1392750.html Link to fill: https://rainbowfic.dreamwidth.org/1586984.html

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Link to some (sff) origfic I've been writing for a Dreamwidth challenge comm lately, should anyone be interested. <3

Title: Lost Content Type: Original Writing Creator: wallwalker Characters/Relationship: Original characters (M/M/F/F) Rating: T Word Count: 1128 Content notes: None. Creator notes: Crossposted to rainbowfic, link here. Summary: A trip through a long, apparently featureless grassland was causing one of the squad's members to worry.

Coming Attractions!

Short one again, and technically a day late, ah well.

As always, feel free to check out my writing discord; and I’ll hang out for an Open Question Night if y’all are interested!

I also have a couple of meme/question lists open (one; two; three; four; five); feel free to send me some of those (please specify which list)!

Star Wars Projects:

Precipice!verse: Still not officially on hiatus because I am Determined not to let that happen, lol. I am...admittedly not sure when the next chapter/next Preludes story will come out, but.

SWBB: I am starting to toy with stuff for next year, but I don’t have a concrete idea yet...still leaning towards a BSG crossover because there’s a lot of Interesting Stuff I could do there (especially in PT/TCW era, which has always been my SW home, so to speak).

AtLA Projects:

On hold for the moment...I couldn’t sustain the momentum, alas. But I’m sure sooner or later (probably sooner) something will pop up that will get me to start Actively Working on at least the Avatar Zuko story, and maybe one of the others.

Castlevania Projects:

I swear I really am working on Incinctus XD It’s just this next chapter is being a pain in the ass; I’ve got the like...two or three after it essentially ready but This One.

BSG Projects:

The Other Battlestar is actually coming along! I’m probably just going to go in chronological order, which does mean spending a solid chunk at the beginning introducing four (or possibly five) OCs who are central to the plot (Pegasus SMO Daphne [Last Name Still Needed]; the marine officer formerly known as Rex who needs renamed [as I complained about the other day lol]; Replacement VP [who...also needs a name, lol...]; and then Atia [who does all the Science Stuff]; I am also putting a Four in play because I can, but he might not get introduced until Pegasus happens to that civilian fleet.)

...yeah, there are still some missing names here XD I’m also still not super happy with the title, but I have yet to come up with a better one...and toying with the idea of doing one POV per chapter and having the POV character as the chapter title (like I did with Take a Bond of Fate; or some other internal structure, but that can be settled once I have more text.

But I did have fun earlier today poking at Fleet!Cavil and how some of his gambits are altered. Little taste (rough/unedited/draft-y; not sure I like some of the wording I’m using here, but still):

He could, technically, refer to them as Shelly and Vera, but it felt so...undignified, to think of them as anything other than what they were. They were Cylons, not humans. The names were a convenient fiction while they were completing the genocide.

And now, he supposed, the mop-up after.

Still, a way to distinguish them would be useful, especially since they had gone to such lengths to distinguish themselves. Fine. Six-A would be the buttoned-up librarian, and Six-B would be the clever prostitute.

Anyway, I’m going to keep pushing at this; goal is to work on it a little bit each day and hopefully these holes will fill in as I go. I’m also thinking ahead to NaNo, and how I want to split my time there...but hopefully I’ll have started posting this before we get there, lol.

(As for other BSG projects--various random prompts that have flitted around my brain; Serenissima; pondering a For Sorrow Sung rewrite--those are not a Focus at the moment but are definitely hanging around and might see some movement as well. I also need to get back to my rewatch...)

Other Fanfic Projects:

My PodTogether project went live! It is a Leverage/Nikita crossover, and I had a great time putting it together and working with farkenshnoffingottom (who was my podficcer).

Original Fic:

I do love the summer challenges on Rainbowfic because I always get stuff done there, lol. I think I did some really nice things this time around.

I am vaguely poking at some of the other/more long-term projects (Lady Mordred; one or two alternate history things; that first contact novel I was working on for NaNo one year...) but no actual text has made it down lately. I should get back into those...

...I think that pretty much sums it up!

I wrote a thing: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50215657

It's a victory. It's a victory. It is. The gates of fallen midnight are broken open. All that beautiful craftsmanship, carved oak and grey hornbeam bound in forged steel and crowned in bright gold, as rent and shattered as their maker's mutilated corpse, rotting over the arch. There's a voice in the back of Hanno's mind muttering that the first lord of midnight would have been more offended by the damage to his gates than by the desecration of his own body. It sounds a little like Guae, who, after all, would know. (It isn't.)

This is what happens when the question 'is the fix-it an inherently fannish genre, requiring a canon to be in dialogue with, or could one write an original fix-it?' collides with me mainlining Silmarillion fic for, uh, reasons. (The reasons are long but mostly boil down to LRP emotions and the fact that the red reality was first-age levels of fucked up.)

Because it's me, this somehow didn't manifest as LRP-fic or Silm-fic but a secret third thing which also acquired complicated diasporic language feelings (on purpose), vaguely heretical catholic vibes (probably inevitable), and gen-x nuclear winter anxiety (entirely unexpected).

So we have Waking the Dawn, a time-travel/time-loop fix-it which I feel gives me license to throw chronological order out of the window, in which Hannothferan, hope-named first scion of dawn, watched from the timelessness of death as his beloved absolutely lost his shit in grief and eventually died, and went 'fuck this noise, I'm going back to change things' and yelled at the powers-that-be until any will to stop him they might have had gave out. (It's probable they didn't even want to stop him anyway. He didn't actually stop to check.)

That was loop 1, and it went badly enough that he had to come back and admit to Guaeth that he couldn't fix it on his own. And this piece specifically (written to the RainbowFic prompt: Chrome 01: "When will the banners and the victory parades celebrate the day a better world was won?") belongs to loop 3, which is Hanno's 4th time around; Guaeth, Veron and Anaie's 3rd, and I think Laina's second, not that Veron, Anaie or Laina are in this piece.)

Today's prompt list is: Blush

Theme: Romance 1. soft kisses 2. first date 3. proposal 4. a dozen roses 5. hand in hand 6. dinner and a movie 7. sweet nothings 8. you and I 9. hearing your heartbeat 10. side by side 11. sleeping together 12. walking in step 13. on your arm 14. flowers and chocolates 15. put your arms around me

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You can:

use either or both prompts as given

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complete as many or few days as you want

write, draw, craft, or anything else!

There's no deadline and this is just for fun. I'll reblog this with links to the lists if you want to explore.

What's RainbowFic? We're a community of original fic writers on Dreamwidth using prompt lists named after colors (for a very VERY loose definition of color). Our lists range include song lyrics, quotes from books and tv, themed words, contrasts, and a whole lot more (we have over 400!)

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Day 1: Royal Purple #11 Further beyond / Iceberg #12 Snowman

Day 2: Lilac #25 Freesia / Opera Mauve #20 Curtain call

Day 3: Lavender's Blue #2 Mermaid / Periwinkle #14 Enamel heart pendant from a garage sale

Day 4: Caramel #8 Gummies / Vert #16 As the lord/lady asks

Day 5: Midnight #6 Furtive / Psychedelic Purple #15 I know I'll never be the same

Day 6: Lotus #19 Truthfulness / Ignition Yellow #10 There are some nights I wait for someone to save us

Day 7: Green Go #21 Rideshare / Gold #12 The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it

Day 8: City Street #4 Highway / Greenstick Fracture #9 I got the velocity and now all I need is the mass

Day 9: Paprika #8 We've got something kinda funny going on / Harvard Crimson #14 Library

Day 10: Danish Red #2 The Snow Queen / Amaranth #5 Stars

Day 11: Pull Me Over Red #1 Parking ticket / Daffodil #5 Flowers

Day 12: Fluorescent Pink #19 It doesn't matter who they are, I won't forgive anyone who tries to stand out more than me / Parrot Green #13 Call

Day 13: Crane White #18 Tell your daughters do not walk the streets alone tonight / Spirits of Saturn #15 Overgrowth

Day 14: Cherry #12 Grapes / Skylight #4 Smoking on the fire escape

Day 15: Calcite #4 Soft/Hard / Burgundy #2 Varietal

Day 16: Yellow Submarine #17 The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear / White Opal #2 Dream

Day 17: Tigers Eye #8 Eerie empty spaces / Moonlight #1 Liminal

Day 18: Baby Blue #4 Sling / Red Dress #5 You need to find a new solution, adaptation or retribution

Day 19: Gunmetal #14 Crossbow / English Violet #3 Since I cannot prove a lover, to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain

Day 20: Heirloom Silver #2 Heirloom / Brown #5 Brown bagging

Day 21: Coomassie Blue #1 Repressor / Folly #14 Relax, I saw it on TV

Day 22: Fuzzy Wuzzy #3 Hugs /Alien Green #6 This is where you pucker up and kiss my ass

Day 23: Fawn #4 Cat / Grand Ink #20 With a mug of hot tea and some Vicodin in my bloodstream, I look up from my book to watch the bugs outside the windows

Day 24: Royal Blue #2 Queen / Spirit Purple #19 Screw the binary gender system

Today's prompt list is: Honey

Theme: Romantic pet names (compiled from multiple languages)

treasure

beloved

lovebug

honey

darling

my soul

little strawberry

teddy bear

sweetie

baby

kitten

dear

star

pearl

my life

mon saucisson (french, my little sausage)

my heart

cuddle bear

babe

media naranja (spanish, orange half, that is, my other half)

pumpkin

sweetheart

beau

love

chouchou (french, cabbage)

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Today's prompt list is: Under-the-Bed Black

Theme: Spooky 1. Ghost 2. Creak 3. Night terror 4. Dark corner 5. Under the bed 6. Staring at the wall 7. Creeping shadows 8. Monster 9. Worry 10. Leaky faucet 11. Nightmare 12. Nyctophobia 13. Snatched 14. Robber 15. Rattle 16. Incubus/Succubus 17. Ward 18. Insomnia 19. Hiding under the covers 20. Nightlight

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Today's prompt list is: Tiger's Eye

Theme: Seasonal

Colorful leaves

A long cold sunset

Brisk night wind

Apple, pumpkin, cinnamon, yams

First frost

Chills down your spine

A light jacket

Eerie empty spaces

Shadows on the wall

Orange and black

Red and yellow

Turn the heat up

School bells and shouting children

Colorful scarves

Time to go home

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Today's prompt list is: Sapphire

Theme: Materials 1. sapphire 2. emerald 3. ruby 4. diamond 5. pearl 6. amethyst 7. opal 8. crystal 9. turquoise 10. beryl 11. lapis lazuli 12. topaz 13. sunstone 14. moonstone 15. onyx 16. quartz 17. garnet 18. peridot 19. jasper 20. pyrite

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Today's prompt list is: TARDIS Blue

Theme: Television 1. You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies. 2. There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick. 3. Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you: that you, sir, are a nitwit! 4. Perhaps you could tell a story or two. Perhaps a man only enjoys trouble when there's nothing else left. 5. An old friend of mine. Well, enemy. 6. That is enigmatic. That is text-book enigmatic. 7. No second chances. I'm that sort of a man. 8. Oh, come on! Did you have to? "No turning back", that's almost as bad as "Nothing could possibly go wrong", or "This is gonna be the best Christmas Walford's ever had!" 9. Maybe that's what the Devil is in the end: an idea. 10. We're always in trouble! Isn't this extraordinary: it follows us everywhere! 11. I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part. 12. He sometimes talks to himself, mostly because he's the only person who knows what he's talking about. 13. That's the trouble with ideas: they only come a bit at a time. 14. Now listen to me, you young idiot; you're not so much gullible as you are idealistic. 15. For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about! 16. Well, if it doesn't, I shall beat it into submission...with my charm. 17. Guns can seriously damage your health, you know! 18. Love has never been noted for its rationality. 19. I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren't there. 20. Go on, do what you've got to do, save the world. 21. Have you ever run away from something because you were scared, or not ready, or just...just because you could? 22. The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. 23. Allow me to congratulate you, sir. You have the most totally closed mind that I've ever encountered. 24. Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway. 25. Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically...run.

from Doctor Who

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Today's Supply is: Frame

Write something that takes place after your story

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Today's prompt list is: ghost white

Theme: Paranormal 1. ghost 2. witch 3. werewolf 4. vampire 5. dragon 6. banshee 7. gaki (hungry ghost) 8. yeti 9. zombie 10. ghoul 11. goblin 12. kelpie 13. Loch Ness monster 14. youkai 15. doppelganger 16. psychopomp 17. Griggstown cow 18. troll 19. faery 20. lamia 21. sphinx 22. manticore 23. harpy 24. jinn 25. rakshasa

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