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Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.
I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.
If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!
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Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.
I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.
If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!
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Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.
I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.
If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!
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Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.
I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.
If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!
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Refreshing my #introduction! Hi, I'm enchantedsleeper: fic writer, sometime vidder, and lover of #smallfandoms and #drabbles.
I'm into many fandoms (and never really leave any behind), but my current homes are The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Fence, Questionable Content, and Spider-Verse. More broadly, I love comics, AI/robot characters, cyberpunk, and critiques of big tech. I also dabble in the #smallweb & edit #wikis when I find the time.
If any of these are also your jam, come say hi!
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CW: Long Post: Original Zine with Writing and Art titled "Glimmers in the Penumbra"
Glimmers in the Penumbra
I assembled this zine to collect drabbles written for my D&D group, and I'm sharing it with you all today.
This is for you, @[email protected] , @[email protected] , @[email protected] , @[email protected] , and @[email protected]
Special thanks to @[email protected] for drawing the illustrations used in this zine and for buying my drabble commission slots on behalf of the group. She has made a lot of really cool art for our group and for her character Dia especially, so you should check it out if you like this!
This was a really fun project. It was great to play in the 100 word limit with different styles and character voices to make something tailored for each character.
I assembled this zine so that I could make a special and unique home for all of the pieces together. It was put together in Scribus, a free and open source layout tool.
If you enjoyed this zine, please consider a donation to Crips for eSims for Gaza or at Gaza Funds.
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Full Text Transcript
Glimmers in the Penumbra A Tabletop Roleplay OC Drabble Collection
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Embodied
The snow feels wrong. It mushes against the strange pliant dough stretched across her soles, shoots her through with a kind of pain she's never felt before. It bites, metallic, as though she can feel the pinprick of each shard of each snow flake. The air, too, grips her. All of this, wrong. Never before had the winds caused her pain, nor had snow felt anything but pleasant on even her tenderest scales. Winter has abandoned her. It was in her very weft and now all she has is this naked pink putty. No way for a dragon to live.
Dia Istehar
[Includes an illustration of Dia holding herself in a gust of snow and wind.]
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L’Enfer
Fire's heat. Warms, tickles, crisps. Pleasure becomes pain. Sears, destroys, consumes. Ashes to ashes.
Vous qui entrez, abandonnez toute espérance.
No way to snuff a forest fire once it's caught hot and tall, naught but to let the blaze run out. A heart is like that. A little fire you can throw water over, but the burn in him grows fast. All you can do is get out the way.
Watch for smoke.
What's a flame want? Nothing but to burn. Bright and hot, alive until it's out. Doesn't care what's burning, where or how. But a man's heart? Well.
L’Enfer - The Inferno Vous qui entrez, abandonnez toute espérance. - Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Ozias DeVir
[Includes an illustration of Ozias lighting a cigarette.]
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Song of the Princess
She is come from a castle in a far away land, from a lineage ruling for generations.
Hath traveled the lands in great odyssey, and suffered many a hardship and poverty.
O Princess, Sweetest Briar with thorns sharp, stand strong against despair. Nobility is not in gold but in heart and deed and bearing. Retain thy grace and thy dignity. Fear not the dark and the wicked, for thou art puissant. Magic courseth through thy veins as fish in a stream.
Know that one day thou wilt reclaim thy birthright. So sayeth this poem, written in serenade of a princess.
Briar Allaire
[Includes an illustration of Briar, regal in a crown.]
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Idle Musing
Life should be fun. Things would be far too boring without a bit of mischief to keep it interesting, ya know? Just a dash like spice in the stew. Nothing serious, maybe swipe a shiny here or snack there.
Things can change pretty fast out on the road though. It gets scary out there, with monsters and bad guys. Sometimes I think I should have just stayed home.
But hey, one minute you're strumming along up and down the strings of a bouzouki, tickling the melody to and fro, and bam! Out comes the zouka. Didn't expect that, didja spookies?
Kaapro
[Includes an illustration of Kaapro, a Kenku, smiling and playing a bouzouki.]
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Sacrament
"Go and sin no more."
The other man, the one on the other side of the wooden screen, knows what a joke it is. He says it anyway, and manages not to laugh. It's procedure after all.
A rosary and an extra Our Father. A man's life snuffed out, his blood on the stone, and all Lucere needs to do is mumble some words.
Done in God's name, isn't it a Holy act?
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Deliverance won't come, but so too will he sin again. He always has and always will.
Lucere Crough
[Includes an illustration of Lucere holding a rosary in his hand, covering half of his face.]
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Just World Fallacy
Let us consider the situation rationally. Which situation is more likely?
The first, that I was conceived by two emotionally stunted people unprepared for the maturity, care, and mundane sacrifices of parenthood? That I lived at the whims of a man who took out rage and fear on his vulnerable son? That my mother could bring me into the world but shrink my existence so small in her heart that she could ignore it? That suffering is largely beyond our control and the world is fundamentally unfair?
Or that I am unloveable and it's my fault?
The answer is obvious.
Pinion Andolus
[Includes an illustration of Pinion where you cannot see his face, gazing at unbalanced scales.]
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Knight in Shining Armor
My face mirrored in a gleaming scale. I chased it like the glint of oasis after days walking parched sands. Was it a mirage? I follow its path and come no closer, but the image does not fade. Still there, out of reach, ever on the horizon.
What is she really like? I've imagined her on the highest pedestal, with every sublime virtue, and in the deepest depravity, with every foul cruelty. Perhaps she is simply a well-meaning fool, doing her best.
Do I truly want to know? Would the mirage dissolve, and would that be for good or ill?
Okaara Justa
[Includes an illustration of Okaara, a half-orc, gazing at her own reflection in a piece of plate armor.]
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寝袋詰め 心の準備 と出かける
「一緒に」
romaji reading: shurafuzume kokoro no junbi to dekakeru
「issho ni」
The bedrolls are wrapped. Ready for what awaits them, the party sets forth.
[Together]
[No illustration]
Originally posted on Tumblr here: https://www.tumblr.com/terror-billie/759892367589392384/full-text-transcript -
The year is winding down, so as an author with a website I am contractually obligated to remind you of the work I published this year, and note that I would welcome award nominations should you be so inclined.
Members of SFWA can download the non-free stories from the usual places on the forums. Any other potential nominators are encouraged to visit the contact page to request a copy of anything that looks interesting.
“When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment” (approx. 3,500 words) is set in 1890s London and deals with occultism, material culture, class, gender, and the rise of the standard model bicycle. The story appears in Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories about Witches on Bikes, the most recent entry in Elly Blue’s Bikes in Space series. The anthology is available direct or at your favored retailer.
“Stages of Pre-Bereavement” (approx. 2,600 words) is a dark science fiction story about love, loss, and grief. It appears in the anthology Darkness Blooms, available from the publisher.
“Lakeside” (approx. 1,000 words) is a ghost story about terrible situations, terrible actions, and the people who emerge on the other side. You can read it for free online in Underland Arcana.
“Pamplona” (100 words) is a dark science fiction tale about an encounter with the unknown. You can read it for free online in The Cosmic Background.
“Between the Storms” (approx. 1,800 words) is a cozy science fiction story of anxious adolescents meeting cute. It’s scheduled to be published by Hearth Stories in December; I’ll update this page when it’s out.
For citizenship and demographic purposes, I am a white cis woman, U.S. citizen, and primarily located in Pennsylvania.
https://aphowell.com/2023/10/24/award-eligibility-post-2023-edition/
#awardEligibility #cozy #darkScienceFiction #drabbles #flashFiction #historicalFantasy #horror #scienceFiction #shortStories
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The year is winding down, so as an author with a website I am contractually obligated to remind you of the work I published this year, and note that I would welcome award nominations should you be so inclined.
Members of SFWA can download the non-free stories from the usual places on the forums. Any other potential nominators are encouraged to visit the contact page to request a copy of anything that looks interesting.
“When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment” (approx. 3,500 words) is set in 1890s London and deals with occultism, material culture, class, gender, and the rise of the standard model bicycle. The story appears in Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories about Witches on Bikes, the most recent entry in Elly Blue’s Bikes in Space series. The anthology is available direct or at your favored retailer.
“Stages of Pre-Bereavement” (approx. 2,600 words) is a dark science fiction story about love, loss, and grief. It appears in the anthology Darkness Blooms, available from the publisher.
“Lakeside” (approx. 1,000 words) is a ghost story about terrible situations, terrible actions, and the people who emerge on the other side. You can read it for free online in Underland Arcana.
“Pamplona” (100 words) is a dark science fiction tale about an encounter with the unknown. You can read it for free online in The Cosmic Background.
“Between the Storms” (approx. 1,800 words) is a cozy science fiction story of anxious adolescents meeting cute. It’s scheduled to be published by Hearth Stories in December; I’ll update this page when it’s out.
For citizenship and demographic purposes, I am a white cis woman, U.S. citizen, and primarily located in Pennsylvania.
https://aphowell.com/2023/10/24/award-eligibility-post-2023-edition/
#awardEligibility #cozy #darkScienceFiction #drabbles #flashFiction #historicalFantasy #horror #scienceFiction #shortStories
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The year is winding down, so as an author with a website I am contractually obligated to remind you of the work I published this year, and note that I would welcome award nominations should you be so inclined.
Members of SFWA can download the non-free stories from the usual places on the forums. Any other potential nominators are encouraged to visit the contact page to request a copy of anything that looks interesting.
“When Mastered, a Graceful Accomplishment” (approx. 3,500 words) is set in 1890s London and deals with occultism, material culture, class, gender, and the rise of the standard model bicycle. The story appears in Bicycles & Broomsticks: Fantastical Feminist Stories about Witches on Bikes, the most recent entry in Elly Blue’s Bikes in Space series. The anthology is available direct or at your favored retailer.
“Stages of Pre-Bereavement” (approx. 2,600 words) is a dark science fiction story about love, loss, and grief. It appears in the anthology Darkness Blooms, available from the publisher.
“Lakeside” (approx. 1,000 words) is a ghost story about terrible situations, terrible actions, and the people who emerge on the other side. You can read it for free online in Underland Arcana.
“Pamplona” (100 words) is a dark science fiction tale about an encounter with the unknown. You can read it for free online in The Cosmic Background.
“Between the Storms” (approx. 1,800 words) is a cozy science fiction story of anxious adolescents meeting cute. It’s scheduled to be published by Hearth Stories in December; I’ll update this page when it’s out.
For citizenship and demographic purposes, I am a white cis woman, U.S. citizen, and primarily located in Pennsylvania.
https://aphowell.com/2023/10/24/award-eligibility-post-2023-edition/
#awardEligibility #cozy #darkScienceFiction #drabbles #flashFiction #historicalFantasy #horror #scienceFiction #shortStories
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@MoonRaccoon
Make a tag and click it to see if anyone is doing #threadfic or #NotFic .The tags are there, so I think so. Responding to your own post makes a thread that I can see by clicking any post in it.
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Holy shit btw I realized I didn't actually share this here yet???
The Wang Zhi discord server made a collection for our Sleuth of Ming Dynasty drabbles!!!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50020714/chapters/126299857
#SleuthofMingDynasty #SleuthoftheMingDynasty #tsomd #tsotmd #fanfiction #drabbles
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CW: Fanfiction link
Fluffuary 2022 #Drabbles
Chapters: 28/28
Word Count: 2,900Fandom: #DragonAgeInquisition
Summary: A collection of related drabbles (100 words, tyvm), inspired by Iron_Angel's Fluffuary 2022 prompt list.Written with a Nonbinary Inquisitor #Lavellan x #Solas friends to lovers in mind, but attempted to write it so that the characters are open to reader interpretation.
https://ao3.org/works/36825112
#DragonAge #solavellan #LivingACreativeLife #MyWriting #FanFiction
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CW: Fanfiction link
Fluffuary 2022 #Drabbles
Chapters: 28/28
Word Count: 2,900Fandom: #DragonAgeInquisition
Summary: A collection of related drabbles (100 words, tyvm), inspired by Iron_Angel's Fluffuary 2022 prompt list.Written with a Nonbinary Inquisitor #Lavellan x #Solas friends to lovers in mind, but attempted to write it so that the characters are open to reader interpretation.
https://ao3.org/works/36825112
#DragonAge #solavellan #LivingACreativeLife #MyWriting #FanFiction
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Ok ok ok #Introduction time - I'm nárië and I'm a fandom serial monogamist. These days I'm deep into #SHL still, although fairly quietly, for obvious reasons; before that I was into #mdzs and #cql, and before that there's been many other things. I love #genFic, and fic about non romantic relationships (although I also adore #Wenzhou), and fic that weaves itself around the gaps left by canons.
#Drabbles that are exactly 100 words make me very very happy.