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Fic: After a Fashion

Fandom: Pokémon
Summary: Darkrai's trainer brings them a surprise from a shopping trip
Mirrors: This comment thread (AO3 link will happen in mid-April)
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Ships: Darkrai & Trainer
Notes: For

peasina's prompt in

javert's Three Weeks for Dreamwidth Pokémon Prompt meme: "Any, Any Pokemon with one eye, Wearing glasses"
Fic: ( After a Fashion )

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SPN Eldritch Reverse Bang - When the Wind Blows

I've been nearly 100% awol for poor

casey679, who's written a beautifully creepy story based on my prompt - thanks bunches me dear, you're a star!
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The prompt
2. Where the wind blows

Unexpected Adventures

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Project Hail Mary

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Current Mood: happy dreamwidthiversary!

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three weeks for dreamwidth

Colorful Dreamsheep Icons

I've got some colorful dreamsheep icons up over at

dreamsheep in celebration of

3weeks4dreamwidth! I'm also taking color and color combination requests.

I'm aiming to get a Mood Theme in a Hurry calendar done and posted by this evening, but I've also got Surprise Cramps to deal with, so we'll see what wins 😑

Edit: Mood Theme in a Hurry Calendars are now available! They only cover the Minimum and Medium mood tracks, because I am not currently prepared to either stick six or seven moods on a day, or pick and choose which of the remaining 98 moods to include on the calendar. (I'd probably want to go for at least 72 moods total, including the 34 already on the Medium Track calendar, but that's still 38 moods to pick out!)

Tone

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info:community & other promos

Podfic Pinch Hit!

the_mane_event, a multifandom gift exchange for all things hair-related, is seeking an emergency pinch hitter for a participant requesting both fic and podfic! Podfic must be of a work that is minimum 500 words, does not include the recipient's DNWs, and fits one of the requests, meaning that it includes one fandom, one ship, and at least one freeform or optional tag requested.

You can view the pinch hit here, which also has instructions on how to claim the pinch hit.

Search maintenance

Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

Acrylic Things Poll

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Old Person Yells At Cloud Storage

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Current Mood: accomplished

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battles with executive dysfunction

A Good Grade in Dentistry

Finally made an appointment for my "spring" dental cleaning!

So I go to the local dental school, because that's what my insurance covers, but I also think it's kind of fun and neat to be helping dental students learn. I also take fairly good care of my teeth (thank you, Habitica, for making me a regular flosser!). Apparently, I'm such an easy patient that I qualify for first year dental students to practice on! Which I, at least, think is pretty cool and a neat way to affirm that I keep my teeth in relatively good condition. A fun little (sugar-free 😜) treat for the day!

Whine

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goblin emperor

Fic: Learning the Steps

Title: Learning the Steps
Author: Beatrice_Otter
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor
Pairing: Csethiro/Maia
Written for:

dontstophernow in

fffx 2025
Rating: Teen
Length: 10k
Summary: As the wedding day approaches, Csethiro and Maia get to know each other better

At AO3. On Squidgeworld. On Dreamwidth. On tumblr. On Pillowfort.

AN: The Tale of the Loathly Lady is a real story which crops up in Arthuriana and other places. It's the Wife of Bath's tale in the Canterbury Tales, and it was told on its own as Gawain and Lady Ragnell.

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The original proposal—Csethiro did not know who had made it, whether her father or the Emperor or some nameless secretary—was for the wedding to take place on Nan'desazh, the spring lambing festival. This was the most auspicious date for a wedding in the whole year; unfortunately, it was also a mere three months after the contracts had been signed, and there was simply no way to arrange things in time. Csethiro was not often grateful to her stepmother, but she was in this; the Marquise Ceredaran had flatly refused to contemplate so early a date.

The spring equinox had been suggested instead; it was almost as propitious as Nan'desazh, and would give them an extra month to plan. Besides, there was a certain symmetry in it; Edrehasivar had been crowned just before the fall equinox, and his birthday was the winter solstice, and so to marry him on the spring equinox seemed to Csethiro (and many others at court) to be a harbinger of good fortune.

It was still ruinously short. The preparations for Csoru's wedding had taken a full year.

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Current Mood: dorky

Concept

A monster collecting game where all of the creatures you collect are somehow hidden and/or mimic-style creatures. Some of them are still mimic-style treasure creatures (pulling examples from Pokémon, this would be Voltorb, etc), but some you have to solve puzzles to reveal (Spiritomb), and some appear to literally be part of the scenery until you interact with them, either in general (Stunfisk, both original and Galarian) or in specific ways (watering Sudowoodo in Gold and Silver).

I just think it'd be a neat twist on the idea. (Possibly because, of the two dozen or so fakemon I've come up with, two have been mimic-style 'mon a la Voltorb, which is a bit disproportionate!)