Entries tagged with author: august

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Pearls of Wisdom #2, Halloween Orange #21

Author: August
Title: The Chances Look Small, The Choices Look Grim
Story: Crossover between two worlds, one of which is unnamed + Sundrop (which I don't think I've written here before)
Colors: Pearls of Wisdom #3, "Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have."; Halloween Orange #21, "While he just might tell you stories, he won't ever tell you lies."
Word Count: 770
Rating: G
Warnings: Somebody being compelled to tell things to a supernatural being
Notes: I'm doing

no_true_pair this month with a couple of different lists, including a list of 8 original characters who originate from different verses; this is also for the prompt "in the woods". I think Billy's come up briefly before in his alternate human variant, as he's been repurposed from an older verse; he's a crossroads demigod and the son of Lady Luck. Alice is a telekinetic in a universe where using your superpower can shorten your lifespan.

( The Chances Look Small, The Choices Look Grim )

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Aqua saturation, True Blue #16

Author: August
Title: With the Water, We'll Start Anew
Story: A currently unnamed story that I will maybe have details on later.
Colors: True Blue #16, "Thick as thieves"; Aqua saturation
Supplies and Styles: Saturation; eraser; miniature collection; graffiti (Camp Rainbowfic - Aquatics)
Word Count: 2500
Rating: Maybe PG to be safe?
Warnings: Features three people who have all survived kinds of abuse and rough situations and their aftermath, including references to prolonged captivity of a non-human sentient person and an abusive parent, but no actual in-depth abuse
Notes: *comes swinging in four years later and two days under the wire for the challenge* Hi everyone, I missed you. I have been doing a lot of reworking of original stuff lately, and I'm hoping to pick my colors back up and see if I can get back to writing around here more often with a whole host of new worlds.
Two of these characters are old characters of mine who've been retooled heavily, and I'm hoping at least one of them shows up in a proper universe fic eventually. The third belongs to a friend not on DW, who's given me permission to write him in this little AU that we've talked about, affectionately known as the seaside trio.

( With the Water, We'll Start Anew )

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Darling Grey, Halloween Orange, Pearls of Wisdom

Name: August
Title: the feeling of being in motion again
Story: Despite the Abundance
Colors: Darling Grey #11, "I didn’t come looking for love, I didn’t come to pick a fight"; Halloween Orange #15, "A moment and my simple, careless plans were all unmade."; Pearls of Wisdom #6, "Beware of the person who has nothing to lose."
Supplies and Styles: Photography
Word Count: 866
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Non-graphic blood and violence; passing mentions of suicidal feelings; hinted at d/s relationship elements; one scene, while it's not terribly obvious if you don't know the verse and the characters, refers to a recovered addict getting tricked into using drugs.
Notes: I have been meaning to write one of the sections of this story for a while now. None of this is quite what I expected, including that part, but hey, it works.

( Five moments time stopped for Nathan. )

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Darling Grey, Halloween Orange

Name: August
Title: no place to call home anymore
Story: This City's Got Grace
Colors: Darling Grey #10, "I was counting my losses, wasn’t sure if I should count you"; Halloween Orange #12, "Some little things get broken, and a little means a lot".
Supplies and Styles: N/A
Word Count: 526
Rating: PG
Warnings: Very roundaboutly refers to the aftermath of torture and horrible things, but doesn't go into details. (It's the angel trio, if you've read

thebonesofferalletters' works in this verse.)
Notes: Not a warning but this is, uh. Not a happy story and not a... fair... one? In a lot of ways, to any of the three of them? Basically this is Bobby having a really bad day. I guess caregiver burnout is the best words I've got for it.

( In which there is really unhappy nostalgia. )

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Darling Grey, True Blue, Aurora

Name: August
Story: Don't Be Afraid of a Little Bit of Progress
Colors: Darling Grey #3, "I haven't found a single way to keep it"; True Blue #14, "Sharing"; Aurora #16, "Foreday" with SWL's paint-by-numbers (Surprise me!: Lesbians).
Supplies and Styles: Glue ("You're eager to explore new ways to break up the routine of your daily life and free yourself from old patterns. ...the unfulfilled potential for positive change fills the air and encourages you to take a chance and reinvent yourself.")
Word Count: 757
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Consensual relationship briefly mentioned as starting with the initiating party is underage (17 and 19), and also between two people who are, by mutual agreement, keeping a lot of things from each other, because of dangerous circumstances around them.
Notes: ~~I wrote someone throw me a parade it only took a year and a half.~~ This was written super stream of consciousness well after I should have been asleep, and I'm not rereading it or else I'll never post it, so I'm hoping this makes sense? Meet one half of the sisters that are central to the main story, although it's not actually the one who's a main character.
Also, I need a tag for Darling Grey.

( In which May reflects while Tabby sleeps. )

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Clean Again, Skyblue Pink w/ Striped Polka Dots

Name: August
Story: Don't Be Afraid of a Little Bit of Progress
Colors: Clean Again #9, "Color Me Happy"; Skyblue Pink with Striped Polka Dots #6, "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
Supplies and Styles: Photography
Word Count: 380
Rating: G
Warnings: Very brief mentions of an abusive parent (no real detail to any of it)

( In which Caleb reflects. )

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Halloween Orange, Pearls of Wisdom, True Blue

Name: August
Title: i walked this line, a million and one times
Story: Don't Be Afraid of a Little Bit of Progress
Colors: Halloween Orange #4, "Blood burns like fire, and it always burns through."; Pearls of Wisdom #5, "When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go."; True Blue #12, "Understanding"
Supplies and Styles: N/A
Word Count: 1241
Rating: PG13
Warnings: skip
Child abuse of a nonindicative nature, and the ghost of said abuser showing up to his child; child death (not the main focus, but a good ~150-word side tangent); brief discussion of a facility that tests children with powers (it doesn't go indepth into anything but the testing is clearly unpleasant and unwanted); mentioned consensual possession (by a ghost, of a medium)

Notes: I need a story tag please, mods? (Story title is kind of long so if you want to abbreviate it a 'a little bit of progress', that might be better.)
This is a really new world for me, but I'm rather excited to try and get to writing it, so here goes. :D

( In which Caleb and Adrian have issues. )

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Clean Again, Halloween Orange, Pearls of Wisdom

Name: August (formerly Morgan/

thelinesoflearning)
Story: No Child is Spared
Colors: Clean Again #2, "Full and Strong"; Halloween Orange #25, "No one gets to tell me if I've lost or if I've won."; Pearls of Wisdom #11, "Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want."
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (Clean Again)
Word Count: 773
Rating: G
Warnings: Nothing I can think of.
Notes: I can write. I can totally write. It hasn't been a year since I posted, what are you talking about. Here's hoping this is not a one-time resurgence. Also I am pleased to finally write for this character; she's been mentioned in passing in fics before but I adore her and have been meaning to write about her properly, so here we are. Also, she is British and I am so, so not, so any commentary on what's probably my English-culture-fail is welcome. Or comments in general, but.

( In which there is a tiny (well, teenager) Meg. )

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True Blue, Halloween Orange

Name: Morgan
Story: And the Devil Makes Three
Colors: True Blue 2, "Blood siblings"; Halloween Orange 5, "An island's not a prison -- that's what men make bridges for."
Supplies and Styles: Novelty beads (follow a new trail)
Word Count: 1110
Rating: PG
Warnings: A couple of mentions of past child abuse. Also, it's not talked about indepth, but the main character has just been through a traumatic accident and been severely injured and that's a major part of the story.
Notes: Right, so Mal's basically taken over writing this verse and I'm happy to throw my hands up and let them, but this was in my head and I couldn't get it out, so... here? Also I think I have a thing about people accidentally falling into the dream jobs they may or may not have actually dreamed at. *looks at No Child Is Spared and then back at this* Yep, kind of a thing.

( In which there is John pre-Percival and his sister. )

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True Blue, Halloween Orange

Name: Morgan
Story: lock the doors and hide the towers
Colors: True Blue 7, "Fast Friends"; Halloween Orange 1, "It's just 'til my evil plan comes into flower."
Supplies and Styles: N/A
Word Count: 277
Rating: G
Warnings: ... villainy... kind of... I don't even know....
Notes: This is entirely and totally Mal's fault and I don't even know what I'm doing. Uh. Can I have a story tag? I guess? No idea if this will ever get more written or not, considering it took me five years to get this into a story, but I kind of have my eye on a couple of saturations for these two.
Also please feel free to tell me if I messed up the pronouns. Or crit me in any other way, I am always crit-open and should probably start mentioning that.

( In which we learn how two villains started working together. In some kind of superhero-y alternate world. I don't know what I wrote either. )

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Halloween Orange, Skyblue Pink w/ Striped Polka Dots, Pearls of Wisdom

Name: Morgan
Story: we did not come to fool you
Colors: Halloween Orange 30, "Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear."; Skyblue Pink with Striped Polka Dots 2, 2. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than you.”; Pearls of Wisdom 7, "Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation."
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (I'll have seconds)
Word Count: 606
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: There's a section that deals with sexual assault, generally abusive treatment of people including people treating themselves that way, and murder of sexual assaulters. It's skimmed over pretty lightly, but it's also very much there. Also, playing VERY fast and loose with Christian mythology.
Notes: Need a story tag, please. I am so glad I finally wrote about this girl, though. She is the angel of bodily pleasures, and I adore her even if I'm not entirely sure what's going on in her universe. Also I did not mean to do the second person challenge twice. I just really like second person

( In which there are names and titles and an angel that like to move. )

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Halloween Orange, Skyblue Pink w/ Striped Polka Dots

Name: Morgan
Title: you'll be the hero, and the tragedy
Story: N/A. Pretty sure this is a complete one-off.
Colors: Halloween Orange 27, "I was a little more than they expected."; Skyblue Pink with Stripes Polka Dots 3, "The more that you know, the more places you'll go."
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (I'll have seconds), photography
Word Count: 538
Rating: PG? I guess?
Warnings: ... I don't know. I feel like there's something here but I can't quite word it. It's post-apocalyptic worldbuilding and meditation on idols and revolutionary leaders

( In which I don't know how these words came from my brain. )

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Halloween Orange

Name: Morgan
Story: No Child is Spares
Colors: Halloween Orange 3, "Nothing in my pocket but a hand and a prayer."
Supplies and Styles: N/A
Word Count: 698
Rating: G
Warnings: Talks about being poor, so if that's a problem for you best to avoid.

( In which there is Dave and his mother. )

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Halloween Orange, Skyblue Pink w/ Striped Polka Dots

Name: Morgan
Story: No Child is Spared
Colors: Halloween Orange 28, "It’s a shot of ‘dumb idea’ with a ‘bad plan’ chaser"; Skyblue Pink with Striped Polka Dots 11, "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way."
Supplies and Styles: Glue ("You might wish you had more stability today, but the uncertainty is also exhilarating. Attempts to keep everything as it is now may be a study in frustration.")
Word Count: 898
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A

( In which Dave buys a store. )

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Halloween Orange, True Blue

Name: Morgan
Story: All Through the Night
Colors: True Blue 20, Secret you wouldn't even tell your best friend; Halloween Orange 19, I am nothing you should trust.
Supplies and Styles: Glitter ("You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." – Frank Crane)
Word Count: 447
Rating: G
Warnings: N/A
Notes: Need a story tag for All Through the Night, please.

( In which the keeper has trust issues everywhere. )

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True Blue #18, Skyblue Pink w/ Striped Polka Dots #5

Name: Morgan
Story: No Child is Spared
Colors: True Blue #18, "Never had a friend like me"; Skyblue Pink with Striped Polka Dots #5, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
Supplies and Styles: Acrylic: "It's been a no good, very bad day."
Word Count: 1443
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions of drug use -- not dwelled on but informs a section of the story.
Notes: Good god has writing been like pulling teeth lately, so I am glad I got this out. I've been wanting to write about these two and their father-son thing for a while now, so.
Also I don't seem to have an author tag?

( In which Phil is good at making bad days a little better. )

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Peach Puff, True Blue

Name: Morgan
Story: No Child Is Spared
Colors: Peach Puff saturation, True Blue #15: Token of friendship
Supplies and Styles: Saturation, miniature collection, pointillism(? I think it counts but please tell me if I'm wrong)
Word Count: 722
Rating: G
Warnings: None

( In which everyone is happy and gets delicious things. )