[personal profile] paradoxcase
Name: After the End
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #12: End
Styles and Supplies: Chiaroscuro, Life Drawing, Panorama, Cartography, Resin (Three weeks for Dreamwidth), Feathers (This Day Trivia May 13 1985: Police burn down a Philadelphia neighborhood)
Word Count: 4587
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy Drug (Ab)use, Swearing, Discussion of wartime atrocities
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye, Cusäfä
In-Universe Date: (Approximately) -10,000; 2434
Summary: Setsiana and Qhoroali go to get Cusäfä some screws.

After the End )
bookblather: Natalie Dormer looking smugly off-camera. (Miranda Hennessy: Natalie Dormer)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: unready for healing
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Wild thyme 10 (time heals all wounds)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Human, Daughter), miniature, brush (dearth), acrylics (Yeah, maybe it’s not healthy, but I’m going to keep doing it.), feathers (the painting The Scream was stolen from a museum), novelty beads (Passion Pit, Take a Walk)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG for violence and sexuality
Summary: It's not enough.
Warning: violence
Notes: Miranda broke up with Peter and was attacked and badly injured over the course of like. Seventy-two hours. Here's a glimpse at her mind then.

unready for healing )
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[personal profile] ilthit
Name: An hour and thirty five minutes past seven p.m.
Story: Peccadillo Parlour
Colors: Iridium #6 (cutting-edge), Newsprint #8 (The future is stupid.), Psychedelic Purple #24 (now my life has changed in oh so many ways)
Supplies and Styles: feathers (Britannica's On This Day: 1997 - The Age of Aquarius dawned); fingerpainting, postcard
Word Count: 136
Rating: general
Warnings: A poem about being a teenager.
Note: This is a poem by Reuben Tam Sherman, my character. I have never been to a cricket field, which is clearly the most important part of this poem.

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[personal profile] silvercat17
Name: Horseplay & Roughhousing
Colors: Beige 5 (keyboard), Fade to Grey 19 (Deliciate)
Supplies and Styles: calendar page Sep 23 (national singles day), charcoal, stain (The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. Nadia Boulanger), resin (WIP Big Bang), wood, fabric, feathers (death of Sigmund Freud), beading wire, glue (The Sun enters your charming sign on Saturday, and once this happens, your love life could begin overflowing with blissful relationship energy! ), mural, fingerpainting, life drawing
Word Count: 11811
Rating: NC-17 (it's almost all smut)
Warnings: body horror in the 2nd chapter, BDSM, death of a minor character that deserves it (2nd chapter), public sex
Summary: When Janie's lover, the mob leader Sidney "Dog-Ear" Foss, proposed a night of entertainment at his club, she didn't realize SHE was going to be it.

AO3 link if it's easier to read there, full list of kinks at the start of each chapter. Slang definitions will be given at the end of each chapter.

Chapter 1 )

Chapter 2 )
Chapter 3 )
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[personal profile] silvercat17
Name: Silvercat17
Title: Great-Uncle Bubba and the Magic Shop
Colors: Fade to Grey 08 (scantling), Metallic Gold 07 (skill), Tyrian Purple 08 (achille's heel)
Supplies and Styles: fingerpanting, vaudeville, brush (ameliorate), stain (Less is only more where more is no good - Frank Lloyd Wright), fabric (here), feathers: Don Knott's birthday
Word Count: 3961
Rating: G to PG
Warnings: references to period racism – in that I say it exists and that people would use words that decent people don’t use these days, poverty, malnutrition, drunkenness, references to pre-antibiotics tuberculosis, illiteracy, corporal punishment at school

One of the ways Ursula Vernon deals with trolls on twitter is telling stories about her (fictional) Uncle Sven. I decided to follow her example, and this is the story that resulted. While I used some bits of my actual family as very vague inspiration, everyone and everything in this story is fictional and probably wildly inaccurate to the supposed time period, whatever that is.
 

 

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[personal profile] silvercat17
Name: Silvercat
Story: The Mercy of Shadows
Colors: Fade to Grey #14 (Peregrinate), Kohl #5 (lip gloss), Tyrian Purple # 17 (chariot of the sun god)
Supplies and Styles: chiaroscuro, novelty beads, calendar page (or this one), feather (birth of Calvin Coolidge), glue ("Everyone has a shadow self" and "Relating is your job this week"), fabric
Word Count: 1293
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: torture of a fantasy being, extreme sun exposure, injury, eye damage, skin damage

Another whump with Albert the Monk. Previous one


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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: How Do I Love Thee
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Lilac, Spring Green #19. why pretend that you're so dull (with paint-by-numbers from bookblather: Lux on Mariko.)
Supplies and Materials: saturation, pointillism, miniature collection, photography, silhouette, life drawing, paint-by-numbers, feathers, pastels (Year of the OTP Event: May prompt, flower language), glitter (A Kind Word, Author Unknown)
Word Count: 907
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Lux, Mariko
Warnings: War/violence/the fire and its fallout.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Just little bits and pieces about their feelings/relationship, based (mostly) on a symbolic meaning of each flower. For a couple of them, I used something slightly different (i.e., the physical effect when used as medicine) instead. Not in chronological order; some of these are from their first relationship on the CSP station, and some are from after their reunion.


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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: A Human Tradition
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Amaranth #1. Amaranth;
Supplies and Materials: stickers (The best Valentine's Day gift you ever received), feathers (St. Valentine's Day), pastels (Year of the OTP prompt list: February prompt "Valentine's Day"), novelty beads, yarn, glue ("...try to appreciate the ways in which you are progressing, even if your trajectory isn't as rapid as you'd like.")
Word Count: 452
Rating: PG
Characters: Mariko, Lux
Warnings: References to the fire/the way their relationship ended the first time around
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: The Shine of It
'Verse: Feredar
Colors: Amaranth #12. Philosopher's Stone
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 6: Second Stage), photography, brush (jaunty), watercolors, feathers (Jean Lafitte)
Word Count: 136
Rating: PG
Characters: Taz
Warnings: Nope, don't think so.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Coincidence
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Cerise #17. Running into a friend, The Hills of Iowa #12. God looks like a guidance counselor.
Supplies and Materials: photography, graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 1: Village Stage), sculpture (of this), feathers (First Hotel Passenger Elevator)
Word Count: 288
Rating: PG
Characters: Rubika, Imi, Shane, Dimana
Warnings: None for this, I don't think.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Last Hills of Iowa!

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bookblather: Alan Tudyk in a suit looking at the camera. (in the heart : zack : alan tudyk)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Consequences
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Daffodil 15 (new beginnings)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Lilith Faire Day 2: Hoochie Woman, Tori Amos), seed beads (Elizabeth is Zack's mother), miniature, glue (you'll realize that the decisions you make about your love life will always affect more people than just yourself), feathers (What the Meaning of "IS" Is), acrylic (running dry), novelty beads (a burning rose
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Elizabeth can ensure there are consequences.
Warning: discussion of infidelity and manipulation
Notes: Yeah, Zack's parents didn't have the greatest marriage ever.

Consequences )
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[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: only me and my disgrace
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Cool black 8 (I set off running to wake from the dream), skylight 8 (Surrounded by strangers), Paris green 19 (We'll always have Paris) with shadowsong's paint-by-numbers (X years later, we meet again.)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Lilith Faire Second Stage: Wolf, First Aid Kid), seed beads (Nadia is Joanna's younger sister), feathers (“The true test of a person’s character is how they treat the people in life that they don’t need.” -Lee Corso), brush (pejorative)
Word Count: 267
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Nadia runs into her daughter's father.
Warning: mention of adultery, some language

only me and my disgrace )
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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: Ceres
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Provence Lavender #6. Kerchief; Red Summer Sun #4. The clock, it bleeds for you, but you never got the time in mind; Library Yellow #25. redamancy
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Caught Sweetly Between challenge, Option 1), feathers ("February 18, 1930 - The dwarf planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona."), yarn
Word Count: 995
Rating: PG
Characters: Rubika, Rechil Kesilen
Warnings: Don't think so.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. For reference, this probably takes place shortly after this.


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[personal profile] dray
Name: Dray
Story: [community profile] everwood
Colors: True Blue #23 "A friend is one who dislikes the same people you dislike" Ignition Yellow #11 "The most amazing things can come from some terrible nights" Daffodil #15 New Beginnings
Supplies and Styles: Frame; Brush (Proliferate); Stain "Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable." - Fran Lebowitz; Feathers "The glitter-rock group Kiss gives their first public performance - at New York's Coventry Club." (I mean not literally, but the parallels made me laugh); Yarn (image here); Glue "The motivational message that you send through your public service, art, or support of the underdog is both unconventional and vibrant. It’s an unusual frequency that might turn off some traditional folks, but turns many others on."
Word Count: 1300
Rating: NC-17 for ritual sexy times
Warnings: Despite the super NSFW background of this story the writing is actually pretty tame.
Notes: Originally posted in [community profile] rounds_of_kink.

Akadine really <i>was</i> starting to get old. )
bookblather: Matt Bomer in an open grey shirt against a landscape. (Jackson Hennessy : Matt Bomer)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Dawn
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Paris green 9 (City Island) with shadowsong's paint by numbers (It's quiet and foggy before dawn in cities by the water.)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Short films), novelty beads (this gif), acrylic (shimmer), feathers (First woman to swim the English Channel: Gertrude Ederle of New York, completing the swim in just under 15 hours, beating the men's record by almost two hours.), fabric (water at dawn)
Word Count: 622
Rating: G
Summary: Jack and Felix go for a dawn swim. Felix is less than pleased.
Warnings: none.
Notes: I am running late for work but this had to be written.

Dawn )
bookblather: Caterina Scorsone smiling at camera right. (in the heart: christine: caterina scorso)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Valentines
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Valentine's Day Pink saturation
Supplies and Materials: Miniature collection, seed beads, graffiti, novelty beads ("Lay All Your Love On Me," ABBA), glitter (Heart to Heart), yarn (The Rosette Nebula), feathers (Valentine's Day), cavnas, frame, watercolors (Sweethearts and Sweetie Pies), brush (billet doux)
Word Count: 1500
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Some minor couples being in love.
Warnings: recreational drug use, minor medical talk, subtly implied suicide.
Notes: welp that was a long dry spell. Here's hoping it goes better.


Valentines )
bookblather: Rachelle Lefavre in a blue sweater with loose hair, looking into the distance. (In the Heart : rachel : rachelle lefavre)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Trouble
Story: In the Heart
Colors: First light 6 (Talisman), David Bowie 10 (You've read it in the tea leaves, and the tracks are on TV →1984 (Diamond Dogs))
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Lilith Faire Second Stage: Unwritten Letter #1, Vienna Teng), miniature, seed beads, acrylic (ghost), oils (expectations), feathers (1998 Clinton-Lewinsky Affair), modeling clay (temptation), glue (You don't want to show your feelings because it only puts you in a more vulnerable position.)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Ivy can't cry.
Warnings: parental death.
Notes: Rachel is Ivy's cousin, and this is not her first infatuation.

Trouble )
auguris: Two women, one in front being silly, one behind looking annoyed. ([TU] Sisters)
[personal profile] auguris
Name: [personal profile] auguris
'verse: The Underground
Story: April 2002
Colors: Dirt Brown 12. Mud, Zing 4. have you been helped?
Supplies and Styles: Canvas, Feathers (The speed of a typical raindrop is 17 miles per hour.)
Word Count: 1123
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Benjamin takes a strange trip through the woods and meets a very nice lady.

April 2002 )
bookblather: Matt Bomer in an open grey shirt against a landscape. (Jackson Hennessy : Matt Bomer)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Hershey Kisses
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Color party 49 (Lusty-Gallant)
Supplies and Materials: Feathers (Sex for one hour will burn off 11 Hershey Kisses, or 360 calories.), novelty beads (kiss)
Word Count: 187
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack has game.
Warnings: none.
Notes: This is entirely the fault of the feathers prompt.

Hershey Kisses )

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