[personal profile] paradoxcase
Name: A New Year
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Ecru #4: Talk, Techelet #4: Tashlich (casting off sins)
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Gift Wrap, Panorama, Stain ("The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity."), Novelty Bead ("petting", given here)
Word Count: 1634
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: Night of 1911.9.5.6; 1912.1.1.1
Summary: A new year arrives, and with it, a change of heart.

A New Year )
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Hidden Lights
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #28 (Beg steal or borrow); Azul #30 (Token of strength or loyalty)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Pastels (also for [community profile] no_true_pair prompt March 26th - Leion & Pello at the beach) + resin (also for [community profile] allbingo May color fest square "true colors.") + Giftwrap + Triptych + Novelty Beads - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/09/8b/00098b9d3a37c21ed8bd3ee00da58c7c.jpg (September Secrets 2020) + "Fire Opal" (Birthday prompts 2020) + Graffiti - for the May Parents challenge.
Word Count: 1918
Rating: PG
Warnings: Brief mention of possible death, risk of drowning, abandonment.
Notes: 1297-1306, Portcallan; Pello Ahblan, Joend Ahblan, Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Tam Jadinor. (Introducing a new character who we're going to see more of in time. The end scene of this takes place immediately after the recent Atino and Leion sequence.)
Summary: Pello's fascination with starstone leads to an unexpected encounter on the beach at midnight.

Hidden Lights )
[personal profile] paradoxcase
Name: Naming Day
Story: The Year Universe
Colors: Fresh Thyme #4: Countdown
Styles and Supplies: Panorama, Life Drawing, Gift Wrap, Parchment, Resin (Three weeks for Dreamwidth), Watercolors ("In his introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2019, guest editor Anthony Doerr lists several dos and don’ts one often hears about writing short stories and describes his love for reading and writing stories that break those very rules. Some of the rules Doerr mentions are: “Don’t start with a character waking up. Jump right into the action. Exposition is boring. Backstory slows you down. Stick with a single protagonist. Make sure he or she is likable. Don’t break up chronology.” This week, think carefully about the reasoning behind one of these oft-cited rules, then write a story that explicitly goes against it. How can the incorporation of an aspect of experimentation or innovation effectively push against the possibly clichéd rationale behind the original rule?" - This breaks both "Backstory slows you down" and "Don't break up chronology.")
Word Count: 3847
Rating: T
Warnings: Brief discussion of sex/sexuality
Characters: Ghefairh, Zheinnau, Dhashtu, Kheosaid, King Izalla, Vozkhunh
In-Universe Date: I haven't decided on exact dates for this one, but this takes place a couple decades after Qhoroali's time in the Fulcrum.
Summary: Ghefairh Nhorei Kondi attends a Naming Day.
Notes: Slight break from the Fulcrum for a couple posts. Since I think we just got all the Tharse worldbuilding we're going to get in the Fulcrum, and I need to use up this prompt that doesn't really work well with a time travel story, I'm posting this now. This is the first part of a story in the same universe as the Fulcrum that takes place in Tharse and Meandhshen and is (eventually) going to be about the Cothas religion that was mentioned at the very beginning of the Fulcrum. I haven't outlined it anywhere near as thoroughly, and I don't know exactly how everything here will tie into the rest of the plot, but I had a very clear idea about how the story was going to begin. There will probably not be more of this until I finish the Fulcrum, however.

A note about the spellings: In the Fulcrum, I was using an apostrophe for the retroflex consonants, but for this story I am switching to using h, because it looks way less cursed when there are multiple of them in the same word (imagine if I had written "D'as'tu" up there, for example). Kh and gh are actually velar fricatives here, but all other h indicate retroflexes. I'll continue to use the apostrophe in the Fulcrum, since there are only two Tharsi names there and one of them is actually a fake name invented by Mázghwent.

Gift Wrap here is for the Naming Day, the wedding, and the two wedding anniversaries, and Parchment because I actually did write something for this story fifteen years ago when I first got the idea for it. The worldbuilding has changed so much now that it's almost completely unrecognizable, but it was the same basic story idea. I might rewrite that particular piece later for Reimagining credit here.

Naming Day )
[personal profile] paradoxcase
Name: The Way to the Fair
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Nacarat #10: Ré nao (Mandarin): A place with a fun and entertaining vibe where you just want to be.
Styles and Supplies: Gift Wrap
Word Count: 2950
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy drug (ab)use
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye, Cyaru
In-Universe Date: 1911.8.5.1, Summer 1904
Summary: Qhoroali and her friends go on an outing.
Notes: Gift Wrap for Qhoroali's birthday.

The Way to the Fair )
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: open the wild inside
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #6 (Harder they fall); Warm Heart #11 (Torn)
Supplies and Styles: Sculpture + Canvas + Chiaroscuro + Giftwrap
Word Count: 3076
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mind control, illness, manipulation.
Notes: 1306, Portcallan. Leion Valerno/Atino Barra, Donn Chiulder, Tana Veldiner, Aima Beconil, Tessine Hyan, Tam Jadinor. More of the backstory Leion won't talk about. Sculpture as this builds up on what happens before/after Bedazzled (a Colour of the Day piece, which I re-edited into this one.) Giftwrap because it's set around the Sea Festival.
Summary: Leion goes undercover to prove his stepfather wrong and nearly loses his mind.

open the wild inside )
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Hope is the Thing With Feathers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Dark Scarlet #9 (Threads of silk and gold); Vert #1 (Hope)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Graffiti (January Canvas & Frames Challenge) + Photography + Panorama + Giftwrap
Word Count: 421
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: c.000s-020s, probably somewhere in the Eister Ranges in Emoyra or High Eisterland. Hylia, and her legend. Includes some Old Calendar name lists and the current general Emoyran month names. (Hylia was mentioned very obliquely in the piece where Viyony tells Leion that most cities still have Birdmasters with Hylian messenger birds.) Giftwrap, because while not strictly a gift as such, two of my friends who have been kind enough to read these pieces love birds, so [personal profile] persiflage_1 and [personal profile] theseatheseatheopensea, I hope you'll like this bird-related snippet of legend!
Summary: The legend of Hylia and the calendar, taken from The History of Eisterland (written in the 5th C by Seso Bialdis; this version from the 13th C Emoyran translation, pub. 1286.)

Hope is the Thing With Feathers )
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: lead me out on the moonlit floor
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #4 (Once bitten); Light Black #10 (pull)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Silhouette + Graffiti - October Challenge (Fictober Prompt #4 "No, we're not doing this.") + Resin (also for [community profile] lyricaltitles square "90s song" - Kiss Me by Sixpence None The Richer.) + Triptych + Giftwrap
Word Count: 1332
Rating: PG
Warnings: Ostracisation/rejection.
Notes: 1300, 1303, 1306, 1311, 1313 Eseray, Mirambridge, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Guileot Fazhey, Leion Valerno.
Summary: Viyony's curse can't be broken with a kiss.

lead me out on the moonlit floor )
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[personal profile] shadowsong26
Name: shadowsong26
Story: It's Not Simple to Say
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Warm Light #14. We all write our own endings and we all have our own scars
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire Day Eight Main Stage), photography, canvas, seed beads, gift wrap (engagement)
Word Count: 270
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Emily Horndil
Warnings: Discussion of family estrangement.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always. Emily is Mariko's paternal great-grandmother.


Read more... )
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[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Your Holy Validation
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Wild thyme 2 (cometh the hour)
Supplies and Materials: Graffiti (Raising Hell, Kesha), miniature, pointillism, gift wrap, novelty beads (cheers)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: New Year's Eve and an epiphany for Danny.
Warning: none
Notes: I actually didn't think I was gonna get this one because it's so firmly attached to a different character in my head, but here we are.

Your Holy Validation )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Dance With Me
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #30 (stop); Vert #30 (Stronger together than we are apart)
Supplies and Styles: Giftwrap + Novelty Beads (via April Food Challenge: this image)
Word Count: 1946
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Kadia Barra, Ivina Gerro, Tessine Hyan. Takes place a short while after Full Circle.
Summary: Enough is enough.

Dance With Me )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Inheritance
Story: Starfall
Colors: Heirloom Silver; Beet Red #10 (Run before you walk)
Supplies and Styles: Saturation + Canvas + Giftwrap (for the last section)
Word Count: 4598
Rating: PG
Warnings: mentions of blood and death.
Notes: 1290-1313, Eseray. Viyony Eseray, Karpeldis Reohrsyn, Isiyan Eseray, Laiyna Eseray, Guileot Fazhey, Viltarn Miramy, Imoren Fioris. Another of my attempts to do the February Saturation challenge; this one intended as a companion set to the Leion & Portcallan one.
Summary: Viyony, and Eseray.

Inheritance )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Dancing Attendance
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #7 (Devotion); Azul #21 (Dedicated)
Supplies and Styles: Resin (for [community profile] no_true_pair) + Giftwrap + Novelty Beads (from 11 Years, September Secrets - try it)
Word Count: 1256
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno, Viyony Eseray. Written for [community profile] no_true_pair's March 2024 mini-round, for March 26th's prompt: "1 [Leion Valerno] & 2 [Viyony Eseray] - bad jokes."
Summary: This is getting past a joke...

Dancing Attendance )
bookblather: George Clooney in a suit and sunglasses, looking at the camera. (Christopher Hennessy : George Clooney)
[personal profile] bookblather
Author: Kat
Title: Expectations
Story: Shine Like It Does
Colors: Wedding dress white saturation, ecru 9 (prefer)
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads (Katie is an old friend of Christopher's), miniature collection, wood (I genuinely don't know when I started this but it was at least one computer ago), stain (Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller), novelty beads ("I could leave but I'll just stay;/All my stuff's here anyway." - Pinch Me, Barenaked Ladies), gift wrap (it's all about a wedding), canvas (the Hennessy kids are either very young or not born, I haven't quite figured out the timeline)
Word Count: 1500
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Katie getting married.
Warning: parental... abuse? Neglect? Something in there.
Notes: I'm not using this as a prompt, but happy birthday, Mr. Potato.

Expectations )
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[personal profile] ilthit
Name: Mermaid and Sailor
Story: Uncategorized
Colors: Chocolate-Dipped Strawberry #1 (flirt), Psychedelic Purple #27 (I get shy when they start to stare)
Supplies and Styles: gift wrap, pastels (ladiesbingo "wildcard"), resin; illustration, silhouette, life drawing
Word Count: n/a
Rating: teen
Warnings: Female-presenting nipples.
Note: I started this for [community profile] multifandomdoodle exchange but only now finished it, so now I am adding it to my [community profile] ladiesbingo card. It was originally for [personal profile] minoanmiss and still is.
Summary: A black and white drawing of a mermaid and a sailor girl sitting on a pier by the sea, making flirty eyes at each other, styled like a vintage postcard (but not purely in that style, using my comfort zone style of lineart and shading).

Read more... )
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[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Head in the Clouds
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #4 (pictures in the clouds); Tourmaline #15 (feather/lead)
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti - 11 Years of Rainbowfic Pt 12 (anniversary/birthday) + Giftwrap
Word Count: 893
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: late 1320, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Leaira Modelen. (Leaira is about 8 here, while this takes place 7 years after the Portcallan arc for Leion. The Starflower Day mentioned is the anniversary of the Emoyran regions uniting into one country.)
Summary: Leion finds a child in the garden.

Head in the Clouds )
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart
Artist: Chibi
Story: Kittybox
Color: Agate (bless/curse)
Styles and Supplies: Tapestry (Illustration), Illustration, Seed Beads, Gift Wrap, Graffiti (Ice-breaker)
Image: 1 kitty
Warnings: angel/devil theming
Notes: cat does not actually have horns

bless the cursed and curse the blessed )
himejoshiheart: tbh creature but fictional fanon cowboy man. the endo flag is overlaid over it and if you tell me to kms over that you can eat my entire ass (Default)
[personal profile] himejoshiheart
Artist: Chibi
Story: Kittybox
Color: Agate (work/play)
Styles and Supplies: Tapestry (Illustration), Illustration, Seed Beads, Gift Wrap, Graffiti (Ice-breaker)
Image: 1 kitty
Warnings: none!
Notes: they say work and play aren't so different sometimes. did you know this little mouser does it all for fun?


do cats even do things for payment? )
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[personal profile] himejoshiheart
Artist: Chibi
Story: Kittybox
Color: Agate (befriend/betray)
Styles and Supplies: Tapestry (Illustration), Illustration, Seed Beads, Gift Wrap, Graffiti (Ice-breaker)
Image: 1 kitty
Warnings: none!


yeah I just colorpicked from hibby with this one  )
himejoshiheart: tbh creature but fictional fanon cowboy man. the endo flag is overlaid over it and if you tell me to kms over that you can eat my entire ass (Default)
[personal profile] himejoshiheart
Artist: Chibi
Story: Kittybox
Color: Agate (safety/danger)
Styles and Supplies: Tapestry (Illustration), Illustration, Seed Beads, Gift Wrap, Graffiti (Ice-breaker), Life Drawing (abuse victim)
Image: 1 kitty
Notes:... she still freaks out and bites sometimes.


behold! a safety and danger themed cat! )

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