So remember how the other day, sanitysalarycelery riffed on the idea that maybe Hux's iconic ice blue couch was secretly a sex couch and he didn't know??

Well, I took that premise and ran with it. Instead of running to a funny / hilarious place, this time I ran to a Non-Con / power dynamics place. I gave it to Sanity as a gift! And they really liked it, so I'm calling this a success!

Sofa, So Good
Author: ArtemisDart
Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Ship: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Rape/Non-Con
Wordcount: 6,880

Summary: Armitage Hux was unaware that his favorite piece of furniture is apparently a 'sex couch.'

Kylo Ren holds him down on it and has his way with him — and Hux hates it, he hates it so much.

Except maybe — he doesn't?

Historically, I have a hard time with fics where Kylo is abusive — unless Hux ends up holding all the cards, somehow. I can't stand to leave Hux at Ren's mercy; I want Hux in charge. So that's what I did here. :-D

Current Mood: chipper

cornerofmadness

Just did laundry and finished my short story, steampunk 'day at the races' as a try for something in Louisville. Is it my best work? no. Will I have tons of competition? Some but who knows. Could use eyes on it.

I'm mostly here to do Music Monday and Women's history. Yes I missed saying something International Women's Day (I was beat) so today have the woman who started off my sabbatical research, someone I met in college and carried her story with me all these years Elizabeth Blackwell

As for music Monday, on the drive here the last radio station I go to (the one I listen to in this area) was having an International Women's Day fest by playing women artists (and mentioning iheartradio's women's history station) and in the next 1 1/2 hours they played 3 songs by women. 3...

So we can do better. THis monday I 'm taking a break from the list and let's just share songs written by, performed by women (however you care to define it)

( Women of Song )

Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: The Running Man

stonepicnicking_okapi

dannye_chase

Ghost on the Road: The Vanishing Hitchhiker

The Vanishing Hitchhiker is one of the most famous urban legends out there. The story goes like this: a driver of a car (or in older versions, a horse-drawn vehicle) stops to pick up a hitchhiker on a lonely road. The hitchhiker asks to be driven to a particular destination, but once they arrive, the driver finds the hitchhiker has somehow disappeared, even though the car never stopped moving.

The story ends with the driver realizing they picked up a ghost. There are a couple of ways to do this: if the destination was a house, the driver can question its occupants and find the hitchhiker has been dead for years, either because the driver recognizes their photo, or because it’s not the first time the hitchhiker has tried to get home, and the family is used to it. The ghost may have left an item in the car (book, scarf, lighter, or even bicycle) that the family recognizes, or they might have borrowed a jacket or other item from the driver, who later finds their item resting on the hitchhiker’s gravestone.

Vanishing hitchhikers are often the ghosts of people who were killed on the road where they were picked up, and they may ask to be taken to the destination they were trying to reach when they died. They may have even been hitchhiking there originally. A favorite variation of mine is when the hitchhiker requests to be driven to an airport, and it turns out they’re from a plane that crashed before landing, and they just want to finally make it to the runway. (Sometimes this hitchhiker even smells like jet fuel.)

Check out my blog post for the whole story and writing prompts, such as:

We meet again. Say the family of a woman killed in a road accident is used to drivers coming confused to their doors, holding the dead woman’s scarf. It’s such a regular occurrence that the family starts to wonder if they themselves might be able to pick up their lost loved one on the road. Would the phantom hitchhiker appear to her own family? What would they think on seeing her—especially if she looks injured or doesn’t seem to recognize them? Most importantly, would they finally be able to complete the journey, and bring the spirit of their loved one home? (And if they do make it work, do they come to wish they hadn’t?)

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stonepicnicking_okapi

It's Agust D day! And I love him.

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tinystarsfic

The old boiler clanged as it tried to fire itself up to begin dispersing heat to the facility. They’d been asking the administrators for months to get a new electrical system, but it was always “we don’t have the money” (but the administration sure seemed to take a lot of time off for not having a lot of money). Today though, it became a “have to fix” instead of “want to fix”. The boiler made a loud bang sound, and then the pressure dropped. It had officially quit. Thankfully, they still had electricity and could plug in some space heaters, but what they needed was a new heating system. And it seemed like they were now going to get it.

tinystarsfic

She sat down on the bench, taking a break for a minute. She’d forgotten how hard it was to pedal a bike for a long period of time. She had severely overestimated her stamina and ability to do both the biking to and from her house, as well as the park loop. Apparently she was more out of shape than she’d realized. Stopping and people watching for a few sounded like a good way to rest while she tried to motivate herself to get moving again. After about 20 minutes, she was ready to go. She’d make it home, and then she needed a long, hot bath to relax her muscles. She was going to pay for this tomorrow, but right now, it was kind of nice to be outside.

tinystarsfic

This was one of the more crowded flights he’d been on in a long time. Even though he was almost in the back, he didn’t mind. There were no screaming children on this one, and the airplane cabin noise was almost soothing. He knew his next flight was going to be chaos (since it was going to Orlando, and everyone and their dog flew there to go to Disney World), but for now, he just relaxed back as much as he could and enjoyed the people watching. Looked like seat 10B and 10 C were involved in some sort of argument (at least he presumed that’s why there was hand slapping going on); 13D and 13 E were tapping the in-flight entertainment screens in unison, and 18A’s head had just thunked against the window. Who said a 1 AM flight couldn’t be entertaining?

tinystarsfic

All she wanted to do was scream until there was no air left in her lungs. At this point, with the bag over her head, that shouldn’t have been too hard. This had to have been the worst day of her life so far, and unless things magically turned around, the end seemed better than the present. No one knew she was here, so they wouldn’t come looking for her. By the time they found her, it would be too late. She supposed it was for the best anyway; all she’d been was a disappointment to everyone. She took another breath and screamed into the void. The bag misted and she felt lightheaded. Maybe this was the beginning of the end.

tinystarsfic

“Please tell me you did not leave the door open when you knew there was going to be a sandstorm?” Tabitha asked, looking over at Jonathan.

“I didn’t?” Jonathan answered.

“That’s not very encouraging, you answering a question with a question,” Tabitha said.

“No, seriously, I didn’t. I made sure it was shut after I saw the forecast last night.”

“Well, I didn’t open it, so how did it get opened?” Tabitha asked.

They both looked at one another and then took a close look at the doorframe. Sure enough, there were pry marks on it, and you could see where the doorjamb had been broken.

“I didn’t notice anything missing, but then again, everything’s buried under a ton of sand,” Jonathan said.

“Let’s get it cleared out and then we’ll see what we have and make a report to the authorities.”

“Sounds good to me.”

blackrose_17

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tinystarsfic

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kitarella_imagines

So I sometimes like to discuss the craft of writing, when issues really hit me in the face. I'm not generally a fan of plotting stories, 3 act structures, rising and falling tension, midpoints etc. I usually just write but sometimes I can see how story structures are important.

I read a fanfic recently, I will not be giving any details as I don't want to embarrass the author. And it's nobody I know, just a random person on a website.

The fanfic showed clearly why we have a 3 act structure…because one vital part was missing.

The first half of the fic was two antagonists thrown together, they had to go on a rescue mission together and they didn't want to, so there were a few arguments, wondering how to actually achieve it, with few details.

The second half was afterwards. They’d done the mission, it was finished and they were discussing how it went with few details.

Can you see the problem?

( Read more... )

Current Mood: determined

alasse_irena

It's for real Monday this time! Today's prompt was "a song that makes you smile", so here is a poppy little song from Maisie Peters about how she's too good for the boy she's with and she's leaving him. Good for her.

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Also I fixed the embed problem, somehow. Mysteriously. I guess I'll go back and see if I can fix up the previous one.

( Prompst list )

shuufleur93

Catégories du défi lecture | #91 - Un roman de SF

Résumé : Pauvre Arthur Accroc! Apprendre qu'on est devenu père sans avoir... enfin rien fait pour ça, voilà de quoi ébranler le flegme le plus involontaire de toute la Galaxie! Suffisamment, en tout cas, pour aller se saouler sur une lointaine planète, dans un modeste bar tenu par une légende - toujours! vivante du rock' n roll...
Pas de panique! Car l'imprévisible Guide galactique, décidément irremplaçable, dévoilera enfin tous les mystères d'une odyssée digne des plus belles pages de Marx - Groucho Marx; entre autres, les raisons de la destruction approximative de la Terre, cette petite planète honteusement qualifiée de globalement inoffensive.

Choix du livre : C'est un livre de SF, jusque là tout va bien...

( Avis )

tielan

The two pullets we got a couple of weeks ago started going downhill from probably Friday night. We could only get them to the vet this afternoon (Monday).

They have antibiotics and we're crop-feeding them, but I don't think it's going to do much good.

Fifteen minutes later: Nien-Go is dead. We're not sure if Jima-wu is going to survive, although she was always doing better than dainty little Nien-Go.

( feeling like I failed )

estirose

Grab a paintbrush and follow me (508 words) by Estirose
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 剑兰女探社 | Excellent Women
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Yang Moli/Yao Zhidi (Excellent Women)
Characters: Yang Moli (Excellent Women)
Summary:

Yang Moli after the events of episode 32.

(Slight deviations from canon)

Episode 32 is the most current episode; it looks like the drama will have a season 2 (which is already filmed). Also, part of the last scene irritated me so I made minor alterations to it, otherwise Moli would be in emotionally worse condition than she is in canon.

I really don't expect either of these fics to get many hits; they might be a F/F couple but they're an obscure F/F couple on an equally obscure Chinese Web Drama. I'll definitely be asking for this fandom for Yuletide just so I might not be the only writer for it.

cornerofmadness

Made it to PA. Forgot my damn onion sets for the parents. Guess I'll be growing onions... And I didn't even bid at

fandomtrumpshate didn't realize it was that fast and I'm slightly salty about that. We didn't even get half a weekend to deal with this. Yes there were other days but jobs are a thing and so is time. Oh well. Oddly I don't really care that much. I can whip my money to charities on my own and there is always next year. Hope all my friends who DID manage to manage their time better than me got good requests and got the ones you were bidding on.

I have no thoughts for the writing side of things but I do have Ezio's character sheet done. Been noodling it (and letting it show me where the world building needs to happen) Ezio wasn't meant to be a central character but at this point I see 2 overarching story arcs and his is one. We meet him almost immediately after one of his dancers is murdered. I'd love opinions on this if you have time.

( Meet Ezio Zucca )

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nothing from Betty this week. I wasn't the only one with a con this weekend.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Sherlock Holmes

mistressofmuses

For Alex's birthday, we went to the aquarium! It had been a few years since we went, so it was exciting to get to go back, as always.

Splitting the pictures into two posts, so there aren't too too many in one post. No theme to which pictures are in which post, just a chronological trip through the aquarium.

I love these guys. You walk underneath them and look up at them schooling.

Fourteen more pictures below the cut:

This face made me laugh.

Very atypically-colored trout! It seemed to love showing off, coming right up to the glass, ha.

Posing so perfectly!

Across from the sturgeons (big), there's a reconstruction of a mosasaur (Very Big.)

Little shark and rays!

Smiling ravioli photobomb!

Multi-colored seahorses! I love them.

Seahorse!

The sea is full of bizarre creatures. (YOU CAN SEE THROUGH ITS FACE.)

A little flight of rays.

These guys were cool.

Sharks and flounder!

Little urchin and fashionable shell hat!

Impressive orange lipstick.

Such a lovely tank! So many sea stars.

(And now I am starting to really feel that "spring forward" thing, so I'm going to take a nap, haha.)

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: my apartment

stonepicnicking_okapi

This is my seventh year doing this challenge! Every day for seven days I will post a photo of a book. The rules, should you wish to participate, are that the book must be a physical book you own (no library books or borrowed books or ebooks) and the post has no caption but feel free to talk about the book in the comments. Here's the first.

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28

Unconventional Courtship

Sofa, So Good

Took a day off

Seven Days, Seven Covers 2026: Day Two