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Title: You're a Star, Kelley
Fandom: Women's Soccer RPF
Pairings: Hope Solo/Kelley O'Hara
Characters: Hope Solo, Kelley O'Hara
Rating: G
Length: 120 words
Summary: Kelley doubts herself and her connection to Hope.

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Title: Spare A Broom...
Word Count: ~1,100
Rating: NC-17
Characters & Pairing: Harry Potter/Katie Bell
Content: PWP, casual sex, kissing, cunnilingus, vaginal sex, cowgirl position, mildest of femdom if you squint.
Disclaimer: The characters, settings and HP Franchise as a whole are owned by JKR and not by me. I make no profit from writing this piece of fanfiction.
Summary: ...ride your seeker instead.
A/n: I wanted to write a little porn this sunday. Hope you enjoy.

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Pairings/Characters: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Rating: Mature
Length: wc 5541
Content Notes No AO3 warning apply
Creator Links: AO3 profile
Theme: Inept in Love

Summary: "We had a fight and he dumped me." Foofy humor.

Reccer's Notes This is a funny and delightful gem that just goes to show you that even when in an established relationship, John and Rodney (esp John) are horribly inept in love.

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dreadlordmrson

Another week another batch of work on Sex Kitten to talk about.

This time I was working on refining existing designs and adding some new ones to the cast. Also a little bit of body work. Today, all the heads are from the same angle. :p
I'll try to vary that more next time.
I think I need to start drawing people "in place"? That is, imagine something they'd likely be doing in the comic or their lives, and draw them in a pose that fits that. Instead of just trying to do different poses for the sake of different poses.
Use context to keep me on track and motivate me, and stretch my skill so I'm not constantly doing the same thing.

BUT.
For today!

I also have some NAMES for some of these characters.

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feotakahari

Lunya was seemingly eaten by a dragon, but is inexplicably okay and won't give a straight answer as to why. Also, she healed herself somehow after breaking her arm. Also, she can apparently dismember monsters with her bare hands (conveniently offscreen.)

From what I've seen so far, it looks like she's not going to turn out to secretly be a dragon-girl. I'm disappointed.

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Current Location: Istanbul, Turkey

mrsluigivargas

It's just the one fic. I'm very sleepy.

like a magnet by Yotsubadancesintherain5
Super Mario
Princess Daisy/Luigi
Fluff, Humor, Established Relationship
130 words | One-shot
Luigi is late for the date that he has with Daisy.

Current Mood: tired

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Theme Prompt: #290 - Princess
Title: It is known
Fandom: Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Rating/Warnings: M
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Dany is in a strange land where old titles give way to new ones.

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lb_lee

Okay, I know there are folks who do Font Stuff and I am at my wits end so I throw myself on y'all's mercy. I have a couple fonts. One, Hershey Noailles Old French 2.5, is a bold version of the other, Hershey Noailles Old French.

And I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME get my computer to see that. At first, it insisted they were two completely different, unrelated fonts, so I popped them into FontForge, renamed them to have the same family and named one Hershey Noailles Old French with weight Regular and the other Hershey Noailles Old French Bold with weight Bold. That at least got my computer to go, "Ah, I see, these are indeed the same family, one is bold and one is regular!" which is great... but now my computer insists that the two fonts are identical. I do not know why, they very clearly are not when I open them individually in Font Forge... but they show up as identical in Font Viewer too! And any time I try to use it, I get the bold face, and I cannot get the regular one.

I am giving up for now but ARGH. (And all of this could've been avoided if the font distributor had just NAMED THEM RIGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE!)

Current Mood: frustrated
Crossposts: https://lb-lee.insanejournal.com/13399.html

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Current Music: Dashboard - Modest Mouse

palominocorn

The phenomenon of shower thoughts will start to disappear as soon as smartphones become reliably waterproof.

wolffyluna

Starting this January, I have been playing G. Ray's SpeciesQuest. It is a asynchronous online competition to go out and See Species. People pick a reasonable taxonomic group, and try to see the largest percentage of species in that taxa in that area (local%), or they they try and find the largest number of species in that taxa everywhere (Total Species.)

I have decided to go for Total Species in both Bird and Butterflies.

I have had, let's say, extemely limited success with the butterflies. But the birds? Oh boy, the birds. I fear I have caught the bug. I'll be a full on twitcher by the end of the year if I don't stop myself.

Though I can't regret it, because it seems to be doing good things with my brain. I'm much more attune to movement now, and I keep getting little jolts of "!" every time I see a bird, even if it's one I have seen many times before. (It at the least, makes up for all the moments of "drat!" when I am too slow or unable to photograph a new one :P. Petition for new birds to stop showing up at work or when I am driving.) I think that little regular moment of 'yay, a galah!' is good for me.

But the more dramatic to me personally is how it's changed the way I interact with the soundscape. I'm learning new bird calls, but I'm also learning ones that it turns out I already subconsciously knew but weren't paying attention to. And like that little bit of dopamine at seeing a common bird in flight, it's nice to step outside and immediately go "oh, that's a magpie lark call. Yay, I like magpie larks!"

Anyway. Next time I'm off work, I'm going to the Big Bookstore to buy a field guide, and I'm hoping they have one that covers both the region I live and the region I work. (I have been using Merlin, which is very helpful... but it also keeps going "We only know ~30% of the birds in your area :(" )

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Title: Celebrity status
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: Jack, Ianto
Author: m_findlow
Rating: PG
Length: 779 words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Written for Challenge 504 - Star
Summary: Jack has a problem with the local interest in a fly by night popstar.

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feotakahari

I feel like "fucked up" is measured logarithmically. You've got Winnie the Pooh, and you've got fucked-up work A, and they form what feels like a complete scale from 1 to 10. Then you've got fucked-up work B, and it makes A feel like a 1 in comparison, so the new scale goes from 10 to 100. Then fucked-up work C is 1000.

I'm not sure how many levels it goes through, and I'm not sure where the top is as far as fiction. Maybe one of the Guinea Pig movies? I think any fiction is a 1 compared to some nonfiction, though.

What really interests me is trying to find the lowest 10. What's the least fucked-up thing that makes some people go "This is 10 out of 10 fucked up; it can't get any more fucked up than this?" E.g. some people have a very strong reaction to any mention of cannibalism.

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Fandom: The LEGO Movie
Pairings/Characters: Finn, The Man Upstairs
Rating: Gen
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply
Length: 735 words
Creator Links: AO3 profile
Theme: Inept in Love

Summary: A brief fic focusing on Finn and The Man Upstairs after the events of the first movie.

Reccer's Notes: This is a simple, effective story about Finn and his father repairing their relationship, and reflecting on the story Finn created and what it meant to them both. I always found the implications of what their father-son relationship is like in the first movie really interesting, so it was nice to find a fic that delved into it.

Fanwork Links: AO3 link

awanderingbard

Hello, all! Happy Olympics to all who celebrate. I hope, if it is something you enjoy, you can use it to have a little break from...*gestures vaguely at everything*

I'm going to divide this entry up into three parts: health, writing, drawing.

Health

 Once again I have angered the Tooth Fairy. On Christmas Eve, I was eating a cookie and it had a piece of candy cane stuck to it from another dessert nearby, which I did not notice, and I bit it. It seemed fine at the time, but by the next day, I had some pain in that tooth. Sometimes my shoulders refer into my teeth, and I'd been carrying stuff, and lifting Pax, and crocheting. and I'd helped Mum up off a low chair at my brother and SIL's house, and I thought that maybe I'd hurt it. And it was Christmas, so the dentist was closed anyway. But everything on my left side just really hurt like hell, so I called on the first Monday they were open. I had a fractured filling which he repaired, and we thought that was it, but it was okayish for about a week, then everything erupted again. I am notoriously paranoid about my teeth, so I always doubt if there's a problem or if I'm just being 'sensitive' and I was like 'no, they fixed it, you're being silly', but I finally went in yesterday after a month's worth of pain to check it, and the dentist thinks I have at least an infection if not also a cracked tooth. The tooth already has a root canal, so we're doing antibiotics and hoping that will settle it. If not it will need to be pulled. My third extraction in three years. I try so hard with oral hygiene, but I grind like hell and my molars are feeling it with all the stress we've had over the last few years. I do everything to not grind, but my brain wants to grind and I can't control when I am asleep, and the mouthguard can only do so much. I'm glad at least to have the antibiotics and hopefully help some of the pain. I am a-weary, though.

Writing

I have distracting myself with the adventures of my OCs. I'm trying to go back now and fill in the story, sort out the timeline, which is hard when there is time travel involved. I wish I'd started differently and now to change it, everything else has to shift and move around, so I'm trying to see what I can salvage. It was just meant to be a sort of short story, but then these idiots had to go and be adorable and make me want to write about them ad infinitum. I have a Pinterest board and a freaking family tree for one of them, and it's just...stupid brain hyperfixating. I am having lots of fun, though. I've been trying to improve my prose. I feel like my dialogue is good, and I like to write dialogue, but the in between bits need work and I have trouble with that. In fanfic that isn't as important, I guess, because people know what the setting and characters look like, so you don't need to describe them as much. In original fiction, I have to establish it. I read all these books with beautiful descriptions that flow and sound great and get inspired and sit down to write and it's like 'there is a tree, it is tall and green and has a squirrel in it'. One of my characters narrates pretty well, the other one's voice is a little more matter of fact and he fights me on it. Probably will improve with practice? I hope?

Drawing

I'm still on my drawing kick. Trying to learn to draw faces. I originally started with the grid method which worked, but is kind of like a 'paint by numbers' method, where you can copy a reference well but doesn't teach you to abstract into other poses if you don't have the exact photo or like the pose but want to change the face. So, I've been messing around, watching a lot of tutorials and alternately feeling I'm improving and then hating what I draw. I feel like my faces look like people now, but not necessarily the people I'm aiming to draw. And I'm, of course, trying to draw my characters, so I am now intimately acquainted with the features of my Face Casts for them. Which makes me notice things like that Ben Whishaw has a slightly lazy eye (kind of funny, given I gave Q amblyopia back in the day), and Matt Bomer has a short nose area and/or large forehead area. Also eyes and mouths are hard, just in general. And fuck side profiles.

Anyway, things are otherwise copacetic. We've had a ton of snow, which is not fun with us three invalids around. Getting anywhere feels like I'm preparing to go to Mordor. Pax is loving it though, he's a winter boy, and he's a very good boy who has been so well-behaved while I haven't felt well, letting me rest and being happy and his best self. I've also been doing a bunch of quizzes on Sporcle to keep myself busy. I like memorizing things, so I've been on a kick of trying to learn as many Marvel superheroes as possible and beating my score each time. It's fun, I swear.

Hang in there, enjoy your Olympics, and we'll make it through! Talk to you soon!