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A Needed Ally (400 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore, Sword-Dancer Saga - Jennifer Roberson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Catti-brie [Dungeons & Dragons], Delilah [Sword-Dancer Saga]
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion
Summary:

Catti runs into an ally

A Needed Ally

Catti-brie would have given a lot of treasure to never see a desert again, but here she was in one that made Calimshan look civilized. The next time she was offered 'something different, something new, just track this wee artifact down' by ANY Harper, she would remember to say 'no'.

About the second time she broke a man's wrist for trying to touch her in brutish ways, she heard a 'ssstt' from one side and a welcome, if unexpected face peered at her, all pale in a sea of darker shades.

"Del?" Catti asked as she made it through the throng to the woman.

"You're a long way from where we met," the elder woman said. "Why are you in the Southron lands?"

"Looking for a trinket that supposedly got traded down here. Care to help me out?"

"Call the debt for the Moonshaes closed, and you have my aid. Possibly my partner's."

Catti-brie wrinkled her nose. "Ne'er counted a debt on helping ye. But if'n it means ye can help me before I have tae kill a man, done!"

"Kill one, ten more will appear," Del answered with a sigh.

"Glad as I met up with ye," Catti-brie said.

"You might not be if Tiger's still addled with liquor." Del's wry smile made her look a little younger, and Catti was glad to see it on her. She'd found the woman very driven, hard-pressed by her past, and too rare in her smiles.

"Dwarf-raised. Can deal with the hangover," Catti told her with a grin.

"You haven't met Tiger yet," Del warned. "Good thing you wear your blade at the hip; over the shoulder is a definite mark of a sword-dancer, and you'd be challenged to prove you can use them."

"I think I'd prove capable," Catti-brie answered with justifiable pride in her skill. After all, Drizzt had been her teacher.

"Yes, but it brings even more attention than just your looks."

"I should nae ask how many ye had to prove your skill to?"

"I lost count," Del said blandly, leading up a narrow alley before getting them inside a cooler building. Both took in the small space, lacking any person at all. "Hmm, maybe he didn't make it back this morning.

"So tell me about the trinket, while we have peace from Tiger's belly-aching."

Catti-brie settled to do just that, eager to be done with this quest.

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kingstoken

Challenge #6

Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?

I don't really consider myself a "gamer". I used to play some video games occasionally, but I haven't really lately, I haven't even been playing games on my phone lately, which is something I used to enjoy, but its kind of fell to the wayside. The most recent game I played was "The Beekeeper's Picnic" which is a cozy Sherlock Holmes game. I'm ashamed to say I finished the first level and didn't continue, but I do hope to get back to it at some point because I've heard that it is really sweet and enjoyable.

I used to enjoy board games, but I currently don't have anyone to play them with. I wish I knew some people locally that I could play board games with, because there seems to be a way larger selection of games for adults now then there was years ago.

Anyways, I hope this answer wasn't too much of a downer.

scifirenegade

My apologies to the flist. I read all your posts, I just don't know what to comment.

scifirenegade

Title: So flashes and so fades my thought, at strife
Rating: General
Fandom: Anders als die Andern (1919)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Kurt(/Paul)
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For

comment_fic. Prompt was "having trouble remembering specific aspects of someone they lost". Also for

sweetandshort's This and That Challenge, the theme is "Rare Fandoms".

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Wary Arrival (400 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonlance, The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar [Dragonlance], Drizzt Do'Urden
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary:

Drizzt gets shoved off-plane and meets a Dark Elf... by some standards.

Wary Arrival

Drizzt Do'Urden was not a man to allow anything to leave him flat-footed for long. The tail had whipped around too fast, flung him back through the gate when it stole his breath with the thud against his chest, but he rolled with the blow, and came up, swords already back in their ready position… to find the gate had no visible sign on this side, and his eyes were streaming tears from the change of tree-dappled shade and sun to the glare of multiple light sources in a confined space.

Sound told him two bodies, both in loose rustling clothes, and the air pressure spoke of several obstacles in a small space.

"Deal with him; he's some sort of elf," a voice said, and Drizzt realized the sound of it was being translated through the arm-band he'd been gifted with, an artifact for translation.

Thankfully, it worked on his words too.

"Peace, unless you are in league with the dark ranger and druid I was fighting," Drizzt said.

"Magic," a second voice said, and now Drizzt knew where both were more clearly.

"How interesting," came a sardonic reply to that, and Drizzt could all but feel the jaded sense in the speaker.

"If you are both familiar with magic," he hazarded, "I can try and trade knowledge," he offered, smelling books and ink, "for a return to my rightful place before any of the archmages I work with come seeking me."

"Deal," the second voice answered, with only the slightest sigh from the first. As a show of peace, Drizzt flipped his swords into their scabbards, and ignored his injuries in favor of forcing his eyes to work. One elf, one… that was not quite a human, if he were to guess, for all the man likely had begun as such.

"Drizzt Do'Urden."

"Dalamar Nightson," the elf with bronze skin said. "And he is Raistlin Majere," he added when the once-human did not respond to the question of names implicit in the introduction. "Let us get our impressions of the portal that spit you out, and then we will decide further how to proceed."

Drizzt nodded once, and started working on his injuries, relieved that Mielikki's magic could aid him still — and aware that the one called Raistlin was studying him more than where he'd fallen from. There was a sense of foreboding, and Drizzt would stay on guard.

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Blue (300 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dragonlance, Sword-Dancer Saga - Jennifer Roberson
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Kitiara uth Matar [Dragonlance], Skie [Dragonlance], Delilah [Sword-Dancer Saga]
Additional Tags: Crossover, Triple Drabble
Summary:

Del, exiled to a new world, meets another woman

Blue

These lands that Del explores are nothing like the homeland she is exiled from. There are strange beings, stranger creatures, and this one… huge, reptilian, graceful fills her view and she is unafraid. Only as an afterthought does she take in the human woman upon the creature whose hide is so blue as to rival sapphires in their brilliance.

"She's not afraid of us, Skye," the human says aloud, voice meant to carry, and Del can understand, because of the exile ritual that cast her here.

"I fear nothing on sight, and few on action," Del declares, and the woman laughs.

"Skie, should we keep this strange woman, so pale and pretty who carries her sword on her back like a gladiator?"

The blue creature turns its head to appraise Del with one baleful eye. "Such lack of fear is commendable," a basso voice comes from it, and Del stands her ground when the large head pokes toward her. "I would consent to allowing you to bring her back."

"I suggest you climb up here swiftly, as the army is not far behind me… and most of them will only see your curves, not that steel," the hard-muscled woman says with a quirk of her mouth that says much on her opinions of such.

Del doesn't hesitate. This woman has power, and the — Skie — Skie radiates it as well. If she is to be exiled, she wishes power of her own, to find her way home some day.

"Call me Del." She climbs swiftly, aided by one long line tossed down.

"Kitiara. And Skie, as mentioned."

No more words follow, as Skie flings himself back into the blue heavens above, and Del learns the thrill of wind rushing around her, tucked in behind Kitiara.

This is a good start here.

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senmut

Okay, because I don't always play right with horror flicks, I'd let myself get as spoilered as I could for this movie. I have been LOVING the gifs and the art and the meta and the analysis.

Tonight, I finally got to watch Sinners for the first time, beginning to end. What is below the cut is my live-reaction. I don't have cohesive thoughts. I am still at BEST VAMPIRE MOVIE BEST BLUES MOVIE BEST MAKE ME THINK MOVIE. Oh right, warning for my potty mouth. I do tend to curse as emphasis.

No, really, I was posting in a Discord thread as I watched, so if you HAVE NOT seen it, do not click this line

So far, loving the shit out of it
So rural Mississippi
Shoots a pair of would be thieves, and pays to have them patched up? My kinda guys
Love the Asian couple
DelRoy Lindo is solid
Love the music.
The characters feel solid fast

Feeling all the pain of what we did to the black man
So uncouth, lol
That was in reference to all the sex talk
Aww fuck the flowers were for his dead baby girl
I love that Annie follows older traditions

Smoke is named Elijah
Yoruba language (ETA: The actress has been studying it since 2020, and it is her heritage)
Aww yeah the Choctaw scene
Oh man I haven't heard that language in years
Messy vampires

Mary passing gives her trouble with the black folk
Gods I need a trilogy of these people before this
Stack trying to protect Mary
Michael B Jordan must have had a vocal coach

ETA: actually, I rather liked that the accents came off as they did in ALL of them, despite a bunch of non-Southern actors. It was a conscious way of shifting vowels, swallowing some of the words, a particular pattern to the speaking that never jarred me out of the setting. Then again, I have been accused of talking like a Yankee my whole life because I grew up at a military base and didn't fall full on into the accent of my blood kin.

Sammie is stealing my heart
Trippy effect
The mix of past and future is phenomenal
Have goosebumps from this scene
Shit is about to break out

Remmick, Joan and Bert...
Something uncanny in how the trio moved
Oh hellfire. Mary trying to find a way to make the money. That's how this starts the horror fest

Oh man. The power pole making a cross behind the trio
Remmick is ... Very Toreador, presence and auspex
Even celerity
And Mary is in. As a vampire
Stack is Elias
Cornbread is next victim

The drooling is weird
And we started
Stack!
Smoke is so broken and Annie is trying and it hurts

Haint. Love it
Aww fuck yeah horror time
Stack, honey. You're not yourself any more
Annie switched up to vampire instead of haint. Used pickled garlic
I love the lore

Smoke holds Stack better than himself so this hurts so much
Jack O'Connell does Irish song well

Grace and Bo, it hurts
This is so fucking good
Poor Grace
Family, freedom, ties and chains... All solid themes
Grace broke and I can't blame her
Hell yeah

Fucking hell, Stack got Annie
Slim!!!!!
The brothers fighting
Everyone trying to save Sammie
Protean as well (ETA: back to World of Darkness Disciplines I was seeing in play; Protean is very NOT Toreador)
Smoke with the save
Gods this is fucking so good

And Smoke about to finish the mortal evil
Klan about to die
Oh oh oh I cry
Fuck this movie is perfect

Stack and Mary, coming to see Sammie
Smoke made him promise and he kept it
Love them
Favorite vampire movie

Okay maybe cohesive, lifted from reading that. Themes: Family. Ties that bind. Ties that choke. Freedom. Chains. Racism, of course. Setting your own rules in an unjust world, keeping to your set of morals. Choosing not to be evil doesn't mean choosing to be pure. LOVE.

If you like vampire movies, watch this. If you like movies that showcase the struggle of black lives trying to rise up, watch this movie. If you like complicated leads, watch this movie. One jumpscare that I noticed, and the gore has that 'real enough for the movie vibe, not real enough to gross me out' and it is mostly fake blood.

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purplecat

High ruined castle walls with windows set in them and a turret at one corner. Low walls where once were rooms below.

Harlech

scifirenegade

Title: Overwhelming
Rating: Teen and Up
Fandom: Ich und die Kaiserin (1933)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Juliette/The Marquis of Pontignac
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For

comment_fic. Prompt was "Behold...puppies". Also for

sweetandshort's This and That Challenge, the theme is "Rare Fandoms".

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Current Mood: calm

kingstoken

Challenge #5

Journaling prompt: Be a carnival barker for your favorite movie, book, or show! Write a post that showcases the best your chosen title has to offer and entices passersby to check it out.

This one isn't a favourite per se, but I did recently watch and enjoy it, it's Sherlock & Daughter.

Title: Sherlock & Daughter

Media: Television series

Approx length: 8 episodes, approx 8 hours

Where to find it: CW/HBO Max

What is it, in summary?: A young woman from the US named Amelia arrives at 221B claiming to be Sherlock Holmes' daughter. Holmes doubts this claim. At the same time Holmes is in a terrible bind, his dear friends Doctor Watson and Mrs Hudson have been kidnapped, and if he wants them to remain alive the kidnappers have said he is not to investigate any crimes. He takes Amelia on as his maid/assistant and she goes out into the world collecting clues and information so Holmes can make deductions and appear uninvolved.

What do you love about it?: First off I wanted to say if you are looking for a book accurate Sherlock Holmes adaptation this is not the show for you, I would instead suggest the Granada series which I talk about here. This show runs more on Holmes style vibes than anything else, plus this is supposed take place several years after the events of the books. It is also a very "CW" version of Sherlock Holmes, by which I mean there was a lot of focus on the young characters, in this case Amelia, who I did like, lots of drama and action. I'm probably not explaining it well, but if you've watched CW shows from the past you get their style and vibe.

Anyways, with all the caveats aside, I did enjoy this for what it was, and I found the overarching mystery interesting enough as they tried to figure out how Watson and Mrs Hudson's kidnapping was connected to other crimes. Also, the characters were likeable, I did like the actor who played Holmes, he's not my fave by any means, no one will probably ever top Brett for me, but I still enjoyed his take on Holmes.

As of right now, the CW has not renewed the show, however, I will say the main overarching storyline of the season is wrapped up by the end. There were a couple of minor plotlines left open for the possibility of a second season, but you can enjoy the one season as a complete story.

Content warnings: There is murder and violence, I say fairly typical of murder mysteries. There is a scene where a very minor character commits suicide.

Who do I ship?: Holmes/Watson. Watson is barely in the season and I still ship them! There are a few small moments throughout the season where you can tell that Holmes is thinking about Watson and they just tug at my heart. There is a scene at the end of the first episode where Holmes says to himself "My dear Watson, where are you?" then looks longingly at Watson's medical bag on his desk. Like come on! I tried to find a gif of it, but tumblr for once has failed me :( (if I find a gif after I will place it here).

There is also some fun tension between Holmes and a certain villain character that piqued my interest.

scifirenegade

Title: Unrequited
Rating: Teen and Up
Fandom: The Last Performance (1929)
Pairing(s) / Character(s): Julie (one-sided Erik/Julie)
Warnings: n/a
Spoilers: not really

Note: For

comment_fic. Prompt was "Any/Any, Letting them down gently".

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Current Mood: restless

kingstoken

My brother and I went to see the Superman movie yesterday, and I enjoyed it. It wasn't a prefect movie, there where a few small things I would have changed, but overall it was entertaining. The movie doesn't start out with his whole backstory like most Superman films, you start in the middle of the story as it were, and some background information is sprinkled throughout. They also have "meta-humans" (DC's version of mutants) already a part of the story which was also a nice change, usually in most Superman movies he's the only one with powers. Lex Luther is very hateable in this one, he is the tech billionaire type who thinks he is smarter than everyone else and willing to do terrible shit to get his way. I don't think he's my favourite Lex, but I think they did a good job modernizing him. Anyways, overall a fun movie.

On another note, my brother and I usually go to weekday matinees, usually it's just us and some elderly couples in the audience. Well, I kind of forgot the kids were on summer holidays, plus it was "cheap Tuesdays" so the place was pretty full, the most full I've seen a matinee in years, but surprisingly all the kids were well behaved, the movie must have really captured their attention.

senmut

Hey all,

Phone started repeatedly throwing bad errors, overheating, etc. I have a replacement on the way (god I hope I did not get ripped off cheap as it was) but if anyone wants to ask for a story in exchange for donations, my ko-fi is here and you can DM or leave a screened comment.

Normal rate is 100 words per dollar. I do typically make a limit of 5K words, but that's negotiable for the right idea.

(This on top of being shorted pay that is STILL not sorted out has made for depression icing on the depressed cake.)

maevedarcy

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purplecat

Two Doctor Who companion outfits for your delectation and delight! Outfits selected by a mixture of ones I, personally, like; lists on the internet; and a certain random element.

( Outfits below the Cut )

Vote for your favourite of these costumes. Use whatever criteria you please - most practical, most outrageously spacey, most of its decade!

Voting will remain open for at least a week, possibly longer!

Costume Bracket Masterlist

Images are a mixture of my own screencaps, screencaps from Lost in Time Graphics, PCJ's Whoniverse Gallery, and random Google searches.

purplecat

The Tardis with the ninth doctor leaning against it in the botton corner.

The Ninth Doctor, side view, greyish background.

The Ninth's Doctor's face with a dalek behind him.

Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.

kantayra

My first Officially Super-Busy Week at Work (TM) went better than expected. I have a second super-busy week this week, and then hopefully work will quiet down. Unfortunately, the week after this is a competition week, so that will be busy for entirely different reasons. But after that I am going to have a break and look very much forward to it! 😊

Here is where I stand, fandom-wise:

Exchanges due in May/June (hurtcomfortex, pickmeupexchange, idproquo, seasonsofdrabbles, diegetic_exchange + mystery pinch-hits and treats): I am going to move fandom5k out to July/August because otherwise this bullet will linger through the end of July. So now this is still done at 11/11, and the final reveals have happened! Here are the things I wrote:
- Untouchable was my assignment for hurtcomfortex, Hannibal/Will, more post-fall fun.
- A Thousand Meetings was my assignment for pickmeupexchange, Charles/Erik X-Men movie-verse, and turned into a monster that was tons of fun to write.
Exchanges due in July/August (fandom5k now, caseficexchange, nonconex, justmarriedexchange, Terrible Temperature Troubles flash + mystery pinch-hits and treats + future stuff): With fandom5k moved over, I am now at 5/7. I did, indeed, finish The Shiny Thing That Ate My Brain last week, hooray! I didn't get any of my other assignments done, but I did get a start on one of them. My goal this week is to finish at least one of the remaining two, and crystallize my ideas for the other one. I'm also eyeing several pinch hits, although I'm not going to set a goal for any of them while my schedule is so busy.

Also, I got two gifts for Temperature Flash! I love that one of them is heat-focused and the other is cold-focused, the best of both worlds:

The Beast and I Are One: Hannibal/Will post-fall escaping from Chesapeake Bay and huddling together for warmth while wet and naked, YUM!

Too Hot for Work: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan trying to stay cool in the summer heat by taking advantage of Shen Wei's naturally cool body, also YUM!

Potentials for July/August...and even September/October: I see some things shaping up on the distant horizon! As predicted, I skipped raremaleslashex (although may check out pinch hits), and I think I'm sitting out iddyiddybangbang. However! The following things are all coming up and look relevant to my interests: enemiestoloversex (I've already nominated), Grief/Mourning Flash, classicfilmex, fallingforyoufallexchange, ficinabox(!!!), & seasonsofdrabbles. There's also rarepairexchange, although that's more debatable, and then I remain vaguely tempted by scaldinghotcibingo. So I should keep myself busy for the foreseeable future. 😊

Once again again again, no updates on Femslash Salad Bar (shocking!).

I'm now 1/4 through BNHA S3. I'm going to hit a problem with my current episode source at the halfway mark, but I think I've found a back-up solution. Aiming to watch more of this, this week.

I still haven't picked up any books. I'm waiting for the next item in my library queue to come up, unless I change my mind before then.

Goals for this week: 1) Survive work moar, 2) Finish 1 of my remaining assignments, 3) Figure out my other assignment, 4) Watch some BNHA, 5) ???, 6) Profit!

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