#Crystal of Reunion Collab

[angel-oftheday]

The Angel of the Day is...

Madoka Kaname

From Puella Magi Madoka☆Magica series

Requested by Anonymous

[rokkzalm]

Claudia

ADE8F8 / 06B6F9 / 32A4C5 / E9FC2A / 2A63F9

[crownedinmarigolds]

A shiver goes up your spine as a feeling of dread envelops you. The time for spirits is at hand, which means that it's time for a Hecata family reunion! Noa Hidalgo and Nythanel Loken-Hidalgo along with their beloved coterie bid you welcome to their manor for a festive Halloween get together! Please give your love to Crystal the Nagaraja, Bravo the Tzimisce, and Cori - a vulture with more understanding in their eyes than many animals should have.

It's time for another Vampire the Masquerade community collaboration! Please please please draw your Hecata clan characters alongside ours (these characters belong to me and @thesixthplaneteer) so that the family can have a big portrait at the end of the evening!

Like the other collaborations, I will take all submissions at the deadline and smush them all into one final collab piece - the deadline will be October 30th!! (A Wednesday!) I tried to answer how to submit here in case you were curious! It would be great for you to post a PNG of your character beneath a cut when you reblog the piece just for easier management!

(For reference, Crystal is 5'5" and Bravo is 6 foot!)

IF YOU WANT TO DRAW AND FEEL LIKE YOU CANNOT DRAW DO NOT LISTEN TO THAT VOICE THAT IS THE DEVIL DECEIVING YOU! Please draw your OC next to them if you want to I would cry and love to see it!

[v-albion]

TMNT FANDOM REUNION MASTERPOST

Welcome to the cabin

Beach day!!!

Fashion Magazine (collab)

Training outfits

Round 1: Campfire Stories

Snacks || Outfit? || Prank || Revenge

S’mores || Plushie || Campfire Confrontation

Proper way to make s’mores || Rat || Little thief

Round 2: Craft Fair

Socialize | Part 1 | Part 2

Bookmark || Trade || Tech bracelet

Bracelet workshop || Favourite song

Apples || Charm || Lantern

Round 3: Science Fair

Zombie || Crystals

Glitter || Jokes

Round 4: Beach Day

Beach Volleyball || Sunscreen || Surfing

Don || Water || Water polo || Go-kart

Prank || Revenge || Gift shop

Lemonade || Water samples

Round 5: Fashion Show

Photoshoot || Good luck || Trying designs

Outfit help || Supervillain || Sparky

Yukata || Heroes || Custom outfit

Makeup || Paparazzi

Round 6: Prank War!

Spraypaint || Crime || Music || Missing

Trick || Discount || Hugs || Threat

Head || Judging || Newcomers

GOODBYE!!!

<<< Back to TC Masterpost

[ultimadoka]

does anyone have a higher quality version of this? i believe it's from the crystal of reunion collab!

[exoriiens]

Uri's Wishlist

it's organized into each verse because...brainworms so bare with me-

Genshin Impact verse -

Flashback stuff to pre-cataclysm to mid cataclysm??? I just want to write Uri pre curse properly and then kill her HAA

Interactions with post cataclysm khaenri'ans. Kaeya/Pierro/Dainsleif/insert OCs here -shrug-

I need a Tsaritsa for Uri to bother teehee

Harbinger/general fatui interactions

ARCHON INTERACTIONS yes please delicious

Honkai: Star Rail verse -

eventual update to her verse where she is the proper emanator for Yaoshi is inevitable so -eyeballs at abundance pathstriders-

Luocha???? Idk i just like their vibes

I still am unsure on who could've given her the chain ring/bracelet things that help keep the mara at bay so -wiggles eyebrows-

someone witnessing uri dying and then, like, a month later seeing her like she didn't just die in their arms basically..

Jujutsu Kaisen verse-

GOJO SATORU that is all (let me preface the fact that Uri is also a Gojo but i wouldn't say they're closely related at all)

real complicated shit with Sukuna hell yea (i know sukuna is not one to remember mfs but MAN i think it would be sick as hell if he was like "oh yea i think i do know you." because she was PHYSICALLY sacrificed to him while he was still properly alive.)

Shibuya stuff. Culling games stuff.

She would absolutely despise Mahito so of course mahito interactions.

OUCH her meeting and befriending student!geto, watching his spiral and path change, knowing he's died. then KENJAKU????? oooooo bitch.

Kenjaku in general too, like that'd be kinda crazy. idk what he'd want but Uri would by physically uncomfortable around him.

One Piece verse-

MARINEs, Uri's been in the marines multiple times across the last few centuries, so i think it would just be funny. The last "proper" time she was in the marines was around God Valley so its possible for her to be recognized if she crossed paths with the right person.

again, uri dying in front of someone, and then running into that person a few years later looking YOUNGER than before

befriending the strawhats pre-timeskip, then reuniting with them post timeskip and CRYING at how much they've grown -weeps-

mmmm uri befriending ace...and then marineford....yum (of course if your ace DOESN'T die at marineford, she will cry also if there's a reunion)

this is a stretch (no pun intended) but idk why i would REALLY be interested in Kaido interactions -shrug-

Final Fantasy VII verse-

CROSSOVERS WITH OTHER FF GAMES because i love that so much particularly in the final fantasy univese

Sephiroth. That is all

Someone finding her cocoon crystal thing right before she comes out of it or after she's out of it and Uri just being really interested in how tf they found her because she worked REALLY hard to find that hiding spot -insert pouting-

Cloud stuff, because he reminds her loosely of Zack and also jenova cells so headaches for the both of them!!! :D

Aerith...Tifa...i love my girls so yea of course.

General stuff

the only thing is i would LOVE to collab with someone that could write Uri's first love that exists in her verses. Uri doesn't talk about them a lot (it can really be either gender) but Mihr had such a big impact on Uri's life and I'd LOVE to expand upon that at some point

[percyjpotter]

STEVEN UNIVERSE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED BEFORE THE SERIES ENDS

I wanted to make a yt video but I’m lazy ... please don’t steal and make this into a video bc I’ll cry :(

Ok so

I know there’s gonna be quite a few questions that most likely won’t be answered Bc they’re weirdly specific but,,

1. What happens when Steven dies? Like what happens after he gets too old? Will rose come back or will Steven pull a Cosmo (him giving birth to his child instead of *whoever he’s married to/dating)??????

2. Will we see Steven fuse with the rest of the crystal gems? (lapis, peridot, bismuth,;, another diamond maybe)

3. Can there be half human+ gem fusions? Ex: Steven+Connie+ Pearl/any gem?

4. Can more than one human be in a half gem fusion? Ex: Steven+Connie+Greg?

5. Please when will opal come back for more than 1 song?

6. Will Pearl ever call back all those numbers that she’s gotten?

7. WHEN IS MYSTERY GIRL COMING BACK?

8. Who creates gems? Specifically, who created the diamonds?

9. Is Steven really the only half human half gem???

10. Jasper redemption?

11. Is white diamond the most powerful being in the entire universe?

12. What would happen if all the diamonds fused?

13. Will Steven ever take those online university courses that Greg offered him in “Mr.Greg”? Or will he actually go to college/university?

14. Why hasn’t Steven traveled around the world? We’ve seen other planets, but we’ve never seen any civilizations outside beach city.. except for Empire City but that was only in the hotel...

15. Who are the second strongest gems? Second meaning after the diamonds?

16. Is there any government higher than mayor? Weird that the President or whomever doesn’t care about a whole alien invasions that’ve happened a couple of times?

17. Is there NASA in Steven’s Universe? Why don’t the gems collab with physicists and scientists on aeronautics and stuff?? Pearl and Peridot would be given like 92833992 Nobel peace prizes for knowing basic gem stuff that humans haven’t figured out..

18. Will Steven ever learn Gem language? Does he even need to learn it?

19. Are Steven and Connie gonna end up together? (ok I love connverse they’re SO cute but I really wanna see jealous steven or connie,,,)

20. Do fusions age? I saw this comic once that really made me cry bc there was Stevonnie and they’ve lived for over 1000 years as a fusion,, and then Garner was like “you have to let her go steven” and that’s it been too long,, something to that extent...

21. What would happen if half gem half fusion got stabbed/poofed?????

22. What’s the max amount of gems/half gems in a fusion?

23. Are Lars and Sadie gonna date or what?

24. Is Steven gonna revive another human after they’ve died?

25. Is there gonna be a Greg, Amethyst and Vidalia reunion episode?

I’ll edit this if I think of anything

26. Is there organic life on other planets besides humans? Bc the diamonds have mentioned “organic life forms” being on other planets but we’ve never seen them. Maybe creatures that are “organic” in the sense that they die? (not including plants and animals)

[emeraldtawny]

Masterlist

For all of your Ikemen Sengoku, Revolution and Vampire needs if I remember to keep updating this damn thing wOooOoooOOOooOOOoOoOOOo~!

Ikemen Sengoku

Magic Hands (Ieyasu x MC)

Impatience (Yukimura x MC)

Why? (Mitsuhide x MC - Request)

Locks of Love (Mitsuhide x MC - Request)

Prize or Punishment (Mitsuhide x MC - Request)

Ieyasu Birthday Fic (2019)

Envious Flames (Ieyasu x MC - NSFW Request)

Why I Love The Kitsune (Mitsuhide Ramblings)

I’m Okay (Mitsuhide x MC)

Happier (Kenshin x MC - Request)

Sing For Me (Mitsuhide x MC - NSFW)

University AU Headcanons (All Warlords)

Volatile (Solo Kenshin)

Exertion (Hideyoshi x MC - NSFW Request)

Your Warmth (Ieyasu x MC)

A Dream (Yukimura x MC - NSFW)

Interrogate (Motonari x MC)

You’re A What? (Sex Worker!AU Uesugi-Takeda Forces & MC - NSFW themes)

What Is Love? (Kenshin - Part 1, 2, 3)

Motonari Birthday Fic (2019)

The Light (Kennyo & Motonari)

IkeSen Music Headcanons (Crack)

Yukimura Birthday Fic (2019)

Mitsuhide Birthday Fic (2019)

Indirect Intimacy (Mitsuhide x MC)

Endless Sky, Endless Love (Masamune x MC)

Ikemen Revolution

Late Night Hangover (Kyle x MC)

Been Waiting All Day (Jonah x MC)

Crystal Clear (Zero x MC - Request)

One Small Step (Zero x Blind!MC)

I Could Be Meaner (Edgar x MC)

Puppy Love (Fenrir x MC)

Take A Break (Kyle x MC - Request)

Can’t Handle The Heat (Luka x MC)

Disney Princess Headcanons (All Suitors)

Power Struggle (Mafia!AU Kyle & Zero ft. Oliver)

Silent Messages (Ray x MC)

Dress Up (Fenrir x MC - NSFW)

Secrets In The Fog (Siren/Pirate!AU MC, Oliver and Loki)

What A Show (Kyle x MC - NSFW)

Baby Steps (Zero x MC - Request)

Worthy (Luka x MC - Request)

Again (Sub!Fenrir x Dom!MC - NSFW)

Velvet Ties (Lancelot x MC - NSFW)

Just This Once (Oliver x MC)

Bird Of Doom (Solo Harr ft. Astrid the Owl)

Doctor Doctor (Kyle x MC - NSFW Request)

Dessert (Edgar x MC - NSFW)

University AU Headcanons (All Suitors)

Take Me (Red Army x MC - NSFW)

Sweet Crazy Love (Jonah x MC - Request)

Mixology (Kyle, Dalim & MC)

Maybe (Solo Dalim)

Fenrir Birthday Fic (2019)

Honesty (Blanc x OC - Commission)

Ikerev Sex Headcanons (All Suitors - NSFW)

A Perfect Distraction (Uni!AU Edgar x OC - NSFW Commission)

Dance With Me Darlin’ (Fenrir x MC - Request)

May I? (Kyle x MC - NSFW)

Ikerev Drug Dealer AU (All Suitors)

Networking (Drug Dealer!AU Harr, Lancelot, Sirius & Fenrir ft. Seth)

Why I Love The 7 of Hearts (Kyle Ramblings)

A Dangerous Game (Drug Dealer!AU Lancelot & Edgar)

Kyle Birthday Fic (2019)

Research (Drug Dealer!AU Kyle & Harr ft. Oliver)

An Innocent’s Plea (Drug Dealer!AU Sirius, Ray & Fenrir ft. Seth)

Reunion (Fenrir x MC)

Loving Remedy (Kyle x MC)

Mitigation (Drug Dealer!AU Blanc & Oliver)

A Quiet Night (Fenrir x MC - NSFW)

Ikemen Vampire

Earn Your Keep (Leonardo x MC - NSFW Commission)

Weightless (Dazai x MC)

Dazai Birthday Fic (2019)

A Simple Question (Solo Dazai)

Bloodbath (Vincent, Dazai, Leonardo, Napoleon, Jean & Arthur x MC - NSFW)

Nonsense Bungaku (Arthur & Dazai)

Twilight Stroll (Dazai x MC)

My Little Poppet (Arthur & Child)

Singing to MC/MC singing to Suitor Headcanons (All Suitors)

Meeting MC’s parents for the first time Headcanons (All Suitors)

Suitors falling asleep with their pets (All Suitors - Mini Headcanons)

Love Language Headcanons (Collab with @shannie-writes All Suitors - Part 1 | Part 2)

Angry/Swearing Headcanons (All Suitors - Mild Crack)

Crying Headcanons (All Suitors)

Obey Me!

Obey Me Demons as Cats (Semi-Crack Headcanons)

Deluge (Mammon x Fem!MC)

A Foreign Heat (Satan x Fem!MC)

Non-Caffeinated Companionship (Barbatos x Fem!MC)

Drabble Collections

Quickfire Prompt Fics

500 Ficathon Fics

Original Characters

Masquerade - Part 1 2 3 4 5 (Edgar x OC Eleanor)  *Complete* 

Edgar x Eleanor HCs: Friendship Stage 

Focus On Me (Edgar x OC Eleanor)

Training Session (Edgar x OC Eleanor ft. Zero)

My Ikemen Vampire OCs (Marco Polo, Thomas Jefferson and Sigmund Freud)

[foxxlology]

i know everyone wants a taz show and so do i but you know what i want more?

an entire novelization of the story. 

each arc is split up into separate books so it would be structure like...

Here There Be Gerblins and Moonlighting

Murder on The Rockport Limited and Lunar Interlude I as an epilogue,

Petals to the Metal and Lunar Interlude II,

Crystal Kingdom and Lunar Interlude III as three bonus chapters/epilogues, 

Eleventh Hour and Lunar Interlude IV, 

The Suffering Game and the first part of reunion tour,

The second part of Reunion Tour and Stolen Century 

Story and Song 

like could you imagine the amount of love and care that could go into this? the mcelroys could just do a whole collab and you could see what the characters were feeling and thinking which is one of the draw backs of visual media without dipping into narration. The beauty of the story is how griffin was able to describe and tell the most amazing story using only words so turning it into a tv show would take that magic away. 

Griffin a bard through and through, taking away the power of those words is a mistake and thats why I think this should definitely become a published book series because lord knows i would buy six copies of each book

(ngl i still want that tv show tho lol)

[pengiesama]

WIP meme

Do Dis: List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets, whatever.

Tagged by @sixsaltysweets and @soymilkheaven

uhhh if i commit these to tumblr posts does that mean i'm required to finish them. all of these are for zestiria because i am incapable of changing the trajectory of my boner that easily

BABYSITTING AU: aka your friendly neighborhood high school AU except there are like three mafia subplots for no adequately-explained reason

VAMPIRE AU: I'M SORRY I'VE BEEN IGNORING YOU I STRAIGHT-UP COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHERE THE STORY WAS GOING AND I'LL IMPROVISE WITH A RANDOM PLOT GENERATOR (it is now also a high school AU)

RITUAL AU: a collab with @shamingcows / @defragmentise! i'm honored that i get to write one of her AUs, especially one with so many wonderful Opportunities (huehue) for Things (huehuehue)

THE MAOTELUS REUNION TOUR: post-game, Mikleo shows Sorey & Maotelus around and Antics(TM) ensue

YOU SHOULDN'T DRINK FIVE CRYSTAL SEX POTIONS AT ONCE: the movie the game the fanfiction

ALL THE PROMPTS THAT PEOPLE KINDLY GAVE TO ME IN MY INBOX THAT I'VE BEEN IGNORING: hue.....hue.............

TAGGING: uhhhhhhhhhhhhh whoever

[elleruza]

Mobius FF - FF7R Collab Fatal Calling Part 3 Translation (Part Three)

Phew I am done! (I was actually done last night, but my laptop crashed on me just as I was about to post. So I was like, forget it.) The final cutscene is longer than I thought!

Anywho, not entirely sure if we will get dialogue for the couple of nodes that haven’t been opened yet. We will see.

You know I still wonder how Cloud is pulled to this world (Well other than because SE said so). Based on what Gilgamesh said in the tower event, Cloud should be a Warrior of Light in his own right. Maybe that’s why he is not a blank? Just a thought.  

I am also a bit sick of “One Winged Angel”. I still love the song but I have been hearing it for almost a month now on MP, and then on the map. 

Enjoy the last part! Normal disclaimer applies. 

—

Sephiroth: Did you come to die?

Wol: There is something I want to ask.

Wol: You are going to escape Palamecia and return to your own world, right? Tell me how.

Echo: That’s what you are asking now!?

Sephiroth: What are you going to do with that knowledge?

Wol: [Take it as] a souvenir to hell.

Sephiroth: …I can’t understand you.

Sephiroth: This planet is so full of despair that it will perish before long.

Sephiroth: Just a little push, Palamecia will collapse very easily.

Wol: You are going to break the world to leave…

Wol: But how do you think you are going to return [to your own world]? Even if you were able to leave Palamecia, there is no guarantee that you will be able to return to your own world.

Sephiroth: Even if I were to drown in the sea of chaos, lose my memories and become crippled without my heart. One day, we will answer the fated calling. Our memories will surely awaken, and we will head to the promised land.  (Note 3)

Sephiroth: Then Cloud and I will offer our power and accomplish reunion.  

Wol: A great determination…or should I say a magnificent scheme.

Wol: But I will destroy your plan!

Wol: I don’t like this place either, but not to the point where I want to break it. I don’t want to see it destroyed.

Sephiroth: Then I will do the pleasure. You will no longer be able to see anything.

*Wol and Sephiroth fought*

Sephiroth: Battles will only be given to those who are meant to fight.  

Sephiroth: The one to defeat me is not you.

Wol: [We are back to] Palamecia Rule now?

*Cloud attacked Wol* (Note 4)

Wol: Cloud!

Sephiroth: No, it’s my puppet.

Wol: Do you think a puppet can defeat me?

Sephiroth: You…!

Wol: …Cloud, you said this yourself. There is no use taunting Sephiroth.

Wol: But right now, Sephiroth is shaken.

Wol: This man, is he really Sephiroth? The “hero” that no one can defeat?

Wol: I don’t think so. He is an enemy that can be defeated if you stand up to face him.

Wol: It’s probably not possible for a puppet that cannot stand to surpass him.

Cloud: Who is a puppet.

Cloud: If I were bound by the past, I will sever it!

*Cloud and Sephiroth fought* (Note 5)

Sephiroth: That’s fine, Cloud. You have severed the illusion.

Sephiroth: However, when you leave the illusions behind and face reality, you will know the pain of truth. (Note 6)

Cloud: Begone!

*Cloud defeated Sephiroth*

Cloud: The power is gone.

Wol: It’s because you’ve gotten back at Sephiroth.

Cloud: Let’s start from square one.

Echo: Then, are you going to train in Palamecia?

Cloud: …No, it’s fine.

Echo: Eh? It’s not “not interested”.

Cloud: It’s not that I am not interested, but even if I remember anything in this world

Cloud: There is no assurance that it’s going to stay.

Echo: Even though I wonder what’s going to happen if you have decided that way without training

Echo: If it’s Cloud, you will be fine. You will be able to fight wherever you go.

Wol: That’s right.

*The materia became a crystal*

Cloud: I can fight. This will guide me up ahead.

Wol: Are you sure? This is originally Sephiroth’s.

Cloud: At the final moment, I heard Sephiroth’s voice.

Cloud: Inside me.

Cloud: Whatever he left is still lurking somewhere inside me.

Cloud: One day, the time to settle everything will come.

Cloud: If it’s a destiny that I can’t escape, I won’t become lost anymore if I face it.

Wol: …That’s right.

Wol: That’s a great speech, thanks. Aren’t you embarrassed, saying it yourself?

Cloud: Do me a favour and forget about it. I will forget too.

Echo: Even if it’s forgotten, it doesn’t disappear.

Echo: Even if the words were no longer in your memories, Cloud’s feelings will not disappear.

Echo: They will become a reality eventually.

Echo: That’s a light called hope. Hope can transform illusions into reality.

Cloud: I will give that a try.

Cloud: Even if I forget about this world, without losing hope

Cloud: I will live my own reality.

*credits rolling* (Note 7)

Translator’s Note 3: Sephiroth, can you talk like a normal person? I am a bit more loose with Cloud and Wol’s speech, but with Seph…I tried my best to make things sound like him, but I had a bit of difficulty with making “becoming a heartless cripple" sound good…(the connotation is just different) In any event, two more questions for Sephiroth: 1) You still have a heart to lose? :P 2) That’s your grand plan to go home???

Translator’s Note 4: Remember Echo said in the previous event that Wol and Cloud might fight? I guess this is it?

Translator’s Note 5: How does the Buster Sword split into two?

Translator’s Note 6: Wonder if the Masamune will cut Sephiroth’s hair when he’s holding it that way.

Translator’s Note 7: I made a note of this because - having a credit roll like this is pretty hardcore! Almost as if Mobius ended…LOL

[femmesfollesnebraska]

Artist Collab Feature: Erna Kuik & Christie Collins

This collaboration titled The Art of Coming Undone has been a joint effort between Dutch artist Erna Kuik and poet Christie Collins, pairing her artwork with my poems. The project, currently underway and projected to be finished in January 2019, looks to be included in a manuscript by the same title that will include 35 pages of poems by me along with 12 images by Erna. What makes this collaboration really special is the intimate connection between poem and image. Half of the images have been created based on the poems. The other half of the images informed the writing of new poems.  

Said Collins:

This collaboration began when I happened upon Erna’s market booth in Amsterdam when I first witnessed her haunting and poignant images that visualize at their heart the longing and loneliness of female dysphoria. Immediately, I felt I had found a visual artist working with the same themes and the same vision as my own: the visual representation of my poems, even though at that time we were strangers. I approached Erna about forming a collaboration, and we have been working together since to tell the story of a woman’s journey through desire, marriage, anxiety, unrest, depression, and divorce, and self-reinvention. It has and continues to be a labor of love dedicated to all women who have loved and lost, who have suffered, and who have battled mental illness. Set largely in Louisiana, the narrative unfolds as a kind of re-envisioning of Kate Chopin’s famous novel, The Awakening, an artistic partnership that Welsh artist Penny Hallas called “strong and beautiful work…a vibrant and equal collaboration.” 

As Leslie Jamison said in her powerful article “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain:” “I want to insist that female pain is still news. It’s always news. We’ve never already heard it. It’s news when a girl loses her virginity or gets an ache in the rag and bone shop of her heart. It’s news when she starts getting her period or when she does something to make herself stop. It’s news if a woman feels terrible about herself in the world—​anywhere, anytime, ever … The wounded woman gets called a stereotype, and sometimes she is. But sometimes she’s just true.” We work from this belief: that all female pain is relevant and true. All female pain is its own kind of art. Its own kind of poem. Its own immense collaboration.

DEAR READER, LOVE POET

I have a theory that no poem sounds like a bad poem, 

provided that the knowing poet has taken time to practice reading 

the verse aloud, visualizing the valleys of syllables in each word, breathing 

in just the right corners, following the line breaks like a trail through the woods. 

For all we know, a giraffe might stumble into this poem. He might unfurl his long black 

tongue against a toddler’s rosy cheek, and if you hear this image aloud, you can see the long, 

spotted neck of the animal. It doesn’t cross your mind to judge if one can get away with writing 

a poem about a giraffe. It’s already been done and here you are, too, at the zoo participating 

in the tenderness of this moment, this world, this strange existence feeling smaller, kinder. 

If the reader is prepared & passionate, certainly any poem could be moving, which 

is why I wish I could be there with you now as you read this line to yourself. 

I want to go back to the beginning & read this poem to you because in hearing it, 

I would give you a small piece of myself which would break from my voice into flight, 

vulnerable yet soaring. As I read this poem, you would hear undercurrents, a brave passion. 

In all honesty, you may hear me slip or stammer on a word because that happens sometimes 

as do other truths when I let go of this tight grip, when I let the robe slip off my shoulders, 

when it’s just me and my voice in front of the stage lights, the audience waiting.  

HOW TO BUILD A DOCK

Block out three summers, buy a forest of Western Red Cedar. 

Prepare for failure, the kind you must dive under water to amend. 

Use string to measure the distance between posts or the distance from start to finish. 

Be the lover whose song cannot be cured. Be the girl whose father wouldn’t approve. 

Only when you finish will you know that there was always futility in your desire: 

Here, at the edge of the dock, you are surrounded by saltwater, but you are no closer to knowing the sea.

-

Christie Collins is an American poet based in Cardiff, Wales. She moved to Wales last year from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she taught full-time in the English Department at Louisiana State University in addition to working as a remote editorial assistant for Copper Canyon Press. In Cardiff, she is a doctoral candidate in Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University under the supervision of Richard Gwyn and Ailbhe Darcy. As part of her degree program, she also teaches creative writing workshops for the university. Her critical and creative work has been published in or is forthcoming in Kenyon Review Online, Entropy, Cold Mountain Review, Chicago Review of Books, Canyon Voices, Appalachian Heritage, Poetry South, Poetry Wales, Still: The Journal, Wicked Alice, So to Speak, and Reunion: The Dallas Review. Her chapbook titled Along the Diminishing Stretch of Memory was published in 2014 by Dancing Girl Press.

Erna Kuik is a Dutch photographer, visual artist, and writer. After graduating from the Artez Academy in 1992, her artwork was awarded the Gretha and Adri Pieck Prize, an award to encourage young, promising artists. Her work tends toward an expressionistic style, known for its strong lines in linocuts and its poetic content. She wrote and illustrated children's books about very creative hares published by Atlantie Verlag Switzerland and has published other work that features her photography and illustrations. Her art can be found in many private collections worldwide and is exhibited in museums like the Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and Museum De Fundatie in Zwolle and in galleries most recently during Slow Art In Motion Zutphen, Weg van Kunst in Kampen, and Lingeprint Grafiekmanifestatie in Huissen in the Netherlands. She loves to be in her studio; the spirit of making fluid thoughts into sparkling crystals on paper keeps her going. Her book Zwei lange, lange Ohren received many good reviews and was nominated for the Luchs Award by die Zeit in Germany. 

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Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins.  LFF Booksis a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) , The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015 and Mes Predices (catalog of art/writing by Marie Peter Toltz, 2017).Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.

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The Ultimate Coffee Gift Guide Under $100

The holidays are here, bringing with it the simultaneous joy and burden of gift giving. Now is the time to stock up on coffee-themed gifts for all of your coffee loving friends and family. Because when you give the gift of coffee, you’re really giving the gift (don’t laugh!) of love.

We here at Sprudge want to make sure your coffee gift buying is easy and pain-free, and so in what’s become a much-loved tradition at the site, we’re rolling out a series of gift guides to serve our readers (and their families). Our first guide was all about books, because books rule, but now let’s get into the rest of it.

Is your great aunt Ruth stumped on what to get you this year? Send her this link. Here are ten perfect holiday coffee—and coffee-ish—gift categories for under $100.

Coffee Class In New York City

Get your coffee loving friend/family member something they’ll remember forever: an instructional class and/or event in New York City!

Toby’s Estate Brooklyn can host a private cupping for you and your friends for $75. “We can hold a private brew class just for you and four guests at our Williamsburg and West Village locations. Classes are available Monday through Saturday. You may book up to five people in this class. Classes are 90 minutes.”

Joe Coffee offers a roaster tour and cupping at their Red Hook roasting facility for $75. If you’re traveling from outside the city this gift *will* cost a little bit more, but hey, then you get to visit New York.

Bag of Coffee With Dunkable Ball ($16)

Stumptown Coffee recently rolled out a refreshed packaging look, but they’re bringing back their iconic kangaroo bag for a special Portland Trail Blazers blend collab. This coffee bag includes an actual ball for dunks. 

A Warm Winter Sweater

Tis the season for wearing a snuggly coffee sweater. Cuddle up by the fire and a nice, cozy jumper (that’s what they call it outside the USA) from these folks: Dogwood Coffee Bear Hug Sweatshirt ($30), ReAnimator crew-neck number ($35), Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. gym class sweatshirt ($32), and the awesome/ugly Onyx Coffee Lab Ugly Sweatshirt ($30).

Holiday Blends

You really can’t go wrong with a nice holiday blend, and our partner roasting companies have got a handful for you to choose from: Populace Coffee Joyeux Blend ($19, 12oz), Pilot Coffee Roasters Holiday Blend ($20 CAD, 12oz), Counter Culture Coffee Iridescent ($18.25, 12oz), Equator Coffee Holiday Blend ($18.25, 12oz), Ferris Coffee Winter Avenue Blend ($13, 12oz), Verve Coffee Holiday Blend ($20, 12oz), Reunion Island Coffee Holiday Blend ($20 CAD, 12oz), and the Batdorf & Bronson Holiday Blend ($15, 12oz).

This is just a smattering, just a surface scratching of the wonderful holiday blends available, and that diversity of options means you can buy a blend that suits your family just right. Happy brewing!

Soft Tees

Get your coffee loving family member a nice looking t-shirt from a nice coffee company. We like the Maquina Coffee Roasters “Maquina Bleeds” Tee ($25), which feels like it could be sold at the merch table of a very fun punk rock show. Elsewhere the Department of Brewology Joy Division Tee ($35) directly plays with a fusion of coffee and music themes. DoB are industry design leaders and you may well get stopped on the street wearing this.

Last but certainly not least we’ve got heaps of new Sprudge Tees ($15) in our very own Sprudge Shop.

Gear

Coffee nerds don’t just love gear: they need it to continue surviving as a nerd. Fortunately there’s plentiful gear to be had. Let us recommend a Stagg Kettle ($69), the nerdy Brewista Smart Scale ($99), the beautiful and industry-adored Kruve Sifter ($45), a timeless Cold Brew Toddy System ($39), and for something a little different, the Blue Bottle Waterproof Journal ($19).

Vessels

Every coffee drinker needs something to drink it out of, and we’re big fans of the Flight Coffee Blue Space Person Mug ($17) out of New Zealand, the beautiful throwback Intelligentsia 20th Anniversary Demitasse ($12), the licensed Star Wars line of coffee tumblers from KeepCup—our favorite is the Chewbacca KeepCup ($22)—the stylish Klatch Coffee Glass Can ($7), and the Japanese Phil & Sebastian Kinto Mug ($16.50) by way of Canada.

Clubs, Subscriptions, and Box Sets

Why settle on just one coffee when you can set your loved ones up with a subscription, club membership, or box set? April Coffee Roasters Membership Club (140,00KR) can get you set up with whole bean or capsule coffee from Denmark, Five Elephant Box Set (31.47 Euro) will let you customize a colorful package from Berlin, and the Moustache Coffee Club Subscription (Starts at $26) can get you sorted with weekly shipments of quality coffee from Los Angeles.

Bejeweled Starbucks Tumbler ($50)

Jennifer Lopez has been seen around town with a Swarovski crystal-encrusted Starbucks cup, custom made by Taylor Made Bling Embellishments. It’s this season’s must-have bejeweled coffee product. You can order a custom cup from Taylor Made via their Instagram for around $500 or you can get a similar style: hand-glued rhinestones on a Starbucks cup for around $50 on Etsy.

Drink Some Tea 

Try as we might, mankind cannot live on coffee alone. But if you love coffee it stands to figure there’s a bunch of other stuff you might love. One of those is tea. Tea is good! San Francisco’s Song Tea is home to some exceedingly rare small lot teas that might change how you think about this stuff, with a founder who travels regularly to Taiwan and China on sourcing trips. Prices range from the Song Red ($15), a blend of tea cultivars from Fujian, to the Mr. & Mrs. Chen’s Oolong ($92), a truly distinctive oolong tea from a tiny production husband and wife team from Nantou County, Taiwan, with a dozen or so other teas priced between. Unsure what to buy? Song offers a gift card option as well.

Drink Some Wine

We are pretty strong believers that if you’re into coffee, you should be into wine, too. Wine—and especially wines made in the minimal intervention, no added ingredient style sometimes called “natural wine”—is fast divesting itself from “that Frasier Crane shit” and is today, perhaps for the first time in America since the Gold Rush, a fun and tasty thing for young people to enjoy. Imagine that!

If you’re new to natural wine, and don’t happen to already live somewhere like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, Melbourne, Tokyo, Paris, Barcelona, or what-have-you, web stores are your friend. We strongly recommend the online wine shopping at Chambers Street Wine of NYC, Domaine LA of Los Angeles, and Flat Iron Wines (SF & NYC). All three of these shops offer gift certificates, and for less than $100 you can gift the gift of a mind-blowing wine experience. Just be forewarned that the ensuing rabbit hole will cost more than $100 in short order.

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