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[cursedwithgloriouspurpose]

About the old woman in your house.

Hallo and welcome. I'm the old woman in your house; a freelance artist puttering around your attic and swapping all your ketchup bottles for hot sauce. Don't worry about it. It's fine.

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Check back regularly for more old woman news.

[thewillingpersephone]

The 13x11 Reader’s Corner 8 (Sept 4, 21)

Because the world will always need 13x11 love… And let’s say it: they’re gorgeous together ;)

A Beautiful Dream by Covenmouse

Summary: On a mini-break after the war, Sally and Une finally address a rather difficult issue.

Not a fix-fit (canonical unhappy end) and with a melancholy turn, but the ending is not unkind to the 13x11 oriented reader. The relationship between Sally and Une is not defined and, in my opinion, the reader is free to interpret it according to their preference, which I consider a bonus.

Why 13x11 shippers may like it:

"He wanted you to come here, Une, " Sally said eventually.

"I was wondering when the elephant was going to be addressed," Une replied.

Why non-13x11 shippers may like it :

Une reached forward to set her drink on the table and fell into the empty chair beside her. Sighing loudly, she reached up to pull her sunglasses back over her eyes and let the world fall into a rosy dusk. Sally lifted one long leg, foot resting against the side of the table, and began to cover her thigh in sunscreen.

[kaleidodreams]

Here’s the Mercury/Zoisite story I wrote for this year’s Senshi & Shitennou Mini Bang ( @ssminibang ). The super-talented @azureliongoddess will be providing a gorgeous piece of artwork for Chapter 6. Thank you, Rae and @kanadka, who was my beta for the story!

The plan is to post a chapter a day, excluding the upcoming weekend.

Summary:  General Zacharias Zoisite swore off romance after a near-death experience on the battlefield made him realize he didn’t want to leave anyone behind to grieve for him. When King Oberon of the Golden Kingdom falls victim to a possible assassination attempt, however, he takes it upon himself to seduce the beautiful and brilliant Princess Hermione of Mercury for some answers, finding his resolve weakening even as a nefarious plot threatens to turn them into enemies. (FF.net) 

(FYI: Fanfiction.net is currently having issues, so the link doesn’t work. I’m providing it anyway in the hope that it’ll eventually get straightened out!)

[starlingsinclair]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Live Action TV) Rating: General Audiences Additional Tags: Slice of Life, Canon Compliant, PGSM (Live Action) Elements, being human is hard Summary:

Being human is hard. In this day-in-the-life/slice of life style story, Nephrite reflects on how his life has changed since Beryl’s betrayal, and he woke up human. He thought he’d do anything to get his power and place back, but he’s starting to realize he’s not so sure anymore. Maybe, it’s time to leave the red uniform behind.

This is my 1st 2020 Senshi/Shitennou Mini Bang entry. It’s short and the first step in me catching up on all my work.

[ssminibang]

Sailor Moon Mini Bang 2020 posting dates!

Hello everyone! Earlier today we have sent an email with everyone’s assigned posting dates, plus everything you need to know regarding posting + a small tutorial on how to embed art in a fic!

If you haven’t received this email send us a message asap, as it contains really important information!

This year we are also sharing the posting dates in here so that everyone can keep an eye on our schedule! Posting starts on Monday 2 of November and finishes on Friday 18 of December (weekends are non-posting dates as we want to encourage reading and reviewing)

And now under the read more, the dates!!: (forgive us if the fic/art titles are wrong as we might be using old information)

Monday 2 of November: The Girl With The Red Bow - Beej/Iamcharlotte88

Tuesday 3 of November:  Our Future - Jewels/Charlie

Wednesday 4 of November:  The Devil You Know -  Thalia / Fuu&Eli

Thursday 5 of November:  Man In The Red Dress - MasterRay / Iamcharlotte

Friday 6 of November:  Talk (Like Real People Do)  - Chu / Smoking

Monday 9 of November:  Leaving The Uniform Behind  - Samus / Rae

Tuesday 10 of November:  Camp Elysian - VChanny / Kate (Flourish Fox)

Wednesday 11 of November:  The Red Rose of Nara  - WoI / Rubus

Thursday 12 of November:  La Vie En Rouge  - Marissa / Chev

Friday 13 of November:  Do Not Cry For Me - Heavenly_Pearl / Covenmouse

Monday 16 of November:  Under the Red Moon  -Sailor Silver Ladybug (Tori) / Final Key

Tuesday 17 of November:  Red Lips  - Eldmund/Christine

Wednesday 18 of November: Another World   - Satine / Vestal Spirit

Thursday 19 of November: Crow Escam Gratis Peccata Dimittit  - Guppy / Charlie

Friday 20 of November: Tremble Do Those (Who Unveiled the Light)   - Huinari / Koameratsuhime

Monday 23 of November: Sanguine Potion #13  - Shnuggletea / Mochi

Tuesday 24 of November:  By Any Other Name - Rae / Cap o Rushes

Wednesday 25 of November: A Picnic with the Eye of Jupiter  - Ellorgast / Eli

Thursday 26 of November: I Dream of Venus  - Cluckster / Lyrhia

Friday 27 of November:  Roll For Initiative - Nimiane / Wils

Monday 30 of November:  Lipstick & Louboutins - SCG / Blunotte

Tuesday 1 of December:  Over and Over Again  - Kanadka / Smoking

Wednesday 2 of December:  Red Like Roses - Chu / Koameratsuhime

Thursday 3 of December: The Equivalence Principle  - Kanadka / Shadowsphere21

Friday 4 of December: The Seed of Sin  - Serpent In Red / Vanessa

Monday 7 of December:  Madison Avenue - Beej / Joker

Tuesday 8 of December: Red Heart of Flame - Mochi / Astraearose

Wednesday 9 of December:  Roses, Hearts, Blood   - Fades / LizLee

Thursday 10 of December: The Crimson Millennium - VenusUnchained / Lyrhia

Friday 11 of December:  Red Moon - SororityDiva / Artimas

Monday 14 of December:  Masque of the Red Death Ghost Story - Samus / CosmicCommander & JupiterLor

Tuesday 15 of December:  By Mountain and Sea - Thalia / Rosecopter

Wednesday 16 of December: The Blood on her Hands - Adrianna / Artimas

Thursday 17 of December:  Cursed - Charlie / Lyrhia

Friday 18 of December:  The Cup - Zellie / Minakosaino

Hopefully everyone is as excited as us!!!

[ao3feed-killugon]

A Hill to Die On

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZLjNZ5

by Covenmouse

Two years after the events surrounding the Chimera Ants and Gon’s miraculous recovery, Killua and Alluka are out living life to the fullest while Gon has confined himself to Whale Island for a period of “down time” while he finishes his education. What Gon hasn’t told Killua is that there’s another, larger reason why he hasn’t left the island: Gon has lost the ability to control his nen. Fearing how his weakness might reflect upon him, and his ability to defend himself and others, Gon has kept Killua at arms length. However, when contact with Killua suddenly stops after a proposed spelunking expedition, Gon realizes that he may have to brave the outside world or risk losing Killua forever.

Words: 2998, Chapters: 1/32, Language: English

Fandoms: Hunter X Hunter

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Relationships: Gon Freecs/Killua Zoldyck, Gon Freecs & Alluka Zoldyck & Killua Zoldyck

Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Angst, Pining, Aged-Up Character(s), if you enjoy rustic survival and home building this is probably gonna be up your ally, i warned for violence but nothing that isn't canon-compliant, (which may not be very reassuring idk)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ZLjNZ5

[lupines-slash-recs]

Canon: Harry Potter series Pairing: Dean Thomas/Seamus Finnigan Rating: Teen [PG] Word Count: 1,046 Summary: Seamus searches for Dean amidst the aftermath of the battle at Hogwarts.

Rec: So JK has pretty much said that she intended to make these two a couple, that’s pretty much canon in my book. Even the actors who played these two have treated it as canon so, why argue with a good thing.

[wydpod]

Meet the cast of What's Your Damage? Series 2!

Rizzo is on a journey to find herself. Despite growing up in a community where everyone had their place and stuck to it, she never felt any connection with what was expected of her. Now she's left home to discover the world and her place in it. A simple enough task, she assumes, so long as she can keep her secrets secret and doesn't cause too much trouble along the way.

Rizzo is played by our lovely Kate Ingram.

Art by @covenmouse

[smokingbomber]

Not for anyone who has triggers about mental health and various types of therapy or treatment, when no matter what good intent is behind it it’s wrong; contains elements of non-con but it’s non-explicit; contains dissociative elements; contains graphic depictions of violence, decomposition, self-harm, and self-identity issues; involves abuse and violence against minors; contains illegal activities; contains apparent hallucinations and definite blackouts.  

However, this is a truly amazing work, beautifully paced and put together, and ends up with wading through hell to find what might be heaven.  

Shitennou redemption fic. Interpretation of Silmil I haven’t seen before. Elements of Sen/Shi connections, if not necessarily relationships.

And this is seriously one mind-blowingly well-constructed piece of literature. Layers upon layers of reality and confused/potentially-unreliable narrators. 

I have no idea how I missed this in my initial trawl of AO3, but I am so glad to have found it now.  

Also I haven’t finished reading it yet. I just got warned I will need massive <3 for where it breaks off.

[spaghetticoles]

♪♕

are they musically inclined? 

not at all! ailidh can’t tell one note from another and avoids participating in musical activities at all costs. the camp sing-along was torturous for them.

[antivanruffles]

lauranis replied to your photo:Dorian: I’m a mage, too. Would you prefer me bound...

Jamie sandwich *eyebrow waggle*

OH MY GOD I was just having a conversation with covenmouse about that very thing.

Me: also Cassandra was just asking Jamie about rumors of a romantic relationship with Dorian Me: I think she was jealous. :O CM: totes CM: *she wants in on that sandwich* Me: who doesn't? I mean.. what? CM: fair point Me: but really we shouldn't say these things because then they'll both just get terribly inflated egos and there will be no living with them CM: i'd say i don't think they could get any bigger but i don't want to push it

[ssminibang]

SSREVMB 2019 Masterpost

Hello everyone!!!

We want to thank everyone who took part in the 2019 Senshi & Shitennou Reverse Mini Bang! We had an incredible year and we are so happy with the final results! Hopefully you all had fun too!

Under the read more you will have beautiful art and amazing fics. We invite everyone to leave a review and support the talented people who took part this year!

However we have some awesome news! This year we will have a zine where you will able to view all the wonderful art created this year. If everything goes as planned, it will be done by the end of November, so keep an eye for the updates!

Now, here is the amazing work! Please enjoy!!!!

A Curious Specimen by Lizlee 

Fic by Cluckster

Berenice by versailles-fairytale

Fic written by serpentinred

Curious Mermaid by chibiranmaruchan

Fic written by AdriannaSharp

Devour by smokingbomber 

Fic written by Starling_Sinclair

Drowned Road to Legend by smokingbomber

Fic written by Beej88

Falling into the Cold Sea by teamvanessacloud

Fic written by Kazekaitou 

Far From Shore by Covenmouse

Fic written by ellorgast

Going Down by i1976blunotte

Fic written by Sororityprincess

Homecoming by i1976blunotte

Fic written by caffeineivore

 It's too small by smokingbomber

Fic written by Elmund9

 Jadeite and The Dragon by einahpets

Fic written by FadesInTheSun

 Long Distance by smokingbomber

Fic written by Ggunsailor

Low tide by elianthos

Fic written by apsaraqueen

 Magari by elianthos

Fic written by caffeineivore

Part-Time Mermaid by Passionrice

Fic written by NelwynP

 Queen of the Sea by SCGdoeswhat

Fic written by ElvisVF101

Rescue by Covenmouse

Fic written by warriorofice

  Ship Happens by smokingbomber

Fic written by caffeineivore

 The Night by JupiterLor

Fic written by LadyDGn

 The Rocks on the beach by mochibuni

Fic written by chuplayswithfire

 The sea god by SCGdoeswhat

Fic written by CopperCrane2

  The Sultan and the Princess by Lyrhia

Fic written by AdriannaSharp

They Keep Coming With The Tide by elianthos

Fic written by CopperCrane2

 Troubled Water by FadesInTheSun and smokingbomber

Fic written by kanadka

Until the End of Time by Artimas

Fic written by Ascella_Star

 Until the Sun Rises: The Path to Valhalla by Artimas

Fic written by VenusUnchained

Venus From Her Shell by mochibuni

Fic written by Vchanny

You're 'piking' my curiosity by Lyrhia

Fic written by LovelyLytton

And here is the direct link to our collection: AO3

Please enjoy!!

[favouritequeeronthecitadel]

covenmouse replied to your post “just to go with my other recent Solavellan post: Lavellan who, even...”

you're evil omg ;3;

/pretentious gestures 

thank you i try

[wydpod]

More smarty pants memes, this time with an extra gorgeous Verceveron. Truly the best druid to ever druid

[vaultsixtynine]

Heyo! This text post is a response to covenmouse's really cool post! For the first section I will talk as if I am addressing her, but after that I'm going to delineate into a blurb I've wanted to write about FNV for a very long time. Cut for brevity and convenience.

Just putting my 2 cents in here, and upfront I'm going to say that I definitely agree with you. The "rabid legion fan" condition has continually boggled me since I first picked up and played the game and tried to talk to others about it and it SERIOUSLY concerns me sometimes because there's "hoo hoo ha ha I'm playing an evil character in this video game" and "I fully and knowingly support a slaveholding, rapist, misogynistic, vaguely genocidal society that wants to literally crush all of remaining civilization under its boot heel" and they are VERY DIFFERENT. That's some heavy shit, and half of the FNV fan population never seems to bat an eye? And even side with the Legion? There's plenty of opportunities to change your mind - you can go to talk to Caesar, decide that this is not what you want, and blow his head off - It's fully within the player character's power to do all that and more at several points in the story. As for what you said, I have no 'but' clause other than to note it always seemed to me like both the game plot and in-game dialogue set the NCR up as? Significantly better? Than the Legion? Like okay, Bitter Springs was a violation of acceptable standards of warfare and also of human rights and everybody fucking knows it and NCR is awful for essentially covering it up (just using this instance as an example) but they're by far the way way lesser of two evils, and I feel the game always represents that. It could also be my automatic anti-Legion bias that I had from the very beginning of my first playthrough of the game that I never picked up on the writing trying to present them as two equal evils, but... anyway.

I'm going on to talk about something that I'm not quite sure if the writers meant to do or not, but it still happened and it's something I've been thinking about for literal years: 

The NCR is much more like historical Rome than the Legion ever was or ever will be. And I'm not sure if this is something that we were supposed to pick up on as an ironic twist, or if Obsidian did it unknowingly (Obsidian's writing teams have always been superb in my opinion, and I'll give them the benefit of thinking they did it intentionally!) 

Basically: I have a pretty strong background in Classical History (gross history nerd, I know) and four years of Latin and I feel like I'm in a pretty good place to do some historical analysis of the similarities and differences of Rome with both the NCR and the Legion.

Essentially, it comes down to culture. NCR and Legion are both large empire-like entities that take over land and the people living on it, it's true. Superficially, they're similar. Legion fancies itself Roman and speaks as much Latin as they can know, they dress as closely as they can, they structure their battle formations and their very small society after a grand mental impression they have of How Rome Was. And they're wrong, and that's the best part. 

NCR? Is itself, a many-tentacled and greedy republic going for land and money and run by politicians and rich people. Guess what. That is exactly how Rome was, that is exactly it. It had politicians and bureaucracy and rich families and poor families and a SOCIAL. STRUCTURE. And with social structure (in a chicken-or-the-egg kind of way) comes CULTURE. Culture is the pivoting point of all civilization, basically, and NCR has one. 

What makes the Legion 'Not-Rome' is their structure. One supreme dictator with actual CONTROL over what goes on all the time within his society. Roman emperors? Rarely had control over more than a handful of things at a time, and bureaucracy continued as always even after the Republic was replaced with an Emperor office by historical Caesar. FNV Caesar set up his society to be as close to Rome as he could, but by destroying and assimilating all the groups he conquered instead of conquering and largely letting CULTURE continue as it had (with slight modifications), Caesar made his ideal image of Rome... not Rome. 

Rome had a culture, and a civilian population. The Legion has an army, and only an army, and everything goes to serve that army - there is no culture, no society, no civilians. The NCR expands to feed money to the homeland, to the people living there, who are the real impetus of how the NCR works - and when they conquer, they say "This is NCR land" and set up some soldiers, and then (by the large portion of whatever conquered population it is) they are ignored. Incorporated. Taxes are levied and infrastructure built, and the people grow used to the idea of being part of the NCR. 

Essentially what I'm saying is: the Legion runs an eternal scorched-earth campaign, and that's why they continue to expand: they need more people to sacrifice, more people to kill, more women to rape. They have no civilization of their own, so they take from others, and take and take and take until there's nothing left. They take the men and make them soldiers (most of who die), they take the women and kill the ones that can't bear children and enslave the rest - no better than pack animals for heavy labor and their offspring - and children are also enslaved and indoctrinated, so that they can die for the Bull as well. 

This is not a civilization, it's an army - and only an army. 

Rome was never "just an army" - Rome was always a populace that had a civilian base and a military arm that reached out and got more and more for its people and the hubris of its leaders - and Rome learned that it's better not to destroy the culture of the places you conquer, but to live and let live.

And the NCR behaves in almost the same manner: money is what's important, and in the pursuit of land and pride and some semblance of NCR patriotism - culture's preserved, and incorporated, and people continue to live and make things and build an identity from that. 

Rome wouldn't conquer Vegas to destroy it; Rome would conquer Vegas to get fat off of it - just as the NCR is attempting to do during the plot of FNV. The Legion wants Vegas for one thing: to destroy it, to consume it, and to move on.