#holiday harbinger 2023

[alongtidesoflight]

So fuck you, and thanks for asking.

My Holiday Harbinger contribution, for @depressed-sock, a painting of their Shepard Karson and Jack!

[mishikaiya]

@trekkiemage I am your giftee this year for @masseffectholidaycheer‘s annual reaping gift exchange! I hope you enjoy my tribute to that found family juice we both love so much!

[sparatus]

Words: 2,455 Fandom: Mass Effect Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jack | Subject Zero/Male Shepard Characters: Jack | Subject Zero, Morinth (Mass Effect) Additional Tags: Post-Mass Effect 2: Arrival, Off-screen Relationship(s), Introspection Summary: Shepard has been arrested following the disaster at Bahak, leaving his friends behind on the Citadel. Jack and Morinth watch him go and ruminate on what they're supposed to do now.

Holiday Harbinger piece for @alongtidesoflight!! I think about Jack’s character arc and the one Morinth could have had if Bioware weren’t cowards a normal amount. I was super excited to see them in your list of faves, and you mentioned Jack’s character arc specifically so I tried to focus on that a bit. I hope you like it!!

[silentstephi]

After a few years of forgetting, I finally got a chance to participate in another Harbinger Happy Holidays gift exchange!

This year, I opted for a physical gift and got a Ryder pop and this beautiful Garrus plate. I squee'd with joy when I saw the plate, I love the art as well as having more reminders to all of my friends and family that I am in fact, a huge dork.

Thank you so very much secret Santa! I love it <3

[thetrashbagswasteland]

Holiday Harbinger piece for @captainderyn, because who can resist the mood-boosting power of cute puppies? Ryn is adorable and I just loved that bit of backstory for her so much that I was compelled to write this. Hope you like it!

[queensharotto]

Brittle Doughie’s Cookie Run x Reader Masterlist (Part 5: Late 2023)

A masterlist of @brittle-doughie’s Cookie Run stories organized by month.

Genre Emojis

😞 is for angst, 🎃 is for Halloween, 🎄 is for Christmas, 🍪 is for Cannibalism, 💗 is for Yandere, 💝 is for Valentine’s, 👻 is for Horror, 🎂 is for Birthday, 💚 is for Yandere!White Lily Cookie

The Indents are related to the featured cookies. If there are numerous cookies (Over 10 Cookies Featured), I’ll make a note on that as well. Additionally, I’ll categorize various cookies if they’re associated with a specific hobby, location, food etc.

Also, the ⭐️ will indicate a story featuring one of Brittle’s OCs.

September 2023 🍂

• “Lord/Lady Harbinger Cookie”

Featuring: The Cookies of Darkness

• “Bully Hunter”

Featuring: Lilac Cookie

• “Harbinger Cookie’s Relationship with Pomegranate Cookie”

Featuring: Pomegranate Cookie

• “All Aboard” 💗

Featuring: Milky Way Cookie

• “Napping in Goblin Cookie’s Bag”

Featuring: Goblin Cookie

• “Yandere Dragons” 💗

Featuring: The 5 Dragons

• “Y/N Cookie Meets Golden Cheese Cookie”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Golden Cheese Cookie’s Greatest Treasure: Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Y/N Cookie as a Shagaru Magala”

Featuring: The 5 Dragons and the Cookies of Darkness

• “Golden Cheese Cookie and Ancient Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie and Burnt Cheese Cookie

• “Golden Cheese Cookie Body Pillow”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Golden Cheese Cookie showing off her wealth”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Satellite”

Featuring: Stardust Cookie

• “The Greedy or the Honorable”

Featuring: Pirate Cookie, Sorbet Shark Cookie, Captain Ice Cookie and Peppermint Cookie

• “Halt! The Restriction Mayhem Update!” 💗

Featuring: Kumiho Cookie, Cocoa Cookie, Ninja Cookie, Okchun Cookie, Lilac Cookie, Timekeeper Cookie, Sea Fairy Cookie, Fire Spirit Cookie and Lotus Dragon Cookie

• “Bastet Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Burnt Cheese Cookie and 2 Marzipan Cookies

• “Smoked Cheese Cookie x Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Kingdom Host Cookie, Mozzarella Cookie, Smoked Cheese Cookie and High Priest Cheesenbird

October 2023 🎃

• “Shining Glitter Cookie and Black Lemonade Cookie fighting over Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Shining Glitter Cookie and Black Lemonade Cookie

• “Can’t Take What Isn’t Yours”

Featuring: Chili Pepper Cookie and Peppercorn Cookie

• “Paying Golden Cheese Cookie to use her gold in Character Designs”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Last Cookie Standing Challenge: Punch Y/N Cookie in the face”

Featuring: Caramel Arrow Cookie, Madeleine Cookie, Tea Knight Cookie and Rye Cookie

• “Dragon Person Y/N Cookie in the Golden Cheese Kingdom”

Featuring: Pitaya Dragon Cookie

• “Courtship Dance with Smoked Cheese Cookie”

Featuring: Smoked Cheese Cookie

• “Off to Wish Camp!”

Featuring: Cannoli Cookie, S’mores Cookie, and Yoga Cookie

• “Y/N Cookie Cherished by Golden Cheese Cookie”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Halloween Party with Chili Pepper Cookie” 🎃

Featuring: Chili Pepper Cookie

• “Last Cookie Standing Reward: Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Members of Teams Crunchy and Cripsy

• “Spooky Cookie Tales: Prikaza” 🎃

Featuring: Black Garlic Cookie

November 2023 🌾

• “Sitting on the Golden Goddess’ Lap”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Archaeologists of the Golden Cheese Kingdom”

Featuring: Fruit Cheese Cookie and Camembert Cookie

• “Beneath Burnt Cheese Cookie’s Mask”

Featuring: Burnt Cheese Cookie

• “The Corrupted or the Fooled (Abyss Monarch vs. Black Pearl Cookie)”

Featuring: Abyss Monarch Cookie and Black Pearl Cookie

• “Robbing a Bank with Timekeeper Cookie”

Featuring: Timekeeper Cookie

• “Pocky Day with Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Kumiho Cookie, Peach Cookie and Croissant Cookie

• “Rockstar Cookie x Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Rockstar Cookie

• “Stollen Cookie x Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Stollen Cookie

December 2023 🎄

• “Icicle Yeti Cookie and Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Icicle Yeti Cookie

• “Y/N Cookie in The Holiday Express” 🎄

Featuring: Creme Brulee Cookie and Linzer Cookie

• “Linzer Cookie Writing her own Y/N Cookie x her story”

Featuring: Linzer Cookie

• “Y/N Cookie in the Christmas Academy”

Featuring: Stollen Cookie and Strawberry Cream Cookie

• “Linzer Cookie’s Story: A LOT of cut material”

Featuring: Linzer Cookie

• “A Happy Ending Just for You”

Featuring: Linzer Cookie

• “Kissing Golden Cheese Cookie’s Hand”

Featuring: Golden Cheese Cookie

• “Sugar Swan Cookie x Y/N Cookie”

Featuring: Sugar Swan Cookie

• “All I Want for Cookiemas is Y/N Cookie” 💚

Featuring: White Lily Cookie

• “The Sweet Signals from Space”

Featuring: Astronaut Cookie and Xylitol Nova Cookie

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[breelandwalker]

Worm Moon - March 7 2023

The world is thawing and spring will soon be sprung. Dust off your garden tools and get ready for the Worm Moon!

Worm Moon

The Worm Moon is the name given to the full moon which occurs in the month of March in the Northern Hemisphere. The name is taken from the renewed visible presence of earthworms, which begin to bubble up in gardens and on sidewalks as the spring thaw approaches and increased temperatures and rainfall loosen the soil enough for them to emerge. And of course, this is accompanied by the presence of spring harbingers like robins and local songbirds, who are very happy to see this renewed bounty.

The March moon, if it occurs prior to the spring equinox, is also the Lenten Moon, named for the Christian holiday of Lent. Indigenous names for this moon include Goose Moon (Algonquin and Cree), Sugar Moon (Ojibwe), Sap Moon (Shawnee), and Crow Comes Back Moon (Northern Ojibwe).

What Does It Mean For Witches?

Full moons are both the beginning and end of the lunar cycle. With the Worm Moon, we can look forward to the beginning of spring and the yearly harvest cycle. So now is the perfect time for seasonal divination, plans for the coming months, and the setting of goals for the future, both short-term and long-term. You can also check in with goals you may have set back in January and record your progress. (Remember - even a little progress is still progress!)

If you're an observer of astrology, you might be interested to know that Saturn and several other planets are experiencing transitions this month, some of them for the first time in several years. For those who work in celestial spheres, this may herald a long-awaited breath of fresh air and (hopefully) positive changes to come.

What Witchy Things Can We Do?

The Worm Moon heralds the imminent start of the planting season. If you've got green fingers, now is the time to begin planning your garden for the season. Prepare your sprouting trays and browse your favorite seed catalog for inspiration.

As the Spring Equinox approaches (March 20th), this is a good time to start putting together any seasonal observances you'd like to make. It's also time for that all-important spring cleaning, so open up those windows on a warm day and air out all the staleness from winter. As you scrub and dust and declutter, you can also magically cleanse your space of stagnant, disruptive, or unwanted things, replacing them with your own energy and your good wishes and goals for the upcoming season.

Consider also how you can change or begin new routines and habits to improve your life, make better choices, streamline your schedule, or just give yourself a much-needed break. If there's something hanging around that no longer serves you, now is the time to consider bidding it adieu and moving forward to a new path.

This is also an excellent time for spells focused on fertility, optimism, and new growth. It's important to remember that fertility spells don't just have to focus on procreation. They can also be geared toward planting, creating, opportunity, inspiration, motivation, prosperity, abundance, and anything that requires nurturing and productivity.

The season of growth and renewal is upon us, so it's time to Ready, Set, GROW!

Happy Worm Moon, witches! 🌕🌱

Further Reading:

Worm Moon: Full Moon for March 2023, The Old Farmer's Almanac

Worm Moon: The Stunning Full Moon of March 2023, The Peculiar Brunette

Everyday Moon Magic: Spells & Rituals for Abundant Living, Dorothy Morrison

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[dungeonmalcontent]

Grimdark & Dangerous!

I’ve done it. Grimdark & Dangerous is available for purchase as of right now. Follow this link and it will take you to DMsGuild where it is currently hosted and ready to go.

Have you ever wanted to implement classes that increase risks for your characters or make playing the game just a bit harder without resorting to “realism” rules?

Perhaps you want more spells? Lots more spells. A grand total of 59 new spells?!

What about class options? How about a whole 5 new class options?

Did you like the rune scribe prestige class but don’t want to have to worry about prestige class rules? Because, let’s be real, prestige class rules are weird and the rune scribe class does not play nicely with the rest of the rules.

Maybe you’re the kind of player that wants magic items out the wazoo. Just, all the items. You need more. But 54 more new items? How about an entire new class of magic item? How about weapons that let you adjust how they behave in combat? How about magic weapons specifically geared towards enhancing different kinds of spell casting styles?

How about blood magic? You like blood hunter? What if there was a class option that was like that, but for magic and spells?

Do you like to harvest big monsters for crafting materials? What if you could do that but turn those crafting materials into new limbs and natural weapons you could use?

Or maybe, you want to make just... the most neurotic character ever? The kind that is so broken everyone else wonders how they even function, but they have become able to turn their immense suffering into personally meaningful and dramatic growth and power?

This is the kind of thing packed tightly into Grimdark & Dangerous. This book is comparable in size and scope to Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and is almost 100% in-game content.

The current price for the book is $19.99. Consider this a sale for the holidays. When 2023 rolls around the price will likely go up to $25 to help offset the cost of making the book. $19.99 is less than half of what it costs to buy a WotC expansion book, and Grimdark & Dangerous has just as much if not more content than many of the WotC expansion books.

On top of all of that, there actually is more. Upon meeting certain sales milestones for Grimdark & Dangerous, I will be doing the following:

100 copies - I will release “Pay What You Want” edition(s) of the entirety of Grimdark & Dangerous’ chapters.

500 copies - Grimdark Bestiary (which was partially completed early in the development process for Grimdark & Dangerous, but cut due to time constraints) will be added on to all future and past purchases of the book

1001 copies - Platinum best seller - I will release all of Grimdark & Dangerous as a physical print edition

2000 copies (I do not expect this to happen, but I would love it to) - I will organize a new project called "Harbinger" on Kickstarter. It will not be a d&d 5e project, but rather a new open source ttrpg that would help people transition from 5e to other systems and settings.

I have put months of full-time effort into this project, and it has been mostly a labor of love for a game and community that has helped me so much. But to be able to actually present a book like this and share it with that game and community is just a whole other level of satisfaction. I’m incredibly grateful for all the love and support over the past few months as I’ve teased ad talked about this project. I hope ya’ll find as much enjoyment from using the content as I did from making and testing it.

[hiperacid2]

Baby, wish that you would hold me or just say that you were mine⭒──⚝

⚝ dottore x oc / reader if you can ignore my OCs physical description

⚝ pre-relationship, mostly some kind of fluff, angst if you squint at the end, written for valentines 2023, some descriptions of blood and violence but nothing too graphic. posted on ao3 too! wc: 2.2k aprox

Valentines day is known as the day where love is in the air, where everyone also celebrates their Archons love, even if it's frozen forever.

However, in the castle this is like any other day, everyone works just as much as yesterday and tomorrow, some people gift each other chocolates, yes, but the work never stops, the only person who celebrates this holiday fully is Her Majesty's daughter, gifting her unusual little family of harbingers some of the finest chocolates in all the land, some of them even imported from all over Teyvat. Theres a singular person who receives special treatment apart from Tsaritsa, and it's the one who absolutely despises these "holidays", and spends it holed up in the labs, Dottore.

It's not that he hates it per se, it's the fact that he was almost never included sincerely, he had received chocolates during his akademiya days but it was all people that whenever they got to meet the reality disappeared from his life or started to alienate him.

He really didn't expect the turn that day took, well, he should have since he knew from what the segments experienced, some day the girl was going to do a bold move, he just wasn't expecting her to do it so soon.

Vera hummed a Snezhnayan lullaby as she walked from her office to the harbingers ones, handing in little baskets with chocolate arrangements, varying from extra sweet, white and pink ones for her dear auntie Columbina, to dark concentrated bitter for the Balladeer who almost looked at her like she was pulling a prank, until she flipped one of the tags and he saw it was bitter and not sweet. Pantalone received exotic fruits from all over Teyvat covered in chocolate, ideal for his teas, and in exchange the man shot her a suspicious glare as if the were poisoned. Sandrone didnt like chocolates so she arranged a bouquet of mondstatian flowers, Pulcinella never accepted her gifts, and Capitano rejected only the chocolates, so she resorted to gift him weaponry she caught whenever she is raiding big fishes or finds them in her victims. This year Arlecchino was in the orphanage managing things so she sent her gifts there with all sorts of new knives and snacks. She avoided Pierro like the plague, either way the man didnt want her gifts, and she didnt think he really deserves any.

The only basket left in her office was a slightly bigger one than the rest, full of Sumerian snacks, ruin drake cores, and all sorts of poisonous plants carefully sorted in little jars, labeled in Vera's penmanship. This year she was going to make her advances towards the resident madman, the challenge would be finding Prime, and avoiding the segments with their questions or teasing, hardly happens but its a possibility. 

Picking up the basket, she exited her office and started her way towards the basement labs thinking about his reaction, usually she gave her gifts to the first segment she came across, to be delivered to Prime, so this was going to be a completely new experience.

The jars clinking were the only sound heard in the deserted corridors, almost no one frequented this place for fear of catching the man in a bad mood and ending as a lab rat, so she was sure he was already aware of someone coming, the imposing metal doors at the end growing in size. It was a good thing she wasn't really nervous, just curious, as she stopped in front of them and raised a hand to knock on it. Knock knock. Silence engulfed the space, no sound coming from behind the doors. Vera knocked once again and still no response. Opening the heavy door, the space was littered with half finished weapons, there was a corpse laying in a bed impossible to miss for her even with a large cloth over it, and a lot of things she had never seen. There was a wooden door in a corner, probably his office, once again the jars clinked as she walked and shifted the basket in her hands. Looking around, carefully dodging papers and machinery pieces on the floor, she made her way towards the door, and knocked twice firmly, suddenly, nervousness overtook her, but it was too late for backing down, so she waited, until a muffled voice said "Come in".

Breathing in, she pushed the door open, and gently closed it once inside the room. "Good afternoon Doctor." she paused, looking at the man who was still reading some papers "I wanted to give you your Valentines gift, if you are so kind as to accept it. ". The man now was looking at her, she didn't see his eyes, but felt his gaze trying to pin her in her place. "My, this year I'm graced by the Innamorati herself in the flesh", standing up, and circling the desk covered in strewn papers. "I'm not here as Innamorati, but as Vera." she looked at the basket in her hands. 

"And what is Vera doing this year here in my office?" He paused, still analyzing the woman, trying to make her crack and show fear to no avail, her strawberry colored hair shining pale in the artificial lights, "Usually some segment comes around with a basket of snacks, why the change of heart, sweetie?" he sat on the surface of the desk, letting out a sardonic laugh "don't tell me that some segment treated you badly, Tsaritas precious gem".

"No, Dottore, no segment treated me badly", she raised her eyebrow, annoyed, "Cant I bring you personally a gift now?". Now this was interesting, if he was going to play it like this, she was going to go lower. The little important detail is that she couldn't play like she wanted to in unknown territory, and damage was done letting her annoyance show, she just couldnt slip back into sweetheart without the Second taking note of it. "Either way I thought a little walk hurts nobody", she looked around, "unless I'm interrupting your important work" gripping the handle, she started to bounce on her feet lightly. "I hope this basket is to your liking, there's some… things in there, see it for yourself", she walked towards the desk, and put it over a pile of papers, balancing precariously. He was still looking at her, silent, no trace of emotion about the gift anywhere, until suddenly, he smiled, all pointed tooth on display,  this was the closest Vera got to him in her whole life, and she already wanted to feel his blood on her hands, caress his organs and taste just a drop of his blood. Her eyes darkened, and the usual bloodlust that surrounded her started to make itself known, but he had no opportunity to catch this as she immediately closed her eyes and turned her head to look at him, "I really hope you accept this gift, I would hate for the belladona i carefully collected to go to waste," a pause, letting him butt in if he wanted to, but cutting him, "Unless I can offer you to be myself the belladonna, specifically yours, don't you like to play with toys, Doctor?" a manicured hand came up swiftly, like dancing, to rest over where his heart should be. "I sure like to play myself with some hearts, literally speaking" She then traced the point of the birdlike mask, "after all I only have eyes for one person" carefully measured words were all she had in mind, thats what working closely with pantalone gifts you.

Dottore let her get closer, it was entrancing how the innocent look she had was betrayed by the sudden hunger in the acidic green pools, made him wonder how far he could drag it out, the innocent devotee with bloodlust. Naturally he knew about Vera having interest in him, Pantalone never shut up about it, how the snake's eyes followed him every time they were all reunited in the throne room, or they crossed paths in his office. But true to his nature, he was going to come out with the lower hand, if she was stooping to his level, might as well go lower and send the little cute snake back into the bushes. He was still smiling maniacally, and when her finger reached the point of the mask, he pushed against her finger, half raising it, letting a piercing red eye look at her directly, “Oh? Do you?” Something dangerous twinkled in that gaze, his only visible eye narrowing “Do I know them? Him? Her?” he lightly pushed off her hand, but didnt let it go, his other hand coming to fix the mask over his face once again, as if she hadn't just seen for the first time in her life Prime Dottores face. “Maybe your uncles need to know about them, after all, you’re the princess of the land”, he looks at the basket, “Should you really be gifting these things to me and not your beloved?”. 

Oh, so that was the game he wanted to play, “I don't know, do you?” Her free hand touched her chin in a pensive gesture, now that she knew the general place in which his eyes were, she was looking straight at him. “As for the gifts, I would be really sad if the things my assistant brought aaaalllll the way from Sumeru and went through all the trouble that is avoiding the forest rangers nagging went bad” Her hand brought up a vial full of kalpalata lotus petals between them, placing them back in the basket, and then taking out some chaos bolts, making them spin in a bubble made with her vision, "I can always give these parts to Sandrone to put them on Katya, and I'm sure 'Bina will always welcome the snacks from me" the bubble popped and the bolt fell on her hand, to be placed back in the basket, looking back at his eyes "Would you really make the Princess upset?" Her eyes turned glassy, but the void was always present, not even the fake moisture could give those orbs some shine, "What would Pierro say about it?" His lips twitched, he was about to crack and she will drink his reaction like the most expensive firewater in existence, all of it, to be remembered forever. She raised her hand to her forehead and put the final nail in the coffin, grabbing the wrist of his hand that still held her arm "Oh! Poor Vera! Dottore rejected the gift she made with all her heart and now she's sad and miserable, that good girl does not deserve that kind of harsh treatment!".

In a blink she was in previously Dottores place against the desk, his hand on her jaw, pressing her cheeks, the cold leather from his free hand contrasting with the warm one still holding her arm, and now it was her turn to grin mischievously, her next movements were slow, after all she was in a big disadvantage, and wasn't free from punishment if the Second saw it fit, even if it was to spite her. She raised her hand in surrender, but he was still holding her in her place, his anger filling the air with tension, "Okay, I get it, no Pierro then, I don't even like the man either way" her hand coming to disarm her vision at her hip, to enhance the point of no harm, she knew parting with her vision like that was dangerous, but she trusted him in a sick way of knowing he would not risk harm to her on behalf of her Mother. Vera risked losing her hand literally and once again put it over his heart, "I know you know, I'm sure Pantyman got a kick of getting on your nerves by telling my business, two birds one shot" she rolled her eyes, "As I said when I first came, I just wanted to bring the gift myself this year instead of sending it through Omega who frequents the corridors of the offices doing all your socials" his hand relents and releases her, "give the man a break and go take some sun yourself, old man", she takes back her hand and pushes herself away from the desk  "maybe I want to sneak a glance without having to pester the resident mora snake when I catch wind of you being outside the basement".

Clipping back her vision to her belt, looking at the man that now towers over her; she fixes his mask that was crooked from the fast movement, and carefully fixes a stray strand of hair. Without saying anything else, Vera exits the office and makes her way to the corridors, leaving behind a very confused Dottore.

reblogs are appreciated!!

a/n: if you have any questions about Vera, ask away! I'm happy to talk about my baby, my golden child with bloodied hands.

do not repost or translate. this work belongs to hiperacid2

[ms-m-astrologer]

2023 Leo Cross-Quarter Day

Tuesday, August 8, 00:23 UT Chart erected for Washington, DC

The Sun is at precisely 15° Leo, astrologically halfway between the Cancer Solstice and the Libra Equinox.

So much Leo-Taurus tension. The Sun and Venus Rx are getting closer to each other, with their inferior conjunction coming up on August 13. This makes us warm, loving, and playful, but also prone to vanity and frivolousness. We can get angry when the other person doesn’t play along with our romantic intentions; creatively, we can be rampaging little prima donnas. We can also be a little too performative - and when we aren’t being genuine, it turns other people off.

The bunch in Taurus - Moon, Jupiter, and Uranus - can be just as convinced of their own superiority (if not as flashy in expression as Leo). They’re pushing us to back up our vanity etc. with something substantial.

Note that the Sun is exactly square Jupiter, and Venus is exactly square Uranus! The former can make us confident leaders, but it can also make us pompous and lazy. The lattter can give excitement in the love and creative lives, but it doesn’t promise anything lasting (even though it’s in fixed signs).

If you’re in the southern hemisphere, this is Imbolc (aka Brigid, Candlemas) - time to gather and mobilize the resources you need to accomplish your goals. It looks like working on developing traits or accomplishments to help you become a better version of yourself.

Up here in the northern hemisphere, it’s Lughsnasad (aka Lammas) - the beginnings of the harvest. What we started back at Yule is now coming to fruition. (The lunar phase in this chart, Disseminating, reflects this.) Kind of like election night on TV, announcing “early results are in.” What have you learned? Can you share that with other people, to teach or commiserate or assist?

In her book Circle Round, Starhawk writes about Lughsnasad as a time to honor teachers and coaches - anyone who helps guide children. In the US, it’s “back to school” time, and a worthy commemoration of this holiday might be donating to a “school supplies for kids” charity.

For me, who loathes hot weather, this is a treasured time. Right after the Fourth of July, I start straining my ears, each night, for the first crickets - a definite harbinger of approaching autumn. The shadows are suddenly much darker, too - although the older I get, the less able I am, to see this phenomenon.

But the best part is (always) the FOOD. Corn on the cob, blueberries, peaches, tomatoes, canteloupe - I am usually very broke in August, but I always try to get ahold of some of those five August treats, to celebrate.

[mistresslrigtar]

WIP Game!

I've been tagged in the WIP game where I have to post my wip titles and you can ask after them. Thanks for the tag @zeldaelmo I love these games 😀

Okay - here's what's on tap for the end of 23 and so far for 2024.

End of 2023

I Belong to You - my grad school college AU long fic (sort of BotW/TotK inspired, but more original characterizations, I think) - Link is the bassist in an alternative rock band and Zelda is an up-and-coming biology genius (Not sure if this one REALLY counts as a WIP since it's complete and I'm posting the final chapter next week 😉) You can read it on AO3, just click HERE it's rated M for adult content so only click if you're 18+

All I Want is You - A Hallmark/ABC Family Holiday movie TP Zelink style short story - Link and Zelda come from two different worlds. When those worlds collide at the first annual Winterzauber in Hyrule, they’ll find that titles and stations have no meaning when it comes to true love. (posting beginning on 12/16 - 12/21)

In 2024 (so far)

Title TBD TotK one-shot (I lied @zeldaelmo I do have one TotK) - inspired by @bahbahhh 1000 follower picture prompt (won't be posting in time for the contest, but I still like my idea, so I'm going to write it anyway)- it will be a 1st person Link musing - very Love Story-esque - which is a great classic movie you should watch if you haven't, but it's a tear-jerker😥

A Poet's Love - BotW short story about the court poet that I've named Carik, falling in love with Link's sister, Aryll after the Calamity - Carik deals with his grief over Zelda's 'demise' and the jealousy he harbored for the fallen hero, Link. He's blindsided when he falls in love with the hero's sister, Aryll.

and the albatross around my neck I swear I'm going to finish if it's the last thing I do in 2024!

Captain Link Araki and the Harbinger of Destiny long fic (a weird mash-up of characters from WW and SS) - summary:

Pursuing treasure to repair his ship and buy an island, Captain Link Araki happens upon a shipwreck with the sole survivor, the fallen King Harkinian. Harkinian implores Link and his crew to rescue his daughter, Zelda, before she is forced to wed the usurper of the crown, Ganondorf Dragmire.

I have no idea who to tag! So if you've already been tagged just ignore this one 😉

@onewingedsparrow @fioreofthemarch @daemosdaen @flutefemme @cjracingpnfand anyone else who sees this and wants to share their upcoming stuff!

[timptoe]

Running List of Fics

Hi, I’m Ryan! I took to writing fanfic as therapy, and it’s the most fun I’ve had in years. Mostly I write fluff and fun with the occasional introspective character study. Say hi! Fandom community can be awesome if you let it.

Mass Effect fics Two Lovesick Idiots (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; my first fic since college twenty years ago about a silly scrapbook, inspired by this artwork by @sinclairsolutions

Chamomile with Honey (tumblr) (Ao3) - Cortez & Vega; fluff about getting through a cold

Pretty Sweet Hoverboard (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; in which Shepard annoys Kaidan with a hoverboard, inspired by this post from @zet-sway

Here at the End of Everything (tumblr 1, 2, 3) (Ao3) - a character study about Joker making the choice to leave Shepard on the Crucible, aka the fic that’s helping me fix whatever it was about the ME3 ending that broke my brain

Six Words for Shepard (tumblr) (Ao3) - Jack/fShep; gift fic for @all-truths-wait-in-all-things for Holiday Harbinger 2022! Jack writes a sestina for Shepard

Peace of Mind (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; gift fic for @Cardhwion on AO3 for ShenkoSummer 2023. Kaidan navigates painful memories to figure out he’s in love

Small Comforts (tumblr) (Ao3) - fshenko; gift fic @palimpsetus on AO3 for ShenkoSummer 2023: Kaidan gets his ass kicked in beach volleyball and then breaks into a lighthouse.

Ticking Like A (tumblr) (Ao3) - Joker & Vega; gift fic for @vesperfloyd for the Hatboy Exchange 2023; James isn’t alright after Sanctuary, and Joker pushes him to figure out why

The Longest Night (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; Kaidan deals with the guilt of surviving Virmire by holding vigil on the longest night; because sometimes you have to wait for the light

As the Revel Meets the Day (tumblr) (Ao3) - mshenko; Four times someone sees Shepard in pain, and one time Shepard finally, finally has peace; because sometimes you get to see the light return

Dragon Age fics What Bards Sing About (tumblr) (Ao3) - Lacklon/Roland; four times during the show Lacklon notices Roland and blames it on his legs

Of Butterflies and Flying Dwarves (tumblr) (Ao3) - Lacklon/Roland; because there’s nothing funnier than putting a dwarf on a hoverboard

It’s Just a Rock, Man (tumblr) (Ao3) - Lacklon/Roland; how to court your Orlesian boyfriend in the most ridiculous way possible.

Essays When Genocide Is The Best Option (tumblr) - my attempt to piece together my thoughts about the ending of Mass Effect 3, complete with references to Stranger Than Fiction and Samuel Beckett

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What’s the deal with this shipping stuff, why is it coming to a head now instead earlier in the pandemic, and it this just how things are going to be from now on in publishing?

There have been delays since the beginning of the pandemic, actually. Many books were delayed back then, too, because bookstores were completely closed and authors couldn't go on tour, etc. This meant many Spring 2020 books were delayed to Fall 2020, which began a bottleneck. At THAT time, aside from like, a global pandemic that upended everything, we were dealing with a paper shortage (which, if you don't know, you need paper both to make books and to make the cardboard boxes they come in) -- and extremely reduced printer capacity. Two of the largest printers in the US went bust, and there was a massive backlog at the printers. Here's an article about it from August 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/books/printing-companies-backlog-book-publishing.html

The "shipping stuff" as you say affects ALL goods that come to this country from somewhere else. It's a disrupted "supply chain" and it has been an absolute clusterfuck. OK, so, remember back in March when a ship got stuck in the Suez Canal? Hilarious, right? But that event not only created another bottleneck and slowed shipping across the globe, but was a harbinger of problems with shipping all around -- increased demand but not enough people doing it, COVID delays, skyrocketing prices, etc etc. From April 2021:

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/4/2/22364278/suez-canal-ship-effects-ever-given-supply-chain

The aforementioned paper shortage and printer issues continue to linger, the demand for goods continues to be high, the cost of shipping has gone up anywhere from 3x to 10x, there's a container shortage (containers being those big metal things that stuff comes in on boats? Yeah, there aren't enough of them), there's a lack of people to unpack the containers once they arrive in port, there's a lack of people to unpack sort and ship once the books arrive in the warehouse, not to mention the general eff-uppedness of the postal system that has been happening since the T***p administration.

Here's an article from the NYT on the subject from last month:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/world/supply-chain-snarls-reach-the-book-publishing-industry.html

So anyway - that's why all the booksellers and authors are begging and pleading for people to PRE-ORDER NEW BOOKS if you know you want them for the holidays - because, while books ARE coming (albeit often much more slowly than we'd like), if/when they sell out, there's no guarantee that they will be able to be reprinted this year in time for you to get your mitts on them. (So please don't yell at booksellers if they say the book is sold out and they don't know when/if it will be back! They are trying the best they can in a shitty situation over which they have zero control!)

Of course - most bookstores are also full to bursting with OTHER great books - so if you don't need a particular title, you can always buy any of the thousands already on the shelves - I'm sure your local bookstore would appreciate that!

ETA: How long will it last? Well -- probably a good way through 2022, at least, because the bottleneck is real, things are ALREADY being delayed in early 2022, and I have no idea how it will be fixed or if it is just a waiting game or what. But it would not surprise me if it lasted into 2023.

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Joyce and Raissa De Haas, the founders of Bifold DutchDouble Dutch

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Double Dutch’s accompanying founders adventure is absolutely one of my admired because it is a absolute representation of adult high-end entrepreneurship, aloof like their mixers. From accolade a botheration in a filed they are amorous about–to experimenting with the abstraction and doing research–to acceptable the best able startup at the University and accepting antecedent allotment to launch the business.

Their affection for gin analeptic accumulated with the annoyance with the bound alternative of high-end mixers on the bazaar angry into the UK based exceptional analeptic and mixer cast affairs over bisected a actor bottles per ages beyond 22 countries.

Their history follows that of the gin. Gin evolved as herbal anesthetic (made from juniper berries) in the Netherlands and became accepted in Abundant Britain (particularly in London). During their studies in Antwerp, the twins started experimenting with authoritative their own syrups and sodas and brought them to accompany and added apprentice parties. A few years later, in 2015 their analeptic amnion and mixers were produced and awash in the UK. With addition at its core, Bifold Dutch has awash aloof beneath 10 actor bottles to date.

“After admission we both started alive in the banking area about absolutely anon we accomplished this wasn’t absolutely for us. We again absitively to go to London to alpha a Second Master in Technology Entrepreneurship at University College London (UCL). The syrups and mixers we were authoritative for fun the years before, formed the starting point for our thesis. We researched the bazaar during our year at UCL and looked at the alterity in the cooler bazaar area alcohol are acceptable added and added beginning while the best of mixers and analeptic amnion charcoal as banal as before. At graduation, we accustomed the award-winning for the best able startup from our University and accustomed our antecedent allotment to alpha which we acclimated to aftermath our aboriginal accumulation to get chump feedback.”, Raissa tells.

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Raissa and Joyce in the authoritative of gin tonicDouble Dutch

Тhe twins say that there is a cogent bazaar befalling to advance growth, both internationally and domestically in the UK. 

“The all-around analeptic baptize bazaar is account over £1bn and is accepted to access at a CAGR of 6.5% from 2018 to 2023. Having accomplished a sales CAGR of 180% amid 2015-2018, Bifold Dutch is positioned as a amateur cast in the tonic baptize & mixer category, increasingly establishing itself as a acclaimed cast in the space. Double Dutch was the aboriginal mixer cast to barrage quinine-free analeptic and to focus on bifold commutual additive for mixers.”  

Among the abounding awards they accept received, Richard Branson accurate the Bifold Dutch eyes by giving the twins a Foodpreneur accolade for their avant-garde Food and Cooler brand.

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I had a few gin tonics with the energetic twins in Amsterdam a few months ago and now in the spirit of the Holiday season, I asked them to allotment a few Christmas recipes and tips for a absolute gin tonic.

A barman in the authoritative of gin tonicDouble Dutch

Here go the 5 tips for a absolute Gin & Analeptic by Raissa De Haas.

1. The appropriate mixer.  Accomplish abiding you use the absolute mixer for both your aftertaste and the gin! If you don’t like absinthian aftertaste accomplish abiding you use a hardly sweeter mixer such as Bifold Dutch Cucumber & Watermelon, this has no blame which is the botanical that gives Indian Analeptic its audible absinthian notes. Acquisition out the boss botanicals in the gin and brace to the mixer, for example, if there is red bake-apple try Bifold Dutch Cranberry & Ginger which will advice accompany out all those admirable fruity flavors for a fruity G&T

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2. Lots of ice! Lots of ice is consistently important back creating the absolute G&T, we adulation to use big ice cubes and ample the canteen to the top, the added ice you accept the colder the drink, and the colder the alcohol the beneath the ice melts endlessly balance concoction acceptance you to adore all the flavors in your G&T.

3. Beginning garnish. No amount what adornment you use, make abiding you are abacus it to the alcohol not aloof abrogation it on the side! Even a simple clasp of adhesive with ample your canteen with beginning balm acceptance for a fresher aftertaste experience. Also, try abacus some adornment in your ice cubs back bushing with water–it doesn’t alone attending appealing but gives a abundant added blow of acidity back the ice melts.

4. Straw? There are a brace of factors which ascertain if you should use a harbinger or not, it could be as simple as not absent to ruin your lipstick… The alone aphorism I would say back chief on whether to use a harbinger or not is the garnish, with 80% of acidity advancing through the adenoids accomplish abiding you still get all those aromas back application a straw, either accumulate in abbreviate or abutting to the garnish.

5. Ask the experts. Ask questions, be experimental, try as abounding altered combinations as you can until you acquisition the ones which clothing you! Try altered gins, agreement with altered analeptic waters, chase your admired brands on Instagram and see what they are doing, ask the barman, aloof be adventurous! And who knows, maybe there is a new admired G&T out there for you!

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A busy canteen of gin analeptic and a canteen of Bifold Dutch analeptic waterDouble Dutch

As they say from their address to your glasses actuality are the 5 Christmas G&T recipes they recommend:

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