#mariequitecontrary posts

[mariequitecontrary]

MultiversePenPals.com

What do you do when rifts open up to another dimension?

A) Tell a responsible authority figure (wrong answer)

B) Throw gifts (no zombies or scraplets please) across said tears in reality

C) Use it to change history and take over Cybertron (wait…what?)

D) Become besties and save the world (or at least have fun trying)

Words: 24,248

AO3 linked here!

What happens when the kids in Team Prime meet the crew of the Lost Light? Read and find out in my ao3 fic for @tf-bigbang’s 2024 Transformers Reverse Mini-Bang!

“MultiversePenPals.com” was written in collaboration with @spashahoney and you can find her fantastic work here! She also created this ADORABLE gif!!!

I had the time of my life working with Spash and her piece! We had so much fun bouncing around each other about our pieces and transformers and I can’t wait to work with her more!!

I’m so proud of the work we put into this collab and I hope you love it even half as much as I do!

Missed the preview from last week? Check it out below! Created by the ever talented @spashahoney!

[mariequitecontrary]

My AU designs of Sunny and Sides have my heart in a chokehold 😩❤️💛

They were commissioned for their EVENTUAL appearance in my fic “A Spark’s Rhythm!” I saw Ghost’s open comms and got excited way too early 🤭

IN THE MEANTIME now I’m insanely inspired and have 20,000+ terror twin plot bunnies to work on lol 😂

Sunstreaker and Sideswipe AU design commissions for @mariequitecontrary for their fic “A Spark’s Rhythm”

Rarely get to draw the lambros so this was fun! I love speedster jocks ☀️🌙🏎

[spashahoney]

You ever wonder where time went - Lost in the stars with all your friends

MultiversePenPals.Com

The Prime Children encounter strange happenings in the base; a captain and his crew come a’knockin’!

(Read it here)

My piece for the @tf-bigbang’s Reverse-Mini Bang can now be posted! Got so much I wanted out of this fic, my author @mariequitecontrary did a stellar job working with me and my piece (thank you 💛). Check it out!

[rumbelleshowdown]

Showdown 2023?

Okay, everyone raise your hand if you want a Rumbelle Showdown this year. This event really needs fandom participation to succeed!

Please reblog or comment on this post. Don't say that you definitely plan to compete, because the writers' names are supposed to be secret. Just indicate your interest. We'll also need people to read, comment, reblog, VOTE (very important!) and send in prompts!

I know we have a few new people in the fandom since the last Showdown. If you're not sure what it is, please read the FAQ, the Event Breakdown, and the Rules. If you have more questions after that, please send an Ask to the blog.

(Note: your mod this year will be me, @jackabelle73 Please ignore any mentions of mariequitecontrarie as previous mod. Those posts don't have an edit button, so I can't change them.)

Lastly -- in the past, I've had help from someone else to make graphics for the blog, but that person is no longer active in the fandom. If anyone is interested in making headers, gifs, etc please let me know.

[ao3feed-kathony]

Just Criminal

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/59307109 by embracedself Penelope Featherington clicked on the email from Archive of Our Own with bated breath. She had posted her latest fanfiction to the Criminal Minds fandom about twelve hours ago. The reception had been lovely, but this user was someone special to Penelope. OR A gift for the lovely MarieQuiteContrarie. I hope you enjoy it as much as I loved writing :) Words: 1145, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Criminal Minds (US TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Penelope Featherington, Colin Bridgerton, Eloise Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton, Violet Bridgerton, Benedict Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma Relationships: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington, Eloise Bridgerton & Penelope Featherington, Anthony & Benedict & Colin & Daphne & Eloise & Francesca & Gregory & Hyacinth Bridgerton, Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe: Fanfic Writers, Archive of our Own - Freeform, Criminal Minds-adjacent, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Meet-Cute read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/59307109

[mariequitecontrary]

gobbles everything up right at the eye's doorstep.

Yummy <3

Marie skips up to the door, wearing a large cardboard box costume of Optimus Prime, and knocks on the door, “TRICK OR TREAT!”

The sun is slinking lower past the horizon, causing golden light to creep and pool into crevices and cast deepening shadows.

The tall glass door rattles at the bright cheerful knocking. The door opens a crack to reveal a glowing lavender eye.

"Yes, yes," then there is a slight pause as the figure on the other side of the door studies Marie intensely.

"Curses and catastrophies, what are you supposed to be? Some kind of sentient cereal box?" There is a confused huff before the door opens wider. A withered blackened hand with long delicate fingers drops a treat bag into your hands.

Sentient cereal box?? Who doesn't know who Optimus is?? Does this guy live under a rock? Well-- At least the candy may be worth the injustice of someone not knowing who you are supposed to be!

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Bones jingle and jangle with every jaunty step, parading down dark streets with ghoulish pep.

You’ve received a digital skeleton treat bag! This bag contains:

♡Bone Shaped Sweet and Sour Candy

♡Skull shaped Chocolate

♡Skeleton Sugar Cookies

♡Gummy Organs

Happy Halloween!!

[heatherfield]

Friday night mood: drinking wine and wishing that my fic ideas would magically write themselves or even better, become miniseries that I could just watch.

No? That’s not how it works? How rude.

[galactic-pirates]

Just another tag thingy

@mariequitecontrarie *squishes you* thanks for thinking of me! :)

1) Nickname: Sam ... which is my name? So not really.

2) Zodiac: Taurus

3) Height: 5′2″

4) Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw 

5) Last song I Googled: Starting Over by R5 (I had the lyrics stuck in my head and couldn’t remember the song)

6) Favorite musicians: Oh geez erm almost everything? Seriously it depends on my mood. Linkin Park, Thousand Foot Krutch and Sick Puppies feature pretty prominently on my iTunes most played if that helps.

7) Song stuck in my head: Currently none which is most bizarre but then I have Warcraft running and that’s orchestral music so /shrug

8) Following: What? I’m guessing from Marie’s answer it’s tags, in which case the answer is none. I get what I want from my dash or from hitting up tags if I want something specific at the time.

9) Followers: 247, I assume some of them are real people *waves*

10) Do you get asks?: Not lately. Oh wait! I did get one from my lovely Bering and Wells Secret Santa :)

11) Amount of sleep: Not as much as I would like. 6-7 hours maybe on a good night.

12) What are you wearing?: Chinos, my Stargate SG-1 t-shirt and my BB-8 winter sweater.

13) Dream job: Indie author

14) Dream trip: I don’t know, I don’t really like travel. I suppose I would love to tour an actual film studio (I did the Harry Potter experience which was fascinating) but I would love to see the entire process. From storyboard, to script, to the filming and then how that gets edited and the sound. I mean obviously seeing that would be impossible but some kind of experience but with the actual kit and screens and just I don’t know it being real kinda.

15) Instruments: Once upon a time I could play a tiny bit of keyboard but that was 20 years ago so nope.

16) Languages: I wish! I consider it to be hugely embarrassing that I can barely say hello in another language.

17) 10 favorite songs as of now: Can’t I name albums? This is hard. Erm ok Queen of Mean by Sarah Jeffrey, Everything’s Not Awesome by Lego Movie 2, Try Everything by Shakira, Boys in the Band by New Kids on the Block, Something Just Like This by The Chainsmokers & Coldplay, Human by Rag’n’Bone Man, High Hopes by Panic at the Disco, Sorry For Now by Linkin Park, Woke Up in Japan by 5 Seconds of Summer, Rock What You Got by Superchick and a million more.

18) If you were an animal?: Puppy

19) Favorite food: Crunchy nut cornflakes probably

20) Random fact: I love Lego

21) My aesthetic: Technology, blankets, soft cuddly toys and headphones

[timelordthirteen]

Belle French Aesthetics 18/?? | The Fairytale Princess

[teaespensonawards]

OUR 2021 T.E.A. WINNERS!

Congratulations, winners of the 2021 T.E.A.s! 

Congratulations to everyone who managed to create anything during 2020, honestly. Last year was some... mmmmm... don’t want another one of those years. Yeah.

We would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s T.E.A. event! And thank you, creators of all of the fanworks in the Rumbelle fandom. You’re the ones who make this event possible in the first place, simply by creating the works that we flail over. Creators, enjoyers, Rumbelle lovers - thank you all for being this fandom.

(Note: if there are any works on this list that you want to read or have a nice, long gander at, the mods of the RumbelleTEAs.com site work hard all T.E.A. season to gather and tag them for your convenience. And as long as we’re here, please think about leaving comments. Not just on the winners’ works. On every piece of Rumbelle fanwork that you enjoy. Comments are happy-making and help to feed those hungry, hungry muses.)

Now, ado done, please click through the read-more to see this year’s winners!!

FLUFF

Family - The Long Road Home, by @jackabelle73

Comfort - Love is Purple, by @xiolaperry

Fix-It - If Tomorrow Never Comes, by @mariequitecontrarie

Reunion - Marbled, by @worryinglyinnocent

Best Child Fic - The Safest Place, by @thestraggletag

SMUT

Kink - In Lovelier Colours, by @mareyshelley

Romance - Creature Instincts, by @thestraggletag

Threesome - Much More Than This, by @killingkueen

Best First Time - Undone, by @nerdrumple

PWP - The Ninth Button, by @maplesyrupao3

BDSM - Golden Cuffs, by @kelyon

ANGST

Why? - Cogs, by @maplesyrupao3

Death - Would You Care to Dance, by @mrs-stiltskin

Hurts So Good - Hope is a Thing with Feathers, by @theendangeredslug

ROMANCE

Best Date (Overall) - The Attorneys Paralegal, by Wandering_Willow

Best Courtship - Kiss, by @nerdrumple

Best First Meeting - Heatstroke, by @emospritelet

Best Bathing Scene - The Black Veil, by @mareyshelley

GENERAL AWARDS

Best One-Shot - Distractions, by @thestraggletag

Best Drabble - In Death, by @timelordthirteen

Best Post-Ep Fic - Our Better Decisions, by @theoneandonlylittlebird

Best Comedy Fic - Walk of Shame, by @timelordthirteen

Best Movie AU - What You’d Thought Lost is There to be Found, by @deliriumsdelight7

Best Book AU - Around the World in 80 Days, by Megara_Bee

Best TV AU - Awake, by @peacehopeandrats

Best Historical AU - Endless, by @mareyshelley

Best AU - Intended, by @maplesyrupao3

Best AU!OUAT - Marbled, by @worryinglyinnocent

Best Series - I Must Be Warmer Now ‘verse, by @ifishouldvanish

Best Novel Length Fic - The Contract, by Wandering_Willow

Best Holiday Fic - Alabama, Arkansas, by @timelordthirteen

Best Remix - In the Right Measure, by @bad-faery

Best Crossover Fic - Date Night, by @peacehopeandrats

Best Dark Castle - With Rue and Beauty, by @mareyshelley

Best Storybrooke - Golden Rings, by @kelyon

Best Travel - La Chacarita, by @thestraggletag

SPECIAL CATEGORIES

Best Golden Lace - Lipstick Kisses, by @mareyshelley

Best Woven Lace - In From the Cold, by @mrs-stiltskin

Best Woven Beauty - The World Didn’t End, by @timelordthirteen

Best Background Swanfire - What You’d Thought Lost is There to be Found, by @deliriumsdelight7

Best Side Pairing - Undone (Ruby/Archie), by @nerdrumple

Best Supernatural - The Black Veil, by @mareyshelley

Best Sci-Fi - Dark Sight, by @maplesyrupao3

Best Horror - Promised, by @maplesyrupao3

Best Creature AU - The Deepest Roots, by @mareyshelley

Forgotten Gem - Alone in My Tower, by @spottytonguedog​

Best Pandemic/Quarantine Fic - Desperation, by @emospritelet

EVENTS

Rumbelle Secret Santa - There’s Snow Place Like Home, by @killingkueen

Rumbelle Christmas in July - Dark Spring, by @nerdrumple

Fluffapalooza - Love is Purple, by @xiolaperry

Monthly Rumbelle (Non-smut) - Speak of the Devil, by @worryinglyinnocent

Monthly Rumbelle (Smut) - The Trouble with Bikinis, by @worryinglyinnocent

Rumbelle is Hope - An Appreciation of Brownie Batter, by @worryinglyinnocent

CHARACTER AWARDS

Best Belle - Promised, by @maplesyrupao3

Best Dark One!Belle - The Spinner in Chains, by @mrs-stiltskin

Best AU Belle - The Deepest Roots, by @mareyshelley

Best Lacey - Lipstick Kisses, by @mareyshelley

Best Spinner!Rumple - Masters of Destiny, by @deliriumsdelight7

Best (Worst) Villain - The Piano, by @xiolaperry

Best BFF/Wingman - The Wingman (Charming/David), by @thatravenclawbitch

ART

Best Fan Art - Rumple and Belle in Gold and Blue, by @vayuvayu

Best Graphic Art (GIFs) - Color, Brilliance, and Strangeness, by @ifishouldvanish

Best Graphic Art (Still Images) - Lust, by @virgidearie

Best AU in Art - The Library, by @virgidearie

Best Fluff Art - Dark Castle, magic mishap, and blankets, by @jenitosam

Best Angsty Art - The Sutherlands AU, by @desperatemurph

Best Smutty Art - Weaver and Lacey Getting Kinky, by @virgidearie

Best Comic/Graphic Novel - Ogilvelle AU, by @desperatemurph

Best Dark One Form - Real Inside Rumple Holding Belle Back, by @dekujin

Best Use of Color - Goop!Rumple, by @dekujin

Best Artist - @staypee

Best New Artist - @vayuvayu

BEST OVERALLS

Best Author - @timelordthirteen

Best New Author - @deliriumsdelight7

Best Rumbelle Fic - Keys to the Cell, by @emospritelet

Best Anyelle Fic - Breaking Cycles, by @deliriumsdelight7

Best Anyem Fic - Social Distancing, by @emospritelet

Rumbelle Fandom Lifetime Achievement Award

Each year, the Rumbelle Fandom Lifetime Achievement Award goes to a person who has done something spectacular in the fandom. Either by making people feel welcome, organizing events, or simply embodying the Rumbelle fandom as a whole. This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award goes to…

@ifishouldvanish

And last, but definitely not least...

Newbie Spotlight

@deliriumsdelight7​

@reolf

@vayuvayu

@trash-000

@dekayingtree

Welcome, new Rumbellers, to our delightfully and spectacularly filthy little corner of the fandom!!

[peacehopeandrats]

Rumbelle In July

As I have now officially posted the first chapter of my gift to @mariequitecontrarie, I am going to repost the asks I sent. We had a time communicating with each other over this month and so I tried to save everything I sent regarding the creation of each chapter.

Mountains, Streams, And Magical Things

Summary: Rumplestiltskin is a king of the magical world who collects magical things for a single purpose, but not all of them are as useful as he hopes they could be. When one of those useless items from the Enchanted Forest causes trouble in Storybrooke it changes the lives of everyone it touches, including the Dark One himself.

Notes: Written for MarieQuiteContrarie for Rumbelle Christmas In July.

The prompts given were: love, light, vacation, shine, breathless. I was also given the following further prompt in conversation: "I love Rumbelle both in Storybrooke and in the Dark Castle. ... I love when they bond with other characters and develop friendships outside of the two of them. I love fluff and sweetness and the two of them solving problems together and being on equal footing."

I ended up writing a chapter for each prompt and hopefully captured everything that was hoped for. The story title and chapter titles come from Mountain Stream by Cowboy Junkies, which I have always thought was very Rumbelle, so I guess you could call this one of my music video style fics, just in a very long form.

As with all of my fics, this one fits in to the one story line and is a sort of prequel to Growing Up.

[mariequitecontrary]

If I So Happen to Fall

The first fic of many lovingly dedicated to Transformers One!!!

You can read this one shot here on ao3 <3

If I So Happen to Fall

Words: 1,928

With the threat of the Quintessons on the horizon, Optimus must face Megatron for the first time since their fight. It was time to do what had to be done…

Talk.

[a-monthly-rumbelling]

April Masterlist

Thanks to everyone who posted in April. You guys are fantastic! I hope you had fun with the prompts. Hopefully everyone should be able to find something they’ll enjoy from these amazing works. You can also find all previous works here. Happy reading!

If you posted fic/art this month and it’s not on the masterlist, please let me know!

Moodboard:

An Appreciation of Chocolate Cake by @worryinglyinnocent: Woven Beauty.  Investigating a break-in at the local bakery, Detective Weaver gets a little closer to baker Miss French.

Adagio by @scarlettestar:  A Rumbelle AU in which Belle is a ballerina and Mr. Gold is the artistic director of the dance company for which she performs. What happens when he finds her practicing late at night?

Unconventional by @peacehopeandrats:  The Golds have left New York and begun their tour of the United States. Their next stop is Chicago, where Belle and Gideon have chosen to do something that might push Rumple’s comfort zone.

Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Roses by @byrneinggold:  The cake in the photograph looked deliciously indulgent. The mess Gideon was creating did not.

Prima by @eirian-houpe: Woven Beauty. Detectives Weaver and Rogers stumble upon a crime at a local theater where they meet the Prima Ballerina, Anabelle French in the process of apparently committing agravated assault with a deadly weapon, but as Weaver investigates, he discovers there is far more to it than a simple crime, and he is forced to run to a place of safety with his suspect in tow. Please note, contains smut.

While the Children Sleep by @itssandgirl​:  Belle is babysitting one quiet evening when she starts to receive strange phone calls from an unidentified caller.  Please note, rated M. 

Non-Smut: Cooking/baking together

Unconventional by @peacehopeandrats​:  The Golds have left New York and begun their tour of the United States. Their next stop is Chicago, where Belle and Gideon have chosen to do something that might push Rumple’s comfort zone.

Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Roses by @byrneinggold​:  The cake in the photograph looked deliciously indulgent. The mess Gideon was creating did not.

An Appreciation of Brownie Batter by @worryinglyinnocent​: Woven Beauty. Following on from ‘An Appreciation of Chocolate Cake’, Weaver and Belle are now dating, and he helps her in the bakery one evening.

Smut: Playing a strip game

Queen Takes King by @worryinglyinnocent​: Belle and Gold look for a fun way to spend their time in lockdown.

Random:  “We accept the love we think we deserve.” (Quote:  Stephen Chbosky)

A Second Chance by @silwenworld​:  “I know we’ve been over this, but... I’ve messed it up the first time, so let me do this properly… Belle French, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife? Again?���

Moving On by @worryinglyinnocent​:  Coming out of a bad relationship leaves Belle fearful to move on and start another with the shy Mr Gold, someone she recognises as sharing her own plight. Dr Hopper helps out in his own way.

Pistachio by @mariequitecontrarie​:  While secret newlyweds Belle and Leland Gold are on their Saturday hamburger date, Gold’s estranged mother pays an unexpected visit.

Acceptance by @itssandgirl​: Have you ever had that moment. That single moment that changes everything when you least expected it. When you weren’t even looking for it? Belle French had that moment one quiet afternoon while reading a book. A book that would change the way she saw him.

[evilsnowswan]

@mariequitecontrarie replied to your post “I have a scene stuck in my head. It’s pretty dark. Doesn’t really fit...”

Write it as a related one-shot in the same verse.

Right. Here’s an idea. Thank you, Marie. I might just do that.

[celticheartedfangirl]

My OUAT Rewatch -- S5E12 -- Souls of the Departed

Link to Rewatch Review and Ranking archive

Before we dive into this one, I want to remind everyone of some fun that we had (by WE, I mean everyone but the CS fans, who actually pitched little snit fits over this) during the hiatus . . . . 

You see, ABC did this whole “Save Hook” promo bullshit

Like that.  Because -- you know -- he IS the show now.  So there was this awesome manip contest to make a better promo poster than these fuckheads.  Which really wasn’t that hard, and it gave us some amazing fan art.  Here are some of my personal favorites:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136785738642/ashermajestywishes-paint-drying-is-now-more

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136811725347/queenofallswans-got-bored-again-got-the-idea

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136811853062/mariequitecontrarie-im-2-old-4-this

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136939498487/ashermajestywishes-because-dead-isnt-dead

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136807570487/emiliebrown-i-figured-id-try-my-hand-at-this

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/136708553052/malefistache-were-already-in-hell-we-might

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/137050945122/ashermajestywishes-i-wanted-someone-who-knows

A few more pre-5B gems . . . 

Oh look, Eddy Kitsis is talking, it must mean he’s LYING:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140282708212/kitsowitz-on-belles-appearances-in-5b

Getting “educated” by the CS fandom:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140182061407/so-i-was-just-told-by-some-child-on-twitter-that-i

A callback to a 5A line that needs to be brought up for reasons:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140598214867/when-did-hook-spend-centuries-trying-to-destroy

So that was your pre-episode review fun.  Now onto the episode . . . . which was . . . . actually GOOD!

I think this was the 100th episode?  I don’t know, the way they track episodes makes no sense to me.  But anyhow, this is a VERY GOOD Regina centric, that actually resolved a plothole from SEASON ONE!!!!  

Also we got this:  

Translation:  Hey all you people who love Neal, we knew you’d bitch and moan about him NOT being in the underworld, so here’s 3 minutes to shut you the fuck up about that, you will never see him again, cause if he were on this season it’d make everything obvious about how fucked up all the Hook love is, and this show is about HOOK now, deal.

At least we got one last Swanfire moment.  But I’ll be FOREVER pissy that not only did Emma NOT TELL Rumple about this immediately, but also we just never get to see Rumple and Neal together again.  Because HOOK.

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140464192187/picture-this-guys

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140441832492/why-do-you-think-that-ae-and-the-writers-have

Pan was fun, Cora was fun, and JAMES!!!!! Damn, love to see Josh Dallas ham it up!  That was really one of the bright spots of this half season.

Also FYI -- the half-assed Rumbelle scene -- though appreciated -- I still believe that the only reason it exists at all is because over the hiatus Rumbellers gave Adam a bunch of shit on Twitter about you better not leave Belle out of the freaking 100th episode, and they last-minute crammed in that scene because we bitched so much.  This is, I think LITERALLY, the only time that Adam actually LISTENED TO Rumbelle/Belle fans and followed through.  I mean -- it was still lame and half-assed -- but given that everything else we ever asked for fell on deaf ears, I’ll take it.

Also -- Rumple in this episode -- a summary:

https://celticheartedfangirl.tumblr.com/post/140682507467/tzaharasykes-basically

So this episode was good.  But the last five minutes . . . 

No.

Points tally:

40 points to start

10 points Rumbelle kiss

10 points Swanfire

10 points Rumple and Belle both in character

5 points Swan Queen

Not even gonna deduct for corpse!Hook because he didn’t talk

Full 25 bonus, no deductions.  This was a quality episode.  See how nice things can be when the fucking pirate lamp is dead?

Total points:  100

Follow #celtichearted OUAT ranking tag for more to come!

[rumbelleshowdown]

Prompts: Round Two

It’s writing time, competitors! This round, each group is receiving two prompts: one one-word prompt and one four-word prompt. Please write the prompts for your assigned group.

FIC DUE DATE: Saturday, May 30, 11:59 P.M. EASTERN TIME

Reminders: 1. For this round, entries may be up to 2,000 words in length; the minimum is still 1,000 words. Fics must be sent to rumbelleshowdown@gmail.com NO LATER than Saturday, May 30, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. 2. Please include your Showdown Pseud, your Group, and your Prompt at the top of the body of the email. 3. Remember to include a title for your story. If you forget, your story will be posted as “Round Two Entry” until you send us a title. 4. If you use Microsoft Word, please attach a copy of your fic in Word as well as pasting it in the body of the email.

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Group A:  aphrodisiac; room full of chests.

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Group B:  positions; every day the same.

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Group C:  light; lost in the mail.

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Group D: night; I will protect you.

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Group E: volunteer; stay out of it.

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Mod note: my thanks to @mariequitecontrarie, whose hard work on previous Showdowns has made my job this year much easier.