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This post indexes my Kinktober limericks, all on the theme of Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker feat. Padmé et al.

It is my ambition for November not to post an average of two poems a day, and thereby hopefully retain the few stragglers who are still subscribed to me on AO3 after the last two months of constant limericks. 对不起不对不起 (Sorry, not sorry.)

If, on the other hand, I have to write drabbles and limericks for people who request them as food bank donation thank-yous, I will spam the crap out of the AO3 and all my subscribers can just deal.

Yesterday, for example, I posted 4 drabbles for people who informed me that they had donated at least 25 USD worth of food or money to food pantries and/or banks in their area. If you like my writing and you can spare a quarter-Benjamin, support the food-insecure people near you and request something from me.

Current Mood: this is halloween
Current Music: Ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties

petra

I wrote the drabbles linked in this post for people who donated at least 25 USD in cash or in-kind to food banks. Hopefully the US federal government will not be allowed to stiff food stamp recipients, but if they try, many people will need support. My Wayfinder has good resource coverage near me, and may have useful information near you, too.

At her majesty's pleasure (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Bloody Jack Adventures - L. A. Meyer
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Underage Sex
Relationships: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao/Jacky Faber, Jacky Faber/Jaimy Fletcher
Characters: Ching Shih | Zheng Yi Sao, Jacky Faber
Additional Tags: Drabble, Yearning
Summary:

Jacky wants to go home, but not just yet.

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When you lose control, it touches my soul (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser & Ray
Characters: Benton Fraser
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Murderbot Diaries Fusion
Series: Part 9 of SecUnit Fraser
Summary:

Fraser and Ray reminisce.

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Soup's on (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gideon Nav & Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Characters: Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus
Additional Tags: Drabble, Awkward Conversations
Summary:

Gideon attempts to look after Harrow.

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I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: White Collar (TV 2009)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Characters: Elizabeth Burke (White Collar), Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Additional Tags: Drabble, Seasonal Affective Disorder
Summary:

El, Neal, and Peter reflect on autumn.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: Got no diamonds, got no pearl, still I think I'm a lucky girl

mific

And the final Drawtober prompts for

drawesome - again combining more than one in each artwork. These ones turned out to have cosmological or geographical themes. All were made in Procreate - click on each for the full-sized pic. The individual posts, some with more detailed notes, are here.

Celestial Rhythms - prompts: "rhythm" & "celestial". Based on various animations of the spiralling motion
of our solar system planets as they charge along at over 200 kms per second. I snuck Pluto in there as well.

Forgotten Treasure - prompts: "undersea", "forgotten things", and "map"

The Big Bang - prompts: "noise" & "fire". Made with several different Procreate brushes

Dancing on the Bridge of Stars - prompts: "bridge of stars", "bell", "mask", & "balls".
The planets include Pluto and Ceres, because.

petra

Do you ever miss Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom circa 2014?

So do I.

Let Dira's latest (just posted) take you back, by way of a much more recent development:

Smile, and Smile, and Be a Lying Punk (980 words) by Dira Sudis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes & Steve Rogers
Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: The Frozen Smile of a Man Who Does Not Want a Baseball Jersey From His Favorite Team's Most Hated Rival, Post-Movie: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Summary:

"They'd heard I liked baseball and, I don't know, somehow forgot that Brooklyn has never rooted for the Yankees and will never root for the Yankees, no matter if the Dodgers leave us to play on the Moon. But I didn't want to make a scene."

Current Mood: those damn yankees
Current Music: And how can one measure the infinite pleasure in dreaming of the electric chair?

facethestrange

I've been seeing this meme around a lot, so let me revive my dw for five minutes just to do it. :D

How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The' do not count for 'A' and 'T'.

I'm only doing one fandom (Guardian and Guardian RPF) because I can. :D I didn't look at any art until I did all the letters, and then I added art for the two letters that didn't have fics (J and V). (And whenever there were options to choose Zhubai, I chose Zhubai, ngl. :D Many letters had 5+ fics to choose from btw, asdfhdjkl;)

I have nothing for U (I have no idea how, it's such a useful letter, and now I want to name a fic un[something] asap ;D), X (even though I've possibly started actual fics with 'Xiao Bai' or 'Xiao Wei', but not titles) and Z (I have definitely started fics with 'Zhao Yunlan' and possibly 'Zhu Yilong' too). (I'm getting a kick out of the fact that these four names are 4 out of 4 of my blorbos. :D)

So 23/26! And now onto the actual list:

A - As My Fingers Tremble (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
B - But I Know Where to Start (Zhubai, M, ~1K words)
C - Caught You (drama Weilan, E, ~200 words)
D - Do You Want Me to Mean It? (Zhubai, G, ~1K words)
E - Emphatic No (novel Weilan & Daqing, T, 300 words)
F - Five More Minutes (Zhubai, G, ~700 words)
G - Gods Gone Wild (novel Kunlun/Zhao Yunlan, E, ~700 words)
H - How Do You Want Me? (Zhubai, E, 300 words)
I - I Look Over at You and See Sunshine (Zhubai, T, ~900 words)
J - Just Come Home (no fic -> honorary art; novel Weilan, G)
K - Kissing It Better (Zhubai, E, ~2K words)
L - Late (Zhubai, G, 200 words)
M - Match Made in Science (Lin Jing/Ye Zun, G, ~300 words)
N - No Coming Back From That (Zhubai, T, ~400 words)
O - Only Ever You (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
P - Poems on Your Skin (drama Weilan, E, ~2K words)
Q - A Quiet Celebration (Zhubai, T, ~300 words)
R - Ruby Insides (novel/drama Weilan, M, 200 words)
S - So Much More Delicious (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
T - Taking What's (Not) Mine (Weilanzun, E, ~1,5K words)
U
V - Very Lucky (no fic -> honorary art; Zhubai, G)
W - When Dreams Come True (Zhubai, T, 300 words)
X
Y - You Melt Like Sugar (Zhubai, M, ~400 words)
Z

petra

Archive.org has The Wretched of the Earth/Damnés de la terre (1961) available here. It is a work on colonialism, revolution, and racialization.

It was also written by a man with a name that is, for me, intensely unfortunate.

The foreword is titled "Framing Fanon."

As

hannah points out, "It's pronounced 'Fa-NOH.'"

I'm so sorry, Frantz Fanon. You were there first, having a perfectly cromulent name, and then those fans came and made your name a word to be feared for reasons having nothing to do with colonialism.

I'm going to see how far I get with it, and if I have issues, there is an audiobook of an analysis of it available via NYPL that I will take out and dig into.

-- possibly after Yuletide, because racialized colonialism is gonna be fucked whether or not I get my assignment in on time.

Current Mood: oh no
Current Music: Our past caught up with us at last

petra

Zounds (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Slings & Arrows
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ellen Fanshaw/Geoffrey Tennant
Characters: Ellen Fanshaw, Geoffrey Tennant
Additional Tags: Drabble, Love Bites, Bruises
Summary:

Ellen leaves marks.

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Tell Old Man Worry to go climb a tree (600 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leia Organa/Luke Skywalker/Han Solo
Characters: Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo
Additional Tags: Mpreg | Male Pregnancy, Incest, Drabble Sequence
Summary:

The Force moves in mysterious ways in order to get great-grandkids.

Current Mood: oddly inspired
Current Music: My baby's here to keep me warm

petra

I recorded the fandom on each of mine because I was curious what the spread was. There are surprisingly few, and surprising, repeats.

A - The A Train - DCU/Supreme Power
B - Back where we began - Hockey RPF
C - C'est la faute à Rousseau - DCU (sorry, Les Misérables fans)
D - The Daddy's Boy Job - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy/Leverage
E - Each result and glory - Doctrine of Labyrinths - Monette
F - Failsafe - Vorkosigan Saga - Bujold
G - Game theory - Life on Mars (UK)
H - Ha -- h'm - Horatio Hornblower - CS Forester
I - I ain't no brilliant writer, Kethe knows - Doctrine of Labyrinths (please don't ask why I wrote a sonnet in Mildmay voice)
J - Janet and Thomas's Halloween - Tam Lin - Dean
K - Keep it down in there - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
L - L'appel du vide - Life on Mars (UK)/Ashes to Ashes
M - M'don'a's sex advice - Star Wars Prequel Trilogy/Madonna's Sex Advice
N - Naked truth - due South
O - Oak of the clay lived many a day - Promethean Age - Bear
P - A pack that almost became historic - Les Misérables + Psychic Wolves
Q - Q. E. D. - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Logic Guards Sketch
R - Rated able seaman - Hornblower (TV)
S - Safe and sane - DCU
T - Take heed of loving me - Hockey RPF
U - Ululation - Harry Potter (written 2002)
V - A Vaderwan limerick for your delectation - Star Wars Original Trilogy
W - Wait till you hear the next one, legate - Marcus Didius Falco - Davis/Good Omens - Pratchett & Gaiman
X - X axis, Y axis, 2 axes - Murderbot/due South fusion
Y - Yas queen - Iskyrne Series - Bear & Monette/@dog_rates
Z - ~~Nothing yet.~~ Zounds - Slings & Arrows, just posted, because I am a completist.

26/26, 1312 works.

Bonus points: I have stories titled beginning with #, numbers, ¡ (inverted exclamation point), à, and ᓄ.

Also, I have no idea what possessed me to write a sonnet in Mildmay voice, but I'm proud of it just the same.

Current Mood: completist
Current Music: Buck up, you melancholy Dane

petra

My new collection, Petra's Food Bank Donation Thank-You Works, has its inaugural work:

And spread the welcome mat for you (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Characters: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji, Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Additional Tags: Drabble, mid-autumn festival, mooncakes
Summary:

Wei Wuxian presents Lan Wangji with a mooncake.

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Details on how to participate in the collection here.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: WangXian.mp3

mific

I am the Hurt and the Comfort

I am the evil tyrant, the abusive parent.
My charges are cruelly abandoned, tormented, neglected.
Trapped in small prisons their limbs strain, distorted,
They grow starved and pale, yellowed with hunger,
Allowed barely enough water to survive, brittle with thirst.

Then I am the saviour, making all things right.
I free them from their prisons, tuck them into lush new homes.
To the starved and the thirsty I give food and drink.
I bathe them in gentle water, straightening their abused limbs,
Debriding what cannot be saved so the whole may thrive.

This is about gardening.

God, how I love repotting.

obstinatecondolement

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scintilla10

Dear Yuletide Creator,

Thank you for writing something for me! ♥ I'm thrilled that you love one of these tiny fandoms. If you already have an idea for what we matched on, please go ahead and write that story - I'll be excited to read it!

On AO3, I’m

scintilla10. I'm open to receiving treats.

( Do Not Wants, General Likes, Smut Likes )

( Galavant (TV) )

( I Want to Go Home! - Gordon Korman )

( Macdonald Hall - Gordon Korman )

( Oxford Time Travel Universe - Connie Willis )

( Pitch (TV) )

( We Are Lady Parts (TV) )

Thank you! I look forward to reading what you create. ♥

petra

If you donate at least $25 in cash or in-kind to a food bank at any point between now and the end of the Trump Administration, and you either share a fandom of mine and want a drabble or fannish poetry, or you want original poetry, drop me a comment, and I will write for you.

Repeat customers welcomed with open arms.

Please format your request: Fandom or Original; Drabble or Poem; Character(s) and/or Pairing if any; Optional Prompt.

For example: Sesame Street; Drabble; Cookie Monster/Cookies; Food is not a sometimes luxury.

If you didn't make the donation in US dollars, please check the exchange rate on your donation at a currency converter to confirm that it qualifies. No receipt necessary regardless of which currency you donate in; this is on the honor system.

Please publicize this post.

Works will be collected on the Archive of Our Own and in my Food Bank Thank-You tag on Dreamwidth.

Current Mood: paying it forward
Current Music: I'm not asking for sympathy; all I'm asking for is change

mific

More prompt-combo art from the

drawesome Drawtober challenge. The pics are all made in Procreate - you can click on each one for the full-sized art.

Captain Haddock's Favourite Recipe - prompts "captain's favourite" & "recipe" (fandom: Tintin)
Soup is the captain's favourite recipe... usually.

Ice Dragons Against a Wispy Sky - prompts: "dragons", "ice" & "wisp" (original work)

Four Ways To Eat an Egg - prompts: "propped up", "glitter", "flat" & "squashed" (original work)

Stranded - prompts: "desert ruin", "flutter" & "daydream" (Stargate Atlantis)

They huddled in the shelter of the ruins, the Stargate dead behind them, useless with its broken DHD.
John held Rodney close to him, feeling Rodney's rapid pulse flutter under his hand, and dreamed of rescue.

petra

This NPR article about Cards Against Humanity (the company) suing SpaceX for trespassing makes me want Cards Against Humanity, Inc., in various fictional universes.

Surely it exists in Leverage-verse, home of professional trolls. Possibly Hardison owns the company.

How scathing are the anti-Imperial cards in the Galaxy Far, Far Away? What wild schemes have they undertaken to mess with the Powers That Be?

The conflict between the ~~Kardashians~~ Cardassians and the Federation seems fruitful territory for people to have done really, really stupid things. Also, that allows for a tournament on Deep Space Nine. Is Garak really good at this game, or does he overthink it to the point where no one can follow his logic?

I would also love to see the Slow Horses playing the game, if only so they can observe that the real winner is Lamb, because they're all sinking to his level. Alternately, perhaps they could get mixed up in a corporate scheme.

As for The Expanse, clearly there are competing entities putting out propaganda packs on all sides all the way through, and they're all making political statements for Their Team.

petra

I wrote Star Wars limericks for Kinktober, all of which are indexed below. The main theme is Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker feat. Padmé, but there are other guests as well.

( Kinktober 2025 )

Current Mood: verse is my vocation
Current Music: There once was a man from Verdun