Story: "Hairpins" Part 9

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""Saudades," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," and "Green Eggs and Hulk."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, JARVIS, Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, Bruce Banner.
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: This story is mostly fluff, but it has some intense scenes in the middle. Highlight for details. These include dubious consent as Phil and JARVIS discuss what really happened when Agent Coulson hacked his way into Stark Tower, over which Phil has something between a flashback and a panic attack. They also discuss some of the bad things that have happened to Avengers in the past, including various flavors of abuse. If these are sensitive topics for you, please think carefully before deciding whether to read onward.
Summary: Uncle Phil needs to pick out pajamas for game night. He gets help from an unexpected direction.
Notes: Service. Shopping. Gifts. Artificial intelligence. Computers. Teamwork. Team as family. Friendship. Communication. Hope. Apologies. Forgiveness. Nonsexual ageplay. Nonsexual intimacy. Love. Tony Stark needs a hug. Bruce Banner needs a hug. #coulsonlives.

Begin with Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8. Skip to Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14.

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Fire Tornado

See a fire tornado made with fans.

For those of you with pyrokinesis, it's not a hard trick to make fire spiral, although getting it to go straight up is harder.

The Climate of Middle Earth

... described in several languages.

Let the nerdgasm commence.

Story: "Squiggles" 1511.09.19

"Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal"

1511.09.19

I've finished my research paper on the spread of thorn locusts. How could anyone think that encouraging those things just for the sake of preserving their wings to decorate hats could ever possibly be a good idea? The map I drew for this assignment looks like I spilled the bottle of scarlet ink all over it.

I will never cheat on a transport license. I will never cheat on a breeding license. Ever. Just thinking about it makes me sick now.


See the landing page for "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal."

Monday Update 3-10-14

These are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Author Brand
Poem: "Electric Tesseract"
Artificial Intelligence
Read "Carrying the Dead" by Baaing_tree
Read "Longing" by Sharpeningthebones
Writing Comics
Banned Content
Origfic Bingo Card 3-6-13
Character Balance on TV


The March 4, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl went well.  I have most of the supporting work done for that, just need to finish the followup report.  Based on an audience poll, there will be a bonus fishbowl in Polychrome Heroics on Tuesday, March 18.

Poetry in Microfunding:
"Its Very Existence" is now complete.  Find out what happens to Nahum.  "The Feast of Saint Valentine" belongs to the series Frankenstein's Family.  It has a bunch of new verses, in which Victor and Igor try to work out their relationship.

Torn World writing update:
Currently posting: "Squiggles: Excerpts from Nleimen's Journal" (fiction).  Approved as canon: "Unicorns on Parade" "Spruce Deer" "Wandering the Heights" "The Slow Hunt" (poetry).  Back to me for edits: "Cutting Cords and Clasping Hands (Parts 1-4)," "Winterheart" (parts 2-3) (fiction), "Stinging Like Nettles" "Rainforest Delicacies" (poetry).  Currently in front of the canon board: "Ghost Bat" (nonfiction). Drafted: "Like Ash Before the Wind," "From Dark to Bright," "The Inappropriate But Useful Disposal of Lettuce" "A Thin Red Trail" (fiction), "Changes in the Wind" "Beach Pictures" "Tangleweed" "Snowbloom" (poetry), "Southern Breads" "Tangleweed Article" "Snowbloom Article" (articles), Jularei (character sheet).  In revision at home: "Water Dance," "When the Wind's Teeth Sing," "Raining Kittens," "Finding the Holes" (fiction), "The Smallest Invaders"  (poetry).  Currently writing: "Catch of the Day," "A Cold Clear Night" (fiction).


Weather here has been moderate.  My spring flowers still haven't sprouted, not even the snowdrops.  It's the first time they've behaved normally in years.  I'd kind of given up on checking for them because they were sprouting in February or January.  The squirrel has been doing gymnastics on the hopper feeder.  I also saw a house finch this past week; they have a reddish-purple head and chest, very pretty.  Some years we've had a whole flock of those, other times none.

Why We Need Manned Space Exploration

Beautifully said.

I did mine in poetry.

Why We Need Manned Space Exploration

Beautifully said.

I did mine in poetry.

Comics about Loneliness

Some of these seem more accurate to me than others, but they're good illustrations of mental states. 

Poetry Fishbowl Report for March 4, 2014

This month's theme was "dragons."  I worked from 1 PM to 2:30 AM, so about 12 hours 30 minutes accounting for breaks.  I wrote 16 poems on Tuesday and another 7 later.  They ran shorter this time, although all lengths were represented, and all free verse. 

Participation was enthusiastic.  There were 49 comments on LiveJournal and another 22 on Dreamwidth.  No new prompters this month, though.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the March 4, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl have been posted:
"Clockwyrms"
"The Dragon Nebula"
"Dragon Whiskers"
"Here There Be..."
"The Island Dragons"
"Saving the Maidens"
"The Scales of Justice"
"Sharing Features"
"The Treasure of Her Keeping"
"A Weedy Specimen"

"Lawless, Winged, and Unconfined" (Fledgling Grace, 2/4/14 fishbowl)
"Gifts from the Spirit Wind" (Beneath the Family Tree, January 2014 Creative Jam)


Buy some poetry!
If you plan to sponsor some poetry but haven't made up your mind yet, read the unsold poetry list from March 4. That includes the title, length, price, and the original thumbnail description for the poems still available.  There are still several verses of "Lawless, Winged, and Unconfined" remaining, which you can reveal by linking to the unsold poetry list or a favorite poem from the March fishbowl.

Currently sponsored poems have all been posted.  Backchannel copies of the rest have been sent to their respective prompters.  Per the $200 goal, "Gifts from the Spirit Wind" is the free epic.  Per the $250 goal, there will be a bonus fishbowl featuring Polychrome Heroics on Tuesday, March 18.

Donors this month include DW user Redsixwing, itew, janetmiles, laffingkat, Anthony & Shirley Barrette.  There were no new donors.  The donor perk is "Dragons," posted here on LJ now that the friends group function is working again.


The Poetry Fishbowl project also has a permanent landing page.

Update from Kajones_writing

The March theme is Afterlife and Deities' World. Update: 10th March 2014 offers an update of donor perks.

Fiction: The World Walkers: Quiar: The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (part 9, 75th continuation) has Athare talking with Quiar and Raenarin about the fae and the Web.
The World Walkers: Quiar: The Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments (part 9, 76th continuation) involves Athare and Quiar talking about the Moonjumpers and the shyders, and their role in the Web.

The Deities’ World: Hephaestus: Returning Home (part 3) features Hephaestus and Ares talking about family dynamics and their followers' beliefs.
The Deities World: Lucifer: Halloween (part 3) shows Lucifer thinking about whether to get a three-headed puppy.
The Deities’ World: Papa Legba: Choosing to Connect explores the difference between deities and loas, and the connection between people and divine, or people and worlds.
The Deities’ World: Persephone: Talking to Callidora has Persephone and Callie talking about their family, complete with three-headed puppies.
The Deities’ World: Persephone: Talking to Callidora (part 2) continues the conversation.

Poem: "Toward Concordance"

This poem fills the "soul bonding / soulmates" square in my 1-2-14 card for the trope_bingo fest. It has been sponsored by Anthony & Shirley Barrette. It belongs to the project The Blueshift Troupers.

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Polychrome Heroics Characters Part 1

Since we're doing a mid-month fishbowl in Polychrome Heroics on March 18, I decided that it would be helpful to post what I have in the way of character sheets.  In this series, it's a lot faster and easier for me to write with established characters, because of how complex they can get.  Many of these are characters already appearing in poems, published or unpublished.  Others are ones I wanted to stat up for reasons of diversity, but haven't featured in a poem yet.  All of them are available for prompting.

Skip to Part 3, Part 4.

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Polychrome Heroics Characters Part 2

This is a list of character descriptions for the series Polychrome Heroics.  Begin with Part 1. Skip to Part 4.

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