Fall Festival Bingo Card 11-1-16

This is my card for the Fall Festival Bingo fest hosted by vexed_wench and spiralicious  on allbingo.  This covers everything to do with autumn, its holidays, and related motifs.  (See all my 2016 bingo cards.)

If you'd like to sponsor a particular square, especially if you have an idea for what character, series, or situation it would fit -- talk to me and we'll work something out. This is a good opportunity for those of you with favorites that don't always mesh well with the themes of my monthly projects. I may still post some of the fills for free, because I'm using this to attract new readers; but if it brings in money, that means I can do more of it. That's part of why I'm crossing some of the bingo prompts with other projects, such as the Poetry Fishbowl.

Underlined prompts have been filled.


FALL FESTIVAL BINGO CARD

Frankenstein	Frighten	Bonfire	Kraken	Autumn
Moonlight	Herbs	Honor System	Hearth and Home	Party
Liminal Time	Dragons	WILD CARD: Death	Election Day	Gothic
Shapeshifter	Smoke / Fog / Mist / Miasma	It started with a freak accident	Energy	Gratitude
Excitement	Food	Teal Pumpkin	Don't fool with recombinant DNA	Drunk Girl/Guy

Poetry Fishbowl on Tuesday, November 8

This is an advance announcement for the Tuesday, November 8, 2016 Poetry Fishbowl. This time the theme will be "families of choice." I'll be soliciting ideas for friends, work partners, relatives, lovers, zucchini, acefolk, polyfolk, other sex/romance orientations, nemeses, problem-solvers, troubled relationships, high-conflict personalities, supervillains, superheroes, peacemakers, loving each other, finding family, leaving family, picking on people, finding flaws, creating new traditions, discussing what it means to be family, adding people to a family of choice, homes, sharehouses, intentional communities, businesses, parks, romantic locations, other places where people hang out, nonsexual intimacies, commitment, adoption, estrangement, nonmarriage bonding ceremonies, family skills, skin hunger, and poetic forms in particular.

I have a linkback poem, "The Marble and the Sculptor" (17 verses, One God's Story of Mid-Life Crisis). 

If you're interested, mark the date on your calendar, and please hold actual prompts until the "Poetry Fishbowl Open" post next week.  (If you're not available that day, or you live in a time zone that makes it hard to reach me, you can leave advance prompts.  I am now.)  Meanwhile, if you want to help with promotion, please feel free to link back here or repost this on your blog. 

( New to the fishbowl?  Read all about it! )

Constructed Languages in Hollywood

Here's how it works onscreen.

I'm so much happier doing this for myself and my friends.  And yes, I have built entire languages, not just five-page models.  If you think of model languages like model ships, 95% of people who do it at all are building six-inch ships in a bottle, and I'm the guy with six-foot windjammers crammed into his den.

Story: "Coming in from the Cold: Tuesday: Facing Fears" Part 2

This story belongs to the series Love Is For Children which includes "Love Is for Children," "Hairpins," "Blended," "Am I Not," "Eggshells," "Dolls and Guys,""Saudades," "Querencia," "Turnabout Is Fair Play," "Touching Moments," "Splash," "Coming Around," "Birthday Girl," "No Winter Lasts Forever," "Hide and Seek," "Kernel Error," "Happy Hour," "Green Eggs and Hulk,""kintsukuroi," "Little and Broken, but Still Good," "Byzantine Perplexities," "Up the Water Spout," "The Life of the Dead," "If They Could Just Stay Little," "Anahata," "When the Wheels Come Off," "Against His Own Shield," "Coming in from the Cold: Saturday: Building Towers," "Coming in from the Cold: Sunday: Shaking Foundations," "Coming in from the Cold: Monday: Memorial Day," "What Little Boys Are Made Of," and "Rotten Fruit."

Fandom: The Avengers
Characters: Phil Coulson, Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Bucky Barnes, JARVIS, Maria Hill, Daveed, Agent Smith, Agent Jones, Agent Sitwell, Dr. Samson, Rhodey
Medium: Fiction
Warnings: Angst, survivor guilt, SHIELD, mental health care, facing the past, sexual harassment.
Summary: Several of the Avengers visit SHIELD for a variety of professional and personal reasons. It helps to have friends at your side while facing challenges.
Notes: Courage. Team as family. Competence. Friendship. Slow build. Emotional first aid.

Read Part 1, Part 4, Part 5.

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