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yep it was way annoying

also is this a good place to ask for a discord invite... anyway Blackest Of Birds#2048 and forgive me if I have made a social faux pas or not read the rules carefully enough :D

Bruno is not a small abused child, Alma is not evil, Pepa doesn't hate Bruno and rejecting a man does not always make you a lesbian and more pain.

But badfics in this fandom seem to involve incest in one way or another.

This has nothing to do with the fact it’s been stuck in my head for a week...

But maybe it would be something to do with the one legendary badfic of the Encanto fandom (if there is one)? We don’t talk about insert badfic name here, no no no. We don’t talk about insert badfic name here...”

For red things. . . maybe some reddish tinted D&D dice? Though those can bring bad luck as well as good . . .

—doctorlit

If I had to think of something Agents would stick in envelopes, maybe five dollar Monopoly game bills, which are pink.

...that are bound to pop up. Not that the Madrigals would ever hurt anyone on purpose! There are just, um... bees everywhere. Antonio did not ask them to be there. Sometimes bees happen.

恭喜发财, 红包拿来! (Wishing you a prosperous new year, now gimme the red envelopes! 😜)

Since this thread already existed, I might as well hijack it for my Lunar New Year art thread. I’m following a Twitter prompt list so there’ll be approximately six days of illustrations depending on how much free time I get this week.

Day 1’s prompt is decorations, so here’s the Department of Analytical Sciences’ Mandy Singh and Lin Wei-Ting making cut paper decorations!

And here is Liu Siyuan decorating the front door of his new house in New Caledonia with Jacques.

I actually came up with a PPC-themed spring couplet (the red stuff surrounding the door): 差事避苏，反话招福. It means “missions ward off Sues, irony attracts fortune”. The theme listed on the banner at the top of the door is 情节防卫, or “plot protection”.

One of the future days is, of course, red envelopes, which traditionally are full of money for kids. However, agents don’t get paid nearly enough to justify giving each other money, so if your agents had to improvise a red envelope, what would they put in it?

(Some examples: leftover Chanukah gelt, Swedish fish, red pens — anything red, gold, representative of wealth or good luck, etc, is fair game)

The answers I like best will be illustrated!

... that covers the ground "Welcome to the Casita, you're here to learn how to write fanfic, here's your miracle and if you fight with your dormmates you're gonna lose it"? I feel like a songfic chapter would be the perfect way to introduce Encanto OFU. (In the sense that someone - probably Mirabel - is actually singing at them, relentlessly cheerful even as she tells them This Is Gonna Hurt.)

hS

...Like I haven't had a version of What Else Can I Do but about writing in my head for weeks.

I just wrote something, I-don’t-know-what
Something that I don’t hate
It’s not the greatest thing in hist’ry
But it’s finished though, and it’s mine
There’s more to create

Not even close to done, Lin is way too good with his rhyming for anything I write to be perfect. (But maybe it just needs to be. See, I learned from this song!)

You know, to find out what the actual problems are that need solving.

It's hard to come up with anything related to healing or cooking... I know someone needs to teach Basic Spanish (Not Just Hola), so I suspect the Madrigals who don't have an obvious subject will end up on things like that and Spelling. Perhaps Pepa was supposed to take Language Use as a whole, but she kept going hurricane on students who messed up their Spanish, so Julieta took it over and left her sister with just English.

hS

You know, the one with the honor of being mini'd up there 😆

On an unrelated note, I planned (and have scrapped said plan, at least for now) to write an OFU for the Onmyōji fandom, which would operate like a terakoya – Edo period temple school.

Glad that there were only three grammatical errors lol. All fixed.

I'm definetly planning on an interlude where he sees his family again. That's been planned since I started this mission. I also plan on moving his family from where they live to New Caledonia so that David can see them more often. Those will probably happen after I finish the second mission, but it is definetly planned that David will see his family again.

It's funny how I can plan for PPC missions in advance but never the weekly stories I have to write.

-kA

So I'm picturing the dorms as copies of the nursery, with each one having a magic door showing the occupants (2-4), and a candle inside. The candle gives those students their own almost-entirely-useless miracle - like "can jump a foot higher" or "can understand rocks (but rocks don't talk much)". And if the occupants of a dorm room fall out - their candle goes out, their door goes blank, and their miracle goes poof until they fix things up.

Classes take place in the bedrooms (or, we can assume, copies thereof, Casita being a helpful sort). Some of them are useful - Luisa covers how to write actual strong characters, not just characters who can do everything, Isabela talks about the dangers of letting plot override character (or vice versa!). Some of them are not: notably, Dolores alternates between letting the students talk among themselves for an hour (so she can get all the gossip), and literally just telling them all to shut up for the entire lesson.

Mirabel ostensibly teaches in the nursery, but actually takes her classes out into town every time. Theoretically she's teaching Columbian culture, but in fact she's making them do chores for the townsfolk.

Bruno teaches Prophesy Versus Narrative Causality in the sand-room. Hernando and Jorge also teach, in various places inside the walls. At no point do any of the staff acknowledge that these are the same person, to the point where half the students are convinced they must be different.

Nobody has seen Camilo. Everyone's certain he must be disguised as someone.

Being a very helpful family, none of the staff would dream of doing anything to hurt the students... unless it's deniable. Isabela didn't know anyone would step on those cacti; Pepa didn't mean to drop a hailstorm on the picnic; and just because Antonio can talk to animals doesn't mean he can control them well enough to have done all that on purpose.

And yes - all the staff keep singing. Mealtimes and nighttimes are continually interrupted by Lin Manuel Miranda filks relevant to current events. Most of the nighttime ones are Dolores recapping what she's overheard that day.

hS

Like, for guarding the staff room of the Casa Madrigal (I'm sure Casita would oblige), there are a couple of these False Prophecies (which I like!) sitting on pedestals outside the door, staring down anyone who dares enter if it is not their fate to do so. Cue some students inevitably taking the lessons on fate vs. free will and duty vs. being yourself to heart in all the wrong ways. YOLO, amirite? {X D

It would be an interesting OFU! (Or UOF, as the case may be: La Universidad Oficial de Fanfiction de Encanto, if I'm not much mistaken.) I really kinda hope someone does this now.

~Neshomeh

• Memorial Day weekend, May 28-30
• Juneteenth weekend, June 18-20

Or, yeah, there are definitely merits to picking a non-holiday weekend for the sake of avoiding other people traveling/visiting the city during the holidays, if having a Monday already off doesn't especially help anyone.

• Perhaps the weekend of June 11-12? The 11th is my birthday. ^_^

~Neshomeh will be 37 (she's not old)

The example of Misspelled Monkeys tells us they don't have to be miniature, and prophecies are already a convenient size. I think the "minis" would be better referred to as False Prophecies.

hS

Which, considering the continuum, should probably be named in Spanish.