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It's been a while since its been chased.

I had no particular prompt in mind, and there's clearly appetite for it: Go ahead! I will happily write to your prompts.

Structurally, I was thinking of ten or so days of writing, to make sure people have time to get things onto paper, and then commentary and crit mostly on the Board - with the expectation that people participating would also be putting serious thought and time into the discussions after. Beyond that, I have no plans!

Hey all! I guess this is my first post on the new Board? Formerly Silverstorm0 here, I've been going as Silv on the Discord server for a while now so I decided to switch over here as well.

Anyway, writing. Basically, I got mad at a Percy Jackson and the Olympians badfic and wrote a spitefic that I've been informed is "factually adorable", so I decided to plug it here. Feat. Artemis being IC and making a baby.

(Warning for minor blood, nothing graphic)

First Time For Everything

Would be nice to see a new one.

Iximaz scrambles up and yells "Hey!" as she lunges for the piece.

I'm glad you've been able to glean some good advice from those articles.

I appreciate it, and I'm glad I got to know you both through this strange little group.

I don't mind you referring to the Nyl-Teng family. Heck, if you wanted to actually include them for small cameos, I wouldn't mind. I know your abilities and think you would do a fine job capturing their voices.

As for the character pages, just leave them inactive. Who knows what slim chances the future might hold?

While there's no way I'm going to try to set up a Chanukah RP (...not this year, anyway) to go with the semi-annual Purim RP, I'm pretty sure I could come up with a handful of thematically appropriate writing prompts pretty easily. Given how strongly Judaism is associated with the written word, and how universal a lot of the elements of this particular holiday can be, it seems like a great, appropriate way to share the warmth. It's also a good PPC one, to be honest--eight nights' worth of lighting candles (or wicks in olive oil!) on fire! What's not for an agent to love?

...actually, now I kind of want to write a ficlet about the disastrous last attempt for a Chanukah party in HQ, but that's a side note.

Anyway. I don't want to step on Delta's toes, but I don't know the timing for the long All-Write, and this would be different, so it's worth bringing up. So if there's some interest, and no objections...why not? We could always use more reasons to write :)

Thoughts?

~Z

It isn't until several days later that doctorlit realizes his walking stick is gone.

—doctorlit has a vague idea that putting his name in every post by signing them might not be necessary any more for searching purposes, but it's become a habit/tradition, so it will probably continue indefinitely

By and large, the correct way to pet most geese is "stay away." And even a lot of friendly geese aren't big on cuddles, though there is one female Cape Barren goose at my zoo who likes getting hugs from the keeper who hand-raised her.

I'm just glad this RP didn't turn into the other kind of goose handling, where you halt their charge by catching one of their wings and turning them around really quickly to face the beak and claws away from your body, holding one wing in each hand. This is one skill where their isn't much margin for error during the practice stage.

—doctorlit, happy to be credited for happy dreams

I haven't known you as long as many others, but I have felt your presence. It's been great having you as a mod on the Discord- you're everything you described and more. I'm glad to be the latest of many people benefiting from the advice articles you've written about writing and betaing. Take care!

She decides that the goose's obvious joy at getting her shiny gold spoon has made the whole escapade worth it. She returns to her tea.

and runs for it, honking happily. It'd gotten Cicada to spill her tea, and even managed to snag a shiny object in the process.

as she waited for the spoonful to cool. When she jolted at the honk, the spoon was knocked away. Cicada really should have learned not to do that with spoons ages ago. Tea droplets went everywhere, and Cicada's spoon was on the carpet. "Ugh, gross..." Cicada sighed. She went to the kitchen to get a new spoon.

Its desire to mess with doctorlit's day has been thoroughly countered by his professional goose scritching.

It enjoys the attention for a while, and then wanders off to go do goosey things somewhere else. It does look around for any easy-to-grab exposed on its way out the door, though, seeing as it's still a goose.

Computers are, after all, rather hard to grab at that angle.

The Goose instead darts off to the side, looking to see if Neshomeh has anything interesting to steal. Glasses, maybe?

Last night I had a dream about petting a goose that ended up sitting on me like a nest, in what I took to be a sign of affection. I credit you entirely. My subconscious would not otherwise have known the correct way to pet a goose.

This whole subthread is very amusing. ^_^

~Neshomeh

I've been trying to think of something more to say, but doc pretty much covered it. You've always been a voice of good sense and an advocate for the betterment of the community. I've always enjoyed your writing and your characters. I'll miss you, and them.

On that note, a little housekeeping: Would you like anything in particular done with your characters' pages on the wiki? Are they officially retired, or simply inactive?

May I continue to refer to Gremlin, and possibly Xericka and Aiden, too, sometimes?

It's not often I get a chance to ask these questions. Thanks for that.

~Neshomeh

Sort of like Nova's biweekly prompts, but with a goal, right? I like it! I also have a lot of free time the next couple of weeks due to nobody being in the office and my services not being required. Could be a recipe for making things happen!

~Neshomeh

...though, I'm with Tomash: I'm going to be busy on and off until pretty much a few days into January, though that doesn't mean I'll have no writing time. Just less of it.

~Z

although I'm not on the Discord (so could someone post the prompt(s) on the Board?)