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phlebaswrites · 1 month
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Floating Through Life (On the Water)
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Kisame might be from Mizu no Kuni, but not all water is the same.
(Some things cannot be drunk without risk.)
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Rating: Explicit Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi Word Count: 531 (Complete)
Entry for @kisames-corner
Day 1 - March 15: Samehada as a cat | Tea Shops | The Gift he Never Knew he Wanted
This story is a gift to @woofgang69 and @hidendumbassvillage who inspired it.
My apologies for the late submission!
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"What are these for?" Kisame picks up one of the eggs, weighing it in his palm thoughtfully. "It's not as if we're going to be cooking."
"They're for you," long fingers gesture elegantly, brushing over the other two eggs still lying next to the pillow. "Traditionally, over the next six nights, you would eat the yolks and rub the whites between my thighs before we sleep, venturing higher with every evening."
"And, on the seventh night…?" Kisame doesn't really need to ask, he can see the answer already, but it's always good to know.
Read the rest on AO3.
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phlebasphoenician · 1 year
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trope: "I am your father"
"Tobirama!" Butsuma crosses his arms sternly. "You will not raise the dead. I am your father and you will not disobey me in this!" But, from the stubborn look on his son's face and the corpse of the rabbit in his arms, Butsuma suspects that this will become a reoccurring argument.
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scotianostra · 2 months
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On February 16th 1954 the writer Iain Banks was born in Dunfermline, Fife
Banks was a son of a professional ice skater and an Admiralty officer. He spent his early years in North Queensferry and later moved to Gourock because of his father’s work requirement. He received his early education from Gourock and Greenock High Schools and at the young age of eleven, he decided to pursue a career in writing. He penned his first novel, titled The Hungarian Lift-Jet, in his adolescence. He was then enrolled at the University of Stirling where he studied English, philosophy and psychology. During his freshman year, he wrote his second novel, TTR.
Subsequent to attaining his bachelor degree, Banks worked a succession of jobs that allowed him some free time to write. The assortment of employments supported him financially throughout his twenties. He even managed to travel through Europe, North America and Scandinavia during which he was employed as an analyzer for IBM, a technician and a costing clerk in a London law firm. At the age of thirty he finally had his big break as he published his debut novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984, henceforth he embraced full-time writing. It is considered to be one of the most inspiring teenage novels. The instant success of the book restored his confidence as a writer and that’s when he took up science fiction writing.
In 1987, he published his first sci-fi novel, Consider Phlebas which is a space opera. The title is inspired by one of the lines in T.S Eliot’s classic poem, The Waste Land. The novel is set in a fictional interstellar anarchist-socialist utopian society, named the Culture. The focus of the book is the ongoing war between Culture and Idiran Empire which the author manifests through the microcosm conflicts. The protagonist, Bora Horza Gobuchul, unlike other stereotypical heroes is portrayed as a morally ambiguous individual, who appeals to the readers. Additionally, the grand scenery and use of variety of literary devices add up to the extremely well reception of the book. Its sequel, The Player of Games, came out the very next year which paved way for other seven volumes in The Culture series.
Besides the Culture series, Banks wrote several stand-alone novels. Some of them were adapted for television, radio and theatre. BBC television adapted his novel, The Crow Road (1992), and BBC Radio 4 broadcasted Espedair Street. The literary influences on his works include Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Arthur C. Clarke, and M. John Harrison. He was featured in a television documentary, The Strange Worlds of Iain Banks South Bank Show, which discussed his literary writings. In 2003, he published a non-fiction book, Raw Spirit, which is a travelogue of Scotland. Banks last novel, titled The Quarry, appeared posthumously. He also penned a collection of poetry but could not publish it in his lifetime. It is expected to be released in 2015. He was awarded multitude of titles and accolades in honour of his contribution to literature. Some of these accolades include British Science Fiction Association Award, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Locus Poll Award, Prometheus Award and Hugo Award.
Iain Banks was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the gallbladder and died at the age of 59 in the summer of 2013.
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writergeekrhw · 1 year
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Hey hey! Long time listener, first time caller. I was curious, what are some of your favorite science fiction movies/shows/books? Is there anything you’d consider to be “essential” viewing or reading for Star Trek fans? And was there anything that you remember being inspired by that ended up influencing any of your scripts?
These days (and even back in my time) Star Trek is mostly inspired by... err... Star Trek. But here are a few space set books that I read growing up which almost certainly influenced my writing:
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Between Planets, Time for the Stars - Robert Heinlein
Dune - Frank Herbert
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ringworld, Tales of Known Space, etc. - Larry Niven
SHOWS/MOVIES
Bladerunner, Star Wars, Enemy Mine, TOS, Alien, Aliens, The Thing (original and remake), Predator
Not an exhaustive list, but those are the ones that come to mind.
Most of the big inspirations for DS9 were NOT science fiction though. We were inspired by actual history, plus westerns, war movies, film noir, screwball comedies, horror, pretty much anything you can think of.
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fruityyamenrunner · 3 months
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Speaking of people whose real sehnsucht is for 70s television, but who dress it up as something else, consider Iain Banks.
His dates are 1953 -- 2013. The crucial date of publication for this poat is 1987: that of Consider Phlebas, a reworking of a story from the early 80s.
The Culture is a sort of ultra-ultra-liberal, bigger, "later" Federation of Planets, which in contrast is merely ultra-liberal. Now, Star Trek, certainly in Britain, is a 70s phenomenon, premiering in 1969 -- that is, when Banks was 16.
Banks was an SF fan so it is a little simplified to reduce it to this -- this is the era of the New Wave after all -- but the 20th century really was a boring time. It is easy to retroject Internet-era ferment back too much, and besides, the Culture itself is the Federation++, and not all his stories are Culture stories. Even his Culture stories aren't Culture stories. They're mostly about awful reactionary aliens.
Take the Idiran War. As well as being a standin for the Second World War, Vietnam, and the fundamentalist revolutions of 1979, the Idiran War serves this purpose: we are told that at various points in the past, Culture citizens exercised all the ultra-ultra-ultra-liberal transhumanist fantasies of what we would now call something like "total morphological freedom" -- people turning themselves into giant penises or gas clouds, living forever etc. The Culture we encounter in the books is however quite reactionary -- people appear as "humanoids" with about as much diversity as in Star Trek, have little ambition, expect to die after a few centuries and join Starfleet Contact if they are aggrandisers.
It's strongly implied, if not stated, that the thrice-ultra-liberals, who were interested in "total morphological freedom" peeled off from the Culture before the War, explaining why the Culture appears merely ultra-liberal, and that this has led to a sort of lasting cultural stagnation, lifted by the appearance of a particularly Tory kind of alien, or a geometric impossibility -- that is, like Star Trek with a wild backstory you never see.
By the standards of actually existing liberalism, especially in the 20th century, it remains an exhilarating place to imagine oneself in, but by the standards of the "worldbuilding" - which for a certain kind of mind takes up far too much importance - it is a remarkably reactionary setting.
In particular, it is interesting that there is no strong iconography attaching to the Culture -- Banks had no interest in attaching one to his writings, and seems to have taken a purely literary view of it, but fans have felt no desire to develop one around it, and the Culture is one of those SF properties that visual media developers founder upon. I claim that one reason for this is that, once you pull away the thrice-ultra liberal "worldbuilding" stuff, the iconography, insofar as Banks had any, would be essentially that of Star Trek, perhaps inflected through British SF television in general -- which is to say, Doctor Who, Blakes 7 and so on. Rather sparse sets, painted backdrops, *that* kind of costuming, blocky robots whose emotions are all glowing auras... Distinctly ""hauntological"", which is why nobody dare develop it.
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transgenderer · 1 year
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thinking about player of games, which im reading now, and consider phlebas which i read a while back, and whats so weird and flat about them. i realized, the culture characters arent alien, at all. they dont have a weird foreign ideology. theyre just like...modern yknow, libertarian libertine types. and i mean, writing characters that truly arent from your culture and dont share its values is hard, but i think important for good sci fi. you should feel, viscerally, the way another world affects the way people thnk
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asian-drama-tropes · 7 months
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Rules and FAQ
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Rules
Please be respectful to your fellow fans - this is meant to be an enjoyable experience for us all.
New works only please! WIPs are welcome!
All fanworks are accepted, but please include trigger warnings above the cut/read more and any sensitive content below the cut/read more. See the FAQ section for more details on how to tag.
Please tag this blog and use the hashtag #asian-drama-tropes-2024 so the mod can reblog your posts! The AO3 collection can be found here.
No AI art or writing.
Have fun!
FAQ
When does it take place?
Over the entirety of 2024!
Who can participate?
Everyone is welcome, and we hope that you'll have fun with it!
What are the prompts?
The list of prompts is here!
Do I have to participate for the entire year?
Not at all! One month, six months, 12 months, all the prompts or only one - it's entirely your choice and up to you! Participate as your comfort level and energy enable you to!
How strictly do I have to follow the prompts?
Interpret them as loosely as you like!
Can I create a fanwork that is NSFW?
Feel free! Please include the tag "Not Safe for Tumblr" on those fan works!
Is there a minimum word limit if I choose to write?
None at all!
Can I still submit even after the event is over?
Absolutely! As long as you tag this blog, the mod will reblog it!
Where do I submit? Can I post it somewhere else?
Yes, you can! Post your fanwork to AO3, tumblr, or whatever your main platform is!
This event is run only on Tumblr, but as long as you make a Tumblr post with a link to your creation and tag this blog, the mod should be able to see the post to reblog it! Feel free to send this blog an ask or a message if your fanwork isn't reblogged within 24 hours!
How do I tag my fanworks?
Please use the following tags!
asian-drama-tropes-2024 [Month] | [Prompt] [Creator Name] [fandom] [fanwork type: fanfiction, fanart, fanvid, moodboard, etc.] [relationship: please use the relationship name as it appears on AO3] [Trigger warnings]
And feel free to add any other tags you might wish!
As an example, I might tag a fic:
asian-drama-tropes-2024
January | Riverbank
Phlebas Writes
Naruto
fanfiction
Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara
TW: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
They're just as much a disaster as always
Which trigger warnings should I include?
Please use these tags if any of these topics appear in your fanwork:
Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Graphic Depictions Of Gore
Major Character Death
Rape/Non-Con
Underage Sex
Incest
Who is the mod for this event?
@phlebasphoenician
What if I still have questions?
Please send this blog an ask!
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silverslipstream · 9 months
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Nine People Tag!
Working through the last of my tag game mentions! I was tagged in this one by @starlitcrossroads, @sm-writes-chaos and @yesireadbooks, so thanks to them! All right, let's get this underway.
Last Song - Linger by The Cranberries
Last Movie - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Yes, it was my twelfth rewatch. Comfort movies gotta comfort - it's been a rough couple of months.)
Currently Reading - Just finished Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. I've been on a bit of a YA novel binge recently.
Last Thing I Searched For Writing Purposes - 'height of Jupiter-synchronous orbit.' For anyone wondering, it's 90,151 kilometers (56,029 miles)
Three Ships - I'll admit, I'm not much of a shipper, but eh, why not.
Robert Frobisher and Rufus Sixsmith from Cloud Atlas
Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnigan from Harry Potter
Horza and Yalson from Consider Phlebas
Currently Craving - a big plate of nachos with melted cheese, chili and salsa dip...
Currently Consuming - water.
Current Obsession - as previously mentioned, I rewatched Undergrads again recently, an animated college sitcom that aired on MTV in 2001, was hardly advertised, and developed a huge cult following in Canada through years of reuns on the Teletoon Channel. I could talk about it for hours, but I can't let myself, so I wont. :)
I won't tag anyone specific, so consider this an open invitation for anyone who'd like to take part!
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ao3feed-hashimada · 9 months
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ao3feed-hashimada
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/208sHgV
by Phlebas
Hikaku knows what he wants.
And how to get it.
Words: 829, Chapters: 3/3, Language: English
Series: Part 19 of Love is a Hearth Fire
Fandoms: Naruto
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: F/M, M/M, Multi
Characters: Uchiha Hikaku, Uchiha Izuna, Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara
Relationships: Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara/Uzumaki Mito, Senju Hashirama/Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama/Uzumaki Mito, Uchiha Madara/Uzumaki Mito, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Izuna, Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Hikaku
Additional Tags: Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Because Uchiha Hikaku takes everything seriously, Uchiha Izuna Lives, Warring States Period (Naruto), Fix-It, Romance, Established Relationship, Slice of Life, Friends to Lovers, Cultural Differences, Marriage Hunt AU, Gender Roles, Pining, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Threesome - M/M/M, Am I the first to write this triad?, I guess I am, Polyamory, Polyamory Negotiations, Polyamorous Character, Multiple Pairings, Multiple Partners, Multiple Relationships, Explicit Consent, Explicit consent is not informed consent, Consent is not just for sex, Genjutsu, No Sex, No Smut, NO rape, No sexual assault, no violence, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Author Is Sleep Deprived
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/208sHgV
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curieincali · 1 year
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Year In Review - BOOKS - 2022
Audiobooks read:
• Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett • The Big Short by Michael Lewis • Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto • The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis • The Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick • 4:50 From Paddington by Agatha Christie • Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie • The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie • The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie • They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie • A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie • The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers • Be a Triangle by Lilly Singh • Atomic Habits by James Clear • The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke • Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier • A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher • The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden • The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien • The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien • The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien • I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy • How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis • The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl Marx • Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks • Book Lovers by Emily Henry Regular books read:
• Shot by Shot by Steven D. Katz. (FINALLY FINISHED THIS AFTER ~3 YEARS) • Princess Jellyfish Volume 2 by Akiko Higashimura • Several floppy comics (catching up on years worth of FCBD haul)
Overall a good year for reading. As usual, this list isn’t necessarily an endorsement, just a list of everything I checked out from the library. (Some of these I don’t even remember reading, for the opposite of an endorsement - maybe I should make a GoodReads account lol).
I started reading Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple series for a palate cleanser between every other book. Can’t go wrong with sugar-coated murder mysteries. LOTR was a re-read since I haven’t read them since I was 11. I’ve heard good thing about Iain M Banks’ The Culture series but I really didn’t like Consider Phlebas, so I’ll mark more books down as a “maybe” for 2023.
I’m so glad I can finally say I finished that giant Storyboarding textbook (Shot by Shot). I have now started....another art textbook, lol. I’m going to stop putting my “In Progress/Incomplete” books on here - just what I’ve finished! Also gonna try to read more physical books in 2023.
Happy New Year!
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spankingtheatre · 2 years
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I love your style of writing! Do you have a favorite book and/or film? Has there been a particular writer that influenced you?
I think my style of writing is most influenced by two particular writers.
The author who most inspired me to write my own short stories is Jorge Luis Borges. He is the master of the capricious short story, someone who could cram more mind-bending ideas into a dozen pages than many writers manage in a weighty novel. He was a firm believer that stories didn't just become 'proper writing' by exceeding a certain length.
Borges never explored the erotic, and wrote exclusively in Spanish, so I was influenced by how he constructed his stories rather than his writing style. Some of his stories were surreal episodes, others labyrinthine logical puzzles, others were theses of high philosophy hidden within stories. If you're interested in exploring his work, find a copy of his two best-known compilations, Ficciones and Labyrinths.
But my favourite author is Iain Banks, a brilliantly imaginative Scottish writer with an seductively accessible style. He wrote effortlessly in several genres, from magical realism to science fiction, and delighted in telling witty stories of families with taboo secrets. You'll recognise his influence in some of my darker stories. He died far too young, I still miss him.
If you'd like to get started on his works, try Consider Phlebas - the first of his exceptional Culture novels, or his early work Walking on Glass, which even contains a spanking scene.
Consider Phlebas changed my perspective on what fiction could achieve. This was a story about sentient minds who were close to gods, astonishing cinematic settings with an unlimited special effects budget. It was quite unlike anything I'd ever read before. It's a book that epitomises the spirit of techno-utopianism, a flame that still burns deep within me.
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phlebaswrites · 3 months
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Side by Side (Together Forever)
Summary:
The Uchiha and Senju are ancestral enemies.
(Emphasis on ancestral.)
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Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Butsuma/Uchiha Tajima Word Count: 1,230 (Complete)
Entry for @butsutaji-week
Day 7 - January 15: New Beginnings - Home - Ancestor Worship - Voice Kink
This story is for @denialcity who kindly gave me permission to take their brilliant idea and run with it.
Thank you so much!
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Madara carries the shrine carefully and Izuna follows him, cradling the family tablets, but it brings Tajima no comfort.
Having to chase his sons was vastly annoying when he was alive, and it isn't any better now he's dead. He digs his heels in like a recalcitrant horse, but the call of blood cannot be denied and he's dragged into the building which Madara has decreed will house the dead.
All the dead.
From both clans.
This village is a stupid idea, Tajima has always said so, and it's only stupider now that his son has made it into a reality. How exactly is any shinobi supposed to pay their respects to their ancestors when the dead all reside side by side, murdered and murderers alike?
Read the rest on AO3.
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phlebasphoenician · 2 years
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ohh ☕️ Coffee Shop Au for Madara/Hashriama
ooooh! Okay this is a fun one!
I think Hashirama would be the most silly, but also unintentionally flirty barista ever. His coffee would taste like heaven, but he's forever sticking his foot in his mouth - yet it's done in such a genuinely nice way that people don't get mad at him about it.
Tobirama is endlessly baffled by this - he insists it's magic.
And he's right.
It is.
Because every cup that Hashirama makes lifts people up and brings a little bit of good into their lives - he lives to help people. In turn, when he touches them, he gets a little bit of information about them. It's often garbled and hard to interpret, but he gets them in a way most people don't.
It also makes him a fantastic matchmaker - if he touches two people that he knows will fit, he'll try and bring them together.
But Hashirama has one customer who always comes to the shop, but never drinks the coffee.
Madara is a tea person, and he always asks for just the tea leaves and a pot of hot water. He steeps it himself, everything.
Now how is Hashirama supposed to work magic with that?
He's a coffee guy! All of his teas are store bought! What! Madara wants to drink that stuff when Hashirama is right here offering the best coffee ever????
He doesn't get it.
Until the day when Madara orders the tiniest cup of espresso, touches his hand for the first time, and says...
"I've been looking for you."
And Hashirama knows that he's found the man of his dreams.
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sethelliott · 4 months
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Fahrenheit 451
While four walls of floor to ceiling TVs seems quite distant from our current state, the prescience regarding declining engagement with chewy ideas and substantive interpersonal relationships so easily falling by the wayside feels particularly poignant to me recently.
Like in our present world, people have rapidly gravitated toward the dopamine snack of short form content, interesting enough that we readily spend hours a day consuming it, I suppose because it’s not challenging or emotionally resonant. They feel just satisfied enough not to make any changes to their lives, until they try suicide.
Today, in addition to short form content, I think the internet enables people to rapidly find their niches which are no more challenging but perhaps more isolating, in their way. You can, to a degree, satiate your desire for community without building any durable relationships. It might be easier to start these relationships, but I find they lack the quality and texture, as Faber might put it, that makes a heart sing.
Moving from our “Roman named Status Quo” to brutal government censorship and nuclear war doesn’t seem likely to me, at least in the US. I think the decline will be gentler than that, but no less devastating, while pockets of people will find ways to make the necessary changes in their lives, before it comes to suicide.
Some smaller things:
Despite Fahrenheit 451 being less than a third the size, I found Bradbury’s post-scarcity society far richer than Banks’ in Consider Phlebas.
“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at least one which makes the heart run over.” reminded me of Hemingway’s “How did you go bankrupt?" “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” in a fun way.
This is the only Bradbury I’ve read, but I will read more. I liked the writing style quite a bit, vibrant and dynamic without being lurid or tiring.
[Originally on Goodreads]
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maiikawriter · 1 year
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KakaRin in Polyamory Angst:
Title (rating)(*** if incomplete)
ONESHOT:
the door is open, but the toll is still unpaid by mutemelody (w/Obito) (T)
How hot must bones become to char by Leu (Karaii) (w/Obito) (T)
My Beloveds by Stealthily_Nobody (w/Obito) (T)
our bodies, possessed by light by whopaintsthelion (Cerberussyndrome) (w/Obito) (M)
Wildflowers by Amikotsu (M)
MULTICHAP:
A Mirror, in Two Parts by Loudest_Voice (w/Obito) (T)
Before the Morning Comes by myadamantiumheart (w/Obito) (E)***
The Incidents by LesbianOzoneLizard (w/Obito) (E)***
KakaObiRin; EverybodyLivesAU series by Whoopdawhey (w/Obito) (E)
Redemption by Phlebas (w/Obito) (M)
Riverrun by Hiiraeth (V_eritas) (w/Obito) (T)***
Savor by Anannua (w/Obito includes many other pairings) (E)
show me a hero (and i will write you a tragedy) series by gracetheworld (w/Obito) (T)***
Switched by delusion_al (w/Obito) (T)***
Take My Breath by Amikotsu (M)***
Team Minato Coffee Shop AU by Thisismycanon (w/Obito) (E)
Tenalach by mutemelody (w/Obito) (T)
Tobi and the Turtle by Boxsox (w/Obito) (M)***
Under the High Peaked Roof by Piccylo (w/Obito, “pseudo-AU”) (T)
Until We Meet Again by Anonymous (w/Obito) (M)***
werewolf kakashi thoughts series by kirpy (w/Obito) (G)
Who’s Afraid of Rin-Rin by skaralding (w/Obito) (M)
Wires by myadamantiumheart (w/Obito) (E)
The world’s rules by Betsunichan (w/Obito) (T)***
Would I be able to see the future with you? by midnight102 (w/Obito) (M)***
you are…you are…home (home, where i wanted to go) by kissofbelladonna (w/Obito) (T)***
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angelasscribbles · 2 years
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Sunday Six 11.28.21
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Four very short snippets from a few of my WIP's. Spoilers are under the cut.
Leo and Liv Chapter 4:
Liam shot Drake a death glare, “Did you see the way she was looking at me at in there? I think…shit! I think she likes me! God, no, how did this happen?”
“The usual way, I’m guessing.” Drake smirked.
“This isn’t funny!”
“To you. This isn’t funny to you.” Drake corrected him.
Heir Apparent Chapter 7:
They stood at the podium in front of throngs of people, hundreds of cameras flashing brightly, blinding her. Riley held her hand up to shield her face as the man to her left stepped up to the microphone. Her other hand gripped tightly to the hand of the man on her right. She looked to her right to see her husband, jaw firmly set, expressionless as the other man cleared his throat to speak.
Forbidden Passion Chapter 6:
“Liam!” She was in her own room, in her own bed, wrapped in the arms of her husband.
He chuckled at her surprise as he pulled her closer, “Were you expecting someone else?”
Complicated Chapter 18:
She dipped a strawberry in the fondue and brought it to her mouth. She rubbed it along her lips as she gave him a sultry look. Her tongue slipped out of her mouth to run around the circumference of the chocolate covered fruit, then she sucked it into her mouth. Her fingers twirled the top of it as she sucked on it, then she pulled it back out of her mouth to show it to him, red, glistening and completely devoid of chocolate.
He swallowed audibly. He reached down and adjusted himself through his jeans and he didn’t even care who noticed. Jesus. Was she trying to kill him?
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