Tag: response

the-last-hair-bender
replied to your post “*whines, and curls up in a ball* I hate feeling sick to my stomach….”

Peppermint teaaaaaaaa!

Would indeed be awesome! If I had any. And I can’t drive in this state, so I can’t go buy some mint to make tea, dad’s in bed, and mom can’t do mint. I am, however, going to tell dad to buy me mint on his way home, and dry most of it out for tea tomorrow. At least that way, I have stuff for tea if this happens again any time soon. 🙂

(next best option is the peppermint-rosemary oil, and cleaning off my diffuser to make my room smell of it)

eldritchwug
replied to your post “*blinks* NOT FAIR, YOU OVERGROWN LIZARD! Yes, yes, life is not fair, I…”

Having no context for this post, it sounds like you’ve decided Riz Ahmed is a dragon?

Something like that. This is as much context as there is online at the moment, since everything else is just on my hard drive or in my head.

Alaric is the cause of the name of the time period, having what is the most extensive library in his world at the time. That he keeps adding to over the years and centuries. (The world has two time periods I’m playing with, one that’s mostly dragons and has an aesthetic more of a pre-Roman world, and currently has lots of places that say “research this for world building”. The other time period has a more modern aesthetic with bonus magic, and is Ledge Dwellers for the primary people who sparked it and their habit of always being on one kind of a ledge or another in the bits and pieces of story I have from them. Also, the names of all the characters are subject to change because their names currently are all pulled from real-world languages.)

poplitealqueen reblogged your post  “For the title thing: Blink With Your Eyes Closed” and added:

*stares* So when are you seriously actually gonna write this?

Er… sometime in the next few years?

I’m going to try to get some of the incomplete stories into a more finished state before I start new long-fic, and this? This is probably another long-fic waiting to happen. Most of the title-prompt stuff is long-fic waiting to happen. 🙂

*hugs you* I’m glad you’re interested in seeing more!

At this point, though, I don’t know if I’m going to manage much until I can get my brain chemistry back under control and get the pain to stop. Or at least be lots less background noise.

I am making slow progress toward getting to a doctor and getting the ball rolling on official diagnoses or at least access to treatments to mitigate the pain better and rebalancing the brain chemistry. Right now, I’m waiting on things I can’t hurry along, and can’t do anything more yet.

(One part of something to help is reminding mom that she keeps mentioning getting a whole batch of TENs units for the family, since everyone has one form of chronic pain or another, until she actually does carry through on that.)

I just. The usual summer upswing of mood/productivity didn’t happen last year, and winter is never good for things, even with daylight bulbs and everything I can do with things that don’t require a prescription. Writing sprints help when I have someone to bounce off of, if I’m not absolutely blank, but too often lately there’s just been nothing holding onto my attention long enough to get words out.

I’m just glad the last couple of days I’ve been able to do the title-prompt things, though today has been more a struggle than yesterday. Probably because today started with some misunderstanding, plus the cat deciding to pee on the kitchen floor instead of in her litter box, and that set the tone for the day’s brain-space.

Also probably because I haven’t been able to manage food very well today, and it’s been a day of ow again. Spikes of ow, instead of steady ow, which makes it harder to filter out.

for the title meme: “Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”

For this. I’m still taking them if people want to send them.

Star Trek: DS9, canon or AU, I’m undecided.

From the point of view of an Obsidian Order archivist, the history of the late 24th century.

The rise and fall of Dukat – very detailed, interspersed with dryly amused commentary up until his return with the Dominion. The commentary of the archivist gets thinner at that point, and vanishes altogether by the time they’re detailing what is known of Dukat’s end on Bajor.

Garak’s exile – what is known of it, and what the archivist can gather from non-Cardassian sources. The commentary is generally light-hearted at the beginning of the account, and by the time they come to his return to Cardassia, and the defeat of the Dominion, it’s become downright biting, rather like they’re flirting with Garak without actually interacting.

The Dominion War – the archivist has nothing good to say about the Dominion, their “alliance” with the Cardassian Union, the Jem’Hadar, the Vorta, or the Changelings. They gather every bit of information they can from non-Cardassian sources as well as the information they archived from the Cardassian view of the war, and make pointed commentary on the success of the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans at harassing and defeating the Dominion.

Damar – the hero of Cardassia! From an unremarkable military officer under Dukat to an ineffective leader under Dominion rule to the face and voice and heart of the Cardassian rebellion. The archivist is disparaging at first, and often has amusing anecdotes to add in later parts. As if they knew Damar at some point in his life. Later in the record, their opinion seems to soften, but they’re still willing to poke fun at him.

The downfall of Enabran Tain and the Obsidian Order – The entry consists of a few very terse lines that seem to boil down to “Tain was an overly-ambitious fool who should have had the sense to remain retired”. The archivist doesn’t bother to annotate it, but the entire impression of the entry is an angry and bitter one.

There are various other entries about people and events from outside the Cardassian Union, but never a name to the archivist, nor an entry about them in all the records that are presented, as it is left as a challenge to the reader (or simply as an exercise of the reader’s imagination) to figure out who the archivist was. Or to create the archivist out of whole cloth.

For the title meme: “So long ago as to be mythological” (with apologies to Jorge Luis Borges)

For this. I’m still taking prompts, but cannot promise they’ll be filled tonight.

Star Trek: DS9, future fic. Two or three hundred years future, at least. Part of the Children of the Order AU.

The public records are sparse to the point of uselessness, and the restricted archives of the State are little better. No records exist outside the Cardassian Union, either, though if the tales that are passed along in fiction and family lore are true, there should be records in the Federation and on Bajor.

All they have to try to piece together the lives of men and women that are little better than myths are names, fantastical stories, idealized statues, and a handful of dates.

Julian Bashir, Kira Nerys, Elim Garak. Nadya Gennel, Corat Damar, Aerit Milar.

The heroes of the Dominion War. The saviors of Cardassia. Beloved figures in the reconstruction of their world after the chaos of that time. The parents of the Union, in State-sponsored mythologies.

But how is it that the most brilliant lights of a dark period of the Union are so poorly recorded?

(The truth is they are very well recorded, but the revived Obsidian Order has no intention of allowing anyone to see the extensive details. Better to allow the myths to spread and to build these once-shadowy figures into heroes they’d never been in life, and would be both horrified and proud to be known if they could see this future they made possible.)

Title: And On the Edge

For this. I’m still taking more, but I don’t promise they will be done tonight.

Tolkien, Second Age. Part of these AUs that together make the Combined AU.

An early story, following the first generations of the Mallenrim in their explorations that take them east to the Islands of the Sun. The birth of the epithet for their kingdom as “the land of the uttermost east before the sun”. Something under 10k (in theory), focused on the women who own the lands and the ships, and on their adventures at the edge of the world.

I’m not entirely certain of the details or even who the characters would be, but the broad strokes are there. Maybe include an avari or two, if they’re willing to send someone from their hidden enclaves.