Catégorie : De rose et de poussière (Sorcière - Magie - Croyance - Inquisition - Oppression - Désillusion - Paria - Résistance - Diversité)



Utsui a été élevée par deux femmes en couple, qui lui ont toujours dit qu'elle pouvait aimer qui elle voulait. Elle se sent coupable de n'aimer personne.
Parmi les amis de ses parents, sa personnes préférée est Tamon. Iel ne lui demande jamais des nouvelles de sa vie amoureuse ; mais iel est aussi très bizarre, parlant à des créatures invisibles.

De nombreuses années plus tard, les recommandations de Tamon sur commment contacter les être magiques serviront enfin à Tamon, qui se fera une amie surprenante.

Je ne sais pas quoi penser de cela. En soi, le scénario queer le le scénario surnaturel n'ont pas l'air tant connectés que cela, cela donne un peu l'impression de lire deux hsitoires différents, c'est déstablisant. Mais j'ai trouvé certains sentiments très touchants, et le dessin très beau, comme peint à l'encre, et je réalise que j'ai envie de lire le tome 2.

Un exemple du dessin à l'intérieur :

Hi!

I picked up a pinch hit for fffx, and your community graciously allows pinch hitters to share prompts with the understanding that they don't have to meet the minimum length requirements. I'm interested in fic or art.

Since there's no guarantee of a gift, I won't be too detailed with these requests, but I do have a sort of generic list of preferences and DNWs, so I will paste that below. After that, I'll just list any tags from the tag set that particularly jump out to me as interesting and any quick notes about them.

This journal is basically all my Dear Author Letters for the past several years, including my two most recent ones here and here, but you can look around if that helps to give you more specific ideas! You're also welcome to grab a prompt from any of those in the past, including any that aren't covered by the tags I pull from your tagset below.

Thank you so much if you make something for me! I know you don't have to.

Preferences

Non-Sexual DNWs

- graphic gore (canon-typical violence OK)
- graphic depictions of extreme bodily injury (unless magically mostly fixed~)
- unrequested mundane AU/loss of powers/setting swaps
- character or ship bashing
- unrequested ships (references to explicitly canon ships OK)
- unrequested permanent character death of any main character
- hopeless ending (bittersweet or ambiguous OK)
- unrequested, detailed involvement of real-life oppressive political regimes, pandemics, or warfare

Sexual DNWs

- permanent injury related to sexual activity (unintentional or markings such as brands, scars, etc.)
- breathplay
- hardcore or lifestyle BDSM / D/s (lighter and spontaneous forays into BDSM or D/s that do not define characters' whole relationships are fine!)
- unrequested noncon (dubcon OK)
- sexual contact with wounds
- spitting as an act of sexual dominance (typical uses of saliva otherwise are whatever)
- semen or anything similar in eyes
- unrequested A/B/O
- unrequested biologically impossible pregnancies
- explicitly described sexual experiences between underage characters (PG-13 stuff is fine for underage teens)

General Likes

- found family
- monster of the week/casefic
- slice of life (especially dealing with canon-appropriate twists on mundane existence or minor inconveniences)
- character study
- canon-typical violence/aftermath (hurt/comfort)
- canon-divergent AUs
- missing scenes
- survival (zombie, wilderness, apocalypse, etc.)
- political intrigue and machinations
- morality exploration
- world-building with character involvement
- redemption/atonement
- forgiveness
- earn your happy ending
- defeating/killing oppressors and abusers
- rebuilding from the ashes
- hurt/comfort
- enemies to friends
- unusual fic format such as mission reports, letters, social media etc.

Up-to-PG13/T Shippy Likes

- enemies to lovers
- friends to lovers (especially when it's angsty for a while)
- unresolved sexual tension
- "I had no one else to ____"
- trust and loyalty
- power imbalance (addressing, not addressing, overcoming, confronting, etc.)
- accidental marriage
- arranged/political marriage
- competence affected by relationship (for better or worse)
- choosing mission/duty over love angst (can change their minds or not)
- choosing love over mission/duty
- us against the world
- awkward flirting
- accidental/impulsive love confession
- non-sexual physical intimacy
- sexually-charged physical intimacy that (for [x] reason) does not reach full realization

Explicit/Sexy Likes

Above all, I like for explicit fics to be a part of character and relationship exploration. I like for it to feel like this would be an activity or situation or kink that the characters in question would enjoy or otherwise find their way into naturally. So, if you think that a specific ship might explore a particular kink that isn't known to be very opt-in or isn't contradicted by my DNWs, go for it.

That said, here are some particular narrative tropes around sex that I do like:

- aliens/aphrodisiacs/spells made them do it, with the assumption that the characters would've eventually come around to being together in some fashion anyway (I welcome all the messy and complicated aftermath, even them being upset or feeling violated or whatever you think would happen)
- edging
- post-orgasm torture (especially for men)
- characters who acknowledge when sex is kind of funny or awkward

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Tags I'm Interested In

Anime & Manga

Haikyuu!!

Hinata Shouyou/Kageyama Tobio (Haikyuu!!) - love high school pining or PG13 sexual and romantic tension or timeskip getting-together or situationship-turns-relationship fic (I have recent prompts about these two in other letters)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler/Kaiba Seto (YGO DM) - I like Kaiba begrudgingly recognizing Jounouchi's humanity and accidentally developing feelings. I would love shut-up kisses (or more). I would also like fic where they have to rely on each other for comfort, care, or survival. Time travel back to Ancient Egypt where Jounouchi most certainly doesn't belong. Corporate/professional dueling stuff.

Thief King Bakura/Yami Yuugi | Atem (YGO DM) - I'm really interested in stuff about them encountering each other in their ancient pasts. Alternatively, I am interested in the way they might come to be the only ones who understand each other in the future. De-Zorcifying TKB. Some hijinks about Ryou and Yuugi being platonic friends but their alternate selves are having a thing.

Movies

Captain America (Chris Evans Movies)

Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov (CA MCU) - A nostalgic ship for me. I would love anything that involves them dealing with politics. Pre-CATWS coworkers with some pleasant tension or post/during-CATWS AU where they get together.

Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)

Alan Grant/Ian Malcolm/Ellie Sattler (Jurassic Park OT) - Something that intrigues me but I would like to be handled more deftly than I could. I wrote about them once. I just like the idea of actual adults in the 90s and up to now dealing with this kind of relationship dynamic. I love the bonds of people who survived trauma together.

Video Games

Genshin Impact

Diluc/Kaeya (Genshin Impact) - Personal opinion is that it's not literal incest, even of the adoptive kind, but I don't mind if there's a little bit of an incest taboo or flinch in there. I would like any kind of complicated personal relationship that involves intimacy and fighting/reconciliation. (More extensive prompt in one of the most-recent Dear Author letters I linked above and some other Genshin prompts.)

My submissions for ic_animated Floating 2.0, plus some alts and a couple of random icons in the same fandoms.

( 15 icons )

Added some glass blocks to the scene from July 2.

Catégorie : De rose et de poussière (Sorcière - Magie - Croyance - Inquisition - Oppression - Désillusion - Paria - Résistance - Diversité)



Un one-shot historique. Avila est une jeune femme à qui sa mère a appris l'herboristerie. Elle était considérée comme une sorcière, et peut-être l'était-elle un peu. Sur son étagère la plus haute, elle avait des livres de magie noire que sa fille ne pouvait pas toucher.
Mais un jour, Anis, la mère, s'est faite condamner et envoyer au bûcher, et Avila a pu faire une bêtise. Depuis, elle cherche sa mère, elle parle aux animaux et son ombre lui parle.

Malgré ces thèmes qui peuvent être assez lourds, c'est totalement écrit comme de l'aventure historique, pas du tout comme de l'horreur. L'auteur écrit une lettre d'amour à la France du 17e siècle, et le dessinateur n'est pas en reste, c'est très beau. On voit passer quelques personnages historiques, importants ou sous forme de clins d'oeil

J'ai beaucoup aimé les personnages, et l'histoire, et je shippais bien Avila et son amoureux à la fin. Mais dans l'emsemble, le thème principal qui se dégage est "la famille" et ce n'est pas déplaisant, mais pour une BD sur des personnages qui échappent à l'inquisition, ce n'est pas une BD à message non plus.
Peut-être que j'en aurais espéré un peu plus, mais c'était quand même très plaisant à lire, et le sous-arc de pacte avec le diable, qui est une de mes faiblesses, m'a convaincue.

I was thinking about this idea eight days ago, but I finally got out my art program and did a test run today. No postwork!

Well, it looks like Winter is over and Spring is here, although it feels more like Summer at the moment. I went for my first swim at Cronulla Beach, and it was lovely; the water was cold, but it was nice swimming in the surf again.

My hydrotherapy has finished; I went back to my physiotherapist, who told me that my arthritis is worsening and to keep exercising in the water, so I will be spending much of this Spring and Summer in Cronulla and San Souci.

I hope everyone has a great week.

The first half or so were made for icontalking's Selective Color challenge (not all turned out well enough/on-theme enough I felt like posting them there). The rest I made at the same time, from crops that didn't cooperate with the coloring experiments I was doing.

( 38x KSBD, 2x TFP )

Catégorie : Faites silence et prenez un siège, car avant longtemps, vous n’entendrez complainte aussi douce (Troubadour - Musique - Art - Inspiration - Médiéval - Divertissement - Joie - Nostalgie - Auberge - Cosy fantasy)



Oniyasha est un jeune garçon du Japon médiéval qui travaille dans la troupe de théâtre dansé de son père. Mais il ne peut s'empêcher de se poser beaucoup trop de questions : l'homme est-il fauit pour danser ? Pourquoi certaines danses touchent-elles et pas d'autres ? Veut-il vraiment prendre la succession de son père ? C'est l'histoire du futur Zeami, le fondateur du théâtre Nô.

C'est intéressant, formé de rencontres qui sont autant écrites comme des étapes philosophiques que comme des entretiens avec d'autres humains. Le premier, avec la femme qui danse, est particulièrement beau et dur. Mais je trouve que sur le long terme (je dis ça, je n'ai lu que deux tomes sur six), ces relations humaines manquent d'épaisseur, en particulier entre Oniyasha et son père, ou Oniyasha et le shogun. J'ai été esthétiquement investie, mais pas trop émotionnellement, finalement.

Cela reste agréable à lire, mais pas assez pour acheter les autres tomes au prix neuf. (J'ai trouvé les deux premiers d'occasion pour vraiment pas cher)

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia Butler - Susana M. Morris
Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
The Girl with a Thousand Faces - Sunyi Dean
Mira's Last Dance - Lois McMaster Bujold
Where We Stand, Where We Fall: The Politics of Doctor Who - Lizbeth Myles
On the Calculation of Volume I - Solvej Balle trans Barbara J Haveland
A Covenant of Ice - Karin Lowachee
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Maureen Ryan
Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes - Henry Van Dyke
The Shape of Monsters - Tessa Gratton
On the Calculation of Volume II - Solvej Balle trans Barbara J Haveland

Platform Decay - Martha Wells
The Heretic's Apprentice - Ellis Peters
One Message Remains - Premee Mohamed
Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon
The Invisible Parade Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age - Annalee Newitz
Bridge of Storms - Philip Reeve
Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Republic of Memory - Mahmud El Sayed
On the Calculation of Volume III - Solvej Balle trans Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

The Eye of Leviathan - MA Carrick
The Potter's Field - Ellis Peters
Under the Eye of the Big Bird - Hiromi Kawakami trans Asa Yoneda
A Long and Speaking Silence - Nghi Vo
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature - Emily Wilson

Spot the point at which I started writing reams of Shetland fic with my free time instead of reading. 😂 Anyway, lots I liked here, but only a few things I really loved. I did like The Shape of Monsters a whole lot, the new Murderbot was perfectly calibrated to me specifically, and I am really enjoying On the Calculation of Volume. And honorable mention to Shroud, which was a solid 3.5 stars for most of its length and then absolutely NAILED the ending.

Mira's Last Dance (two stars), Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon (four stars)

Mira's Last Dance
I do enjoy these novellas, they're great when you just want to read something that is well written and well constructed, but seriously WHAT is with Bujold setting up premises with huge potential for queerness and then absolutely dodging any possibility of queerness in how they actually play out???? Drives me up the wall. So Penric is a straight cis man who has a demon in his head that has previously only lived in the heads of women, meaning effectively he has a lot of women in his head, several of whom are very happy to express their attraction to men, and apparently he has exactly 0 thoughts or feelings about any of that. And in this book, he cross dresses for plot reasons, in the course of which one of the women essentially takes over and has (off page) sex with a man, and Penric still continues to have 0 feelings about this other than vague concern that he might get found out? Like, fine (and potentially very interesting!) if he still considers himself a straight cis man, that is entirely reasonable, but let him at least THINK about it ever, good grief. (Not to mention the consent issues, but the book isn't interested in those either, so.)

Absolute Wonder Woman: The Last Amazon
So ordinarily "Wonder Woman but DARK" is a concept that wouldn't appeal to me that much, but I did really enjoy how well this was handled, Thompson does some excellent work keeping the core of the character despite the changed backstory. It's not going to be in my top Wonder Woman stories ever (and lost a lot of points for making Etta Candy skinny, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are we still doing this, as well as leaning a bit too hard on Steve Trevor), but I liked it a lot and I'm glad I read it.

Didn't finish:

Sargassa - Sophie Burnham, The Immeasurable Heaven - Casper Geon

Sargassa - Sophie Burnham
This book has a great alternate history premise - what if Rome never fell and just kept on expanding? - that's clearly been thought through, and I did like a lot about what I read of it, but I really wanted it to be a book about grown ups, not young adults on the cusp of maturity, and so we parted ways. (It also lost points for overuse of "frag", which, I'm sorry, just does not work as a swear word.)

The Immeasurable Heaven - Casper Geon
I got halfway through this and realised I didn't really know what was going on, and also wasn't that invested. It had some cool worldbuilding, but the characters were pretty flat, so there was no real hook to make me care.

RPGTrader has its newest bundle, the System-Neutral Kit, "A bundle of 75 modules for use in any TTRPG."

It lies. It lies, it lies, it lies. I am not getting this bundle because I am not a D&D/PF/OSR player.

Some of the items in the bundle are actually system neutral. A lot are not. Some are "this was written for 5e but we also have a version where we removed most of the numbers." Some are obviously written for "flexible fantasy OSR system." Some are non-adventure supplements, and therefore system-neutral - but still obviously intended for D&D-esque play. Some flat-out say in the description "this is an OSR adventure" but also have "system neutral" tagged.

A few seem to be actually system-neutral, as in, I could use them in Fate or a PbtA game or Hero System or Runequest. But most are "sure, you could, but um, you'd have to rewrite all the stats given, and make adjustments to the non-stats descriptions because the author has no idea how aspect/trait-based games work."

( Pointless ranting inside )

I want to like RPGTrader. I like their goal of being a non-nazi-supporting indie game store. I don't like their bundle UI (it's nearly impossible to grab a list of the games & descriptions; they get weird when pasted into other documents), their tagging options (because, sigh, people will tag with whatever they think is trendy instead of accurate), that some items don't even have a page count.

Not that DTRPG or itch.io are better for those (except the bundle UI), but the other two RPG stores have a lot of other features (including selection size) that RPGT doesn't have (yet).

And they've been releasing bundles (I have two, maybe three) but I am not very happy with their theme enforcement.

Catégorie : Une cité pour les dames d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain (Féminisme - Écrivaine - Récit allégorique - Manuscrit - Enluminure - Illustré - Licorne - Utopie - Science-fiction)



Les trois premiers tomes d'un manga qui en comporte 11 - je crois que je vais tout lire, pas rapidement, il n'y a pas de suspense, mais c'est très intéressant. J'ai assez de mal à exprimer ce que j'aime dedans, en fait.

Les parents d'Aya meurent dans un accident. Sa tante, Makio, avait coupé les ponts avec sa soeur, mais ne pense pas qu'une adolescente devrait se retrouver seule, et l'accueille chez elle. Makio est écrivain. Elle est très introvertie, parfois bizarre, et ne sait pas trop comment gérer cela.

C'est un manga sur la famille, et sur le deuil, et les relations entre les personnages sont très fines. Au début je trouvais la relation entre Makio et Asa un peu trop positive, mais en fait après coup on voit bien que Makio était plus prête à faire des efforts au début, et qu'Asa, outre le choc, était plus reconnaissante au début, et que les difficultés arrivent plus tard.