stonepicnicking_okapi

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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Question: if you write or read poly ships, what are some of your favorite tropes/scenarios/situations? For example, most of the time I write it in a universe where poly is accepted because I rarely want to write the kind of story where characters are fighting discrimination or illegitimacy because those are topics much more serious than I want to deal with. Occasionally, it will be considered 'unusual' but that's as far as I usually go. Not outlawed or violently shamed.

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Some reasons I like poly ships because they present an interesting alternative to consider (from a ficcer's viewpoint) and because they challenge conventional definitions of relationship. I have written more than a few of them and they generally fall into certain categories:

PWP threesomes/moresomes
poly Omegaverse packs
romance-leading-to-commitment threesomes

(or sometimes all of the above)

I've written Holmes/Watson/Mary Watson in ACD canon; various permutations of Sherlock/John/Lestrade/Mycroft in BBC Sherlock (both original recipe and genderswapped). I've even written John/Harry/Clara for an incest challenge. And BTS being seven members usually means that there's a threesome somewhere. Or a full-on poly pack situation with Omegaverse. I have written Mad Hatter tea party porn as well as this Snow White and the Seven Dwarves porn. Please heed the tags.

Nights Are for Sharing (1862 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seven Dwarves/Snow White
Characters: Snow White, Seven Dwarves
Additional Tags: Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Orgy, Cunnilingus, Anal Play, Anal Fingering, Masturbation, Spanking, Voyeurism, Vaginal Sex, Nursing Kink, Dirty Talk, Sharing a Bed, Dwarves, Sleep Sex, Dub-con for Sleep Sex, Rimming, Object Insertion, Object Penetration
Summary:

Snow White/Seven Dwarves PWP.

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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I just finished a detective novel where the motive revolves around an anti-abortion fanatic so it had me thinking interpreting devotion in other ways.

Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Length: 100
Rating: Gen but warning for mention of pro-life/anti-abortion violence and fanaticism
Summary: After a case, Sherlock makes an assumption.

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this is my favorite solo performance of Jungkook's, and this song has a line (which actually rhymes in English! Huzzah! Most of the time, their English lyrics sort-of-not-really rhyme): Show you what devotion is / deeper than the ocean is.

Watch on YouTube

okapi's February LOVE-FEST

prompts:

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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How about a song?

okapi's February LOVE-FEST

prompts:

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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Question of the Day: Soulmates are one of those tropes I sometimes like to read in fic but don't believe in in real life. So the question is if you read soulmate fic, what are some of the ways soulmates identify each other?

I think one of the most interesting ones is the first words you say appear on the other person's skin. It can be complicated, but interesting. Red string of fate, I've seen. Omegaverse has a lot where a wolf's eyes change a certain color in the presence of the soulmate. There are somethings in pistil/stamen 'verses, too.

Here's a BTS sope AU ficlet

Fandom: BTS
Pairing: SUGA/jhope, featuring Jin, Jungkook, and RM too.
Rating: Gen
Notes: AU, Kim Seokjin's matchmaking plans go awry. Or do they?

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okapi's February LOVE-FEST

prompts:

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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Question of the Day: How does your passion for words or books manifest itself?

For me, I experience a singular thrill when I learn a new word. And I know a book is a favorite when I stay up too late finishing it and (like now with the Inspector Rebus series) when I am bittersweetly reading the last book in a series.

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Here's a collage with the theme 'passion for books'

okapi's February LOVE-FEST Day 2: Friendship

prompts:

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

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Signal boost that the 3 sentence ficathon going on here: https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/7020.html.

Prompts are accepted until Feb 15; fills are okay year-round. If you post some prompts in fandoms that you and I share, please let me know, so far there are 3 prompt posts with thousands of prompts and fills.

I did this fill for a Sherlock Holmes (ACD) prompt (domestic chaos) from smallhobbit.

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD)
Rating: Gen
Summary: Mrs. Hudson is sick. Mrs. Turner helps. (abuse of em dash)

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Question of the Day: Do you know (or are involved in) an 'unlikely friendship'? Sometimes the YT algorithm shoots videos of odd animal/pet friends, which are sweet and fun.

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Have a video short of the creation of Toad of Frog & Toad, the video is entitled 'Frog makes a friend.'

okapi's February LOVE-FEST

I am going to challenge myself with a set of 28 prompts. Fills might be anything ficlet, song, craft, poetry, quotes, etc. Please join in if you feel inclined.

prompts:

1. first love
2. friendship
3. love of nature
4. passion
5. soulmates
6. unrequited love
7. lust
8. love of the game
9. devotion
10. love of food
11. polyamory
12. long distance love
13. lovesickness
14. romantic love
15. love of place
16. marriage
17. love of order and method
18. divine love
19. platonic love
20. infatuation
21. maternal love
22. obsession
23. agape
24. love of animals
25. unconditional love
26. forbidden love
27. ecstasy
28. the beloved

Question of the Day: Who or what was your first love?

In the comments, share anything you feel comfortable sharing about your first love. It could be a person or it could be a thing or a place or anything.

I did have a boy in kindergarten give me chocolates for Valentine's Day. My first boyfriend relationship in high school was not a good experience and I spent a long time getting over it and undoing the damage.

But my first true love is probably detective fiction, and I remember reading Encyclopedia Brown and Nate the Great books and enjoying them very much.

Day 1: FIRST LOVE

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD) pre-retirement/Sussex era
Length: 200
Rating: Gen
Summary: Holmes reflecting on his violin on the journey from London to Sussex.

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Word Count: 15,425

Writing: All but 1800 words of this was my soap opera. I am going to try to focus on giving myself credit for what I did do instead of berating myself for what I didn't do. It is not easy to come back to a WIP after a 4-month hiatus, and I did it. So, something had to give and I didn't so as many fills for my usual ficlet prompt comms.

I am creating a list of all-purpose love prompts for February. We'll see how that goes. I have decided to write a poem for the dedication for Miniculus in his yearbook (he is in his last year of elementary school, my baby isn't a baby anymore, sniff) and I did a kind of exquisite corpse variation and asked his brother and father and him to submit words describing him so I am going to put them together in some kind of 50 words or less dedication.

Reading: Believe it or not, I consumed 14 books this month. 10 of them were audiobooks of Andy Carpenter mysteries by David Rosenfelt. I just had them on in the background most of the month. A curmudgeon defense lawyer who also runs a dog shelter and his zany entourage take on cases and a lot of organized crime. Now, unfortunately, I have listened to most of the ones I was keen on (I am not keen on his early years pre-marriage and kid). They are narrated by Grover Gardner and about 7 hours each.

I am getting to the end of the Inspector Rebus series. I have a set of CDs which I usually play in the car (yes, my car and I are old) but because of the snow, I have been driving the Black Panther (the new car) which doesn't have a CD player (and I don't want to be distracted anyway because it's so dangerous out there). So I have just started the last book but I read the next to last book in hard copy. James McPherson narrates the audiobooks and he is plenty Scottish enough for me.

In the interest of finding substitutes for above, I listened to a Peter Diamond mystery by Peter Lovesey (narrated by Simon Prebble) and enjoyed it. It is a police procedural set in and around Bath (UK).

I listened to The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durant for the January book club on DW here: https://bookclub-dw.dreamwidth.org/
It was a cosy fantasy about an anxious librarian who flees unrest in the capital to save magic books from being burned; she flees to her childhood home island and opens a jam shop while hiding her secret. Not anything I would pick for myself, and unfortunately the main character's voice grated. But there are 2 talking plants which I enjoyed. And mer-horses.

Crafting: I finished a cross stitch and I my Indian lady client bullied me into getting another cross stitch project so I'll be doing that in February (mostly in front of her so she stops nagging me about my next project). I made candles with the boys. I did four collage spreads/cards and 1 jigsaw puzzle. Writing it down is important because my first impression was that I didn't do much crafting but I DID!

For Feb, I am going to build a pinball machine Minisculus got for Xmas (with him, from a kit) and I spontaneously decided to do some Valentines.

Health & Fitness: 17 days of yoga and today I did the Yoga with Adriene live stream. It's the first time I've done a live stream with her and I really enjoyed it. Very important, 5 minutes of morning stretching has become the norm, even on work days. This is good. Consistency.

Thanks to Snowflake Challenge recs, I have new avenues to explore re: strength training. Running is going to be more a challenge because of the snow not melting. I will have to rely on the YMCA more. And treadmill which is different.

Personal: I got BTS tickets! I survived getting stuck in the snow!

Early Friday morning, leaving for work, I slipped putting my bag in the car and slid halfway under the car so it's still dangerous out there. There are plenty of icy patches. We've had temperatures in the 10's F (so -7 to -12 C) all week so the 8 inches of snow we go is going NOWHERE. The boys have been home ALL WEEK doing nothing but gaming and eating me out of house and home as far as I can tell.

I survived the vacillations of my work schedule. I have to become more flexible and resilient.

On y va to February, our short month!

Today is National Puzzle Day!

Snow is my favorite weather for doing jigsaw puzzles so this is the one I did this weekend. It is cheekily named "Promises, Promises" (the big bottle is advertising 'love tonics' and the like) 500 pieces, Charles Wysocki, Buffalo Games.



And I like that I have started using puzzle pieces as ephemera in my collages.

Please check out the sticky post of my journal for all the recommendations I collected in last year's Snowflake Challenge for different kinds of puzzles: https://stonepicnicking-okapi.dreamwidth.org/606650.html

And since it's Thursday, have a poem about a jigsaw puzzle. "The Puzzle" by Howard Nemerov

astrolabe

noun

[A-struh-layb]

a compact instrument used to observe and calculate the position of celestial bodies before the invention of the sextant

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This was Webster's word of the day for 23 Jan and it came to my attention for the Chaucer quote:

“Thyn Astrolabie hath a ring to putten on the thombe of thi right hond in taking the height of thinges.” A Treatise on the Astrolabe by Geoffery Chaucer. I heard it in the voice Martin Jarvis uses to narrate Good Omens, especially the parts of Agnes Nutter's predictions.