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This week's prompt is innocent.

Your response should be exactly 100 words long. You do not have to include the prompt in your response -- it is meant as inspiration only.

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prettygoodword

bohunk (BOH-huhngk) - (N.Am.) (ethnic slur) n., a person from east-central Europe, especially a laborer.

Like most ethnic slurs, this is disparaging and offensive. That said, I don't know how common it is today, given I only recently learned of it, in a story written in the 1920s. Dates to around 1900, formed by combining Bo(hemian)* + Hung(arian), so originally specifically central Europe, but it soon was applied to Slavic immigrants from lands east of there. (The ethnic slur hunky, used of Slavic coal miners in the Appalachian region, is related only in the sense that it's also clipped from Hungarian.)

* The western half of what's now Czechia.

---L.

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Seven books I own, no caption, no comment.

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Title: Positive
Fandom: Barry
Characters: Sally Reed/Barry Berkman
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 154
Prompt: Mother
Summary: Sally gets the results of a home pregnancy test

( Positive )

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Title: 'Fatal Feasts'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: None
Warnings: Disturbing imagery; mentions of warfare and mass death
Notes: Crossposted to

ficlet_zone and

anythingdrabbles
Summary: ...life itself's become chorelike.

( Fatal Feasts )

cornerofmadness

Just did laundry and finished my short story, steampunk 'day at the races' as a try for something in Louisville. Is it my best work? no. Will I have tons of competition? Some but who knows. Could use eyes on it.

I'm mostly here to do Music Monday and Women's history. Yes I missed saying something International Women's Day (I was beat) so today have the woman who started off my sabbatical research, someone I met in college and carried her story with me all these years Elizabeth Blackwell

As for music Monday, on the drive here the last radio station I go to (the one I listen to in this area) was having an International Women's Day fest by playing women artists (and mentioning iheartradio's women's history station) and in the next 1 1/2 hours they played 3 songs by women. 3...

So we can do better. THis monday I 'm taking a break from the list and let's just share songs written by, performed by women (however you care to define it)

( Women of Song )

Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: The Running Man

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Iblis [ib-lis]

noun

an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the wicked jinn (Isalmic).

examples

1. But Satan, or Iblis in his Muslim incarnation, a redheaded wisecracker who claims to be Jacob’s dearest friend, argues for a radical intervention that can open Jacob’s “strictured heart”, allowing him to feel and heal. "Rabih Alameddine’s new novel explores the ordeal of remembering." The Economist. 29 Nov 2016.

2. Al-Hijr also repeats the story of Iblis, the devil, who refuses to bow to human beings, and since they are made of mud, tempts them with the material distractions of a muddy world. "American Quran is an Old/New Masterpiece." The Washington Post. 21 Jan 2016.

origin
Arabic, إِبْلِيس

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I discovered this recently when I happened upon this funny Islamic cat Youtube channel.

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daryl_wor

"Thanks to a greedy jewel fiend we may all be able to meet again" - a masterful, and very unusual, summing-up of the show and certainly a different spin on things; I don't think I've ever seen the show's main story arc described in quite that way before.

I hadn't considered it, so I'm glad she told me.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: Memory Lane

merrileemakes

Since I had my sewing machine out after making the handwoven tops I decided to do a bit more sewing with handwoven fabric. But then, catastrophe.

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dine

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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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Current Location: my desk

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Title: A Friend In Need
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Willaway, Varian.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 492: Talk.
Setting: After An Act of Love.
Summary: Following Gwenith’s death, Varian is cutting himself off from the others. Willaway decides it’s time someone talked to their grieving friend.
Disclaimer: I don’t own The Fantastic Journey, or the characters. They belong to their creators.
A/N: Triple drabble.

A Friend In Need

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

smallhobbit

Seven books I own, no caption, no comment.

kitarella_imagines

So I sometimes like to discuss the craft of writing, when issues really hit me in the face. I'm not generally a fan of plotting stories, 3 act structures, rising and falling tension, midpoints etc. I usually just write but sometimes I can see how story structures are important.

I read a fanfic recently, I will not be giving any details as I don't want to embarrass the author. And it's nobody I know, just a random person on a website.

The fanfic showed clearly why we have a 3 act structure…because one vital part was missing.

The first half of the fic was two antagonists thrown together, they had to go on a rescue mission together and they didn't want to, so there were a few arguments, wondering how to actually achieve it, with few details.

The second half was afterwards. They’d done the mission, it was finished and they were discussing how it went with few details.

Can you see the problem?

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Current Mood: determined

prettygoodword

stercoration (stir-koh-RAY-shuhn) - (obs.) n., the act of manuring (ground) with dung.

That is, fertilizing with shit. Dates to 1605 and generally rare, but odd enough it still shows up every so often -- taken from Latin stercoratio, from stercorare, which meant both to add manure and to clean manure out (of e.g. a horse's stall).

---L.

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Prompt: #485 - Innocent

bohunk

Multiamory March - Day 09: Triad

You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Hikyō eki 秘境駅 | A JJK Zine | Application Period EXTENDED!

Seven Days - Seven Covers: 2026 - Day Three

everything we do is a bad idea

Resident Evil Requiem [2026]

10 out of 20 - Barry - Sally Reed/Barry Berkman

[Challenge #186: Imprecate] Original Fiction: 'Fatal Feasts'

Took a day off

Monday Word: Iblis

Something Osheen told me

Making stuff 3: Return of the stuff

Music Monday

Check-In Post - March 9th 2026

The Fantastic Journey: A Friend In Need [Challenge 492: Talk]

Seven Days - Seven Covers: 2026 - Day Two

How not to do the 3 Act Structure

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