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Journaling prompt: What games do you play, if any? Are you a solo-gamer or do you view games as a social activity?
Creative prompt: Write a story/fic around the theme "game night".

I make my family play board games, usually at least two or three times a month. Per recommendation on DW during the Snowflake Challenge, I bought 2 of the EXIT games, but they were very difficult for us. We had to look at the clues and the solutions for many of the steps.

I also got the game Canvas, which is a kind of art composition game, and the boys, Minisculus in particular, really liked it. So we will be playing that again.

We usually play Ticket to Ride or Exploding Kittens. Sometimes we play Catan or Sorry. I play Monopoly or Yahtzee with the boys. Or Battleship with Minisculus.

I play Wordle, Spelling Bee, and the BTS game In the Seom. Here's a mood board I did for the last.



For the Creative Prompt, I did a double drabble in the Jeeves & Wooster fandom.

Title: Wager
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Characters: the Drones minus Bertie
Summary: The Drones are having a wager.

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Challenge #11

In your own space, create a fanwork.

I finished a plot bunny I've had in mind for a long time. I wanted it to be more suspenseful (like Alfred Hitchock's Rope) but it ended up being very Agatha Christie. Ah, well, at least, I tried. Bertie voice is very difficult (if you haven't gone to Eton or Oxford) so it takes a while to sink into it.

Jeeves & the Small but Not Unpleasant English Dinner Party (4915 words) by okapi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster
Characters: Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Murder Mystery, Competent Bertram "Bertie" Wooster, Inspired by Agatha Christie, Warning: Mention of death of a newt
Summary:

Bertie wakes up to find there was a murder at the dinner party he attended the night before. He and Jeeves go sleuthing and solve the case!

Based on Agatha Christie's short story "The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest."

I love autumn! My favorite season!

Today (1 Oct) is World Postcard Day!

To celebrate, I put this autumn-themed card in the mail today to a lady in Switzerland (as part of the Postcrossing exchange).



Of course, there's Keats.

To Autumn by John Keats

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
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And this favourite beginning to The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

I reached out a hand from under the blankets, and rang the bell for Jeeves.
‘Good evening, Jeeves,’
‘Good morning, sir’
This surprised me.
‘Is it morning?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Are you sure? It seems very dark outside.’
‘There is a fog, sir. If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.’
‘Season of what?’
‘Mists, sir, and mellow fruitfulness.’


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Title: At the Dog and Partridge
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Gen
Length: 300
Note: I am getting prompts from WritersHQ for 12 Days of Flashmas and Day 1 was about partridges and pears.
Summary: Jeeves shares a story about his great uncle and disabuses Bertie of a long held notion.

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For a lands of magic challenge I did birthday lists for 3 fictional characters. Here are Sherlock Holmes, Bertie Wooster, and Carmilla.

1. A really interesting case.
2. Two seats at a concert heavy on the Mendelssohn so that Watson will resist the temptation to fall asleep—and snore!
3. A pouch of whatever it was he smoked that one time in Kathmandu while he was ‘dead.’
4. A new tablecloth to replace the one of Mrs. Hudson’s which now has chemical burns.
5. If #1 is not available, a new bottle of cocaine.

1. An aunt radar, with two alarms, one for when there is nearing a Good and Deserving Aunt and a second for when an Aunt who Eat Broken Bottles and Wear Barbed Wire Next to the Skin is approaching.
2. A shield to deflect incoming dinner rolls at The Drones.
3. A very, very rare species of newt so that Gussie Fink-Nottle will become famous in newt-loving circles and name it woosterus newterus.
4. Beazel repellent, so that members of the delicately nurtured with matrimonial designs or favours to request or blackmail to perform will take their nefarious schemes to parties other than Betram.
5. The return of a gentleman’s gentleman from his two-week holiday, bronzed and fit, and ready to sling the y. m. out of the soup.

1. Blood. Lots of it. Fresh. Human.
2. Laura
3. A set of earplugs good for muffling out peasant funereal wailing
4. An anagram dictionary to help when it’s time to pick a new name.
5. A new statue for the crypt, and if it resembles Laura’s heaving bosom, well, so much the better.

Title: Bertie's Sonnet
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Poetic form: English sonnet
Length: 108
Rating: Gen
Inspired by: the image at the bottom

pale cove beside the rural lane is perched
on smartish trunks ‘neath city parasol
pale linen suit hangs crisp and un-besmirched
on willow frame, pale brim to crown it all

town chap beside the country way sits calm
and turns the page of gander-fleshing read
discounting fields and hills, bucolic balm
the present spot of b., the want of steed

pale fellow takes a pew and hums a bar
his brow lies smooth, un-rummy-ed by his circs,
‘Pale Hands I Loved Beside the Shalimar’
floats on the breeze, with liberties and quirks

two-seatered miss sought to mould and shame him
he’ll wait patiently ‘til Jeeves can claim him

I am slowly getting in the Christmas spirit. adventdrabbles are doing their annual prompt fest. 4 Dec prompt is Santa with dogs.

Title: Photograph with Father Christmas
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Characters: Bertie, Jeeves, and McIntosh, the Aberdeen terrier
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: 4 Dec: dogs with Santa
Summary: Aunt Agatha snookers Bertie into escorting McIntosh to have his photograph taken with Father Christmas.

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I am doing Seven Days, Seven Stories at GYWO. I am mainly focused on poetry for my Yahtzee prompts and drafting my Unconventional Courtship fic but they post a prompt every day and so far I've been able to do them. Today's prompt is:

51 Impending Apocalypse
A radio announcement has given a four-minute warning before a meteorite collides with Earth. Write for four minutes, without stopping or hesitating, from the perspective of somebody experiencing this cataclysmic event, taking on the immediacy and urgency of the scenario in your writing.

So the first part of this is the 4-minute speed-writing and the second part is putting it in context, Wooster-style. Rating: Gen. Word count: 400.

oh my god, oh my god, time for a b. and s., no, four minutes, four minutes until the end of the world, what to do, run out in the street, tell mrs. tinkler moukle just what I think of her and her godhelpus pomeranian, no, thank goodness I’m wearing the grey heather, won’t show stains as much, apocalyptic stains, let’s see, I should recite something, Shakespeare, the bloody poet Shelley, no, the Bible, the Good Book, pity all I can remember is the part of about balaam’s ass, really, that scripture prize was a long time ago, oh, yes, I know, I’ll do the thing I’ve been putting off for a long time, yes, by Jove, a corker of a idea, I’ll tell Jeeves—

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Title: City Lights
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Length: 1000
Rating: Gen
Summary: Bertie goes for a nighttime tour of the city in an airplane.
Prompt:


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Title: Le Rêve
Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster
Length: 1000
Rating: Gen
Summary: Bertie visits a ghost jazz club in New York City.
Prompt:


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