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Private Outfit
What's worse than an overbearing parent when you're dating their daughter? An overbearing dragon, old as the hills and twice as surly! Left behind as tribute when just a babe, Jezebel has been cooped up on the mountaintop with her adopted mother for twenty years, and the feisty young woman, having been molded by magic into a fine heir, is eager to taste the wider world. And her first interest is in the strange people of the villages below, always kept at a distance.
Enter Joel, a warlock on the run from the king's justice. Chased all the way to the backwater villages beneath the mountain, he thinks his goose is cooked once the knights catch up to him. When he and Jezebel run into each other(literally) it's love at first sight for the dragon-heir, but for Joel, he's more interested in the opportunities this strange-looking woman represents- temporary isolation, and enough wealth to buy his way out of the noose. Can Joel change his ways once he meets her mother? Will she allow Joel to slip away after they arrive back at the mountaintop? Will Jezebel's heart be broken so soon after it was touched? Or can (barely represented) love overcome all in the end?
Joel
Private Outfit
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For Arts Sake
Katya, a Russian lesbian living in Berlin who by day is an art student and by night, alongside a couple of other badass queer artists creates giant spray painted murals on the sides of buildings. One summer night they're working on the side of a huge warehouse and she slips off the scaffold, catches herself barely on a ledge and falls through an open window landing awkwardly over a shelf of pot plants and a sleeping woman. This is how she scares the crap out of and meets Taupe, a 20 something sculpter who'd been sleeping in her studio as she'd run out of money to pay rent for her flat. After a brief introduction they move in together and meet each others friends and it's all a bit cliched and played up for laughs. There's some lovely rooftop conversation scenes with beanbags, friends, a few joints and the sunset over the city etc. Together the group start planting flowers, occasional pot plants and installing Taupes sculptures around the city. They gain some notoriety and fall out when Katya wants to stop planting pot as she doesn't want to get deported back to Russia and nothing else really happens but it's all a bit indie and gay and there's some good dialogue about life, politics, art and being queer.
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Aaaah! I’m late and every day feels like a year and a month lasts only 30 minutes and if I’d nap for an hour it’d be December 2025 when I wake up. WHAT IS TIME. Anyway, thanks to the reminder ping here’s my entry. (And I still owe you a sMail as I remember right now o.o)
Silken Skies
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Ella loves exactly two things in life: her freedom and music. Believing she can find both in her new job as a singer on the cruise ship Silken Skies, she happily trades her small town home for numerous eccentric guests and a colorful crew. Ella quickly finds friends, enjoys her performances in the evening and even falls in love with the kind-hearted cook Fred. Everything would be perfect … if it weren’t for Cornelius, the ship’s aloof but handsome captain who suddenly shows interest in her.
Shenanigans ensue.
On the last evening on board, Ella has to decide: Will she stay with the crew or move on? Who will she choose? Does she even has to chose?
Find out this summer in the cinemas near you!
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Private Outfit
how rom/com even is this i dunno, but its certainly fluffy
Molly felt 110% ordinary. She'd gotten through school with ok grades and fine friends. She gained a degree that she doesn't find helpful in her job at the local petrol station. She doesn't have any pets or housemates and she has a settled life, although she is a bit of a clutz. Also, she HATES Summer.
What's worse, on one of the hottest days on record, her air-conditioner decides to die. She calls the number for the most straightforward looking repair company in the phone book, but can hardly believe the person who shows up can possibly be at the right apartment! Hannah took Molly's stunned confusion in stride and assured her that she was "the best this side of the river" before flashing a bright smile and a wink and brushing through the doorway.
Molly watched with curiosity as Hannah disassembled the traitorous machine, her every movement precise and purposeful and a determined crook set on her brow. Hannah easily maintained a barrage of light-hearted banter, which Molly barely kept up with as she was trying to decipher the motley spread of tattoos on every bronzed limb exposed by Hannah's cutoff overalls.
After what seemed like only the length of an introductory song, Hannah proudly presents a tiny object from the guts of the AC now splattered across the living room floor to Molly like a gift, but sheepishly admitted she doesn't have a replacement with her. Seeing Molly visibly deflate at the news, Hannah grabs her phone and after a few hurried taps on the screen, she puts the phone to her ear. The conversation Molly can barely understand, but her eyes follow Hannah around her living room with intrigue, watching the slight girl flit between pacing, perching on the back of her couch, or bouncing over to rest an elbow on Molly's shoulder, all the while filling the phone with jargon and strict orders disguised as a sales pitch. After a great deal of animated exasperation, Hannah ends her call and explains to Molly that they're also out of stock back at the shop, and being a Friday they won't have a delivery until Monday.
Molly feels her soul leave her body. There's no way she could endure a weekend of this overheated apartment! Seemingly inspired by Molly's hollow stare, Hannah slaps her on the back, snapping the dejected girl out of her sweat coma.
"I have a suggestion!" the chirpy repair-woman exclaims, as she flips the faulty part over her shoulder towards the rest of the AC. "I've got some things planned this weekend, how about you keep me company? I promise you'll be out of this heat...well, mostly, but it'll be fun. What do you say?"
"But, we don't even know each other!" Molly goggled at her, more than a little stunned at the offer.
"Oh, well, if you have stuff on then I guess that's fine too" She obviously didn't feel the need to justify her invitation, Hannah only busied herself with moving all the pieces of the AC into a neat pile at the edge of the room.
As she was watching Hannah methodically clear up the mess, Molly suddenly felt the heat of her small apartment become stifling. For the first time in her life she made a snap decision, and before she could think twice why maybe it wasn't just the horrible heat making her feel a little warm and fuzzy she blurted out "Okay, sure!" at which Hannah spun around wearing one of the brightest smiles Molly had ever seen.
"Great! Then how do you feel about roller-derby?" and Hannah extricated a pair of roller skates from her oversized toolbox.
So Molly accompanied Hannah to training, which ended in dinner with the rambunctious team at a tiny but delicious noodle bar, and she found herself laughing and having the most fun that she could even remember.
The rest of the weekend went by in such a blur she barely noticed the sweltering heat. The days were filled with such unexpected pleasure that Molly started to rue Monday, even if it did mean her AC would be fixed. Hannah took her to see a play, before whisking her away to the fairgrounds where they played every game at least twice, before taking a ride on the Ferris wheel. Hannah introduced her to her favourite ice-cream parlour, a fantastic food market with the freshest fruits, and a rowdy pub filled with patrons dressed for the annual 'Pirates of Pan-Seance' that also served the crunchiest ghost-chips Molly had ever eaten.
After the most exhilarating weekend, Monday did eventuate, and by mid-morning Hannah had arrived with her toolbox, a box of freshly baked pretzels in tow, and an enthusiasm that Molly couldn't quite muster.
Hannah seemed to take her time putting the pieces of the AC back together, then placing her tools away, perhaps a little too carefully. Molly brewed some coffee and they sat around the kitchen table chatting while enjoying their pretzels. They were laughing together when Hannah's phone rang, the noise popping their bubble. The call began and ended with hardly a word spoken, and curt ones at that, and the kitchen grew quiet. Molly figured it was Hannah's boss.
All of a sudden Hannah rose and decisively slapped her hands down on the table making the pretzel crumbs as well as Molly jump.
"Well, same again next weekend?" she seemed nervous for the first time in three days. "I mean, without the broken air-con obviously" her addition finally evoked a giggle from Molly.
"Okay, sure" and this time Molly's agreement was made with contentment.
Hannah's wide grin was back in an instant, and impulsively she leaned over and left a light peck on Molly's cheek. She retreated to grab her toolbox and headed to the door, turning on her heel one last time to wink at Molly before exiting from the apartment.
Molly happily sat in her cool kitchen, her cheeks a little pink, wondering with a warmth in her heart what next weekend could possibly bring, but she was 110% sure it would be extraordinary.
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"grey would be the colour if i had a heart" ~nin ❤️
Private Outfit
All the different bugs have a part in this musical. Crickets play percussion and grasshopper plays melody. The main story line follows ladybug and her inability to find a "gentlemanbug," but the plot really consists of different little stories, like ants narrowly avoid being stepped on, the bees figuring out a confusing dance. Surprise ending turns out well for ladybug.
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Just a heads up that the prizes will be a bit cheaper for the next few weeks since I managed to work my way down to less than 10mil sp. I just had to adopt a pet and then buy a bunch of items for my pets' treasures... If I had more funds everyone would've gotten a prize this week~
Also, not to repeat myself, but you guys should REALLY post your creations to the Prompt Challenge Stories thread. I just love the idea of new members (or anyone for that matter) being able to scroll through past stories and HAs~! It's fantastic to look at now and in the future it'll be amazing to have pages of creations for past prompts! I know some of you like to delete your saved outfits to make room, but you can always upload the image to a website and then post it! Or I can do that part for you and then add it to your post with my magical admin powers~!
TL;DR - Please post your entries to the Prompt Challenge Stories thread. I love looking at your fantastic creations in one place and everyone did truly fantastic this week~❤
This was fun but difficult.
Congrats to the winners!
Congrats to the winners! The written part of the challenge defeated me this week, so I'm mighty impressed with all your stories.
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