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[thisbluespirit]

1. hurtcomfortex will also be running soon, and I so wanted to do that last year. *looks from that to waybackexchange with indecision*


2. For those not put off by counting sentences* the annual Three Sentence Ficathon is running again. (Commentfest format)


3. theseatheseatheopensea wrote this beautifully weird and poetic look at Elements 'becoming' - Saltpetre and I love it, and I am sure some of you will too.

Plus, when wrangling this morning I discovered that elennare had posted a lovely, delicate Flower Fairies piece, The Queen and the Piper, so that was also nice.


3a. Also while wrangling, we had Dracula 2020 tags overflowing into top tag, which is entirely unsurprising, but what was not what I expected was the fact that they were all from The Archers (because apparently the village ghost night was getting real that one time). So I wound up wrangling The Archers instead. /baffled but amused at fandom


4. I will never finish this chocolateboxcomm treat, I will die in the attempt, you will find my fannish body by the wayside of AO3. /may be exaggerating /o\



* Look, counting words is fine. Counting sentences is just unreasonable, how does that work? According to my brain. ;-p

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[theseatheseatheopensea]

4. I will never finish this [community profile] chocolateboxcomm treat, I will die in the attempt, you will find my fannish body by the wayside of AO3. /may be exaggerating /o\

I shall avenge your death!

Oh, for some reason I find it easier to count sentences than tocount words. You can use and abuse commas in order to create a monster, run-on sentence, and I like the challenge. Also it's fun to write tiny fills!

Also: thank you again for weird elemental inspiration! <3

[thisbluespirit]

I shall avenge your death!

I suppose that may be some small comfort. :-D

Oh, for some reason I find it easier to count sentences than tocount words. You can use and abuse commas in order to create a monster, run-on sentence, and I like the challenge.

I haven't tried it for a while, but a 3 sentence meme went around and I found I just couldn't do it! It's very funny. I don't know why. It's a thing that ought to be possible, and yet...

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Words can be Very Hard.

I shall avenge your death... in three sentences! ;)

[thisbluespirit]

LOL!

[astrogirl]

The Three Sentences one is nice, low-key fun! I've done a couple so far, and got some very nice fills.

But,yes, counting sentences instead of words is weird. I keep thinking I need to take words out, and then realizing I don't. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, cool. Yes, everyone seems to enjoy it - very freeing, I should think! But my brain joes goes WHAT, COUNT SENTENCES? And falls over.

[sovay]

theseatheseatheopensea wrote this beautifully weird and poetic look at Elements 'becoming' - Saltpetre and I love it, and I am sure some of you will too.

Thank you for the pointer! That is beautifully done and I will tell them.

[thisbluespirit]

I thought you would like it! ♥

[kaffy_r]

So I can see that my fannish pusher has come 'round to my head and given me something else that will eat said head ... and I thank you. Just put in my first prompts at the Three Sentence event, and answered one prompt already.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, have fun! And at least it really is only a small thing. What could possibly go wrong? ;-p

[kaffy_r]

It's a bit like "the first one is free." Heh ....

But I am having fun!

[thisbluespirit]

No, honest - this is fandom, they're all free! <3

[kaffy_r]

♥

[osprey_archer]

Flower Fairies fic is a thing that exists??? I must read it.

[thisbluespirit]

There is a tiny handful, mostly courtesy of one Yuletide. So I wrangle it, but it's very unusual for a tag to appear in it.

[st_aurafina]

I will never finish this chocolateboxcomm treat, I will die in the attempt, you will find my fannish body by the wayside of AO3. /may be exaggerating /o\

You will not be alone on that wayside, I'm just saying.

[thisbluespirit]

A wayside strewn with dead bodies of authors who could not keep their word count under control! They can bury us together. Alas.

I mean, I think I am now in the last third, but I'm not even going to think about the editing and also I was hoping to have my life back, such as it is, and maybe make things I can actually post...

Good luck! ♥

[romanajo123]

Thanks for info! That 3 sentence ficathon is great! I’ve written a couple

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, cool!

[liadt]

Too many exchanges...

The Archers has been taken over by Dracula, could it mean that the armchair is no longer the deadliest thing in Ambridge?

We shall not forget your sacrifices to AO3!

[thisbluespirit]

The Archers has been taken over by Dracula, could it mean that the armchair is no longer the deadliest thing in Ambridge?

Or will Dracula be consumed by the armchair?

We shall not forget your sacrifices to AO3!

Not true! If I fail to finish it, all my efforts will go unsung and unremembered. *goes off to try typing instead*

[liadt]

Ha, that's true. The armchair could bring Dracula's final defeat:D

[jhall1]

"For those not put off by counting sentences* the annual Three Sentence Ficathon is running again."

Presumably using lots and lots of semi-colons instead of full stops would be cheating. :)

[thisbluespirit]

Presumably using lots and lots of semi-colons instead of full stops would be cheating.

No, pretty standard, I gather!