Author: Phyl Title: Ages 3 and up Rating: PG Word Count: 100 Challenge: Vinegar #17-Ages 3 and up Toppings/Extras: Butterscotch and Pocky! Summery: Starting from scratch. Notes: *shrugs* nothing to report. 4 Days Til' Christmas!   ( Learning to fight )

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For many of us, the holidays can be kind of rough. If you're searching for a network of understanding friends, this ultra-nurturing community encourages you to express your heartfelt wishes and offer other members encouragement and acceptance. Not for the terminally snarky or emotionally-challenged, this is a good-spirited place to lend comfort and support.

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Feeling crafty? If you've got a few last folks on your holiday gift list, this is a great place to seed your creativity and generosity. You'll also discover wonderful DIY tips to decorate your home and entertain guests. Offering a no-frills-no-skills attitude that welcomes the cash-challenged and arts-phobic, you're sure to get ideas and make friends in the process.

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A fun and friendly community dedicated to those who love to cook, whether you're a meat-and-potatoes type, an aspiring gourmand, and/or a vegan. In search of a brilliant dish to use up those weekly leftovers? Post your ingredients and you'll be whipping up a feast by dinner. You can also share favorite recipes. For Type A chefs, you can spice up your culinary repertoire with exciting cooking challenges.

Author: miimei
Challenge: date #9: sagittarius
Topping: rainbow sprinkles
Extra: banana
Story: Dwenna's
Rating: G

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Author: miimei
Challenge: creamsicle #18: charity
Rating: G
Story: The boy who knew everything and still nothing [same universe as Dwenna's]
Word count: 111
Summary: Enaly throught the eyes of others.

 

( 18: It just made no sense. )

I don't know what's going on with the links I just posted -- they worked yesterday, but today they return only 404s. However, if you go to Google and type -- "Some highlights of Na'vi" Language Log -- in the search box you can get to the article.

Paul Frommer, the prof who constructed the Na'vi language for Avatar, has done a guest post about Na'vi at Language Log. Quite a bit of information, especially about the phonology. The post is at
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/p=1977#more_1977 .

Author: taram_42
Prompts: Rocky Road 16 (where it all happened), cookies n cream 25 (cover)
Toppings: A Cherry on Top
Extras: Malt (Advent Day 19)
Story: Self Contained Drabble
Rating: G
Wordcount: 299
Summary: A fanciful urban legend, or is it?


( Joe loved that cloak )


o.O I hit enter too soon and added a tag that shouldn't be there... namely Aelia... I'm sorry! It won't let me delete it! And fixed!

Author: taram_42
Prompts: Cookies n Cream 23 (break)
Toppings:
Extras: Malt (Advent Day 18)
Story: Tara snippet
Rating: G
Wordcount: 230
Summary: Sometimes a little destruction is necessary... even for the sake of order.

As an aside... holy hell does my icon match this piece... O.O


( The autumn leaves on the forest floor swirled.... )

Author: taram_42
Prompts: Cookies and Cream 15 (throw), Rocky Road 20 (on the ground)
Toppings: Cherry on Top!
Extras: Malt (Advent Day 17)
Story: Random Drabble
Rating: G
Wordcount: 123
Summary: Written in a different tense than I normally use. A young couple spends a short time outside.


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Author: miimei
Challenge: date #8: scorpio
Topping: rainbow sprinkles
Extra: banana
Story: Dwenna's
Rating: G

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Author: miimei
Challenge: creamsicle #17: acceptance
Extra: pocky
Rating: G
Story: The boy who knew everything and still nothing [same universe as Dwenna's]
Word count: 79
Summary: Enaly throught the eyes of others. (Except in this one he is the one doing the thinking.)

 

( 17: He had always wanted to be accepted by others. )

One of my conlangs (which is as of yet unnamed) is intended to be a special-purpose pidgin which makes use of only a limited array of sounds. Originally it was spelled with only 15 letters (a, e, f, i, j, k, l, n, o, p, r, s, t, u, w). More recently I have considered the use of another 4 with limited frequency (b, c, h, y) for a bit more variety, though some or all may not make the cut. [I also considered, early on, using "h" as a sigh-like pseudovowel, but that might be problematic for some people and violates the semi-Germanic tone I was going for.]

Anyway, I have noticed that all of the words which I have experimented with using fit into just a few fairly complex but very restricted patterns; for example, 'jept' (which I have been using to mean 'gossip') fits perfectly within the "three-consonant" pattern whereas 'apolp' violates it in 3 different ways (the word starts with a vowel, L's never follow vowels, and P is used twice). Note that each pattern does not follow the same set of "rules". And that I didn't create any of those patterns on purpose, or at least not consciously - probably just an overzealous drive to give it a particular flavor.

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Author: Marika Kailaya
Title: There's no name for us
'Verse: Nagekawashii; Burning the Sound
Challenge: Angel Food: 13. heaven
Toppings: N/A
Wordcount: 318
Rating: G
A/N: N/A

( Faith is looking into the faces, personified in statue or ink or images in the mind, of your gods, and finding yourself enthralled. )

Author: miimei
Challenge: date #7: libra
Extra: banana
Story: Dwenna's
Rating: G

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