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Challenge 289:
HOT COCOA

It’s a classic staple of cozy nights by the fire, snow day afternoons, and romantic walks down a street lined with Christmas lights. Maybe it’s the fancy traditional homemade kind, carefully hand-mixed exactly to your preferences; maybe it’s the powdered kind in a paper packet dumped into just-under-boiling water, because that’s what you had time for; maybe it’s a special alien beverage, only available at one specific space station, and good luck getting it anywhere else in the galaxy. It’s not for everyone, but if you like it, it can make a night that much sweeter.

Write a story about hot cocoa.

BONUS GOAL: “Here, this will help.”

If your submission features this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!

Challenge ends Monday, February 2 at 9:00PM EST.

• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 289 – hot cocoa
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #288 – Inconveniences!

( This week's finalists are... )

Total Challenge Words Written: 2390

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes!

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unfeathered

This evening I finally got round to watching the live action version of Disney's Aladdin, which I rather enjoyed despite the somewhat lacklustre performances. Will Smith as the Genie was as engaging as always but I wasn't impressed by his singing, and Mena Massoud as Aladdin was sweet but didn't blow me away, but I found myself captivated by Naomi Scott as Princess Jasmine. I don't think I've ever seen her in anything but I thought she was lovely, and all the way through she kept reminding me of SMG as Buffy. That wide-eyed, shocked, almost-about-to-start-crying look. She was really, really lovely.

So afterwards I decided to watch OMWF, for the first time in forever. I've barely watched any Buffy or Angel in the last decade or so, except a couple of episodes when I was role-playing Giles. I found myself feeling too grown up (finally!) for the rather childish behaviour of all the characters, and hesitated over whether to watch OMWF again in case I'd finally fallen out of love with what used to be my absolute favourite episode of any television ever.

It still is. Still as perfect as ever. One hell of a piece of storytelling, with gorgeous music that carries the story along brilliantly, incredible performances from the whole cast and inspired direction and camera angles, and just something that it way, way more than the sum of its parts.

P.S. I posted about some of the things I love about OMWF here in 2018 (which may well have been the last time I watched it)

P.P.S. Yes, I know this icon isn't from OMWF. Turns out I don't actually have one that is.

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Okay, so I *swear* that I've been keeping up, and then I look at the dates on the challenges and realize it's been a week. I am so sorry!

It looks like the "Just Write!" challenge was popular, so I'll do more of those. But not today. I do like to change it up.

Today is a quote challenge:

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." - Gloria Pitzer

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Title: Simply Survival

Fandom: Identity V

Author:

luvcrumbs

Rating: G

Word Count: 200 (double drabble)

Characters/Pairings: Eli Clark/Luchino Diruse

( Simply Survival )

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Back in the living room. :)

Setting a timer on phone...

Since I'm reading some Fourteen and Fifteen books (currently reading The Giggle), have a Ruby moment!

Ruby took a deep breath and held it as she straightened her shoulders. With a determined sigh, she strode onto the stage. The shock of actually being *here*, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, was only now starting to sink in as her fingers lightly graced the keyboard. She swallowed hard, giving one last glance at the crowd. She swore she could see out of the corner of one eye the old woman they'd seen at least four different times now. But time to ponder that would come later.

Now, she had a job to do: distract the crowd long enought for the Doctor to lure out that great grey-green thing lurking backstage. She could feel sweat begin to form as she hit a middle C.

In that moment, Ruby suddenly forgot any songs she'd learnt! Taking a shaky breath, her mind zoomed back to the Doctor and the time with the Beatles.

This was it.

Barely looking at her hands, she started playing the first familiar chords .

Current Mood: calm

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Here are the entries for this challenge:

( List of entries )

Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

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scifirenegade

Except not really, because I need to write this somewhere and don't want to double post.

Once a Lady (1931). What a bore. Woman marries wet cardboard Tory who hates her. Has a child. Basically the whole family forces the woman away. Ivor Novello is there and he's absolutely wasted on this (but very charming, glad to finally hear him without a fake accent). There's a pic of him with Joan Crawford for what is worth. Can't escape that woman lately.

Alright, Tih Minh shenanigans under the cut.

( Read more... )

Current Mood: sniffly

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This week's word is

Panacea

noun
pan·a·cea ˌpa-nə-ˈsē-ə

A remedy for all ills or difficulties: cure-all.

"The woman seemed to believe that chicken soup was a panacea for nearly everything.

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Title: 'The Hint'
Fandom: Original Fiction
Author:

but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Characters/Pairings: Original
Warnings: None
Notes: Using Challenge #177: Scintilla, and Challenge #178: Futile. Crossposted to

emotion100 and

drabble_zone.
Summary: "Fine; I'll take the hint."

( The Hint )

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Theme Prompt: #288 - Inconveniences
Title: The nose knows
Fandom: Torchwood
Rating/Warnings: PG.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Jack just wanted a quiet afternoon to indulge in nothing at all.

( Read more... )

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Theme Prompt: # 288 – Inconveniences
Title: Bennings
Fandom: The Thing (1982)
Rating / Warnings: R – No warnings apply.
Bonus: No
Word Count: 390
Summary: It is not Bennings, and yet it plots to be more.

* * * *

( Bennings )

romanajo123

Let's see if I can do all this... :P

Thanks, @thisbluespirit !

By the fireside	Snow	In the library
"I'll help you"	WILD CARD	Happy ending
Under a spell	Dressing up	Dancing

Current Mood: blank

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Some things that I have had stashed away for a little while:

1.

sovay very kindly sent me a copy of Exit Through the Fireplace by Kate Dunn, which was waiting for me at the new house when I got here. It is about repertory theatre with lots of accounts on every aspect from actors and others involved, including a lot of people I have watched in old telly, so I enjoyed it a lot.

But having only recently before tried to make a post explaining what I loved about Terence Rattigan's plays, including floundering about trying to say how effective his dialogue is, I was v pleased to find this quote:

John Moffatt: (On being in rep, and the difficulty of remembering the lines, doing a new play every week): "You got to know who the good writers were. With Rattigan you barely had to learn it at all, even after just blocking it you almost knew it because it is so beautifully written. The only way to reply to something that has just been said is what he's written."

2. Talking of people being kind,

swordznsorcery wrote me a lovely Sapphire & Steel story with a new Element and a stealth crossover very RTMI here, and if you also like S&S, I recommend taking a look, as it's great! <3

3. The book I was reading introduced me to the utterly untrue but very S&S like urban myth/ghost story of the Zanetti Train. Sounds like an Assignment to me, or a film I would watch, anyway. (It seems to have been taken from a Ukrainian work of fiction, most likely - certainly not one detail of it has any truth in it).

4. Making personalised bingo cards proved to be exactly in my wheelhouse right now, so I had fun with that. If anyone missed it the other day and would like one, feel free to still ask! (Here or there, whatever).

5. Random AO3 tag found while wrangling that is currently amusing me: It is literally just Twelfth Night but with Moomins.

Otherwise still slowly progressing and all that etc etc etc.

purplecat

Colourised image from The War Games. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe face a WWI soldier. Jamie is wearing a pointed helmet.

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Theme Prompt: #288 – Inconveniences
Title: Drowning In Problems
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Why are the small things so much harder to deal with than the big, life-threatening disasters?

( Drowning In Problems... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

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