Happy Birthday, ellyssian  !

birthdays! Happiest of days to elionwyr !!!! I hope today is full of happiness and joy and kicks off a year of you finding 'home' and being surrounded by love more days than not. *hugs* Also!! Happy birthday to bzero  and ellyssian !! May today be overflowing with laughter and may the coming year bring you easy solutions to any problem you may come up against. Calendar: I...

Administration Happy birthday to ellyssian , mllelaurel , and we_Happy_few , and my beloved elionwyr ! Hello to new reader stella_nordica ! Medical A little too much exercise yesterday for the legs and back, but sleep seems to have adequately hit the reset button. Went to bed at 9:30! Sleepy 'song. Places You Haunt Thanks for the kind words, guys! I...

ellyssian on critiquing the description of some of the world's most awful published purple prose: Wait until you hear the line about the femoral vein! And then there's the right ventricle ~ there's three paragraphs on the right ventricle alone! (It gets to the heart of the matter.) ( Context has the fragrance of a gibbous moon. Probably not NSFW text.)

Background: This will be FMP3.0. The first version of the short story left a wee bit too much to the imagination, and needed to be fleshed out a bit. The second version ~ which actually has a variant branching version as well ~ gets perhaps a bit too explicit. The variant, which stayed true to the character, gets far too explicit in other ways as well, and all I could think of was that it sounded...

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Stolen from ellyssian  . I laughed so hard I cried.  Enjoy.

tsu_doshaman -- Vignette spiral5 -- Vignette mightybeans -- Vignette kelbardi Poem, Vignette, Song jeswel -- Poem jumpinjessflash -- Poem ellyssian -- Poem yzavela -- Poem wyyknot -- Song dustyskinandall -- Vignette rhino_boy -- Song elementalamber -- Vignette belgatherial -- Poem, Vignette...

Ok, I wasn't really but you know? Here are the people who answered the survey last month. If you would like to be added to the list of people receiving a poem, vignette or song this year this is along the lines of the last chance. Also, if you are on the list and want something specific written about, this is also the time. Caveat..people who asked for songs may end up having to wait a bit..we shall...

Turns out, there's clearly a leader in this pack. Witness my utter lack of surprise. =P Top Commenters on bettybaker 's LiveJournal (Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings) 1 kailara 356 2 angstzeit 185 3 phantomminuet 160 4 bateleur 143 5 a_kosmos 126 ...