!author stuff: how do i shot tense

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this is a writing journal and thus serves to archive, conveniently, and index (god i hope), writing that i do in other places. usually prompt communities. i really like prompt communities.

it is original fiction only; everything posted will follow this format (this is partly for me, fyi):

Title:
Rating:
Wordcount:
Story / World:
Challenge:
Other:
Characters:
Notes:

ratings PG13 and above will have an explanation (in parentheses) of why, blacked out if it's a spoiler. if you have specific triggers you need me to warn for, please let me know.

stories and worlds are colour-coded for easy navigation and all new posts will (in theory) link to their indexes once i have indexes. tagging will be by character, world, story, challenge, and anything else i can think of (for example, if i write a 31_days post about cat hydan exploring the white world set during illumination, it would be tagged for cat as a character, white as a world, illumination as a book, cause as a series, colourverse as a setting, and 31_days as where i did it first).

indexes will update every month. or something. maybe yearly. i'm really bad at indexes.

at some point there will be a sticky post linking to this and to every index, for ease of navigation.

that should be about it. any questions (about my obsession with satellite journals, about what i'm doing, about stories, about the fact that i wrote something incomprehensible and you want to know what i was on)? hit me up. i like questions.

{bracketverse, 31_days} there is an ebbing and flowing stream

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Title: there is an ebbing and flowing stream
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 673
Story / World: bracketverse
Challenge: 31_days: January 01 2012, God save the snowman
Other: After and consistent with There Are Bodies On The Ceiling And They're Fluttering Their Wings.
Characters: January Salt, Ciel Noline
Notes: First thing I wrote in 2012, a dubious distinction at best but certainly one irrepeatable. Is that a word? That's not a word.


you must understand, my darling; there is an ebbing and flowing stream
though the days may get dark, the days get dark and my, how the night is deep
( Her beads are pink for having woken up in a good mood an eternity ago )

{bracketverse, 31_days} in the future, the past is just the past

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Title: in the future, the past is just the past
Rating: PG13 on the outside (swearing, talk of death)
Wordcount: 2,172
Story / World: bracketverse
Challenge: 31_days: January 04 2012, self-portraits seldom seen
Other: Plenipotentiary etc. etc. could serve as supplement to etc. etc. consistent with etc. etc. I know what I'm doing no really etc. etc.
Characters: Cosma Noline, some cameos and mentions through the ages
Notes: Cosma makes me sad sometimes. It's disconcerting.


you know that i am not unkind when i say, "in the future, the past is just the past"
no going back, no change of heart; but this is now, time will not defer
( That's gone and she has to accept it, even if she still counts everything in sixes )