
Also: splurged ($5.88) on a dozen dark pink roses from the supermarket's aging bouquet buckets
Recent library read: Diana: My Graphic Obsession, by Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth, a transgender Jewish artist.

Lucienne wasn't planning to attend the early music festival auction. But then Iggie Wei yelled out her name from the "Instant Gratification" table.
Four times Jiang Cheng had sex under duress, and then the start of something different.
Four times Jiang Cheng had sex under duress, and then the start of something different.
After the Burial Mounds, Wei Wuxian calls on the dead to help him take his revenge. Someone he doesn't expect answers.
Podfic of an unlikely partnership | End Racism in the OTW by westiec.
Bill and Jimmy work out what comes next.
"Unfortunately, I have a very good idea of how he’d react if I offered to take him to a tailor." - Kim Secretan, in "How Goes the World?"
DS anticipates a opportunity.
Some mountains sassing one another while time passes / passing time.
Jerry hadn't previously seen anything appealing in the notion of fucking an unconscious body. But.
A podfic of 'Paper Beats Duke' by ribbons.
Author's Summary: Where the poem thrown at Martial Duke Pei came from.
When the world is too much with Jiang Wanyin, Zidian and Sandu do their best to loosen its hold.
There's a sex party in progress. Lord knows its participants deserve a break.
Iäna listens and yearns.
The parsnip was thicker than any tongue, fist, or cock Owen had previously allowed into his arse.
Archie was unprepared for how painfully hard his cock would become as Daniel lathered up his chest and thighs.
The English teacher makes a show of assembling a jelly doughnut in Archie's lab.
Each guestroom in the Hideaway -- the inn owned by Mr. Lan and Dr. Jin -- is named after a waterway, a mountain, or a nature preserve, and when she was seven years old, brought along on a trip to the region, Jiayi had fallen instantly and irrevocably in love with the dazzling fan mounted above her cot.
The first time Susan Lazarus meets Wen Qing is at the end of a horrible night, Cara’s lungs having done their utmost for hours to heave themselves out of her body in sticky, raggedy clumps.
Drabbles prompted by the No True Pair Challenge, September 2022. Title from William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence"
Wizards and fighters, will they ever get along?
Yes. Yes, they will. Shippily.
At least one of the sprogs shares Lucien's love of sartorial finery.
They couldn’t have got this far if Archie wasn’t so good at breathing.
The oddest thing about Lew Blaidd is how he somehow ends up naked in Animal Control’s holding pen for its biggest canines once a month.
Hedge can’t believe he’s spending this much time on the fucking centerpieces.
Ten years after "Five for Heaven": Esther wants her children to see more of the world.


“If you intend to start sending me posies with ‘Wear this for my sake’ cards, I shall assault you.” – Daniel da Silva to Archie Curtis, in Think of England
Archie doesn’t like being thought of as incapable. But, for Daniel, he will work at anything, anywhere, and the hell with what people might think.
Isaac Staudinger needs to line up some things for his next expedition.
Funny how things are fated to happen when you happen to know Cynsters.
The clarinet player hadn't expected the afterlife to be more complicated than being alive.
A lapse in Residence security leaves Byerly to deal with a unique sort of emergency - the type that requires both hands.
"Will I have to study a lot?"
"You'll have to take instruction." David looked stunned. Amanda could have that effect when she'd made up her mind about things. "If you're sure you want to, once we've talked properly about what it means for you. Which we are going to do first," he added, with decision. Guy wished him luck.
-- Band Sinister, chapter 12
“It's been years since we fucked,” David stated. “With reason.”
“How closed is that door?” Corvin asked.
“You’ll have to ask Amanda.” David’s fingers began moving in Corvin’s hair again. “She may well fling it open.”
"O Willie, lie down as thou were dead,
And the sun shines over the valley,
And lay thy winding-sheet down at thy head,
Down amang the blue flowers and the yellow."- "Willie's Lyke-Wake" (Child Ballad 25)
Podfic of The Blue Flowers and the Yellow by ribbons.