Prompt 14
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
(Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress)

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Only two days of prompts left! Be sure to check out the past threads for new updates and show our good shippers love, and to post more shippy fic and art as you're so inspired.

Prompt 12 Stone walls do not a prison make ( Read more... )

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Happy Independence Day to all the Americans in our community! To the rest of you...sorry it's just a normal work day. ;)

Prompt 10
“Then there is no more left but this, that in our doom the sorrow yet to come shall be no less than the love we two have already known.” (Heloise, Abelard and Heloise’s Letters)

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Forgive my slight tardiness with this prompt! I think I have a case of the Mondays. Hopefully a new prompt will cure anyone who may also be thus afflicted. ;)

Prompt 8

Drink to me, only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine ;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
(Ben Jonson, To Celia)

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Happy Saturday, shippers! It's the weekend, which means the perfect time to get caught up on this week's prompts. What else are you going to do when you're stuck inside trying to keep cool. ;)

Prompt 6
“People who love downy peaches are apt not to think of the stone, and sometimes jar their teeth terribly against it.” (George Eliot, Adam Bede)

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Be sure to check out the previous days' posts, as entries continue to be added.  And now for a medieval illumination.

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