I was going to submit an application to muse_academy because I wanted to join in the fun over there, and so I requested a hold for Cuddy. Today, I received a response back from the moderator saying that she's heard from another community's moderator what a delight I am to have in her community, so she's foregoing the application and extending me an invitation ( Read more... )

(a gift-fic for katernater and cryptictac. )

"When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" MacbethThe slope of his shoulders was a downward signal of admitted defeat, not yet recognized but on the cusp of happening, with fine tremors in the back of his neck the last dying throes of resistance. Anyone could voice their unwillingness to give up, ( Read more... )

Toilet in my private bathroom? Broken. Again.

RP LOVE MEME

“Who wants to watch monsters not get killed?”
-Red Forman ‘That 70s Show’Monsters don't live solely under the bed or in the closet of an unsuspecting child. I remember from childhood that a friend of mine refused to take the stairs at school because she was certain long, hard fingers were going to grab hold of her ankle from between the steps and ( Read more... )

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler YeatsLooking at the interns could be like looking into the dusty glass of a mirror with a surface clouded by years of uncleanliness. There could be similarities if someone took a cloth and bothered to wipe away doubt, but the interns were often too afraid of ( Read more... )

What is the greatest joy you have ever felt?Her name, ironically enough, was Joy. I remember the small roundness of her face and the way her eyes squinted away from bright light, the way that babies tend to do when they're too skittish about light and the world around them. It's what happens before that refusal gives way to the unrestricted wonder ( Read more... )

Writers Block hits us all from time to time. What are some of the methods you employ to work your way through it? I find that when it comes to Cuddy, I don't necessarily hit writers' block as much as I hit a stall as to what I want to do with her next. Cuddy has so much potential that I really love exploring her as a character, but sometimes I hit ( Read more... )

TheatreThe lights had dimmed twenty minutes ago and the curtain had lifted two afterward. Murmured conversation punctuated sporadically in fifteen second intervals at first and then faded into the silence that came with appreciation for the arts. Two rows back a child was fidgeting, but by some kind of unspoken grace he wasn't kicking the back of ( Read more... )

I promise I'm going to get to all of that good writing I've been promising, but I saw something come up tonight and wanted to address it briefly before I went off to get some sleep ( Read more... )