The Doormouse in the Teapot

This week: two very different fics from the same reclist!

Burn the Streets, Burn the Cars by anthrop
Danny Phantom x ParaNorman (2012)
General Audiences | Gen
Danny Fenton, Norman Babcock
Body Horror
4,923 words | One-shot
The boy at the door has a ghost under his skin. It’s a close fit, but green light still seeps out. It paints him smeary shades of radioactive green. Under the smoky light you’re fairly certain he’s a teenager with dark hair, a couple years older than you. Beyond that, it’s hard to make out details. When he looks at you, his eyes flare like glow-in-the-dark stars.

tragedy by Verse
Ace Attorney
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Phoenix Wright
Psychological Horror, Metafiction, POV Second Person
498 words | One-shot
And there is a god in this world, but it is neither merciful nor just. There is a god, and it's watching through your eyes.

Tonight I used my Paid Journal Privileges and did a site search for recent posts mentioning Tumblr, found the ones from Tumblr folks obviously trying out the site for the first time, and commented on the posts to direct them to the newcomers comm OTL It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be, especially 'cause I figured out a script, hehehe

...I did do it all on my phone, though. Maybe next time I'll actually take the extra few moments to turn my laptop on instead of Doing That.

Oh! Also: a haiku!

Good things can go bad
Yes, even those good things, too
But we carry on!

First, a haiku:

Block by smiling block
we build a community
resulting in joy

Second, the block party in question was a mini one hosted by a local voice/piano lesson studio, and they had little 15-minute demo lessons you could sign up for! I did one for voice, and we talked about that break between the chest and head voice (I think there's a term for that, but idr what it's called). We did a couple of voice exercises and I don't wanna forget them so I'm gonna quickly write them down here, lol.

Don't get excited; it's a haiku XD

A fic I'm reading that finished today had a poetry prompt of the author's own devising at the bottom so I gave it a spin. Even though I literally haven't written a poem since middle school ^^;

Regardless, the prompt was "Lost in translation":

Though those foreign words
in your tongue won't be the same,
you might as well try

Anyway you could also write a poem with this prompt right now, if you want. Or read the fic. It's a very very good Hermitcraft fic; the character voices are spot on.

With the new Fields of Mistria update comes the conclusion of the Mines storyline, which I completed last weekend.

I'm not impressed by the new bachelorette they introduced. On one hand, she seems like a Juniper 2.0 type of character, and we already have Juniper so why do we need another one? On the other hand, this game has introduced a new bachlorette who's somehow seemingly skinnier than the other ones. And that's an impressive bar to trip over, given the current options.