Challenge #1097 is ultra.
The rules:
The rules:
- All stories must be 100 words long.
- Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season.
- Remember, you don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration.
- Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post.
- Please use the challenge tag 1097: ultra on any story posted to this challenge.
It's probably a bad idea to watch the uncensored version while I have lunch as it can get quite uncomfortable but I've stopped giving a damn, much like the show, it's unabashedly disgusting & offensive but it's not out of cruelty. It's more like 'so what?' and maybe I'm reading into it a bit but that's kind of what I like about it. It's just nice to see someone who does not give a damn anymore but not take it too hard on themselves either when they mess up. I guess that's the mood I'm in.
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Author/Artist: Mekachu04
Title: June Punk Aibou Sketches
Pairing: Eustass Kidd & Killer
Rating: Gen to Adult - TWO NSFW. mind the warnings.
Word Count: art
Disclaimer: Kidd, Killer, the Kidd Pirates and other characters belong to the world of One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. I'm just playing in the sandbox
AN: I'm trying to draw something everyday. So most of these are drawn at about 3-5am in about an hour or two at work during the down time.
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Title: Beach Day
Author:![[personal profile]](/post-https-www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dickinsons
Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Rating: G
Summary: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe enjoy a day at the beach
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Author:
dickinsons Characters: Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, Zoe Heriot
Rating: G
Summary: The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe enjoy a day at the beach
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So yeah, the new cyberpunk edgerunners 2 anime trailer is out and I ADORE the character designs here. They've just the right amount of flair, while not revolutionary in any way, they're far more intriguing than season 1 (which I did not watch past two episodes). Hopefully this is a standalone story.
The hulking character at the center is called 'Weak' and I loooove his wardrobe and that audacious asymmetric collar drop. Likewise Talia and D are impressive in their own way.
Needless to say, it really got me fired up this afternoon to make a sketch, a really rough one and another excuse for me to use my brushpens to match that flair.
Remember when I said Snowball Earth was likely to be the show I was recommending to Hugo voters for the rest of the year? Yes, I think I will be.
It's a hard one to categorize; it kept bouncing around between action and horror and the protagonist's social flailing. But it's solid and it's got heart, whatever it happens to be doing at the moment. I am moderately hyped that season 2 is already in production.
As for the rest:
Nippon Sangoku is the runner-up of the season for me. There's no getting around the fact that it starts with a fridging, and it is occasionally a little too self-indulgent in a way that feels familiar from a lot of English-language military sf, but it is so good the rest of the time that I can still recommend it. Particularly to English-language military sf fans.
Kujima never turned into the horror comedy it's billed as. It's just a quirky slice-of-life show. I don't normally like quirky slice-of-life shows, but this one worked for me, either because it was sufficiently weird or because of the way the title character is voiced (which I guess could also fall under "sufficiently weird").
Rooster Fighter continued to be a very serious show about badass chickens all the way to the end. It had a notable step up at mid-season when Piyoko suddenly got a powerup and more of Elizabeth's background was revealed, making them real team members and not just the girls who happen to be around when things are happening.
I gave up on Daemons of the Shadow Realm due to mood whiplash and implausibly fast developments. You could practically see where the chapter breaks are from the way people suddenly start behaving differently toward each other. The point where I walked away was when the protagonist comes face-to-face with someone who was casually murdering his lifelong neighbors less than 24 hours previously, and they just get into a comical argument about which of them is younger.
Welcome to Demon School had a great time with the Music Festival arc, with a glorious climactic class performance. It's been more of a mixed bag since then but there continue to be good moments. Unfortunately, it has also teased the return of my least favorite character (Ami Kirio).
And Witch Hat Atelier is the big disappointment. Don't get me wrong, it is gorgeous and I continued to love seeing a world that is visually coherent for once. But I don't like any of the characters. The adults are either incompetent, malevolent, or both, and the students are anime standard kids with color-coded hair and one character trait each. Plus the society as a whole has what I call the Starship Troopers problem, where a large number of people have some dangerous knowledge and training but they are fed into a system designed to have a high failure rate for those trying to become part of the ruling elite, which should result in a brewing popular uprising by the disenfranchised, but we don't see that because the author has not thought this setup through.
It's a hard one to categorize; it kept bouncing around between action and horror and the protagonist's social flailing. But it's solid and it's got heart, whatever it happens to be doing at the moment. I am moderately hyped that season 2 is already in production.
As for the rest:
Nippon Sangoku is the runner-up of the season for me. There's no getting around the fact that it starts with a fridging, and it is occasionally a little too self-indulgent in a way that feels familiar from a lot of English-language military sf, but it is so good the rest of the time that I can still recommend it. Particularly to English-language military sf fans.
Kujima never turned into the horror comedy it's billed as. It's just a quirky slice-of-life show. I don't normally like quirky slice-of-life shows, but this one worked for me, either because it was sufficiently weird or because of the way the title character is voiced (which I guess could also fall under "sufficiently weird").
Rooster Fighter continued to be a very serious show about badass chickens all the way to the end. It had a notable step up at mid-season when Piyoko suddenly got a powerup and more of Elizabeth's background was revealed, making them real team members and not just the girls who happen to be around when things are happening.
I gave up on Daemons of the Shadow Realm due to mood whiplash and implausibly fast developments. You could practically see where the chapter breaks are from the way people suddenly start behaving differently toward each other. The point where I walked away was when the protagonist comes face-to-face with someone who was casually murdering his lifelong neighbors less than 24 hours previously, and they just get into a comical argument about which of them is younger.
Welcome to Demon School had a great time with the Music Festival arc, with a glorious climactic class performance. It's been more of a mixed bag since then but there continue to be good moments. Unfortunately, it has also teased the return of my least favorite character (Ami Kirio).
And Witch Hat Atelier is the big disappointment. Don't get me wrong, it is gorgeous and I continued to love seeing a world that is visually coherent for once. But I don't like any of the characters. The adults are either incompetent, malevolent, or both, and the students are anime standard kids with color-coded hair and one character trait each. Plus the society as a whole has what I call the Starship Troopers problem, where a large number of people have some dangerous knowledge and training but they are fed into a system designed to have a high failure rate for those trying to become part of the ruling elite, which should result in a brewing popular uprising by the disenfranchised, but we don't see that because the author has not thought this setup through.
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Challenge 1096 is sheen.
The rules:
dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.Challenge 1096 is sheen.
The rules:
- All stories must be 100 words long
- Please place your story behind a cut if it contains spoilers for the current season
- You don't have to use the challenge word or phrase in your story; it's just there for inspiration
- Please include the challenge word or phrase in the subject line of your post
- Please use the challenge tag 1096: sheen on any story posted to this challenge
Title: Pretty Guardian
Author: john_amend_all
Character/s: Cult of Skaro
Rating: All ages
Prompt: #792, 'guardian'
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: I own neither the Cult of Skaro, nor Sailor Moon.
Summary: Trying to find the ultimate humanoid form.
The doors flew open and a magical girl in a metallic bronze sailor fuku and matching high boots bounded into the room, her copper hair streaming behind her. As she pirouetted, flourishing her ridged silver wand, the hemispheres attached to the pleats of her skirt gleamed in the light.
She struck a pose before her audience, the wand raised in one hand.
"Pretty warrior of love and genocide!" she proclaimed, her odango covers flashing in time with her words. "In the name of Skaro, I will exterminate you!"
Dalek Jast wearily lowered his eyestalk. "Sec. The answer is still no."
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Folks may have noticed that the site has been slow for logged-out users over the last while. This is partly because we separate traffic by logged-in, "logged out but have visited the site before", and "logged out, never visited the site before" and assign the fewest resources to the last category (because we're pretty confident the overwhelming majority of it is bot and scraper traffic, even if it's often impossible to say for sure). The flood of garbage traffic is a plague and a scourge the entire internet is dealing with, and it's hitting small sites the hardest as operators get better and better at cloaking their requests to look like real, authentic use. We long ago hit the point where adding more resources is a possible solution (because they just eat them up as soon as we do), and splitting traffic lets us keep the site usable for our actual users without wasting too much server power on garbage.
We've now, lucky us, reached the point where the "logged out, have never visited the site before" path is just flooded all the time, and the "logged out but have visited the site before" path is suffering some of the overflow. We've made some changes to the routing to try to improve things for logged out users who have visited the site before and keep it at "it may be a little bit slow, but at least it works" instead of "it keeps timing out", and we've seen some improvements, but if you're accustomed to browsing the site while logged out, I'm really sorry but it may continue to be a little miserable.
You will get the fastest page loads and the best performance by browsing the site logged in. If you are having trouble loading the front page to log in, bookmark the direct login page. We can't route the front page to the "more power" server pool, because it's a common target for garbage traffic, but we've switched /login over to "more power" and we'll try to keep it there as long as we can unless it starts getting slammed, too.
We've now, lucky us, reached the point where the "logged out, have never visited the site before" path is just flooded all the time, and the "logged out but have visited the site before" path is suffering some of the overflow. We've made some changes to the routing to try to improve things for logged out users who have visited the site before and keep it at "it may be a little bit slow, but at least it works" instead of "it keeps timing out", and we've seen some improvements, but if you're accustomed to browsing the site while logged out, I'm really sorry but it may continue to be a little miserable.
You will get the fastest page loads and the best performance by browsing the site logged in. If you are having trouble loading the front page to log in, bookmark the direct login page. We can't route the front page to the "more power" server pool, because it's a common target for garbage traffic, but we've switched /login over to "more power" and we'll try to keep it there as long as we can unless it starts getting slammed, too.
