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LJ Idol 2025 - Week 2

2025-06-28T09:24:22Z

Manuel is dangerous.

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LJ Idol 2025: Week 1

2025-06-21T17:50:55Z

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static_abyss @ 2025-06-11T01:50:00

2025-06-11T05:51:47Z

Idol is back! So I wil be participating in LJ Idol: Wheel of Chaos.

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LJ Idol Weel 8

2024-09-04T22:38:39Z

Classes started back up for me and with work and other daily responsibilities, I'm going to be unable to dedicate time for Idol. I'll be dropping out this week. I wish you all luck, and I'll do my best to keep reading and voting.

Thanks to everyone who read and commented on my entries all these weeks!

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LJ Idol Week 6: Benecio

2024-08-17T18:55:47Z

It started with a single choice, back when Benecio closed his eyes, made a wish on birthday candles, and decided he didn't want to spend his day off at home. The choice sparkled before his eyes like the stars in the sky shine on dark nights, faint twinkling points that burned themselves onto the back of his eyelids. Even now, when he closes his eyes against his burning world, he can still see those candles and taste that chocolate cake with its raspberry filling.
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LJ Idol Week 5: Comparisons

2024-08-08T22:48:12Z

I live in the comparisons.

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LJ Idol Week 4: The Calmest of Rivers Hide the Deadliest of Currents

2024-07-31T04:57:19Z

I used to wonder who I'd be if I had a different mother, if like the Mixteco river, I too would know how to wash away the debris that inevitably finds its way into the waters of my life. I wonder if I'd survive like that river has survived the most egregious of human behavior.

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LJ Idol is back!

2024-06-27T02:46:50Z

Life is pretty full at the moment, but I will make the time.

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LJ Idol Week 13

2022-07-20T22:52:42Z

Things have been very difficult these past few months. Honestly, things have been difficult since mid-2020. My family and I have been hit with bad news after bad news and currently we're in the middle of prayers for my aunt who passed away earlier this year. Idol has always been fun and participating is always a nice reprieve, but things are really complicated at the moment and I will have to bow out.

Good luck to everyone and I hope to see you all in the next round.

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LJ Idol 2022: Week 11

2022-06-26T22:33:57Z

The church is silent save for the kneeling people at the front, that quiet murmuring from the mouths of the faithful. Belinda can hear the clicking of Tia Cata's heel against the linoleum as they make their way down the left side of the benches. There, on the side away from the crucifixes and the saints, Belinda can see into the vestibule at the front, the dark tiles and the clean counters that hold the communion wine. The priest will be in the back towards the left, in that little hallway that connects the vestibule to the room that holds the saints that only come out near Christmas.
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Lj Idol 2022: Week 10

2022-06-15T00:49:05Z

Benecio's soul mark said, "duck, you absolute asshole," until Tory shot him straight through the shoulder and it scarred over.

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LJ Idol 2022: Week 9

2022-06-04T03:44:07Z

There is a room in my brain that I cannot enter.

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LJ Idol 2022: Week 6 - The Pursuit of Personhood

2022-04-25T15:57:29Z

My mother wants grandchildren.

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LJ Idol 2022: Week 5

2022-04-14T14:30:19Z

We can't drink when we're sad.
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LJ Idol M: Ocotlan

2021-10-27T01:42:49Z

I don't remember if my grandmother ever laughed.

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Heart Attack Exchange 2020

2020-11-10T17:09:00Z

Hello and thank you for taking the time to make something for me. I enjoy fic and art both and I'm very easy to please. I can guarantee that I will love anything you create so long as it avoids my DNWs. I understand this exchange is writing 10k in 2 weeks so I wanted to make sure that I provide both enough leeway for interpretation and specific prompts to hopefully help ease the process. But please don't feel the need to follow the prompts exactly. They are meant as inspiration.

Below you can find general likes/dislikes/DNWs and fandom and pairing specific prompts. I'm open to any rating and would enjoy a gen fic as much as I would enjoy a shippy, rated E fic.

Thanks again for creating something for me!

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FicInABox Dear Creator Letter

2020-08-20T21:05:17Z

Thank you so much dear Creator for taking a look at my letter. I appreciate all your effort and time and I promise I am easily pleased. As long as it's not something in my dislikes/DNWs, I will be happy. I love podfic, art, fanvids, fic. You can see below for general likes and dislikes and fandom specific prompts.

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FFF Exchange: Dear Writer/Artist Letter

2020-07-30T02:48:02Z

Helllo! First of all, thank you to the person who is working on something for me. I am very excited to be part of this exchange and I hope you have fun creating something. I have added general likes and more specific prompts under each fandom, but please don't feel constrained by any of the prompts. I am fine with anything as long as it's not anything in my do not want list.
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Lj Idol Week 16: Vodka Tonic is not Vodka Soda

2019-02-17T00:55:52Z

I'm hanging to the edge of the world by the skin of my teeth.
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Lj Idol Week 15: Stratford

2019-02-10T00:32:23Z

The main differences between Stratford Street and Manor Street are the number of streetlights.

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LJ Idol Werk 14: Firebreak

2019-02-02T23:21:24Z

Abel lived in a single family home at the edge of Maple Street in Haverstraw. Her back windows looked out into a yellowing backyard, wilted grass, and fallen leaves littered across the stone path leading to the back door. Farther back, her home let out into a thicket of trees that blended into the forest behind her home. Her house was flanked by trees that formed an almost circular seal of protection against the rest of the world. Twenty feet high, the forest swallowed Abel in its embrace. A half-mile long dirt path was the only exit to the main road, and as an extra protection, twelve-foot tall hedges filled in for the fence that lay in splintered pieces on the front yard.
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LJ Idol Week 13: Luis Martinez

2019-01-26T00:23:23Z

There was a call from the distance that sounded like stillness, a moment codified in Luis's bones, and seared into his soul. Some familiarity in the overlapping accents, both from the North and South, that his heart deciphered long before he could understand what the people around him were saying. As though, the moment his feet hit the ground and the dry heat of Mexico welcomed him, he was home. Though his tongue got tied in the vowels and consonants, as he tried to reconcile two languages, Luis knew that the way he breathed easier, there, did not replace the sense of unease that he carried.

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LJ Idol Week 12: Seven Sundays to Salvation

2019-01-16T23:55:22Z

From the moment of her conception, Adriana's mother, Lucia, had stood before her altar, in front of the wooden crucified Christ, and she'd asked, not for a beautiful baby, but for a baby with the wisdom of Solomon. Amid the dirty streets of the Eastern Bronx, on Mansion Street, where a pair of shoes still hung from telephone wires, Lucia, in her shared one-bedroom apartment, had kneeled and prayed.

So, Adriana Karina Lopez was born with the weight of King Solomon on her shoulders, and the hopes and dreams of her mother on her head. Which is to say, that from the moment Adriana first came into the world, she had quite a lot to live up to.

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LJ Idol Week 11: Thomas

2019-01-09T22:36:52Z

The Prison, Licentian, The Gray Planet, October 2, year 2deltaQ

Number 51."

Warden Thomas's shout echoed through the prison hallways. Her footsteps were loud on the steel floors as she marched down the line of cells, glancing at the numbers on the brick walls next to the bar doors. There was a standard metal cot in each of the fifteen feet by fifteen feet cells, a toilet in the corner farthest from the cots, and a chair. Back when Thomas first started working in the prison on the gray planet, there were two prisoners per cell, but ever since the thief back in 1deltaP murdered the child abductor, the order changed to one prisoner per cell. There never seemed to be a problem with space and when a new prisoner came in, there was always an empty cell waiting. It had been that way ever since the beginning.

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a small aside to my Week 9 post

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LJ Idol week 9: Licentian

2018-12-16T21:21:58Z

Earth, New United States, October 2, year 2deltaQ

Cynthia Zhang had been to the White House twice since her company had acquired the gray planet, Licentian. She'd originally named it after her company, but the name hadn't stuck long, especially after the pictures of the planetary sky had come back from the first official exploration. Everyone called her new planet the Gray Planet because its sky was the color of summer thunderstorms, though it hadn't rained on the planet since its discovery in the late deltaP's. A discovery that wouldn't have happened without the generous donation from Cynthia Zhang's company. The planet was a barren wasteland upon its discovery, filled with wide, open plains that curved in the horizon. Everything about the planet was dead and gray, and the name stuck.

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