To the World's Greatest Boss

Title: Calm Before the Storm
Prompt: now is not the time to panic
Fandom: Original Work/The Valley of Dragons
Characters: Gareth Sieghart, Cecilia Llywellyn
Summary: Before the fight.

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Title: The Rebelling Slave
Prompt: enchanted
Fandom: Original Work/Master, Prisoner
Characters: Leonard, Marcellus
Summary: Marcellus wonders about the spell on Desroches.
Notes: Mentions of slavery and noncon

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Title: Don't Go
Prompt: labyrinth
Fandom: Rune Factory 4
Characters: Ventuswill, Frey
Summary: Ventuswill won't let Frey go.

Frey must have thought that she was being cheeky by sneaking out through her own door instead of the castle main entrance. Just who did she think Ventuswill was? Ventuswill spread her huge feathered wings, rose above the castle, then in one sweeping movement, came down in the courtyard with a thump, her tail landing in front of the city gates. Frey, running as fast as she could, fell backwards with a squeak.

'Don't think I don't know where you're going!' Ventuswill shrieked. 'Why do you keep trying to go to Rune Prana, you idiot? You nearly lost your life a hundred times to bring me back, and now I'm here, so why are you still trying to go?'

'But Venti,' Frey said with huge imploring eyes, 'it's the only place I can get Dragonic Stone!'

Title: Broken Glass
Prompt: broken glass
Fandom: Rune Factory 4
Characters: Frey/Arthur
Summary: Frey accidentally breaks Arthur's mother's glasses.
Notes: Spoilers for Arthur's sub-marriage story. DO NOT let this fic make you think I like Arthur, I DON'T.

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Title: Throne
Prompt: found and lost
Fandom: The Royal Tutor
Characters: Eins von Granzreich

Despite everything that had happened, right in front of King Viktor's nose, Eins soon realised that he was still in the running for the throne. It was not his confidence in his abilities that told him so, but his observations of King Viktor, who remained as open as a book to his eldest son. Eins shook his head at the discovery. The only reason for this was that his brothers were still too green to hope to be king, not because he was any more suited to leadership than he.

At least, this was Ein's instinctive response. He had already come to the decision to accept the position of king for a short while, then defer to one of his brothers, and he still saw it as the best course of action for the good of the kingdom. As time went on, the hours and days to the appointed time of King Viktor's announcement, Eins fell into another realisation: he was at peace.

His dream was no longer to become king, after all. He could only hope that, when the time came, Ernst would understand.

Title: Red
Prompt: Evening Gown
Fandom: Original Work
Characters: Marinus of Sterella/Athena of Ludor (King/Princess of Enemy Kingdom He Forced to Marry Him)
Summary: After an evening ball, Marinus looks at his wife.

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I scattered them between the comm and my journal like a fool, so here are links to all of them. Formatted by Week [X]: [PROMPT]: [WORK TITLE]. Please see each post for ratings and warnings.

• Week 1: 'I will always ...' - The Answer
  
• Week 2: Dancing - street - mustard: Mustard seeds on the wind
  
• Week 3: Naughty: Evening Mischief | The Princess's Gift
  
• Week 4: Hurt/comfort: Swimming Away
  
• Week 5: Moon: Nebula's Path to the Moone
  
• Week 6: Europe: Durham
  
• Week 7: Well, nobody is perfect!: Perspective
  
• Week 8: Naughty: Mischief
  
• Week 9: Europe: Lord of the Lakes | Sail
  
• Week 10: Intolerant: Bitter | Touch
  
• Week 11: 'Tomorrow ...' : Flowers of Promise
  

There's a streamer I watch by the name of Attica. She used to play Unite but is apparently trying to stay away from it because of what it did to her mental health, and now focuses largely on Scarlet/Violet content. In terms of streaming post-game content, she used to just do raids, shiny hunts, etc. but has lately been trying to get into VGC. This is very exciting for me because I have never been new to VGC. I got into competitive Pokemon by getting into Rotation Battles, and by the time I slipped into VGC, I had already built up the basics of teambuilding and battling, and just had to apply it to a different metagame. So I thought it would be fun to find out what it's like for a new person to jump into VGC for the first time.

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Anyone else find it funny that Wolfe says things like 'In singles blah blah blah but in competitive Pokemon, it's different', implying that singles doesn't count as competitive Pokemon?

I've been playing Unite lately and one thing that strikes me is how simple it is to get into it. All I had to do was spend currency to pick up my Pokemon of choice and I was instantly able to hit the field. There are some customisable options that require materials, such as items which are purchasable and upgradable, and emblems, which need to be collected through gacha or rewards or whatever, but once you have collected these items, you can equip them onto other Pokemon without unequipping them or upgrading them again or anything.

You can't do that in VGC. Once you decide on what you want to do, you have to catch or breed those Pokemon, train them up, then equip their items. Decided on a new team, or maybe just want to tweak some EVs? Well off you go repeating that process, e.g. clearing EVs before applying them again. Of course you can use the same Pokemon in multiple teams once you've EV-trained them, but if you want to change anything about them, most notably EVs, it's a whole process.

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Title: Evening Mischief
Fandom: Original
Characters: Malakai Irvine/Clarice Irvine née Sedley
Summary: In the evening, Clarice teases her husband.
Notes: Technically spoilers for the novel I'm writing lol.

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