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([personal profile] primsong posting in [community profile] dw100 Jul. 11th, 2025 12:58)
Challenge #1049 is gumption.

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 1049: gumption on any story posted to this challenge.
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([personal profile] senmut Jul. 8th, 2025 15:59)
First Date (400 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Marvels [2023]
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hank McCoy/Maria Rambeau
Characters: Henry "Hank" McCoy | Beast, Maria Rambeau
Additional Tags: Drabble Sequence
Summary:

First Dates can be interesting.



First Date

Maria had spent time touching up her nails, dithering over which outfit to wear, deciding on the shoes that looked best with it.

Hank, for his part, had done all he could to tidy his appearance, currently stuck in 'blue', 'furry', and 'large', but he knew those factors didn't matter to her.

He showed up promptly — actually early but didn't approach the house right away — and rang the doorbell. She answered it, her smile lighting her eyes in a way that made Hank feel almost normal again.

"Shall we?" he invited, pointing to his car.

An explosion answered for her.




After dealing with the alien being chased by space cops — not Carol's set, thankfully — Binary and Beast sat up on a rooftop, drinks cups and to-go containers of food between them.

"For a date, it was a little rocky," she offered, smiling despite the bruise darkening her face.

"I promise you, I can do better," he replied, self-consciously smoothing singed fur on his arm.

She reached out and covered his hand. "Why don't you take me back to your place, and we'll see about the aftercare first?" Maria invited, and Hank had to suck in a deep breath of anticipation.




Treating each other's scrapes had led to their clothes being discarded, leading to a brazen challenge to see if they fit as well in a bed as they did in combat.

Hank was never going to feel anything short of awe for how easily Maria accepted his mutated appearance. He could only gasp and keep his hands on her lightly as she touched, petted, and kissed him. He laid back and let her have control… until she turned the tables, bringing his hand to her breast.

The half-slitted eyes gazing down as he touched her wrecked him, making her purr.




Maria could get used to the feel of Hank's body under her, the strength and dexterity he used in a fight leashed to their mutual desires. She might even welcome waking up with him… but she wasn't going to rush things. She knew he was struggling at times with who — what — he was.

She had experience managing that, and was still growing accustomed to her powers.

Now, resting in what was hopefully a brief respite, she ran a finger along his cheek fur, making him shift into the touch.

"Next date, fewer aliens."

He chuckled, and then saw to kissing her.


Written for uc_xmen drabble-a-thon/prompt meme on Dreamwidth, prompt: MCU - Hank McCoy/Maria Rambeau - (any), it was supposed to be date night
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([personal profile] senmut Jul. 7th, 2025 18:51)
[community profile] sylph_and_asp is members-locked access now. Just. I've got a lot of political posts over there from previous years, plus, as good as dreamwidth does try to protect us from crawlers, I feel better locking my writing down.
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([personal profile] senmut Jul. 6th, 2025 20:50)
Unwanteds (41367 words) by Sharpest_Asp
Chapters: 30/30
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s)
Additional Tags: Original Universe, Superheroes, Post-Apocalypse, Rebuilding, Asexual Character(s), Queer Relationships, Magic-Users, Future Technology, Age Difference
Summary:

In the aftermath of the Collapse, life finds new ways, making new paths, and there are heroes rising from the ashes --

-- just as villains remain to tear it all down again.



Content Notes: Fascism as history and antagonist, liberty with cultural mythology, comic-book level violence

Author's Note: This universe has been built from the ground up with many influences of pop culture and history. It was began in 2005. I posted the last main part of the story in 2023. There is a prequel and sequel both forming in my plans for the future. When I began crafting it... we were not so far down the fascism slide in real life. I very nearly did not touch it again after 2016. Ultimately though, I needed to let the good guys win.

On Dreamwidth, must join comm (Click and scroll to the bottom for the beginning. SqWA account needed to read it in chaptered format at link above)
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([personal profile] redwolf posting in [community profile] dw100 Jul. 5th, 2025 18:02)
Welcome to [community profile] dw100! Challenges are posted approximately once a week.

Challenge 1048 is stray.

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 1048: stray on any story posted to this challenge
Good luck!
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([personal profile] shallowness Jul. 5th, 2025 08:12)
Cinema:

I saw The Ballad of Wallis Island in a screening with about twenty of us in the cinema. It has bags of charm, and, indeed, heart, a tight script (the two leads and director developed it from a short film), with great rhythym between the leads. It’s a comic drama, I guess, about a rich superfan arranging a very intimate gig from his favourite folk rock duo, who haven’t seen each other since splitting nine years ago. It’s hyperspecific, but I think it’ll translate even if you don’t get all the references.

Streaming: I finally watched Tenet.

!?!?

I thought I understood the central conceit, but the longer it went on the more confused I was. The people and objects moving in reverse thing is cool to watch, and I generally got the emotional stakes, but I mainly understood this for its place in Nolan’s ouevre (I am one of the people who did not get the timey-wimey stuff in Dunkirk, Interstellar lost me, and there are some bits of Inception that it took me years to understand.) This is less accessible than Inception, so even had the timing of its release been different, I don’t think it would have saved cinema, however big the stunts are, although with some of them, I was reminded of stunts from his Batman trilogy etc, and not just because Pattinson is in it. ‘Oh well,’ I thought when Robert Oppenheimer was referenced, ‘Nolan’s next film will be a success.’ The acting is good, Branagh is just on the right side of not going too big, although Debicki might be in danger of getting typecast (big The Night Manager vibes.) Washington jr has presence.

But !?!?


I also watched A Little White Lie, a comedy set at a literature festival, where a handyman with the same name as a reclusive author who wrote one hit novel agrees to attend a struggling festival. It’s got a strong cast – Michael Shannon plays the lead, Kate Hudson is winning as the professor who is in charge of the festival – a smart script, though it’s more amusing than laugh-out-loud funny, which The Ballad of Wallis Island was, with a non-naturalistic twist (though it doesn’t go as far as American Fiction.) I liked it because it was ultimately rewarding kindness, but it might strike some people as too kooky. (Full disclosure: have never been to a proper literary festival and have a strained relationship with lit fic.)
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([personal profile] alierak posting in [site community profile] dw_maintenance Jun. 30th, 2025 15:18)
We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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([personal profile] shallowness Jun. 29th, 2025 15:52)
I chose to watch this over other shoes because I had a cold.

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