The Wordsmith's Forge

dialecticdreamer is calling for prompts in Feathering the Nest, with a focus on nonsexual intimacies. Leave prompts, get ficlet! There's a bonus, too:

I'm hoping to get to $50 in tips for this event, and if I do, I'll post the whole of “Breaking News,” which is two thousand words of a significant and unexpected event in Terramagne.

I was amused by this, partly because I have a series of economic fantasy. 

Here is a thoughtful discussion of trigger warnings. 

Thanks to a donation from ng_moonmoth, there are 31 new verses in "When You Strike and Overcome Him."  Turq chooses more equipment, and the van arrives at the main staging area.

This post does a great job of explaining what makes a story dark, when to recommend or not recommend such stories for different types of readers.  When I say "dark," I usually mean a combination of those and/or other elements, because if it's purely one thing -- such as "gritty" -- then I'm more likely to say that in particular.  *chuckle*  The show Dark Matter is well and truly named; it hits all the listed aspects at one time or another.