Measured_Words
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An intro ficlet from a character background in a heavily homebrew Pathfider-based game.
Daifan receives a gift from their lover.
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Traps for Troubadours by Measured_Words for Midnight_Run
Fandoms: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones (Song)
27 May 2018
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We have a chance to make it big.
"What will you do to make it happen?" Kana asks me.
I don't think she's going to like the answer.
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Hera lives for her work, but it isn't the only thing in her life - so how can she make them balance?
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Sergei has brought Reaper along on their mission to the fancy Philkirk resort in Chillwater, and Reaper is eager to show him just how grateful he is.
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Ralf is a little maudlin on his last night of leave, and feeling a little lonely. So of course he looks for Ander.
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Alphabet Drabble Series II by Measured_Words, Precisely_Measured_Words (Measured_Words)
Fandom: Adventure World (Game), American Gods - Neil Gaiman, Ashland Horror, Assassin's Creed, Changeling: the Dreaming, Diablotin, Fall of Ile-Rien - Martha Wells, Firefly, Golden Age of Piracy RPF, Greek Mythology, Hannibal (TV), Inception (2010), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Real Person Fiction, Return to Night - Mary Renault, Scion (Tabletop RPG), Serenity (Tabletop RPG), Shoujo Kakumei Utena | Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Final Sacrifice (1990), Welcome to Night Vale
11 Jul 2015
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Webercon 2015 Drabbles by Measured_Words
Fandom: Cthulhu Mythos - Fandom, Diablotin, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
27 Mar 2015
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Ficthropology Podcasts by earis, Lukoni, Measured_Words, Nary
Fandom: A Fannish Field of Value: Online Fan Gift Culture - Karen Hellekson, Fandom - Fandom, Meta - Fandom
23 Feb 2015
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Webercon 2014 Drabbles by Measured_Words, Precisely_Measured_Words (Measured_Words)
Fandom: Changeling: the Dreaming, Demon: the Descent, Diablotin, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Star Wars - All Media Types
27 Mar 2014
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- 500
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No Country for Old Men by Measured_Words, Precisely_Measured_Words (Measured_Words)
Fandom: Adventure World (Game)
10 Nov 2012
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Technicians aboard a secure Weyland-Yutani communications and relay station get to observe things from afar.
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31 Dec 2014
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A very nice and claustrophobic perspective, beautifully suggestive of the company's inhumanity and of how people operate in that environment.
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You are Egypt. You know how to suffer.
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31 Dec 2014
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I really felt this did an excellent job showing Ramses's perspective, and giving insight as to why it was so impossible for him to reconcile it with what Moses was trying to tell/show him.
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gather it all in a bunch of heather by margaret_rose for salifiable
Fandoms: Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel (song)
02 Nov 2014
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
She once was a true love of mine.- Language:
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31 Dec 2014
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I really liked this take on the story - there are a few little twists that are pulled off quite elegantly, I thought!
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And Tie It All Up With A Tom-Tit's Feather by El Staplador (elstaplador) for salifiable
Fandoms: Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel (song)
20 Dec 2014
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Tell her to buy me an acre of land? But it is 1916, and land is bought with blood.
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- 100
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31 Dec 2014
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A really great setting and concept for this drabble - I think it manages to convey quite a lot in its 100 words!
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Moses used to think about saving the world. Now that he's done it, he can't go back.
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31 Dec 2014
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I love how plausible this feels, and the small and personal scope of it. The characters are perfect