Helping Out (part 1 of 2)

Apr. 6th, 2026 10:59 pm
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Helping Out
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 2
Word count (story only): 1314
[Morning of Wednesday, 8 November of 2017]


:: Torrin calls Jules to bring some forgotten supplies. It gives Jules an opportunity to help Loudmouth, too. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::




Just as Jules put away the last clean dish, his phone rang. “Yellow?” he asked, smiling to himself at the ‘dad’ joke that Bodhi had used every time he answered his phone.

Torrin chuffed, then coughed. “Jules? Are you there?” The younger teen coughed again. “I was supposed to do some deliveries today, but my allergies are kicking my eyeballs around the inside of my skull. That’s better than dragging them over sandpaper, so the allergy meds are working--” Another cough interrupted him. “Sorry.”
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Easter Basket

Apr. 6th, 2026 07:56 pm
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Goodies From the Easter Basket
Goodies From the Easter Basket
iPhone 13 mini photo

Yesterday, the Easter Bunny (a.k.a. BFF Jenni) delivered an Easter basket to my house. She usually sneaks it onto my porch and slips away unseen. However, yesterday, I was working in the garage and had the garage door open, so I caught her. So, besides the basket, I got the added treat of a nice little chat with my dear friend. Such a good day!
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Here's the second part of two mood themes - an Ojamajo Doremi theme I'm making as I go, and a Digimon theme I’m (heavily) polishing that I worked on for the last couple months of 2025. Both have borders, are 94x72, and have a few alternate mood image options apiece.

The Ojamajo Doremi theme:
- only features screencaps from the first season/series/51 episodes
- is going to be made for Doremi fans in general, trying to give as many characters an appearance as possible and not favour anyone too much except in the sense of the main characters naturally showing up more than other characters

The Digimon theme:
- will feature images from 02 (+ Hurricane Touchdown + The Beginning), Tamers (+ Runaway Locomon), Frontier, and Appmon, also featuring some-but-less Adventure and Ghost Game - mostly screencaps, but also album and video covers, and maybe the occasional trading card or promo art
- was made for me and focuses on characters I like
- occasionally involves Wormmon, aka a cartoon bug. Just in case? (He does not show up in part 2 at all)

Both these themes:
- should be assumed to contain spoilers through endgame for all involved canon material
- can be used by anyone! Just please link back to any of my posts in this community in your profile or sticky post or some other public location. I’ll also edit in a compilation post (for each) link with all the images posted in one place on my journal at the end of the year

Ojamajo Doremi mood theme part 2 )

Digimon mood theme part 2 )


Other parts: Part 1
Digimon part 1 got three additional images edited in under the alternates while I was working on part 2
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As with "Scaramouche", this was a book that I was a bit disappointed by when I first read it, having originally been excited to find a copy of after having seen and enjoyed the film version ("Under the Red Robe", 1937: It was a period of plot and counter-plot, of reckless gallantry and ruthless oppression ... the time of D'Artagnan, of Cyrano De Bergerac, of Gil De Berault, the "Black Death"). Doubtless I was hoping for a novelisation of what I've just seen, which this of course isn't -- although I seem to remember that it's rather closer in spirit than "Scaramouche".

But again, sufficient years have now elapsed that I have long since forgotten almost everything about the film save a vague favourable impression, and I am able to approach the novel on its own terms. And right from the start you realise that the author is doing something unexpected (and doing it very well): the protagonist, Gil de Berault, is quite recognisably *the villain* in this scenario, although of course he doesn't see himself that way.
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The official blog post (written by me) wrapping up the Women’s Storytelling Festival is available now on the Better Said Than Done website blog. Here are a few additional comments.


  • First of all, you can still get a festival pass until April 8th, which will give you access to the recordings through April 28th. It’s definitely worth it for the amazing mix of stories by some incredibly talented tellers.

  • In addition to writing blog posts (the one linked here, as well as earlier ones about the tellers and the emcees), I also coordinated volunteers. This was a little stressful, but everybody who volunteered showed up on time and worked cheerfully. On Friday night, I learned how useless I was in figuring out how the support framework for the banner worked, but, fortunately, there were other people who were able to figure it out better than I could. I also did a shift at the ticket desk (on Saturday night), but there weren’t any last minute arrivals to deal with.

  • The other thing I did was emceeing the story swap. I felt a bit less organized about that than I usually do. What you can’t tell from the video is that I got my steps in by walking up and down the steps to the stage. That enabled me to sit in the front row of the audience, so the tellers could see my time cues, but it did slow things down a little. Despite which, we finished pretty much exactly on time. Everyone who wanted to tell was able to do, and other than not being able to decipher the handwriting of someone I know well, I didn’t badly manage people’s names. (But, really, Jane needs to learn how to write the letter “n”!) I also really appreciated Nina for including a pronunciation guide on her index card.

  • While I was familiar with many of the tellers, there were some I had never heard before. I knew I was going to be blown away by Megan Wells and Jennifer Munro, for example, but I hadn’t heard the extraordinarily funny Regina Stoops before. I was also reminded that I never mind hearing a good story more than once.

  • I want to blow my own horn just a tiny bit, since I had suggested we try to get an official government proclamation (at one of our committee meetings). Bonnie did a lot of the heavy lifting in facilitating that, however.

  • I really shouldn’t have to say this, but if you haven’t noticed, I love everything about this festival, which I’ve been involved with since it started. The first year was rough - 2020, need I say more? But we’ve worked well together and it’s something I’ve been proud to be a part of. I can’t express how grateful I am to Jessica for starting this and pulling together one of the best groups of people I’ve ever met to make it reality.

Bingo

Apr. 7th, 2026 07:46 am
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A while back, on a whim, I signed up for a fic prompt bingo card at [community profile] genprompt_bingo. It turned out that this kind of prompt is not one my brain finds particularly useful, so it took me a while to complete a line: almost exactly ten years, in fact. But I did it!

Bingo card )

A Bit of a Placeholder

Apr. 6th, 2026 02:29 pm
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I'm sorry for not having written in a few weeks, but I was fairly swamped with the Women's Storytelling Festival, after which I took a trip up to New York City for a theatre binge. I have managed to get through about a quarter of my to-do list, so should be able to do some catching up here.

I've written a blog post about the festival for the Better Said Than Done website and will post a slightly edited version of that here in a little while. Other things I need to write about are:


  • the theatre binge
  • my quarterly run-down on books, movies, and goals
  • Stafford Challenge update
  • various articles I've clipped (and some other news items, e.g. the ever popular celebrity death watch)
  • general kvetching


See you soon!

Meme: get to know you questions

Apr. 6th, 2026 07:04 pm
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Procrastinating (I'm not even sure what from any more, other than the overwhelming knowledge that I ought to be doing So Many Other Things) by filling out a set of meme question prompts from [personal profile] fred_mouse. Read more... )

Seed log

Apr. 6th, 2026 05:38 pm
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Re-sowed the orange poppy, dill, nasturtium and chives, all of which appear to have failed without trace. (There may possibly be a dill seedling appearing around the edge of the pot, which tends to reinforce the suggestion that the seeds need light in order to trigger germination -- I scattered a fresh batch on the surface this time.)

Rocket )

Strawberries )

Tyop du jour

Apr. 6th, 2026 06:39 pm
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Giordano Bruno was also burned at the steak by The Inquisition

.. oh. umm. I have no words for the image this presented.

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The meant-to-be-just-a-pacing-check-except-not-really cleanup is DONE! VERY anti-climactic because of the unexpected month break right before the end XD The soul thief revision plan is good to go I think, and maybe I knew this time I was happy with it because my mind immediately switched to "finish up the witch remaining work, then we dig into the actual revisions." I even have a tracking spreadsheet ready!! AND I made a chart this time! I learnt about secondary Y axis and how to attach a data series to it so it scales properly! Lol. There may be PICTURES in my next recap XD I'm kind of planning 3-4 months for those revisions, but it's the first time I go so deep during the structural phase so I have no idea how it will go. The witch only took ~14h, but the changes were a lot simpler (to my detriment, since I ended up having to make large structural changes 3 rounds of revisions later based on beta-reader feedback. Ouch!) Very eager to find out how it will go this time!! And feed data to that chart >:D

I was so excited about my little chart that I decided to make one for the remaining scenes of the cursed witch's pacing check, too. 18 scenes left. It took me nearly 1h30 to fix up that first scene because it was a fight scene that dragged a lot. Slow, slow, slooooow. So I figured, 18 scenes, 2-3 weeks to do it! I can copy my scenes-per-week chart, with a dot for each week! Well. The pacing check was intended to be light. Only the big, you know, PACING problems. Of which there were fewer in the following chapters, so I finished it all up in several feverish sessions over a 3-day weekend 🤣 MY CHART IS A SINGLE DOT. This is so funny. If I'd known it'd go so fast, I probably would have tried to squeeze it alongside the workshop, but maybe I just needed a break.

Anyway, it was a happy surprise to return to the witch and enjoy it! I've learnt a fair bit about structure during the last month, and while -- as I feared -- I do see all the places that I would handle differently now... I don't hate it, nor feel anguish at how much better it could be? I dunno. Although, the dark side of taking yet another long break is that I feel so refreshed that I could smash myself against another round of editing... I could. Forever over and over, possibly. But I do need to learn when to move on, too.

So what comes next? )

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(this) and first and foremost I would like to say, holy period-appropriate minced oaths Batman! I love it. So rarely do modern authors have the bravery to let a 1930s guy in the middle of a dead-serious confrontation say, "Lordy, you look fit to be tied!"
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October

I've had some of these hanging around for a startlingly long period of time. I'm in a bit of a grump, which makes this the perfect time to look at a book list. I don't have a lot of energy to deal with interfaces, and I'm less likely to be interested in All! The! Books!

75 Notable Translations 2023 from World Literature Today (limited free pages) - the introductory section was interesting reading, but the list was text, with title, author, translator, publisher, and no info, and I didn't care to click through. I scanned through to see if anything caught my attention namewise, but wasn't really expecting much. I spotted Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera and Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami to click through, and both sound sufficiently interesting I've added them to the list.

Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2023 hypothetically this should be a list I'll find a lot on. But! I was at least somewhat on top of my reading last year, so before looking at the list, I'm taking a guess that some of the interesting ones I'll already have read. I do like the format, where each reviewer talks about their picks, and writes some number of paragraphs with the books discussed collectively. I was right that there are some books I very much enjoyed on that list. There were some that I don't remember ever hearing of (although at least one that looked interesting was already on the wishlist; I didn't check them all). And a surprising number that I started and bounced out of to 'finish after Hugo reading season' because I knew they weren't going to be my number one Hugo vote. Most of which I still haven't gone back to.

November

Locus Magazine 2023 Recommended Reading List - this page managed to annoy me before I'd read anything by popping an ad up over the 'reject tracking' button, so that I ended up clicking on the ad instead of the reject. This provides a long list of who provides the recommendations, and many of those I recognised are people whose suggestions I have previously bounced off, so I wasn't actually all that optimistic. And then I started skimming, and realised that I just don't care enough to click through, and title plus author doesn't give me enough to latch on to. I was interested to note that the most recent Greg Egan is self-published, and I'd be interested in knowing what the story is there -- although not interested enough that I allowed myself to be distracted from task Close! All! Tabs! I spotted an Octavia Cade collection that I didn't know about, so that went on the list. I was very bemused to see a collection by Tom Reamy, but again, did not go down the rabbit hole of finding out what was going on there (assumption: reprint?).

I could have gone looking at the short stories, and decided against it. Similarly the next tab I had open was a long list of short story links that I decided to just close. I do like short stories, I just don't need these lists sitting there being Tasks.

Nebula reading list - I'm assuming that this is a generic link, and what is on the page changes each year. Which means I was probably meant to be looking at 2024's list, but I'm looking at works published in 2025. After a bit of a look at the novels (which was a much shorter list than I was expecting) I decided to skip. At this point in time my focus is kids books, and there aren't any.

Esquire: The 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 - this one gives lovely potted summaries of why they are recommended, and it was so nice to engage with. I did end up adding books to the wishlist that i would otherwise have missed. Long, but interesting.

From the New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2024 - this has an itty bitty drop down that would allow for selection of other years. As I'm in 'close all the tabs' mode I have chosen to not go down the rabbit hole. This shows me covers, with title and author as text; there are an assortment of filters available. Oh! and a potted summary for each. I didn't find anything very inspiring, but I did realise that I can use this as a list for my uni book search, because there is a kids books section.

December

Unusually, a video: The Top 10 Science Fiction Books Published in 2023 - I hadn't heard of most of these; there were two that I have on the wishlist, but I didn't have the motivation to add any of the rest to said wishlist, not least because several were subsequent books in a series. I skipped through much of this because I wasn't that interested in the commentary, at least on the series ones.

Reactor: Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 - this is the first one of these I'm reading today, but I'm tired and grumpy, so I suspect I won't be putting things on the wishlist. ... and this is image plus link; I don't have the oomph to go clicking through, so looking at the pretty and then closing the tab.

Get to know you questions

Apr. 6th, 2026 11:44 am
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tagged by [personal profile] mabiana on tumblr to do a set of questions that overlap with the ones they answered here, so I'm combining them. I do not have the oomph to work out how to tag, please consider yourself tagged if you have the time, energy, and motivation to complete.

  1. Have you ever been fooled by an ‘April Fool’s Day’ joke?

Almost certainly. I can't think of any examples, but I'm now very sceptical of anything I see on the relevant date and for the next couple of days. To the point that it took me a couple of days to start to believe the Kit-Kat heist might be true.

  1. Do you prefer sweet things or savoury things to eat?tumblr version: sweet or salty)

I kind of like things that are in the overlap of sweet or salty. Some of the local east asian grocers sell various kueh lapis (translation: layer cake) and the one I love the most has a salted layer and a sweet layer. I also like very lightly sweetened breads, like brioche and hot cross buns. Other than that sweet/savoury is a very random kind of thing with me.

  1. Do other people shorten your given name? Do you shorten your own name?

Only if they mishear it. It is not a name that really shortens sensibly. At various times over the years people have used extended versions, of which there are many, because it is the first part of a lot of compound names.

  1. Are there opportunities to go walking where you live? Do you take advantage of that?

I'm not sure what 'opportunities to go walking are' - this is a good suburb for walking, with most roads having footpaths, shortcuts through sections of the suburb, and a few tiny bits of remnant bush. There are also lots of places I can go to walk, with a variety of parks, remnant bush, state and national parks in easy (car) reach. I don't walk as often as I ought, for energy and pain reasons.

  1. Pineapple on a pizza – yes, or no?

eh. I did not learn to love it but I will eat it. This is because pizza pineapple comes from cans, and there is something in the older can lining materials that my body reacts very badly to, so for a long time cooked pineapple was something I couldn't eat without nausea even if it wasn't out of a can, because of the learned response.


Reading: planning to do a post on that later today

Last Series Watched: Nearly had to go ask Youngest what we watched, but realised it was the one about training working dogs--Muster Dogs.

Last film: It's so long since I watched a film, I don't know. I tried Everything Everywhere All At Once, and had to stop because of the flashing lights. Might have been one of the Benoit Blanc ones?

Last Song: Whatever the ipod was playing while I was working in the study. I think I've got it on shuffle on a playlist; I have a dock for it that means I just press a button and music happens.

coffee or tea: both. Used to be at work that I would buy a coffee on the way in, drink that slowly, and then for the 10am morning tea catch up make a cup of whatever black tea I currently had in the drawer. These days the coffee is still regular ([personal profile] artisanat makes a pot each morning), but the tea is less predictable. In the office at uni I do have black tea, but I also have tisane options--currently blueberry, some kind of red berry (might be currant?), rooibos, and peppermint, so the later drinks might not be tea.

working on: so many projects. actively trying to make progress on '21st' quilts for the offspring, none of whom are that young any more. three knitting projects active plus one that is waiting to be started. 'some' crochet projects. many books (reading). PhD. garden. a pile of half done craft and repairs in the sewing space.

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Morning Musings
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1247
[Morning of Wednesday, 8 November of 2017]


:: Over breakfast, Jules and Bennett talk about job options. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::




“Dad,” Jules began as he settled a basket of lumpy pears into the sink. He set the water running in a thin stream and began washing them with a round, boar-bristled brush. He sighed and started again. “Dad, I don’t want to go back to working at the grocery store. Juana offered, and I feel badly for wanting to say no.” The teen shrugged. “What can I say to make it clear that it’s not Juana or the store… but that it feels like a step backward?”
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The Dissertation of Aramis

Apr. 6th, 2026 01:16 am
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I realised while listening to Chapter 26 of the Russian audiobook of "The Three Musketeers" that the chapter had almost certainly been abridged, because we don't get the entire scene where the two churchmen and Aramis have a long and Latin-laced argument as to the suitability of the proposed subject-matter of his dissertation, and where d'Artagnan fails to understand a word of the Latin :-P In fact, on glancing at my French copy to check that the missing scene *was* located in this chapter and not on d'Artagnan's subsequent return, I noticed that the scene in the previous chapter where Mousqueton tells the story of how his father brought his two sons up as a Huguenot and Catholic respectively during the Wars of Religion is also missing, as is the entire narrative of how the excellent breakfast (which *is* described) has been obtained despite Porthos' lack of funds.

So I would guess that the translation and/or audiobook version has been extensively shortened. Given that the reading lasts for over 20 hours as it is, this really isn't unreasonable... ;-)

Letting Go

Apr. 5th, 2026 01:39 pm
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Anime VHS Tapes from My Library
Anime VHS Tapes from My Library

I’ve been reorganizing storage boxes in the garage, and today I got to a section of anime storage boxes. There are a lot of cool – but useless – memorabilia. I have a lot of magazines and publications that I can’t yet bear to part with – Newtype, Newtype USA, Manga Max, Protoculture Addicts, Animag, Animerica – and more. There are booklets from the early days of Anime Expo and Kumoricon. Also, I have printouts of email correspondence from fandom in the 1990s, including fansubbers. I reboxed the items (from old, limp bankers boxes into the new, sturdier ones from the remodel) and put them back onto the storage shelves.

However, there were three bankers boxes of VHS videotapes. And I’ve decided it’s finally time to discard them. All they are doing now is taking up valuable space – and I no longer can play VHS videotapes, anyway.

Bankers Boxes of Anime VHS Videotapes
Bankers Boxes of Anime VHS Videotapes

I unloaded the boxes for the group photo at the top of this post. The photo will be the only record of that collection once the tapes are gone.

Memories of the days of anime fansub exchange are precious. Some of the correspondence I kept brought back memories. (I had a good relationship with well-known fansub champions Bruce and Karen Duffy, who lived just outside of Salem – an hour from Portland – and who I actually got to visit a time or two. Trivia: Piro of Megatokyo fame did some of the illustrations for the Duffy’s fabulous VHS tape labels – for the Marmalade Boy series, I believe.)

As far as the commercial VHS tapes go, I think I have DVDs or Blu-rays of all of those series. The only anime VHS tapes that are withheld from this purge are my Gunbuster VHS tapes. My Gunbuster collection is sacred. And of course, the Gunbuster tapes weren’t in the boxes in the garage anyway.

So... sayonara, VHS collection. I’m letting go of the 1990s – finally!

Router recycling

Apr. 5th, 2026 09:24 pm
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My Internet service provider sent me an (unsolicited) new router, probably so that they could ensure that I had their up-to-date security firmware. Read more... )

This seems like a very good way of getting out of your recycling obligations, since I can't imagine many people are public-spirited enough to pay return postage on an object they never asked for in the first place; they will all simply go straight in the bin. ("Alternatively, you can find a local recycling centre at www.recyclenow.com" -- none of those appear to accept routers, or at least don't include them in the very long drop-down list of equipment types you have to pick from...)


The marigolds have suddenly popped up overnight...

Week in review: Week to 4 April

Apr. 5th, 2026 12:13 pm
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. I had the whole week off, and spent a lot of it either enjoying having nothing particular to do or feeling crumby due to the well-known phenomenon whereby as soon as I was on holiday and the show wrapped I came down with the mild lurgy I had been steadfastly refusing to entertain because I had things to do.

At a couple of points, I attempted to do some things I'd been putting off on the excuse that they involved getting things done during office hours, only to find (as I frequently have on previous occasions when I've counted on getting things done when I was on holiday) that the businesses I needed to interact with were also off for the holidays.


. On the weekend, we had a long gaming session where we played Mansions of Madness. The scenario we played was an interesting variation on the usual: Read more... )


. At the weekly game meet, we played Cockroach Soup, Flip 7 With a Vengeance, and Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre. Read more... )


. Rehearsals for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown have begun, and are going well.


. I watched the NASA live stream of the Artemis II launch, and have been following its progress.


. I went to Parkrun this week, despite a bit of rain being forecast; I already had a cold, and I didn't have anything I needed to do later in the day, so I figured it wouldn't hurt. In the event, there was only a brief light sprinkling of rain. I got a couple of nice comments from people who had been to see the play.


. My relationship with hot cross buns since I parted ways with the Holy Mother Church has been erratic. Some years, I make a point of eating one on the wrong day, to prove that the Church can no longer tell me what to do; other years, I make a point of only eating them on Good Friday, on the principle that if a thing's worth doing it's worth doing correctly (because I might be a lapsed Catholic but I'm still a practising pedant). This year, the entire question escaped my mind until it was already Good Friday and all the shops where I knew they were on sale were shut for the public holiday, so I bought some at a discount on Saturday morning and had them for morning tea.


. Until recently, I had managed to avoid getting any spam comments on my AO3 fics, but a couple of the fics I wrote for the most recent Three Sentence Ficathon have apparently stuck out enough to become targets for the kind of spam comment that pretends to be a real review before trying to get you to a secondary location. The one I received this week asserted that "i wasn’t expecting much at first but this actually turned out to be a pretty decent read", which is particularly transparent in the context of a fic that's only 37 words long.


. I was pleased to see the announcement that Farah Mendlesohn has been selected as the GUFF delegate to Swancon 50, then spent several minutes trying to remember where I actually know them from. I eventually managed to narrow it down from "overlapping online fannish space of some kind" to "mostly Diana Wynne Jones fandom, when I was still actively interacting with Diana Wynne Jones fandom". (Skimming the list of GUFF voters, I recognised a name from the old DWJ fan group, followed by another name whose owner was not yet born then, let alone old enough to vote; my, how the time etc.)
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Needed Contact
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1199
[Morning of Tuesday,7 November of 2017]


:: Dinner with Ezekiel and Albert bring Bennett and Jules closer to them, and afterward, there's a private, pivotal conversation. Part of the “Lodestar” arc, set in the Polychrome Heroics universe. ::




“What’s your usual bedtime routine, Albert?” Bennett asked. “Massages, which are a way to help…” He paused, sighing. “It’s been a long time since I’ve needed to explain one to someone your age, so I don’t know if I’ll do it well. So… Trying again. A massage is meant to relax the person getting it, and that often makes them fall asleep. If we go through your bedtime routine early, I’ll give you a massage and then after your Papa puts you to bed, it’ll be his turn.”

Albert crossed his arms and stared at Bennett with narrowed eyes.
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