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[embraidery]

@ficortreat

EMBRAIDERY's Door

DW username: embraidery

Light is on for: friends, DW followers, anyone who came here from ficortreat!

What's in the Bowl? Ficlets, logic puzzles (by Raymond Smullyan, not me), book recs, podficlets, doodles, blackout poetry

Let Me Know: 

Ficlets - check out my profile on AO3 or my autoao3app for fandoms I've created for or requested before! I'll be honest, I have a lot of rare fandoms, but it's a fun grab bag. I won't create for Harry Potter anymore, but almost anything else is fair game. Let me know characters/ships you're into, maybe a prompt, DNWs? Let me know your AO3 handle if you'd like it gifted.

Logic puzzles - these would be from one of my books of logic puzzles, mostly dealing with figuring out which statements are true and which are false (i.e. one person always lies and the other always tells the truth). 

Book recs - let me know genres! I have a variety of YA, sci-fi, fantasy, a little bit of horror, a little bit of poetry, quite a bit of PG Wodehouse. I also have some short stories to recommend!

Podficlets - drop a few options of fics under 2.5k and I'll see what I can do. Doesn't have to be in a fandom I know. No non-con or omegaverse and no Harry Potter, please! (And, of course, the author must be okay with the work being podficced.) Let me know your AO3 handle if you'd like it gifted.

Doodles - I can draw characters I know or characters I don't if you can link me a visual reference. Or geometric art and/or optical illusion art!

Blackout poetry - send me a page of a fic you wrote or a book/poem in the public domain and I'll black it out and make poetry!

Other info: Drop me a fun fact about something in the world or the weirdest thing you've ever eaten or some other bit of information! Happy Halloween!

Comments

[embraidery]

Hello, happy late Halloween!

I'm realising now that a lot of what I have read is YA, and I don't know if that's cool or not--if it is, I can add some more recs!

But here's some non-YA:

Beneath the World, a Sea by Chris Beckett: Mildly horror SF in which an asteroid hit the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, creating an alien ecosystem very cut off from the rest of the world. A cop ventures there to try to enforce the UN ruling that duendes, creatures that instill terror and other psychological effects on nearby humans, are considered people and shouldn't be killed by the people living there...but he is way, way over his head.

Short Stories:

Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self by Isabel J. Kim: a world where people can split into "instances" of themselves, an original and a copy. The main character moved from Korea to the US as a kid and travels back to Korea for her grandfather's funeral, where she meets her instance for the first time.

The Court Magician by Sarah Pinsker: a street urchin accepts an offer to go to the palace and learn the secret of real magic, but it comes with a steep price. Dark fantasy

Husband Stitch by Carmen Maria Machado: a girl with a ribbon around her neck meets a boy, gets married, has a family: but her husband won't leave the fact of her ribbon alone and desperately wants to touch it. Kind of a horror about everyday misogyny.

[kalloway]

I am so sorry that I am so dreadfully late with this, but thank you so much! <3 (Also YA is fine but don't feel like you need to add anything at this point!)

I tossed Beneath the World, a Sea on my wishlist to probably see if the state library system can get it for me first. It sounds really interesting!

And oh, those short stories are all so haunting in their own ways! I'm not sure which I liked most but I suspect they'll all stick with me for a long time!

Thank you again, and I hope you had a lovely spooky season and are having a wonderful holiday season now. ^_^