I'm coming to realize just how many of my Livejournal friends don't know about my actual blog! My livejournal is just for art posts and fandom stuff. All else can be found at Cult of Lincoln, syndicated for LJ at abeybaby. So now you know!

The time is finally upon us! Check out the map I illustrated for Jim Butcher's First Lord's Fury, which hits stores November 24th. For those new to my mapsquee, FLF is the sixth book in the internationally bestselling fantasy series The Codex Alera. I'm so thrilled to be a part of it.

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I'm eager to hear your thoughts. :D

Dear yuletide Santa,

Hey, there! Thanks so much for signing up for this ficathon. I hope you enjoy working with my prompts. If they don't inspire you, don't worry. I'm sure I'll love whatever you create, and I want you to have as much fun as possible writing it! Feel free to throw anything and everything out the window if you're not enjoying yourself.

To begin, let me tell you a little about myself. I'm an unrepentant (yet hopefully not tinhatted) shipper who tends to orient towards canon and subtextual canon ships. I prefer not to read slash stories pairing characters who are canonically straight. Of course, these prompts lend themselves more to gen fics than shippy ones, but if for whatever reason you want to go a different direction, I felt inclined to throw that out there.

I enjoy reading fics from almost anywhere in the emotional spectrum, though I tend to shy away from soul-sucking angst-wallowing and excessive violence. Anyway, my prompts don't really lend themselves to soul-sucking angst-wallowing, so I think we're good on that count! Character-bashing is a major turn-off. I delight in seeing characters enjoying themselves and each other, and I dig banter and UST with a backhoe. "Competence porn" is always a treat.

( My prompts... )


Thanks again! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Title: Fading Away
Fandom: Codex Alera
Characters: Araris, Isana, and Tavi.
Recipient: lexkixass
Word Count: 4,610
Rating: PG-13.
Spoilers: Hmm. You should be good if you've read through Cursor's Fury.
Prompt: Pre-FoC; Fade watching both Isana and Tavi through the years.
Summary: Written for alera_ficathon. In the wake of Septimus' death, Araris wrestles with conflicting loyalties.
Disclaimer: Isana, Araris, Tavi, and all assorted characters and concepts belong to Jim Butcher.

Thanks to tigerkat24 for the beta!


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Heads up: the ficathon ends in ten days! Stories can be posted anywhere during the window from October 25th (this Sunday) to November 1st (a week from then). I can't wait to see everyone's story!

A reminder: Today is the last day to sign up for the alera_ficathon! Sign-ups close at midnight EST tonight. We have nine fabulous participants already--let's see if we can't recruit more!

Sign up here, then tell your friends!

Because I clearly don't have enough going on already...

In preparation for the release of the final book in the Codex Alera, I've launched the first-ever Codex Alera ficathon! If you're interested in participating (or just want to see the results when they're posted in late October), check out alera_ficathon. Sign-ups end August 23rd.

I'm thinking of applying to the Soho Photo gallery. To be considered, I have to submit a portfolio for review, consisting of 12-15 photographs, and I want to know if you guys have any favourites! My gallery is here.

Last weekend, my friends Craig, Shecky, Sue, and Sue's mother ventured out to the Bronx Zoo. I finally got around to uploading my images! Warning: This post is not for the faint of modem.

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I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Yesterday, Craig and I participated the the Fourth-Annual NYC Pillow Fight! In between getting walloped from every direction by a crowd of over a thousand people, I managed to take a bunch of photos!

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Matt and I went to the Museum of Natural History last weekend, and it was awesome. Naturally, I brought my camera with me!

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After over a year of nothing, I finally have photos to share again! There are three sets, so you may want to steer clear if you're on dialup.

( Curios )


( Basketball )


( Brooklyn Botanical Gardens )

I'm participating in fandom_stocking!

Won't you stuff my stocking?

Written for dresdenficathon!

Title: The Other Son

Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Characters: Thomas, Harry, Justine, Susan, and an unexpected guest or two
Prompt: "Thomas on Harry. Let's see his POV on his baby brother. I don't want slash of any sort, just brotherly shenanigans." --tigerkat24
Word Count: 4,846
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Thomas Raith has a brother.
Spoilers: Up through Blood Rites
Disclaimer: Thomas, Harry, and all other assorted Dresden-y characters and concepts belong to Jim Butcher and Penguin Books.

Link: Read it at The Archive!

Dear yuletide Santa,

Thank you so much for writing a story for me! All three of these fandoms are woefully underrepresented in the fic department (especially Codex Alera--ye gods!), so I'd be delighted to receive a story for any of them.

I'd like to apologize to being so unspecific in my request. This is my first time participating in Yuletide, and the examples the site gave were only a sentence each, and so that's how much I wrote. I was shocked when I received my prompts, all of which were several paragraphs in length! Now I feel I did you a disservice. ( Hopefully, I can correct that now... )

In the end, if none of what I've said here appeals to you, just do whatever makes you happy! I'm so grateful to you for signing up, and I don't want you to be miserable. No matter what you write, the fandom and I will be ecstatic. I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

In fannish love,
priscellie

Title: The Body
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Through Small Favor
Word Count: 732
Summary: Luccio comes to terms with her new skin. Harry/Luccio.

Link: Read it at The Archive!

I've gotten somewhat lax in posting! Here are a few stories I somehow neglected to share before:


Title: A Personage of Noble Rank and Title
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Summary: Written for quick_silver985 at dresdenficathon. My prompt: "Morgan seems a little grumpy. Oh, I wonder if there's some interesting story in his background that made him the way he is today... some tragic love, perhaps. Or the loss of of a dear friend, sibling, or parent. Who knows? Let's see a fic about it!"
Word Count: 9,185
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Mostly through Summer Knight, with some Dead Beat.
Link: Read it at The Archive!


Title: Fifteen-Minute Ficlets
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Summary: A friend of mine holds weekly writing chats, in which participants are given fifteen minutes to crank out a ficlet based on a prompt. I've expanded upon and polished up a few of my favourites!
Rating/Spoilers: varies. Each fic is marked.
Link: At The Archive


Disclaimer: The Dresden Files belongs to Jim Butcher and his ferocious guard dog, Frostbite Doomreaver McBane.

Title: Small Mercies
Author: priscellie
Rating: PG
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Spoilers: Through Small Favor. If you haven't read it, don't read this.
Summary: Nine people react differently to the events of Small Favor. A series of drabbles.
Word Count: 900

Read it at The Archive!

Happy April Fools' Day!

It's been quite a while since I've done anything in the Harry Potter fandom, but when Heidi asked me to contribute another April Fools image for FictionAlley this year, I couldn't say no! For those unfamiliar with the tradition, each year artists contribute an image of the FictionAlley main page mascots dressed up as characters from another fandom, or of characters from another fandom taking the place of the main page mascots. It's all very silly and fun and a great opportunity to showcase some of the fandom's artists. The full list of participants is here!

My crossover fandom... do you even have to guess?

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Title: Turnabout
Author: priscellie
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Spoilers: Through Proven Guilty
Summary: Having your apartment set on fire can ruin your whole day. Fortunately, there are consolations. Harry/Murphy.
Disclaimer: They're Jim's! And he does such lovely, wonderful things with them!
Word Count: 1,237

Read it at The Archive!