Carpe Diem: Saturday

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Where does the time go? The penultimate day of 'Carpe Diem: A Week of Creativity and Squee'! Key information about the challenge can be found in the Introduction Post. Below you will find link to previous posts (do check out lovely fills from everyone!) and today's prompts/tasks. 

 

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Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace 

Wednesday's child is full of woe 

Thursday's child has far to go 

Friday's child is loving and giving 

 

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Saturday's child works hard for a living

 

Create: Produce something that focuses on skills and competences. This could be someone already being excellent at their job, hobby, craft, skill such as cooking, martial arts, medicine, knitting, social skills... The world is your oyster, and in fact 'diving for oysters' would be an awesome skill! Or you could focus the process of learning or teaching someone else.

 

Squee: Tell us about something you’ve done so well. We know many people find these kinds of tasks extra challenging but we encourage you to show us your bestest fics, your shiniest arts, your thinkiest metas, your intricatest crafts etc. Tell us about That Time You Owned The Room. Or the conversation. Or when you cooked a meal that everyone loved, when you supported a friend through a difficult decision, figured out a solution to a problem... We already know you're awesome, but we'd like to see the proof anyway, just to nod sagely and say 'see, I told you so'.

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Saturday's child works hard for a living

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Okay folks, here are my offerings for today's Carpe Diem prompt!

 

Create: The sixth drabble of the Craig/Bruno silliness, with focus on some blacksmithing skills 

 

Squee: Kukas kissan hännän nostaisi, jossei kissa itse? (Who would lift the cat's tail, if not the cat itself?) 

 

Three things to be proud of

 

1) Aced that god damn promotion process. Apparently, most people don't get that specific promotion on first try but guess who has two thumbs and did, like a boss? *points at self*

 

2) Made the decision to go on four day week at work and Saved My Life. Okay, the real test of that is still to come with the academic year kicking in now, but the pilot study findings suggest a positive effect on both mental and physical health. 

 

3) Improvised food! By that I mean, I'm good at looking at a combination of random ingredients and improvising lunches and dinners out of them without specific recipes, and achieving mostly delicious or at least perfectly pleasant results. H often brings various leftovers fruits and veggies in particular and then I cook something out of them for us. 

 

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And now some self-recs. I've got over 300 words in over 70 fandoms and they are all my precious children obviously. But have just three recs, one from each of my biggest fandoms. They're not necessarily the best or the most popular, but the ones I have particular fondness for.

 

Bandom: put another dime in the jukebox, baby - Patrick/Pete, E, 4.3K - Early van days, age reversal. Pete is just shy of eighteen, a cocksure little shit of smudged eyeliner and ill-advised tattoos, fucking everything that moves, utterly bright and shameless and burning, burning, burning like a fire cracker, like a torched orphanage. And Patrick… Patrick is old enough to know better.

 

Stargate Atlantis: Season For All Things - gen team fic, T, 2.5K - To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1

 

Supernatural: Give Me Back The Berlin Wall - Sam/Dean, E, 1.3K - evil!Sam. Love is not insanity. It is survival.


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