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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #165 on: March 15, 2022, 02:44:27 PM »
Yeah, non-rated works always ask first, the author has chosen not to rate the work and it may contain adult content, do you wish to proceed?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #166 on: March 15, 2022, 02:57:20 PM »
Yeah, non-rated works always ask first, the author has chosen not to rate the work and it may contain adult content, do you wish to proceed?

This is actually user-defined.

For logged out users, it always asks. But for logged in users, there is a checkbox in the preferences that turns this off.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #167 on: March 15, 2022, 03:00:02 PM »
Ok, thanks for the clarification Yuu! So itis the reader, i.e. me, who can choose to always just go for it? Does it apply just to non-rated or also M and E?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #168 on: March 15, 2022, 03:11:22 PM »
Yes, it’s the reader who selects whether or not to see the rating advisory. It applies equally to M, E, and NR; unfortunately you can’t select to turn it off for only NR.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #169 on: March 15, 2022, 08:53:15 PM »
I also like your fic! Although I notice you left out the redheads. I mean, I suppose Reynir is grateful for the chance to help, but Sigrun... She is probably grateful for all the chances to use her skills? Or for all the mages she has managed to acquire like vacation souvenirs?

Added the redheads.  Set is complete. he he
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #170 on: March 21, 2022, 06:01:08 AM »
The prompt for this week is Well met / reunion and for next week I suggest farewell.

Edited to add: Farewell is just the prompt suggestion! This thread will NOT end after next week!

We’ e had several new members lately, we’d love to see you participate here! The contribution can be anything, and this would be a great opportunity to test some ideas.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #171 on: March 21, 2022, 07:52:49 AM »
A 2-fer!!

Works for me
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #172 on: March 23, 2022, 08:39:27 AM »
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #173 on: March 23, 2022, 12:26:44 PM »
Oo sweetness! And some ichor to spice things up!

I know you have added things after posting before, would you like a little suggestion? I thought of something when reading this.

Also, am I seeing some indications you are warming to Onni/Reynir? 🥰
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #174 on: March 23, 2022, 01:42:49 PM »
Oo sweetness! And some ichor to spice things up!

I know you have added things after posting before, would you like a little suggestion? I thought of something when reading this.

Also, am I seeing some indications you are warming to Onni/Reynir? 🥰

Suggestions?  sure! I hope i am not doing something wrong.

For Onni and Reynir sort of.  They play so well off each other.  Maybe not so much a romance.  But a genuine friendship.   You do not have to be lovers to be close.  Though who knows.... :onni: :reynir:
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #175 on: March 23, 2022, 02:07:48 PM »
Oh no no, nothing wrong! I was jus thinking that in the part where Emil has to fight against the slime and stuff to get to Lalli, maybe his will could manifest in the form of flames that clear a path for him?

And you are right, people can be close without being in a romantic and/or erotic relationship.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #176 on: March 23, 2022, 02:10:26 PM »
Oh no no, nothing wrong! I was jus thinking that in the part where Emil has to fight against the slime and stuff to get to Lalli, maybe his will could manifest in the form of flames that clear a path for him?

And you are right, people can be close without being in a romantic and/or erotic relationship.
I thought of fire, but he'd worry about burning Lalli.  I wanted to convey that Emil was willing to get all mucky and dirty to help Lalli.

Though Reynir won't stop trying to have something more ;)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #177 on: March 25, 2022, 11:14:54 AM »
I thought I wouldn't have time to write anything. But then I realized I already had notes for a reunion of sorts, related to a 'the gang reunites at Reynir's sister's wedding' setting. (I wrote a bunch of snippets about that in October, mostly Reynni, because why not.) So I decided to just clean those notes up, and they turned into... something. Something relatively long. That could be a first chapter for a frivolous new story. It definitely does feature some reunions, though.




***

“The whole thing makes no sense at all. Iceland is much too far to visit for just a week or two. And even if it were closer, well, don’t you hate boat trips? Also, we do not even know this woman.”

Lalli could have mentioned that he knew Reynir’s sister a little, even if Onni didn’t, but he saw no reason to prolong the conversation. Onni had made his point: he didn’t want to attend the wedding. Lalli’s own feelings on the topic were mixed, and uncomfortable to dwell on, so it felt good to have the decision made for him.

“You’re right,” he said. “It makes no sense. We won’t go.”

Still, in spite of his welcome decisiveness, Onni seemed to have further points to make. “And the invite is not even written by her, but by her annoying brother!”

“Which annoying brother?” There were at least three, of various flavours of annoyance. “And how do you know who wrote it, anyway?”

“The brother we know the most, the untrained mage. It’s in his handwriting.”

“Is it?” Lalli didn’t think he’d ever seen Reynir’s handwriting, outside of runes, which didn’t count. “I guess the invitation I got was very messy, like his hair. But that ‘please come, it will be a fun reunion!’ part was in Finnish, which he cannot speak.”

“‘A fun reunion’? Is that what yours says?”

“Yours doesn’t?” Lalli leaned over to peer at the paper in Onni’s hand, and managed to spot a full paragraph peppered with exclamation marks before Onni tilted it away, so he couldn’t see.

“A reunion, hmm,” said Onni. “That implies the others are also invited: the treacherous Dane, the captain… and your friend. Wouldn’t you like to see him again?”

Lalli shrugged. Yes, of course he wanted to see Emil again, the way he wanted water on a hot day, but he also knew that seeing Emil again might be a stupid thing to do, now that he could go whole days without thinking about him once. Not that any of that was Onni’s business, of course.

“Don’t be like that. Seeing him will do you good,” said Onni absent-mindedly, glancing down at his invitation. “It is decided, then. We will go.”

Lalli didn’t argue. He still didn’t want to think about any of it very much.

***

The sea crossing was, of course, nightmarish, and best forgotten, but the coach ride to Reynir’s hometown was comfortable enough. Lalli curled up against a window, but did not bother with the view, which brought up too many memories of his first visit to Iceland. This second visit was a mistake, he understood that now. A mistake for him, anyway: Onni seemed strangely cheerful as he attempted to engage Lalli in conversation. When Lalli did not respond, he even went so far as to exchange a few words with the other passengers.

Reynir met them at the coach stop, greeting them loudly in truly terrible Finnish. So maybe he had written the invitation, after all. Luckily, his new knowledge seemed to run out after “Good morning, how are you?” and certainly didn’t extend to understanding anything said to him, so Onni switched to Icelandic as they made their way towards the house. Lalli walked a few steps behind the others, not thinking about anything.

The walk ended at a small tent in the back garden.

“Very convenient, staying this close to the house,” Onni told Lalli. “Because of the bathroom, I mean. Anyway, Reynir says we should meet his family for some breakfast. Do you want to go?”

Lalli did feel hungry, but the thought of all those Icelanders, speaking Icelandic at each other, and maybe even at him… "No," he said.

“Right, I expect you want to get some sleep. I’m sure Reynir will understand, once I explain.”

And then, just like that, Lalli was alone.

He kicked his bag into the tent and spent some time looking around. The local trees were just as pathetic as he remembered, but the nearby mountains made great scouting-points. As he also remembered. He might go up one later, if he could keep the memories under control. For now, he decided he might as well take Onni’s advice, and try to sleep through his hunger. He crawled in after his luggage.

Strangely, sleep proved elusive. Maybe it was because he was worried that, now that Emil was closer, their shared dreams would resume? But such worries made no sense, as meeting in a private dream would be far preferable to meeting in a crowd of Icelanders.

Also, there were weird noises outside the tent. A sort of rustling, as if something were bumping up against the fabric. Almost certainly a sheep, Lalli decided as he moved towards the tent-flap to scare the beast away.

“AAAAAAAH!”

Lalli blinked at the light, and then at Emil, who was laying sprawled on the grass, his face a picture of shock. The familiar sight made him feel better about the whole trip, and also worse.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

“Tripping and falling over in surprise, I guess? Sorry, you popped out very suddenly.” Emil sat up, and waved his hand, which was clutching a piece of paper. “But before I fell, I was leaving you a note.”

Lalli’s brain felt slow. “A note?”

“To tell you where to find me… and Sigrun, and Mikkel, of course. It might be tricky otherwise, what with all the other guests.” He smoothed down his hair, which was surprisingly long. But still very shiny. “Anyway, we’re in the big barn.”

“Aha.”

“It’s very crowded there. You would hate it. All that snoring, and–  But, wait.” Emil grinned. “That’s not how I wanted this meeting to go, at all. I really wanted to start by thanking you for your letters. They were great!” He looked at Lalli expectantly. Receiving no response, he continued. “All those descriptions of nature. Of course, some of the vocabulary was a bit… specialized for my dictionary, so I ended up taking them to the Finnish Cultural Center. And they really loved them too! One woman cried. She said your words took her right back to her childhood in the woods.”

“You…” Lalli sat down in the tent’s entrance. “You showed my letters… to strangers?”

“Was that wrong?” Emil’s grin faded. “I mean, you never wrote anything personal at all. I could understand that clearly, even with my limited vocabulary.”

“Hmm.”

Emil was right: Lalli had definitely kept all his letters job-related. He was very glad of it, now. To think that he had come so close to taking them in a different direction! One time, he had actually considered closing with, ‘I miss you,’ but it had seemed like both too much and too little.

When he had thought about writing what he really felt, it just sounded stupid. ‘Remember that day you tried to kiss me, and I pushed you off the fishing pier? Well, at the time I was pleased with my reaction, and you seemed to accept it too. You even laughed when describing your sudden clumsiness to the others. But as the surprise faded I became confused, and now, many months later, when we’re no longer even in the same country, I somehow can’t stop thinking about that moment and regretting that I have ruined things forever.’ Nobody would write something like that, not even Emil, whose letters were full of personal opinions and questions.

Emil, who was now frowning. “You seem upset. Look, I really thought that–”

“I am not upset.”

“Are you just tired, then? You were sleeping. Here, take my note, and–”

“No, I couldn’t sleep.'

“So maybe you’re hungry? There’s breakfast out by the barn. I could take you there.”

Lalli shook his head. “Too many Icelanders.”

“I see.” Emil sighed, then brightened. “You know what? I think the bakery is opening soon. We could go there. You remember their buns, right?”

Lalli did remember, very well. As ideas went, visiting the bakery was not a bad one. But it would involve spending more time with Emil, and more good-bad feelings. “I was thinking about walking up a mountain,” he said.

“Oh! Like the last time! Can I join? You know, Norway is full of mountains. After living there for a while, I am so much fitter, you'll be so surprised.”

Lalli considered this. He had already noticed that Emil did look a bit more muscular than he remembered, but then muscles did not really guarantee stamina.

“And we could visit the bakery on the way there,” Emil added.

 Lalli's stomach growled. It was all too much to resist. "Okay then," he said, and prepared to be surprised.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #178 on: March 25, 2022, 12:51:36 PM »
Tehta, I loved this line

“Which annoying brother?” There were at least three, of various flavours of annoyance.

Various flavors of annoyance What a hoot!!.

I don't know why I always feel sad where Emil and Lalli are separated wether by the cosmos or various unfortunate incidents.  I makes me feel out of Kilter.  (Maybe that is why I end my Emil/Lalli stories with them together.  It makes the universe feel whole to me)

This is a nice story, and you are right it would be awesome for a longer version. Thank you!!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #179 on: March 25, 2022, 02:01:23 PM »
Tehta, sweetness!  :lalli: <3 :emil:

Why does Lalli know Gudrun though? This timeline doesn’t have the Root Cellar Incident, right?

Please write more! I don’t know why you keep thinking that “it’s just EmiLalli again”, we love EmiLalli!
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