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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #585 on: June 05, 2022, 05:13:15 AM »
Nahh, the reality has arms & legs in the correct proportions, can't be having that... :V :V

Can I call a story about fire 'chilling'?  Nice one, Jitter!
Actually, I've spent some more time going back further, and looking at all of the flaming tributes to ya boi Emil.  Lovely, just lovely.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #586 on: June 05, 2022, 05:47:28 AM »
Oh what a magnificently heroic chin he has. And heroic everything, but the chin is the icing on the cake! And you are not late at all, the prompt week is still on, and a busy cleansing hero isn’t on top of the calendar anyways.

Thank you all for your comments on the story! I would not have made Grey’s friendly Loge burn Emil or Lalli, now would I? But they would have been in serious trouble, if the crops had burned.

I started writing thinking it will be an amusing scene where Emil is trying to eat and the food keeps going away. But then imagining it felt chilling (Wave it’s exactly the same word I would have used) so it turned into this.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #587 on: June 05, 2022, 09:16:46 AM »
Jitter,
That is one nasty dream...It is a good thing Lumi takes after Lalli and hs the presence of mind (and mage skill?), to know something was not correct.

Wave,
That is one heroic Emil...Even with the sparkles...

Loved them all!!

I did need to look up äiti :)

Emil could not have magic, he is just blessed by the gods (well at least Loge)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #588 on: June 05, 2022, 01:00:55 PM »
Dmeck, Lumi is the biological daughter of Lalli and Inka, who is also a noita, so yes. She does take after them, and Ensi. Also I notice I confused my own timeline a bit, Lumi must be a teenager by now for Reynir to be living with Onni (she was already studying when that happened). So I guess they have younger children too, who require constant shepherding while swimming.

And I agree, Emil (probably?) doesn’t really have mage skill, but he’s very very keenly attuned with fire.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #589 on: June 05, 2022, 03:22:30 PM »
Dmeck, Lumi is the biological daughter of Lalli and Inka, who is also a noita, so yes. She does take after them, and Ensi. Also I notice I confused my own timeline a bit, Lumi must be a teenager by now for Reynir to be living with Onni (she was already studying when that happened). So I guess they have younger children too, who require constant shepherding while swimming.

And I agree, Emil (probably?) doesn’t really have mage skill, but he’s very very keenly attuned with fire.

I think you wrote a story about the four of them Dancing... <3
Then another about the babies being born.  I think Onni was in that one ( and really did not want to know details..I have to re-look them up...)  So your story fits.  (Lumi could be any age in the telling)

Emil turning out to have mage skill would be a hoot!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #590 on: June 05, 2022, 04:39:45 PM »
I think Jitter's point was that her Reynir spent a lot of time living in Iceland, and only moved to Finland late in life, by which point Lumi would be older.

Is there a prompt for next week (which starts tomorrow)?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #591 on: June 05, 2022, 05:49:32 PM »
Dmeck, yeah, there are several. The four of them deciding to try for a child, Emil bursting with excitement to tell (this is the one where Onni is begging for no details), one about Lumi’s birth. Oh, and one about the actual trying for a child, that one is on the mature side of things. I think the most recent one is in this thread under Hypocrite? Where Lumi is a teenager and Reynir has just recently come to Toivosaari to stay.

But the first time Lumi appeared to me is a short story about Onni and Reynir being old men and living in Iceland at the Spirit House. Lumi is the leader of Spirit Castle, which is in Finland. At the time of that story, it’s been peaceful in the east, but apparently this has not always been the case. I hope we’ll learn something about what has happened there, and prompted them to build a castle rather than another school.

To put it shortly, tehta is correct :)
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #592 on: June 06, 2022, 10:54:20 AM »
So, what's the prompt?

If I were to propose one, I might propose 'art', since we were discussing it last week. And it's pretty open-ended: people could respond by making art, or by writing a story (or painting a picture) where someone produces art, or by having a team scavenge art in the Silent World...
Unless someone has more inspired ideas?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #593 on: June 06, 2022, 03:57:27 PM »
We’ll got with ART!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #594 on: June 06, 2022, 04:10:53 PM »
We’ll got with ART!

This is good...Thanks
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #595 on: June 07, 2022, 02:55:35 PM »
Art is a great prompt!

And that reminded me of Onni's favourite painting...  :onni:

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #596 on: June 07, 2022, 04:10:55 PM »
Art is a great prompt!

And that reminded me of Onni's favourite painting...  :onni:

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Very subtle and very good!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #597 on: June 07, 2022, 04:51:07 PM »
Grey, lovely! Onni knows his art, being an artist himself. One that Sigrun likes.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #598 on: June 07, 2022, 05:52:42 PM »
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #599 on: June 07, 2022, 06:40:02 PM »
Thanks, dmeck and Jitter! I'm particularly happy with this Reynir. It took a lot of work, but he looks awesome (Of course the original model was very pretty, which helps a lot).
And I must confess that I've been waiting a long time for a reason to do this, because Reynir's hair always reminded me of this painting.
Speaking of Art....
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Really nice story, dmeck! Onni is matching perfectly his character here, from the start to the final grunt! :D
And I guess it's quite possible that his "6th sense" isn't as accurate as Lalli's. Onni seems to be much more powerful in the dreamworld, so just to balance things he might be less capable in the real one.
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