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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1305 on: April 22, 2023, 07:08:03 AM »
I am not going to share a link to the story I just posted on AO3, because it is, in several ways, a horrible story. (Those who have read it will know why.)
However, the epilogue I just added to it DOES involve Lalli and Milkkel, so...
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1306 on: May 01, 2023, 08:38:42 AM »
Here is a Mikkel/Lalli post.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45121762/chapters/118075075

How about forgetting for this weeks post?  (As i did forget ;) )
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1307 on: May 01, 2023, 09:13:34 AM »
I think you'd be right about the greenhouses. There would be a lot of suitable scavengeable materials; not only did they have general famine in the early years but also the weather would have been very weird for a while (and quite possibly still is); and the early-years population would have been used to having access to a lot of warmer-climate foods and probably would have tried to keep growing them, if only enough for an occasional treat. Even an unheated greenhouse will significantly extend the growing season; and they can be heated in various ways, ranging from a hot composting heap to, as you say, geothermal.

And, on looking up cinnamon -- it is sometimes grown as a potted plant as a hobby, overwintering indoors. Not impossible that somebody, or even several somebodies, had a few plants in year zero; and very likely that they'd have tried to keep them alive.

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1308 on: May 01, 2023, 09:30:13 AM »
I think you'd be right about the greenhouses. There would be a lot of suitable scavengeable materials; not only did they have general famine in the early years but also the weather would have been very weird for a while (and quite possibly still is); and the early-years population would have been used to having access to a lot of warmer-climate foods and probably would have tried to keep growing them, if only enough for an occasional treat. Even an unheated greenhouse will significantly extend the growing season; and they can be heated in various ways, ranging from a hot composting heap to, as you say, geothermal.

And, on looking up cinnamon -- it is sometimes grown as a potted plant as a hobby, overwintering indoors. Not impossible that somebody, or even several somebodies, had a few plants in year zero; and very likely that they'd have tried to keep them alive.

I like to think that our year zero folks were quite clever.  Looking stuff up on the 'net before everything came crashing down.  (Another head cannon thing is stuff died slowly sputtering to a dismal end. )  Many systems run automatically and would not have stopped all as once.  Much more "not with a bang, but a whimper"

I also think that they would have used cassia which is not really cinnamon, but is close and is easier to grow. 
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1309 on: May 01, 2023, 10:14:39 AM »
Both Cassia and Cinnamon grow outdoors in the Adelaide botanical gardens, and several friends down on the Adelaide Plains also grow both outdoors or in a greenhouse. I had Cinnamon doing well outdoors until this winter, we live on a cold plateau inland from Adelaide.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1310 on: May 02, 2023, 11:19:23 AM »
Both Cassia and Cinnamon grow outdoors in the Adelaide botanical gardens, and several friends down on the Adelaide Plains also grow both outdoors or in a greenhouse. I had Cinnamon doing well outdoors until this winter, we live on a cold plateau inland from Adelaide.

That sounds really cool.  Really fresh Cinnamon!! Yum

Does the tree smell as nice as the spice?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1311 on: May 03, 2023, 12:22:12 AM »
It smells similar, the scent of the bark becomes richer with drying. I like both.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1312 on: May 05, 2023, 02:46:50 PM »
Silly Mikkel, of course Lalli remembers how he left his treasure!
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1313 on: May 05, 2023, 08:58:34 PM »

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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1314 on: May 14, 2023, 12:29:32 PM »
Hi everybody!

As you may have heard, I managed to put together a lot of work with being sick in these last two weeks... Quite an acomplishment, I know, I know...

So I wasn't very present here. But I survived my labyrinthitis test and, still a bit unsteady, found my way back to be with you all.

And I finally finished that story for the "Fae" prompt! Remember? It's on AO3, here: Trasgo

I also missed Jitter's birthday... :( But it's never too late for a gift, right? So this story is for her. I hope you like it, my dear. :) <3

And what should be next week's prompt?
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1315 on: May 14, 2023, 03:34:34 PM »
Thank you Grey!

I propose that the next prompt should be Song. For reasons that may be apparent for Europeans. For the others, google Cha cha cha
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1316 on: May 14, 2023, 08:00:02 PM »
Song is great.  Now Eurovision is done!!

Grey, great story
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1317 on: May 14, 2023, 11:56:28 PM »
I do like that story. House spirits and sometimes local earth-things that spend a lot of time with humans will often move house with the humans to whom they have become attached. This is the subject of a number of folktales. I have said a bit more on the subject in the comments to the story.
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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1318 on: May 17, 2023, 11:31:04 AM »
Yeah, so, sorry. It relates to a song, yes? Actually TWO songs.



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Re: Prompt of the week!
« Reply #1319 on: May 17, 2023, 06:31:58 PM »
Just google Cha Cha Cha song.

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