Friday ✎ Something New

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Hi and happy new year, y'all~! =^.^= Whew. We made it to 2021... Anyway... Thank you to everyone who has participated this week, whether by prompting, filling, drafting, or brainstorming!

✎ Today's theme: something new. New purchases, new creations, new relationships, new experiences, new outlooks... Let's add something to a character's life or expand a world, shall we?

A few rules to keep in mind:

✦ No more than five prompts in a row per day
✦ No more than three prompts in the same fandom per day
✦ If one or more of your prompts is filled today, then you may prompt again
✦ Use the full names of the fandom(s) and character(s) in your prompts
✦ For prompts, no spoilers until one month after the release date (use a spoiler tag to hide part or all of the text)
✦ For fills, warn for spoilers, and either leave blank space before the text or hide the text under a spoiler tag
✦ Include a warning in the subject line for any possible triggers

Please remember to use the proper format for prompts.
➔ ➔ ➔ Fandom [/ Crossover], Character [+ or / Relationship], Prompt
Again, please include the full names of the fandom(s) and character(s). This makes it easier to add prompts to the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and to find prompts through manual search.
(Author's choice prompts and original fills are also more than welcome! ❤)

Examples:

For a single fandom:
✧ any TV fandom, any +/ any, "No, you may NOT bring that into my new car."
✧ any movie fandom, any +/ any, tickets to see a particular live stage performance for the first time
✧ author's choice, any (+/ any), moving stuff from their old bag/purse to their new one (and trying to declutter)

For multiple fandoms / crossovers:
✧ any two fandoms set in the same city, any +/ any, a shared new experience

We use AO3 to keep track of filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and (cross-)post it to AO3, please add your story to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2021 collection. For more information, please go here.

A backup version of this community is available on Dreamwidth.

If the plot bunnies aren’t biting you today, feel free to check out our Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets (here and here) or the community's archive calendar. You can browse the main themed posts and Saturday free-for-all posts for prompts to fill (and fills to read). Or you can check the Sunday posts for requested prompts (and fills written that week). There's also LJ’s advanced search options -- however, it currently seems to only search entries posted in this community, not comments.

While the above are available options, the simplest method might be to bookmark prompts that you like as you find them and return later when inspiration strikes. (There are no rules against multiple fills for the same prompt, by the way. ~_^)

Best wishes to you this January, and see you around! ♫


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New Year...Same Me

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Everyone (Kim and Colleen) keep telling me this is "my home" too and that I should have more of my stuff out or whatever.

I mean...this is where I'm living, but it's not home to me. Home shouldn't have the threat of being without it should anything happen to Kim and she can no longer live here...or the property owners/managers decide that I can no longer live here. I think they'd have to go through the eviction process since I've been living here since October 2017, but still.

Where I am currently living isn't home to me. It's someplace that I'm living.

Well, this morning I woke up and wanted to change something about that. I wanted to make it not feel/look so cluttered, so I've been texting with Colleen about some rearranging I want to do and then I'll talk with Kim about it. I know I should have talked with Kim first, but she'll tell me to "do whatever you want, you live here too", but no. This is still her apartment.

Anyway. I'm going to get some plastic containers for more of my things to pack away either in storage or the closet, move some bigger pieces of furniture around so that I can take advantage of the natural lighting of the big window. I need to find the tall floor lamps I have in storage so that I can bring them here and add some more light to the room. I'd prefer something that I can easily turn off from the bed, but that would require buying a new one (I saw one that came with remote control!)

But, I bought containers for my things that are starting to overflow from their containment. I also really need to start throwing away stuff. That's my task for this month that I'm off from school. Hopefully by the time classes start in February, I will have more of a work area...and maybe a new laptop by the middle of the semester with my tax refund.

I'm actually going to check out Facebook Marketplace for a table/desk I can use too! I always try to steer clear of that place.

New Year, New Friday Five

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from thefridayfive

Out with 2020, In with 2021!

1. What was the best thing about 2020?

I didn't get sick, nor did anyone in my immediate family

2. What lessons from 2020 will you carry into 2021?

It's okay to socially distance from people...especially if you think you might be sick

3. How did you spend your New Year's Eve?

in bed until 11:50pm, then I got 12 grapes and prepared for the countdown

4. Legend says what you did at midnight on New Year's Eve/Day is what you'll do all year. So what did you do?

Let me put it this way, one NYE, I spent it at a party with people I thought could become friends, but then never saw them again and another "friendship" was ruined.

5. What are you most looking forward to in 2021?

Covid-vaccine and taking more classes. I'm like 5 away from being able to transfer to a university to do actual bachelor's degree coursework.

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I've got nothing else to add for the night. Okay, I sort of do, but I'm really tired and I want to lay down and just rest.

Tomorrow is Saturday!