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Title: Moonlight Break
Fandom: Viola come il mare
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veronyxk84
Pairing: Viola Vitale/Francesco Demir
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Word count: 100 (Ellipsus)
Spoilers/Setting: Set post-S2.
Summary: After a long night at the newsroom, Francesco takes Viola to the beach for a quiet moonlit picnic.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction created for fun and no profit has been made. All rights belong to the respective owners.

Prompt: #496 - Exhaust

Crossposted:

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anythingdrabble, My journal (with bonus Italian version), “Chiamami Ancora Amore” - the Series

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prompt: #496 - exhaust

Fic stats meme:

I normally do this in April, but I completely forgot last month.

Top five stories by hits
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 10,419 hits
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 3,933 hits
Visit (1,792 words) Harry Potter - Harry/Hermione - 3,595 hits
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 3,320 hits
Infinite Jest and Wisdom (975 words) DC Comics - The Joker/The Riddler - 2,471 hits

That MLC threesome fic has skipped up to second place, wow! The power of porn, I guess.

TBH, I have been considering deleting my HP fic from AO3, and if I did number 5 would be Thousand Autumns fic I wrote for an exchange last year.

Top five stories by kudos
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 978 kudos
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 401 kudos
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 374 kudos
The Mission (1,499 words) Naruto - Sakura/Lee - 241 kudos
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 241 kudos

Discovery has gone up literally 50 kudos since last year, LOL, how. That fic is 11 years old! I'm honestly kind of impressed now. I'm also shocked at how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done, finally unseating Bleach fic I wrote in the late 2010s from the fifth position. I'm surprised, because I don't think it's one of my better written exchange fics, but I must have captured something believable about the pairing and there must be a lot of thirst for that pairing right now.

Top fic stories by bookmarks
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 272 bookmarks
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 119 bookmarks
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 116 bookmarks
Everyday Life With a Menace of a Man (1,416 words) Thousand Autumns - Yan Wushi/Shen Qiao - 41 bookmarks
What Comes After (1,712 words) Bleach - Byakuya/Kenpachi, Yumichika/Ikkaku - 34 bookmarks

The Ace Attorney fic got another 30 bookmarks since last year! Also, wild how well that Thousand Autumns fic has done in literally a year. I feel like that fandom is small, but the people know what they want.

Top five stories by comment threads
Discovery (12,024 words) Ace Attorney - Phoenix/Edgeworth - 59 comment threads
Lonely Rivers Run to the Sea (4,605 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 30 comment threads
Third Option (355 words) Legend of Fei - Li Yan/Yang Jin/Ying Hecong - 19 comment threads
One, Two, Three (8,758 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua/Fang Duobing - 17 comment threads
Little Waves (12,982 words) Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Di Feisheng/Fang Duobing/Li Lianhua - 15 comment threads

The Ace Attorney fic gained another 12 comment threads in the last year!!! Crazy business. For the most part everything else there is very stable; I have not received a lot of fic comments overall in the last year. I'm kind of intrigued by how in the long run Little Waves, which is about an mpreg abortion (among other things) in a wuxia world, has slowly accumulated comments. Within the first week of posting that fic I assumed it had totally bombed, but slowly it found an audience, and I'm really glad of it. I felt like I tried different and interesting things in it, and TBH the Fang Duobing/Di Feisheng sex scene has a tone that I think makes it some of my best/most mature work.

General thoughts
You know, sometimes I think I should get into a megafandom or something so I can get some sweet sweet megafandom kudos and unseat some of my older fic, but then I see how batshit the megafandoms of the past year are and I'm like... nah, I'm good. I do feel like my more popular fic is increasingly dominated by M/M now and, idk, it's weird. Maybe I should get into an F/F megafandom 😂

Top 3s for the last couple of years under the cut:
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I could have had a free nintendo ship for the cost of shipping it to me and an iphone 16 as well but I ended up spending my money on things I needed instead. I feel momumentally stupid for it. I should have just paid the 35 dollars for it. Instead I bought a memory card for my nintendo switch lite, hopefully I can get my games back and play them again. I miss playing my video games. I'll have to get resident evil 0, 1, RE4 OG and RE6 as well. All the Final Fantasies again too.

I failed my g.e.d math test the other night, I rescheduled for the test again and I should pass this time. I'm learning how to use the calculator better. It's not that difficult, but sometimes I can't come to the correct conclusion. Let's hope I can get the correct conclusions during the test. I already studied all night long, I just gotta study before 12 A.M tomorrow.

My mom bought me an exercise machine for my legs, I've been steadily exercising every night since she dropped it off on the 17th. My legs are stronger already. It'll be two months before I'm standing without struggling and three months before i take my first step, but in two months I'll be up to an hour a day using the machine. I appreciate my mother so much despite the fact that it's her fault i can't walk. I'd get into that but I won't. I'm able to put my legs up for lon g periods of time now.

I'll be living in my own home by December or January. I just don't know where in Ohio I want to live. I'm thinking Cleveland, Ohio despite the fact that I won't have any family around. But then in Columbus we have a lot of gay community like stonewell and such. I'm talking to this woman named Cheli, she's a beautiful translady. I think she's serious about us becoming more and I'd like to be there for her journey into transitioning. I'll be transitioning myself as well here shortly. I'll start taking T as soon as I'm walking again.

I'm thinking of shaving my head again, I'm considering it as soon as my mom shows up again. I have a razor for head shaving. I might have the stylist at this facility do my hair instead. Then dye it blonde with violet tips. The condition of my hair is poor however, I need to take better care of it but that starts with shaving my head. Yeah, I'm shaving it.

Anyway, here's to hoping I pass my test tomorrow night. I can't wait to go to college. I said I would have my g.e.d by the 29th, Let's hope I'm right. i know I pass, I have a better grasp of the calculator now. I should get at least a 156. Which is a passing grade. :D

I love you flist and I hope you're doing well. Here's to a better tomorrow and a wonderful yesterday.

deliquescent
adjective

del·i·ques·cent ˌde-li-ˈkwe-sᵊnt

1: tending to melt or dissolve
especially : tending to undergo gradual dissolution and liquefaction by the attraction and absorption of moisture from the air

2: having repeated division into branches

Elms are deliquescent trees.

deliquescence ˌde-li-ˈkwe-sᵊn(t)s
noun

Recent Examples on the Web

His deliquescent tissue had seeped under the keys, short-circuiting the motherboard.
— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

Big, bold and playfully grotesque, these recall the deliquescent figure sculptures of Willem de Kooning, with a few more accessories tacked on (balls, birds, various tools). — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023

Etymology

Latin deliquescent-, deliquescens, present participle of deliquescere

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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I came across it in this poem recently:

Peonies

by Jim Harrison

The peonies, too heavy with their beauty,

slump to the ground. I had hoped

they would live forever but ever so slowly

day by day they’re becoming the soil of their birth

with a faint tang of deliquescence around them.

Next June they’ll somehow remember to come alive again,

a little trick we have or have not learned.

(via Read a Little Poetry FB page--many thanks!)

(they also have a website, do take a look: readalittlepoetry.com/)

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Recent picture of another place I'd like to revisit soon. Dreaming of the cool shadowed spot under the trees!

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Title: Collateral D.
Fandom: Dr Who
Rating: G

Collateral D.

Amy's aunt sometimes has these weird dreams. In them she's in charge of her niece and not happy about it.

They're living in an isolated cottage and Amy is obsessed with some comic book character or something. These images seem so real that they unanchor the aunt's everyday life.

She worries because it's not always dreams. Sometimes it seems like memories. Pictures in her brain when she's awake come and go. Amy's parents feel to her like they're just shadows.

Now at Amy's wedding, she's having the flashes of a different life again. She has another glass to calm herself.

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1. Back at work today, boo. But at least it's a four day week now.

2. I took the leftover Chinese chicken salad from Sunday for lunch today and it was so good. I think I'll start making up a big batch for lunches once in a while as it's definitely the kind of salad that can be made up ahead of time and then just add the crunchy wonton strips before you eat it.

3. I usually get the same few poses of Tuxie because he's always in the same spots, but this was a new one. :)

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Comestible (adjective, noun)
comestible [kuh-mes-tuh-buhl]

adjective
1. edible; eatable.

noun
1. Usually comestibles. articles of food; edibles: The table was spread with all kinds of comestibles.

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Origin: 1475–85; < Late Latin comēstibilis, equivalent to Latin comēst ( us ), past participle of comedere to eat up ( see comedo; -ēstus for -ēs ( s ) us by analogy with gestus, ūstus, etc.; see combust) + -ibilis -ible; see eat

Example Sentences
William called it the “Circuitous Cryptanalytic Comestible Contest,” and it took place all over town.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Stakes at chess must not be confounded with the favourite "Comestible."
From Chess History and Reminiscences by Bird, H. E. (Henry Edward)

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After 40 years together, Don and Rodney face the end of the world from a black hole that will swallow the Earth in exactly one month. So they embark on a road trip to keep a promise they made to their son.

Klune sells very well at my shop. He is good at doing what he does, and what he does is gay, twee, and glurgy. I did not enjoy The House on the Cerulean Sea and I did not enjoy this either. Both of them made my eyes glaze over. I started both of them, disliked them both, started skimming, still was bored and irritated, then skipped to the end to see how it all came out. Then I learned some information that made me revise my opinion of the book even lower. In the case of The House in the Cerulean Sea, it was an interview where he mentioned that his sappy, trivializing book was inspired by the Sixties Scoop. In the case of We Burned So Bright, it was his afterword.

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Klune's books are very deeply meaningful for a lot of my customers, but UGH. The best thing I can say about it is that I quite like the covers.

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Title: Too Late!
Fandom: Spooks (MI5)
Rating: G
Length: 544 words
Summary: For the second time in the week Lucas arrives too late.

( Lucas sat in his car )

There's an interesting conversation going on at

meta_warehouse, mainly on fandom as consumerism with the discussion happening both as reactions in journal entries and in the comments on the comm. I wasn't too sure about the original article myself (a lot of "you are not enjoying things the right way" moments) so I didn't have any comment about it, but the conversation seems to have quickly moved on to what wasn't addressed in the article, and how terms like "fanon" have changed in recent years (like, basically there is less of a concept of fanon because of the way readers/watchers treat the original material and fan theories nowadays). I dunno, the thought got my brain juices engaged and that's always something I enjoy.

Coming across a link I wanted to share reminded me that I still have that not insignificant list of links from a while back that I now need to reread before I share... Gah!! Well. Let's get started with one!

Via

otw_news_feed, OTW Guest Post: Camilo Díaz Pino. Okay, that was an absolute delight to reread, totally recommended especially if you're into Japanese media fandoms. From my not-useless-for-once notes: "I particularly enjoyed this 5 questions OTW guest post about 'fans' who don't necessarily consider themselves fans in the context of Asian media culture becoming a normal part of the culture in Latin America for decades, for example with the president of Chile having a favourite pokemon, or the story about leftist activist organisations recreating scene from Dragon Ball Z to encourage everyone to get together to recreate a 'spirit bomb' like Goku asked the people of earth to do (I actually don't remember/know that scene, but I find how the speaker described it in the post incredibly moving)." I agree with you, past self!

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Welp. I ended up being kidnapped by a friend for a large chunk of the day, so there went all of my plans to catch up on things that I'm behind on.

I need to get up early to head into the office tomorrow, but I'm currently wide awake so we'll see how things go. My sleep schedule always gets out of whack when I have a long weekend, so I'm not going to be surprised if I end up staying up half the night, get 2-3 hours of sleep in, and then crash for a few hours after work. Maybe my body will surprise me, though.

If it does as I'm expecting it to go, at least I'll have a few hours to try to catch up on some things before I get tired enough to actually fall asleep.

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1. Well, so much for the three week pee-free streak. :-/ I woke up this morning to find Jasper had had an accident at some point in the night (or maybe early morning as it seemed pretty fresh). It was in a fairly easy to clean up spot and was on a small cat blanket that had been peed on a couple times years ago (during nervous vet visits) so that may have triggered it. It's a bummer that it happened at all, but three weeks is a better record than three days, which is what it was down to before, so fingers crossed it doesn't happen again any time soon.

2. We went to see The Mandalorian and Grogu this morning and it was really fun! I honestly don't remember much about where the show ended, but it's not necessary as the movie is pretty stand-alone.

3. We got our bbq tri tip sandwiches from the neighborhood market for lunch and they were so good! We got them a few times last summer, so I knew they would be, but I'd forgotten how good lol. Definitely will be getting those again soon.

4. I have been meaning to order baskets for our new bikes and finally got around to doing that today. If I'd been thinking, I would have just had the bike shop order them when we bought the bikes (they had the front basket in stock but not the back one), but I did not. The bikes do come with a back rack and I've used a bungee cord to strap stuff on there a couple times already, but a basket will definitely make it easier for times when a shoulder bag doesn't really work.

5. I really enjoyed my three day weekend. Wish I wasn't going back to work tomorrow, but so it goes. I did request some time off next month, the weekend of my birthday, but also the weekend before that. We're going to Pride Nite at Disneyland on the 18th, so I put in for the 19th off, which is a Friday, to give myself a three day weekend. Then I noticed that 4th of July falls on a weekend, so our company holiday will be on Friday the 3rd, which means with the time off I've requested I'll have a three day weekend, a four day weekend, and then another three day weekend. That will definitely help get me through the month lol.

6. Gemma loves to use this dresser to jump up on the high shelves in Carla's closet.

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[Prompt #496] Viola come il mare / Moonlight Break

April fic stats meme now in May apparently

I am sometimes a teeny tiny bit stupid

Wednesday Word: Deliquescence

Procrastinating

Dr Who - Collateral D.

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Prompt: #496 - Exhaust

Tuesday word: Comestible

We Burned So Bright, by TJ Klune (DNF)

Late: Spooks (MI5): Fanfic: Too Late!

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