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xmen100 is a weekly drabble challenge for the X-Men!

o1. Join the community & you can JOIN AT ANYTIME!!
o2. Read the rules/FAQ. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
o3. Once you're a member and have read the rules, be prepared to join a team.
04. Start writing once the prompt is posted!

This first prompt will be last two weeks, from July 27th to August 10th.

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Let us abandon then our gardens and go home
And sit in the sitting-room
Shall the larkspur blossom or the corn grow under this cloud?
Sour to the fruitful seed
Is the cold earth under this cloud,
Fostering quack and weed, we have marched upon but cannot
conquer;
We have bent the blades of our hoes against the stalks of them.

Let us go home, and sit in the sitting room.
Not in our day
Shall the cloud go over and the sun rise as before,
Beneficent upon us
Out of the glittering bay,
And the warm winds be blown inward from the sea
Moving the blades of corn
With a peaceful sound.

Forlorn, forlorn,
Stands the blue hay-rack by the empty mow.
And the petals drop to the ground,
Leaving the tree unfruited.
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted—
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.

What from the splendid dead
We have inherited —
Furrows sweet to the grain, and the weed subdued —
See now the slug and the mildew plunder.
Evil does overwhelm
The larkspur and the corn;
We have seen them go under.

Let us sit here, sit still,
Here in the sitting-room until we die;
At the step of Death on the walk, rise and go;
Leaving to our children's children the beautiful doorway,
And this elm,
And a blighted earth to till
With a broken hoe.

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It's time for another question thread!

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- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

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Please join us for the weekly TS chat on Saturday, July 19th, at 7 pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)/19:00 UTC. That could be as early as 12 pm if you’re on the west coast of North America, or 3 pm if you’re on the east coast, or 8 pm in the UK, or early Sunday morning in Australia or New Zealand.

We’re in the usual place: http://us25.chatzy.com/81935648447483. There’s nothing to download or install, just choose a name and a color and click on “join chat.”

Our topic this week: is there a character in TS that you feel got the short end of the stick or was otherwise treated unfairly by the show/the writers?

Next week we’re going to do some timed writing sprints – that involves chatting for a bit, then writing for a specific period of time (usually 20-25 minutes), and then chatting, and then writing, and so on. Bring something you’re working on, or get some inspiration from the last ep we watched, Vow of Silence, or ask us for another prompt.

See you there!

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About the comm.

It's one part dream.
One part disaster.
And absolutely 100% fandom.

It's Your OTPs/Fandoms combined with our chaos.

Challenge(s) 2025:

Challenge 1: Hodge Podge A new challenge idea I came up with all sorts of things to get players rolling out the fills and scoring points! SIGNS REMAIN OPEN THROUGHOUT THE ROUND

Sign up: July 3 Rd to July 19th @ 8PM EST / 12AM GTM
Opening Date: July 20
Closing Date: October 12

I hope to have a variety of challenges in this comm, but they make take some time for me to figure out as I don't want to copy other comms out there. I have an idea or two for an abbreviated challenge after this one and I'll be working on getting it ready go if you guys want to play with me again after this round

It's been a week so I am advertising again

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Andrea Gibson died yesterday of ovarian cancer. They were a great guiding light of spoken word, and their poem "Ashes" was a touchstone for me as a teenager. In their honor:

Watch on YouTube

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XMEN100 IS BACK

Green Energy

Justice Denied In Massachusetts by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question thread #143

Climate Change

Nanotechnology

Green Building

Conservation

Early Humans

Permaculture

Weekly chat reminder

Volcanoes

Invasive Species

Anthropocene

Our FIRST ROUND starts on SUNDAY!!!

Challenge(s) 2025:

Earthquakes

Evolution

Paleontology

"Royal Heart," by Andrea Gibson, of blessed memory

Fossils

April