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paradoxcase

Name: An Attempt At Communication
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #1: Dream, Warm Heart #27: Pretence
Styles and Supplies: Silhouette, Life Drawing, Charcoal, Canvas, Chalk (Scientsts Infiltrated Volunteers' Dreams to Boost Their Creative Thinking)
Word Count: 664
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Qhoroali, Setsiana
In-Universe Date: Night of 1912.5.2.5
Summary: Today was the day... wasn't it?

( An Attempt At Communication )

thisbluespirit

Name: One Good Turn
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #24 (Bored)
Supplies and Styles: Thread + Novelty Beads (11 Years of Rainbow Fic - September Secrets "Read") + Pastels (also for

genprompt_bingo square "Repeats and Repetitions").
Word Count: 1666
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Osmer Nivyrn, Yitava Pollens.
Summary: Leion and Osmer help each other out.

( One Good Turn )

paradoxcase

Name: First Kiss
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Singularity
Colors: Warm Heart #25: Spite
Styles and Supplies: Gesso, Silhouette, Life Drawing, Tempera ("Seven of cups is the card for day dreaming, illusions, wishful thinking, and fantasies. This card usually shows up when you have plenty of choices and need a vision to make them a reality. This card prompts you to prioritize your values and goals, and differentiate between what is truly important to you and what merely appears enticing in the moment. It serves as a gentle warning not to lose yourself in a maze of illusions and distractions."), Oils ("I wish I had your confidence."), Stain ("Treasure your relationships, not your possessions." - Anthony J. D'Angelo)
Word Count: 2405
Rating: PG
Warnings: Teenagers (Also, there is another trans character in here who is being misgendered/deadnamed due to not having figured out they are trans yet. However, since they don't actually figure themselves out during the course of this piece, which character it is will remain a mystery for the time being.)
Characters: Garrett Thomas, Benjamin Thomas, Casey Hanby, Victor Thomas, Matilda Bren
Summary: Garrett and Benjamin make a bet.
Notes: The full name of this plot thread is a slight spoiler at the moment, so for now it will just be known as "Singularity". This is related to the Grant/Scott/William plotline in that it is partly about Grant and Scott's younger relatives (see the Sim Notes for how all these guys are related), and I'll be leapfrogging these two plotlines for a little bit. One other thing to note here is that these are supposed to be fairly young teenagers at this stage in the plotline, but I wasn't really thinking about whether they'd be able to drive yet or not, since Sims teens can all drive as soon as they age up from children. So please just imagine that the driving age in Sim World is like 13 or something.

( First Kiss )

( Gesso Notes (162 words) )

( Sim Pictures and Notes (731 words) )

dray

Name: Dray
Story:

everwood
Colors: True Blue 21) The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb. Ignition Yellow 9) I'll find somebody who will stitch me up, though I've never been better than when falling apart Blue Caravan 3) Something keeps you faithful when all else in you turns and runs
Supplies and Styles: Not this one!
Word Count: 3,570
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Notes: Tragedy strikes Brandili's family home and she intends to fix things before they get worse. (This happens quite a few years after the previous post!)

( Urdasvale was still sullenly smoking, a day after the initial attack. )

dray

Name: Dray
Story:

everwood
Colors: True Blue 2) Blood siblings, Ignition Yellow 14) There's a fire in sky, some snow on the ground, not quite enough cigarettes to calm me down, Blue Caravan 1) My true love is a man who never existed at all
Supplies and Styles: Acrylics ("And was it worth it? All that effort?"), wood (I've had this sitting in wait in my docs since around this time last year!), Canvas and Frame (the italicized bit is from before the bulk of Everwood, and the rest is from after Boyce's main arc, which is the focus of most of the story), Diptych (I think; these two portions of the story frame the way that Brandili acts for a good chunk of the main plot!)
Word Count: 986
Rating: PG
Warnings: CW for political marriage, rape and unwanted pregnancy, and revenge
Notes: Brandili makes a pact with a very reluctant magister to right a wrong done years ago

( Pale fingers play through Brandili's waves of black hair )

paradoxcase

Name: A New Substance
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #30: Stop
Styles and Supplies: Stain ("If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." - Professor Irwin Corey)
Word Count: 489
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.5.2.1
Summary: Qhoroali makes a new discovery.

( A New Substance )

paradoxcase

Name: Belated Truths
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #15: Fool, Warm Heart #16: Misery
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Charcoal, Modeling Clay (this image prompt), Watercolors ("This week consider some of your greatest fears, anything from creepy crawlies to the loss of loved ones to melodramatic betrayal. Write a short story that revolves around one of these fears, concocting an arc that fluctuates between moments of slow, modulated actions and descriptions of higher tensions. Do you find yourself inclined to take the story to intense extremes or to end things on a simmer?")
Word Count: 1543
Rating: T+
Warnings: Discussion of sex, some past self-imposed dubconish situations (not really sure how to tag this), and past suicidal ideation
Characters: Qhoroali, Liselye
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.5.6
Summary: Qhoroali and Liselye have a personal conversation.

( Belated Truths )

thisbluespirit

Name: Fleeting Visit
Story: Starfall
Colors: Azul #10 (Guardian)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 636
Rating: G
Warnings:
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Ivina Gerro, Viyony Eseray. Takes place the day after Loose Ends.
Summary: Leion gets the message he's been waiting for.

( Fleeting Visit )

thisbluespirit

Name: Loose Ends
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #20 (Conceit)
Supplies and Styles: Giftwrap + Thread
Word Count: 1788
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Tess Hyan. Continues on soon after Against the Flow.
Summary: Leion makes some enquiries.

( Loose Ends )

paradoxcase

Name: Tying Up A Loose End
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #14: Return, Realgar #16: Mend
Styles and Supplies: Calendar Page (Just Do It Day)
Word Count: 1602
Rating: T
Warnings: Fantasy Drug (Ab)use
Characters: Setsiana, Bríghlot, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.5.6, 1647.2.1.5
Summary: Setsiana apologizes to her mother.
Notes: Alas, Setsiana's mom's name did not actually wind up in the text after all.

( Tying Up A Loose End )

silvercat17

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( banners for ParadoxCase )

I hadn't done the generic for Tempera, so here it is:

paradoxcase

Name: A Concerning Request
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Warm Heart #2: Worry
Styles and Supplies: Novelty Bead ("train whistle", given here), Panorama, Reimagining, Feathers (January 19, 1975: Establishment of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Word Count: 2687
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Cusäfä
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.5.3, 21st century, (approximately) -10,000
Summary: Qhoroali pays another visit to Cusäfä.
Notes: I decided the first Cusäfä chapter was entirely too long and had way too much stuff in it, so I removed all of the worldbuilding that was not immediately relevant to that earlier part of the story and moved it into this later scene (about 1500 words of dialog, which has since been neatened up and expanded with more action beats). So if some stuff in here seems like it something you already read before, it's probably because you did. There is some new stuff in here, too, but since a large chunk of it is rewritten from the previous scene, it gets the Reimagining tag.

( A Concerning Request )

paradoxcase

Name: Practical Magic
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Grant/Scott/William
Colors: Warm Heart #5: Need
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing, Silhouette, Gesso
Word Count: 1923
Rating: PG
Warnings: Deadnaming and misgendering of a trans character from their own POV, because they don't really figure themselves out until the end of this piece (their real name is a spoiler until the end of this one, hence the grey bar in the plot thread name and the character list)
Characters: Grant Thomas/Scott Hanby, Bethany Ramirez
Summary: Margery Thomas had always been different.
Notes: New plot thread, about a different part of the neighborhood. See the sim notes for how these sims are related to the existing ones. Please let me know if I messed up any of the trans stuff in here, this is mainly written based on having talked to other people about their experiences, rather than based on my own personal experiences.

( Practical Magic )

( Gesso Notes (163 words) )

( Sim Notes and Pictures (233 words) )

paradoxcase

Name: What Might Have Been
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Bittersweet #8: Missed Opportunities, Warm Heart #15: Anger
Styles and Supplies: Life Drawing
Word Count: 926
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Sapfita
In-Universe Date: Night of 1912.4.4.5
Summary: Setsiana has a dream of Sapfita.

( What Might Have Been )

thisbluespirit

Name: Against the Flow
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #26 (Hatred); Azul 25 (No promise of salvation)
Supplies and Styles: Giftwrap
Word Count: 2960
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions of (fantasy) drug abuse.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan. Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Eollan Barra, Ivina Gerro. Carries on from and your light can't guide me.
Summary: Leion is not in the mood for celebration.

( Against the Flow )

paradoxcase

Name: Self-Reflection
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #2: Seek
Styles and Supplies: Photography, Life Drawing
Word Count: 481
Rating: T
Warnings: Discussion of sex
Characters: Setsiana
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.4.5
Summary: Setsiana thinks about her feelings.

( Self-Reflection )

paradoxcase

Name: Matters of the Heart
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Realgar #13: Express
Styles and Supplies: Silhouette, Life Drawing
Word Count: 1961
Rating: T
Warnings: Discussion of Sexuality and Sex
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.4.5
Summary: Setsiana and Qhoroali discuss past relationships.
Notes: One of the scenes that I always felt was a focal point of the story. The others are the abduction scene way back at the very beginning, and the third-to-last post, when I get there.

( Matters of the Heart )

paradoxcase

Name: Fatherhood
Story: Tales From the Neighborhood
Plot Thread: Michael, Robert, and Stephen
Colors: Realgar #3: Nourish
Styles and Supplies: Gesso, Pastels ("I['ll] miss you" prompt from Dad December, it originally was going to be posted on the 13th, but then I got behind), Fingerpainting (writing mpreg was unexpectedly hard), Chalk (Americans are Increasingly Convinced That Aliens Have Visited Earth), Vaudeville, Stain ("Dream in a pragmatic way." - Aldous Huxley), Novelty Bead (this image, given here)
Word Count: 2360
Rating: T
Warnings: (Really vague and undetailed) Mpreg, Minor Character Death
Characters: Stephen Bren, Victoria Ramirez, Todd Ramirez, Robert Bren, Eva Bren, Jasmine Rai, Michael Wolf, Kim Gaines
Summary: Something is missing from Stephen's life.

( Fatherhood )

( Gesso Notes (429 words) )

( Sim Pictures and Notes (738 words) )

paradoxcase

Name: Liberation
Story: The Fulcrum
Colors: Light Black #3: Trail, Realgar #20: Reference
Styles and Supplies: Thread, Panorama, Brushes (December 16, 2025: Conversant), Glue ("Try to keep your emotions in check today. It's possible that you could become extremely angry and do some damage to yourself and others around you. It's important to maintain certain modesty and humility at all times. You'll build good character that earns the respect of others, including your superiors.")
Word Count: 2889
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Characters: Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye
In-Universe Date: 1912.4.3.8, 1789
Summary: Setsiana, Qhoroali, and Liselye go to meet the Liberator.

( Liberation )

narrownights

Name: If He's Not Dead, He's In
Story: Everyone Sings and Explodes (AKA Nano Novel 2025)
Colour: Iridum #1: best tool for the job
Styles and Supplies: None
Word Count: 1023
Rating: T
Warnings: Strong language, some violence, blo
Characters: Wesley, Max, Milo, AJ (Mentions of Grey)
Summary: In urgent need of a new Singer for his band, Wesley lays his sights on a mysterious man who may or may not be dead.
( If He's Not Dead... )

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Light Black #1, Warm Heart #27 [The Fulcrum]

Warm Heart #24 [Starfall]

Warm Heart #25 [Tales From the Neighborhood]

Blue Caravan #3, Ignition Yellow #9, True Blue #21

Blue Caravan #1, Ignition Yellow #14, True Blue #2

Light Black #30 [The Fulcrum]

Light Black #15, Warm Heart #16 [The Fulcrum]

Azul #10 [Starfall]

Warm Heart #20 [Starfall]

Light Black #14, Realgar #16 [The Fulcrum]

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Warm Heart #5 [Tales From the Neighborhood]

Bittersweet #8, Warm Heart #15 [The Fulcrum]

Warm Heart #26; Azul #25 [Starfall]

Light Black #2 [The Fulcrum]

Realgar #13 [The Fulcrum]

Realgar #3 [Tales From the Neighborhood]

Light Black #3, Realgar #20 [The Fulcrum]

Iridium #1 [Everyone Sings and Explodes]

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