No promises on length.

[taennyn]

But hey. It's been a while since I did a sparks post, hasn't it. :)


Wild Roses:
ripple effect - Gideon; appears to be related to unexpected and unrefusable cargo 1

(interpret as liberally as you like) - early Crown Navy era, Ulysse and Lida

Putting one foot in front of another - Trickwood Unification, Ruadhan (appears to be in the period between arrangements and arguments [where Dón knows Ruadhan's into the woods but has no idea whatsoever exactly where he is], and when Ruadhan actually shows up in Hernén's demesnes and starts being his irritatingly noisy self all over the woods.)
figures emerging from mist - Trickwood Unification, Evescha and Ioann
A thin layer of ice on everything - Trickwood Unification, Ioann and Evescha
second verse, same as the first - Trickwood Unification, Ruadhan
swans - Trickwood Unification, Geoffrey, references unexpected and unrefusable cargo 2
"actually, that's their version of a friendly hello" - Trickwood Unification, unknown
bees in a glass jar - Some Kind of Love Song, 'Jack Gibson'
"I already gave you my decision" - Trickwood Unification, Jared and Hernén

=DDDD - Jonathan Sabaey and his Sense of Impending Doom

that godsdamned ticking - Alternate Earths, Yasha

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Witches' Horses:
"Don't write THAT down" - Sibir, Stas
loss of vision/sight - Sibir, Nadya
passing the bottle around the campfire - Sibir, Nadya
working on 72 hours without sleep - Sibir, Nadya

Blue glass - Chevalier de Grammont, Grammont and Sinclair

Untapped amber - Falcons' Feathers, Irina
no really it will fit - Falcons' Feathers, Khenbish

The kind of soup one can only get at home - Swallow's Tale, Taarstad
"what's the fuzzball chewing on now?" - Swallow's Tale, Helena and Sascha

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Deaths:
sparkling like water - The Morrigan
Clock tower - Julian De'Ath
Booby trap(s) - The Morrigan
insufficient resources - Deaths, Julian and Eduard De'Ath

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The Mummy Series:
the gravitational pull of bed - Mummy postscript, Evie Carnahan
"what is my life what are my choices" - Rick O'Connell
pie - Evie Carnahan and Rick O'Connell
"Why am I juggling magicians?" - Evie Carnahan, Rick O'Connell, Jonathan Carnahan

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Other:
OH GODS FINALLY - Unknown
tumbleweeds - Unknown

Comments

tumbleweeds - unknown

[taennyn]

They used to joke that her hair was like tumbleweeds. Unruly, wind-tossed, inclined to go where it liked and ignore the rules that said it wasn't allowed.

She would have protested, but she liked the desert imagery. Bought jackrabbit and roadrunner pins, wore sagebrush scarves and sunglasses.

Did up her hair with styling wax and strategic wires one year for Halloween and went to a party as an anthropomorphic tumbleweed, raspy branches and all, did somersaults for the camera on a backyard trampoline and won a prize for most creative costume.

Re: tumbleweeds - unknown

[zero_pixel_count]

Are they actually a real thing, tumbleweeds? Like, do they really root back down?

Re: tumbleweeds - unknown

[klgaffney]

Yup, they're for real. Had a violation for them once, we had to clear a whole 4 acres because they're considered invasive as hell. They're also known as Russian thistles. They grow up normal, green bushy plants, and then they dry out, die, the stem breaks and the plant skeleton rolls/bounces away on the least breeze. It's how they disperse their seeds.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/tumbleweeds/johnson-text

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[klgaffney]

Haha, clever. Does she wander too? Go peering at all the abandoned places with the rusty no trespassing signs attached?

https://www.tumbleweedgems.com/