firewhiskeyfic | "How dry I am, How dry I am, Nobody knows how dry I am"

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Welcome to the 'Not-So-Dry January' edition of

firewhiskeyfic! We, your Mods -

sdk and

torino10154, are so glad you could make it. We love everyone today. Feel free to friend us on DW. We promise not to stalk you... much. :D

Your challenges for this round are:

Hagrid

Forbidden Forest

Stripped Bare

Cuddling by the Fire

Ice and Snow

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

Quick clarification for newbies: you don't have to use all the prompts--though that does make for a fun fic!--but since one of the categories for voting is "Best Use of Prompt" we do recommend using at least one. We try to have a few prompts each round that are not HP-specific.

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And just so we're clear, you don't have to write pr0n, though it definitely makes for interesting reading when characters change right in the middle of shagging because you're too drunk to remember who you're writing about. ;) You can write for any fandom (including original), but though we're getting more diversity, we're still fairly HP-focused. Anything goes!

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Shelly is starting the night with prosecco which was so good on NYE while Torino is trying to decide what to pair with the bottle of coconut rum she got for Christmas!

Let's get our drunk on!

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From:

torino10154

I just saw this and it's perfect for FWF.

Word of the day: 'spuddle'

17th century. To work ineffectively, to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.

Cheers! :D

From:

sdk

ahaha, that is my life, bb

From:

torino10154

Same. LOL

From:

oldtoadwoman

I have never related to a word so hard. I have been spuddling my entire adult life. So much spuddling.

From:

torino10154

It could be my middle name! *nods*

From:

tjs_whatnot

HOW DARE YOU FIND A WORD THAT DESCRIBRS MY WHOLE LIFE AND CAQLL ME OUT ON IT RIGHT NOW!!!

From:

torino10154

LMAO I am noticing a theme. Maybe it wasn't perfect for FWF so much as it was perfect for the participants of FWF. :D

From:

ride_4ever

Now I need an icon that says "spuddle"....

From:

torino10154

I should get it as a tattoo. LMAO

From:

ride_4ever

Do you have tattoos? I <3 tattoos and have fannish tattoos on both arms from wrist to shoulder (and getting two more this year).

From:

torino10154

I have no tattoos at all. LOL My daughter has enough for the rest of the family though.

From:

ride_4ever

Is your daughter fannish and with fannish tattoos...or other tattoo themes?

From:

torino10154

Not fannish really. She's got song lyrics, butterflies, flowers to represent our family members, a barbed wire heart that says Mom, other stuff I'm forgetting I'm sure.

From:

ride_4ever

Song lyric tattoo, yes! I have one of those (but mine is fannish...a lyric from a very key song in due South).

From:

oldtoadwoman

I'm too fickle for tattoes. How do I decide on something permanent?? What if I change my mind? What if I think of soemthing better thatn Ishoudl have done instead??

From:

ride_4ever

Yes, those are frequently asked and reasonably asked questions. When I was in my mid-50s and knew that due South was both my primary fandom and my forever fandom is when I knew I could chose tattoos that I would always love and that would always be meaningful to me.

You are such a wonderful artist. If you ever did really want a tattoo, I don't see how you could go wrong with supplying the art for it from your own artwork.

From:

oldtoadwoman

I'm honestly kind of fond of those deliberately bad tattoes, like when people get a tattoo of a crayon drawing their kid made. But then I also like the super expensive ones by sought-after tattoo artists that just look magical. Yet I don't think those styles mix well.

From:

ride_4ever

I have no kids and didn't even know that a tattoo of one's kid's crayon drawing was a thing. I have the sought-after-artist type of tattoos (in two cases I even had tattoos done outside the U.S. because the tattooist I wanted at that time was in England).

From:

oldtoadwoman

Yes, yes, google "tattoos of kids drawings". They are adorable. So adorable. So bad but so adorable. I love them.

But, yes, sought-after-artist is the way to go. There's a huge difference between "deliberately bad for the kitch factor" and actually mediocre and I don't understand why people get mediocre tattoos. Mind you, I'm cheap and drunk and make bad decisions and if someone offered me a cheap tattoo at this very moment, I'd rpobably be like, "Ink me up! I want a happy frog that looks like it was drawn by a six-year-old! Or a convincingly realistic trompe l'oeil patch style frog. Can you do that cheap? The bad crayon drawing is cheaper? Cool. Let's rock!"

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songquake

Yet I don't think those styles mix well.

*snort*

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From:

torino10154

This is half my problem. *nods*

From:

torino10154

Hers is Queen. "Your smile speaks books to me."

TBH I always figured, if I got anything, it would be shippy but like only I would know the significance--well, besides other people who were in my corner of fandom. So I mean something that came from a fic rather than just general HP fandom. I used to have a few examples but it would be more like getting a tattoo that so and so had in a fic or something that was significant in a story.

There's an old, classic fic that in this pivotal scene, one character has words written on them by the other and there's a Latin phrase in it, Ephemeris corpus. I've often thought of using that. But there may be better options. Hence my indecision. LOL Well, and explaining to people what it means.

From:

ride_4ever

Speaking of "getting a tattoo that so and so had in a fic or something that was significant in a story": that tattoo on Callum Keith Rennie's arm (see icon) is for realz and not painted on for playing a part -- and I have that tattoo for realz also -- and another one of my tattoos is fanart from a fic on which I did beta my very first fic beta.