Word of the Day 01/04/16 Meretricious

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Meretricious (adjective)
meretricious [mer-i-trish-uh s]

adjective
1. alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
2. based on pretense, deception, or insincerity.
3. pertaining to or characteristic of a prostitute.

Can be confused
meritorious

Synonyms
1. showy, gaudy.
2. spurious, sham, false.

Origin: 1620-30; < Latin meretrīcius of, pertaining to prostitutes, derivative of meretrīx prostitute = mere-, stem of merēre to earn + -trīx -trix; see -ous

Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.

Miraculous Monday!

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In cast you missed it, we made our goal for 2015. No biggie, right? Just 15.9 MILLION WORDS!

I am so thoroughly excited! I've been telling everyone. The guy at the pizza place tried to hide his excitement, but I could see it there.

But now it's a new Monday, new month, new year! And so far 'this year' the catch phrase I've been seeing is "EVEN MORE AWESOME". I can see this as us. I totally can.

HUGE thank you to H, who threw together some information gathering posts. Go forth and check them out if you haven't already. Here, here, and here. She is awesome and deserves some applause. In then next we or so we'll be going over everything and trying to spread some things out and get things scheduled.

I was supposed to post about this month's challenge and have failed miserably. There have been some issues at home, but I'm hoping to have the post up by the end of the day. The challenge this month is Rare Pairs, so think on that until I get things in gear.

Now, tell me how awesome you've been, and your awesome plans for this week/month/year!

And also pat yourselves on the back for a 2015 that reached its goals!!!!

RARE PAIR CHALLENGE!!!

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So I'm late, but... IT'S RARE PAIR MONTH!!!

*dance of joy* *dance of joy* *dance of joy*

I do love the idea of rare pairs. It's one of my fav things! The problem I find is that some pairs occur to be by the way the writers write them in canon or the way they snark. But a lot of others just don't occur to me. I'm just conditioned that when I think Inception I think Arthur/Eames and Yusuf/Mal never crosses my mind. It happens with every fandom I play in. I just can't see beyond my nose until someone adjusts my glasses.

So let's chat for a bit about fandoms and rare pairs. Leave a suggestion of a rare pair from a fandom or seven, leave a suggestion of a scenario, leave a prompt, leave an image.

Also - This year let's not define rare pairs as what is rare to fandom, but what is rare for you. If you've always shipped Stiles/Allison take a stab at something different for you!

The challenges can be met with written words (min of 1,000) or graphic words (min 5 icons). OR in the spirit of rare pairs, you could work together with someone you've never worked with and give us something twice as nice!

As always, hit us with any questions!

Z is for Zoo

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Title: Home Is Where The Unit Is
Author: Kat Lee
Fandom: Penguins of Madagascar
Character/Pairing: Private, Mild Skipper/Private
Rating: G/K
Challenge/Prompt: 1_million_words A to Z Challenge: Z
Warning(s): None
Word Count: 417
Date Written: 4 January, 2016
Summary: ( Private's thoughts on living at a zoo. )