The 11th Day of WIPness

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- On the eleventh day of Wipness my wordies gave to me: Tweaking the returned from beta WIP!
- Beta reading someone’s WIP
- Submission WIPness beta
- Finished rough draft
- One hundred words
- One hundred fifty words
- THREE HUNDRED WORDS!
- Two hundred words
- One hundred fifty words
- One hundred words
- And a plan to finish it ASAP.

Fix the typo's, admire that someone cares enough to make you great, get that WIP DONE!

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Word of the Day 12/29/21 Cenotaph

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Cenotaph (noun)
cenotaph [ sen-uh-taf, -tahf ]

noun
1. a sepulchral monument erected in memory of a deceased person whose body is buried elsewhere.

OTHER WORDS FROM CENOTAPH
cen·o·taph·ic [sen-uh-taf-ik], adjective

WORDS RELATED TO CENOTAPH
gravestone, headstone, marker, masterpiece, mausoleum, pillar, shrine, slab, statue, stele, stone, tablet, testament, tomb, tombstone, tribute, edifice, memorial, monolith, monument

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Origin: 1595–1605; < Latin cenotaphium < Greek kenotáphion, equivalent to kenó(s) empty + -taphion (táph(os) tomb + -ion diminutive suffix)

HOW TO USE CENOTAPH IN A SENTENCE
Others think it may be a cenotaph, built to house Alexander himself but then left empty after Ptolemy made off with his body.
IS THIS ALEXANDER THE GREAT’S TOMB?|JAMES ROMM|SEPTEMBER 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Walking in the rain toward the cenotaph, I observed that about every other person wore a red paper poppy in the lapel.
LESSONS FROM ANOTHER WAR|CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY|NOVEMBER 12, 2009|DAILY BEAST

One of the figures guarding the Maximilian cenotaph wears a precisely similar hauberk.
ARMOUR IN ENGLAND|J. STARKIE GARDNER

And this self-denying ordinance speaks more for James Moore's love of his lost wife than many a lordly cenotaph.
BOB, SON OF BATTLE|ALFRED OLLIVANT

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Word of the Day 12/30/21 Desolate

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Desolate (adjective, verb)
desolate [ adjective des-uh-lit; verb des-uh-leyt ]

adjective
1. barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
2. deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited.
3. solitary; lonely: a desolate life.
4. having the feeling of being abandoned by friends or by hope; forlorn.
5. dreary; dismal; gloomy: desolate prospects.

verb (used with object), des·o·lat·ed, des·o·lat·ing.
6. to lay waste; devastate.
7. to deprive of inhabitants; depopulate.
8. to make disconsolate.
9. to forsake or abandon.

OTHER WORDS FROM DESOLATE
des·o·late·ly, adverb
des·o·late·ness, noun
des·o·lat·er, des·o·la·tor, noun
qua·si-des·o·late, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH DESOLATE
dissolute

WORDS RELATED TO DESOLATE
bare, bleak, derelict, dreary, empty, isolated, lonely, lonesome, uninhabited, forlorn, abandoned, desert, destroyed, forsaken, ruined, waste, black, blue, dejected, down

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OTHER WORDS FOR DESOLATE
1. bleak.
2. remote.
3. lonesome.
4. lost; miserable, wretched, woebegone, woeful, inconsolable, cheerless, hopeless.
6. ravage, ruin.
8. sadden, depress.
9. desert.

SYNONYM STUDY FOR DESOLATE
4. Desolate, disconsolate, forlorn suggest one who is in a sad and wretched condition. The desolate person is deprived of human consolation, relationships, or presence: desolate and despairing. The disconsolate person is aware of the efforts of others to console and comfort, but is unable to be relieved or cheered by them: She remained disconsolate even in the midst of friends. The forlorn person is lost, deserted, or forsaken by friends: wretched and forlorn in a strange city.

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OPPOSITES FOR DESOLATE
4. delighted, happy.

Origin: 1325–75; Middle English < Latin dēsōlātus forsaken, past participle of dēsōlāre, equivalent to dē-de- + sōlāre to make lonely, derivative of sōlussole; see -ate

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Thursday Tropes: Week 50

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This is it! The last tropes for 2021! Thanks, H and K for letting me do (almost) a full year of tropes. And I only managed to miss 2 times. I feel like that's great for me considering I thought I'd miss more weeks.



Descriptions will be pulled from TV Tropes and a link provided if you want more information.

The rules? They're simple. Write at least 250 words or create 2 icons/1 banner. Anything from suggestive to outright porn is allowed.

Two tropes to end 2021!

Tyrannical Town Tycoon: He owns the waterworks, the railroad and the hotel on Baltic Avenue. If you cross him he'll not only burn down your house, but throw your mother out of work and send your best friend to the morgue. Forget about going to the police because he owns them too. Your only hope is to somehow recruit that stranger with the mysterious past, or, if you can find them, some mercenaries.

The Tyrannical Town Tycoon is the capitalist successor to the previous class of landed gentry that used to fill the same role. Naturally there are numerous examples that helped inspired the trope and made such fingers highly salient to everyday people. Often portrayed as a Patriarch (or Matriarch) of an extended family that can serve as their muscle, he often succeed in completely cowing the entire town into accepting their villainy, even in societies where one wouldn't expect it.

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New Year Has Come: As sure as the taxes, it comes at the end of every year: the New Year. Time for looking back, looking forward, and just going crazy. Time to celebrate and do all the things that for obvious reasons you couldn't do in the Christmas Episode.

Manga and anime love the New Year; in Japan, it's essentially the biggest holiday of the year (Christmas, which is the biggest holiday of the year in North America, is celebrated a bit differently there). This is where you can show all the girls and some of the boys looking good in kimono while making the traditional visit to the local shrine. Of course you can also dress some of them up as Miko (yes, some of the boys, too!) to manage the crowds and sell charms and fortunes to visitors. Or you can just let them stay up late to see the first sunrise of the new year—if they can stay awake, of course!

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A very late Swap of Joy for asphaltcowgrrl

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I am a very bad mod - I took on this challenge thinking I'd have heaps of time to get it done, and then as it was getting very late and I still hadn't done anything, took a week's holiday with my family just before it was due! HUGS and HUGE apologies to asphaltcowgrrl for the delay in getting your SoJ fill finished.

( Here is your gift at last! )

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Daily count challenge to simplyn2deep

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Had a fairly productive day writing-wise. Got my journaling done in the morning, then wrote 825 words throughout the day. Now it's off to bed and tomorrow I'll try to squeeze in a few more before the year is out.

simplyn2deep, the ball is in your court to close out 2021. Wishing you a wonderfully creative day ahead!