Darkness can not drive out darkness

Only light can do that
Hate can not drive out hate
Only love can do that
- Martin Luther King Jr

Sitting down and reading even the sound bites quotes that float around in memes this day you realize what a special man Martin Luther King Jr was, what an enlightened soul. It's a shame we haven't followed his philosophies 50 odd years later. This past year has proven that But he is right, no amount of hate and anger will solve these problems. The anger needs to be channeled into just actions which is far easier said than done. It's still worth the effort.

I can't believe the Snowflake challenge is over already. That means we're already 2 weeks into this year. You can't tell it because it's so flipping warm. The creek nearly flooded over the weekend because of the heat and rain.

I got more work done on the kitchen today, not as much as I wanted but at least it was headway. I finished another round of notes and another two chapters on Blood Red Roulette.

My Steampunk Christmas is not quite 2K long and it has...I don't know hit a wall. I'm glad it wants to be short as my short stories are often very long. I can see this one coming in at 5K. But I'm wondering if there should be an airship pirate interlude before Jacob manages to get home with Al's CHristmas gift? Anyone want to read 1800 words of steampunk goofiness and see what you think?

I got a lot of fun things at fandom_stocking but I'm feeling lazy so I'll link you up tomorrow. I'll start sharing what I wrote once I know the recipients have seen theirs first. (and hopefully no one minds).

Fic- The Taste of Jealousy

Title – The Taste of Jealousy
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer – DC/Vertigo Comics
Rating – PG 13
Characters/Pairing – Amenadial, Mazikeen & Lucifer
Word Count – 414
Warning – none
Summary –Amendial learns what jealousy is like.
Author’s Note – written for evil_little_dog for the holidays 2016 for fandom_stocking and for allbingo for the song title ‘tainted love.’

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( The Taste of Jealousy )