Angst, Fluff, and Inferno
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scribblemynameLet's take the third first. Overhauling the story from inferno, aka "Dowse and Bleed," left me feeling drained and exhausted, but it's out to beta and may she not find any more structural issues that need addressing. For that matter, may I not!
On angst: I write a lot of it. I know that. I've been buried it in lately and I feel a desperate need for something light, fluffy, and humorous, so on to point two:
Anyway I need something light and fluffy to clear out some headspace. Anyone want to give me
- A character or couple
- A random word or object
And I will write you a drabble: 100 words. No more. That'll keep my headspace break from getting out of hand. :grins:
Completed Drabbles
Seven Days
- Lena/Wesley – Unshelved Books
- Lena/Wesley – How Can You Pick?
- Connor + Wesley/Lena – What You Don't Know
- Connor + Wesley – Of Seeds and Men
- Connor + Wesley – Technically Strangers
- Wesley + Connor/Ashelynn – A Matter of Taste
- Lena/Wesley – Just for a Minute
- Lena/Wesley – The Dream Box
- Lena/Wesley – Two
- Angelita + Lena/Wesley – Photographic Evidence
- Connor/Ashelynn – A Long Night
- Connor + Angelita + Lena/Wesley – Lost Cause
Kingdoms and Thorn
- Red Wolf/Whisper – Bedtime
- Rachelle/Justus – Uncivilized
- Red Wolf/Whisper – Bluegrass
- Rachelle/Justus – Breathing Room
- Ashen + Red Wolf/Whisper – I Think She Likes It
- Shift + daughter – Once There Was a Princess
- Sketch/Lightsculpt – Waiting
- Storm + team ensemble – Love, War, and Popcorn
- Rachelle/Justus – Shirt Theft
- Rachelle/Justus – Crashing the Party
- Rachelle/Justus – You're Hired
- Storm + Surge – Pint-Size
- Sketch + Lightsculpt – Sculpting the Minutes
- Red Wolf/Whisper – What Little Girls are Made Of
- Storm + team ensemble + Anya – Wrapped
- Shift + daughter – Birth of Wings
- Sear + team ensemble – Popcorn Thief
- Shift + Kilter + daughter – What's in a Name?
- Ashen + Red Wolf – Defining Relationships
- Sketch/Lightsculpt – Letters from War
- Rachelle/Justus – Protective Measures
- Rachelle + the cat – Ode on the Death of a Favorite Shirt, Torn in the Claws of Sophocles
- Rachelle + team ensemble – The Coming of Sophocles
- Keeper/Brushfire – Remember the Lullaby
- Red Wolf/Whisper – A Quiet Interlude
- Keeper/Brushfire – As Good as a Promise
- Sketch/Lightsculpt – Call It a Night
- Rachelle/Justus + Sophie – This Child
Kingdoms and Thorn/Fire and Water Crossover Fanfic
- Sophocles + Chocolate – Pets of the Unusually Gifted
- Clown Fish + Sophocles – And Then the Deluge
X-Men Movieverse
- Rogue/Remy – Date Night In
X-Men Evoverse
- Rogue/Remy – Where, Oh Where Has My Flatiron Gone?
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-04 08:06 pm (UTC)Fire away, sister! I'm still scratching my head for Rett | Storm fluff. He's a little short on fluffiness.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-04 08:29 pm (UTC)(I did see something that confused me... Justus is a regular? I thought he was a special. I may have assumed all the operatives were, but I also got that impression from the 12% and the preprocessing and a few other things, so... I was a bit confused when I saw regular but then I wasn't able to figure out what his ability was, either. I thought I'd gotten the sense that he was a healer of some kind from an early draft of Dowse and Bleed, but.. he's not?)
Back to Lightsculpt and Sketch... How did she get out before the rebellion? Did he help her? Cate was voluntary, wasn't she? So was he? Was Sketch?
Hmm. As for Storm... He did show some concern for Whisper before, so maybe that's where the fluff would come in. The other thing I'd be curious about is what made him choose to step down and let Red lead.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-04 08:42 pm (UTC)Excerpted from Wake and Thrive:
An unnamed operative had been compromised, and Rett’s team held its collective breath until he informed them the operative would not be punished.
He wasn’t given the report on who it had been, only handed a slim file with the results of testing on two teenage males. One qualified for processing; for the other, standard initiating procedures would be fatal.
...
“What level of processing?” Rett kept his voice as uncaring as the man’s. There was no way in heaven or hell the Department intended to give him an operative to train who had retained memories of his life before.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-04 08:48 pm (UTC)I didn't catch that before. I kept thinking he was as modified as the others. Something about him being a special project, some kind of... perfection or something from one of those early drafts of Dowse, I think, and I didn't realize that meant that he was an operative without abilities.
Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Sculpting the Minutes
Date: 2013-09-05 08:24 pm (UTC)Sketch met the boy in the waiting area for medical. They were both young then, maybe ten. She passed the time by tracing his likeness with one finger in the air before her.
He paid attention but couldn’t tell what she was doing.
Abruptly, she forced the threads she had sketched to resolve—a charcoal-colored sculpture of air.
He stared at it for a long moment, then reached out and touched the barely tangible threads. Golden light flowed from his fingertip and overlaid her work with radiance.
Sketch caught her breath.
He smiled. “You like it?”
She named him, “Lightsculpt.”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Sculpting the Minutes
Date: 2013-09-05 10:16 pm (UTC)Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Sculpting the Minutes
Date: 2013-09-06 02:54 am (UTC)Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Sculpting the Minutes
Date: 2013-09-06 03:06 am (UTC)Sometimes we have to write stuff and have others point things we've missed/overlooked out to us.
Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Letters from War
Date: 2013-09-09 01:50 am (UTC)Sketch had a new/old name—Anna Kirsch—her birth name, and a new address in Ariat Springs. She was free from the Department for the first time in her life.
At three months, the first letter arrived.
Lightsculpt’s team had chosen to stay. Their work was important, and Anna couldn’t fault him for it, but each week, she pounced on the envelope wearing his neat upright handwriting. He never told her about the battles, only the team members, their relationships, the happy moments, their hopes and dreams.
And every week, he signed it with his own, “I’ll see you soon.”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Letters from War
Date: 2013-09-09 01:55 am (UTC)Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-09 02:16 am (UTC)Lightsculpt, like Cate, was voluntary. The whole team was because their leader had decided to stay and they followed suit.
Sketch escaped because her leader orchestrated their escape and the team managed to pull it off. It was their escape that actually allowed Cate's team to escape and made their staying upgrade the team status to voluntary.
I'm holding off on the Storm + Red prompt because it definitely ain't fluffy.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Waiting
Date: 2013-09-09 02:22 am (UTC)I figured most of my questions there were none fluffy, and I figured you'd get to those with stories later, when it wasn't fluff time. Then again, with how many prompts you do have, that could be a long wait. :P