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.
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Date: 2013-09-05 05:29 am (UTC)1. Red/Whisper - baby number two
2. Rachelle/Justus - retrieving stolen property
3. Ashen + Red Wolf/Whisper - overprotective big brother
4. Shift + daughter - playground
5. Storm - he brings his own popcorn
6. Wesley/Lena - concert tickets
7. Conner + Wesley - (unwanted) fashion advice
8. Rogue/Remy - curls
9. Sketch/Lightsculpt - hope
10. Rachelle/Justus - cooking
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Date: 2013-09-05 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-09-06 02:46 am (UTC)Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Crashing the Party – Spoilers!
Date: 2013-09-05 05:31 pm (UTC)It was late by the time Justus got in and all he really wanted to do was throw the entire city of Riving in a river to wash away. Instead, he headed for the shower, then came out into the bedroom intent on crashing into a sound sleep.
Problem: Rachelle snuggled in bed already, her half of the bed but with his half of the covers in addition to her own. She was sleeping on one pillow and curled up around the other.
“Oh, no.” Justus tugged on one loose corner of the blanket. “Pillow Thief, wake up.”
He saw her tense, but otherwise, she did not move.
“Up some covers.” He tugged again.
This time more than body weight held them down. That had to be some telekinesis.
She’d told him once he couldn’t beat a woman in a fair fight, so he skipped past fair and went straight to dirty, tackling her for the covers.
Rachelle shrieked with surprise and fought him back, laughing the whole time until finally they’d sorted themselves into a somewhat equal arrangement.
“Crazy you,” she muttered, snuggling on top of him and still under all the covers.
“Crazy you,” he countered, chuckling back.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Crashing the Party – Spoilers!
Date: 2013-09-05 11:27 pm (UTC)So cute. Love them fighting over the covers. :)
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Crashing the Party – Spoilers!
Date: 2013-09-06 02:53 am (UTC)It was such a fun visual. Popped right in my head when I read the prompt.
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You’re Hired
Date: 2013-09-05 05:33 pm (UTC)The Database shrugged as she sat and sipped her coffee.
“You’ll waste away to nothing.” He stood up from his own plate of eggs and toast—how inspiring—and moved to the stove.
She rolled her eyes. “Not hungry. Besides you can’t cook.”
He hefted a skillet expertly and tossed back one of her own lines. “Who told you that?”
Twenty minutes later, she handed it to him. “You’re hired. Permanently.”
“I thought you had to teach me how to cook,” Justus teased.
She grimaced and admitted, “I hate cooking.”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You’re Hired
Date: 2013-09-05 10:30 pm (UTC)She just wants her coffee done right. This way she gets a cook, too. :)
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: What Little Girls are Made Of
Date: 2013-09-05 08:51 pm (UTC)Whisper glanced over to see Sunshine cooing happily in her daddy’s arms, waving a tiny fist, then thought of eighteen-month-old Anya currently grounded to her bed. “If you mean did she not bite Heather who woke her up for daring to not be Mommy...” She paused and let Wolf take that in. “Yes, Sunshine’s sweeter.”
“At least Anya doesn’t bite anymore,” he pointed out. Small consolation.
Whisper kissed little Sunshine’s cheek, then her husband’s mouth. “You know you’re in love with both of them.”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: What Little Girls are Made Of
Date: 2013-09-05 10:19 pm (UTC)How could he not be?
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Wrapped
Date: 2013-09-05 10:11 pm (UTC)“Chili popcorn?” Maker asked, interested.
“My popcorn,” Rett corrected.
Red Wolf chuckled at that. It was technically Wolf and Whisper’s house, as they hosted the monthly movie nights, but after constantly having to cede popcorn rights to a female, Rett decided to take matters into his own hands.
Anya, Wolf’s three-year-old daughter, looked up at him with big brown eyes.
Rett sighed and let her have a handful.
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Date: 2013-09-05 11:35 pm (UTC)He's so whipped.
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Birth of Wings
Date: 2013-09-08 04:00 pm (UTC)Elspeth was four years old the first time she ran into Shift’s arms, crying, “Mama!”—a gift Shift would always be grateful for to Elspeth’s foster parents.
She took Elspeth to the park for a fierce tickle war, a climb on the jungle gym, then finally the swings.
“How high?” Shift asked.
“Right in the clouds!”
Shift laughed and pushed Elspeth higher and higher. She could have said, “Don’t leave me. I need you here.” But she didn’t. She would’ve gladly given her wings.
“Mama, I’m flying!”
In that moment, everything Shift had ever done for her was worth it.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Birth of Wings
Date: 2013-09-08 06:43 pm (UTC)Love the scene, though. Shift did do terrible things, but she has her daughter, so... that's something.
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From:Seven Days Ficlet: A Matter of Taste
Date: 2013-09-08 04:01 pm (UTC)“I like this shirt,” Connor replied, keeping his tone as patient as he could. Wesley had infinite patience. Connor had to work at it.
Wesley shrugged and went back to reading his book.
Some would think as fraternal twins, the brothers should be closer than most. In a way they were, but that closeness did not extend to their taste in clothes, food, or girls.
“Ashelynn likes this shirt,” Connor tried again.
Wesley sniffed. “Poor taste.” Thoughtfully, “But she likes you. Mixed taste.”
Connor went back to working his jaw.
Re: Seven Days Ficlet: A Matter of Taste
Date: 2013-09-08 06:32 pm (UTC)I like his comment about mixed taste, lol.
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From:X-Men Evolution Commentfic: Where, Oh Where Has My Flatiron Gone?
Date: 2013-09-08 04:39 pm (UTC)“Where is mah flatiron?” a distinctly female southern voice shouted at enough volume to send all the younger residents of the mansion hightailing it out of the interrogation zone. A moment later, “Gambit!”
Jean winced and readied herself to deliver her arguments. Ever since the Cajun thief had showed up at Xavier’s, she had found herself doing this far too frequently for her liking.
The expected knock came and she opened the door, putting on the most sincere smile she could under the circumstances. “Sorry, Rogue, mine’s missing too.”
Rogue fumed, arms crossed and muttered unmentionables about a certain swamp rat. “Straightening gel?”
“Gone.”
She cursed.
“Rogue!”
“Save it, Jean. When Ah get mah hands on that—”
Jean held up a hand. “Please. I really don’t need to know.”
Rogue narrowed her eyes in a glare, then finally gave up, and went back to fuming and storming off down the hallway toward her room. Jean didn’t expect to see their implements of hair straightening until another couple days had passed—long enough for Gambit to enjoy the fruits of his heist without dying first.
Rogue’s hair was a riot of curls. To Gambit, perhaps, that was totally worth it.
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Defining Relationships
Date: 2013-09-09 01:41 am (UTC)“What is an overprotective big brother?” Ashen asked as she was sitting down to practice.
Red Wolf didn’t stop to blink. “Storm. Why?” He kept flipping through sheet music, looking for something specific.
“Because Michael thinks you are.”
Red Wolf did stop at that. He narrowed his eyes as he stared into the mirror over her head, then shrugged and handed her a sheet. “If I thought you were in mortal or emotional danger, what would I do?”
Ashen didn’t stop to blink. “Let me kill it.”
He laughed, if a trifle uncomfortably. “Yeah.” He gestured at the piano. “Play.”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Defining Relationships
Date: 2013-09-09 01:48 am (UTC)Someone seems a bit uncomfortable with the idea of being a big brother...
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From:Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Two
Date: 2013-09-09 02:01 am (UTC)Wesley paused, blinking, then shook his head seemingly to clear it. He wasn’t though; he was rattling around his memory banks, searching for any scrap or note he had read this last week that talked about his brother and music.
Music...
Wesley held up a finger and dug around in his bag for a moment before finding what he was looking for. Two tickets for a strings ensemble concert. He skimmed for Connor’s name and found it.
Two tickets. What had he been thinking?
He held them out. “Would you like to go?”
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Two
Date: 2013-09-09 02:08 am (UTC)Still... he asked her to go. :)
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