Drabbles, anyone?

[shimotsuki]

Snagged and adapted from hrymfaxe, even though I wasn't in time for her art requests. Because it looks like fun, and because I have at least three WIPs I should be working on. ;)

First five comments with a fandom, pairing or character(s), and prompt will get a drabble. If you ask for something [or not], feel free to post this on your journal and offer five of either art or fic that you do, too.

Fandoms:

• Harry Potter
  
• Vorkosigan saga (up to and including Mirror Dance)
  
• Earthsea
  
• (...going out on a major limb here, stylistically...) Kinsey Millhone
  
• Oh! Almost forgot Discworld
  

Comments

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

Ooh, finally, I get in at the start of one of these!

This will really shock you:

Remus/Tonks, prompt is craving.

Think I'm gonna swipe this one, too, to get the stagnant fanfic juices flowing!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice one. Consider me shocked. ;)

Do swipe! You don't have to confine yourself to drabbles; I made that part up. (Not sure if I'll be able to stick to 100 words, either, heh.)

[mrstater.livejournal.com]

I've swiped, so feel free to come get revenge. ;) I copied you and restricted the fandoms, lol.

[tegdoh.livejournal.com]

cool

I pick Molly/Arthur and toast

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Intriguing! Thanks; this will be fun.

[duck-or-rabbit.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory; dally

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, that's going to take some thought but will be fun to try! I'll have to go have a good look at GoF. :)

[iamweebles.livejournal.com]

Cordelia and Aral, prompt is distance :)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Cool! I was hoping I'd get a Cordelia/Aral, and the prompt has a lot of possibilities in that 'verse. :)

(This will be my first-ever non-HP fanfic!)

[iamweebles.livejournal.com]

You are brave - I'm too chicken to do this meme :p (Have you read Curse of Chalion yet?)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I'm totally chicken, too -- that's why it's drabbles. I can try (almost) anything if it's just for 100 words. ;)

(Have you read Curse of Chalion yet?)

Not yet! I still have three or four more Miles books to go, plus Falling Free, and then I'm going to run out of summer. But I'm glad to have more Bujold to look forward to for later (next summer? we'll see how long my willpower holds out).

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd missed all these, the curses of being on British time, but... I think you've only got four!

As my partner-in-crime has done the obligatory R/T:

Carrot/Angua, prompt is child.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! Excellent choice and prompt, although I may not go where you meant this to. :P

Incidentally, I suppose I should be very concerned about the fact that I'm still awake and you're obviously getting up now. But that's what vacation is for, right? And, of course, I'm awake because I was drafting drabbles...even though I meant to spend my evening writing wedding-night R/T and e-mail. And not staying up this late. ;)

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Top of the morning to you!:D

Yes, I am having my breakfast and thinking, "She's still up?!" LOL. But this is definitely what holidays are for. (Eccentric timekeeping, drafting drabbles, and enjoyable procrastinating;))

although I may not go where you meant this to.

Well, I did think there was the obvious and the not-so. Whatever you like will be great. I like surprises!

I'm sending powerful mind vibes to get you to queue jump and read The Curse of Chalion. You can never have too many R/T relationships in your reading life. ;)

Have a good night/morning!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Good day to you! I even managed not to disgrace myself completely by sleeping later than everyone else this morning. Who needs more than six hours of sleep, anyway? (ugh)

Well, I did think there was the obvious and the not-so.

:) I don't have a very clear plotbunny yet, but I will keep mulling! I've been wanting to try some Discworld, but too scared to just sit down and do it.

You can never have too many R/T relationships in your reading life. ;)

That sounds promising indeed! But you know, Aral is a good ten or so years older than Cordelia, who is a soldier. I don't think he went so far as to pull "too dangerous" on her, although he probably should have, given the rate of political assassinations on his planet.

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

But you know, Aral is a good ten or so years older than Cordelia, who is a soldier. I don't think he went so far as to pull "too dangerous" on her, although he probably should have, given the rate of political assassinations on his planet.

LOL. You're making it sound very tempting, especially as I've quickly read your drabble while waiting for dinner to burn be ready. But I think I am going to try and start the Vorkosigan saga, after my current book. I must have sizeable shares in Amazon by now, so what's another order... ;)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

How did I manage to miss the notification for this comment!? Anyway, hooray for more people reading Vorkosigan books!

I will definitely read Chalion, just maybe not this summer -- there's still Jonathan Strange, after all.

Is the current book something fun?

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Is the current book something fun?

It comes under my definition of the word, if not anyone else's! The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale. It's the non-fiction story of an infamous Victorian murder; what's fascinating is the look at the life and times then, how detectives were viewed (Whicher became the blueprint which Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle etc. arguably based their detectives on), what happened to the family and people involved, and how absolutely everyone had theories on it. Including a certain Charles Dickens.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Aw shoot I missed it! (But then that might be fair enough, seeing as you missed mine as well) I look forward to seeing what you come up with. :D

And Earthsea! I love that trilogy!! :D:D

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Actually, since the point of doing this was partly to try new things, and no one requested anything for Earthsea... If you feel like coming up with something, I'd give it a try!

ETA: Have you read the later two books, beyond the original trilogy? I love the fourth one (Tehanu) in particular.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

It's been a long time since I read the books last, so I'll have to take a look first! But I might come up with something. ;)

I had no idea there were more books after the trilogy!!!! ARgh! And with Tenar no less!! :D:D I will look for them immediately.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries either way -- I didn't mean to give you a homework assignment. ;) But you were my inspiration for this meme, which I've really been enjoying, so if you do think of something you'd like (wouldn't have to be Earthsea at all), feel free to let me know!

The last two Earthsea books are kind of different in style from the first three (after all, they were written so much later), so some fans apparently don't like them -- especially the fourth one, which is partly an Earthsea-internal feminist critique of the magical system and hierarchy. But I like them, a lot. Grown-up Tenar rocks.

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's really nice of you! :D I may very well take you up on that offer! (and likewise - if there is something/one you would like to see drawn! And don't feel like you have pressured me into this - I'm having a lot of fun drawing for people)

I'm definitely going to look for those books. Maybe they will cure the shakings that will no doubt start when I run out of new Gaiman books.... LOL

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

(and likewise - if there is something/one you would like to see drawn! And don't feel like you have pressured me into this - I'm having a lot of fun drawing for people)

Oh, dear, that is really nice of you to offer, but of course now I am all worried that I pressured you into saying that, which wasn't what I meant to do at all ... eep ...

On the other hand, now I'm feeling really tempted to say this, so ... A while ago you did say that you liked a scene from a fic I wrote with Remus lying on a sofa with his head in Tonks's lap, holding Teddy -- that's probably way too complicated for a "drabbly" kind of thing like this, but if you actually felt like doing some kind of simple variation on that someday, I would be delighted! (Remus/Tonks, prompt sofa?) But if you don't have time or this isn't something fun to draw, please don't worry about it. :)

[hrymfaxe.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it at all! I would love to draw something for you.

Oh yes I DO remember that scene! (there are actually several scenes in your stories that make me want to draw.... Another is Remus in his small apartment, reading the newspaper for jobs, and wringing the last drops of taste out of a teabag - but I would want to make a full out drawing/painting for that one) I will definitely see if I can't make a drawble of some kind for your sofa-prompt! :D

And now that I have given it some thought: I would like a drabble on Voldemort, prompt: classroom. Is that new enough territory to be challenging?

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Voldemort and classroom it is! That's really intriguing. I have a couple of little ideas, but I'm going to mull it over for a few days. Hmmm... *lost in thought*

"Drawble," hee -- I hadn't heard that before, but of course that's what they are. Thank you for considering a sofa drawble! No one has ever drawn anything from a story of mine before. (I'm also squeeing that you think Remus and his poor sorry teabag might be a subject someday too. :) )