A little R/T drabbling for the holidays?

[shimotsuki]

When I joined LJ almost exactly six (!) years ago, it was so that I could post at the January 2007 event at rt_challenge. And every December after that, there was an event going on at metamorfic_moon. So this is the first holiday season I've faced without a Remus/Tonks event -- and I'm going through a certain amount of withdrawal, lol.

And so, I thought this just might be a chance for a little R/T drabble (or drawble) meme. There are no rules, because I'm just making this up right now, but here's how I thought it could work:

• Post an R/T drabble or drawble. No word limits, no restrictions. Post it here as a comment, or post it on your own journal (in which case, if you like, you can put a link in a comment here).
  
• Your drabble/drawble could be holiday-themed. Or not. Whatever inspiration strikes.
  
• If you would like prompts, comment here -- ask for a holiday prompt or a general prompt, and tell me if you want more than one a la Jumble. Or prompt yourself by picking a random track on your iPod. Or open a book to a random page and take the first noun, verb, or adjective on that page. Or ask a friend for the name of their favorite Christmas carol.
  
• We'll have a little more R/T love (or angst, lol) in the world!

Feel free to repost this on your own journal, or heck, change it to fit the fandom or ship of your choice.

Blame katyscarlett76 for this, because she was encouraging me to do it. ;) (And yes, I'm still working on Kaleidoscope Ch 3, and totally planning to post by the end of the year!)
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Comments

[wildmagelet.livejournal.com]

Brevity not being my strong point, I don't think I've ever successfully drabbled in my life. But I'll give it a go. Christmas prompt or two, please. Feel free to make them quite detailed if you like. (IE DO ALL MY THINKING FOR ME AHEM). I think my muse is somewhere in the Bahamas, sipping a holiday martini, right now. :)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Ooh, glad you're in. Note that there's no wordcount limit to this "drabble," lol.

In the spirit of Meta, I thought I would use Christmas carols and objects for prompts. So, how about:

• Silent Night
  
• Christmas crackers

(But using the prompts is optional!)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I have a Britpick question...

Do people read the poem "Twas the night before Christmas" out loud to their children, or is that hopelessly American? Alternatively, is there another beloved Father Christmas story that Remus's mother might have read to him around, oh, 1963 or 1964?

[katyscarlett76.livejournal.com]

We certainly know it and I'm sure it was read to me by mum or nana at some point so I don't think it would be too unlikely for it to have been read to Remus!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Drabble Ficlet is finished! Posted at my journal.

And to All a Good Night (http://shimotsuki.livejournal.com/99576.html) (700 words | PG | AU)
Teddy starts asking questions about Father Christmas. The answer he gets is completely unexpected.

[eleanoreleanor.livejournal.com]

Yes! I like this idea :) I've been missing the R/T on livejournal lately... I'm usually just a lurker, but I think I'll contribute this time with a drawble :) woohoo!

[eleanoreleanor.livejournal.com]

Oh, and YAAAY!!!! (About kaleidoscope ch 3)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, fantastic! I was hoping this might draw in some new people! I'll be looking forward to the drawble. :)

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

I think I love you. (Do note that this will probably be a fickle love, and I'm like to be cursing your name once I actually sit down to write.) Prompt, please! (Coz I'm lazy and you're doing it Metamorphic-style, bless you.)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Yay! Curse away if necessary, lol -- but these can be short and simple, too.

I'm using Pandora to get me random carol prompts, so here's yours: O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)

[zia-montrose.livejournal.com]

Sounds really wonderful! Will you prompt me (general)? Though I reserve the right to waffle back to my own prompt -- as well as employ all other options and excuses listed above. ;)

I'm off to obsess over knitting a striped scarf I ran out of one color of yarn for... D'oh!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm using Pandora to get random prompts, and yours (from a non-holiday 'channel') is road.

Oh, no! ...Can you give the scarf a different color scheme at the edges?

[katyscarlett76.livejournal.com]

Oh my fault is it now? Well I'll certainly take responsibility for more R/T love in the world ;)

I'd like a prompt please!

This is a fab idea, can't wait to see the results!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Yay!

You didn't specify holiday or non-, so I'll give you a holiday one, but it doesn't have to be a holiday story. ;)

comfort and joy

[merryb87.livejournal.com]

Give me a Christmas prompt that I may or may not use. ;)

BUT OH MY MERLIN, I LOVE YOU FOR THIS.

[merryb87.livejournal.com]

btw, can you post all the links, to the stories, so we all can read them?

[sspring92.livejournal.com]

Yay! Though not the artistic or creative type (sigh) As you know I am the fangirl type and am anxiously awaiting my squeeing to begin! Best Christmas present ever!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

I'm just happy there are so many people interested in doing this! :D

(You realize your icon is unnecessary, right? Remus and Tonks are feeling just fine and enjoying having Teddy home from Hogwarts for Christmas at the moment. ;P )

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

YAY! ♥ (I was also feeling the Meta seasonal withdrawal, so good on you and katyscarlett76.)

I did actually start an R/T drabble/short fic at the beginning of December (don't ask), but another prompt wouldn't go amiss to kick-start it again. A holiday one, please.

Will there be the compulsory Meta deadline extension? ;)

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Yay! Pandora inspires the following random carol prompt for you:

the weather outside is frightful

Use or ignore at will. ;)

Will there be the compulsory Meta deadline extension? ;)

I didn't even think about a deadline! I suppose I should set one so we can extend it, lol. I guess it would be a fun start to the new year if I could post a masterlist on Jan 1? That would suggest a deadline of, let's say, noon my time (so 5pm GMT?) Jan 1. Unless we have an extension. ;)

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

How lucky am I - just a few days ago I wrote about feeling almost like the only R/T-fan left in this world (well, thankfully I know that you are still writing about them :-)) - and now this! Yippiii!

I'm actually contemplating throwing aside my scared-to-write-fiction-in-English-thoughts (or any fiction at all with this talended group...), but we'll see what inspiration and courage can come up with.

Since I'm very new at this - is there a deadline to this?

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Isn't this fun? I'm happy that so many people have responded!

I think it would be wonderful if you wrote something, even something short. :)

Since I'm very new at this - is there a deadline to this?

I didn't even think about that! But I suppose we'd better have one, if I'm going to make a new post with information about everyone's drabbles and drawbles. Let's say by 5pm GMT (that might be 6pm or 7pm your time?) on Jan 1. But if that date gets close and people want more time, we can have an extension...

Happy writing!

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

Okay,
so here it is, my first attemt at an English drabble.
Though I'm not sure it really is a drabble - briefness in writing is not my forte, and that tendency is even more obvious when I write in English:)
(And hopefully the English isn't too horrible...)

I'm actually a bit nervous about posting this, but here it goes:)



Tis the Season
Christmas or no Christmas, Remus knew a lost cause when he saw one. The best he could hope for, was for the whole thing not to become too awkward...

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, hurray!

I will read your drabble tonight when I'm home. Congratulations on breaking the ice and writing a drabble in English! And as far as I'm concerned, long is good. :) I just said "drabble" so we wouldn't have too much pressure on ourselves.

[jobey-in-error.livejournal.com]

R/T!

Title: Seeing Beyond
Prompt: R/T in answer to shimotsuki's irresistible invite! I completely didn't wind up using the requested optional prompt (O Tannenbaum), though. In fact, I couldn't do anything Christmassy. I had this same problem last time, I'm afraid. It's hard to write Christmas…
Fandom: Harry Potter
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Lupin/Tonks. And the war. Order work is kind of the great third wheel here.
Rating & Warnings: The whole thing is naked and in bed. If we imagine the sheets working out the right way, Hollywood basically considers this, what, PG-13?
Word Count: 1159. I'm sorry. I'm lousy at drabbles.
Summary: OotP. They have a catch-as-catch can moment. Tonks is still very… innocent, I think, and Remus certainly reclaims a moment for his own.

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Woot! (Longer is good, by me -- this was called "drabbles" to take the pressure off. ;) )

Trying to stay mostly focused today -- usher in good karma for the new semester and all. Will be reading tonight!

Late for the deadline. Gah!

[gilpin25.livejournal.com]

Having been out all day and seemingly left my brain somewhere behind, I'm still finishing mine because I'm not really happy with it yet. There is also the small matter of it having no ending at present. If anyone wants a snippet to read in advance, it's unedited below, and I'll endeavour to have it all done in the next couple of days. Now off to find that brain!

Afterwards

Remus made his way slowly back downstairs, aware that his head was beginning to ache and not wanting Molly to be confronted in the morning with the remains of the party, or to take it out on Sirius if she was. A cup of tea and some clearing up ought to sort the head out, and quench this odd restlessness that he was conscious of recently. He’d felt almost guilty when Molly was crying, aware only too well what the future might bring but also conscious that in many ways he was happier than he’d been since teaching at Hogwarts. Probably down to having a purpose again. And yet he kept remembering Arthur’s face when the older man had seen Molly and her white, tear-stained face. There’d been fierce protectiveness in his expression; fierceness then on both sides as he’d pushed quite roughly through the little group of people to get to her and she’d reached out her hand for him. It had left Remus feeling bereft of something he couldn’t quite define.

He sighed. He really needed that strong cup of tea.

As he neared the kitchen, there was the unmistakable sound of china colliding at force with a sink, an unladylike curse, and several golden bubbles slipped through the half-open door and sailed rather triumphantly past his head. Of course. The load he carried lightened immediately. The long red hair she’d worn tonight in honour of the Weasleys had been replaced by the familiar short pink, she was wearing Molly’s apron which appeared to have been knotted round her at least twice with room to spare, and she turned her head as he pushed the door fully open and smiled at him without any apparent surprise. Only pleasure.

“Oh good, you’re just in time to dry,” said Nymphadora Tonks.

Re: Late for the deadline. Gah!

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

This is lovely! I'll hold off saying more so I can leave you a review for the finalized version, but let me just say that watching Remus think about what Molly and Arthur have is heart-twisting in the very best way.

Anyway -- since this whole "event" (so to speak) was really for a few of us to amuse ourselves with, I'm just as happy to wait for you and Katy to write whatever you want to write and call whenever they come in the "deadline". So, please just have as much fun with this as you want, and no pressure!

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

Sooooo,
is it okay to write more than one piece for this meme?
Once I got started, there were suddenly more stories that wanted out.
And I had a lot of fun trying out a 100-words drabble, which I haven't done before.

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Fandom: Harry Potter
For the Remus/Tonks holiday drabble meme on shimotsuki's journal
Word count: 100

[shimotsuki.livejournal.com]

Oh, hooray! More is always better. :)

I find it's fun to try to hit that 100-word target, too.

Off to read!