Drabble meme

[pedanther]

I see lost_spook has kept her side of the deal, so now I suppose now I have to keep mine...

The boilerplate bit:

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request that I write a drabble of any pairing/character with a prompt. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level.


The specific bit:

If you're not familiar with my past attempts at fanfic, I have pages at Teaspoon and AO3, from which you can get some idea of the kind of thing I write. My fiction log and my tag list will give you some idea of my current interests.

Fair warning: The meme boilerplate mentions pairings, but I personally don't do the 'shipping thing very well. I don't watch movies or TV programs and decide that two of the characters are obviously secretly Meant For Each Other. When people point me to scenes that convinced them that something was going on, I never see whatever it was they saw. (I did, once -- once -- watch a movie and find myself thinking there was romantic subtext going on between two of the characters. It came as something of a surprise.)

Also: Feel free to ignore the bit about having to propagate the meme. I disapprove generally of memes that do that -- a real meme would get passed around because people wanted to, without needing to ask -- so I won't be checking up on anybody.

Comments

[john_amend_all]

I don't think shipping can be said to be just about detecting subtle romantic hints (such as the one in my icon!) where actors share a scene. Particularly in the world of fic, it can also be about writing a relationship of which there are no hints whatsoever in canon, perhaps because the characters never even met.

Changing the subject completely, have a prompt: Delilah Tod being forced to team up with Jack Harkness.

(If you want to ask me for one, my post still has plenty of blank slots).

[pedanther]

it can also be about writing a relationship of which there are no hints whatsoever in canon

But that's even worse! I have enough trouble seeing that two characters have potential together when I've actually seen them together; figuring it out when I've only seen each in isolation is way beyond me.


Delilah Tod being forced to team up with Jack Harkness.

In a drabble?

[pedanther]

Delilah Tod being forced to team up with Jack Harkness.

Done.

[alias_sqbr]

The true meaning of smekday: what the world (edit: or australia specifically!) thinks about and how it deals with having all those identical cats

Out of curiosity: how do you feel about canon relationships? (I'm a sucker for them, but am still mostly a gen person)

[pedanther]

I'm mostly a gen person, myself. I like canon relationships fine in canon, but it's not what I look for in fanfic.


The true meaning of smekday: what the world (edit: or australia specifically!) thinks about and how it deals with having all those identical cats

Hmm. I tend to steer clear of single-author canons, but I'll see what I can do. It may have to wait until I can get the book back out of the library and refresh my memory of the details, though.

[alias_sqbr]

Well: If it's too hard that's fair enough (I'm certainly not in a position to complain on that score, what with all my unfulfilled fanart prompts), but if you do get inspired to do it that would be awesome. If nothing else it was fun just thinking it up :)

[pedanther]

As it happens, I have managed to come up with something (without the assistance of the book, which I remembered when I got to the library had been an interlibrary loan).

Now I'm sitting on it for a bit to give myself a chance to spot whatever I would otherwise have noticed three minutes after I posted it.

[alias_sqbr]

Awesome. Well, I look forward to it!

[pedanther]

You are not having to be waiting very long.