Have at you! Welcome to Happyfest 2010!

[jadesfire]

HAPPYFEST IV

Yup, this is it, folks, the complete list of prompts for this year's Happyfest. The main difference this year is that we're open for art works as well as fic. Otherwise, the rules remain the same, the first of which is:

READ THE RULES BEFORE WRITING!

(there are notes about spoilers that I NEED you to read)

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Part 2

[hematitebadger]

Someone hears. The TARDIS lets the most complicated part of her song follow her pilot to the library, where he wanders the stacks in solitude. So often lonely, but tonight just alone. All his rhythms speak of comfort and contentment, the peace of recognizing the rightness of the universe. She knows his song almost as well as she knows her own, its depth and complexity familiar and constant even if the voice changes now and then. And he recognizes her voice, hears and feels and understands it in ways that no human and no star could ever master. He feels the thrum of her engines singing to themselves, hears her fanfare to the stars, breathes in her lullaby to their human charges. And over it the TARDIS sings a song that’s just for him, a love song in violin patterns of changing light and bursts of warmth. He’s a part of the singing as well, and he is always, always the reason for the song.

On other nights, he would be adding his own notes to her song, bouncing around her control panel, spinning a dial here and tweaking a lever there, shifting the melody into something that was half her voice and half his. They sing well together, but she appreciates his hands-off approach tonight. This is her song, and she recognizes his respect for that in the quiet way he moves with her, following the melody and letting the undertones push him along. She speaks to him of the wonder of the universe, how it is more wonderful for having such things as adventurers in it, and childhood dreams to keep them alive, and time machines to take them everywhere and everywhen. She sings of places they’ve seen and places they have yet to see, and through it all there is the eager, fluttering refrain that she wants to see it all with him, and wants him to see it all with her.

The end of the song is the soft blaze of a single table lamp, one perfect piccolo note skimming the melody like a sea bird skimming the water’s surface. The song fades but the music remains. Her pilot touches that last light, quietly radiating love and praise. “Beautiful, as always,” he murmurs. Her contentment is a ripple of harp strings that makes him laugh, which is its own kind of music. He offers a song of his own, using his voice rather than manipulating hers, overlaying his melody on her music not to upstage her, but to repay her in kind. It’s a human song, not one of hers, but she loves it anyway for the way it answers her own song.

“Fly me to the moon, and let me play among the stars...”

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[persiflage_1]

I vaguely thought of writing for this prompt - but your offering is WAY better than anything I was thinking of doing.

Very nicely done...

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[hematitebadger]

Thank you! This was the first prompt that jumped out at me and I knew right away that I had to write for it. I just love that little blue box.

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[persiflage_1]

Me too!

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[donutsweeper]

oooh, I love it! Your TARDIS 'voice' is perfect!

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[hematitebadger]

Yay! Glad it brought the desired happy. That prompt just leapt off the screen at me and I had to write it.

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[torn_eledhwen]

This is beautiful.

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[hematitebadger]

Thank you!

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[hematitebadger]

Oh, thank you! I loved the opportunity to write for the TARDIS, and I'm glad people are enjoying my take on her so much.

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[crystalshard]

Oh, TARDIS. So beautiful. I love the descriptions of Rory and Amy and the Doctor.

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[hematitebadger]

Trying to describe them as she would see them was one of my favorite parts. I'm glad you liked it!

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[aeron_lanart]

Oh this is gorgeous. Your TARDIS voice is lovely (in more ways than one).

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[hematitebadger]

Thank you!

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[sholio]

Oh, how lovely. I think this does an exquisite job of capturing the show's sense of wonder and peace and beauty.

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[hematitebadger]

"Wonder and peace and beauty" is exactly what I was going for, and I'm delighted it came across. Thank you!