Have at you! Welcome to Happyfest 2010!

Aug 16, 2010 21:45

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)

The rest are under here )

prompts, mod!post

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Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG phinnia August 20 2010, 03:42:42 UTC
Rain was a rare and special thing where Jack grew up. Where he lives now, it rains more often than not. This balance, this differential, has not escaped his notice.

He remembers:

His first stumbling, barefoot steps on the hot sand of his parents' yard, among the shocks of beach grass that shot up in wild spurts of brown-green. Suddenly a drop of water falls - and another, and another, and then the water is in thick sheets and the sand is darkened by some strange alchemy his child-mind can't comprehend. He falls back on his diapered bottom with the shock of it all and laughs in great peals, is swept up into his mother's arms and they dance around the tufts of greenery, her bare breasts and skirted, Jack-laden hips swaying in the rain and the summer heat to their own imagined music.

Three thousand years before that day happens, that boy (now called Jack Harkness) looks up at the heavy sky on a small blue planet that is nothing like his own, and laughs with delight as the first drops fall.

He reaches for his coat, then purposefully ignores it and heads for the invisible lift.

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG topaz_eyes August 20 2010, 04:44:34 UTC
So wonderfully evocative--I can see Jack's mother dancing in the rain with utter joy. And I can see Jack too, his face raised and laughing...

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG phinnia August 23 2010, 01:43:32 UTC
thank you! <3

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG aeron_lanart August 20 2010, 18:22:42 UTC
Lovely.

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG phinnia August 23 2010, 01:43:59 UTC
thank you! <3

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG awanderingbard August 20 2010, 22:48:17 UTC
This is really lovely! I love the thought of Jack's mother dancing with him in the rain. The writing is very lyrical, too. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG phinnia August 23 2010, 01:44:21 UTC
thank you! <3

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG rustydog August 22 2010, 03:47:13 UTC
So vivid and beautiful!

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Re: Torchwood: rain dance; Jack; PG phinnia August 23 2010, 01:44:41 UTC
thank you! <3<3

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