Or possibly should.

AU Stargate Universe Tumblrprompt. This really really honestly truly genuinely was intended to be a quick drabble. Now it just looks like an intro for an AU piece of weirdness which will expose every inch of my lack of knowledge of the American Old West. Please stop me before I hurt myself.

Author: EasyThereGenius
Rating: PG- ( Read more... )

Writing mode disengaged. Sketching mode active. Unable to shutdown.

Here, have some ridiculous unedited snippets while I attempt to bypass my mechanical pencil circuits.

Diamond Geyser ( snippet 2)
( The steam cloaked the area around the canyon in a miasma of reeking white... )

Sacredclay said: "Now, do you need a prompt with Rush? Lemme see, it has to be challenging. Tell you what, double dare you and anyone else to write a story involving the following: Varro, Young, Purple Sweet Potatoes, and a geyser. Maybe with a kino thrown in for a good measure. Good luck!"

Warnings: Unfinished. Unedited. Part 1 of oh god knows. Contains ( Read more... )

( Brody and Volker: the Bert and Ernie of the Icarus project, and if that didn’t make Rush Oscar the Grouch Young didn’t know what did. )

Title: Grounded
Author: EasyThereGenius
Rated: K+
Warnings: Contains violence. Minor diversionary AU scene during "Darkness". Was written during period of severe sleep deprivation (and while I was quite cross.) Didn't originally intend it for the challenge, but found it worked OK without dialogue after all.
Prompt: sgu_challenge #88 - Narrative

( Maybe Rush has been possessed by aliens. That happens, right? )

( This whole cock-eyed mission was like a bad French farce. )

I wrote this as a riposte (but not in the angry way in the least) to Soten-ni-zaze’s drabble, because for some reason it just hit a tiny writing-shaped chord in my head, and besides, I wanted to. And because I-want-to is always the best ever reason to start writing.

This riposte is exactly 100 words.

( He had a brain tumour. He was going to die. )

Because I really can't not write about this guy. It's compulsive. And I have a plot thread I'm trying to ravel. Most of which is written on the back of a library receipt.

( What am I supposed to do with you, Rush? )