Stolen from Clocketpatch...

[lost_spook]

... so a sort of meme?

I've seen people messing with the drabble-matic thing (except it doesn't actually do drabbles - minus points for misuse of the term!). It asked for so much info, I didn't bother, but then thought if I put Five and Tegan in and just used words that went with them (beige, purple, cricket ball etc). It, um, well... It makes

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[ghost2]

I tried one too, with Nyssa and Turlough. In it, Turlough lost his toe in a shipwreck but Nyssa still loved him.

I hear you about drabbles. I saw a 6800-word "drabble" the other day and wondered what the author was thinking to give it that label.

[lost_spook]

Well, Nyssa would. She is nice like that, and would not mind if Turlough had to hop about. The potential for epic Turlough/Nyssa is not explored enough in fanfic. :-D

With that, I can't help wondering if the person is just dim like me and managed to click on the wrong thing on the screen? Or am I too kind? Heh. But I know - it is a specific writing format. You do not idly claim things are sonnets, limericks or haikus without obeying the rules. A drabble is 100 words, a demi-drabble 50 and a double-drabble 200, and getting the story in the limited word count is the whole point. I suppose we need to wait until they teach that in English lit, but drabbles are a bit unofficial as yet...

[ghost2]

Nyssa/Turlough is full of potential!

I thought maybe the "drabble" person made a mistake. Then I looked at her account and saw a slew of "drabbles" that were hundreds or even thousands of words long. So... not sure what she thinks a drabble is. One author once said she used the term to mean a fluffy, basically pointless story of any length. *headdesk*

[curuchamion]

Where does the word come from, anyway? I've always wondered. It's certainly not intuitive.

[lost_spook]

I seem to recall reading a long entry on Wikipedia, or somewhere like that that said that:

a) nobody really knew.

b) drabbles came from sf fanfic, but more specifically started off in DW fandom.

c) might be named after a Monty Python sketch.

[lost_spook]

It is! And she thought he seemed rather nice, which is far more than she ever says to/about Damon, Chela or any of her other S20 men who dangle after her. :-D

Oh dear... And the last thing a drabble should ever be is pointless.