Sparks!

Jan 19, 2009 10:29

Sparks for the poor?

Wild Roses:
The difference between timely and just in time (Phoebe & a young Ulysse)
a match struck in the dark (Takashi, Rock God days)
Fire-aligned at -40 (somewhere in the Trickwood)
family relationships (somewhere in the Trickwood)
changing assumptions
half-rotted leaves
tall grass
reinterpretation
I eets ur hed (the ( Read more... )

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darthneko January 19 2009, 18:42:26 UTC
large, fluffy, falling snow

piano scales played slowly

the smell of salted meat frying

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'large, fluffy, falling snow' - Swallow's Tail, Petrovich and Sascha taennyn January 19 2009, 19:46:41 UTC
He didn't think he was ever going to get used to ice just . . falling from the sky, in big pale lattices you could practically see.

He was sitting at the top of the Swallow's ramp, in about half his outdoor gear so he didn't get cold, when Sascha came back, ice caked around the heavy treads of his boots and big crystals of it perched in his dreadlocks. He looked like something out of a story, though heaven only knew what kind"Lev," the Siberian said, nodding a greeting when he set foot on the ramp ( ... )

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Re: 'large, fluffy, falling snow' - Swallow's Tail, Petrovich and Sascha darthneko January 19 2009, 19:58:40 UTC
heee! [pets it]

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Re: 'large, fluffy, falling snow' - Swallow's Tail, Petrovich and Sascha klgaffney January 19 2009, 20:03:07 UTC
*grin* i like the image of a snow-covered sascha.

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Re: 'large, fluffy, falling snow' - Swallow's Tail, Petrovich and Sascha billradish January 20 2009, 05:50:55 UTC
Oh, hey. *peers at it* Petrovich talking. Good!

I could so see those reactions, too. Very nicely done.

(you shoosh, at least I checked)

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'piano scales played slowly' - Wild Roses, Aodh taennyn January 19 2009, 21:34:12 UTC
He sits with his legs folded up underneath himself on the bench, thinking that there are a dozen other places he could be, right now, diving through the middle of someone else's war, curled up in someone's bed, playing at dice with off-duty officers, but instead he's sitting here, at the piano of a woman who's been dead so long that it's hard to wrap his head around, years slipping like oil and water through his mind.

Without really meaning to, he reaches out, starts playing scales from the deepest to the highest, slow but without pausing. There's no jazz in his fingers tonight, no syncopation or triplets, no laughter. This Queen and both her sons are dead, and he's played this piano so often some of the staff are convinced there's a musical will-o'-the-wisp, but it's still Brighid's piano, and he is just a latecomer playing it.

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Re: 'piano scales played slowly' - Wild Roses, Aodh darthneko January 19 2009, 22:19:45 UTC
aiii. very melancholy/tired feeling.

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Re: 'piano scales played slowly' - Wild Roses, Aodh klgaffney January 20 2009, 03:21:20 UTC
very weary sounding, yes. almost too tired to feel. =(

[he is the will-o'-the-wisp! neat detail.]

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Re: 'piano scales played slowly' - Wild Roses, Aodh billradish January 20 2009, 05:52:55 UTC
...ow.

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'the smell of salted meat frying' - Nataraj, Luke and Samuil taennyn January 19 2009, 23:01:25 UTC
When he woke up, there was a pervading smell of bacon and ham wafting through the room, and his stomach heaved a protest just before his head informed that one, he'd been drinking last night, and two, that had bee a really bad idea.

There was a glass of water on his nightstand that he didn't remember putting there, and what appeared to be one of his B12 pills from the medicine cabinet.

He was going to kill Luke, just as soon as he could move.

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Re: 'the smell of salted meat frying' - Nataraj, Luke and Samuil darthneko January 19 2009, 23:33:41 UTC
heeee! yes, one of the times that's a BAD idea. ^_^

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Re: 'the smell of salted meat frying' - Nataraj, Luke and Samuil billradish January 20 2009, 05:53:59 UTC
He did that intentionally too, didn't he.

Either way, Rita has her face covered and is shaking her head at him. Poor Samuil.

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