Fun with drabbles!

[cadhla]

I am going to need to be kept sane tomorrow. So, without in any way implying that I'm not going to finish the current round of Iron Poet (because I am, just as soon as I get past the current blockage of 'brain not working fully in poetry terms), I now begin a new, probably shorter-lived game. Here go

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[fireriven]

Word: Gibbous.
Mood: Whimsical.

Carnival!

[cadhla]

Carnival! See the Deep Ones cavort beneath their gibbous moon, webbed feet slapping the floor in the contra dance of the end of the world (scheduled, currently, for tomorrow afternoon). Carnival! See the Thousand Young run wild on the midway, paws and claws and tentacles clutching prize coupons and human souls (sold at the snack bar, three for a dollar -- yummy!). Carnival! The best day of all the world's days!

Carnival!

When sun blows out and the winds cut cold, the children of the gods of the deep, dark places will whisper of this day, and rejoice in the memory.

Carnival!

Re: Carnival!

[dormouse_in_tea]

so...wrong....

Re: Carnival!

[fireriven]

Yet awesome! ;)

[pressdbtwnpages]

Word: Ties
Character: Logan Echolls

Ties.

[cadhla]

He ties himself down with obligations; things yet to do. Graduate, turn eighteen, forget the taste of Lilly's lipgloss, grow up, grow old, move on. He ties himself to possible futures, and tries to pretend the present isn't this fucked up.

Suddenly, he's Veronica Mars. Suddenly, his father is the one who broke the rules, and he's outside the walls.

He wonders if it made her feel this free.

If it did, he wonders why the hell she came back.

For the first time in his life, Logan isn't tied to anything but tomorrow. The door is open.

Now what?

Re: Ties.

[pressdbtwnpages]

*Loves* This is awesome, thank you.

Re: Ties.

[cadhla]

You are way and totally welcome.

I'm going to be slightly selfish here.

[vaspider]

Trevor.
Resolute.

n.n

Mockingbird Morning.

[cadhla]

Dawn breaks, and the birds are singing; birds don't listen. Maddy pulls the pillow over her head, and ponders bird-eating spiders, the virtue of genocide, and the local ecosystem. Who really needs a mockingbird?

Trevor is still sleeping deeply. Trolls are strong, stalwart, true -- all good things -- but their hearing isn't good enough to let them hear a sparrow fall. For a moment, she considers 'accidentally' prodding him awake...but she won't. He needs the rest, the unguarded time; the moment where the pain is distant, and dismissable.

He keeps her safe. For the moment, wakeful and watching, she can do the same for him.

Re: Mockingbird Morning.

[vaspider]

SNIFFLE.

You rock my socks. Thank you.

Re: Mockingbird Morning.

[cadhla]

You can play again, if'n you like. Just pick a different character.

[spectralbovine]

HOLY SHIT YOU KNOW EDDIE FROM OHIO OMG. And I don't even know that song, is it off the new album? (I love EFO; I've seen them live three times.)

Word: Esoteric
Mood: Twitterpated

[cadhla]

I am a complete and total Ed-head! 'The Candidate' is actually from one of their earlier albums, 'A Juggler On His Blades', which is excellent, and I hugely recommend it. Although I really love 'This Is Me', the newest.

My musical group and I do a kick-ass cover of 'Three Fine Daughters of Farmer Brown'. (And wrote a BtVS parody, 'Three Fine Slayers of Rupert Giles'.)

[spectralbovine]

HOLY MONKEY I MUST HEAR THAT COVER. (The second time I saw them, I did the Joe.) (OH AND BY COVER I MEANT THE PARODY UNLESS THAT'S ONLY WRITTEN IN WHICH CASE READ BUT STILL WANT TO HEAR SOMETHING.)

I'm not sure about the earlier ones. I love Looking Out the Fishbowl (my first) and Quick (my second), and I think I'd love Big Noise, considering some of the songs on it ("Gravity"! "Omar's Got a Problem"! "Simile Song"!). So that's how my tastes run.

Now write my drabble.

[cadhla]

The parody is written and occasionally recorded; I don't have an MP3 right now. If, however, you make it to OVFF, we will fully perform it for you.

Some of my favourite stuff is off the early albums. 'Quick' and 'This Is Me' are probably my favourites, although I adore 'EFO Show' above all other things.

Your drabble hath been writ, dude.

[agrumer]

Character: Emma Frost
Word: fluoresce

Diamond Light.

[cadhla]

Approximately one-third of all gem-quality diamonds fluoresce in the light. Blue, green, yellow; all common enough colours. Pink diamonds sometimes fluoresce bright orange, like the world crying 'stop'. Emma is gem-quality. Her hands are prisms, prisons for the light. She catches it, changes it, lets it go.

Scott's light is crimson. Under his gaze, she fluoresces rainbows. He'll never know what she is without his light; when he can see her, she can see him, and she's safely home, safe in the light. He'll never see her dark.

Emma Frost opens her hands, and the world fills with rainbows.

Re: Diamond Light.

[spectralbovine]

Duuuuude.

Re: Diamond Light.

[cadhla]

Big on the Emma, me.