Thursday: Death

[meteorfire]

Good morning, everyone! Today’s Thursday, and it’s meteorfire here with the theme of the day. It’s been wonderful hosting for you guys!

Today’s theme is one of my favorites in fiction, to be honest. I guess that makes me sort of a morbid person. Anyways, the new theme is Death! Anything related to death goes. Funerals, character death, death AS a character,

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[meteorfire]

Merlin BBC, Uther (& Arthur/Merlin optional), the dead start rising - including Ygraine

[xenoamorist]

Supernatural/Firefly; reapers + reavers; the inevitability of death

[hunters_retreat]

I picked this prompt to update a verse of mine with River and Sam Winchester. Hope you enjoy!

http://hunters-retreat.livejournal.com/483106.html

[xenoamorist]

so sorry for the late reply! thanks so much for the fill :)

[hunters_retreat]

SO glad you liked it :P

[xenoamorist]

any; any; "for life's not a paragraph / And death i think is no parenthesis" -E. E. Cummings

SPN, Chuck -- No Paragraph

[murf1307]

A lot of the time, Chuck wishes he could help. He sees the visions, and he writes them out, but he hardly plays any part in the great Winchester Gospels.

He just sits there and watches, making the stories readable and sellable, putting commas and parentheses and periods in the right places, hoping to God that he's not putting all of this together wrong.

When Castiel dies, Chuck mourns -- because he knows. He's watched the Winchesters and their angel since the story started seven years ago, and he can tell, without a vision, what will happen next.

Not for the first time, he feels powerless in his gift.

These are people, after all, and he can't think of them as merely characters. They have lives and loves and struggles, and he doesn't think those can -- or should -- be summed up in pretty paragraphs and ended with parenthetical asides.

But still he is compelled to write, and the pages fill.

The world ends, and he still writes.

Re: SPN, Chuck -- No Paragraph

[xenoamorist]

♥♥♥! Thanks for the fill! I love that you focused on Chuck and took a more literal approach to the quote. I've always wondered how he would grapple with writing everything, and the whole feeling compelled to write-I think all authors do, when they feel strongly enough. :)

Thanks again!

Re: SPN, Chuck -- No Paragraph

[jadaryl]

Waah! Poor Chuck! That sounds miserable. I like writing, but... Unless we're talking villains, I hate doing character death. It's about like Chuck writing Team Free Will coming back to life all the time. I can't imagine if I knew everything I wrote was actually happening... *shudders* I think I'd be permanently traumatized.

[xenoamorist]

any; any;

Tendidos bajo tierra
una muchacha y un muchacho.
No dicen nada, no se besan,
cambian silencio por silencio.

❧

Stretched out underground,
a boy and a girl.
Saying nothing, never kissing,
giving silence for silence.

-Octavio Paz, "Los novios"

full text of poem

[xenoamorist]

Can be found here. :)

[xenoamorist]

Supernatural; Dean/Tessa; harvest