return of the prompt post

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Suffering from writer's block with only a couple days to finish my boostlethon and ricstar entries. In the spirit of getting fic done, can I get some drabble prompts? Once I get on a roll, I should be okay, but right now I'm stagnating.

1. Theme is late afternoon/early evening2. Fandoms are at the top of my journal page

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[reasdream]

Disclaimer: I'm not really all that experienced at prompts, but I do have experience with tangential thought. Consider these more like starting points, and feel free not to use any of them.

1. In the 17th/18th century, one of the (two) main meals of the day was Dinner, which was served in the late afternoon/early evening. A conversation at a dinner table (heaped with food). Suggested fandoms: Shakespeare's 'Fools' (Feste, Jaques, Falstaff) and assorted characters; Torchwood; Star Trek.

2. "Virtue is relative at best: there's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west" - Ani DiFranco. The dusky side of life. (Harry Potter, Good Omens, ...?)

3. (really not a prompt?) In the Celtic and Jewish traditions, the day ends and begins at Sundown. Life starts with death, instant rebirth. As evening draws down on Fridays, (faithful) Jews prepare for the Sabbath.

harry potter; "there's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west"

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(I like this kind of prompt much better than single words, anyway. I hope this works. Thanks!)
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Even after hacking off most of his beard and attempting to comb his hair, Sirius still looks like some kind of madman. He laughs at the face in the window, because that's what Azkaban does to 'em, right? Makes 'em look as evil as they're painted. Better off a dog.

So it's a dog with slightly tidier fur that jumps in the back of a truck and heads west. Sun's blinding enough that he doesn't have to see himself in the reflective window. Sirius closes his eyes and tries to ignore his nose, tries to sense nothing at all but the bumps in the road, telling him he's finally, finally free.

Re: harry potter; "there's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west"

[reasdream]

lovely, ta.

[joasakura]

three sentences. Ricstar

"it's that time of the year, the setting sun slanting between the skyscrapers."

[kijikun]

I'll take the three sentence format (or art) for a hundred.

1. Twilight is Castiel's favorite time of day

2. Supernatural,
"Well it's you and it's me
Me with a drink in my hand
The ice is tinkling like a windchime
And late afternoon settles over the land
And you're talking about things
Interesting just slightly
And things that matter too much
To say any way but lightly" - Vienna Teng

3. He knows the name of ever star.

supernatural; twilight is castiel's favourite time of day

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There is a certain quality to the light at twilight that doesn't occur anything other time. Castiel stands out in the red, waning sunlight and watches the colours of the earth warm and separate, so that everything stands out. This time of day is the most beautiful, all of the Lord's creations on proud display; it's like being in Heaven again but better, for here the Father is not a byword but all around him.

Re: supernatural; twilight is castiel's favourite time of day

[kijikun]

<3 Oh very pretty. I love introspective Cas.

Re: supernatural; twilight is castiel's favourite time of day

[iambickilometer]

Thanks so much! Me too. :)

havemercy; a rare momet of everyone getting along

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Balfour comes back from his visit home with several bottles of wine, like he figures some presents are gonna spare him from the kind of abuse he hasn't had to deal with in a year. Thing is, it does help some anyway; mostly with Rook, who takes a bottle for himself and is practically civil to Balfour for the remainder of the evening. Jeannot and Evariste are talking politics, punctuating their points with waves of their wineglasses, and Raphael is following along and occasionally putting in his own thoughts. Ace and Magoughin have had more to drink than the rest, and are reminiscing about memorable battles. You'd think they were old veterans, the way they exaggerated.

"I wasn't trying to bribe them, you know," Balfour says, sitting down near me.

"Yes, you were," I tell him. "It worked, though. You're everyone's favourite tonight."

He grins sheepishly. "Suppose that'll do me, then."

[athenemiranda]

Early evening? Some days, that's when Tony Stark wakes up.

I'm going to ask for three sentences but if you'd rather do another format, go for it.

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He comes awake smoothly, without any uncomfortable jolts awake or lapses asleep. His head's resting next to the laptop screen, which has gone dark; Tony taps a key and turns it back on to look at the time.

It's five o'clock in the evening, eight hours since he probably fell asleep, and Tony can't help but laugh.

[athenemiranda]

Sweet <3

[jbadgr]

MIKE AND TED WATCHING JEOPARDY!!

boostle; jeopardy

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"Oh, come on, everybody knows what sodium chloride is!" Ted yells at the TV. "Even Booster knows that!"

"Hey!" Booster says, indignant. "I'm right here!"

"I can't believe she missed that one." Ted isn't actually paying attention to Booster, which is sort of not okay, except that this is Ted's couch and Ted's popcorn and Booster doesn't want to get himself tossed out, so.

"Guess we can't all be Batman-level geniuses," he offers.

"Obviously not," Ted agrees. He sounds mollified, at least, and he meets Booster's eyes over the popcorn.

Their hands brush. It's not gay at all.

Re: boostle; jeopardy

[xturncoatxiii]

That?

Was amazing and fabulous and jkdsahjdfdf

so not gay

Re: boostle; jeopardy

[iambickilometer]

aw why thanks

not gay at all