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New Challenge: Drabble Tree!
So we're going to try something new and exciting this week: drabble tree!
This was a suggestion we received from kiayro, and we thought it sounded interesting. Full rules are below, but basically you start with one drabble, and then other people reply with another drabble that reuses a word/phrase/sentence from the first one, and then they start branching out. Like a tree!
Rules (rules taken and slightly modified from here)
1. JE characters. Any band/time period is welcome. Feel free to venture into the future!
2. Any pairing, slash or gen or whatever all welcome. If it's super explicit (R/NC-17), warn in bold at the start of your drabble.
3. I keep saying drabble, but it doesn't have to be 100 words. If you run long, that's a-okay with me.
4. Your drabble must be posted as a comment to this entry.
5. Include a word, phrase or sentence from a previous drabble in the tree. Bold the reused bit in your drabble. It doesn't have to have the same characters or tone or anything else, just to reuse at least one word.
6. You can branch off from on any drabble in the tree. Just reply directly to the drabble you're going from.
7. Write as many drabbles as you want.
8. Drabbles only, please. No comments. Show your appreciation by jumping off someone else's drabble. If you have any questions, you can ask either kira_shadow or myself via direct message, or at either of our LJs (I'm also available on AIM/YM as mousapelli).
9. The Drabble Tree will run for a week or two; if there's enough interest, we'll keep it running longer. Feel free post your drabbles to your own LJ and/or archive them, but pimp out the drabble tree and encourage others to play too! Everybody is welcome, even first time writers!
10. Have fun! :D
If there's a lot of interest we might considering doing this semi-regularly, or at least a couple times a year.
So here's mine to get you started:
It'll be a disaster, Kame wants to shout at them, a disaster! He can't stand that they're all sitting there so calmly in this meeting, when all he wants to do is stand up and shout, to be entirely unreasonable for once.
He won't do it. Jin would, but then again that's why they're even having a meeting in the first place. Why from now on, Kame will be the K and the A. The staff keeps saying all these other things, about new opportunities and growth and foreign markets, but Kame thinks that's always been the reason, deep down.
After the staff leaves, giving them a few minutes alone, the five of them sit around the conference table, exchanging looks. There's a lot of different emotions going around, but surprise isn't one of them.
"Nobody wants to fight about it? To keep him?" Kame asks, but it's not really a question. It's not even that he wants to himself, or thinks it would do any good, it's just that he feels like, after all of this, he should want to fight.
"It's best this way," Nakamaru says when everyone else is silent, diplomatic. "For him too. It's been like this before, ne."
"Being a grown-up sucks sometimes," Junno complains, setting his chin down on top of his crossed arms on the table. Koki punches his shoulder, but it's for comfort.
They all fall silent again.
"I'm glad," Ueda says abruptly, voice sounding too loud. Kame swallows a wince, but then Ueda continues. "Because things will change. So maybe after this, I can be friends with Jin, a real one. We all could. I'm calling him," Ueda pulls out his phone, doing it right then and there, "and I'm going to tell him good luck, and mean it."
Kame thinks he'll maybe settle for a mail, but he'll do his best to mean it too.
This was a suggestion we received from kiayro, and we thought it sounded interesting. Full rules are below, but basically you start with one drabble, and then other people reply with another drabble that reuses a word/phrase/sentence from the first one, and then they start branching out. Like a tree!
Rules (rules taken and slightly modified from here)
1. JE characters. Any band/time period is welcome. Feel free to venture into the future!
2. Any pairing, slash or gen or whatever all welcome. If it's super explicit (R/NC-17), warn in bold at the start of your drabble.
3. I keep saying drabble, but it doesn't have to be 100 words. If you run long, that's a-okay with me.
4. Your drabble must be posted as a comment to this entry.
5. Include a word, phrase or sentence from a previous drabble in the tree. Bold the reused bit in your drabble. It doesn't have to have the same characters or tone or anything else, just to reuse at least one word.
6. You can branch off from on any drabble in the tree. Just reply directly to the drabble you're going from.
7. Write as many drabbles as you want.
8. Drabbles only, please. No comments. Show your appreciation by jumping off someone else's drabble. If you have any questions, you can ask either kira_shadow or myself via direct message, or at either of our LJs (I'm also available on AIM/YM as mousapelli).
9. The Drabble Tree will run for a week or two; if there's enough interest, we'll keep it running longer. Feel free post your drabbles to your own LJ and/or archive them, but pimp out the drabble tree and encourage others to play too! Everybody is welcome, even first time writers!
10. Have fun! :D
If there's a lot of interest we might considering doing this semi-regularly, or at least a couple times a year.
So here's mine to get you started:
It'll be a disaster, Kame wants to shout at them, a disaster! He can't stand that they're all sitting there so calmly in this meeting, when all he wants to do is stand up and shout, to be entirely unreasonable for once.
He won't do it. Jin would, but then again that's why they're even having a meeting in the first place. Why from now on, Kame will be the K and the A. The staff keeps saying all these other things, about new opportunities and growth and foreign markets, but Kame thinks that's always been the reason, deep down.
After the staff leaves, giving them a few minutes alone, the five of them sit around the conference table, exchanging looks. There's a lot of different emotions going around, but surprise isn't one of them.
"Nobody wants to fight about it? To keep him?" Kame asks, but it's not really a question. It's not even that he wants to himself, or thinks it would do any good, it's just that he feels like, after all of this, he should want to fight.
"It's best this way," Nakamaru says when everyone else is silent, diplomatic. "For him too. It's been like this before, ne."
"Being a grown-up sucks sometimes," Junno complains, setting his chin down on top of his crossed arms on the table. Koki punches his shoulder, but it's for comfort.
They all fall silent again.
"I'm glad," Ueda says abruptly, voice sounding too loud. Kame swallows a wince, but then Ueda continues. "Because things will change. So maybe after this, I can be friends with Jin, a real one. We all could. I'm calling him," Ueda pulls out his phone, doing it right then and there, "and I'm going to tell him good luck, and mean it."
Kame thinks he'll maybe settle for a mail, but he'll do his best to mean it too.