WRITING CHAT THINGY O'CLOCK.

[pocky_slash]

Hello, all. It is time for WRITING CHAT THINGY. As I have taken to calling it. For those who are new around these parts, it's a group chat where we share prompts to write fifteen minute ficlets. If you haven't come before but want to try it out, don't be afraid to stop by

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[a fragile connection] Fractured - Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura

[analise010]

It’s not as though Maura exactly planned for this to happen, but she can still understand why Jane did it. They’ve always had this chasm between them that they don’t talk about, that everyone sees and throws in her face, no matter how many times she says, “No, really, you don’t know her. You don’t understand. Jane, she’s really...wonderful.”

But not right now. Her best friend - and potential girlfriend - kills your father for no reason at all, then yes, it makes Maura look at all of the glaring differences between the two of them. It makes her wonder what made her fall in love with Jane in the first place.

It’s been three months and she still can’t look Jane in the eye. She remembers a time when she could drown in those eyes if one could actually drown in an iris. Maura’s read body language enough to see the way that Jane’s eyes look at her, how protective she gets, and how that protective nature would produce an evolutionary response of choosing Jane as a prospective mate, but what she feels felt? is so far past science that she

Re: [a fragile connection] Fractured - Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura

[neurotictealeaf]

Eeee, Rizzoli and Isles! Lovely, lovely look into Maura's mind, and this line:

Whatever connection they had, they fragile peace between friendship and love, is fractured, as though Jane shot through that too.

is just gorgeous.

Re: [a fragile connection] Fractured - Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura

[metonymy]

Oh, there is so much pain hiding behind those attempts to reason out what's happened and why, and emotion refusing to be tamed by logic. Ouch.

Re: [a fragile connection] Fractured - Rizzoli and Isles - Jane/Maura

[tehomet]

That’s where the facts ended because Jane could have shot her father for a number of reasons and Maura has no idea which one is true. Which one she wants to be true.

That's the nub of the matter.

I like the characterisation in this piece too, the way Maura (not a fumbling person by nature) fumbles her way to some kind of start of a resolution.

Re: [A Fragile Connection] - Sadness of Ages (Original)

[neurotictealeaf]

There's something about this that feels fragile somehow, like a word or a gesture out of place, and the whole situation would just break apart. It's in the sterility of the visiting room and the tension in Sue's mouth and hands and hairstyle.

If any of that made any sense. The mood is perfect, and an intriguing glimpse into this universe!

Re: [A Fragile Connection] - Sadness of Ages (Original)

[metonymy]

Oh MAN. I don't know who Howard is and I want to hug him. A lot. And I love that last sentence, it just validates the entire rest of the story - you can tell from this little snippet how much Sue's belief means to Howard.

[a fragile connection] - (original fiction)

[fox1013]

She jumps from topic to topic, and he can't see the invisible connections but he can tell they're solid steel to her, so he doesn't say anything, not even in the fragments of time where she pauses to catch her breath and he could ask if he really wanted to. Because he doesn't, not really. He wants to hear her talk, whether or not all the transitions are left on the cutting room floor of her mind. She talks like new beginnings, like everything has so much hope and promise and opportunity, and he doesn't want to break that.

The connecting parts aren't important, anyway. They matter when you aren't really saying anything, when you bury what you really mean inside layers of falsehoods and half-truths like he does, but when she speaks, she isn't hiding anything. What she says is what she means to say- no bullshit.

It's the stupidest fucking thing he can imagine ever choosing to do. It's the only reason that he stays silent while she talks.

When she's done, he doesn't have a clue what she said or how she got there. He's glad he listened

Re: [a fragile connection] - (original fiction)

[neurotictealeaf]

She talks like new beginnings

I love that phrase so so much. This whole scene is just lovely and so right.

Re: [a fragile connection] - (original fiction)

[metonymy]

I love how this is almost poetic in prose form, and how important it is to understand that even if it sounds illogical and disconnected everything she's saying is a fundamental truth.

[a fragile connection] point - original poetry

[afrocurl]

is this real?

meant to last?

how can we tell,
that which is permanent
fixed point in time
from the transient--the elusive?

a point--grounded in time, space--

that stands to guide everything else.

is that point one that can be salavaged
put together again when there’s so much
pain, blood, horror wrapped around it?

-

It is also possible to fit this into the poems from The Sonnet Series, but who knows...

Re: [a fragile connection] point - original poetry

[afrocurl]

Thank so much. I'd gone about ten years without writing poetry, and then I was reading a fic about someone being a poet and I say "oh hey, I can do that" and I've fallen back into writing it again.

Re: [a fragile connection] point - original poetry

[neurotictealeaf]

Oh man. Those last three lines are just the perfect end to some lovely work... I think I'll be questioning all of my North Stars for a while -- and that's a very, very good thing.

[a fragile connection] Sherlock (BBC) - John + Sherlock

[cold_feets]

It takes only a few weeks for John to realize just how serious Sherlock was about this 'not speaking for days' business. He spirals into depression as soon as he finished a case, barely leaving his room, and when he does grace John with his presence, there are only single syllables ("Tea," usually. Or "Stop" when John's mere existence is apparently just too grating) and a lot of stomping about

[decklin]

:-/

<3

Re: [a fragile connection] Sherlock (BBC) - John + Sherlock

[neurotictealeaf]

SHERLOCK. OH, SHERLOCK.

JOOOOOOOOOHN.

<333333333

This is everything I love about John: the quiet, solid support and the putting up with Sherlock's shenanigans. ALL THE FEELS.