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writing chat thingy time!

Jul 27, 2012 19:52

Hello, all. It is time for WRITING CHAT THINGY. As we 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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[jumping to the wrong conclusion] xmfc - college au - charles/erik pocky_slash July 28 2012, 00:37:57 UTC

This is part of a yet to be posted college AU.

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"Hey! Lehnsherr! Hey!"

Erik turns at the sound of his name. He's got a sharp word ready for whoever's making him late for swim practice, but it dies on his lips when he sees it's Munoz. Darwin, they call him. Hell if Erik knows why.

"Munoz," Erik says, nodding at him.

"Your boyfriend left this in class," Munoz says, and he pulls a three ring binder out of his bag. It's very clearly one of Charles'--he can see the color-coded tabs sticking out the side of the same standard, black one-inch three ring that Charles keeps for each of his eight million classes. BioEthics is written on the side. "We have Emerging Tech together," Munoz explains. "I guess it fell out of his bag, but he left this morning before I could catch him."

"Thanks," Erik says. Then, belatedly, "Charles isn't my boyfriend."

Munoz gives Erik a look like he's the crazy one, like he's the one going around, jumping to conclusions just because two guys spend a lot of time together. And, okay, maybe Charles is always ( ... )

Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] xmfc - college au - charles/erik pearl_o July 28 2012, 03:03:56 UTC

ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRIK.

Oh god I love this universe so so so much.

Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] xmfc - college au - charles/erik pocky_slash July 29 2012, 02:00:14 UTC

I imagine that there are a lot of times before they cross the line to making out when Charles just looks sad or tired, so when he slumps against Erik, Erik totally encourages it and holds him and rubs his back. And when people give him weird looks, he's like, "FRIENDS DO THIS ALL THE TIME."

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[Write about jumping to the wrong conclusion] At the Breakfast Table -- Original -- No Pairings shadowsong26 July 28 2012, 00:40:28 UTC

"So, um, I think there's a dead body in Mr. Lester's back yard."

Everyone went silent and stared at me.

"A body?" Mom asked.

I nodded. "It was really late, and he was dragging something wrapped in a sheet over to a hole in the ground. It looked like the right size, and the hole was big enough."

Another short silence.

"I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this," my brother said.

"I know what I saw," I snapped. He always tried to act like I didn't know what the hell I was talking about.

"There's a lot of things that are the same size as a dead body. And Mr. Lester's a nice guy. Did you see any...I don't know...blood or anything?"

"No," I said, a little defensively.

"Just something vaguely body-sized--"

"It was shaped like a body wrapped in a sheet, too."

"Still doesn't mean anything."

I flung a grapefruit seed in his general direction, earning a glare from Mom. "I know what I saw," I repeated. "I'm gonna go look tonight."

"You are not," Mom said. "I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this. I don't want you ( ... )

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Re: [Write about jumping to the wrong conclusion] At the Breakfast Table -- Original -- No Pairings shadowsong26 July 28 2012, 20:03:38 UTC

Thank you ^^

I think when I started it was supposed to be the speaker who was jumping to conclusions, then halfway through it turned into a Goosebumps-esque Town of Monsters, and then I just gave up trying to decide since it wasn't going to be revealed anyway. XD

Re: [Write about jumping to the wrong conclusion] At the Breakfast Table -- Original -- No Pairings pocky_slash July 29 2012, 02:03:32 UTC

Hahaha, this was great. Humorous, but laced with just enough doubt that you're not sure who's on the right track here.

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[jumping to the wrong conclusion] original fiction - don't panic bookblather July 28 2012, 00:41:48 UTC

The thing about Ivy was that she was amazing, wonderful, intelligent and kind, and she had a really bad habit of leaving ominous voicemail ( ... )

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Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] original fiction - don't panic bookblather July 29 2012, 02:40:25 UTC

Ivy is so bad about leaving cryptic voice messages, Gina is so sick of it by now. And yeah, she was guessing something less enormous. XD

Thank you very much!

Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] original fiction - don't panic pocky_slash July 29 2012, 02:06:05 UTC

Aww, this was super adorable! I was just as curious as Gina (well, perhaps not quite as curious XD), and I didn't see the proposal coming, but it was super sweet ♥

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[jumping to the wrong conclusion] we were gambling to win - The Avengers (2012) - Natasha & Clint littledust July 28 2012, 00:56:17 UTC

The pavement is blood-warm despite the hour, weeds tangling up and over the cracks. Natasha removes a neon green handkerchief from her purse and ties it over her head, concealing the red of her hair. Dark sunglasses follow, along with a fringed shawl. The disguise looks hasty, desperate. In a way, it is.

The shadow that's been at her heels for the past week fires its first shot.

"Arrows," she says to herself in Russian, twisting out of the way. She pulls the arrow out of the weeds--fortunate that it struck earth instead of pavement--and rolls into the shallow ditch she noticed when she walked past the street earlier today. More arrows bury themselves in the dirt; Natasha whips off the sunglasses, shielding her eyes with one hand and willing her pupils to widen faster as she scans the darkness. There are only so many vantage points here, especially for an archer.

There.Natasha kicks over a trash can, up and running into the shadows over the sound of clanging metal, the arrow already tucked in her bag to function as an additional ( ... )

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Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] we were gambling to win - The Avengers (2012) - Natasha & Clin littledust July 29 2012, 16:43:18 UTC

Thank you so much! I love "Now I am tricking YOU! Oh, you were tricking me! Now I will trick you again!" interactions.

Re: [jumping to the wrong conclusion] we were gambling to win - The Avengers (2012) - Natasha & Clin pocky_slash July 29 2012, 02:08:02 UTC

::flaily hands:: Clint and Nataaaaaashaaaaaaa! This was so great and ::flaily hands::

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[something you see every day] original fic - sidewalk bookblather July 28 2012, 01:03:03 UTC

It was funny, the things you looked at but didn't really see.

The sidewalk, for instance. Grey pavement burned white by the noon sun, vast slabs speckled with unidentifiable dark spots and cigarette butts. Miranda walked over this very sidewalk two to six times a day, over this very spot on the sidewalk, and she had never yet taken notice of it.

And now her blood was spilling out on the sidewalk, dying that grey-white pavement a dark red, with ruby highlights where the sun caught it. Now she lay with her cheek pressed against the rough pavement, and all she could see was the white-hot glare.

The things you saw when you were dying, she thought, and closed her eyes.

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Re: [something you see every day] original fic - sidewalk bookblather July 29 2012, 02:41:37 UTC

Thank you much! I like the idea of... of focusing more than expanding too, myself. All the accounts I've read talk about narrowing vision, and I thought maybe you focused.

Thank you! I'm rather fond of it too. :D It's up for ganking if you like.

Re: [something you see every day] original fic - sidewalk pocky_slash July 29 2012, 02:09:09 UTC

This was great! And the ending was totally unexpected and gaaaaaahhhhh D:

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