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songandsilence
These are the rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it’s over.
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Fandom: BSG
Character/pairing: All Kara, fair amount of K/L but some K/Z and some gen
Spoilers: All the way. That means ALL OF SEASON 4.0. We've got an Academy ficlet or two in here all the way through to some post-Revelations stuff.
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em.
Rating: um, PG-13 for one of the song titles? It's all pretty tame though.
Notes: I don't do speed-writing very well, apparently. I had to finish some unfinished sentences after the fact. And I also cheated slightly in skipping any songs I did not know, although I think I win points for writing a bsg ficlet from High School Musical 2.
But really, I don't think very highly of these, nor do I expect you to. Whatever, it was fun!
1. Don’t Tempt Me - Richard Thompson
She’s out there on the dance floor, and every eye in the house knows it, he’s sure. Lee watches as she shudders and gyrates to the pulsing beat, staccato lights flashing over her admirers. They’re a tight-knit circle around her, but she’s moving so fast and so wildly that none of them can actually keep up with her.
That minute distance doesn’t stop the anger from pounding through him. He knows she’s hurting, gods is she hurting, and he knows that she’s been drinking but if anyone’s going to be there as she falls apart it should be him, not these illiterate strangers.
2. Gotta Go My Own Way - High School Musical 2
She’s looking at him and not talking and he’s never been this nervous in his life.
He knows he’s broken the rules of their unspoken whatever-this-is, but maybe he’s never been too good at lying. He slipped up, he knows it, hands lingering just a little too long, holding her just a little too close, but he’d kindasortamaybe hoped she’d close the distance.
Instead she’s just standing there looking at him and she looks confused and maybe even a little bit scared and a little bit angry. She makes some excuse and runs off to a class that she’s never given a frak about before, and he knows the lie for what it is.
He wonders just how big an opportunity he just missed. Hopes it’ll come again. Doesn’t know what he’s in store for.
3. Walk Through the Fire - OMWF (Buffy musical)
She stares at the flames, tosses another log onto the pyre. Nobody’s being buried today, but she’s privately mourning every hope and dream she ever had. Melodramatic, maybe. Sentimental, possibly. Un-Starbuck, absolutely. But maybe she has to purge away the lies. See if there’s anything left, when she’s stripped of her gods, her faith, her destiny, and maybe even her humanity.
She doesn’t know what the frak happened to her and she doesn’t know what the frak happens next, and the promise of Earth was the only thing that’d been keeping her out of the brig, let alone an airlock.
When the fire finally burns down (not a whole lot of fuel in this wasteland) she knows he’ll be there, and she wishes he wouldn’t because that’s just one more thing to be stripped from her.
4. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
The first time he sees her, he actually makes the near-fatal error of dismissing her. He’s walking into the party, scanning the room for familiar faces, idly notices the blond cadet hurling dart after dart into the target pinned up on the wall. She’s laughing and exuberant and defiantly herself in her sweats and a tank.
His eyes quickly move past her and her crowd of hangers-on, though, and soon enough he settles on a slim girl with long red hair and a teasing skirt.
He’ll regret it soon enough. Just about the first time he gets within arms reach of that blond cadet.
5. Seasons of Love - Rent
She’s staring at the casket. His father grips her hand and she prays for the gods to strike her down. She knows she’s sinned, knows she tried to play god, and knows that this is the price she must pay, but though it’s terrible it’s not nearly terrible enough for her crimes.
The priest drones on and she hardly hears the words. The tombstone marks out the span of his life in cold stone-twenty years. Just two decades, that this man beside her had his son.
She had him for twelve months and it’s too long, too long-she never should have had that time. If she’d never known what she found with him, she’d never have known what she lost without him.
6. How Fucking Romantic - The Magnetic Fields
Lee knows he’s made a mistake the moment she starts laughing. That really wasn’t the reaction he was expecting.
“For frak’s sake, Lee,” she says between chortles, “get off your frakking knee.”
(For the record--this song is really short! And yet this is my favorite of these ficlets)
7. Anyone Can Be Somebody’s Fool - Nanci Griffith
“I married a Cylon.”
“Yeah, you said that already.” The words don’t make any more sense than the first time she said them, about ten outbursts ago.
“Don’t you get it? I married a Cylon! Everything I’ve hated and fought against and I...I let him in and...”
“And you never let anybody in. Yeah, I know.” He can’t quite keep the bitterness out of his voice. But at least his jealousy is pure. “So is it Cally’s fault? Helo’s? Ellen Tigh’s? Not a one of them knew, and if you’d just quit holding yourself to some frakking gold standard you’d see that it’s not always about you.”
8. I Need You - The Beatles
Everything’s a mess, in her head and outside of it. She slumps against the bulkhead. It’s cold and familiar. She’s passed many a night in hack, and once you’ve seen one cell, you’ve really seen ‘em all.
But when he steps into view and looks at her the way he used to (just over six hours ago) she feels all of her turmoil washed away and she practically basks in his presence, despite herself.
9. Number Three - They Might Be Giants (There’s only two songs in me/and I just wrote the third)
The first canvas she thought was maybe a fluke. She’d been bored and she’d started tossing some colors onto the page. But when she was done, she knew-knew she’d made something real.
10. Rich Man’s War - Steve Earle
The first batch of nuggets is laughable. And she does laugh. When a Fleet Academy washout and a boonie jumper are the best of the best, you know you’ve hit the dregs.
Second batch of nuggets, a little less laughable. They’ve been in some sims, a couple of them. One of them’s uncle flew commercial airplanes. Another worked as an air hostess. The air hostess turns out to be a decent stick.
Third batch of nuggets, she’s not laughing anymore. The air hostess is dead by now, and the boonie jumper’s a hardened veteran. And she’s training up some baby-faced teenagers who’ve only seen the inside of a video game. The kind they have in arcades for 20 bits.
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songandsilence
These are the rules:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it’s over.
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Fandom: BSG
Character/pairing: All Kara, fair amount of K/L but some K/Z and some gen
Spoilers: All the way. That means ALL OF SEASON 4.0. We've got an Academy ficlet or two in here all the way through to some post-Revelations stuff.
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em.
Rating: um, PG-13 for one of the song titles? It's all pretty tame though.
Notes: I don't do speed-writing very well, apparently. I had to finish some unfinished sentences after the fact. And I also cheated slightly in skipping any songs I did not know, although I think I win points for writing a bsg ficlet from High School Musical 2.
But really, I don't think very highly of these, nor do I expect you to. Whatever, it was fun!
1. Don’t Tempt Me - Richard Thompson
She’s out there on the dance floor, and every eye in the house knows it, he’s sure. Lee watches as she shudders and gyrates to the pulsing beat, staccato lights flashing over her admirers. They’re a tight-knit circle around her, but she’s moving so fast and so wildly that none of them can actually keep up with her.
That minute distance doesn’t stop the anger from pounding through him. He knows she’s hurting, gods is she hurting, and he knows that she’s been drinking but if anyone’s going to be there as she falls apart it should be him, not these illiterate strangers.
2. Gotta Go My Own Way - High School Musical 2
She’s looking at him and not talking and he’s never been this nervous in his life.
He knows he’s broken the rules of their unspoken whatever-this-is, but maybe he’s never been too good at lying. He slipped up, he knows it, hands lingering just a little too long, holding her just a little too close, but he’d kindasortamaybe hoped she’d close the distance.
Instead she’s just standing there looking at him and she looks confused and maybe even a little bit scared and a little bit angry. She makes some excuse and runs off to a class that she’s never given a frak about before, and he knows the lie for what it is.
He wonders just how big an opportunity he just missed. Hopes it’ll come again. Doesn’t know what he’s in store for.
3. Walk Through the Fire - OMWF (Buffy musical)
She stares at the flames, tosses another log onto the pyre. Nobody’s being buried today, but she’s privately mourning every hope and dream she ever had. Melodramatic, maybe. Sentimental, possibly. Un-Starbuck, absolutely. But maybe she has to purge away the lies. See if there’s anything left, when she’s stripped of her gods, her faith, her destiny, and maybe even her humanity.
She doesn’t know what the frak happened to her and she doesn’t know what the frak happens next, and the promise of Earth was the only thing that’d been keeping her out of the brig, let alone an airlock.
When the fire finally burns down (not a whole lot of fuel in this wasteland) she knows he’ll be there, and she wishes he wouldn’t because that’s just one more thing to be stripped from her.
4. Short Skirt/Long Jacket - Cake
The first time he sees her, he actually makes the near-fatal error of dismissing her. He’s walking into the party, scanning the room for familiar faces, idly notices the blond cadet hurling dart after dart into the target pinned up on the wall. She’s laughing and exuberant and defiantly herself in her sweats and a tank.
His eyes quickly move past her and her crowd of hangers-on, though, and soon enough he settles on a slim girl with long red hair and a teasing skirt.
He’ll regret it soon enough. Just about the first time he gets within arms reach of that blond cadet.
5. Seasons of Love - Rent
She’s staring at the casket. His father grips her hand and she prays for the gods to strike her down. She knows she’s sinned, knows she tried to play god, and knows that this is the price she must pay, but though it’s terrible it’s not nearly terrible enough for her crimes.
The priest drones on and she hardly hears the words. The tombstone marks out the span of his life in cold stone-twenty years. Just two decades, that this man beside her had his son.
She had him for twelve months and it’s too long, too long-she never should have had that time. If she’d never known what she found with him, she’d never have known what she lost without him.
6. How Fucking Romantic - The Magnetic Fields
Lee knows he’s made a mistake the moment she starts laughing. That really wasn’t the reaction he was expecting.
“For frak’s sake, Lee,” she says between chortles, “get off your frakking knee.”
(For the record--this song is really short! And yet this is my favorite of these ficlets)
7. Anyone Can Be Somebody’s Fool - Nanci Griffith
“I married a Cylon.”
“Yeah, you said that already.” The words don’t make any more sense than the first time she said them, about ten outbursts ago.
“Don’t you get it? I married a Cylon! Everything I’ve hated and fought against and I...I let him in and...”
“And you never let anybody in. Yeah, I know.” He can’t quite keep the bitterness out of his voice. But at least his jealousy is pure. “So is it Cally’s fault? Helo’s? Ellen Tigh’s? Not a one of them knew, and if you’d just quit holding yourself to some frakking gold standard you’d see that it’s not always about you.”
8. I Need You - The Beatles
Everything’s a mess, in her head and outside of it. She slumps against the bulkhead. It’s cold and familiar. She’s passed many a night in hack, and once you’ve seen one cell, you’ve really seen ‘em all.
But when he steps into view and looks at her the way he used to (just over six hours ago) she feels all of her turmoil washed away and she practically basks in his presence, despite herself.
9. Number Three - They Might Be Giants (There’s only two songs in me/and I just wrote the third)
The first canvas she thought was maybe a fluke. She’d been bored and she’d started tossing some colors onto the page. But when she was done, she knew-knew she’d made something real.
10. Rich Man’s War - Steve Earle
The first batch of nuggets is laughable. And she does laugh. When a Fleet Academy washout and a boonie jumper are the best of the best, you know you’ve hit the dregs.
Second batch of nuggets, a little less laughable. They’ve been in some sims, a couple of them. One of them’s uncle flew commercial airplanes. Another worked as an air hostess. The air hostess turns out to be a decent stick.
Third batch of nuggets, she’s not laughing anymore. The air hostess is dead by now, and the boonie jumper’s a hardened veteran. And she’s training up some baby-faced teenagers who’ve only seen the inside of a video game. The kind they have in arcades for 20 bits.
eta: I don't know what's going on with RTF. Or HTML.