Thanks everyone, I hoped it would be well received.
erika that's really great.
Xander: How? What? How? Giles: Three excellent questions.
Xander/Giles ,'Never Leave Me'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
askye - Jun 01, 2015 3:44:25 pm PDT #6308 of 6687
Thrive to spite them
Karl - Jun 04, 2015 9:59:35 pm PDT #6309 of 6687
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Not quite in response to the prompt:
A companion piece to the one I just posted a link to in Beep Me, because ... because you are my people and you have always shared my pain. And because I can't judge the quality of the writing; I'm too close to it.
[Content warning for child abuse and howling regret.]
I'll be in Natter for the next few days, if anyone wants to talk.
Strix - Jun 05, 2015 7:27:53 am PDT #6310 of 6687
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Wow, Karl. I am so sorry.
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Old Prompt: Burn
It tastes like shit, but she disguises it immediately with a hunk of lime and a deliberate swirl of her tongue across the salt. When she does, she always makes eye contact with the cutest guy.
“Why do you drink tequila if you don’t like the flavor?”
“I like the burn,” she always replies, and the tone of her voice when she says this makes people flush and stammer.
Would they look at her the same way when that burn becomes hot lava spewing into cool porcelain?
She likes the burn. But the conflagration is turning her soul to char.
Karl - Jun 05, 2015 7:38:17 am PDT #6311 of 6687
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
askye, what everyone else said. I first saw that one in ita's thread, and thank you for posting it there; it took my breath away.
Erika, that's a lovely call back to a much more innocent time, for me. Captures the feeling very well.
Strix, oh dear. That one I'm going to have to sit with for a while; so many of my women friends have/had complicated relationships with alcohol. I think a lot of them would wince in recognition.
SailAweigh - Jun 05, 2015 8:11:45 am PDT #6312 of 6687
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Oh, definitely. I was good for that way too far into my 30s. I blame the Navy and suffering from undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
Beverly - Jun 05, 2015 8:24:47 am PDT #6313 of 6687
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
That strikes a nerve, Strix. And excellently, sparely written for best effect, as well.
Karl, oh. Thank you for allowing us to share that. I live in constant amazement at human capability--and culpability. It is lovely to see you here, though.
Strix - Jun 05, 2015 9:02:25 am PDT #6314 of 6687
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Thanks guys. I hadn't limited myself to the 100 word drabble in a while, and I was pleased with it.
This drabble brought to you by the last time (many years ago) I did so many (truly, at least 10 with some mixed drinks over about 5 hours) tequila shots, out alone bar hopping, and the only time I truly do not know if I slept with the person that had to help me stagger into my apartment. I don't think I did -- it didn't FEEL like it, yanno? -- but I woke up naked in my bed with vomit on the covers. I was all, "NOPE NOPE NOPE Done, over, no more going out drinking alone." I went to the gyno, regardless.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2015 2:22:39 pm PDT #6315 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Karl, man, what a dick.
Karl - Jun 05, 2015 2:39:46 pm PDT #6316 of 6687
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Erika, that made me snort. So well done, you.
erikaj - Jun 05, 2015 2:45:43 pm PDT #6317 of 6687
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, okay, it's neither poetic nor proof I should have been a profiler at Quantico, but I guess it was honest enough.