who wants a drabble?

[xparrot]

The past few weeks I was back visiting my parents and old friends; had a fantastic time, but now vacation's over and I've returned to Seattle to find a job. Oh joy! Meanwhile gnine has abandoned me and is setting off to London for grad school today. But I get the brother - hah! (right now we're alternating watching Futurama with Red Dwarf, which is somewhat brain-breaking (if not up to the Twin Peaks/Kodocha standard gnine and I set a few years back.) It's quite satisfying to finally see all of Futurama, and being one of the deprived who was never exposed to Red Dwarf at an early age, I am proud to report that I can now warble the theme song in the shower. I also flatly deny any allegations that I have been secretly googling for Lister/Rimmer because that would be WRONG and I would never do such a thing. Never. Nope.)

But that's neither here nor there. What is here is that I haven't written hardly a word in going on a month, and desperately need to get back in the writing saddle. So, for a limited time, it's open-drabble season - give me a fandom/characters/pairing (whichever, and it can be any series I know, whether or not I've fic'ed for it) and a prompt (single word, quote, sentence, whatever) and I will attempt to produce a drabble, ficlet, or other arrangement of words with a vague semblance of fic.

ETA: Until I say otherwise, requests are still open! No guarantees, but give it a go and I'll see what I can do...

Comments

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Cause I'm cracked...

Doctor Who and Numb3rs =D Donna and oh I don't know... Larry? Charlie? Don and his team?

Donna being awesome temp for one of them?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was hard...Donna's one of those characters who I hesitate writing, for fear of not doing her justice...


The first day Donna temped at the physics department office, Larry suspected he'd caught her at a bad time. The second day he discovered they had irreconcilable viewpoints in time-management philosophy.

The third day he decided he simply didn't like her.

On the fourth day, she gave him an hour, half hour, and ten minutes warnings for his meeting with the dean, while simultaneously rescheduling two full department meetings, and keeping the coffee maker percolating through all of it, and he realized he'd been wrong about her.

The last day of the week, he looked into Donna Noble's eyes, and was unexpectedly reminded of his return from the space station, the smallness of the Earth, the aggravating necessities of everyday, after gazing into the universe's beautiful infinite.

Like that, but a thousand times over, too great a frustration to comprehend, and Larry was disappointed in himself, for being relieved to see her go.

[lukita.livejournal.com]

*glee* I like it, I like it.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

yays! ^^

[tieleen.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's really, really neat, especially the end.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Donna is tricky, glad she worked for you...

[fish-echo.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun! Larry and Donna! And you did both of them well! Yay!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yays! I love Larry, too (if not as much as I love Donna) so very happy I did them both justice ^^

[paraka]

This is such a cute little ficlet! I thought you'd like to know that I've podficced it (thanks for giving blanket permission!).

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hee - thank you for pod-ficcing! Your reading's delightful, and I'm glad you enjoyed the ficlet ^_^ (it's also up on AO3, will be linking your podfic there, unless you'd rather I didn't!)