Quickdrabbles Fic 36: Focused on what I could attract...

[labyrinth2015]

You made a pact, you dropped the act, you focused on what you could attract...

Meh, I'm feeling somewhat written out - I am working on a wedding story (a separate story
from the one on which I'm collaborating with the fabulous frackin_sweet), and it's not going too well - and I want to start on this cracky R possibly-canon, possibly-AU bordello fic, and my guitars-by-gaslight AUbigbang, but I have just no impetus.

And I'm in Court this afternoon, WOE.

As a way of importuning the Muses, I thought I might try the drabbular method recently employed by timeisgone, kissesblow, orochi_kitty and otherbella.

Hundred word drabbles, snatches of story, any Cook, Anthemic, AIS7 pairing; crossovers with X-Men, BtVS/AtS, Discworld, Holmes, The Law. I think I have a tiny legalesque Cook/Ryan Seacrest somewhere! I'll even write you self-insert (of you). Leave me a prompt (word, song, whatever) and rating. Will turn around fast, so as to importune quickly XD



Gorgeous pic from the insanely talented ciudad, used with permission.

Masterlist

* Cook/Arch/Andrew - If I Told You, extract [R/NC-17], post Long Way Down, for orochi_kitty
* Cook/Arch - The Leaf Crown [PG]: Cook gets Walt Whitman-esque with Archie, for kissesblow
* Cook/Arch - The Reichenbach Faultline [PG], extract: Holmes!Cookleta AU gracelessheart
* Cook/Arch - Offerings to Polyhymnia, [PG-13/R]: Arch is Cook's demanding Muse of Song, for lacedsarcasm
* Cook/Arch - Eagle's Wings [PG-13]: Greek mythology professor Cook and student Archie, for paitac
* Cook/Arch - Need You Now: [PG-13] from AIRNverse, for honeybeemmw and otherbella
* Logan/Archie - Spaceship [PG], X-Men Cookleta cross-over, post United, We Stand for starafar
* Neal/Archie - Interlude [PG], Iberian historical fantasyverse/self-insert, post Inkspell, for mellowdee
* Andy/Neal - His Most Perfect Day [PG]: It's Neal's birthday; Andy wants things to be perfect, for celtic_fish
* Cook/Kara DioGuardi - Judging David 1 [PG-13/R], 2 [R/NC-17]: Bikini Girl, who?, for chemicalwonder
* Cook/Kelly Clarkson - Poison and Wine [R]: the Civil Wars, for lilac_girl84 and micheleeeex
* Cook/Cowell - Spin [PG-13]: Simon learns to play Spin the Bottle, for amccoy1972 and cincodemaygirl

ETA: Cook/Ryan Seacrest - (Matt Giraud v AIEight Corp, PDRC First Mention, xxx of 2009) [PG]: Ryan can't take his eyes off illegally-attractive plaintiffs' counsel Cook, for goseaward at idolmeta, archiving this

Comments

[orochi-kitty.livejournal.com]

OH!
If you're up to it can I ask for a little more of the David/Andrew/Archie fics you have going on? Maybe a side scene of what happens after?
I love those two fics so much!!!

[kissesblow.livejournal.com]

i hope you get your muse/inspiration/waywithwords back! it can be so horrible to feel strung out when it comes to writing, so, i wish you the best of luck!

and *cheers* drabbles!

i would lovelovelove to read a short whitman-esque cook/archie OR neal/archie of yours, so so much. <3

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

Eeeee this is my lucky day :D Um..you wouldn't mind writing a Cookleta version of Sherlock Holmes, would you? IDEK my brain is weird nowadays.

And I'm soooo looking forward to all those fics you listed. Particularly the wedding one.

[chemicalwonder.livejournal.com]

I just really want someone to try their hand at Cook/Kara DioGuardi. xD Hmm, prompt? Bikini? (Yeah, what could that possibly refer to? :P) Rating R/NC-17. :P

I apologize in advance.

[celtic-fish.livejournal.com]

Andy/Neal. Birthday cake. Rate it as you will. *bats eyelashes*

[lilgrump.livejournal.com]

All right, since your muses are misbehaving, how about this? Cookleta, where Archie is Cook's muse. Like an actual muse, in a sort of mystical creature kind of way. I'm thinking some kind of siren/fairy kind of creature, but I don't know XD Anyway, Archie is Cook's muse and Cook is trying to write a song, but Archie is feeling mischievous and anything but helpful XD

Um, okay, this might be too weird for a drabble, but do whatever you want with it. Something around an R rating would be perfect, but I'm not picky :D

[lilac-girl84.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is totally self-indulgent and not exactly on the list, but you did a little David Cook/Kelly Clarkson piece a while ago, right? Yeah, I'd totally take more of that pairing.

As for a prompt, ummm...this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfzRlcnq_c0 (I flove this band so much. It's sort of ridic.) Also, I'm kind of an angst whore, but a total sucker for an eventual happy ending. But if you don't like the song, you can just expand on the other piece, do something completely different, whatever you want. I'll take my Cookson pretty much any way I can get it! =D

[starafar]

!!! Can I haz any S7/X-Men crossovers? :D:D

Ah, woe. The UFO.

[mellowdee.livejournal.com]

You are a wonderful person and a wonderful writer, and I'm sorry your current story isn't going too well. ♥.

I want any self-insert fic of me. ANY. With, wow, anyone? Write AU!me with AU!someone.

Because CRACK is my middle name.

OR.

Snippet of barbarian verse. Yeah. That just happened.

♥

[cincodemaygirl.livejournal.com]

Oooo. May I just suggest, in case it takes you somewhere, spin the bottle?

High school cliches in fic: good times, in my mind.

<3

[amccoy1972.livejournal.com]

Hey chiquita, it's been awhile, how are you? I never eljay anymore, but then you wanted us to say what we wanted, so hey.

As for that... well pretty much anything you write works for me. But SINCE you asked:

Ditto on the David/Andrew/Archie thing... Hot. Weird. Hot. Yes, write more.

I'm TOTALLY obsessed with David Cook/Simon Cowell fic right now. Don't know if you have followed this fic by lowlyandunholy at all -- it has seriously consumed me:
http://community.livejournal.com/tulsa_gangstas/353212.html

So yeah, she just finished it, and I'm like David/Simon, someone?

And X-men fic? Yes, please!

[kissesblow.livejournal.com]

oh, also! just commenting again to say -- i'm sure you know this already, you seem pretty tight with neil :D but -- amanda palmer and neil gaiman are engaged! i remember you saying that you've met them and spoken with them and are sort of almost friends with them, so, yeah! just thought i'd comment here and -- say that? hahah, i don't know. i feel the need to spread their fiancee-cheer to all that will listen. they're so adorable together.

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're already getting a lot of prompts but if you feel inclined, I would love an angsty/happy ending Cookleta fic based on this song which I am currently obsessed with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJy_Cb21Lw

I totally see the first verse as Archie's and the second verse as Cook's and.......yeah. Anyway. Could be set in AIRN verse or not. Whatever works for me if you feel like writing it. ♥

[honeybeemmw.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. Gosh. I want to squee and flail and cry and hug you through my computer right now! This? Is beautiful. I ♥ it so.

A couple of weeks ago I went back and re-read AIRN from start to finish for the first time. I hadn't been able to do that until then because reading it chapter by chapter as you posted it pretty much broke me. But, reading it all the way through gave me such an appreciation for the story as a whole. The images were so much clearer to me and I felt their pain even more. But it was a glorious experience. :)

I love that you wrote this from Archie's POV. Archie crying on Brooke's bed and her holding him showed his hurt and vulnerability and I was right there with him. :(

And Archie was watching Cook's performances - oh my heart - and saw his Avalanche dedication. Oh Gosh. *wibbles*

And then Cook's crying in the hazy Spanish evening, and Arch is crying too, in the afternoon in L.A., miles and oceans away.

Archie lies awake all night.

Finally, when it's morning, he picks up the phone, and dials Cook's cell.

It rings twice, three times. Then Cook's voice, rich and still so beautiful, and, and Archie can't say anything, can't get his throat to work -

- Cook says, "David, is that you?" -

- And Archie can't. Oh, it still hurts so much - he hangs up, he folds to the floor, he cries for everything they've lost, that they can't even talk to each other on the 'phone now, or, most like, ever again.

Just remembering Cook's reaction after Archie hung up and finally knowing what happened from Archie's POV makes me ache. Literally. My heart is constricting and my stomach is in knots.

But, being the genius that you are, you make it all better with that lovely picture of them in the future. YOU ARE AMAZING AND I CANNOT STATE THAT ENOUGH. Thank you so very much for this gem. I absolutely love it. ♥

[goth-sweeting.livejournal.com]

this is soo perfect :)

[movable-nu.livejournal.com]

My brain is on fire from these. Sorry I can't pull it together to leave proper comments on each individually. But I'm agog at your talent. Just amazing stuff all around!

[princessleia04.livejournal.com]

OK, HOW DID I MISS THIS!?

Yay Skibmann. <3

[crashingxxhigh.livejournal.com]

Loving this so much!!

would really like more, please!