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

[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.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Weddingfic ("Something Blue") is there, but I need to kick it into shape, and it won't be kicked! *frowns at it*

For you, I will attempt Sherlock Cook and Dr John Archuleta, but it isn't likely to be very good, LOL.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

Oh HUSH you. I'm sure it will be amazingsauce. <3 EEEE YAY YOU'RE WRITING IT. \o/

*kicks wedding fic* Behave, ficcy. If you give Jay any more trouble I'll be forced to do something unpleasant.

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

BTW that Cookleta pic you posted is real, right [as in it's an actual photo]? OR AM I IMAGINING THINGS.

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

From ciudad, and, yes, I think it is indeed an actual photo and not a manip!

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD CUE ME DYING.

IDEK WHAT THESE TWO BOYS DO TO ME.

the Reichenbach Faultline

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Extract from the Reichenbach Faultline

- John loathes heights, loathes them, and it's most illogical of him to be clambering up a rope ladder into the sky, his left leg not working properly, precarious ropes all that stand between himself and gravity. But there it is, he can't let the dirigible unmoor and sail away, not with Mr Cook aboard -

- he heaves a sigh of relief when he reaches the side of the dirigible's basket; he throws an arm over its port side, scrambles over in a most undignified fashion, sprawls on her decks -

- "Doctor Archuleta, I presume," drawls Professor Cowell. He has Mr Cook's revolver in one hand, and it's carefully cocked in his fellow lodger's direction.

Mr Cook's eyes are calm, almost amused, as they meet John's somewhat frantic gaze. His vest is slightly torn, his frock coat and hat are missing, his shirt is open at the neck, flapping against his body in the high wind. His arms are secured behind his back.

John gets to his feet, warily, blood rushing in his ears; he's seized with the urge to hasten to Cook's side, to see if he's unharmed, to throw his arms around him -

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[lire-casander.livejournal.com]

:)

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

<3

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[asweetdownfall.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THIS IS SO BRILLIANT, JAY! I loooove it! And you did such an amazing job with it and oh my gosh your John Archuleta is so ARCHIE with his awkwardness and panic and Sherlock Cook is so Cook with his stupid bravery and humor and I'm totally not making sense, sigh.

Thank you so much!!! <333333 AND I WANT MORE OF THIS VERSE. You just could not end it there!

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

YAY, thank you! Glad you liked said little snippet; I'm not sure I could handle the world-building necessary for a proper Holmes!Cookleta story, but I enjoyed making this! <3

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[descartes]

AHHHHH THANK YOU FOR LINKING ME, BECAUSE IF YOU DIDN'T I MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS

VERILY, THIS UPSWING IN HOLMES!AUS PLEASES ME MUCHLY

I love the feel of this, so tense and terrifying in such a short pieces and Reichenbach is totally the gift that keeps on giving and I freaking love that you've written the Davids into it :D :D :D

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Too right that Reichenbach's the gift that keeps on giving! <3

AND THIS IS MY ATTEMPT (OBVS VERY FEEBLE) TO LURE YOU INTO WRITING HOLMES!DAVIDS AU. is it working???

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[koishii-hime.livejournal.com]

THIS IS VERY VERY INTRUIGING. ARCHULETA SAVING COOK? :D I THINK I LI-- D: WHY DOES IT END THERE. rouafhuajrfl. WITH A HYPHEN YOU TEASE. but OEUHDJOLF. Archie and Cook are so very different from movie!holmes yet they would be SO SO PERFECT. it makes no sense how well cookleta fits into AUs. :P MOAR. D:

Re: the Reichenbach Faultline

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Hee, sorry - I did say this was just an extract! Um, I do see Sherlock Cook and Dr John Archuleta as an insanely alluring AU, and may well write more in this universe at some stage!