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

Re: Poison and Wine [R]

[lilac-girl84.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is the best way to wake up EVER.

This is just so many shades of perfect. You totally captured the push/pull of the song, and omg, I loooove push/pull. And you got Kelly's (my favorite Kelly - brunette, angsty, non-commercial, My December Kelly) moody-crazy-guarded persona that she throws up because she's scared and grasping and David's sensitive, emotional, bright-eyed fucking openness that he can't shut off no matter how much it may hurt. But most of all, you encapsulated the fear of being in love, how it can be the thing that destroys you, but builds you up at the same time, and how knowing and being known is the most beautiful and dangerous thing we'll ever do.

*sigh...* Why don't people write this pairing more often? They just seem so perfect for one another. It just breaks my heart. Thank you so much for writing this, bb. I'm your fangirl for life. And I'm totally stockpiling prompts, now. ;D

Re: Poison and Wine [R]

[jehane-writes.livejournal.com]

Oh, bb, I was so happy to write this for you! I'm glad you thought I got them, because I do see this about them - moody, passionate, fiercely independent Kels, Dave bright-eyed and open, as you say; still wanting to keep hold of the commercial thing, at least for the moment.

And I love that you mentioned "the fear of being in love", how "it's the most beautiful and dangerous thing we'll ever do" - which comes through in the song, clear as a bell.

Awesome prompt <333