Comments | tfic_contest: The Second Annual Christmas Ficlet Exchange!! (response post)

eerian_sadow in tfic_contest

The Second Annual Christmas Ficlet Exchange!! (response post)

Nov 29, 2009 20:32

due to a bit of modly fail (i got sick), i forgot to post the requests on Friday as promised. a community member sent me a gentle reminder a little while ago, however, so here is the post!

Here are the requests, and all are numbered. If you want to fill a request, just respond in the comments with the number in the subject. Remember, all the ( Read more... )

holiday exchange, mod post

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Re: [26] 1.1 eerian_sadow December 2 2009, 23:03:46 UTC

ooo. dark and creepy and a little unsettling. i like it.

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Re: [41] 1.1 eerian_sadow December 10 2009, 05:46:01 UTC

a very good take on it.

6 - Old Songs sister_dear December 9 2009, 20:38:16 UTC

Warning: mentions of (canon) character death ( ... )

Re: 6 - Old Songs eerian_sadow December 10 2009, 05:43:10 UTC

oh darling, that's so beautiful. so, so sad but so beautiful, too.

Omega is right. he should have a song.

Re: 6 - Old Songs sister_dear December 11 2009, 16:56:30 UTC

Thank you, Eerian. The prompt seemed to speak so strongly of loss, and this seemed like a good topic to carry that into the response.

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36 - Better Than You sister_dear December 9 2009, 21:24:59 UTC

Really short, apologies to the requester.

"That was totally a perfect bullseye."

"No it wasn't."

"Was too."

"Wasn't."

"Just because you're jealous..."

"Jealous? Hah!"

"Admit it, you are."

"I am n-! What are you doing? ...Oh. Mmmmm."

"There, see? I'm even better than you at that."

"No you aren't. Come back here, let me show you how it's really done."

Re: 36 - Better Than You eerian_sadow December 10 2009, 05:44:16 UTC

hahaha!! that's great!

Re: 36 - Better Than You sister_dear December 11 2009, 16:48:29 UTC

Glad it amused!

[44] Light the Way With Breadcrumbs seikk December 12 2009, 04:47:30 UTC

They follow the signal through old star-remnants and blackness. They limp through the nothingness, grasping after each faltering chord like a mech who has only known darkness grasps at light. They are desperate and stumbling, unable to hold it and unable to know that it is not a glitching remnant of Metroplex's ancient processor, but unable to stop reaching for it as though it is more.

Scamper has to be manually overridden to force him into recharge most of the time now, since when there is nothing else to be done he spends his time fanatically monitoring the communication’s equipment, checking receivers and tracking the signal through what seems like a forever of darkness and stars. If Metroplex doesn’t watch him, doesn’t have Six-Gun occasionally intervene with a carefully tugged wire in Scamper’s neck, the little drone would work himself to exhaustion chasing down what may not exist.

(But he is Metroplex, too.)Sometimes they lose the signal, always somewhere at the point where time becomes meaningless and their little bit of ( ... )

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seikk December 12 2009, 23:20:34 UTC

Old, crazy cities are awesome like no other. It is a fact. Slammer is apparently my favorite and I'm not entirely too sure how that happened. But it did. And I do not regret it in the least bit :D

I'm so glad you liked it! I'm never sure about my characterization when I try to write Metroplex, but I saw the prompt and I had to do it. Thank you!

Re: [44] Light the Way With Breadcrumbs sister_dear December 13 2009, 01:51:28 UTC

Oh poor Met, so lonely. There's something about the idea of a great big, empty city just wandering through space that's so poignant. The way Met and his drones influence each other, both negatively and positively, is wonderfully described.

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