Shining on the silver screen drabblefest
Welcome to the holiday season drabble prompt fest! Except. . . the prompts have nothing to do with the holidays :) Instead, this is a cinematic compilation, with forty-five prompts gathered from a wide variety of movies (the actual names of the movies having been omitted, because trust me, in some cases it would be more distracting than anything).
Adhere to the prompts as much, or as little, as you would like! Let's let the women of Star Trek come out to play.
The rules:
1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
Now, with that out of the way:
The Prompts
1) This one moment would decide for my whole life whether fear would rule or I would. I decided. Underneath I knew who I was. I promised myself never to forget.
2) She is not the one to use or need an alibi
3) I think you may be a kindred spirit after all.
Madeline by originalpuck
4) My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes .
5) I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a
sunset... almost pays for the thud. .
6) You've got to ask yourself one question, "Do I feel lucky?" .
Number One by igrockspock
7) It is much better to be the right hand of the devil than to be in his path .
8) Do you know what Top Secret means?" /"Yeah, it's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send them to your relatives." ..
9) As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't .
10) You talkin' to me?'.
11) Either you define the moment, or the moment defines you .
12) Truth hurts. Maybe not so much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts .
13) Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
Chapel by tinmiss1939
14) You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions .
T'Pring by medie
Seska by florahart
15) Nobody puts Baby in a corner. .
Gaila by ashen_key
16) Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. .
17) No matter how hard you try, you'll never be as good as me.
18) Don't step on a crack, or you'll fall and break your back.
19) If you give off signals that you don't want to belong, people will make sure that you don't.
20) You look good wearing my future.
OFC by forthisreason
21) You always hurt the ones you love.
22) Love's an illusion/it's the only illusion that counts.
23) What we have here is. . . failure to communicate.
Gaila by florahart
24) Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust. .
25) Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with somebody I love.
Gaila by anodyna
26) Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
27) How do I look? .
28) His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Gaila, Uhura by forthisreason
29) I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
30) I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
31) Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
32) I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
33) I could've been a contender.
T'Pring by helvidia_p
Number One, Janice Rand, T'Pring, Winona Kirk by idea_of_sarcasm
34) Chivarly is not only dead, it's decomposed.
35) A boy's best friend is his mother.
Winona Kirk by danahid
36) We all go a little mad sometimes.
37) I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
38) Never apologize and never explain, it's a sign of weakness.
Mandana by izzyfics
T'Pring by snowlight
39) There's a lot to be said for making people laugh.
40) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.
41) It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever going to have.
Uhura by possibly_thrice
42) I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
43) I have a head for business, and a bod for sin.
44) . . . "normal" is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.
45) (Your scientists) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Amanda by florahart
Saavik by saavikam77
Adhere to the prompts as much, or as little, as you would like! Let's let the women of Star Trek come out to play.
The rules:
1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
Now, with that out of the way:
The Prompts
1) This one moment would decide for my whole life whether fear would rule or I would. I decided. Underneath I knew who I was. I promised myself never to forget.
2) She is not the one to use or need an alibi
3) I think you may be a kindred spirit after all.
Madeline by originalpuck
4) My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes .
5) I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a
sunset... almost pays for the thud. .
6) You've got to ask yourself one question, "Do I feel lucky?" .
Number One by igrockspock
7) It is much better to be the right hand of the devil than to be in his path .
8) Do you know what Top Secret means?" /"Yeah, it's the kind of mission where you get medals, but they send them to your relatives." ..
9) As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It's not that we don't want to, but too much has happened that we just can't .
10) You talkin' to me?'.
11) Either you define the moment, or the moment defines you .
12) Truth hurts. Maybe not so much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts .
13) Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.
Chapel by tinmiss1939
14) You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions .
T'Pring by medie
Seska by florahart
15) Nobody puts Baby in a corner. .
Gaila by ashen_key
16) Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. .
17) No matter how hard you try, you'll never be as good as me.
18) Don't step on a crack, or you'll fall and break your back.
19) If you give off signals that you don't want to belong, people will make sure that you don't.
20) You look good wearing my future.
OFC by forthisreason
21) You always hurt the ones you love.
22) Love's an illusion/it's the only illusion that counts.
23) What we have here is. . . failure to communicate.
Gaila by florahart
24) Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust. .
25) Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with somebody I love.
Gaila by anodyna
26) Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
27) How do I look? .
28) His eyes have made love to me all evening.
Gaila, Uhura by forthisreason
29) I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
30) I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
31) Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.
32) I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
33) I could've been a contender.
T'Pring by helvidia_p
Number One, Janice Rand, T'Pring, Winona Kirk by idea_of_sarcasm
34) Chivarly is not only dead, it's decomposed.
35) A boy's best friend is his mother.
Winona Kirk by danahid
36) We all go a little mad sometimes.
37) I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen.
38) Never apologize and never explain, it's a sign of weakness.
Mandana by izzyfics
T'Pring by snowlight
39) There's a lot to be said for making people laugh.
40) You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it.
41) It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever going to have.
Uhura by possibly_thrice
42) I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
43) I have a head for business, and a bod for sin.
44) . . . "normal" is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.
45) (Your scientists) were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Amanda by florahart
Saavik by saavikam77