guys i’m so excited about s11 and i know i should limit it to cautious optimism but i don’t care bc that preview got me really, really pumped up and now i’m basically shakin in my boots for wednesday.
Day: October 1, 2015
OMG YOU SHOULD DRAW A BUCKYNAT WEDDING LIKE THAT DRAW YOUR SQUAD PIC YOU REBLOGGED.
Recently Jensen posted a pic of him and Paul Blackthorne (who played Harry) together in a selfie, so I thought about your Supernatural Dresden AU. XD I love all your fics so much, but that one has a special spot in my heart. :D
Mine too! One days all my WIPs will be finished, one day
Too Long We Have Tarried
NC-17 – Steve/Bucky – ~19.5k, Post-Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Pranks and Practical Jokes, Domestic Avengers, Wedding Planning, Weddings, Pining, Misunderstandings, Angst, Memory Loss, Not Avengers: Age of Ultron (Movie) Compliant, stevebuckyspringfling
Bucky picks up the ring and holds it between them. “Steven Grant Rogers,” he says solemnly. “Will you marry me?”
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For relenafanel and their fabulous prompt: “the ‘remember when we were 20 and you had just broken up with your girlfriend and you drunkenly made me promise to marry you if you were single at 30? well happy birthday, jackass, here’s a decoder ring I just pulled out of a cereal box. Marry me.’ trope. It starts as a joke/BFF trolling, but then they keep joking about it right to the alter.” Many kudos and smooches to my two fantastic betas, bekstek and saintsandsavages.
“See, now that’s cute,” a voice says, somewhere distant in the room. “That’s the cutest damn thing I’ve ever seen. Can I take a picture?”
An annoyed grunt. Something shifts beneath his head. “No. And be quiet. Bad enough you woke me up.”
“Hey, man, I just want to know where the coffee is. You don’t have to come with me.”
“‘M not leaving you in my kitchen unsupervised. You drink out of the carton.”
“In my own place, yeah—”
“Shhh. Hey, Buck?” A touch, light but lingering, ghosting along the curve of his shoulder. “You wanna let go of me?”
Arms tightening, face turning to press back into warmth. Emphatically no.
“Oh, damn,” says the first voice. “I take it back. I take it all back, that, that right there was so fucking cute I need insulin.”
“C’mon,” the second says, cajoling. “I’m gonna be right downstairs—”
“Yeah, Barnes, let him go before we all drop into a diabetic coma.”
“Please? I promise I’ll be right back,” and the warmth starts to ease away again. No.
“He doesn’t believe you.”
“I can see that, thanks. You wanna give me a hand here?”
“No way. If we play tug of war with the Winter Soldier, somebody’s going to lose an arm. And it’ll probably be me.”
A sigh. “Thanks a lot. Bucky, just— please, let me—”
“Wait, wait, I’ve got my phone, stay just like that—”
“Damn it, Sam— oh, thank God. See, that wasn’t so bad, right?”
“Aw, I didn’t get my picture.”
“Oh, can it.” The warmth is gone but the touch is there, brushing hair back from his face. “Come downstairs when you get up, okay, Buck?”
“Look at that fucking murderface. We need to get him a teddy bear or something.”
“God, if he feels half as bad as I do, it’s no wonder. Those Temperance League gals had the right idea.”
“Well, let me put it this way— if I drank what you did, I’d be halfway to Arlington in a pine box by now. You’re getting off easy.”
The door closes with a soft click, and Bucky jerks awake in an empty bed, fingers clenched in the pillow under his head.
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Imma make an actual post when I get home but I want you all to know: I finished a thing
The one fandom question I’ve never seen answered well: what is the difference between a drabble and a one-shot? I feel like it’s a personal opinion – for me, a drabble is anything under 1k words, and a one-shot is anything 1k+.
Thoughts/comments/etc?
Yeah I feel the same. Maybe 1500 words would be my cutoff point though.
Yeah, 1500 is about right, too. I’m mostly going off the “once you hit a triple digit word count, it’s a one-shot,” theory.
So like 10 years ago when I started out fandom in Harry Potter, a drabble had a restricted word count. 100 word drabbles were really common. But it could be 300 or 500 words. But the challenge was the perfect drabble word count. And then a one shot was anything that wasn’t restricted by a word count.
This was common nomenclature in fandoms about 10-15 years ago. A drabble was, specifically, a 100-word story. A 200-word story was often called a double drabble. I’m not sure when the terminology changed; I still think of a drabble as being exactly 100 words.
Ah, yes. A drabble was EXACTLY 100 words. And then suddenly one day I looked up and drabbles were 1000 words. The times, they are a’changing 😉
Gonna die on this fucking hill, but a drabble isn’t even a fandom term, and it has a meaning and a history, and it’s a hundred fucking words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble#History Damn it. Double damn it for 200. Ahem. (I fucking hate Jeopardy, but my mother loves it.)
Other lengths have variable definitions, depending on who you ask. SFFWA for the Nebulas are as follows:
- Short story < 7500
- Novelette 7500 – 17,500
- Novella 17500-40,000
- Novel > 40,000
And, of course, NANO uses 50k for novels.
But unlike those, which were categories put into place for the sake of classifying existing shit, a drabble is a category designed around a word count as a challenge.
Like I said: I WILL DIE ON THIS FUCKING HILL, IT IS ONE HUNDRED FUCKING WORDS AND I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THIS.
Obvs.
::cough::
Carry on.
I’m joining Min for the Hill To Die On:
A DRABBLE IS EXACTLY ONE-HUNDRED (100) WORDS.
A DRABBLE IS ONE HUNDRED WORDS. I remember the pain of having to delete one word here and one word there to dial something down from 103 words and then getting…98. And having to scramble to fit it into EXACTLY 100 WORDS.
One. Hundred. Words.
A drabble has 100 words, by definition, from the beginning. It’s like a haiku. The strict word count is the whole point.
Ficlet is a lovely word for very short stories, and I hope more people would use it.
This hill is getting crowded; I brought some folding chairs for us Fandom Olds.
Thank you. I will take a folding chair. 100 WORDS, THAT IS THE DEFINITION. IT HAS BEEN SO FOREVER, AND WILL BE SO FOREVER. You don’t get to call something a ‘haiku’ just because it’s short and about nature and doesn’t rhyme, you don’t get to call a ficlet a drabble just because it’s small!
PSA did you guys know there’s an equivalent to the word “phallic” ??
Yonic: resembling of vulva/labia/vagina
Yonic, from from sanskrit word Yoni
flowers are yonic, fruit is yonic, i’m so excited that this word exists i literally have only ever heard the word “phallic” until now. YONIC!!
Little spn halloween banner I made for fun.:) might rework on it later.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. – Individual Text Posts
I just love the fact that Peggy is a goddamned brawler canonically
She’s not a martial arts master like Natasha, she doesn’t have powers like Wanda
She just fucking hits people as hard as she fucking can
YES – and it’s consistent from the first time we see her in CATFA. She uses her environment and the tools to hand, she moves with confidence, and she fucking commits.
There’s a great character beat of hers that was in the CATFA script, but didn’t make it into the movie. As she’s telling Hodge to put his foot forward, she asks, “Are you familiar with the art of Jiu Jitsu?” When Hodge says no, she pastes him in the nose, then remarks, “Neither am I.”
kototyph 