Bookish Thursday
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classics_lover, with Thursday's theme, which is BOOKS! Prompts can be anything to do with books. Book fandoms, movie characters reading books, tv characters getting publishing deals, whatever leaps to your imaginations!
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Good Omens (Book or TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Crowley's snake eyes make reading... difficult, but he does read, much as he denies it, because he's so happy when he's with Aziraphale in the bookshop
+ Any (please no SPN), any, A character is suddenly in a book
+ Star Trek TNG or DS9, any or ensemble, using the holodeck for a book club
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2019 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
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classics_lover, with Thursday's theme, which is BOOKS! Prompts can be anything to do with books. Book fandoms, movie characters reading books, tv characters getting publishing deals, whatever leaps to your imaginations!Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Good Omens (Book or TV), Aziraphale/Crowley, Crowley's snake eyes make reading... difficult, but he does read, much as he denies it, because he's so happy when he's with Aziraphale in the bookshop
+ Any (please no SPN), any, A character is suddenly in a book
+ Star Trek TNG or DS9, any or ensemble, using the holodeck for a book club
We use AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2019 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.
tag=Books
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Date: 2019-11-21 10:13 pm (UTC)Decoder, DS9, gen, Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko, Odo
Date: 2019-11-24 02:32 pm (UTC)”What’s the problem, old man?”
Jadzia tilted her head and folded her arms. ”The needlessly convoluted plot, to start with. Creative license is one thing, but this is just unrealistic.” She threw her hands out and indicated the scene in front of them.
Several holographic characters were frozen in their positions hovering over the figure of a corpse lying in a red circle.
”Think, Benjamin. If you were bleeding out from a gunshot wound, would you really have the presence of mind to draw elaborate symbols with your own blood and write coded messages in invisible ink? Where did he find the ink, anyway? Did he just happen to have it on his person?”
”Your critique is certainly sound.” Commander Sisko seemed amused. ”But worry that your issues with the technical details will interfere with your enjoyment of the larger story. Records show that this is a very popular literary work from the 21st Century, certainly one that deserves our full attention.”
”Nuclear weapons were also popular on Earth back then,” Jadzia said with a glint in her eye. ”Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it’s high quality.”
”Might I suggest temporarily suspending your disbelief, Lieutenant?” Odo said gruffly. He sounded as impatient as he always did, although maybe a little worse. ”For the duration of the program, at least.”
He had been watching the holonovel with keen interest, now that Jadzia thought about it. She turned to him and sighed.
”It doesn’t help that the characters are underdeveloped. The protagonist is so two-dimensional he might as well be a sheet of paper.”
”Oh, I find him very robust,” Odo said. ”A highly diligent investigator, with a marvelously sharp mind and a keen eye for detail. Over the course of the story, he proves himself to be a master detective.”
”You’ve read the novel?”
When Benjamin had suggested this little activity and told her he was also inviting Constable Odo, she hadn’t thought much of it. If anything, she had thought that Benjamin was the one who was interested in the novel and that inviting Odo was a mere courtesy.
”Many times, Lieutenant. The DaVinci Code is, in fact, one of my favorite books.” Odo never looked wistful, but he did glance over at the frozen holographic characters before meeting her gaze again. ”Though, this is the first time I’m able to enjoy its holographic adaptation.”
The Constable worked as hard as the rest of them, but unlike the rest of them, he didn’t have much of a personal life. She had her games of Dabo and her holodeck adventures. Benjamin had Jake. The only thing besides his work that Odo had ever shown any interest in was the detective novels he read.
Jadzia let out a theatrical sigh and shrugged. ”If you say the story gets better, I believe you, Odo. Go on, Benjamin, resume the program.”
Odo gave her the slightest not and turned his attention to the holographic characters who had sprung to life in front of them.
Re: Decoder, DS9, gen, Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko, Odo
Date: 2019-11-24 05:23 pm (UTC)I was so sure it was going to be Sherlock Holmes, I'm happy to see it isn't, even if my opinion is similar to Dax's about the source material, it's good to know fiction like this is still popular in the C24th XD
Re: Decoder, DS9, gen, Jadzia Dax, Benjamin Sisko, Odo
Date: 2019-11-24 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-21 10:53 pm (UTC)FILL
Date: 2019-11-22 07:02 pm (UTC)Inside his home sweet home, the fireplace crackles and keeps him cozy and warm. Sunshine twitters happily, her song making him smile as he pours a cup a steaming hot tea. Dressed in snugly sweats and a fluffy hoodie, he returns to his hiding spot; a little drawer hidden from sight keeps his favorite books, a collection of stories waiting to be reread; exciting tales of magic and wonders to unfold, journeys of heroes brave and bold.
Gil gave him three of the books back when he was a boy; every story has a happily ever after—something his own life lacked. The hero is victorious after defeating the dragon and rides off into the sunset with the princess to live a life of great fortune and joy. His tale has yet to reach the end of the book; His own dragon is locked away in a mental institution, Malcolm has not defeated that evil, yet, and there is no princess whose heart he has claimed.
The stories taught him to be brave in the face of danger, something he has done his entire life. He picks up his favorite tale and settles on the couch, wrapped up in a warm, soft blanket. Malcolm soon found his mind lost to the tale of the pages, traveling down the rabbit hole into a magical new dimension where every page was thrilling.
Oh, how he wished his life could be a fairy tale; with no sad endings, only happily ever after.
♥ END ♥
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