Tuesday | Euphemisms
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spae and I'll be your guest host for the rest of this week. Sorry for missing you all yesterday. XD
Today's theme is euphemisms. Broadly speaking, euphemisms are used to make offensive or taboo language more palatable to the hearers, though they can be used to almost any effect. Check out wikipedia's infodump, use well known examples, make up your own or try the crazy generator. Today's theme is all about word play, so getsilly creative!
A wee reminder about making it fun for everyone - including the coders ;)
Posting format is as follows [you all know this, right? Just bear with me ^^]
Single fandoms ~
NCIS, Gibbs/DiNozzo, scuttlebutt
SGA, Sheppard/McKay, hitting a home run
Crossovers ~
RPS/Dollhouse, handler!Steve/doll!Chris, wearing his heart on his sleeve
Firefly/Star Trek XI, Mal/Kirk, firing on all thrusters
Not seeing anything you fancy? Take a trip down the back alleys looking for lonely prompts in need of some lovin' ... ;)
Have a great Tuesday - and happy ficcing!
theme=euphemisms
spae and I'll be your guest host for the rest of this week. Sorry for missing you all yesterday. XDToday's theme is euphemisms. Broadly speaking, euphemisms are used to make offensive or taboo language more palatable to the hearers, though they can be used to almost any effect. Check out wikipedia's infodump, use well known examples, make up your own or try the crazy generator. Today's theme is all about word play, so get
A wee reminder about making it fun for everyone - including the coders ;)
- Please leave a maximum of 5 prompts (3 max per fandom) - then if one of your prompts is answered, you can prompt again. :D
- Respect those who haven't been able to see the new episodes yet - please do not use SPOILERS in your prompts until the week after the episode has aired!
- If your story has SPOILERS - please warn for it in bold and leave at least 3 spaces
Posting format is as follows [you all know this, right? Just bear with me ^^]
Single fandoms ~
NCIS, Gibbs/DiNozzo, scuttlebutt
SGA, Sheppard/McKay, hitting a home run
Crossovers ~
RPS/Dollhouse, handler!Steve/doll!Chris, wearing his heart on his sleeve
Firefly/Star Trek XI, Mal/Kirk, firing on all thrusters
Not seeing anything you fancy? Take a trip down the back alleys looking for lonely prompts in need of some lovin' ... ;)
Have a great Tuesday - and happy ficcing!
theme=euphemisms
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:16 am (UTC)Little death as in 'la petit mort' which is a euphemism for orgasm in French. ^-^;;
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:17 am (UTC)Something Worse 1/1 Echo/Ballard *PG*
Date: 2009-11-15 07:11 am (UTC)*kicks LJ for posting too soon*
In the end they rented a dingy apartment at the outskirts of the city and watched the end of the world there.
They watched, often in silence, as everything they had worked hard to prevent came to pass. The people they had fought to save, gone; those left either fighting for their lives or were already lost forever within their own minds. They had both watched as a woman they had come to know got too close to an old - fashioned TV set they had thought was safe and watched her go glassy eyed, who she had been evaporated in an instant.
"Caroline?" Paul approached, saying a name that held little meaning to her anymore.
"It's Echo now. Caroline died a long time ago. In the Dollhouse," she said softly. Certainly from her perspective that was true. While she was no longer the child - like Active she had been wiped to be, neither, was she whoever she had been before she came to the Dollhouse. That girl, the memories of the life she once had were lost to her forever.
For once, Paul Ballard seemed to accept that.
"It's time," he told her, "we need to go back in there. See if there's anybody left down there. Anybody we can bring to Sancturary."
Echo nodded. When she and Paul first came up with Sanctuary, with Madeline's help, it had been simply a place to bring Dolls there as a 'safe' place until their original personalities and memories could be returned to their original owners. Echo figured they could always figure out the 'hows' of it later. After they brought down the Dollhouse and Rossum.
Now it was one of the few safe places left for what remained of the sane among humanity.
In the end, Rossum may have won the war, but ultimately, everybody lost.
Paul gripped her shoulder slightly harder.
"I used to say it was a problem when slavery was a euphemism for something worse," she said, her gaze staring far beyond the window she was at. Years beyond. "Then I found worse."
"Don't think about 'what if,'" he said, reiterating a conversation they had had many times since the end of the world began. "All we can do now is save who we can, where we can and pray for a new beginning." He let go of her shoulder and turned away.
Echo nodded and went with him to get the gear they would need to break back into the Dollhouse. He was right, she knew; there was nothing more they could do to save this world. All they could do was round up the survivors and make their way back to Sanctuary. To new way of life and a new beginning.
But Echo would always feel that she should have been able to do something to save the world.
Re: Something Worse 1/1 Echo/Ballard *PG*
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:18 am (UTC)Pick Up Lines Of The Damned, Jason/Tim, PG-13
Date: 2009-12-07 07:29 pm (UTC)"Back. Off." He bit out and pushed Jason off of him. But Jason, with his leg not properly healed fell on his as.
"What the fuck, baby bird?" He watched Tim stalk off towards the computers before he turned around and marched over to him.
"That was the worst line i've ever heard."
"So does this mean you aren't happy?" He got a smack to the back of his head and a kiss to his forehead.
"Yes, but not that happy."
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Date: 2009-09-29 11:52 am (UTC)Argh!
can you wait a couple of days? I have 3 fics to finish.
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Date: 2009-09-29 05:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-29 05:32 am (UTC)A Good Plan
Date: 2009-09-30 03:06 am (UTC)"TORO!"
Toro yelped as Bucky came crashing into him from above, toppling him into the mud with a splat. The mud flew up into Bucky's face, but only caused him to laugh louder.
"God," he said, pitching his voice low and pinning Toro with his eyes, "It's good that you got back so early."
Toro held his gaze and grinned, he reached up and left a trail of mud along Bucky's cheek with his finger.
"Hello, Bucky," Toro murmured, "what's up."
Bucky grinned and splattered mud over Toro's chest. "Jim is away, Steve is away, Namor is away. For the next two hours."
"Ah," Toro murmured. "And we're?"
"Going to have sex. Dirty, dirty sex."
Toro wrapped his arms around Bucky and pulled him close, feeling the mud splosh between them. "Sounds like a plan," he said with a grin, already pulling open Bucky's tunic.
Re: A Good Plan
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