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aesc ([personal profile] aesc) wrote2009-03-01 12:01 pm

made-up languages; Sunday Drabbleventures, NOW WITH HARDCORE DRABBLEOSITY!

Probably this is [livejournal.com profile] insight2's fault, but while I was brushing my teeth last night it occurred to me that it would be interesting (one word for it) to develop an angelic language, now that Skanr has been my practice run for language construction. What I've been thinking of is a language that is Romance-like in the sense that angels use different forms of the copulative (to be) for the created world and the divine, to express the distinction they'd probably make between essence versus state. Or would they just see the entire world as a collection of things in a state of being or becoming or changing? And how would the near-infinite think about the bounded and contained, anyway? *ponders these things*

In similar SPN news, I wrote one more drabble, In terra aliena (In a Strange Land) for the [livejournal.com profile] deancastiel drabble challenge.


SUNDAY DRABBLEVENTURES

By executive order, I have decided that on a semiregular basis (maybe every other Sunday, or however often I feel like it), I will contribute to weekend sloth and work avoidance by writing drabbles on request. When requests are open, I will note which fandoms I'm writing in; all you need to do is name your fandom, character/pairing, and prompt, and I will write 100 words of something. This post will be the prompt and response post, for purposes of consolidation.

.drabble prompts: Leave me a fandom/character/pairing and a prompt (SGA, SPN, Bones, and I guess I will take Merlin*) and I will see what I can do.

4.26 DRABBLEVENTURES NOW OPEN

In unrelated news, Iron & Wine's The Shepherd's Dog is completely awesome and I have been listening to it obsessively.

* = I like Morgana a lot and wish something heavy would land on Uther. And I like how Arthur is kind of a jerk, but basically a decent guy. Also, I am deeply amused and, dare I say it, somewhat gratified, by the fact that the incantation languages involve Old English. A lot of this is because the Anglo-Saxons really did not like teh magics.


*le sigh* Sunday is over, alas! Drabbles closed for now.

[identity profile] mardia.livejournal.com 2009-03-01 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I have two prompts, feel free to take either--

Bones: Sweets and Booth, hockey.
Merlin: Arthur, protecting a servant that isn't Merlin.

Sweets on skates

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-02 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Totally a take on "Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!" XD


The skating rink is empty, although it makes the sound of his ass smacking the ice ten times louder. Agent Booth circles him like a bird of prey with skates and a hockey stick.

"C'mon Sweets." Agent Booth makes encouraging motions. "Back in the saddle."

"I'm beginning to think I miscalculated." Sweets uses the boards to pull himself up. The padding weighs a ton. "When I said you should introduce me to something you enjoy, I thought perhaps the shooting range. Pie."

"Oh no," Agent Booth says happily. "Hockey's the best."

Of course it is, Sweets thinks, and hesitantly edges forward.

Re: Sweets on skates

[identity profile] mardia.livejournal.com 2009-03-02 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Eee! So cute! Oh, I would love to see this on screen.

Re: Sweets on skates

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-02 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Eee yay! I would too. Poor Sweets :D