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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 2009-03-09 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I will give you two options--

Merlin BBC: Arthur (with either Morgana, Merlin, or Gwen), and the prompt is "glorious".

OR--

Supernatural: Dean/Castiel, and the prompt is frantic.

These precious things

[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Collectors don't just collect scraps of the occult now: the hot item these days is an angel.

They find Castiel trapped in a circle of sigils, bleeding and blazing and furious. Dean, his patience exhausted by waiting for Sam to break the curse-chains and Sam's threats to be quiet, slashes through it. Castiel surges to his feet, hand clasped around Dean's wrist. Sam has the sense of power shaking loose.

Around them the foundation shudders, and all Sam knows is confusion and flight before he's out in the night again, Dean tumbled next to him, a ruined house nearby, Castiel gone.

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[identity profile] mardia.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, I LIKE.

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
\o/ Thank you, love!
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[identity profile] smilla02.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooooh! I love Castiel's power erupting like that when he's finally free. I love that he takes care of not hurting Dean and Sam. Awww!

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yayy, thank you A! I tried to have Sam think no good deed goes unpunished when he thinks Cas is just going to destroy the house and leave them to their fate, and then feeling slightly bad when he opens his eyes and they're on the lawn, but I ran out of words ;)

And yeah, you don't mess with Castiel and get away with it!

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[identity profile] insight2.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
bleeding and blazing and furious

angelic fury = a terrible kind of beauty *flails*

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
The person who did this to him is going to be extremely sorry. Like, eyes-melt-in-their-skull sorry.

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[identity profile] insight2.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
rar Cas \o/! I hope he makes a lot of demons extremely sorry in tomorrow's ep!

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG SO SOON AT LAAAAAAST.

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[identity profile] insight2.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Looking forward to the Apocalypse *laughs* ;)

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-11 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
At least it will be a pretty apocalypse :D

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[identity profile] insevens.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well done, m' dear.

You are officially my favouritest Dean/Cas writer ever. <3

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[identity profile] aesc.livejournal.com 2009-03-12 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Meeeep :"> :"> Thank you!!