i wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast

Prompt was from covet, and it went Sometimes someone can mean so much to you, that not even the truth can change your mind. I thought about it for a little bit and then wrote something only marginally related, and as usual, not what you'd call good. Sorry about that, Pixy. TCLSfic ahoy, etc.

( moar writing from the subway )

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk write a drabble about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( icon meme concluded, or WHY AR SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO WRITE Y:TLM FIC )

Oh, let's be honest, cut text. This is why I shouldn't write any fic. -______-;;; Most of them don't really have endings, I know, and might or might not have anything to do with the icons, and you can tell that I did them out of order and lost my attention span after a while, and and and YOU KNOW, they are just kind of eh. But they're something, probably.

-9 TCLS icons
-7 BSC icons

Blah blah blah, please credit witticaster (or, you know, ar or myxginxblossoms or whatever, it's kind of all the same), comments are well-appreciated, and so on. I have more TCLS icons hanging around on Windflowers, but they all...kinda go together. >> So I'll post those at some point in the future, but not yet. Yes, so.

( a lot of these are terrible I WARN IN ADVANCE )

That first sentence meme--post first sentences from various WIPs, et cetera.

I've decided to give these no particular explanation (that is to say, am not including theoretical titles) because it's more fun that way (read: I suck at titles). If for some reason, you want further information about any of them, you need only ask. ♥

• "Ruthie Rutherford, aged forty-three years, ten months, and three days, had been a server of suppers at the Diner's Delight Delightful Diner and Cafe for approximately fifteen of those years."

• "Chuck stretched, back arching as catlike as the suit she currently wore."

• "Up to sunset, the Hudson glittered like the surface was a sea of diamonds instead of a polluted river, and Calla hated it."

• "Many years later, far from a city she could no longer bear to visit, she watched the last dregs of sunset drain away from a wide window a dozen stories above the street."

• "it is a balancing act with purpose"

• "take note: shakespeare didn't use them."

I've left off WIPs that I've posted, because what're you interested in those for, you know? You can read them already. XD

In conclusion, there's a reason most of these are still WIPs. >>

So I tried to write out something that I mentioned to thereoncewas, that I've had in mind to write but haven't found a way to do well yet. I still don't think I succeeded here, and posting this is actually making me kind of skittery, but. It's a try, and so be it and et cetera.

Niko/Promise, like everything I write in tcls fandom is turning into.

( try number 1 )

She leveled a glare at me that could've peeled the paint off our trailer and took a swig of gin. "Seven years since I was stuck with you, Caliban. Seven fucking years."

And here I'd only come into the kitchen to see if we had any more bargain-brand cereal left. That year, the fact that dear old Mom was up before one in the afternoon without moaning about a hangover was a minor miracle--but it still made a shitty birthday present.

--

This is why I hope nobody is missing me--because they're definitely not missing much at all. XD Hi, my name is AR, and I can't really write Sophia worth shit.

Hopefully I will have the longer story I've been working on intermittently finished by the time I get home. It's going to be be kind of the stupidest thing I've ever written, and if you don't believe me, ask me what it's about. >>

...I love how my blah-blah-blah is longer than the shit I've actually posted. XD

Lawl, the only reason you get this now is because otherwise I would lose the link that I need to make reference to. Otherwise, it'd probably sit in the Pile until next year. It's unedited (lawl, I wrote it this morning on a whim) and is sort of a followup to the last fic prompt here. ♥ I've pegged Panos at four and Calla at about one and a half years old.

( Then why am I Panos? )

A misbegotten Christmas present, I maintain. This is one of a few stories from the Pile Of AR's Terrible TCLS Stories that I'm going to put up in the next few days. It is good indication of why I shouldn't ever try and write Promise/Niko. :-/ I feel horrifically naked and blegh posting this, I have to admit, but as your eyes bleed, just remember that I can kind of write Cal's voice. AT LEAST I CAN DO THAT. et cetera.

( three ways it didn't happen )

...it was originally going to be five things and one, but I ran out of ideas. >>

It isn't good, and I don't feel I did a good job at all with the voices--but hey, it's been a while. >> I was being all stalky with cal_sitter, as you do, and Jen had mentioned right about here the most fantastic idea evar. I feel bad for not asking before stealing wholesale, but. There we go. >>

Anyway, it's set around when Niko is...fifteen-sixteen?...and Cal is however old Cal is. It's shameful how hard I find it to keep their ages straight. But I think it's being told in retrospect--again, as you do. And it's also terrible, but that goes without saying, et cetera.

( What the hell are these? )

Title: Umm...N/A
Rating: PG
Summary: Cal and Promise have a short conversation about the latter's birthday.
Author's Note: 1. First time writing posting anything in Cal's voice, and I don't think I've quite gotten either of them, but--well, it was an experiment. 2. Based off that delightful meme response of Pelly's regarding giving Promise Niko's underwear, but it didn't actually get that far (yet--I might come back to it later). 3. Um...kind of repetitive, re: canonical information? But I was trying for Cal's voice, and if there is one thing Cal does, it is think about the same damned things over and over. >> Also, it made it easier to slip into his voice. Also, I think I accidentally stole some phrases wholesale from the novels, but I didn't mean to. ._. Also, I'll stop talking now.

( Just about everything you know about vampires is wrong. )