| Challenge #70: Closed // Challenge #71: PRIDE |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|10:57 pm] |
Challenge #70 is officially closed.
Thank you to all the drabbles! ~blows kisses~
CONDOM WAR
WOW this was a close battle. Cynthia had 8 condoms but Brian had 9 and therefore wins by ONE.
 
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Challenge #71: PRIDE (in celebration of PRIDE month)
I hope this one inspires you guys!
This weeks Condom Battle: Brian -vs- Michael (you can only award your condom to one of them) |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|06:58 pm] |
Title: Old Friend, New Friend
Author: ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vl_redreign
Timeline: post-513
Condom: Brian
A/N: Thanks, Bunny, for cutting out the extra words!
Laying in bed with the blond, he thought about his life.
For so long, he thought he knew what path his life would take. He’d planned each part of it meticulously. College, career, possibly owning his own business.
He’d once flown so high, only to crash and lose everything.
A helping hand came when he’d needed it, and his future was once again bright.
The blond murmured in his sleep.
Who’d have thought that the man he’d been looking had been there all along?
Someone who enjoyed opera, cooking, and cuddling after a long day.
Ted was a lucky man. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2008|02:09 pm] |
Title: How Gus Came to Be
Author: dirtylttlescret
Condom: Cynthia though I really feel guilty about it!
Empty wine bottles litter the floor of the loft, while two roaches sit spent in the ashtray. Brian’s too wasted to notice that Lindsay stopped about three glasses back.
“Brian?”
He’s still laughing about Judy Pickerstein throwing up all over her open toed shoes at the Kappa spring formal.
“You know Mel and I have been thinking about having a baby…”
“The whole fucking diner knows thanks to Deb.”
“I want you to be the father,” she asks softly.
Brian cocks an eyebrow. There’s nothing but silence for a minute, then he smiles, pulling her closer.
“Anything for you, Wendy.” |
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| *Challenge #70, best friends* |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|03:36 pm] |
Title: I Know What You Need
Notes: I'm not sure if this counts for the challenge, but I used the words "best friend," so maybe? *hopes* besamislabios beta'd it for me. AND...she came up with the idea, but made me write it. ;-)
And the condom goes to: Brian
“Michael? Did you hear me?”
Michael blinked and looked blankly at Ben.
“Huh?”
“You haven’t heard anything I’ve said,” Ben complained.
“Sorry. But -- Ma had no right to --”
“Michael. Enough. Let it go.”
“But! Brian’s my best friend, and if I think he should know --”
Ben cut him off with a kiss.
“I know what will help.”
“You do?” Michael’s eyes lit up.
Ben began tickling him.
“Stop! Tell me what I need to do!” Michael gasped between giggles.
“You need a good laugh and then a good fuck.”
Michael kissed Ben lovingly.
“You are a brilliant man, Professor Bruckner.” |
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| Challenge #70: best friends |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|09:25 pm] |
Title: I'll be there for you
Author: Pinkfriction
WARNING: Very angsty
Condom: Cynthia
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|01:01 pm] |
Title: Unforgiven
Author: vl_redreign
Timeline: 507
Condom: Cynthia, cause Brian was a shit.
Beta: firehead30 and badbadpixie approve of this drabble.
Michael used to think that he and Brian would be friends forever. That nothing would ever truly separate them. Not even outing him to Tracy four years ago was unforgivable.
But this was.
Michael had listened ad nauseum as Brian belittled his choices, his marriage and his life. He was used to it, because Brian always belittled that which he didn’t understand.
What was unforgivable was not that Brian had come to his house, drunk and screaming.
It was the fact that after Brian left, Michael was in Hunter’s old room, comforting Justin, trying to repair Brian’s damage. As always. |
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| *Challenge #70, best friends* |
[Jun. 18th, 2008|12:00 pm] |
Title: Truth Blown Gutter
Notes: Thank you to the lovely besamislabios for the beta. *smooches* The title comes courtesy of Beck's Nausea, which came to mind whilst writing this. It works for me...
And the condom goes to: Brian Kinney
More puking, more pain. More treatment. It’s becoming routine and that makes it even more loathsome.
You burrow into bed, trying to relax before the next bout of nausea sends you dry-heaving to the bathroom. You think about Michael, Justin. The two best friends you’ve ever had, ever will have. You can’t stop thinking about them, no matter how much it hurts.
So you mock them in your mind instead. Picture them sitting around crying and gnashing their teeth. Agonizing because they’ll never survive without you, their beloved Rage. You don’t feel better. And the nausea boils through you. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2008|01:41 am] |
Title: Boredom
Author: dirtylttlescret
A/N: Gakked from a conversation between outlander and myself
Condom: Cynthia
“Oh my god, it’s been twelve years since we got here,” moaned Emmett.
“It’s only been an hour,” whispered Ted. “Now shush, they’re announcing Moral Lesbian Mother of the Year.”
Emmett groaned. Outstanding Gay Hero was still fourteen awards away, and the beige walls of the room were making his eyes hurt. Brian was nowhere to be found.
“Pst,” he said, tapping Ted on the arm. Ted swatted him away. “I said pst,” Emmett said louder.
“What?”
“Wanna play Penis Hangman with me?” he asked, pushing him a pen and the program.
Ted laughed. “Alright fine. But I go first.” |
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[Jun. 17th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
Title: Seventeen
Author: dirtylttlescret
A/N: This is dedicated to not_yet_defined and tweedygal because they are cruel slave masters who drive me under the whip. Meanies.
Condom: Brian
“Mikey, what’s this?” Brian laughs, snatching the notebook from his lap. They’re hiding in the science lab while their breeder classmates lunch in the cafeteria. It’s freezing balls outside, so everyone’s stuck inside sharing the same germ infested air.
“Nothing,” he stammers.
Brian looks at the paper. It’s scribbled with dozens of Mikey and Brian BFFs.
“You’re so pathetic,” chides Brian. Michael sticks out his tongue and glares, only he looks like a hamster hording food in his cheeks.
Yet later, when Michael’s in gym and he’s in Pre-calculus, Brian finds himself penning BFF in the margins of his paper. |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|06:32 pm] |
Title: Surrogate
Author: jule1122
Condom: Cynthia
When Brian showed up at her door with a carton of double chocolate chip ice cream, Daphne laughed for the first time in three days.
“You love Justin sooo much,” she said between giggles.
Brian shrugged. There was no point in denying it or pretending it was his idea to comfort Daphne post break-up. He tossed the DVD at her, “Here.”
“Dirty Dancing?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.
“I drew the line at Rent. If you want to watch people spontaneously burst into song, I’ll give you Emmett’s address. I pick the movies, and he owes me fifty blowjobs.” |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 15th, 2008|10:53 pm] |
Title: Father's Day
Author: jule1122
Condom: Brian
“Of all the things we were going to do together, I never thought fatherhood would be one of them.” Michael said with an easy smile.
Brian wanted to say something cynical about how he wouldn’t exactly call what they were doing fatherhood. But as they watched Gus and JR run through the sprinkler, he thought of Ben and Michael visiting JR as much as possible, and Michael proudly showing off her pictures. He thought of Gus yelling “Daddy,” and running to him with his arms open for a hug. He put his arm around Michael, and whispered, “Happy Father’s Day.” |
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[Jun. 14th, 2008|05:25 pm] |
Title: White Polyester
Author: dirtylttlescret
Condom: Cynthia
Justin was trying to study. He’d been writing a paper in Michael’s room, but his hand kept wandering into his pants as visions of Brian mouthing his cock flitted across his brain. So he moved to the living room where Deb and Vic were playing rummy in the kitchen.
“Oh my god,” squealed Debbie as the record changed. “I love the Bee Gees!”
She strut around the kitchen, doing her best John Travolta impression. Vic warbled in an off pitch falsetto “I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk…”
Justin put his head in his hands. These people were nuts. |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 14th, 2008|04:29 pm] |
Title: Witness
Author: jule1122
Condom: Brian
Blake was the one to invite Emmett. “Ted’s speaking at the meeting tomorrow. It’s his five year anniversary, and I know he’d like you to be there.”
Emmett’s first instinct is to decline. Ted’s addiction, the consequences and the aftermath, opened wounds that healed badly. Forgiven, but not forgotten. But then he remembers another meeting when Ted reminded Emmett that both he and God loved Emmett exactly as he was. Ted helped Emmett get his pride back. Emmett might hate Ted’s addiction, but he was proud of his recovery. It was time to show him how much. “I’ll be there.” |
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| *Challenge #70, best friends* |
[Jun. 13th, 2008|07:36 pm] |
Title: Untitled
Notes: This was originally written for vl_redreign as a belated birthday present. She wanted an Emmett/Justin friendship drabble. Bunny said it fits the challenge here too, so I'm posting it. No beta, all mistakes are mine.
And the condom goes to: Brian Kinney.
Emmett left Godiva’s room with her dress draped over his arm, carrying a huge hatbox filled with accessories. His heart was heavy.
Walking out the hospice door, he almost stumbled into Justin, sitting on the front steps, knees pulled up and arms wrapped around them. His head was buried in his arms.
Emmett dropped the hatbox and knelt down to Justin.
“Justin? Baby, what’s wrong? What happened?”
Justin was shaking. He looked up, tears filling his eyes.
Emmett couldn’t imagine what could have happened, but he pulled Justin close and whispered, “It’ll be OK. Let’s get you back to Brian.” |
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| *Challenge #70, Best Friends* |
[Jun. 13th, 2008|03:45 pm] |
Title: Sure About It
Notes: No beta...I hope it seems "best-friendy" enough.
And the condom goes to: Brian Kinney
A silence fell as Daphne and Justin finished a plate of cheese fries at the diner. Daphne’s lower lip trembled and Justin chuckled.
“Daph. Stop it. You’re the biggest drama queen I know. And I know Emmett.”
“It’s not funny. I can’t believe you’re leaving Brian. And me.”
“You didn’t do this when I went to LA.”
“That time I knew you’d be back.”
“Why do you think I won’t this time?”
“Because you and Brian are really together. You don’t have to be here to be sure of that.”
Justin smiled, “And that’s exactly why I will be back.” |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 13th, 2008|03:23 pm] |
Title: Gesture
Author: jule1122
Condom: Brian
For all his skill with words, there were some things Brian never learned how to say. “I’m sorry” being one of the most important. Apologies were too direct for a man who made his living off double meanings and innuendo. No matter how much blame he privately took on, the actual words left him too vulnerable and open to rejection.
But if he was going to marry Justin, and he was, Brian needed a best man. It wasn’t the apology Michael wanted and, secretly Brian admitted might, deserve. Brian couldn’t give him those words, but he could give him this. |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|09:58 pm] |
Title: Friendship Bracelets
Author: jule1122
Note: This may have needed a few changes, but I hot exactly 100 words on the first try, which never happens, so I was afraid to touch it.
Condom: Cynthia
“Hey, we match again!” Debbie smiled brightly as Jennifer joined her in front of the PFLAG float. Debbie’s shirt had faded to lilac while Jennifer’s was still bright purple, but they both proudly proclaimed “I Love My Gay Son and His Husband.”
As they marched hand in hand, Jennifer noticed the bracelets they both wore. She remembered spending hours as a girl weaving strands of brightly colored thread into friendship bracelets. She and Debbie may not have made these themselves, but the simple message “Erase Hate” bound them together in love, understanding, and yes, blood, more tightly than ribbon could. |
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| Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|09:53 pm] |
Title: Sleepover
Author: jule1122
Condom: Cynthia
Jennifer thought a best friend was something you gave up after junior high. She and Craig had acquaintances. They had business and community allies. They didn’t have friends. She learned that the hard way in the divorce.
Then she met Debbie. And once she got past the hair and the laugh and the language, she found a friend. They confided in each other and supported each other. They laughed and cried together. They talked about everything. Jennifer had never has so much fun. So at the age of fifty she found herself planning sleepovers, not for Molly, but for herself |
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| Challenge #69 CLOSED//Challenge #70: Best Friends |
[Jun. 11th, 2008|07:55 pm] |
Alright kiddies, the first week of our new system is over! Let's see how our two contestents, Vic & Brian, faired:
The Challenger, Vic received 28 condoms!
The Champion, Brian received 46 condoms!
And the winner for this round is Brian Kinney!  
The challenger for week 70 will be CYNTHIA! I expect this to be very interesting...
I would also like to point out that 28+46=74 drabbles. That's amazing you guys, and I hope we get an awesome count like that again this week. Also, thank you, for everybody who put multiple condoms in BOLD. It made it really easy to count, and I would love it if that was a trend we continued.
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Challenge #70: Best Friends
This is all about friendship people. Go with it! |
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