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Taylor (tsubamegaeshi) wrote in cosmocanyon,
@ 2010-08-18 02:23:00

Current mood:	tired
Current music:	Rihanna - Russian Roulette
Entry tags:	meme

Okay guys... Meme time.
Yeah, this one should be fun hopefully. Each of you guys is going to have to take part in a story/drabble based on the following meme~ How this is going to work though. I'm going to take random books in my room and close my eyes to pick one for each character. If anyone is actually paying attention to this place besides me, you can comment with a character's name and a line from a book (please include the book's name and author) and I will write something in response to it! If you want a specific pairing as long as I'm not vehemently against it you can request that too as long as it's any of my PLC-based muses or Yamada, Satsuki, or Naoi. ANYWAY, for the basics though... Here's the blank meme:

1. Choose a book.
2. Open it to a random page.
3. Scan it and choose a sentence or phrase that grabs you.
4. Write a drabble inspired by it for a fandom/character/pairing of your choice.
5. Lather, Rinse, Repeat as desired.

OKAY READY GO!

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Unfortunate-Future!Tooru.

kounohime
2010-08-18 09:47 am UTC (link)

"I am not an accountant. Box no. 7542."
-They Call Me Naughty Lola (Personal Ads from the London Review of Books, Edited by David Rose)

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Despite being ridiculously good-looking all his life, Tooru was not stuck up about it-- he just knew it, he spent his years in high school being rewarded for parading around in a dress because he was one of the best looking boys on campus.

Despite being ridiculously good-looking, Tooru had ended up spending most of his life without a girlfriend or boyfriend or anything in between. Not for lack of trying, but it didn't really work when most of the guys who wanted to date you stopped when they found out you weren't a chick and most of the girls who wanted to date you felt insecure because you were prettier than they were.

So needless to say, Tooru had difficulty dating, which led him to his current situation: writing a personal ad on his computer, during work. The only problem was he didn't want to write anything actually about himself because how did you explain that you spent half of your life cross-dressing at an all boys' school and the closer half as an accountant because, let's face it, he was ridiculously good with money.

Getting caught writing a personal ad while at work and getting fired because that was the fifth time he'd gotten caught "goofing off" during work hours that month made the personal ad easy to write at least.

I am not an accountant. Box no. 7542.

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If Nibelheim hadn't burnt to the ground. Z/C, PLC.

butterflyedge
2010-08-18 10:14 am UTC (link)

"Often, the terrible sounds of a sitcom's laugh track were all we had to break the mood, but they usually just made the oppressive silence that much worse."
-.hack//Another Birth, vol.1//INFECTION (by Miu Kawasaki)

It was an awkward situation. More awkward than most of the ones Cloud encountered and most of the other ones, Cloud knew how to diffuse them by just ignoring the awkward moments and moving on. Cloud was usually the one being awkward.

This was the first time he'd dealt with such astounding levels of awkward. This was also the first time that he'd brought Zack home to meet his mother. This was also the first time he'd mentioned anything about Zack being more than his senior in school and his friend, to his mother. This was the first time he'd been back to Nibelheim since he'd decided to leave for an academy too. Really, it was just a whole lot of situations piling up that made it this bad.

They all sat at the table awkwardly, not really eating the hot, delicious-looking food that his mother had cooked up for the two of them after hearing that Cloud was going to bring his partner over. The partner whom Cloud had failed to bring up as a male despite his mother's constant quipping about him finally getting an older girlfriend so she didn't have to worry.

And so they sat. Awkwardly, silently, except for Zack constantly being oblivious to the situation and scarfing down food and smiling and talking about anything and nothing at all. It was just like the laugh track on a bad sitcom and it wasn't making Cloud or his mother feel any more comfortable with saying something about the situation.

Finally, Zack put his eating utensils down after apparently noticing that neither of the other two had so much as touched their very delicious turkey and potatoes yet.

Zack tilted his head in the way that always reminded Cloud of the world's most adorable puppy. (If Zack ever grows out of that, he owes at least two people money.)

"So should I call you 'Mom' now or what?"

Both Cloud and his mother stared at Zack for a few seconds, then almost simultaneously they cracked a smile.

Maybe it was a genetic predisposition to be unable to resist Zack's puppy-faces, but it seemed like that laugh-track had suddenly turned the gravity in the room upside-down. The Strifes started laughing, Cloud quietly and his mother much more openly.

Zack's head tilted just a bit more.

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	tsubamegaeshi 2010-08-18 10:17 am UTC (link)
	TO BE CONTINUED. Next two: Takashi Natsume, Harumi Fujiyoshi. (Reply to this)

	spinzaku 2010-08-18 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	I want to play~ Do Peter. "Anyway, the laser rays were definitely over the top." "What wouldn't be over the top?" "Let's see. Something on the level of breathing fire from her mouth would be simple to set up." --The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya (by Nagaru Tanigawa) Have fun with that one. XDD (Reply to this) (Thread)

pointysticks
2010-08-20 10:33 am UTC (link)

Okay. Problem. Buffy had been presented with some major mishap-inviting situations in the past day, largely due to her flipping another girl over her shoulder and onto the ground. It was totally that girl's fault for trying to stick something down the back of her shirt. (Buffy never found out what it was-- she suspected whatever it was got away after she flipped Cheryl over.) But Cheryl had been in charge of this week's charity program-- a show for some little kids.

Now, performing arts were probably the opposite of Buffy's thing. Talent shows, magic shows, whatever shows weren't her territory unless they really wanted her to stand there and make punny puns that punned punnily, but because she had been the one who had injured Cheryl (not really, Cheryl was way dramatizing it), Buffy had been the one put in charge of the presentation.

Which naturally meant that her personal iPhone was totally her go-to because if she went to Giles, they'd end up reading about the crucifixion of some vampire overlord named after some kind of sushi and she didn't think the parents would go for that.

Thus was how Buffy arrived in the infirmary today, luckily without the need for a get-out-of-class-free pass for once.

Now, they'd been talking about it for a while. Something flashy that would get the kids excited without Buffy having to actually do anything. Some talking and strange business later, Buffy had just decided that Peter could show up and do something, and that was how it had gone.

A few days later, Peter had settled on a magic show. Buffy had to admit, the man was good with kids. Well, he was good with everyone, but Peter looked like he was having fun. If Buffy didn't know better, she would think he was a really good magician too, but she knew he was sort of cheating by actually disappearing when the time for the disappearing act came, phasing through the ropes when he was tied up and put in a tank of water, all the basic magic tricks done with actual power.

Well, basic until Peter decided to pull one of the old behind-the-ear quarter tricks. Only he didn't use a quarter, he decided to go all out and really impress the kid by pulling a stuffed toy out from his ear. Not just a regular stuffed toy, one of those giant frogs you got from carnivals. Buffy was pretty sure he must've frozen time to get that thing there, but that was still pretty ridiculous.

After the show, all of the kids were thoroughly impressed, but Buffy was pretty sure Peter needed to get back to work before someone died back at school. Well, that and Buffy wanted him out of there before parents started questioning how he did that because that was...

"Way over the top, Peter."

"Was it too much? Everyone's seen the quarter trick. It was the kid's birthday tomorrow, too."

"Way way way too much. I mean, I know it was a finale but if I didn't pull you out of there how the heck were you going to explain where you were hiding that stuffed animal?"

"Er... right. What wouldn't have been over the top?"

"I don't know. Sword swallowing? Fire breathing? There are people who do those things. Just pull up the app for it."

"There's not an... app for those things yet."

"...Really? You can't do fire? Isn't that like, way basic? You can melt heads by poking them and you can't do something normal people can do with lots of practice?"

"Nope."

"Oh. Well that sucks. Guess the frog wasn't such a bad idea after all then."

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SORRY. IT SUCKS. REALLY HARD. Like really really hard. I'll do Alois's later 'cause I'm feeling like I'm sucking pretty hard right now. And apparently I can't write Peter 'cause that felt waaaay awkward all the way. BUT. I hope it was at least moderately entertaining for at least five seconds. >/)

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	spinzaku 2010-08-20 04:48 pm UTC (link)
	X33 Awww that was cute. He would go over the top to make kids smile. (Reply to this) (Parent)

spinzaku
2010-08-18 09:52 pm UTC (link)

Oh and Alois! Do Alois~
"Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on." Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older."
-A Series Of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital. (by Lemony Snicket)

Lol I have the silliest books lying around

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