| Prompt #43: Button |
[Jul. 17th, 2010|03:32 pm] |
Hi ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) slytherin_100 members! =D
I'll try to go back to x-posting prompts from LJ regularly. Feel free to nudge me when I (inevitably) slip off and forget.
Question: Would you prefer to strike this rule from the IJ comm.? (It'll remain on the LJ comm.)
:x: When answering slytherin_100-specific challenges, please post your drabble(s) in its entirety in this community.
FYI the maximum word count for imperfect drabbles has been changed to 150 words.
Our #43 prompt is Button. Button up, button nose, cute as a button, etc.
This challenge is open until July 29th, 2010. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
Happy drabbling! |
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| Loss (Regulus Black, Narcissa Black/Gen, G, 100) |
[Aug. 11th, 2009|08:39 pm] |
Title: Loss
Character(s): Regulus Black, Narcissa Black
Pairing(s): Gen
Rating: G
Warning(s): None
Challenge(s): Brothers and Sisters
Word count: 100
Author's notes: 1972.
Regulus had waited months. He visited his uncle’s home, where they sat uncomfortable in the drawing room nibbling insubstantial finger foods with elaborate politeness.
Finally, he was alone with cool blond elegant Narcissa, walking in the garden.
“How does it feel, cousin? What should I do?” His curly head lowered earnestly, his normally cheerful face serious and confidential. “What did you do, when your sister deserted the family?”
“There is nothing that we can do. They made their choices.”
“I miss my brother.”
Almost quiet as breath: “I miss my sister.” She took his ten year old hand, sadly, comforting. |
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| slytherin100 Challenge # 90 (from LJ) - Brothers and sisters |
[Aug. 10th, 2009|12:17 am] |
Title: Valkyries in the Chandeliers
Author: red_day_dawning
Characters: Narcissa, Bellatrix.
Challenge: # 90 - Brothers and sisters
Word count: 100 X 2
Rating: Gen
Warning/s: none I can think of
Disclaimer: JKR owns the HP characters and settings.
A/N: I would imagine that if Bellatrix had any tenderness within her, it could only be expressed to her little sister. But, in all honesty, I'm not sure the Dementors have left enough of Bella intact to be able to enjoy sisterly play with Narcissa.
Valkyries: In Norse mythology valkyrie (Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose who will die in battle. The valkyries bring their chosen who have died bravely in battle to the afterlife hall of the slain, Valhalla, ruled over by the god Odin... (from Wikipedia: Valkyries)
( Read more... )
Hi Lillian. When you return from your break, could you please make a "char: bellatrix" tag? Cheers. |
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| Prompt hiatus: August - September 2009 |
[Aug. 5th, 2009|03:21 pm] |
I will be away for the next two months, so there will be no new prompts posted on slytherin_100 until October.
In the meantime, my LJ co-mod will continue to post prompts on  slytherin100. Feel free to post your drabbles answering those prompts on slytherin_100.
Please follow the community guidelines at the userinfo.
Have fun and see you all again in October! =D |
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| slytherin100 Free-for-all: Coin |
[Jun. 11th, 2009|06:20 pm] |
"Silent magic" (Severus, G, Word 100)
Title: Silent Magic
Character(s): Severus
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Warning(s): None
Challenge(s): Free-for-all: Coin
Word count: 100
Author's notes: None
Eileen had grudgingly handed him a pound note. "Beans and cigs. Mind you bring back every extra penny. I'll be counting."
But his pockets were torn. One hand for the tin, one for packet and change.
Tobias waited on the porch. "Where've you been, boy?"
Severus jogged jerkily, dropped the coin, watched it roll beneath the step. Sixpence. There it shone, beyond his fingertips. His eyes darted to Tobias, who forbade magic with violence.
Accio. Accio. Accio coin. Wandless, desperate, he willed. It rolled back to nudge his bare toe. He thanked the stars he had not yet started school. |
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| Free-for-all: Prompts #1 - #85 & Drabble Tree @ LJ |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|04:22 pm] |
Between now and June 23rd, 2009, you may answer any of the previous 85 prompts below. Feel free to combine any two prompts from the list. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
Previous LJ prompts, alphabetized for your convenience: ( Prompts #1 - #85 )
To read what other people have written for those prompts, you can browse our LJ tag list.
Round One of slytherin_100 Drabble Tree have started at LJ.
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| Prompt #42: Dull |
[May. 14th, 2009|03:06 pm] |
Our 42nd prompt, Dull, is open until May 28th.
Please follow the community guidelines at the userinfo.
The 41st prompt, Seal, is open until May 21st. Feel free to combine the two prompts.
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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| slytherin100 Seal |
[May. 13th, 2009|09:34 pm] |
"Oaths and Vows" (Severus Snape, G, 2x100)
Title: Oaths and Vows
Character(s): Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore,
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Warning(s): None
Challenge(s): Seal
Word count: 2x100
Author's notes: A series of two interconnected drabbles. X-posted.
His eyes emptied everything into those of his new merciful lord. Dumbledore. The bottomless void gaped, terrifying. He poured out loss, fear, selfishness, guilt, broken pride. His mind lay naked. He knelt, eyes red, face wet.
"A teacher? But... even with... How will they accept..." He thrust back his sleeve to reveal the yawning skull, the twisting snakes - seal of commitment treason.
"Do not fear. You'll work for me. I'll make you Head of Slytherin."
Their hands clasped. Dumbledore's wand bound them in fire.
"Will you serve my Order; serve my school?"
"I will."
Red flame sealed his new commitment.
Still, the brand on his arm - his Dark Mark - itched with the lives of his jailed, mourning friends. No remorse, no terror, not even the death of his Dark Lord himself - and all Severus' hope - could remove this bond, still precious.
No one had left that Band of Brothers save by death. They were bound by awareness indelible, by soft-hearted ties none outside could guess, their oaths sealed by darkness.
This alone, he kept back, locked. After all, the Mark had been laid upon him when this man, now offering succour, had betrayed Severus and all his House. His family. |
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| slytherin100 #40 Fly |
[May. 12th, 2009|01:22 pm] |
Title: Free Fall
Character(s): Severus, Dumbledore, The Dark Lord
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Warning(s): None
Challenge(s): slytherin100 prompt 40 Fly
Word count: 100
Author's notes: X-posted.
Air smoothes against Severus' cheeks. Free, he streaks or glides. He floats. There is no possibility of falling, no need to clutch tense fingers around an undignified broom handle, no reliance on steed or creature. He is under his own control, with the view of a god. Escape is possible. Solitary contemplation is his. Exhilaration. Peace.
The Dark Lord rewards his faithful.
But still, the old face, familiar and fatherly, haunts him, begging him, encouraging him with imperative. To murder. Then it crumples, devoid of humanity, over and over again.
This is his reward, his bounty, his blood money - flight. |
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| Prompt #41: Seal |
[May. 7th, 2009|05:49 pm] |
Our 41st Prompt is Seal.
This challenge is open until May 21st, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
The 40th prompt, Fly, is open until May 14th, 2009. Feel free to combine the two prompts.
Vote for your favorite late drabble over at LJ =D |
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| Prompt #40: Fly |
[Apr. 30th, 2009|04:17 pm] |
Our 40th Prompt is Fly.
This challenge is open until May 14th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
The 39th prompt, Masks, is open until May 7th, 2009.
Please fill out our poll on drabble tree @ LJ. =) |
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| slytherin100 #39 Masks |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|08:59 pm] |
Title: Masks
Character(s): Severus, general DeathEaters
Pairing(s): None
Rating: G
Warning(s): dark?
Challenge(s): slytherin100 prompt 39 Masks
Word count: 100
Author's notes: X-posted.
Severus always thought effective masks should not conceal but reveal. Ideally they were faces themselves - visible, open, showing shadows of wariness and vulnerability, obfuscating more critical truth. Such masks would be accepted unquestioned.
These were not masks so much as threats. The smooth superior gold showed only eyes looking into those of their victims - eyes drunk on blood, violence and dark magic. No humanity of a lip caught between resolute teeth must show; no vulnerability of fine hair against a still-soft cheek.
Their skin and forms were neutralised, leaving only their soul-baring eyes naked to their Dark Lord. |
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| slytherin100 #38 Late |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|01:12 pm] |
Title: The Late...
Character(s): Severus, Abraxas, Narcissa
Pairing(s): Severus/Abraxas (Gen)
Rating: G
Warning(s): None
Challenge(s): slytherin100 prompt 38 Late
Word count: 100
Author's notes: X-posted. The characters were supposed to be a surprise. 8^P
After other mourners had filed away, Severus returned to the sepulchre, moving across the grounds in the shadows. His superstitious fingers stroked the cold white marble above the body. The body, not the soul.
"Father." Not his father, but alone he permitted himself this. "You taught me. You made me. What will become of me now?"
He lay prostrate, cold close-cropped grass absorbing his tears. Severus never cried, but now shook silently, bereft.
"You kept me when there was nowhere else."
Narcissa found him, comforting hand at his shoulder. No one touched him. "Come. Abraxas would not have wanted this." |
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| Prompt #39: Masks |
[Apr. 23rd, 2009|11:40 pm] |
Our 39th Prompt is Masks.
This challenge is open until May 7th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
The 38th prompt, Late, is open until April 30th, 2009. Feel free to combine the two prompts.
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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| "Late bloomer" (Scorpius, Draco, G, 100 words) |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|09:15 pm] |
Title: Late bloomer
Character(s): Scorpius, Draco
Rating: G
Challenge(s): slytherin_100's Late prompt & draco100's absence of magic prompt
Word count: 100
Author's note: X-posted @ LJ
Scorpius was eight when he could no longer ignore the whispers. Grandfather and dad had been arguing for weeks, and Draco’s face was pinched with worry as they went to St Mungo's for their yearly check-up. The specialist threw around words like "trauma" and "absent maternal influence."
When they Flooed home, he turned to his dad and asked, "Are they saying that I'm a Squib because Mum died?"
"Scorpius, they don't know what they're talking about." He sounded tired and sad. "If that's true, then Harry Potter wouldn't have had an ounce of magic. Your magic isn’t absent, it’s just…late."
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ETA 04/23/09: Continued here. |
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| Prompt #38: Late |
[Apr. 22nd, 2009|06:29 pm] |
Our 38th Prompt is Late.
This challenge is open until April 30th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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| Prompt #37: Silencing Charm |
[Apr. 3rd, 2009|05:54 pm] |
Our 37th Prompt is Silencing Charm. Wisely used or unfortunately forgotten, it's up to you.
This challenge is open until April 16th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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| Prompt #36: 'Supply and Demand' |
[Mar. 13th, 2009|02:24 pm] |
Our #36 Prompt is 'Supply and Demand'.
This challenge is opened until March 26th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
The #35 Prompt, DADA, is open until March 19th. Feel free to combine the two prompts. |
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| Prompt #35: DADA |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|02:05 pm] |
Our 35th Prompt is DADA. The classes, the homework, the teachers... Whatever.
This challenge is open until March 19th, 2009. Please follow the community guideline at the userinfo.
The 34th prompt, Monster, is open until March 12th. Feel free to combine the two prompts.
Random suggestion of the week: Have you ever tried to pair your Slytherin with Ron Weasley?
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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| Prompt #34: Monster |
[Mar. 3rd, 2009|03:35 pm] |
Our 34th prompt is Monster. Bonus points if you include Peter Pettigrew.
This challenge is open until March 12th, 2009. Please follow the community guidelines at the userinfo.
The 33rd prompt, Throne, is open until March 5th. Feel free to combine the two prompts.
You may suggest a prompt here. |
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sad
distressed
enthralled
weird