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Post by gogollescent on Mar 21, 2009 13:17:19 GMT 10
Title: To Thieves As To Crows
Rating: G
Prompt: color/colour
Summary: Like daughter, like mother, when it comes to attracting men with the magpie gene.
George has a taste for bright, startling shades, for beauty splashed across silk screens or on a woman's fingers. Paint, jewels, it doesn't matter. Vivid colors, that's the thing. To thieves and crows alike.
So it oughtn't shock him so when he finds himself falling, slower, harder than he's ever fallen for a less forbidden treasure, for Alanna. For the way she moves like light on cut glass; for that hair; for the way she holds her dreams in her mouth, sweetly obvious. Even for those unnatural purple-threaded irises, strangely compelling in this pale-eyed city.
But it shocks him anyway.
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Post by ubiquitous on Mar 21, 2009 13:45:10 GMT 10
Ooh, very cool drabble! Love it!  |
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Post by gogollescent on Mar 21, 2009 14:31:29 GMT 10
Thank you!
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Post by Rosie on Mar 21, 2009 19:40:37 GMT 10
Really great imagery - I love the idea of somebody holding their dreams in their mouth.
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Post by Katty on Mar 21, 2009 23:00:24 GMT 10
This is so sweet!!
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Post by gogollescent on Mar 22, 2009 7:34:37 GMT 10
Thank you both! Rosie - I'm glad you liked the imagery, because I was rendered obnoxiously self-satisfied by it. |
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rainstormamaya
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Post by rainstormamaya on Mar 22, 2009 10:20:58 GMT 10
*faints quietly* Oh my God, I wish I could do imagery like that.
(Just watch me congratulate myself on getting you here and writing brilliant fic like this!)
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Post by Anaroriel on Mar 22, 2009 14:23:13 GMT 10
Ooh, I loved this! Very awesome.
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Post by boosette on Mar 22, 2009 23:42:52 GMT 10
THIS is what a drabble should be - with every word pulling triple-duty and a meaningful title* and ♥
*which, I love your title. Didn't "get" it til the third or fourth read-through, but when it clicked, it was a glorious moment of, OH!
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Post by girlcalledsun on Mar 23, 2009 6:20:02 GMT 10
Love the line about "light on cut glass" - great.
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Post by gogollescent on Mar 23, 2009 6:55:38 GMT 10
Thank you all so very much for your kind comments. |
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Post by Fenella on Mar 23, 2009 8:48:41 GMT 10
It's surprising - and nice! - to get a sweet and soft image of Alanna, someone who I would sooner say is loud in her actions and views. Aw, George is smitten.
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Post by Lisa on Mar 23, 2009 11:39:22 GMT 10
Ah, you have a gift with words!! I adored this concept. |
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Post by Imogen on Mar 24, 2009 17:33:46 GMT 10
This is shiny!
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Post by k4writer02 on Mar 30, 2009 7:07:59 GMT 10
I loved this. Color is so much a part of alanna, with the hair and the eyes, and seeing her and that through George's eyes was so wonderful!
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anilaurel
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Post by anilaurel on Apr 6, 2009 13:01:43 GMT 10
Bows and lands flat on her face. That was incredible you have this incredible of looking at these things sideways so no one else sees them. Wonderful job.
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Serenity
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Post by Serenity on Apr 6, 2009 13:09:02 GMT 10
Oh.
Now, prepare to watch Lanna fall over herself with enthusiasm.
You have made this George fangirl very, very happy. Weak in the knees, both for the way you captured him and for the way you capture what's so great about the English language. You have also reminded me why I adore the drabble format. This was exquisite.
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Blade
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Post by Blade on Apr 6, 2009 13:14:20 GMT 10
Wonderful!
favorite line from any fanfic I've ever read. And yeah, you pleased me and any other George fangirls.
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Maybe once we'd have seen it during Smackdown!