Kitty ([info]kittyrainbow) wrote in [info]af100,
@ 2005-11-05 15:48:00
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I can't believe I'm the first person to have entered this!
What the heck? This challenge has only got two more days to go and nobody else has entered so far. Pleasepleaseplease don't let me be the only entrant. *chivvies you all along*

Title: Rude Awakening
Prompt: #8 - Beauty
Rating: G
Characters: Holly, Butler, Artemis
Points to: The Unofficial Jade Princess Fan Club*
Words: 100

Holly dashed along the path, trying to spot the puddles in the moonlight. She kept splashing herself, less because of poor visibility than because her thoughts were mostly elsewhere.

Tomorrow the fairies would find the equilibrium of their social rules had been shattered and they would stumble bleary-eyed into the future. All because of her. Because of the day she had snapped out of her stupor...

Here it was at last! She pounded on the door until it was opened by a giant man.

"Holly! What are you doing here? It's raining and it's 2am."

"Artemis is expecting me."



This, fairly obviously I would think, is based on Sleeping Beauty. I tried to introduce more similarities than just, ooh, Artemis's love woke Holly up - hence the whole analogy between the sleeping kingdom waking up to a land overgrown with weeds/the fairies.

And a non-challenge drabble, on a vaguely similar theme...



Holly glanced at Artemis. "Am I not even allowed a clue?"

He smiled. "No. You're not allowed to know until we get there."

He went to great lengths to impose this: plane windows closed, blindfold when they landed.

In the dark, she thought back to how they'd met: he'd kidnapped her and held her to ransom. It was a miracle they were now off on their honeymoon and hadn't yet maimed each other.

Finally he removed the cloth. "Welcome to Stockholm."

Holly laughed until she cried.



Yes, I know, horribly tacky joke. (If you don't get it, be thankful.) I think maybe the pacing of this drabble isn't quite right; I had to cut a lot out, as it was originally about 150 words.

* Yes, I will be sticking to this team. I can't be bothered to think up a new one every week. [/laziness]

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[info]tyr
2005-11-06 07:37 am UTC (link)
Ooh... very pretty, Kitty. Reading these two drabbles makes my brain demand for the entire A/H backstory. :P I like how, in the first one, Holly is guilty for disrupting the Fairies' social rules and yet she seems to have no hesitation. And I did get the pun in the second drabble. 'Twas perfect! *grins stupidly*

I WILL try to post something tonight or tomorrow because everyone ought to know that Root enjoys posing in front of the mirror in pantyhose.

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[info]kittyrainbow
2005-11-06 01:37 pm UTC (link)
Thank you. :D I have actually been meaning for ages to write a sensible!explainy!(H/A) fic but I've just never got around to it. XD;

Hah, Holly's lack of hesitation wasn't exactly deliberate... although I was kind of trying to say that fairy society has become stagnant, that Holly's the only one who's woken up and noticed all these "weeds" and she feels like it's her duty to wake everyone else up.

It's a terrible, terrible pun though. Almost as bad as F. Roy Dean Slip and so on. ^^;

I shall say YAY! for I have already seen your drabble. :D They seriously should.

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[info]blueyeti
2005-11-08 08:22 am UTC (link)
Oh, I liked those muchly.

And I second Tyr: we need a sensible, plausible Holly/Arty backstory. Like, the H/A. Rational!(H/A), plausible!(H/A)...

Please write it. I'll retract the plausible!(Holly/Chix) challenge if you do...

I loved the metaphor of the first one, and the pun of the second one. I have a soft-spot for puns, but, still, goodly. You write great drabbles, dearest.

*shamefully skulks off to finish my sequence of Beauty-and-the-Beast analogy drabbles which I didn't finish in time*

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[info]kittyrainbow
2005-11-08 11:32 am UTC (link)
Thankies. :)

Don't retract the plausible!(Holly/Chix), I really ought to write it...

The problem I see with a proper H/A fic is that it would almost certainly have to be a many chaptered fic to be able to encompass everything. And that takes a) planning, and b) time, and c) a fanficcer who isn't lazy. I would love to write it, because I have a soft spot for the ship, but while I could certainly do fairyreasonable&plausible!(H/A) in a one-shot I don't think I could do the H/A in that little space.

*prods you to post your Beauty and the Beast drabbles regardless of challenge finishing*

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[info]blueyeti
2005-11-08 11:45 am UTC (link)
retracts my retraction of the plausible!(Holly/Chix)

Yeah, I know about That Problem of the H/A plausibility. I wrote out the H/A List of Doom - everything a fic needed to have, as a base, to have a relatively plausible/potentially good H/A fic if it was to be the establishment of a relationship.

While I most definitely don't have a soft spot for H/A, and it's really a rather craggy and forbidding void of hard spot, I really really want to have a 'this is how it works' story in the back of my head for when I do see it. I think I dislike the ship because of the nature of the shippers, not the nature of the ship.

Talk me out of writing the sequel to BoaF with H/A. Talk me out of writing the sequel anyway...

I shall finish them, and post them and suchlike.

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[info]kittyrainbow
2005-11-08 04:15 pm UTC (link)
Technically since this is in strikeout, none of this exists. Not even this note that none of this exists.

A lot of The Problem is to do with getting them together for long enough without there being too much interference from either species to allow them to expand these feelings, express them, discuss them, etc. That usually requires a Complicated Plot To Take Over The World, which means lots of planning and such.

H/A seems to be the first stop for those who've just gotten over the Sue stage and want to ship canon characters instead. Which is why it annoys a lot of people but at the same time it's attractive, because it's one of those things that's always being shoved in your face.

From what you were saying on MSN, I may have done. Unfortunately we now seem to be doing a novel-length together instead.

Yay! :D

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[info]balletpixie13
2005-11-11 03:33 pm UTC (link)
*sneaks in* I have to be quiet, this is an insane attempt to get some fanfiction. Okay. I really liked the second one. I liked it a lot. A really lot. I got the joke. I laughed, very hard. It's not tacky, it was smart. The first one was also super good, but still like the second one better. *looks around and realizes she can't possibly review as well as the others.* I'll be leaving now...

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[info]kittyrainbow
2005-11-11 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Are you not supposed to look at LiveJournal communities for fanfiction then? :(

Aww, thank you. :)

Nooo, don't go! *clings onto to you and doesn't let you leave* You have to stay! We need more members. :/ And more people to write drabbles.

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[info]balletpixie13
2005-11-12 01:02 am UTC (link)
*thinks* Oh, all right, I'll stay. But, remember, my step-mom is a member of Live Journal, so she knows which communities I belong to. We must keep it a secret. And, yes, I am allowed to be on communities, but this one, and others, has some...eh...questionable things on it. No offense. It's little goody two shoes over here. Although, you know my drabbles aren;t very good.

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