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Holding a Drabblefest on the Back of a Turtle
These prompts are quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
boosette done gone and nabbed the Halloweeny theme; but you don't need to be familiar with that canon to understand the prompts or participate in the challenge. Crossovers would be welcome, but they are certainly not required. As always, you should use the prompts as loosely and freely as you desire. There is no requirement to include the quotation in your story. Rules are below.
1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
1. The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.
2. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
3. Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
4. People would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys.
5. ...there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
6. She'd even given herself a middle initial - X - which stood for ‘someone who has a cool and exciting middle name’.
7. Today is a good day for someone else to die!
8. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
9. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
10. A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
11. Ye gods, no! My mother [...] would be terribly offended if I trusted her. She'd say she hadn't brought me up right.
12. Truly, the leopard can change his shorts.
13. Just erotic, nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
14. Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
15. If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.
16. She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it.
17. Practically from the moment she'd been able to talk she'd been taught how to listen.
18. Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
19. Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
20. Shoes, men, coffins... never accept the first one you see.
21. Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
22. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
23. A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish, or the woman.
24. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
25. Do unto others before they do unto you.
26. Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
27. Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.
28. They get along like a house on fire. Ever been in a burning house, miss?
29. We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
30. Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
31. You take the high road an' I'll take your wallet!
32. I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
boosette done gone and nabbed the Halloweeny theme; but you don't need to be familiar with that canon to understand the prompts or participate in the challenge. Crossovers would be welcome, but they are certainly not required. As always, you should use the prompts as loosely and freely as you desire. There is no requirement to include the quotation in your story. Rules are below.1) Prompts are not exclusive. There is no limit on the number of people who may write about a prompt, and there is no need to claim prompts.
2) Post responses in the comments and include the lead character and your prompt in the subject line. If you choose a long prompt, you may use just the first few words.
3) Responses may be any length from a proper 100-word drabble to a multi-chapter epic. If the story is too long for comments, you may post it elsewhere and comment with the link.
4) There is no time limit for this challenge. I will return to index the responses in a week or so.
5) Please leave feedback, respond to feedback, and pimp this post around.
6) If your response is rated NC-17 or would require a content warning (for rape, graphic violence, etc.), you may post it in the comments here but you must include the relevant rating or warning in the subject line.
1. The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.
2. Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
3. Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
4. People would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys.
5. ...there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
6. She'd even given herself a middle initial - X - which stood for ‘someone who has a cool and exciting middle name’.
7. Today is a good day for someone else to die!
8. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
9. Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
10. A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
11. Ye gods, no! My mother [...] would be terribly offended if I trusted her. She'd say she hadn't brought me up right.
12. Truly, the leopard can change his shorts.
13. Just erotic, nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
14. Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.
15. If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.
16. She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it.
17. Practically from the moment she'd been able to talk she'd been taught how to listen.
18. Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
19. Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
20. Shoes, men, coffins... never accept the first one you see.
21. Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.
22. I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.
23. A woman always has half an onion left over, no matter what the size of the onion, the dish, or the woman.
24. Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
25. Do unto others before they do unto you.
26. Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem.
27. Fear is a strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.
28. They get along like a house on fire. Ever been in a burning house, miss?
29. We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
30. Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.
31. You take the high road an' I'll take your wallet!
32. I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
Re: 11. 11. Ye gods, no! My mother [...] would be terribly offended if I trusted her. - Winona Kirk
Re: 11. 11. Ye gods, no! My mother [...] would be terribly offended if I trusted her. - Winona Kirk
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