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exclamation points! ([personal profile] ex_aroceu318) wrote in [community profile] twodongs2017-05-06 01:00 am
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round one (8 may - 14 may)


TOP LEVEL COMMENTS ONLY


DAY PROMPT PUNISHMENT
Monday (May 8) retroactive title drop no wip for isy next time; no new fic for aro next time
Tuesday (May 9) describe light in 50 words or more not allowed to dm (one/both)
Wednesday (May 10) femslash not allowed to dm (one/both)
Thursday (May 11) use the word “obsequious” namedrop someone we hate in public
Friday (May 12) write for a fandom we’ve never written before not allowed to dm (one/both)
Saturday (May 13) write a minimum of 4000 words write 300 words of iwaoi
Sunday (May 14) aro: describe hands
isy: describe eyes
not allowed to dm (one/both)

* feel free to edit/add new comments if more is written on the day; comments are meant to encapsulate everything that is written, not just the part that fulfills the prompt
** clarification - "not allowed to dm" is a punishment for the day after, not a preexisting condition
necessarian: (tsuk)

only smth short today :(

[personal profile] necessarian 2017-05-10 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
“We need to stop meeting like this.”

Padma looks up from her book. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. It’s Victoria station, afternoon rush hour. Padma is unobtrusive in a blue peacoat and a sensible charcoal pencil skirt, like one of the many women on their way home from work—not that she needs to blend in, given the layers of Disillusionment she’s operating under. In the last few months, Pansy has become particularly adept at breaking through Disillusionment charms; they’re Padma’s specialty.

“Why,” Padma says, “are you worried people will think we’re friends?”

Pansy scoffs at that. “I would hardly make that assumption. Look at you. So pedestrian.”

“Because trouser suits and shoulder pads didn’t die with Lady Di,” Padma says.

“Very funny,” Pansy says, because the alternative is owning up to the fact that she has no idea who Lady Di is—some Muggle celebrity​, no doubt—and the one thing she can tell is that Padma’s teasing her. “So who’s your line?”

Padma raises one perfectly sculpted eyebrow. “I beg your pardon?”

“Your line,” Pansy says, “your inside man. Do I have to teach you everything?”

“Just the lingo,” Padma says. “I have no inside man. I got this tip-off on my own steam.”

“Figures.” Pansy sits back on the bench, folds her arms across her chest. “Let me teach you something else, IKB: it’s common courtesy to keep your fingers out of other people’s pies.”

“Enough with the metaphors,” Padma snaps.

Good. Pansy wants to wear down her patience. She watches as Padma taps out a rhythm against the spine of her book. It’s getting closer to the drop time.

Plainly, Pansy says, “This is my purchase to make. Not yours.”

“It was advertised as open to the highest bidder,” Padma says.

“And the highest bidder is always me,” Pansy says. “When you’ve been in this business for a little longer, you’ll understand. Nobody steps out of line on my manor.”

“What, and the entire city of London is your manor?”

“My deals are my manors.” Pansy gives Padma her best intimidating glare, tilting her chin up—they’re about the same height when seated, so it’s the best Pansy can do.

Padma smirks, folding her book closed and dog-earing a corner. (Pansy nearly flinches at that.) “Seems like you just decided this now.”

“Well, Padma,” Pansy says, “may the best woman win.”