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Hi everybody! Newby popping in here with my first contribution, a drabble.
Verlaine
A Thousand Words
I don't usually try to draw his face. I never was much good at portraits; don't have the true artist's eye for subtlety. The wrong slant to his mouth, and he looks like a sulky spoiled child. Shadow his eyes too much, and he's a brute, cold as any terrorist.
But his backāthat tells the real story, in simple strong lines that carry the weight of life and death with grace. Nothing subtle about the power in those shoulders. Deadly competency can be beautiful.
I can only say stuff like that when he can't see my face.
Verlaine
A Thousand Words
I don't usually try to draw his face. I never was much good at portraits; don't have the true artist's eye for subtlety. The wrong slant to his mouth, and he looks like a sulky spoiled child. Shadow his eyes too much, and he's a brute, cold as any terrorist.
But his backāthat tells the real story, in simple strong lines that carry the weight of life and death with grace. Nothing subtle about the power in those shoulders. Deadly competency can be beautiful.
I can only say stuff like that when he can't see my face.
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I particularly like how we don't need to know it's Doyle who is the artist, because it's unmistakable who he's talking about. Bodie *does* get that sulky spoiled look sometimes, when the camera isn't complimenting him. And he can look like a thug. But that back... I'm in love with Bodie's back, I think. The line of the shoulders carving down to the hips is very striking.
And of course with your last line I now have a wonderful image in my head of Doyle tossing out a comment like that just when Bodie's got no opportunity to look him in the eye, and then the expression of endearing bewilderment on Bodie's face when he realizes he's just been complimented and not even in a backhanded kind of way. Nice! :-)
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And I think this is the first comment I've ever gotten that's longer than the actual story
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I love drabbles as an art/fic form. This is a particularly good example of the genre because it encapsulates the entire story/back story etc. in the tiny ficlet. We have everything we need to know in 100 words!!
We could do a drabble challenge...... Anyone?
(A friend ran one on another of my fandoms, The West Wing and gave us another obsolete/obscure word each week to use/illustrate in 100 words - with great results).
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I'm too busy, writing-wise, to start any proper (or improper) fics but I love doing drabbles!
One of my 'muse' journals regularly contributes to
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Actually, I might ask you a favour (as instigator!) - it's occured to me that I'm going to be at a writing con this weekend, and the hotel charges nassssty amounts for using the internet (which I usually give in to, tbh *g*), but if I'm in a session, and
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Look what you've done,
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