31_days06 master list

[tarigwaemir]

Sherman Fairchild, on the Feast of St. Eucherius

I finished posting! Hurrah! Here's a copy of the master list for your convenience.

Food, Glorious Food: phrases from cookbooks and essays on the fine art of cooking and eating
Compiled by sophiap for the 2006 theme exchange

• 01: [The Sandman - Destiny] I arise resigned
  
• 02: [X/1999 - Kamui] The standing and the waiting
  
• 03: [Card Captor Sakura - Touya/Yukito] Two birds without a branch
  
• 04: [Death Note - Misa] On dining alone
  
• 05: [Perfect Girl Evolution - Sunako] The social status of the vegetable
  
• 06: [Mushishi - Ginko, Adashino] Love and death among the molluscs
  
• 07: [Lord of the Rings - hobbits] A lusty bit of nourishment
  
• 08: [His Majesty's Dragon - Laurence, Temeraire] Pearls are not good to eat
  
• 09: [Kodomo no Omocha - Akito/Sana] Those were happy days
  
• 10: [original] Love was the pearl
  
• 11: [Fruits Basket - Tohru] How to distribute your virtue
  
• 12: [Discworld- Carrot/Angua] How to lure the wolf
  
• 13: [Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, part 1 - Dio] To feed such hunger
  
• 14: [Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou - Arima/Miyazawa] Define this word
  
• 15: [Harry Potter - Tom Riddle] The measure of my powers
  
• 16: [Hanazakari no Kimitachi e - Sano/Mizuki, Nakatsu] A little something held in between
  
• 17: [Gundam Wing - Heero/Duo] A small dose of bitterness is a desireable thing
  
• 18: [Good Omens - Aziraphale, Crowley] If you'd like to do as the Romans do
  
• 19: [Paradise Kiss - George/Yukari] A veil which obscures the wonders of its flesh
  
• 20: [Ouran Koukou Host Club - Haruhi] You don't need a calendar to know that spring has come
  
• 21: [Monster - Johann] Tomorrow you're raving mad. The day after that you're dead.
  
• 22: [Bleach - 11th Division, Ichigo] My money's on Mr. Ed
  
• 23: [Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles - Syaoran/Sakura] If only I'd sent you a map instead
  
• 24: [The Dark is Rising - Will/Bran] When something cold comes to call
  
• 25: [Full Metal Alchemist - Winry] Less gadgetry and more tools
  
• 26: [Neverwhere - Door] We present you first with the front-door key
  
• 27: [Trigun - Vash, Wolfwood] An equally vulgar tipple
  
• 28: [American Gods - Anubis] Heart, which is firm and rather dry
  
• 29: [Pet Shop of Horrors - Count D] The constant nibbling of small rich confections
  
• 30: [xxxHOLIC - Yuuko] Choose from our offerings what suits your person
  
• 31: [original] Life itself is the proper binge

I wrote most of these in a rush, so they still need editing, particularly the second half where I got kind of lazy and sloppy. (Concrit would be much appreciated!) Rereading what I wrote really brought home the point that aishuu emphasized in her meta essay on short fics: they have to be focused. The ones where I was just trying to write something that fit the theme are immediately recognizable for their, uh, total pointlessness. -_- There were also a few that probably should have been expanded into longer stories and developed more carefully, although I don't know if I'll ever get around to doing so. I think the most difficult fic to write was the one for Monster, because by that point, I was writing my third psychopath in the batch, and I found the whole experience really, really disturbing. I think the fic itself needs some more work, but I creeped myself out so much writing it that I didn't want to fiddle with it anymore. I also ended up writing for several new fandoms that I'm not altogether familiar with (that is, I've read the source material but not much fanfic), and I hope I didn't mangle them too badly.

Best part about writing for these themes: describing food. Worst part about writing for these themes: getting really hungry while having no way of actually eating the foods I described. ^_^

Yours &c.

Comments

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* I'm so jealous that you wound up with Sophia P's themes. I haven't read them all, but I'm sure they're better than you think.

If it makes you feel better, I had the same issue - I find trying to write for themes sometimes derails the whole point of a shortfic. I'm definitely not doing this again. Really pathetic, isn't it, that I don't follow my own advice?

[troisroyaumes]

Haha, well, some of them I'm satisfied with and others I just posted because I figured I should get something up there. The problem of mass production, I guess. ^_^;; I really loved the themes though; I definitely lucked out on getting sophiap's list.

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

I read all the ones for fandoms I'm even slightly familiar with! And even some I'm not! and the original fiction. (I liked the one about the grandmother... I hope someday I have a perspective like that, rather than this fear and uh... how can I put it? irritation with the inconvenient nature of time's passage and death's arrival. It's like when you've just put brownies in the oven and a friend drops by and says if you come RIGHT NOW we can do something amazing. XD If that makes sense.)

Anyhow they are all very good and I am jealous of your ability to write so much! Even if they were short. :O