Me and Kate are playing a drabble exchange game. Here there be a random drabble with the prompt 'bondage'. Nothing to do with Hey Jude, or, well, anything else.

( Porn )

I like sci fi, and this includes time travel stories. People who find themselves in different cultures are fun. However, when someone travels a thousand years into the future and are able to speak to people with perfect clarity without the help of technology, it's kinda hard to suspend my disbelief. Go back just a few hundred years and it would be very difficult to communicate with anyone unless you'd spent a lot of time studying language from that time. So basically, I find it hard to believe that language thousands of years in the future would not have evolved at all. This also applies to stories where people travel to alien worlds.

It's fair enough if it is a story set in the past or future but without time travel. If we couldn't write these in modern language it would be difficult to write them in any enjoyable way at all.

So basically, if two people speak the same language when logic says they should not, provide an explanation. Technology, magic, I don't care. Please.

I've been drabbling a lot in the last couple of days, and I need more prompts. I need them, man. Drabbles are for my story, but you don't have to have read it to prompt me, and I don't expect you to read the resulting drabble, though you certainly may if you wish. If you have read the story, you can specify characters (or you can not, up to you), but mostly I just want one or more word prompts - places, objects, concepts, etc. Examples: shoe, traffic, stars, rocket, dinosaur, etc. Yes, I'm sure I could just open a dictionary up at random pages or something, but for some reason I prefer them coming from someone else.

Anyway, prompts please!

I may or may not use this scene. I may or may not use the character in it. I have been thinking about it a bit, though, and I like the general idea. Spoilers probably won't be too bad, and I doubt this scene will be anything like the final product, even if I do use the idea.

( Kitty )

Okay, so right now I'm kinda weird in the head and the body as my body and my head are in withdrawal from my medication. Because I stayed up for ages and then slept for ages, that's why. Withdrawal from these ones comes on fast and hard. I'm shaking slightly. Wee. Good luck with my brain working enough to figure out how to balance cooking my chicken and my potatoes at the same time without burning either, right?

Anyway, sleeping ages DOES have the advantage of bringing my wicked crazy dreams. Though I had many last night, I think I shall tell you of the people who are in charge of dreams who live along the road to hell. The road to hell featured in an earlier dream, in which I was on it, but we'll leave that one. So yeah, there was a house, disguised as a daycare, along the road to hell, which was actually a footpath to hell. Living in this house were Phillip, a woman, and Phillip's four year old child who frequently changed switched genders. Phillip and the woman were in an open relationship. The woman had a role both as a person in the dream world, and as a runner of the dream world, but Phillip was soley a running things person. I almost killed Phillip a few times by requesting specific dreams and overexerting him because he sucked  hardcore at actually delivering. But it turned it to be something he'd been eating and not my dream requests that had almost killed him. Didn't change the fact that he sucked at giving me the dreams I wanted. Fail, Phillip, fail.

Hell-bound souls traveled along the road to hell towards their final destination. We could see them, but regular people could not. Most of the souls could see neither us nor regular folk. Some could, and were powerful enough to even get off the road and attack the house. Phillip was the one who took care of them. He was pretty good at fighting them. Because regular people and the hell-bound couldn't see each other, regular people could use the road as a normal footpath since for some reason it also meant they were unable to touch each other. If, however, one of us went on the hell road and came into contact with one of the souls, it would gain awareness and would attack us. This was why I was concerned by Phillip allowing his 4 year old to play near the road unsupervised. But that was before I realised that the kid was super smart, super strong and had super powers.

Speaking of super powers, mine were pretty kick ass. I could return Phillip to health, make plants grow, make cauliflower grow into cheese. Nice cheese, too. Quite good. I could fly... I think I turned into an owl to do this. Possibly.

Anyway, that was that dream.

Lately I've been trying to induce Hey Jude dreams with limited success. See, I'm aware in my dream that I want to. I'm like, in the dream world, saying, "okay, now I want to dream about the characters of my story to inspire ideas'. Seriously, I am that fucking aware of myself in dreams. I think the main problem is not having a clear mental image of them. Like, I know what my characters look like, but in a vague kinda way, you know? I can easily dream of people I know or people from TV because I have a sharp mental image. Jude, who I can imagine clearish, is useless because he's the POV character. Sure, I could do it 3rd person, but it just doesn't seem to work like that. I had one dream from his POV, but it didn't relate to the story much.

Mikey I can do, to a degree. The other night I dreamt of an evil pajama wearing little kid version of him who stabbed me in the face with those little metal rulers a couple of times. Last night I dreamt I had a friend who was called Mikey, and who looked like Mikey, but was not Mikey. He was fairly depressed and insecure, and the only time he acted much like Mikey was when he was on drugs. Yeah. I had to constantly resist the urge to wibble over him though, he was so cute.

Ion? Ion, I cannot do. He is so fucking hard to visualise, and while I've found art and such that reminds me a lot of Jude and Mikey, there's fuckall that looks anything like Ion. I do know what he looks like, and ironically, his appearance came from a dream, but I just cannot get a clear over all image going to generate him in my dream. I'll stand there, in my dream, trying. And failing. Boo. I need someone with super art skills and super patience to draw him for me. Perhaps when The Sims 3 comes out I can make a sim of him and that'll be enough? That would be nice.

Anyway, I didn't burn my food and now I am going to eat it.

Yeah, so I was going to do this whole big thing and tell the exciting story of my holiday with pictures and stuff, but I've decided it's not worth the effort. Here's a link to my DA, where I've uploaded some of my pictures from the holiday, if you're interested: http://potatoe1988.deviantart.com/

I'll tell you a few things quick anyway, though.

There are tons of birds on the island, and because people feed them, they're quite tame. There are a ton of cockatoos, some kookaburras, rainbow lorikeets and seagulls. I also saw this really tiny bird which ate nectar from flowers. Not a humming bird, but kinda similar. It made strange sounds.

Everyone drives golf carts on the island. I mean, there are a few vehicles obviously, for practical purposes, but regular people don't own cars. All the car parks are designed for golf carts. Ours had really unresponsive brakes, which was kind of freaky especially when going down hills, where it would speed up a lot. Fun, though.

Um, yeah... that's enough about that. It was a fun holiday and I enjoyed it.

Just a quick post to announce my return from my holiday. It was good! The magic did not fail, and the plane stayed in the air. There were cockatoos and golf carts. I took hundreds of pictures. I'll make a longer post with pictures and stuff soon, but right now I think I shall go and have a shower...

I'm going on a little holiday with my mum to Hamilton Island. We're leaving Thursday morning and returning Sunday even. So if you need me for anything... um... too bad. I shall take a gazillion pictures, I'm sure, so if you care, I'll show you. I'll probably upload the pretty ones to my DA. Oh, and I get to go on a plane! I've never been on a plane before. I'm not scared of them because they really are very safe, but I do think they are fueled by magic. I am seriously not buying the scientific explanation of how a plane stays up in the air.

Drabbles for Hey Jude. There shouldn't be any spoilers, but things will also be out of context so they may only mostly make sense. I think these will be potentially canon, which means that according to what I presently have planned for the story, these events could take place. I may also do some back story ones, which probably will be canon.

( Here there be drabbles )

Tags: drabbles

Alright, that didn't take as long as it could have. I am back. Awesome new computer, too. I can't wait to get something demanding installed so I can try this baby out.

Also: I downloaded and installed windows live messenger and it looks like crap. I had it before and it didn't. Why? Display pictures are now on the left, among massive amounts of other wtfery.