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osprey_archer) wrote2018-09-27 08:43 am
osprey_archer) wrote2018-09-27 08:43 am
Ladies Bingo
It’s been ages since I did a bingo card, but when thisbluespirit linked to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
ladiesbingo, and I saw that the bingo was focused on relationships between women (of all kinds: romance, friendship, enmity, family relationships) and that the fills could be origfic as well as fanfic, I could resist no longer and requested a card, and now I have it and have been poring over it like a box of bonbons, if one had to constitute one’s bonbons oneself after selecting them.
I may end up writing a couple of fanfics for this (...I have vague ideas of trying for a blackout. SOMEBODY STOP ME), but I’ve also got some origfic ideas that I’d like to noodle around with that seem to fit with this card. In particular, the paired squares for “enemy” and “enemies” really lend themselves to this story I’ve got in my mind, a fantasy story about a revolution/rebellion/civil war (it depends which side you ask) which has failed.
The heroine - Temis Flamethrower (or Firethrower; the name is still in flux) - who wrote fiery pamphlets that helped instigate the rebellion, and also at one point literally manifested a fistful of flame out of pure rage and set a building on fire (after dousing it with kerosene, but this part tends to get left out by both admirers and detractors) has to try to reconcile herself to that failure, and also reconcile with old friends, many of whom were on the other side - and thus enemies - and perhaps are enemies still. “If we’d met last year I would have shot you, and now we’re drinking tea together.”
This would also be a good one for “loss” and “decay” and, oh, certainly metaphorical “ghosts and hauntings”... and maybe I ought to try some of the cheerfuller squares with it too, or it’s going to become pretty grim all around.
I might also write some scenes from The Distaff Line, as the story sequence persists in calling itself (alternative options for a series title welcome). “Injury,” for instance. Everyone wants to read the scene where Harriet kisses the inflamed scar on Dr. Thomas Conroy’s leg after he walks too far in order to complete his medical rounds after his drunken brother-in-law lames his horse, and collapses in front of her house just before an enormous thunderstorm, am I right? There are love confessions! And confessions of deep seated senses of inadequacy! They both have deep seated senses of inadequacy. Surely that is all anyone has ever wanted in a romance.
thisbluespirit linked to ladiesbingo, and I saw that the bingo was focused on relationships between women (of all kinds: romance, friendship, enmity, family relationships) and that the fills could be origfic as well as fanfic, I could resist no longer and requested a card, and now I have it and have been poring over it like a box of bonbons, if one had to constitute one’s bonbons oneself after selecting them. | Found Families | Funerals and Wakes | Memory Related | Remix | Drama |
| Hard and Soft | Clowns | Ghosts and Hauntings | Confessions | Decay |
| Vacations and Holidays | Luck | Wild Card | Silhouette | Bright Colours |
| Injury | Opposites Attract | Cuddles and Snuggles | Enemy | Team Mates |
| Undiscovered Countries | Enemies | Loss | Something Useful | Yentas and Matchmakers |
I may end up writing a couple of fanfics for this (...I have vague ideas of trying for a blackout. SOMEBODY STOP ME), but I’ve also got some origfic ideas that I’d like to noodle around with that seem to fit with this card. In particular, the paired squares for “enemy” and “enemies” really lend themselves to this story I’ve got in my mind, a fantasy story about a revolution/rebellion/civil war (it depends which side you ask) which has failed.
The heroine - Temis Flamethrower (or Firethrower; the name is still in flux) - who wrote fiery pamphlets that helped instigate the rebellion, and also at one point literally manifested a fistful of flame out of pure rage and set a building on fire (after dousing it with kerosene, but this part tends to get left out by both admirers and detractors) has to try to reconcile herself to that failure, and also reconcile with old friends, many of whom were on the other side - and thus enemies - and perhaps are enemies still. “If we’d met last year I would have shot you, and now we’re drinking tea together.”
This would also be a good one for “loss” and “decay” and, oh, certainly metaphorical “ghosts and hauntings”... and maybe I ought to try some of the cheerfuller squares with it too, or it’s going to become pretty grim all around.
I might also write some scenes from The Distaff Line, as the story sequence persists in calling itself (alternative options for a series title welcome). “Injury,” for instance. Everyone wants to read the scene where Harriet kisses the inflamed scar on Dr. Thomas Conroy’s leg after he walks too far in order to complete his medical rounds after his drunken brother-in-law lames his horse, and collapses in front of her house just before an enormous thunderstorm, am I right? There are love confessions! And confessions of deep seated senses of inadequacy! They both have deep seated senses of inadequacy. Surely that is all anyone has ever wanted in a romance.