Mod Post: Round 3 Lightning Drabble Round (Open to Everyone!)

[almostblue.livejournal.com]

Hello!

The mod team (roebling and myself, almostblue) just want to say again that we are so incredibly grateful to everyone who has written, read, and commented for this third round of TBB. Thank you for your time and effort and talent! It's been amazing to see so much great enthusiasm and energy!

While we wait for the last few stories to get posted, we're going to hold a Lightning Drabble Round!

Before I get into what that means, I want to introduce this year's honorary mods for the lightning round - i_luv_tvxq, (you may know her as @TVXQluff) and akmongs (@himchanni), who runs bapfanfiction. They are both wonderful people who keep the fandom running through recs, comments and kudos, quietly and without much fanfare. We think they're great, and we wanted to thank them for all of their hard work over the years.

So as this round progresses, feel free to ask them questions as well! If roebling and I aren't around (or aren't...awake, ahaha, timezones /o\) they are here to help you out :)

Our hope is that the Lightning Drabble Round will be a fast, fun, low pressure opportunity for everyone to keep writing a little bit more! Here's how it will work:

1) If you want to participate, comment on this entry with a pairing you'd like to write. Please keep it to one comment per pairing.

2) A mod (any mod!) will reply with 3-5 random one word prompts.

For example, you might comment with the pairing DaeJae. A mod will reply to your comments with the prompts: apple, blonde, sneakers, failure, nuna

3) You have until September 13th to write as many drabbles as you want based on those prompts! All the drabbles you write should be under 1,000 words. They can use any of the words, all of the words, whatever you want. Post your fics as replies to the mod comment, and title them like this:[prompt, pairing, rating, warnings] in the heading of the comment. There's no assigned posting times or deadlines, so you can post 'em as you write 'em!

You don't have to have participated in the exchange to take part in the lightening round! Anon commenting will be enabled so anon participants should also be able to take part. It's low stakes, so if you can only write one drabble based on your prompt, that's absolutely fine. 10 drabbles? Fine too! Real life gets in the way and you can't write at all? We get it.

If there are any questions we haven't answered just comment below and we'll try to answer them right away! Otherwise, that's it! Lightning Drabble Round starts now, and runs until 9/13! Hwaiting!!!

THE LIGHTNING ROUND IS NOW CLOSED! Please stay tuned for an updated masterlist shortly!

Comments

[saxophonic23.livejournal.com]

Quiet & Rock, BangDae, PG, No warnings apply

Yongguk sets the USB on the kitchen table, sliding it towards Daehyun’s steaming mug of chamomile. Daehyun watches his fingers before flicking his eyes up to look at Yongguk. “We’re going to try a different concept,” says Yongguk. “Not more difficult, just...harder, you know?” Daehyun nods. “It’s like the music on there.”

The unspoken request hangs in the air. Daehyun nods again, murmuring. “I’ll listen to it, hyung.” Yongguk smiles, hand flexing for an instant as though he was about to clap Daehyun on the shoulder. Instead, he murmurs goodnight and disappears out the door, probably heading to the studio to nurse his insomnia at the mixing board.

When he stands to put his mug in the sink, Daehyun picks up the USB, turning it over, curious. Listening to it later, all the music is loud. The vocalists scream, and the bass and guitar riffs are heavy and jarring. This is really the kind of concept Yongguk wants for one of the songs on the album? He puts the songs on repeat and closes his eyes, nodding his head along once he finds the beat.

They don’t spend much time talking about that particular track, either between the two of them or with the others. The group devotes most of their days running through the choreography for their title track, learning the melody, memorizing lyrics. Scarfing down meals when they can. The nights are just as full, decent nights’ sleep fading to a fond memory.

Vocal training is tough too, with Daehyun and Youngjae staying late to help Jongup with his range exercises. They’ve got their own to do as well, Daehyun struggling with finding and holding the correct timbre, Youngjae perfecting his pitch.

Final recordings come far too fast; Daehyun’s certain time skipped a few days. He’s the last to record. Yongguk and the producer hyungs wait outside the booth, sitting amongst the scattered cans empty of energy drink. The song moves fast, and Daehyun pushes with his diaphragm to reach the note. His throat feels right this time; he thinks this is the take that will go on the track. He records this section a few more times to give the producers more material to work with before Yongguk signals him out of the booth.

The segments he recorded play back through the room speakers. Daehyun frowns, lines between his eyebrows deepening as he tallies his mistakes. But then he hears himself hit the high, wailing note that starts off the final chorus. Yongguk turns to him, mouth open in an excited grin and eyes dancing. Daehyun fills with satisfaction, feeling renewed.

“You sound like an electric guitar!” Yongguk gushes. “Well, close enough. We can go the rest of the way, but it isn’t far.”

Daehyun grins, puffing with praise. “I’m going back first, hyung,” he says, already turning to pick up his bag by the couch.

“I’ll walk out with you,” Yongguk says, stuffing his hands in his pockets. They meander down the hallway, not talking. Yongguk stops in front of a drink vending machine in the building’s lobby. “Do you want me to buy you anything?”

He considers the options before picking a juice drink. Yongguk feeds money into the machine and presses the corresponding button. “Thanks, hyung.” Daehyun accepts the offered bottle.

“Don’t mention it,” Yongguk says, reaching out to pat Daehyun’s ass in a quick love tap. “See you in the morning.”

Outside, the night is lonely, with no one around to see him bite his lip and blush.

[andnowforyaya.livejournal.com]

AHHHH OH MY GOD THIS SI SO CUTE OMG DAHAHSDHA

[saxophonic23.livejournal.com]

You're adorable omg thank you~~ :D

[golden-kimono.livejournal.com]

This is so cute! <3 Thank you for sharing. :)