#ldws drabble

[melynen]

Rating: T+

Ship: 00Q, James Bond & Q, 00Q00

Tags: drabble, silly, james bond being james bond, the chaos twins of mi6

Word count: 622

Written for @mi6-cafe’s LDWS competition.

[jadedandconfusedao3]

Princess of Cats

“Turn thee, Longbottom, and look upon thy death.”

You can feel the rage build up like a tidal wave inside you as Longbottom turns around. The pressure builds, pushing and pushing, until it feels like everything is going to burst out. A wave made up of the images of the dead is driving you forward, their anguished screaming blocking out all thought. Your sight is bathed in red.

Pansy, make them pay for me.

“I do but keep the peace!” Longbottom cries, his olive-green eyes pleading with you to lower your wand.

You can’t.

Your arm is rigid as it points straight at him. He is sandwiched between the disgusting Weasel boy and Goyle. Both their faces are red, and their mouths are moving as though in slow motion. You can see the whites of their teeth and the droplets of saliva spewing from their lips as they squawk. The Longbottom boy stands between them like a rock, weathering their rage.

He is so earnest that it makes you want to scream. He can take his wide pleading eyes and fuck off. There is no room for this kind of innocence in war. Can’t he see that?

He’s looking at you and you need him to stop. He needs to. If he doesn’t, he might see the fear and horror that lurk deep down underneath the rage. He might see how broken you are below all that red. The only thing that sustains you now is the pain of the dead.

“What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Gryffindors and thee,” you hiss.

He raises his wand, and his shield appears as the red light of your spell reaches him. His eyes are looking at you sadly. Can he see? Don’t look. Don’t look. Please don’t look. You struggle to hold onto the wave of hate, but it is running out of you like rivulets. Before long, you will be bare. There is nothing you fear more.

His eyes never waiver.

You run like the coward you are.

[dixkens]

jamais vu

My slightly spooky 4th week entry for MI6 Last Drabble Writer Standing 2023.

Prompt: "My reflection just blinked at me." 100 words

“Q? Any hallucinogens in dinner?” asked Bond.

“No?”

“My reflection just blinked at me.”

“Just a glitch,” said Q impatiently. “Pay it no mind.”

:SESSION RESET:

Bond brushed his teeth, but his reflection did not.

It nodded meaningfully toward the door.

“Q?” he asked, “Did you swap your mirror for a monitor without telling me?”

“Fuck,” Q cursed, “That reset should have worked.”

:SYSTEM RESET:

Bond frowned at the mirror.

His reflection was mouthing words.

Not real. This isn’t real.

“Q,” asked Bond, “what’s going on?”

“I’m sorry James,” said Q from behind him as the mirror shattered.

:SESSION TERMINATED:

[foxsoulcourt]

Just now read these w/a smile, a holler, gasp + a few other exclamations. CLEVER WRITERS ALL OF YOU!!! (Yes I voted too!)

E N J O Y READER, ENJOY!

Our second round of LDWS drabbles is here!

This week our participants were prompted to write 150 words of AU (any kind--canon, coffeeshop, or otherwise).

You can read their drabbles HERE and vote for your top three favorites using THIS FORM!

Thank you so much not just to our writers, but also to our readers and voters—we couldn't have this competition without any of your valuable contributions. <3

We’ll release voting results on Monday. Good luck with week two, drabblers!

And join us in discord Saturday night at 9pm eastern to read the drabbles aloud!

Edit: We accidentally included a week 3 drabble and mistook it for a week 2 which would be disqualified. We've removed it from the doc and any feedback you early voters gave will be added to next week. Because you could not select this as a favorite, this does not affect this weekend's vote.

[malfoyesque]

Fanfic writer. Mostly Dramione, but I drabble dabble in others

Follows back from @mrsbsmooth

🌷- Cute | 🔥 - Smutty | 🤡 - Funny |😖 Angst | 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ | 👻 Dark

🌿A Fire I Can't Put Out - Hermione/Draco - 😖🌷🔥

Hermione is with Viktor, but he couldn't have been less interested in giving her what she needs. Fortunately, there's someone else who will. Someone who's been waiting a long time for another chance. - (8.6k words)

🌿A Little Pick-Me-Up - Hermione/Draco - 🔥

A competition to see who has the best pickup line backfires when Hermione uses Draco’s hand as a necklace, with sExXxXyY rEsuLtS (I’m so bad at summaries) - (7.4k words)

🌿 Hands Off - Hermione/Draco - 🔥🤡

Possessive Malfoy doesn't like hands on his wife. Only his. So she finds something else for him to do with them - (9.1k words)

🌿 Honey Sweet - Hermione/Draco - 🔥👻

He's there every single night. Without fail. The wardrobe is just big enough to watch from. (6.6k words)

🌿I was just thinking about it, I’m not gonna do it - Hermione/Draco - 🔥🌷

Draco has a breeding kink and is supposed to pull out but accidentally, like, doesn’t - (2.2k words)

🌿LDWS: Return to Hogwarts (4th place!) - Multiple Pairings - 😖🌷🤡

A collection of Hogwarts-based drabbles as part of the Last Drabble Writer Standing competition- (5.9k words)

🌿LDWS: Shakespeare in Love (Winner!) - Multiple Pairings - 😖🌷🤡🏳️‍🌈

A collection of Shakespearean drabbles as part of the Last Drabble Writer Standing competition (which I won!) - (3.9k words)

🌿No Secrets Amongst Friends - Hermione/Draco (+Theo) - 🔥🌷 Theo helps his best friends to be a little more... open-minded. (2.2k words)

🌿Proof - Hermione/Draco - 🔥👻

Draco doesn't want this. He does, but he doesn't. He'll lose everything, or he'll lose her. But Hermione knows what she wants. And she's taking it. (2.9k words)

🦋 All I want for Christmas is five fucking minutes - Hermione/Draco - 🌷🔥 🤡

Colleagues and single parents juggle their lives to get some... 'grown-up' time. The office Secret Santa means Hermione can give Draco what he really wants for Christmas. (14k words)

🦋 Cut, Expose - Hermione/Severus Snape - 😖🌷🔥

Severus takes an eighth-year Hermione on as an apprentice. He acts professionally around her… Until she makes it impossible for him to do so. (14k words)

🦋 I warned you there’d be consequences - Hermione/Fred/George - 🔥🌷😖🤡

Ron's been cheating on her. His twin brothers are even angrier about it than Hermione is. Oops. (12k words)

🦋 If the Shoe Fits - Hermione/Draco - 🤡🌷🔥

Size queen Hermione gets stuck in the wall of the Room of Requirement. The man with the perfect cock finds her. But he keeps disappearing x so now, she has to try and find him. (24k words)

🦋 Keep Your Wand Up - Hermione/Draco - 🤡🌷🔥

Draco lowered his wand. And now, people are joking that he’ll never get it up again. So if the entire school were to just so happen to find out he was still a virgin– Yeah. You see the problem. But he soon finds out that he's not the only one. And that might be the thing that saves him. (19.6k words)

☂️Tell Me What You Want - Hermione/Draco - 🔥🌷🤡😖

Tensions are high. People are remembering how much they used to hate each other. A masquerade ball will keep things calm.

It won't leave Hermione frantically trying to cover up the fact she's slept with her worst enemy. It won't mean she now sees Draco Malfoy in a different light than she did before. It definitely won't make things awkward now that she might be his boss on a permanent basis. It won't. It won't.

A masquerade ball is a great idea.

(WIP - 130k+ words)

☂️Immaculate Misconception - Hermione/Draco - 🔥🌷🤡😖

Hermione’s husband wants an heir, but he can’t get her pregnant. Draco Malfoy's blood curse has him desperate to get someone pregnant, but doesn’t want a legitimate heir. It’s a match made in heaven, and nothing at all is going to go wrong. Nothing.              At.                  All.

(WIP - 35k+ words)

🌷- Cute | 🔥 - Smutty | 🤡 - Funny |😖 Angst | 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQIA+ | 👻 Dark

[thestalwartheart]

thestalwartheart's LDWS 2024 Masterlist

Four weeks, four prompts, four drabbles and countless wonderful conversations. Thank you so much to @mi6-cafe for running this event again. It's one of my favourite events in the calendar.

irreplaceable

Any engineer worth their salt knows there's a workaround for everything. And thankfully, Q is the very best there is.

fates

Since the day they met, Q and Bond have been having the same conversation. Q thinks there's something comforting about that.

a good look

When Q finds Bond peeking in around Q Branch archives, absurdity ensues.

mercies, small and large

The night before Q sees through a difficult decision, he's more human than Bond has ever seen him.

[pinchofhoney]

@aerayv asked:

hii!!! can i request smth for your letter event?? they can just be some short drabbles and whatnots: o & p for ldw moon jo (if it's okay for you), and; l for ldw su yeol^^

thank youu

hello!! thank you once again for participating in my event!<33 let me know your thoughts on this and previous one short story. i am curious to hear your opinion!!

» fluff alphabet event

» special events masterlist

l: little ones how are they around children?

I'm absolutely convinced that Ryu Soo Yeol possesses this adorable, secret, and totally natural superpower that turns kids into his biggest fans. I feel like whenever he's hanging out with the little ones, it's like he's a walking sunshine generator, spreading warmth and genuine happiness all around. It's like magic – the moment he steps into their world, they just cozy up and feel like they're wrapped in a cuddly blanket of comfort.

Despite his daily run-ins with the bad guys, he's like a big teddy bear when it comes to kids. Seriously, he's got this incredible knack for being the gentlest and most patient buddy for them. He's all ears, totally engrossed in their wildly imaginative, gibberish-filled tales. And the cuteness doesn't stop there – I believe he's like a nodding pro, hitting all the right nodding spots as they weave their fantastical stories.

"Time for a shopping adventure!" exclaimed Soo Yeol with a twinkle in his eye, striding confidently toward the car as his work shift came to the end. You trotted along behind him, your brows slightly knit in curiosity.

"Why the sudden shopping spree?" you asked, with a playful blend of amusement in your tone. "I mean, we practically conquered the grocery aisles just yesterday."

Soo Yeol turned to face you, his expression carrying the weight of a serious mission. "Ah, that was yesterday and yesterday I had no idea your niece, with a craving for chocolate, will come to visit us."

You couldn't help but chuckle at his theatrical declaration. "Chocolate? Is that what this is all about?"

He nodded. "Exactly. Imagine the tragedy if she asks for some and we don't have any. It would be a disaster. I may let my boss down, but not your niece."

As he settled into the car, you shook your head, a fond smile playing on your lips. "You're something else, Soo Yeol."

With a wink and a nod, he declared, "I'm just the ultimate chocolate protector for your niece."

[bondlocker]

LDWS 2024

I finally got around to posting my Last Drabble Writer Standing competition submissions! I had a blast doing it, and can't wait for the next competition.

[dhr-ao3]

LDWS Round 12: Back to Hogwarts

LDWS Round 12: Back to Hogwarts https://ift.tt/eudUK0w by BasicHumanWrites My drabbles for Last Drabble Writer Standing Round 12, a Harry Potter writing competition, which runs 1-2 times a year. The theme for this round was Back to Hogwarts. Each week, we were given a Hogwarts subject and a word limit, and somehow I made it to a win in the end :) Check each chapter's a/n for specific warnings Week 1 | 250 words | Prompt: Charms | "Swish, Flick" Week 2 | 300 words | Prompt: Defence Against the Dark Arts |"Bad Moon on the Rise" Week 3 | 350 words | Prompt: Care of Magical Creatures | "Season(s) of the Witch Week 4 | 400 words | Prompt: Divination | "Once Upon a Fairytale" Week 5 | 100 words | Prompt: Transfiguration | "Curses (Broken) Week 6 | 500 words | Prompt: Potions | "End Game" Week 7 | 500 words | Prompt: Muggle Studies | "It's a Kind of Magic" Week 8 (a) | 8 words | Prompt: Flying Lessons | "In Memoriam" Week 8 (b) | 450 words | Prompt: Ancient Runes | "Let Us Too Yield to Love" Week 9 (a) | 100 words | Prompt: Astronomy | "When the Stars Go Dim" Week 9 (b) | 750 words | Prompt: Herbology | "Chamomile, Lavender, and Hope" Words: 3697, Chapters: 11/11, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: LDWS: Return to Hogwarts, Charms Class (Harry Potter), Defense Against the Dark Arts, Care of Magical Creatures, Divination, Transfiguration (Harry Potter), Potions, Muggle Studies, Study of Ancient Runes (Harry Potter), Flying Lessons, Check individual chapters for warnings, LDWS Round 12 Winner via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/maCpX5N April 18, 2025 at 12:51AM

[allofthelights11]

Last Drabble Writer Standing

I've never done LDWS before, and it's a daunting challenge. But this week, mine was rated #1! 💜💜 It's so much fun, even if you aren't writing in it. I highly recommend following along and voting each week. The drabbles are amazing!!

GREENHOUSE 5, the highest rated Drabble from LDWS week 2:

Ron swore under his breath. Why was Harry so bloody stubborn? Wandless, Harry roamed around the greenhouse in a temper, looking for an exit. Why couldn’t he just admit that Ron was right? He’d had to get clever, channelling Fred and George.

Low voices rose behind him and he swore again. Of course that stupid prat had brought his mate along. Of course his mate had to be Malfoy.

Ron had to jump in front of this. Literally. He lunged out from underneath the greenhouse window, grabbed Nott by the shoulders, and heaved him into the greenhouse in a swift manoeuvre, locking the door back shut behind him.

“What the hell, Weasley?!” Malfoy sputtered.

“Harry’s in there, too. Don’t muck it up -”

Malfoy’s eyebrows shot up. “That note was from Potter?”

“No, you cretin. It was really from me. I’ve been trying to trap them together for almost two weeks.”

Unexpectedly, Malfoy’s shoulders slumped in relief. “Potter fancies him, too? Thank Salazar. Theo’s been driving me mad.”

Ron brightened. He’d been right! He began to slink back along the outside wall to peer in the window. Malfoy followed, kneeling next to him in the soil.

“How’s it going in there?”

Ron squinted. The fogged window could easily be the greenhouse’s mugginess but could also be… enhanced by current occupants.

“Can’t tell. Why won’t they just admit it?” he grumbled.

“Beats me. Theo wouldn't either,” said Malfoy, rubbing the window with his sleeve. It didn't help. “Maybe this’ll work. I wasn't sure if Potter fancied him back. Didn't know what to do about it. Nice job, just locking them in there together.”

“Forced proximity often does the trick.”

“ ‘Forced proximity ’? Awfully sophisticated phrase, for a Weasley.”

“Shut it, you.” Ron elbowed Malfoy, vindicated when his arse hit the dirt.

Malfoy looked around in mild alarm. “Wait, which greenhouse is this?”

“Five.”

“The one with devil’s snare in it?!”

Ron’s eyes widened. Oops. “Should we… check on them? Harry doesn’t have a wand.”

“Or does he?” Malfoy snickered, heading for the door.

They found Harry and Theo snogging like their lives depended on it. The devil’s snare slowly twined up their legs, unnoticed.

“Here’s your wand, Harry,” Ron called. Neither looked over. “You might need it.”

[melynen]

Rating: T+

Ship: 00Q / James Bond & Q

Tags: drabble, established relationship, q in the field, kidnapped q, protective james bond, developing relationship, light angst, unrequited love

Word count: 600

Written for @mi6-cafe 2024 Last Drabble Writer Standing competition.

[jadedandconfusedao3]

That was my drabble for last weeks LDWS. I really liked it and thought it was really cute so I illustrated it. I'm currently learning how to use procreate and it's SLOW going.

[itscometothis]

Opening Lines

Tagged by @pia-bartolini! thanks babe :)

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (or however many you have) posted fics and see if there’s a pattern!

erm, one has a prologue so i'm including both because technically, the prologue is first but it feels like its own entity?

OLD AS YOUR OMENS: His throat burned, his shallow breaths causing sharp pains to rack his body as he flinched away from his mother and the poison she poured down his throat. (le prologue).

Regulus was positive he had ceased to exist. (le chapter one)

2. DRUMBEAT OF THE DAMNED: It didn’t happen all at once.

3. ALL THE STOPS: Harry wearily sank onto one of the barstools at the Leaky, joining the stragglers mostly known as the Pathetic Sods Who Have No Where To Go For Christmas.

4.. THE MAGIC OF MACARONS: Draco Malfoy eyed the cookie in front of him with narrowed, skeptical eyes.

5. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: “I’ll need you to repeat that.”

6. WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS: Hermione Granger, in order to avoid Azkaban, stalked her way down the streets of muggle London so she would not murder Rita Skeeter. 

7. A DIFFERENT SORT OF DREAD: Minerva McGonagall would never admit to having a favorite student. 

8. THE PLAN: Hermione Granger had had enough.

9. THE KNIFE: Merlin, this was awkward.

10. DARLING!: Kingsley Shacklebolt was a friend, Hermione reminded herself. She had to keep repeating this to herself as for some reason, Draco Malfoy was seated in the armchair across from her in the lounge next to the Minister’s office. 

So I left a couple things out: drabbles from LDWS, because they feel qualitiatively different as a style, and one of my fave fics of mine, Crime & Punishment, solely because the opening is a recitation of Draco's crimes in transcript form and it's a lot and played with medium. Innocent Monsters was, by that counting, number 11! That's wild, it doesn't feel like I post that much, but it's been 2.5 years since I posted that lil guy.

They're a bit all over the place, but I think the unifying theme here is I usually am trying to establish character/relatability pretty quickly. Relatability and character aren't precisely separate: Hermione is trying not to commit murder, I mean, who hasn't, right? Hermione's at her wit's end. Dying of awkwardness. It strikes the tone and the character's mood while revealing a bit about them.

But, as you move up the list to my two most recent - these are a bit different. I know, as a writer, that I was trying to evoke something of Peter and his betrayal with, 'it didn't happen all at once.' In that sense, it's on brand. This is the tricky thing about fanfic - if itw as OF and we didnt' know anything, it's just a reaction of 'what didn't?' and maybe 'and why do i care that it didn't?" but in fanfic - WHY did this SOB turn from Marauder to Death Eater? And it's Peter's conversational tone I keep throughout.

OaYO reflects its genre - action! - in the prologue. In the opener of Chapter One - a bit of an insistence that, at least from Reg's POV, he really thought he died. (and he did, not a spoiler, it's on the tin of the fic), but it confirms that Regulus thinks so too. It also, I hope, hints at the confusion/disorientation of his return.

Tagging @orangecoluredsky @acanadianmuggle @thebemoon @alptraumdaydream and anyone else who wants to play and hasn’t, already :)

[mi6-cafe]

Our Week 2 LDWS Drabbles are here!

Prompt: an image prompt of a red train travelling over a stone bridge in a tree-filled Scottish landscape:

Word count: 150

You can read their drabbles HERE and vote for your top three favorites using THIS FORM!

Thank you so much not just to our writers, but also to our readers and voters—we couldn’t have this competition without any of your valuable contributions. <3

We’ll release voting results on Monday. Good luck with week two, writers!

And join us in discord Saturday night at 9pm eastern to read the drabbles aloud!

[acanadianmuggle]

I’m participating the Last Drabble Writer Standing again this year. If you’re following me on AO3 I’ll be attaching my stories only *after* they’ve been voted on.

If you’d like to vote please consider joining the Facebook Group or following the LDWS AO3 weeks so that you can vote along.

This year’s theme is Vice & Virtue. First week’s prompt is Wrath.

[thestalwartheart]

what happens in paris

A drabble-and-a-half for the Last Drabble Writer Standing comp, 2023 (LDWS). Prompt: AU week. 150 words. Summary: The one where it was Q who ran off after the events of Spectre. [Read on AO3.]

Q missed London in the autumn. There was no going back. Walking away from MI6 meant he’d made his bed there with strict, unyielding hospital corners. London would never be home again. Not that Paris wasn’t lovely. It was romantic, thrillingly intellectual, and wonderfully forgiving of anonymity. As a matter of course, Q spent his mornings at a cafe on the Canal Saint-Martin where he’d never been bothered by a soul. If someone were to bother him, well…Parisians were famed for their aloofness. It was simply a matter of keeping one’s head down. So long, of course, that the intruder wasn’t a ghost come back to haunt him. “Hello, Q.” Q closed his eyes. This, he ought to have expected. James Bond lowered himself into the seat opposite and slid two perfect madeleines across the rickety cafe table. “Terribly sorry to interrupt your retirement, but I could use some help.”