word game: order

[museaway]

This week's word is...
order

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and we hope you'll pop back around later!)

Note: Posting the word game to dreamwidth is an experiment! We have established communities on tumblr and bluesky, but I've never cross-posted the game here. If people enjoy this, we might keep it up. We've been playing the word game every week since early 2020. It's usually posted on Wednesdays.

Comments

[linky]

Ooh exciting to see this on DW! From my Gotchard AU longfic wip:

Following the rules of alchemist society was something extremely important to his virtues and core values. To help make sure that the natural order stayed intact was something he was more than willing to do.

Though despite what his beliefs were, there were doubts about the Union that trickled into his mind over the past year during the battle against Glion.

[museaway]

👏👏👏 Linky ty for being the first one to play this on DW! I don't know what character this is, but I like the personality trait about following rules.

[bluedreaming]

Ahh this sounds so ominous! I need to watch more so I don’t know everything and can’t place it, but I think that makes it feel even more weighty.

[stefanyeah]

Oh, pesky little doubts. Those little seeds for big turmoil!

[belovedstill]

A character who's determined to follow the rules, fully believing in them and the reasons behind them, only for doubts to slowly trickle in? Ooooh. Oooooh!!! I'm sensing delicious internal conflict 👀 Such a nice set up! Wishing you all the best with this wip!

excerpt from Finding My Seoul chapter 3x7: Love's All In The Family

[theemeraldgirl23]

this is exciting! here's the one I posted on discord yesterday.

“You shouldn’t be jealous. He didn’t know my favorite food or holiday,” Kitty said.

“Your favorite food is kalguksu. When we went out to that restaurant last semester, you ordered it and told us there was this Korean place in Portland that you used to face time Dae from and the first time you went, you had no idea what you wanted, so you ordered something that sounded comforting yet unfamiliar, landing on kalguksu. Since then, it was something you always ordered there.

“Your favorite holiday is Valentine’s Day, although many think it’s Christmas, which I can’t blame them for. You have a big heart and an immense capacity for love, which I think is one of your most defining qualities. Even if your own love life is complicated, you always go out of your way to help others find their loves. That’s why you’re a matchmaker and why I want you to be happy with someone you want to be with,” Yuri spilled her heart out. “Even if it’s not me,” she whispered.

Re: excerpt from Finding My Seoul chapter 3x7: Love's All In The Family

[linky]

Oooh I really love the prose in this!! 💖

Re: excerpt from Finding My Seoul chapter 3x7: Love's All In The Family

[bluedreaming]

The contrast is so evocative! Such a tiny bit on “him” compared to the rich detail with which Yuri can describe Kitty.

Re: excerpt from Finding My Seoul chapter 3x7: Love's All In The Family

[stefanyeah]

This is so good, all the details Yuri remembered about Kitty as opposed to 'him'. <3

Re: excerpt from Finding My Seoul chapter 3x7: Love's All In The Family

[belovedstill]

😭🥺 The way Yuri's monologue begins with the taste of near-bitterness and almost offence on Kitty's behalf (sort of "How dared he claim to love you and not know these things" -- of course I don't know the context and if there were actual love confessions on "his" part, just what my brain took from this snippet!) and so seamlessly blends into love, love, love and this touching, tender heartache 💔 like, "it's so obvious to anybody who actually cares about you and takes just a moment to look at you - I am looking at you". I love the way you wrote this, very effective!

[museaway]

From a longfic I'm determined to finish this year.

“Is it?” Aster perked up and skimmed a short menu positioned at the edge of the table. “In that case, I’m ordering dessert.”

[linky]

Always a joy to see the blorbo in law! Best of luck with finishing your longfic muse!

[bluedreaming]

This is really fun! It makes me curious about the thing that is, if it’s prompting dessert (and presumably spending more time or self-indulgence?)

[stefanyeah]

From a longfic I'm determined to finish this year.

You can do it! It's still two months! Plenty of time!

[belovedstill]

Ahhh I really want some good restaurant-quality dessert now <3 Is it the fic in which Aster loses his job and is SufferingTM?

Good luck with this fic! You got this! 💪

[stefanyeah]

Oooh, more places for Wordgaming. :D

From my Ghost/Mechanisms crossover for the Big Bang

I am bored. The Toy soldier has gone into sleep mode because Raphaella told it to sit in it’s room. And as always, it obeyed. I should ask the spider drones to create some vocal cords for me to order it about.

[linky]

I love this! Its so interesting and makes me want to know more about this world.

[bluedreaming]

Ooo this hints at so much.

[bluedreaming]

Oh, fun to have this on Dreamwidth! Here’s my sentence (from my first ever fic…which is still a wip…

Baekhyun shows Sunyoung his phone's fried chicken order confirmation screen. “Transaction complete.”

[stefanyeah]

Someone's gonna eat well, tonight. :D

[linky]

Ooh now thats a tasty order!

[belovedstill]

*grabby hands* oooh what a way to give everybody a fried chicken craving 😋

[belovedstill]

Ahhh excited to see this game on here! I like that the lack of emojis makes commenting on the sentences/snippets more natural, instinctive, and tidy!

Here's some Scum Villain's Self-Saving System from me, this time a different sentence than the one I sent on discord c: Sharing the 'word' sentence and those surrounding it since they're intentional sentence fragments:

User_002 fought. Barked orders at Luo Binghe to leave. Nearly collapsed when the poison blocked his meridians. Fought regardless.

[museaway]

Oooh this is interesting, like snippets from a scientist's observations! Calling him "User_002" makes me wonder if this is a genre change?

[iceyly]

Ohhh, I'm very game to use DW more again! From my KH WIP/TFTHY, which is finally seeing some new words! :D

“What do you mean, we can’t risk the world’s order?” Sora hisses back, eyes wide as he remembers what Mulan and Mushu had told them that very first afternoon, when they had walked back to camp. “You know what will happen, if–”

[museaway]

No pressure on these characters, just the world's order! (tysm for playing & I'm really glad you're doing TFTHY as well!)