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This week's word is...
buy

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!)

A note about interacting: Writers supporting each other is important to me. If you object to leaving comments for another writer, then we are not for you. If you repeatedly ignore this rule, you will lose community membership.

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From:

bens_writingjournal

My first attempt at participating in this challenge on Dreamwidth, so I'm hoping this goes well.
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"You don't know, Pierre?! We're talking about Alister Fletcher and his henchman Lara Croft, you goddamn moron!" Gabriel scolds in rage.

"S-So what, Gabriel?" he stammers, trying to think of the choice words to justify the thieves' behavior. "They may have grown poor, you know? Poverty is a good motive for them to resort to theft-"

Gabriel giving him a rough hit to the temple with his rifle's butt side causes Pierre to fall to the road, clutching to where it hit him and cursing under his breath from the pain.

"Gods, Pierre, I am so sick of your excuses!" Gabriel objects, clearly on the verge of losing what little patience he's had. "You got your first hit to the temple, and now you get another for buying the worst prison cells for these bastards!" He does just that, knocking Pierre unconscious. "Come on, lads, let us report our failure to Raphael. And don't even protest him; we're all just cannon fodder anyway!"

Edited Date: 2025-10-15 06:01 pm (UTC)

From:

wandering_fox

Excited to play here!

"Are you renting a box at the East as well?" asked Ace.

"I'm sharing a rental with Captain Kogane for the moment, and on the list to buy the next open box."

"Buy it?" Mark asked.

"Corn just keeps growing, my friend." --The Void: Upton

From:

bluedreaming

Amusingly, this is from the sane wip as last week (a lot of food going on I guess 😂)

"I need to buy a new pair of headphones; maybe we could eat ddeokbokki along the way?" His voice comes out small and a bit tentative, but Baekhyun beams at him and the clenched muscles in his chest loosen.

From:

bluedreaming

Ahhh Gabriel seems so scary!

From:

bluedreaming

Ooo the line about corn is so intriguing.

From:

museaway

I like how we feel the relief through the relaxing of his muscles.

From:

wandering_fox

Somebody's in trouble, obviously. Good job!

(This is my first time here too!)

From:

linky

I love seeing his muscles relax! I can really feel that.

From:

linky

Seconding the line about corn being intriguing! It's a good hook in this snippet.

From:

bens_writingjournal

Ha-ha! Oh, yes, [spoilers] Raphael (the one who's behind this) will definitely be in trouble with his trigger-happy sheriff dad.

From:

bens_writingjournal

Yeah, Gabriel is scary indeed. Seems like I did nail it.

From:

belovedstill

> "Corn just keeps growing, my friend."

That made me laugh :D Something about the combination of the words "just keeps growing" (sounds quite exasperated but like peace has been made with it) and the way you end it with "my friend".

From:

belovedstill

Fully agree with muse and linky, and I'll add onto it: I love the description of the voice coming out as small and tentative - clearly, he meant to sound more natural, but the nerves got the better of him, the poor guy 🥺🤲 And! I love that you used the word "beam" - it's perfect here! It carries in itself such soothing warmth, just right for the 'he' in this snippet to feel relaxed thanks to it <3

From:

belovedstill

I'll buy you a new pendant if you want.
(unrelated, but I love the multicolour font of the weekly word!)

Edited (corrected formatting) Date: 2025-10-15 07:08 pm (UTC)

From:

theemeraldgirl23

This is from Yuri's POV.

CW: mentions of homophobic attitudes

She remembered when she came out and Mihee called her, saying she was inspired to confess to someone because of her. That was probably the best thing that came out of the ordeal. The casual homophobia she experienced on the streets made her buy noise-cancelling headphones. People talked behind her back. Even now, she heard the whispers of two students walking past. They seemed supportive, though, which she appreciated. These walls were safe, at least.

From:

theemeraldgirl23

Such a simple line of dialogue, but also one that says so much! I wonder who the pendant is for and what happened to the character they said this to that made them need a new one. I love this!

From:

theemeraldgirl23

That's so fun! My excerpt also had a mention of headphones, lol. I can feel the character Baekhyun's with finally start to loosen up after Baekhyun agrees to go along. Great imagery!

From:

museaway

Is this THE pendant??

(ty!)

From:

belovedstill

It's so sweet that Yuri's coming out had something positive to come out (heh) of it, too, like Mihee's confession. I can imagine that felt nice 🥺 Poor thing, having to deal with the negative aspects, though...

> These walls were safe, at least.

This sentence is so nice <3 It feels like hope and, as it states, safety. The fact that Yuri is not wearing her noise-cancelling headphones within these walls only confirms it.

From:

belovedstill

Thank you so much <333 The pendant was a gift from a late mother and it has just gotten lost in a scuffle unintentionally caused by the speaking character. She is very sorry and means well, but as you can imagine, it's not something that can be easily replaced 🥺

From:

belovedstill

It is! I'm almost sorry I'm making poor Binghe go through this even in this AU, but at least this time he gets it back much, much earlier!

From:

stefanyeah

Still, he was not going to sell himself, not even for gold coins. Pride was not something solely reserved to those who could buy it. Matthew had received his fair share of it at birth as well. He remembered the way that Mercator had looked at him, leered even. Matthew growled and tightened his fingers around the handle of his pipe. To this man, Matthew was nothing but a piece of cheap flesh that'd jump at the sight of silver and gold.