Meme

So we'll be combining a thing and trying something new.

There's the drabble meme, wherein you write a drabble, then leave a request for another drabble, and someone comes along and gives you another drabble in the comment, leaving her own request after...

Then there's the thousand comment meme.

So we're trying for A Thousand Drabbles.

Hey, PotC pulled off something very near it. Why not me?

Probably should make the entry public so it's more... possible.

Anyway, my (double) drabble:

(late s4 Farscape)

Some nostalgia possessed John to ask Scorpius if he still carried the image of Earth, sixty years' travel distant. "You mean, Sebacea?" Scorpius asked.

"What?" John was floored.

"They had to come from somewhere." Scorpius held out a crystal. "Didn't you suspect? You look too similar for it to be chance."

Examination of the image Scorpius had produced showed it wasn't John's Earth. There were geopolitical shifts--cities that shouldn't be there dotted polar coasts; cities that should have been present were nowhere to be found. L.A., New York, D.C., Paris, Rome, Cairo, Tehran, Hong Kong, Beijing, Sydney, Tokyo--all the places that John was used to seeing from space as a spiderweb of lights across the dark side of the Earth. Gone.

But it was an Earth.

There were two explanations, after ruling out manipulation by Scorpius--and Pilot confirmed the file was archival footage, hundreds of cycles old. Either John's first trip down the rabbit hole had been to the far, far future, or else it had been to an unrealized reality.

John couldn't decide whether he preferred this universe to be the inevitable result of his own world's evolution, or whether he preferred it to be unreal.

My request: Witchblade, from the point of view of the blade itself.

ETA: Feel free to answer any request, even if someone else has already answered it.

ETA2: If you get into a huge story instead of a single drabble, don't let that stop you from posting it! Little bites are tasty, but so are seventeen-course feasts.

ETA2.1: If you want to drabble and have an idea that's not on the request list, go ahead and start a new comment thread with it.

ETA2.2: Don't forget to attach a request to your drabble! Requests feed the process!

ETA3: I'm going to start two lists, list of stuff people have written and list of stuff people have requested
ETA3.1 which will now be kept on my site rather than here on lj, because I realized if this gets anywhere near a thousand drabbles, the links will be more than a single lj-post can contain.

ETA4: April 2010: No, I am not updating the links on a six-year-old list from LJ. If you are interested in reading the drabbles, they are all in the comments of this entry. Some people even put header info in their comment subjects. Have fun.