Guess the story meme

[fleurlb]

Borrowed from somnolentblue:

1. Pick out a sentence from one of my stories.

 

2. I'll try to guess what story it's from (and, if you want, I'll give you some backstory or DVD-commentary for the excerpt).

 

3. If I guess wrong, you get to ask me for a drabble (character, situation, prompt word, whatever).

And of course, I promise no Google-fu or fancy tricks to try to guess right. :)

Comments

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

He'd always lived by the rule it was easier to get forgiveness than ask for permiion, but he'd known for weeks in this situation he'd get neither.

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that would be Tim, from the Lyla part of "I Can See the Pines Are Dancing"

I'm more certain of that than any of my other answers.

So, commentary...the idea of getting forgiveness instead of permission was something I saw in comic strips YEARS ago. Maybe have been Funky Winkerbean. May have been the one with the dentist dad who wears a vest and the teenager named Jeremy. Wherever it was, it was a truism that appealed to me.

The inspiration in general for the fic came from the AA Bondy song "The Pines Are Dancing"....such an evocative and haunting song and I loved the lyrics. It was easy to find three that stood out and relate them to a girl in Tim's life...

"The pounding of a midnight heart" - Tyra - I've always loved the misplaced (and sometimes nearly aggressive) passion that drew Tyra and Tim together even as it kept making them screw up. They will always be my favorite trainwreck.

"A match to a ball of lies" - Lyla - So much of Tim and Lyla's relationship seemed built on lies, half-truths, and wishful thinking, that this lyric really stood out to me for them.

"I can see the pines are dancing" - Julie - Sweet, a little naive, and thinking outside of the box, that's Julie and I always thought that Tim should/would be drawn to that to some extent.

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

Damn I was hoping I'd stumped you.... on a side note... I've alway wondered what made you choose the the tight in bud line for the french volume series... That's so perfectly tim as was this fic... Another side note Fic prompts for the fic I'm going to write you?

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

That just came from reading French poetry while doing research. Originally that series was going to be a trilogy and I had 2 poems already, just needed a third. It was cheating a little, since it's not technically the same era as the first two, but I really liked it and thought it perfectly suited the situation.

You're welcome to play again if you're looking to stump me. :)

And I know I owe you prompts. I'm still thinking on it.....am notoriously bad at coming up with promots.