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Turnbull Love in March
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kalijean and I are quite big fans of Renfield Turnbull. So, standing upon the platform of that love, we would like to make a potentially fun, charitable event out of it!
Welcome to the Month of Turnbull. Grab your favorite country music, snuggle your stuffed husky and most of all, have fun! For every completed task, we will donate one V-gift (on LJ), from your favorite charity, to you or your designated recipient. If you're on Dreamwidth, you can still possibly participate by naming the LJ user who will be in receipt of the gift. So, not only does this have potential for loving on a Mountie, but you can also help charity in the meantime!
The qualifications for one donation are as follows:
7 pieces of feedback for any new or existing Turnbull stories, where he's the star, of twenty-five or more words, or 4 pieces of detailed feedback, going in depth, of at least seventy-five words. More is better, though!
500+ word story, starring Turnbull; any pairing, any rating. Feel free to go longer, though -- you can never have too much Turnbull. XD Or, you can write one Turnbull-starring snippet for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ds_snippets and one starring whoever you want, just to get some activity going there!
20 icons, again starring Turnbull, in a set. Sharable, if possible, with the greater community!
1 piece of Turnbull fanart, detailed sketch quality or better. Need not be colored.
If you need help, you can find a number of past stories at The Collected Stories: Redux, you can browse his AO3 tag, or you can go to Google!
Then, once you've completed your task, please link to your feedbacks, stories, icons or artworks here in the comments of this post. There's no upper limit (currently) on how much you can do, so if you feel like going further for charity, go for it!
Spread the love for Turnbull, donate to charity and add to the creative tapestry of fandom, all in one go! Hope to see you there!
kalijean and I are quite big fans of Renfield Turnbull. So, standing upon the platform of that love, we would like to make a potentially fun, charitable event out of it!Welcome to the Month of Turnbull. Grab your favorite country music, snuggle your stuffed husky and most of all, have fun! For every completed task, we will donate one V-gift (on LJ), from your favorite charity, to you or your designated recipient. If you're on Dreamwidth, you can still possibly participate by naming the LJ user who will be in receipt of the gift. So, not only does this have potential for loving on a Mountie, but you can also help charity in the meantime!
The qualifications for one donation are as follows:
7 pieces of feedback for any new or existing Turnbull stories, where he's the star, of twenty-five or more words, or 4 pieces of detailed feedback, going in depth, of at least seventy-five words. More is better, though!
500+ word story, starring Turnbull; any pairing, any rating. Feel free to go longer, though -- you can never have too much Turnbull. XD Or, you can write one Turnbull-starring snippet for
ds_snippets and one starring whoever you want, just to get some activity going there!20 icons, again starring Turnbull, in a set. Sharable, if possible, with the greater community!
1 piece of Turnbull fanart, detailed sketch quality or better. Need not be colored.
If you need help, you can find a number of past stories at The Collected Stories: Redux, you can browse his AO3 tag, or you can go to Google!
Then, once you've completed your task, please link to your feedbacks, stories, icons or artworks here in the comments of this post. There's no upper limit (currently) on how much you can do, so if you feel like going further for charity, go for it!
Spread the love for Turnbull, donate to charity and add to the creative tapestry of fandom, all in one go! Hope to see you there!
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I'm not going to post this onto AO3 yet, because I will probably redraft it... but here for any constructive criticism is my first draft of a Turnbull poem. It's a bit of back story, how he arrived in Chicago, his first meeting with Fraser.
If anyone can think of a title for this poem, I'd be grateful.
Nobody said it would be easy,
Nobody said anything at all...
I was just shown the door:
Don't let the country hit you
On your way out.
And I was gone,
Down that winter highway...
Coach coffined,
Driven like rain by a storm.
Winter chill on my cheek
My face pressed against the glass,
Wide spaces pass, snow streaked.
My face a ghost glimpsed
On the night window.
Tears run along the far side
The dark side,
The ice side of the pane.
Swallowed up by night
Swallowed up by flight
Until we arrive at last
In the windy city...
Any cold port in a storm.
My whole life hangs over my back,
One bag, and all my heart in it,
I look around this strange new world
And know that I'll never fit in it.
But there they are,
Sudden and bright,
All Canada beneath
The city lights.
Everything I thought lost,
That in my hope was true.
The land that I had dreamt of
That nobody else ever knew.
Here at the coach stop I see
My dream Canada standing,
A wolf, and his man.
White as snow,
Red as blood,
Fierce as ice,
Pure as love.
The man smiles,
And it's far too late for me.
I fall, and I'm still falling,
Free falling,
Forever down
In love.
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I used to dabble in poetry. I humiliated myself the last time I tried; I envy your deftness with it. This is really gorgeous (and it made me go play 'Free Falling', as an aside). I'm honestly envious of your ability. Beautifully, beautifully done.
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It's paid for. (I hope you like teddy bears.)