January 2012
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You grow in a room where the walls have eyes.
Until they don’t, anymore.
i.
Fiberglass girl balanced on the tips of her toes.
Bump into her, she might break.
Except there’s a hardness there, in the way she holds herself. In the way that her arms are set and her eyes are narrowed. “Again!” the teacher orders, tapping her under the chin as a signal she needs to keep her head up. Stop looking...
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You took like a mermaid to that damn water, legs poised together and flopping out every so often like they were made of one big tail; scales and all. Mom says it all the time, running her fingers through your hair—it doesn’t stop, keeps going over your tits and to your bellybutton, falling down your back so it can be related to boat metaphors. A modern Shelley come to life in water and...
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She dreams of tiny witchy babies with his
acrylic skin and stitched up smiles. They fill
her up like flowers in a vase, sucking the
marrow from her bones so they can bloom up big
and strong, her tiny witchy babies; soft daisy
yellow centers and tall stems that root down
into the ground.
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wes/silas.
He feels old.
Has done since 1981, when he started feeling normal again, and he had a bout of the terrible lucks. Not any sort of psychiatric term, the terrible lucks. They’re of his own personal invention, because he’s been living in dog years since he was seventeen, and the first offenses occurred. That had all stopped mattering at some point, because he’d had a new proper noun to make sweater...
It’s chewing on glass and spitting out blood; it’s being awake for twenty three of twenty four hours; it’s swallowing codeine by the tablespoon because you can’t stop coughing; it’s stained cigarette fingertips; it’s losing baby teeth you never knew you still had; it’s getting punched in the gut on a loop; it’s being the person to seek instead of...
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No sparks of electricity when your hands bump accidentally because she reaches for the sugar at the same time that you do. I thought you took it black? You question her with your fingers twisting together. Half of the container gets poured into her mug and she passes it to you. It’s hard not to marvel at the way she’s putting herself across, apocalyptic baby who takes her coffee like a...
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lyss 9:56 pm
Like I imagine that they kind of just drift to each other because they are both marginally unhappy people and unhappy people are like magnets to other unhappy people. And so they would have this fluke of a friendship and idk like they’re at Westley’s place one night because Hannah dumped him after finding out that he did some bad shit with Emmeline and he’s...
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She’s a really inconsequential human being; so much so that she sometimes convinces herself that she’s not really a human being at all. At least not in the sense that most human beings are human beings. Because she’s a ghost. That’s all. She’s a ghost that doesn’t do anything but sit around drinking Diet Coke in her underwear and wrecking whatever tiny bit of...
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linda park.
is from LA. Most people say they’re “from LA” when they’re really from, like, Santa Monica or Venice Beach but no—she’s from LA. The traffic filled bullshitty city of Los Angeles California.
Her mother is a Korean lady that really likes kimchee and Linda will have none of it tbh. She’s very not in to her Culture. Which is bad, yeah, but she’s...
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There are questions asked during the process of adjustment that usually include a Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret kind of monologue, because—why me? Why this? We view it as, you had us standing on the rug and then you pulled it out from under us. We view it as something that has effectively ruined our lives.
You put Babs Gordon in a chair.
You took away her legs.
Except, no, it...
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It’s bad when she starts relating everything in her life to Cranberries songs. Like that’s the only way to describe it—melancholy Irish music that she doesn’t even like. But they seem so prudent, because really, do they have to let it linger? That feeling of getting open heart surgery or something without the anesthetic; like, skinning the heels of her hands and having it hurt...
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subplots.
young justice/young avengers team up
avengers/justice league team up (cap and clark mostly)
the outlaws (jason, jinx, birdie, etc)
universal speedsters/velocity (meld the plots together)
comedian/joker/harley team up (aww yeah)
mad hatter/riddler team up (including ivy?)
kill your boyfriend (subplot based on one shot)
killing joke (need to talk about babs transition)
fables? (idk that...
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linda park.
But most of the time she sits around her apartment in Cosby sweaters eating jiffy pop and watching Disney movies in Korean; sometimes she’ll go crazy and splurge on a box of frozen fish fingers that she will eat alone, one by one off of the baking sheet. Her record is fifteen before she starts to feel like she’s going to throw up, twenty five before she actually throws up. And twenty six is a...
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kill your boyfriend.
It happened, potentially, because her parents didn’t pay attention to all of the Black Sabbath she had been listening to (e.g. the power of terror will reign / there is no mercy in pleading) as they had written it off as a bit of a phase, as, all things revolving around her, were wont to be labeled. Her mood swings were not as violent as those back in their day after that lavacious Sid...
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December 2011
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SPANDEX AND CAPES: [AKA] SAC RP
YEAR: 1997—1999
The world is choking on the idea of an end of all things.
Mushroom clouds, cracks in the infrastructure. Everything in the schematics of life, they think points to the end. An Armageddon because the ice caps are melting and countries are always on the brink of a war—against themselves, or against each other? Polar bears are going...
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jesse quick.
Her parents take the superhero stuff incredibly seriously, and that’s why Jesse is so disenchanted with it. The teenaged rebellion phase has lasted ten years longer than it should have.
It was expected that after she finished school she’d join the family business (i.e. super hero-ing and doing something important at Quick Start Enterprises).
She just used a good chunk of her trust...
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People keep telling him ‘no’ because they think it’ll keep him from doing something stupid. Lily told him ‘no’ before he left the house, wearing pants that showed off his ankles and had elastic around the waist, because James, you can’t wear my maternity pants out in public, it’s embarrassing, and your Muppet legs are sticking out of them all funny. He...
jesse chambers, jesse quick (hero), undecided
linda park, lady flash (civilian), rachel rutt
harleen quinzel, harley quinn (villain), ashley smith
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jesse chambers.
When Rick starts to make her feel whole again, she hates herself.
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harley quinn.
Before she lives with the Sirens, she lives in this one bedroom place composed of a crotchety land lady who hand made all the doilies in Harley’s apartment and part of the contract was that the doilies were not to be sold or destroyed in anyway.
She doesn’t read a lot, and when she does it’s either picture books she’s stolen from the Gotham City Public Library or ones she...
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gideon prewett.
He remembers having picnics by himself because Fabian is an asshole, and said playing pretend was for girls. So he’d eat pieces of invisible pie and drink invisible lemonade by himself until his mother felt bad for him, brought him out a ham sandwich and told him it was okay that he was a bit different, no one thought any less of him.
People are always lying to Gideon.
But he doesn’t mind so...
lyss 4:35 pm - His mother’s name is Virginia. She cries a lot and wears scarves all the time. She also has a psychic that she consults on a regular basis. - His father’s name is Lorcan Sr. because it makes me laugh. He thinks his wife is ridiculous and that his son is a freak. He spends a lot of time doing crosswords in the DP instead of paying attention to his kid. ...
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lorcan rosier.
His mother doesn’t make it to graduation, where he does so with honors, Slytherin badge puffed up and proud against his chest. He gets an entry level position at the Ministry, international affairs. It means taking a lot of notes and doing other people’s work. His father sends him owls on a regular basis, asking where he is, that they can’t avoid each other forever—they work in...
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james potter.
“Rain on a wedding day,” he says, sticking his hand out of the open window. “That’s supposed to be bad luck, isn’t it?”
Something his mother used to tell him; rain is bad. Get married on a Sunday in the Summer when there’s no chance of it. Sundays are good luck. Means the marriage will last long. And get married in a big Church, because Churches are good luck, too. Even if you...
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chuck thickey.
You’re the only girl who, at sixteen, has more than a promise ring on your left hand.
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You have a doll named Gatsby when you’re five, and a baby when you’re eighteen; he’s named after the doll because the doll was your best friend, and the baby looks like a doll. With a squished in face and a puggy little nose.
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At twenty six, you change the locks though...
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harley.
She’d spent the morning making bat shaped cookies and breaking off the heads. Little heads with little red Santa hats on them. There was a growing pile of the things on one side of her kitchen counter, waiting, while the decapitated bats got arranged into tins that would be sent off to all her pals in Arkham and Gotham City and—right, right, Barry and his babies back in Brooklyn! None for Mommy or...
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She used to look light Joni Mitchell. Now she’s got comets coming out of her eyes, and gappy teeth that keep getting played like piano keys.
Sometimes it hurts.
Just enough to make her hiss instead of laugh—and this look crosses her face while she’s looking from the place where she things her eye sockets used to be. They’ve been replaced by ground beef, and no, that...
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westley thomas.
He’s knitting little baby booties for his sister. His sister’s kid. Who will certainly outgrow the booties in the next few months, but it’s the thought that counts. But the point is that he’s knitting when she walks in to the coffee shop, and his jaw does this thing where it falls open a couple of centimeters before he can force it to snap back closed. All she was doing was walking—there’s a...
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lorcan rosier.
He has yet to figure himself out, because he still thinks that he’s invincible. Sitting on the couch with his pants unbuttoned, hand searching a cereal box and coming up coated in crumbs. He dusts himself off only to be disappointed again, because the patterns on the cottage cheese ceiling aren’t nearly as interesting as he’d thought that they would be. Because he can’t...
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kara zor-el.
Your life is like one big cosmic joke. And you’re always the one delivering the punch line.
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The one thing that they’ve trusted you to do is take care of Kal. Baby Kal who doesn’t have a clue what’s going on—who shouldn’t have been brought into this world under the circumstances; who shouldn’t have been—you don’t have time to contemplate shit about...
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November 2011
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wanda maximoff.
Flames lick up the side of the house, and his hand is crushing in to hers, and she’s so confused—between the fire and the whispers and Pietro telling her, “Wanda, you have tocontrol it!” but she can’t, it’s too—it’s too—her first taste of what she’s capable of.
The first screw pulls loose in the house, and the mass of charred wood settles to the ground.
She can’t remember much after that. Not...