screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

One interstate exit away from my parents' place on Sunday. (taken by DOTD)




Literally across the interstate from my parents' place and lilsis' apt on Sunday. (taken by brother in law)




Update: aunt and uncle's houses pretty much a total loss. bigsis can salvage some things. it's supposed to rain every day this week and while around here is drying out, the flood is moving on to other places so it's still an ongoing nightmare beyond imagination.

Four adults in a two bedroom apartment with 1 bed and 1 bathroom, a cat, and a dog: not fun.

However, throughout this entire catastrophe, I have known almost the whole time where everyone in my family is, and they've always been safe. So, I'm thankful for that.

My older sister just posted video from my parents' house and there is WATER AT THE END OF THE STREET. OH MY GOD.

So, my entire life, I’ve known that my mother chose my childhood home, the one she’s lived in for almost 30 years, because it is high ground. If the street I used to ride my bike down floods, the entirety of the city is underwater.

So far, only three homes in my family haven’t taken on any water: my parents’ place, my little sister’s apartment complex (she lives on the 3rd floor), and my apartment complex. Part of my family has evacuated on their own; some are awaiting rescue because they cannot get out. One of them has taken on water but is hunkering down - hopefully, it’ll recede before they need to be rescued.

This is so insane. I haven’t gotten a real picture in person of what’s happening because the area I’m in, for some reason, it’s all mostly been normal. My little sister was released early from work today because if she’d stayed any longer, there would’ve been no way home. I look at the photos and the videos, and I recognize where they are. I’ve been there before, sometimes very often.

I remember Katrina. Other storms. Gustav - fucking Gustav. But this is something else.
If praying is something you do, please pray for my older sister, and my uncle and cousins, and my aunt. They’re waiting for someone with a boat and it’s so fucking devastating, what’s happening. There’s no way to prepare for something like this.

"Historic" rainfall, "historic" river levels, "500 year storm," "a storm that would have a name if it formed over water" instead of land -- I listened to the radio on the way home from my parents' place and I just want to cry. This is fucking terrifying. It's a hurricane that's parked over us and most of the city is shut down. Whole parishes are being evacuated, I heard.

IT WOULD HAVE A NAME if it formed over water. Fucking hell.

[Poll #2050942]

MY THESIS HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE EDITOR GUY!

Title: butterflies bleeding
Fandom: Harry Potter
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: post-Deathly Hallows, AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 235
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, "Screw the timeline, I wanna go kill butterflies."


( The thing about becoming the Master of Death is that it is unprecedented in all the ages of existence, and had Death foreseen anyone actually being able to do so, would not have played that game with those foolish brothers. )


Title: brothers
Fandom: Marvel movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: ignores Age of Ultron & Civil War, as i've not seen either
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 300
Point of view: third
Prompt: MCU, Thor / Loki, Thor is dying and no one wants to be the one, who tells Loki


( Thor’s sick and won’t be getting better. )



Untitled
Prompt: Author's choice (please no Supernatural), author's choice, Tears come not from the brain but from the heart (Leonardo da Vinci)

Written July 3, 2016

( if we’d but a moment )



Title: faded
Prompt: Any, Any, we used to talk and hang around.
Written July 10, 2016

( We were friends before I knew how to make ‘em. )



Title: untitled
Fandom: One Direction RPF
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU, because H/L are actualfax soulmates
Pairings: post-Zayn Malik/Harry Styles
Rating: PG
Prompt: One Direction RPF, Zayn Malik/Harry Styles, the band needs to know about us


( Harry’s quiet, after Zayn leaves. )

Untitled
Prompt: Any, Any,

I took it all for granted
But how was I to know
That you'd be letting go

Now it cuts like a knife

Written: June 15, 2016


( I held you so tightly )



Title: love like a knife
Fandom: Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: references to violence
Pairings: Kronos/Methos
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 200
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, Any, Our love is like a knife, it cuts both ways


( Methos knew, almost from the beginning, how it would end. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: DCU
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: mentions of canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 230
Point of view: third
Prompt: DCU, Dick Grayson, learning to fly


( He’s never not known the air. )



Title: untitled
Fandom: Animorphs
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: canon character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 125
Point of view: thrd
Prompt: Animorphs, Naomi & Rachel (post 53),

Well the hardest part,
Yeah it hurts so bad,
is when she spreads her wings,
but it'd be a selfish thing,
to try and hold her back,
but it don't work like that.

You just gotta watch it fly.
Stand there on the side line.
Wanna swallow up your pride.
Know it's gonna be alright.
Wishing when I close your eyes
like a kiss goodbye...
(Kiss Goodbye - Little Big Town)


( She misses her firstborn. )



Untitled
Selkie wife folktale
Warnings: references to dub-con at best, marital rape at worst; character death

Prompt: any fairytale, Prince Charming/any, "Hunter" by Dido

If you were a king up there on your throne
Would you be wise enough to let me go
For this queen you think you own
Wants to be a hunter again

Written June 17, 2016

( I’ll tell you a story. )

Title: the bakery
Fandom: Supernatural
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: human AU
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Jimmy/Amelia
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 185
Point of view: third
Prompt: Supernatural, Castiel Novak/Dean Winchester, Dean works in a bakery.


( Cas drags Jimmy to the bakery every day. )




Title: staring life anew
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Disclaimer: some are mine
Warnings: AU; references to violence
Pairings: Snow/Charming
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 420
Point of view: third
Prompt: Once Upon a Time, Snow White + Emma, Pregnant!Snow White manages to get through the Wardrobe in Time saving her from the Curse.

( She gives birth screaming beside an odd road. )



Title: fidelity in blood
Fandom: historical RPF
Disclaimer: they were all real
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 160
Point of view: third
Prompt: Tudors. any combination of Henry's children. because blood is thicker than water (and there's been enough spilled in their name)


( Mary remembers her younger sister fondly. )



Title: untitled
Fandom: Doctor Who
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish?
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 105
Point of view: third
Prompt: any. any. The crack in the wall is really a portal to other worlds.



( No one believes her. )



Title: The Longest Moment
Prompt: Any, any,

Had me feeling like a ghost
And it's what I hate the most

Written June 5, 2016




( if only for the shortest moment. )