screaming loud enough to turn back the wind

[Poll #1941944]

Title: the Master whispers down eternity
Fandom: Avengers movieverse/Highlander
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Earl Marlatt
Warnings: AU after Thor; mentions of post-apocalyptic rebuilding
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 1235
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any, the baby is a foundling and doesn't seem quite human...



( He finds the child on his daily walk through the nearest tract of Amazonia. )

I have a mini-research project to do for my statistics class, so could someone out there answer the following questions:

A) How many hours in a 7 day week do you read for enjoyment? (Any kind of reading)

B) Rate the following statement: I am stressed.

1. Not true

2

3 Somewhat true

4

5 Very true


ETA: thank y'all! I've gotten enough responses now.

So, my jaw was getting better, I finally wasn't miserable all the time, life was looking up - and then I get a fucking cold, and I'm right back to being miserable. I've spent three days unable to concentrate on the schoolwork I need to do. Which is a lot.

Also, I fucking hate statistics. Just, FYI. It's awful and I don't understand it.

I'm going back to tumblr now.

Here's a life lesson for you - when it comes to medical things, you never ever want to be an "interesting case." Trust me on this, yeah? Because it seems to be genetic in my family.

Title: I have been half in love with easeful death
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Keats
Warnings: AU during season 1; future!fic; blood&death
Pairings: pre-Peter/Stiles
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 575
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's Choice, Author' Choice, "When I was your age..."




( In a few months, when Peter's back from the dead and there's a new bad guy, Stiles will remember that moment, when Peter offered him strength, speed, and healing. )





Title: The wakeful trump of doom must thunder through the deep
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Milton
Warnings: AUish future!fic; I haven't seen any of season 3; talk of violence and murder
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 210
Point of view: third
Prompt: Author's choice, any, any. I would appreciate something dark, though.

"I'm so tired
I must get up for air
But I can't find it
What's up or what's down out here
I'm caught in your undertow
Caught in your undertow"




( I need your help. )




Title: pretty little girl (growing up so mean)
Fandom: Tangled/Disney's Sleeping Beauty
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: DARK AU, sexual abuse of a child, character death, violence
Pairings: Gothel/Rapunzel
Rating: R
Wordcount: 700
Point of view: third
Prompt: Tangled, Rapuzel + Mother Gothel,

'Cause I was your angel
Talking a good game
The same one you taught me to play
You kept me in cages
With gilded spaces
Too small for me to stay
Now I'm falling away
Falling away now
And I'm sorry darling
But I've broken it down
And I need to see this through
-of Verona, The Enemy




( Gothel can use magic, but she is not magic. )




Title: shout down the sky
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AUish; I haven't seen any of season 3 yet.
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 345
Point of view: third
Prompt: Teen Wolf, any, Beware false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.



( Stiles talks a big game. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: White House Down/Die Hard movies
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: spoilers for both
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 60
Point of view: third
Prompt: author’s choice (crossover), John + John, you get used to it


( How the hell is this happening again? )

Title: flames arising
Original sci fi/fantasy
Gen, PG
Prompt: Any, any, push the button.

( It's always there, buried deep in Isazika's mind. )





Title: yes, you were brave
Fandom: Charmed
Disclaimer: title from Animorphs
Warnings: mentions of violence
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 140
Point of view: third
Prompt: Charmed, Chris, what if he fails in his mission.

( He dreams in shades of red. )




Title: untitled
Fandom: Charmed
Disclaimer: not my characters
Warnings: AU
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 65
Point of view: third
Prompt: Charmed; Melinda and P3; Wyatt isn't a Halliwell and Melinda was the one who went back in time to change the future.

( Last minute warnings. )





Title: Where we have immortal stay
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Donne
Warnings: AU; character death
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 450
Point of view: third
Prompt: Highlander, Methos, he was using the Watchers to hunt


( The Watchers were created to be a hunting ground. )





Title: it contains the same dark bloody history
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Gerald Stern
Warnings: lots and lots of talk of death (and Death)
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount:
Point of view: third
Prompt: Any, any immortal character,

I've got nothing left to live for
Got no reason yet to die
But when I'm standing at the gallows
I'll be staring at the sky
Because no matter where they take me
Death I will survive


( If Methos were to sit down at a table somewhere, pull an unused notepad close, and write down every time he has been executed, he would run out of paper. )

So, I've resumed writing in the 'verse where Arthur&Eames (of Inception fame) raise Harry Potter as their son, Eddie Colmes (because Arthur's identity when he rescued Harry was a Colmes). Eames is Merlin reincarnated; Arthur is purely muggle (mayhap, he's King Arthur reincarnated; mayhap he's not. Eames doesn't care one way or another). For Inception, in fact, everything is perfectly canon. HP, of course, shall be turned on its head.

But I need an actualfax plot, I think. Should I do the plot from Sorcerer's Stone? Because Eddie doesn't care one whit about Voldemort. He'll probably investigate the forbidden corridor, charm the dog (without magic), and steal the stone within two weeks of being at Hogwarts. He has no idea he's Harry Potter, but his fathers are master thieves, and one of them is the most powerful mage in the world.

*hands* I've been fleshing out the backstory the past few days, and I already know where the story starts, if/when I post it. But I don't know what plot it should have. Anybody wanna offer suggestions?

My childhood home was robbed today. Whoever they were, they took the TV, Dad's binoculars (both sets), Dad's wedding ring (he's been meaning to have it resized), some of Mom's jewelry (garnet earrings and garnet ring), and a jar of coins that may have been maybe $50. Mom&Dad's room was trashed; my old bed (I got a new one for the apartment) was tossed over.

Typing it all up like that, it really doesn't seem like that much. For some reason, that unsettles me more than anything. Like, why break in for so few things?

If the dog had been in the yard instead of her kennel (it gets so hot here during the summer); if tigris_lilsis's car had been in the driveway (she took off sick from work); if we had a magical security system that fried anyone with ill-intent - if if if if unto forever...

*sigh*

I've just been in an odd mood since I heard. It's not my home anymore; I don't live there. I've been gone for about a month and a half. My old closet is full of things that couldn't fit in the apartment and an empty safe that the thieves didn't find. But I still feel violated. And angry. And a little afraid. A part of me wants to cry; a lot of me wants to rage.

All in all, they didn't take much. Nothing that can't be replaced. (We didn't even pay for the TV, originally; Mom won it at a convention. All it cost was the gas required to drive home.) Of all the outcomes of a burglary, this was far from the worst.

But still. I just... don't know what to do, or say, or feel.

If the rose won't wilt 'til his 21st birthday, how old was the prince when he was cursed?

Also, where were his parents? And why did the prince open the door himself?

I kinda want to write dark AUs for all of the Disney movies, and here's how I could see it going for this one:

Maurice is put into the sanitarium immediately after getting back after Belle took his place. He dies there.

When Belle looks into the mirror, she sees him in a pauper’s grave.

Things devolve into Twisted Princess Belle from there.