Still the wanting comes in waves
Oct. 31st, 2011 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brilligspoonsIt's Halloween! Let's do a little trick or treating, shall we? Comment here (as many times as you like) with "Trick or Treat!" and a request (for a picture, or a drabble, or something!) or a prompt or whatever, and I'll either respond with whatever that is (treat!), or I'll give you something entirely different of my choosing (trick!).
:DDD
So here's the thing about me and scary movies: generally, if I'm watching them in daylight and with a bunch of other people, it's not too bad at first. Take this Saturday for example - I managed to get through Behind the Mask (which was more interesting than scary, admittedly), Paranormal Activity 2 (jesus fucking christ), and Trick r' Treat (again, pretty cool despite the scary elements). And it was fine! I mean, PA2 was fucking distressing, but I liked the story? and I thought it was shot in an interesting way? And I didn't have any trouble sleeping that night or anything.
But then, of course, last night I'm back in my apartment and I could barely make myself leave my room to walk two steps to the bathroom, AND I had nightmares until I woke up at 2. I pretty much refused to go back to sleep after that. Also, I had to keep my desk lamp on for a while because something in my room was making a weird pattern on my ceiling in the dark (it took me an hour or so to realize it was the status light on my phone projecting up from where it was sitting on my computer tower ><).
This will probably go on for another couple of days, and then eventually I'll be able to get the image of the possessed woman appearing in the house from nowhere and killing her sister and brother-in-law out of my head. My brain has a hard time letting things like that go for some reason. I know that it's not real, but. I dunno. :\
Anyway! Besides the nightmares and very little sleep last night, this weekend was excellent! I mean, there was at least a foot of snow on Saturday where we were, but it's not all that bad when you're warm and cozy and having fun with your jerk friends, you know? So we ate a lot of food and watched movies and did some crafts and all was well.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pocky_slash posted pictures of us in our costumes here - I was drunk!fanboy!Tony Stark, thanks to Kait's last minute awesome idea skills (and her color printer). I am still MOST amused by this, of course. \o?
Tonight after work I'm going to Harvard Square to chill and try to write for a while, and thenchicleeblair and I are having dinner together! And then once I get home I have to do all the laundry and all the fandom things. Like my Big Bang Mix Up mixes. That are due tomorrow. And are only half done. Um. Oops? And I was doing so well with this. >.>
How are things, friends? Everyone hanging in there?
:DDD
So here's the thing about me and scary movies: generally, if I'm watching them in daylight and with a bunch of other people, it's not too bad at first. Take this Saturday for example - I managed to get through Behind the Mask (which was more interesting than scary, admittedly), Paranormal Activity 2 (jesus fucking christ), and Trick r' Treat (again, pretty cool despite the scary elements). And it was fine! I mean, PA2 was fucking distressing, but I liked the story? and I thought it was shot in an interesting way? And I didn't have any trouble sleeping that night or anything.
But then, of course, last night I'm back in my apartment and I could barely make myself leave my room to walk two steps to the bathroom, AND I had nightmares until I woke up at 2. I pretty much refused to go back to sleep after that. Also, I had to keep my desk lamp on for a while because something in my room was making a weird pattern on my ceiling in the dark (it took me an hour or so to realize it was the status light on my phone projecting up from where it was sitting on my computer tower ><).
This will probably go on for another couple of days, and then eventually I'll be able to get the image of the possessed woman appearing in the house from nowhere and killing her sister and brother-in-law out of my head. My brain has a hard time letting things like that go for some reason. I know that it's not real, but. I dunno. :\
Anyway! Besides the nightmares and very little sleep last night, this weekend was excellent! I mean, there was at least a foot of snow on Saturday where we were, but it's not all that bad when you're warm and cozy and having fun with your jerk friends, you know? So we ate a lot of food and watched movies and did some crafts and all was well.
pocky_slash posted pictures of us in our costumes here - I was drunk!fanboy!Tony Stark, thanks to Kait's last minute awesome idea skills (and her color printer). I am still MOST amused by this, of course. \o?Tonight after work I'm going to Harvard Square to chill and try to write for a while, and then
chicleeblair and I are having dinner together! And then once I get home I have to do all the laundry and all the fandom things. Like my Big Bang Mix Up mixes. That are due tomorrow. And are only half done. Um. Oops? And I was doing so well with this. >.>How are things, friends? Everyone hanging in there?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 02:15 pm (UTC)I want a drabble of awesome awesomeness... or a picture... or whatever... I'm easy!
Your daily dose of awesome on this Hallow's Eve...
Date: 2011-10-31 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: Your daily dose of awesome on this Hallow's Eve...
Date: 2011-10-31 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 02:27 pm (UTC)Why We Tell Stories
Date: 2011-10-31 03:45 pm (UTC)Because we used to have leaves
and on damp days
our muscles feel a tug,
painful now, from when roots
pulled us into the ground
and because our children believe
they can fly, an instinct retained
from when the bones in our arms
were shaped like zithers and broke
neatly under their feathers
and because before we had lungs
we knew how far it was to the bottom
as we floated open-eyed
like painted scarves through the scenery
of dreams, and because we awakened
and learned to speak
2
We sat by the fire in our caves,
and because we were poor, we made up a tale
about a treasure mountain
that would open only for us
and because we were always defeated,
we invented impossible riddles
only we could solve,
monsters only we could kill,
women who could love no one else
and because we had survived
sisters and brothers, daughters and sons,
we discovered bones that rose
from the dark earth and sang
as white birds in the trees
3
Because the story of our life
becomes our life
Because each of us tells
the same story
but tells it differently
and none of us tells it
the same way twice
Because grandmothers looking like spiders
want to enchant the children
and grandfathers need to convince us
what happened happened because of them
and though we listen only
haphazardly, with one ear,
we will begin our story
with the word and
-Lisel Mueller
Re: Why We Tell Stories
Date: 2011-10-31 04:14 pm (UTC)Also I am a total wuss about scary things. When I went to see The Ring I was so scared that I spent the night at a friend's house. Except she had multiple fish tanks in her room. Water burbling noises after that movie = NO SLEEP.
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 02:37 pm (UTC)Trick or Treat!
Oh, haha, I wasn't paying attention!
Um, prompt is... "night terrors."
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 06:10 pm (UTC)***
Raven has to spend the whole month after they meet hiding in Charles' room while he weaves a story so tragic (the little orphan girl, abandoned in the city, starving and cold, making her way north and stealing to survive - though it's less fiction and more reality, honestly) into his mother's mind so that even she can't find it in her to turn the little girl away. Charles' powers, he tells Raven, take a lot out of him, and he wants to make sure Sharon will never have cause to toss her out.
"We're brother and sister now," he says, fierce and insistent despite his drooping eyelids. They lie close together, facing each other under the covers, to ward off the winter chill. "Not going to let you go, not ever."
"I believe you," she whispers back, and they both nod off shortly thereafter.
Once Sharon has accepted the story, Raven finds herself in possession of her very own room down the hall from Charles', along with new clothes, and more dolls than she knows what to do with, and an entire estate for her to explore alongside her new brother. She's never had so many wishes come true at once (well, she hasn't had any wishes come true before).
But the first night in her new bed, she's brought out of sleep and into wakefulness by a faint sound coming from somewhere in the house. Raven, just for a moment, wonders if the big house is haunted and Charles just didn't tell her, but she finds her robe (fleecey and soft and wonderful) and goes to investigate the noise. She doesn't have to go far - it echoes down to her from Charles' room, and when she tiptoes closer, the sound grows louder and louder. She swings the door open, and there, sitting up in his bed, is Charles, gasping desperately for air.
Raven rushes into his bedroom and climbs up next to him. "What's wrong?" she asks. Charles throws his arms around her and continues to shake and gulp down air furiously. Not entirely sure what's wrong or what she should be doing, Raven merely returns the embrace and makes shushing noises into his hair, lowers them slowly until they're lying down together.
It takes several long minutes for Charles to calm down, and once he does he slips right back into sleep. Raven pouts and wonders if she shouldn't pinch him awake to explain to her what had just happened. Instead, she wrestles his bedcovers over both of them and keeps watch for the rest of the night.
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-02 02:42 am (UTC)This was fantastic!
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 02:43 pm (UTC)hedgehogs!
:D?
Date: 2011-10-31 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 02:48 pm (UTC)trick or treat! if you had any cuddling!drabbles in you they would be incredibly appreciated. erik/charles. or kittens. i would take a kitten.
Hugs and cuddles for you! <333
Date: 2011-10-31 04:28 pm (UTC)"Either the candy companies are putting more sugar into their products," Erik says, "or I'm getting old. Very, very old."
Charles laughs and rolls himself over as best he can, settling half on top of Erik. He kisses Erik's neck before nosing gently at the same patch of bare skin. "My poor, poor Erik," says Charles. "Run ragged by a gaggle of young, sugar-infused mutants."
"Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man," is his reply. Erik shifts onto his back and gathers Charles closer. "The children seem to get younger and younger every year."
"That does tend to happen," Charles agrees. He angles his head up for a kiss. "Do you regret it?" he asks once they've parted. He already knows the answer.
"Never," says Erik. "And I never will."
Re: Hugs and cuddles for you! <333
Date: 2011-10-31 09:42 pm (UTC)Re: Hugs and cuddles for you! <333
Date: 2011-11-02 02:44 am (UTC)JUST. I'm choosing to think of this as a no!divorce AU, MMKAY. It makes me happy.
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 04:18 pm (UTC)My prompt is: CANDY. OBVI
HAVE SOME CANDY, LITTLE GIRL
Date: 2011-10-31 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 04:47 pm (UTC)WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
Date: 2011-10-31 06:22 pm (UTC)Re: WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
Date: 2011-10-31 06:29 pm (UTC)NIXON, YOU ARE MY FAVORITE FOREVER (EXCEPT FOR WHEN OTHERS ARE MY FAVORITE)
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 05:23 pm (UTC)Awesome!
Date: 2011-10-31 06:12 pm (UTC)Re: Awesome!
Date: 2011-10-31 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 05:23 pm (UTC)Prompt, uh... Marvel!
XD
IDK if you'll appreciate this, but I find it ridiculously amusing.
Date: 2011-10-31 06:45 pm (UTC):D?
no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 07:30 pm (UTC)Lord, I am very jumpy as well, and I enjoy scaring myself with certain movies, but then everything in my apartment freaks me out. And it's a pretty small apartment. >___> Sheesh.
Drunk!fanboy!Tony Stark sounds fuckin' AWESOME.
You get a baby cuddling with a dog!
Date: 2011-11-01 12:37 pm (UTC):D?
Re: You get a baby cuddling with a dog!
Date: 2011-11-01 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-31 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 12:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 03:16 am (UTC)And I hear you on the horror. I like reading horror, oddly enough, but watching horror movies is something I've learned over the years to just not do. Good horror gets under your skin and changes the way you think, but it seems like a lot of horror movies just seem to go for cheap creep outs. I watched a ninja movie a while ago with a lady I didn't know very well, and with the first decapitation I dived under my coat collar and said, 'I forgot that I hate watching violence!' because it had been so very long since I'd tried to watch anything with actual violence in it.
*waits patiently for her trick or treat*
Edit because I forgot to leave an actual prompt: Avengers carving pumpkins!!
no subject
Date: 2011-11-01 05:49 pm (UTC)Anyway!
***
Tony eyes Natasha warily. "I don't think I trust you with this," he says.
"It's a pumpkin," she replies. She doesn't roll her eyes at him, but by now Tony's known her long enough to know that she probably wants to. "I'm not performing a lobotomy on you."
"You say that now, but I see that gleam in your eyes, Romanov. You're not fooling anybody."
"Give me the knife, and maybe I won't put you in the hospital."
"...Fine."
no subject
Date: 2011-11-02 02:45 am (UTC)THIS STORY MADE ME SO HEPPI.