Viva la Vida by Coldplay. That’s my theme song, has been since I came into my powers last year. If you’ve ever heard it, and you’d have to be living under a rock not to have, you know why. The melody, the string sections…it’s a powerful song and it evokes powerful feelings ( Read more... )

NOTE: lyrics are from "Set Fire To The Third Bar" by Snow Patrol.

"How could this have happened? A miracle, in a time when we don't see many miraculous things!"

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Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to meShe’s on the far side of him, wrapped in concrete and steel behind a ( Read more... )

While the world and the body moves…he dreams ( Read more... )

NOTE: Long overdue, but done at last, a little something from Tommy's Snuggle Meme. Done for senseofliberty, who requested Tommy/Rachel. Rachel is used with tender loving care, and any OOC-ness is all my fault. Enjoy. :P

Fairytales don’t tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairytales tell children that the dragons can be ( Read more... )

The power outage a couple hours before had forced him to bring out the candles, but even after the lights came back on, he left the melted stubs out for the baby ( Read more... )

“Do you have any fuckin' idea how ridiculous that is?”

Elpis merely smiled, wearing the old skin of Dog Carter as he set the little teddy bear holding a golden apple in Mayilia's crib. He looked just like the man Tommy knew, jeans and a tank top, twin barbells gracing one eyebrow. Yet...Tommy knew it wasn't his comrade in arms, not anymore.

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NOTE: Based on this letter received from Cinzia (inlight_ofcinz) just after Ziyah's death.It’s all that’s left…a letter with an all too familiar coffee stain and silence ringing in his ears while he reads. The words are in her familiar busy scrawl, empty and meaningless without her voice to give them warmth and nuance ( Read more... )

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

“Mr. Karras…”“I know, just…a few more minutes. Please ( Read more... )

-Black Saber Studios, July 8, 2008-

“You’re crazy, you know that?”

Tommy just grinned as Jelly beamed and held the sheet of notebook paper even higher, turning this way and that for optimum visibility. “Then maybe somebody should have remembered my good morning hug, you big barefoot galloot.”Laughing, Tommy took another bite of his chicken salad ( Read more... )

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."The night felt so disconnected to him it hurt inside ( Read more... )