Fic: Lion-Headed Goddess with Bandages in Her Mouth (DCU) Lois Lane [rated teen]
Lion-Headed Goddess with Bandages in Her Mouth
Rating: Teen (strong language)
Fandom: DCU (aka comic!verse)
Characters: Lois Lane
Summary: I'm Lois Lane. I'm the best investigative reporter living.
Written for femgenficathon2009-- Prompt #81: When "mad," at least in literature, you aren't yourself; you take on another self, a self that is either not you at all, or a truer, more elemental one than the person you're used to seeing in the mirror. You're in danger of becoming, in Shakespeare's works, a mere picture or beast, and in Susanna Moodie's words, a mere machine; or else you may become an inspired prophet, a truth-sayer, a shaman, one who oversteps the boundaries of the ordinarily visible and audible, and also, and especially, the ordinarily sayable. -- Margaret Atwood
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters are not mine. Lois Lane belongs to DCU and created by Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster. She is the original badass. The title is from Margaret Atwood's poem, "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War". She's one of my favourite poets if not THE favourite.
Notes: Many thanks to lady_sarai, fateschewtoy, zoe_chan and milleniumrex for the betas.
Today, I'm in Yamec again. The landscape is tired and ragged. The heat penetrates my headscarf and hat. My scalp prickles with sweat. It's hard to believe frost covered the ground last night. A goatgirl herds her scraggly charges down the hills. She's bent over like a miniature old woman. Her arm is in a rough sling. She picks her way through the brush like the sands are blades waiting to cut her. Her cynical sidelong glance, barely visible from under a ragged headshawl, should make me sad. Instead, I'm fired up.
Rating: Teen (strong language)
Fandom: DCU (aka comic!verse)
Characters: Lois Lane
Summary: I'm Lois Lane. I'm the best investigative reporter living.
Written for femgenficathon2009-- Prompt #81: When "mad," at least in literature, you aren't yourself; you take on another self, a self that is either not you at all, or a truer, more elemental one than the person you're used to seeing in the mirror. You're in danger of becoming, in Shakespeare's works, a mere picture or beast, and in Susanna Moodie's words, a mere machine; or else you may become an inspired prophet, a truth-sayer, a shaman, one who oversteps the boundaries of the ordinarily visible and audible, and also, and especially, the ordinarily sayable. -- Margaret Atwood
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters are not mine. Lois Lane belongs to DCU and created by Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster. She is the original badass. The title is from Margaret Atwood's poem, "Sekhmet, the Lion-headed Goddess of War". She's one of my favourite poets if not THE favourite.
Notes: Many thanks to lady_sarai, fateschewtoy, zoe_chan and milleniumrex for the betas.
Today, I'm in Yamec again. The landscape is tired and ragged. The heat penetrates my headscarf and hat. My scalp prickles with sweat. It's hard to believe frost covered the ground last night. A goatgirl herds her scraggly charges down the hills. She's bent over like a miniature old woman. Her arm is in a rough sling. She picks her way through the brush like the sands are blades waiting to cut her. Her cynical sidelong glance, barely visible from under a ragged headshawl, should make me sad. Instead, I'm fired up.