Intergalactic Women's Day Mini-Ficathon: THE CLAIMENING
And now, stage two of Intergalactic Women's Day Mini-Ficathon!
(Apologies for the few days' delay!)
Below the first cut I will list 60 slots for due dates, four slots per day. Below the second cut I will list the eleventy-one prompts generated (THANK YOU) by a variety of brilliant and literate persons! :) Claims are made first come, first served: comment with the PROMPT NUMBER and DATE you would like, and provided you are in not in conflict with a previously-made claim, they are yours! (I will update the post as quickly as I can to reflect claims.) For those would would like to make multiple claims, that possibility will open after this post has been live for no less than 24 hours (approximately 3:30 PM Pacific). For now, stick with one. Multiple claims are now open!
UPDATE FEB 22: Official claims are over. If you have not made a claim with me but would like to write fic to one of the unclaimed prompts anyway, you should feel free.
Your end of the bargain is to post in this community a piece of art or fic no less than 300 words relating to your prompt on your claimed due date, tagged "challenge: intergalactic women's day" in addition to the usual others.
THE DATES
Monday, March 8: 1 jlm121, 2 ariadnechan, 3, 4
Tuesday, March 9: 1 sainfoin-fields, 2 rubynye, 3, 4
Wednesday, March 10: 1 jedibuttercup, 2 littledust, 3, 4
Thursday, March 11: 1 boosette, 2 nextian, 3, 4
Friday, March 12: 1 tosca1390, 2, 3, 4
Saturday, March 13: 1 araine, 2 froda_baggins, 3, 4
Sunday, March 14: 1 merisunshine36, 2 araine, 3, 4
Monday, March 15: 1 captaincadet, 2 snowyofthenight, 3, 4
Tuesday, March 16: 1 sophia_helix, 2, 3, 4
Wednesday, March 17: 1 tinocka, 2 possibly_thrice, 3, 4
Thursday, March 18: 1 danahid, 2 wendelah1, 3 snowyofthenight, 4
Friday, March 19: 1 abigail89, 2 girlintheattic, 3 igrockspock, 4 beth_soprano
Saturday, March 20: 1 froda-baggins, 2 sharpie-doodle, 3 thbbtt, 4
Sunday, March 21: 1 fishphile, 2 radiocakes, 3 sharpie-doodle, 4 saruwatari
Monday, March 22: 1 medie, 2 igrockspock, 3 yeomanrand, 4 tinocka
THE PROMPTS
Remember, you can see helpful illustrations of each listed character here!
KELVIN SCIENCE OFFICER
1. Don't ask me how it exploded, okay? It just did,
'cause there's all that debris.
2. Lunar new year.
GAILA
3. Well-behaved women seldom make history.
4. Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flowed that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
(TAKEN)
5.
6. And in the gold and blue
Car you took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart.
7. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
--Anais Nin
8. "learned in both languages, she danced and played the lyre more elegantly than necessary for an honest woman."
9. This is just to say
That I have eaten the plums
that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Please forgive me
They were delicious
so sweet and
so cold
10. A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
-Shulamith Firestone
11. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. - Mae West
MADELINE
12. When scared, I feel my skin crawl,
The way you humans do.
Mine comes back when I call it
(I hope that yours does, too).
13. Being selected to serve on the Enterprise was no easy feat, but neither was it the hardest.
14. All my life I've been slow and senseless
Not struck dumb, I'm just dumb that's all
But I can give you the constellations
Lay down here and we'll count them all
- Madeline and Nine by Mike Doughty.
15. "She was advised to abstain from too many jokes and conduct herself with propriety rather than wit"
16. because we are
your friends
you'll never be alone again
well come on
well come on
well come on
well come on
-justice vs. simiam
KELVIN TACTICAL OFFICER
17. it's a good world but this is a bad place
18. real life vs. simulations (did she survive to provide input to the Kobayashi Maru?)
FAUXHAWKED NURSE
19. You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by.
20. I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
21. musings on uniforms: what she likes and dislikes, about her own uniform or other officers'.
KELVIN SPACED CREWMEMBER
22. Picked up by the Heart of Gold before she runs out of air!
23. "That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment"
--Dorothy Parker
HANNITY
24. [...]To me is given
Such hope, I know not fear.
25. the future isn't what it used to be
i'm not surprised
KELVIN NURSE
26. Vs. McCoy
ROMULAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
27. AU: She leads a mutiny against Nero. Either set during or after -- how does this affect the events of the film?
28. We were offered immortality
We chose death.
29. "Nero at least drew away his eyes and ordered crimes: he did not watch." (Tacitus, Agricola)
30. Dreams of her cousins, the Vulcans.
KELVIN BIG-EYED DOCTOR
31. These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This fragrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to a thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste
32. On the long shuttle trip back from the wreck of the Kelvin, Dr. Bigeyes and Winona develop a connection which becomes significant later in life.
33. They had trained her to stop death, not to bring about life.
ENTERPRISE TACTICAL OFFICER
34. Coconut oil and creme de menthe.
35. you'll never be an angel but don't you be a devil
36. Was almost assigned to the Farragut.
WINONA KIRK
37. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way
38. Upon your small white bed
I fell into a dream.
You stayed up all the night and watched me
to see who in the world I might be.
39. I came, I saw, I believed.
40. while i'm in far away worlds and stars are so close i think about electric blue eyes
41. You think that luck has left you there
But maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air
And there's no mystical design
No cosmic lover preassigned
There's nothing you can find
That cannot be found
42. And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth
And the landscape of merry and desperate drought
Once I knew myself
And with knowing came love
I would know love again if I had faith enough
ENTERPRISE HELMSWOMAN
43. Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd
44. "Ulysses in a dress"
45. gonna fly all night to a place we've never flown
46. Ends up taking the conn in a crisis for whatever reason-- Kirk and the rest are on a shore mission, deadly alien plague, whatever.
VULCAN MIDWIFE
47. It's a good life if you don't weaken.
ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER CHIEF
48. Kids these days...
49. No, but I can take apart and put it back together with a mis-matched set of screwdrivers, a couple of meters of string and some chewing gum.
AMANDA GRAYSON
50. Ash on and old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.
Dust in the air suspended
Marks the place where a story ended.
Dust inbreathed was a house-
The walls, the wainscot and the mouse,
The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air
51. Terminator(-ish) AU: Amanda J. Grayson must protect her son from angry future Romulans or robots ... or whatever.
52. DCU Crossover: Amanda is the scion of an acrobatically crimefighting family that traces back to her several-generations-great grandparents, Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson.
53. Carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right.
54. Thrice there I tried to put my arms around her neck;
Thrice clasping hands in vain the apparition fled,
alike to the light winds and like'st to a rapid dream.
(Vergil, Aeneid)
55. the roses are red, like the endless sand of Vulcan, and the blood who flow alone in this human body
56. Things my son should know about me after I've died.
57. To be worshipped is not freedom
-Shulamith Firestone
58. She says I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
("The Tower" by Vienna Teng)
59. Amanda lives.
VULCAN GIRL
60. Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
61. The volume of a sphere is made up of an infinite of number of tiny parts.
62. Let us forget our solar system and our body,
the form it used to have,
let us become no matter what,
lichens,
insects,
balls of fire,
no matter what,
all that matters is that somehow life should continue,
63. For a breeze, light and capricious, can
force a high mound of poppyseed to bounce each in every direction from the top. But with a a heap of stones or ears of grain,
it can't. Thus the smallest bodies, insofar as they are lightest, too,
so they enjoy easy motion.
But with whatever things go with a greater mass
and are rougher, they are that much more made firm.
(Lucretius, On the Nature of Things)
64. Ugly babies make pretty ladies.
ENSIGN VICTORIA SLATER
65. Starfleet application woes.
VULCAN COUNCIL MEMBER
66. There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
67. Autochthony.
LIEUTENANT ADAMS
68. ...is tired of being mistaken for Christine Chapel by Vulcans requiring medical assistance.
69. This is a story about how disaster could have been averted by using the metric system like normal sentient beings.
NYOTA UHURA
70. That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark
71. Ooh, girl, shock me like an electric eel;
baby girl, turn me on with your electric feel
72. I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.
I knew that somehow, I could find my way back.
Then I heard your heart beating,
You were in the darkness too.
So I stayed in the darkness with you.
73. She's a xenolinguist: that means she doesn't know whatever rare Earth language you've brought her today.
74. We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given to us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
75. How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another.
76. But if she is not, like a sparrow,
possessed of unknown barbaric voice,
speaking within her wits to speech I'll persuade her.
(Aeschylus Agamemmnon)
77. A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns.
78. The spider-planet took its cues from the stories I grew up on. (or: Uhura out-tricksters a whole civilization of Anansis.)
79. it makes you want to feel like a teenager, until you remember the feelings of a real-live emotional teenager, then you think again.
VULCAN ELDER
80. "From now on, forget happiness. Now it’s just about saving the remains, the wreckage, the appearance." (Ibsen, A Doll's House)
81. Our star is not seen, but there is light.
82. Here is there
and high is low
all may be undone
what is true no two men know
and what is gone is gone
83. ...But my hair stayed up all evening.
BAR PATRON WITH EYELINER
84. She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
85. Reach out across the space of a moment and seize the day
86. "But who from thy self-chain shall set thee free?"
(Christina Rossetti, The Thread of Life)
87. ...is used to seeing people kick the crap out of Jim Kirk by now.
88. It's going to be a straight tequila night, isn't it?
ORION SCIENCE OFFICER WHO ISN'T GAILA
89. And we strugglin', fighting to eat
90. A Federation PSA about the trafficking of girls in the Orion system. Either watching or starring in.
91. she flies with her own wings
92. North by Northwest in space!
93. Some days are worth waking up for.
SHUTTLE OFFICER
94. But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
95. So ends my year-long romance
With radio towers and machines
96. Had I but sworn as you had done to this--
97. "Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
-- Dorothy Parker
98. "hurry up and wait!"
99. I spent my whole life walking
and I hid such colorful wings
100. I did not sign up to kiss boo-boos and hold hands.
101. Her room always smelled faintly of nail polish remover.
MANDANA, NERO'S WIFE
102. "What if there was no light.
Nothing wrong, nothing right.
What if there was no time?
And no reason or rhyme?"
103. not-Prime Mandana: She grows up knowing her own story.
104. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband."
105. And in her lurid eyes there shone
The dying flame of life's desire,
Made mad because its hope was gone,
And kindled at the leaping fire
Of jealousy, and fierce revenge,
And strength that could not change nor tire.
(The Other Side of a Mirror, Mary Coleridge)
106. If it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs.
-Shulamith Firestone
107. Sail your sea
Meet your storm
All I want is to be your harbor
The light in me
Will guide you home
All I want is to be your harbor
SHAVED HEAD CADET
108. The Lexington.
109. I wanna have the same last dream again,
the one where I wake up and I'm alive.
Just as the four walls close me within,
my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight.
110. "We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast"
111. Singing songs on the eve of destruction
Ready... set... claim!
(Apologies for the few days' delay!)
Below the first cut I will list 60 slots for due dates, four slots per day. Below the second cut I will list the eleventy-one prompts generated (THANK YOU) by a variety of brilliant and literate persons! :) Claims are made first come, first served: comment with the PROMPT NUMBER and DATE you would like, and provided you are in not in conflict with a previously-made claim, they are yours! (I will update the post as quickly as I can to reflect claims.) For those would would like to make multiple claims, that possibility will open after this post has been live for no less than 24 hours (approximately 3:30 PM Pacific). For now, stick with one. Multiple claims are now open!
UPDATE FEB 22: Official claims are over. If you have not made a claim with me but would like to write fic to one of the unclaimed prompts anyway, you should feel free.
Your end of the bargain is to post in this community a piece of art or fic no less than 300 words relating to your prompt on your claimed due date, tagged "challenge: intergalactic women's day" in addition to the usual others.
THE DATES
Monday, March 8: 1 jlm121, 2 ariadnechan, 3, 4
Tuesday, March 9: 1 sainfoin-fields, 2 rubynye, 3, 4
Wednesday, March 10: 1 jedibuttercup, 2 littledust, 3, 4
Thursday, March 11: 1 boosette, 2 nextian, 3, 4
Friday, March 12: 1 tosca1390, 2, 3, 4
Saturday, March 13: 1 araine, 2 froda_baggins, 3, 4
Sunday, March 14: 1 merisunshine36, 2 araine, 3, 4
Monday, March 15: 1 captaincadet, 2 snowyofthenight, 3, 4
Tuesday, March 16: 1 sophia_helix, 2, 3, 4
Wednesday, March 17: 1 tinocka, 2 possibly_thrice, 3, 4
Thursday, March 18: 1 danahid, 2 wendelah1, 3 snowyofthenight, 4
Friday, March 19: 1 abigail89, 2 girlintheattic, 3 igrockspock, 4 beth_soprano
Saturday, March 20: 1 froda-baggins, 2 sharpie-doodle, 3 thbbtt, 4
Sunday, March 21: 1 fishphile, 2 radiocakes, 3 sharpie-doodle, 4 saruwatari
Monday, March 22: 1 medie, 2 igrockspock, 3 yeomanrand, 4 tinocka
THE PROMPTS
Remember, you can see helpful illustrations of each listed character here!
KELVIN SCIENCE OFFICER
1. Don't ask me how it exploded, okay? It just did,
'cause there's all that debris.
2. Lunar new year.
GAILA
3. Well-behaved women seldom make history.
4. Sweeter than honey from the rock,
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flowed that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
(TAKEN)
5.
6. And in the gold and blue
Car you took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart.
7. Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
--Anais Nin
8. "learned in both languages, she danced and played the lyre more elegantly than necessary for an honest woman."
9. This is just to say
That I have eaten the plums
that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Please forgive me
They were delicious
so sweet and
so cold
10. A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
-Shulamith Firestone
11. When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. - Mae West
MADELINE
12. When scared, I feel my skin crawl,
The way you humans do.
Mine comes back when I call it
(I hope that yours does, too).
13. Being selected to serve on the Enterprise was no easy feat, but neither was it the hardest.
14. All my life I've been slow and senseless
Not struck dumb, I'm just dumb that's all
But I can give you the constellations
Lay down here and we'll count them all
- Madeline and Nine by Mike Doughty.
15. "She was advised to abstain from too many jokes and conduct herself with propriety rather than wit"
16. because we are
your friends
you'll never be alone again
well come on
well come on
well come on
well come on
-justice vs. simiam
KELVIN TACTICAL OFFICER
17. it's a good world but this is a bad place
18. real life vs. simulations (did she survive to provide input to the Kobayashi Maru?)
FAUXHAWKED NURSE
19. You, who are on the road
Must have a code
That you can live by.
20. I'm done with elephants and clowns
I want to run away and join the office
21. musings on uniforms: what she likes and dislikes, about her own uniform or other officers'.
KELVIN SPACED CREWMEMBER
22. Picked up by the Heart of Gold before she runs out of air!
23. "That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment"
--Dorothy Parker
HANNITY
24. [...]To me is given
Such hope, I know not fear.
25. the future isn't what it used to be
i'm not surprised
KELVIN NURSE
26. Vs. McCoy
ROMULAN COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
27. AU: She leads a mutiny against Nero. Either set during or after -- how does this affect the events of the film?
28. We were offered immortality
We chose death.
29. "Nero at least drew away his eyes and ordered crimes: he did not watch." (Tacitus, Agricola)
30. Dreams of her cousins, the Vulcans.
KELVIN BIG-EYED DOCTOR
31. These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This fragrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to a thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste
32. On the long shuttle trip back from the wreck of the Kelvin, Dr. Bigeyes and Winona develop a connection which becomes significant later in life.
33. They had trained her to stop death, not to bring about life.
ENTERPRISE TACTICAL OFFICER
34. Coconut oil and creme de menthe.
35. you'll never be an angel but don't you be a devil
36. Was almost assigned to the Farragut.
WINONA KIRK
37. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way
38. Upon your small white bed
I fell into a dream.
You stayed up all the night and watched me
to see who in the world I might be.
39. I came, I saw, I believed.
40. while i'm in far away worlds and stars are so close i think about electric blue eyes
41. You think that luck has left you there
But maybe there's nothing up in the sky but air
And there's no mystical design
No cosmic lover preassigned
There's nothing you can find
That cannot be found
42. And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth
And the landscape of merry and desperate drought
Once I knew myself
And with knowing came love
I would know love again if I had faith enough
ENTERPRISE HELMSWOMAN
43. Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd
44. "Ulysses in a dress"
45. gonna fly all night to a place we've never flown
46. Ends up taking the conn in a crisis for whatever reason-- Kirk and the rest are on a shore mission, deadly alien plague, whatever.
VULCAN MIDWIFE
47. It's a good life if you don't weaken.
ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER CHIEF
48. Kids these days...
49. No, but I can take apart and put it back together with a mis-matched set of screwdrivers, a couple of meters of string and some chewing gum.
AMANDA GRAYSON
50. Ash on and old man's sleeve
Is all the ash the burnt roses leave.
Dust in the air suspended
Marks the place where a story ended.
Dust inbreathed was a house-
The walls, the wainscot and the mouse,
The death of hope and despair,
This is the death of air
51. Terminator(-ish) AU: Amanda J. Grayson must protect her son from angry future Romulans or robots ... or whatever.
52. DCU Crossover: Amanda is the scion of an acrobatically crimefighting family that traces back to her several-generations-great grandparents, Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson.
53. Carry my joy on the left, carry my pain on the right.
54. Thrice there I tried to put my arms around her neck;
Thrice clasping hands in vain the apparition fled,
alike to the light winds and like'st to a rapid dream.
(Vergil, Aeneid)
55. the roses are red, like the endless sand of Vulcan, and the blood who flow alone in this human body
56. Things my son should know about me after I've died.
57. To be worshipped is not freedom
-Shulamith Firestone
58. She says I need not to need
Or else a love with intuition
Someone who reaches out to my weakness
And won't let go
I need not to need
I've always been the tower
But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow
("The Tower" by Vienna Teng)
59. Amanda lives.
VULCAN GIRL
60. Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
61. The volume of a sphere is made up of an infinite of number of tiny parts.
62. Let us forget our solar system and our body,
the form it used to have,
let us become no matter what,
lichens,
insects,
balls of fire,
no matter what,
all that matters is that somehow life should continue,
63. For a breeze, light and capricious, can
force a high mound of poppyseed to bounce each in every direction from the top. But with a a heap of stones or ears of grain,
it can't. Thus the smallest bodies, insofar as they are lightest, too,
so they enjoy easy motion.
But with whatever things go with a greater mass
and are rougher, they are that much more made firm.
(Lucretius, On the Nature of Things)
64. Ugly babies make pretty ladies.
ENSIGN VICTORIA SLATER
65. Starfleet application woes.
VULCAN COUNCIL MEMBER
66. There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
67. Autochthony.
LIEUTENANT ADAMS
68. ...is tired of being mistaken for Christine Chapel by Vulcans requiring medical assistance.
69. This is a story about how disaster could have been averted by using the metric system like normal sentient beings.
NYOTA UHURA
70. That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark
71. Ooh, girl, shock me like an electric eel;
baby girl, turn me on with your electric feel
72. I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.
I knew that somehow, I could find my way back.
Then I heard your heart beating,
You were in the darkness too.
So I stayed in the darkness with you.
73. She's a xenolinguist: that means she doesn't know whatever rare Earth language you've brought her today.
74. We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given to us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.
75. How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another.
76. But if she is not, like a sparrow,
possessed of unknown barbaric voice,
speaking within her wits to speech I'll persuade her.
(Aeschylus Agamemmnon)
77. A still more glorious dawn awaits. Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise. A morning filled with 400 billion suns.
78. The spider-planet took its cues from the stories I grew up on. (or: Uhura out-tricksters a whole civilization of Anansis.)
79. it makes you want to feel like a teenager, until you remember the feelings of a real-live emotional teenager, then you think again.
VULCAN ELDER
80. "From now on, forget happiness. Now it’s just about saving the remains, the wreckage, the appearance." (Ibsen, A Doll's House)
81. Our star is not seen, but there is light.
82. Here is there
and high is low
all may be undone
what is true no two men know
and what is gone is gone
83. ...But my hair stayed up all evening.
BAR PATRON WITH EYELINER
84. She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
85. Reach out across the space of a moment and seize the day
86. "But who from thy self-chain shall set thee free?"
(Christina Rossetti, The Thread of Life)
87. ...is used to seeing people kick the crap out of Jim Kirk by now.
88. It's going to be a straight tequila night, isn't it?
ORION SCIENCE OFFICER WHO ISN'T GAILA
89. And we strugglin', fighting to eat
90. A Federation PSA about the trafficking of girls in the Orion system. Either watching or starring in.
91. she flies with her own wings
92. North by Northwest in space!
93. Some days are worth waking up for.
SHUTTLE OFFICER
94. But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
95. So ends my year-long romance
With radio towers and machines
96. Had I but sworn as you had done to this--
97. "Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
-- Dorothy Parker
98. "hurry up and wait!"
99. I spent my whole life walking
and I hid such colorful wings
100. I did not sign up to kiss boo-boos and hold hands.
101. Her room always smelled faintly of nail polish remover.
MANDANA, NERO'S WIFE
102. "What if there was no light.
Nothing wrong, nothing right.
What if there was no time?
And no reason or rhyme?"
103. not-Prime Mandana: She grows up knowing her own story.
104. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband."
105. And in her lurid eyes there shone
The dying flame of life's desire,
Made mad because its hope was gone,
And kindled at the leaping fire
Of jealousy, and fierce revenge,
And strength that could not change nor tire.
(The Other Side of a Mirror, Mary Coleridge)
106. If it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs.
-Shulamith Firestone
107. Sail your sea
Meet your storm
All I want is to be your harbor
The light in me
Will guide you home
All I want is to be your harbor
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108. The Lexington.
109. I wanna have the same last dream again,
the one where I wake up and I'm alive.
Just as the four walls close me within,
my eyes are opened up with pure sunlight.
110. "We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast"
111. Singing songs on the eve of destruction
Ready... set... claim!