the future undecided

Like 2. 2 phoenix. Lightest sleeper ever (tm) Free spirit. The most beautiful woman in one man's world.

[magnctics]

miisfired:

    there it is, again.  the pull in his chest at the way she fits into his life, fits against him.  not effortless, they’ve put in the effort.  paid their dues, as it were.  so not effortlessly, but naturally lydia is here.  a sleepy mumbled, “ whatever you say, beautiful, ” and thumb brushing the shell of her ear fondly.

she can hear the exhaustion in his voice, lets it sink in for a minute. the nightmares and the long nights are kicking both their asses--though neither one complains--and maybe it would be better to pass on the binging tonight. lydia sits up, scooting up and over until she’s all but in his lap, controller set to the side. she rests her forehead against his, breathes for a second. “ you wanna just go to bed? we can do this another day. ”

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miisfired:

does he care ??  “ does the pope shit in the woods ??  choose whatever you want, lyds. ”  he’s got the best seat in the house, and he’s really just invested in, you know, being with her.  and possibly earning back certain fun privileges.  “ fair warning, i might fall asleep. ”

she makes a soft, pleased noise, starts scrolling through netflix with an ease she somehow can’t imagine ronin possessing. makes a mental note to see how much he actually knows about his tv and all that shit. at his warning, she just smiles, presses a kiss to his leg. “ we can always pick up tomorrow. or i can wake you up. ” and there it is--the shift in tone. if he plays his cards right, he might get to use those lost privileges before the night is over. 

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miisfired:

ronin makes a quiet noise when she lays her head on his leg.  hand comes to rest on her hair, twisting a lock around his finger gently as he thinks about her proposition.  “ binge something with you ?? ”  he digs through the cushions for  a second until he finds the tv remote and hands it over to her.  he’s pretty sure she knows more about his television than he does.  gun to his head, he doesn’t even know how to get to netflix.  “ dealer’s choice. ”

pleased with herself, lydia giggles. she takes the remote from his hand and wiggles a little bit on his couch to get better situated for browsing without dislodging his hand from her hair. gets accustomed to the warmth of him behind her. “ anything you really don’t want to see? ” it’s only fair to at least get his preferences. if he has any. does he even watch tv? does he even have netflix? 

[magnctics]

miisfired:

   ronin makes a noncommittal noise from the other end of the couch, head cushioned by his hand.  “ as long as you’re considering going back on the other thing, i can deal with the lack of pancakes.  but, pray tell, how can i make it up to you? ”

she doesn’t even bother trying to hide her offense, half mocking, half serious. dealing with the lack of pancakes. is he trying to keep from getting the other thing? her lips purse and she flops back, resting her head on his leg as she considers whether or not he can make it up to her at all. he can, of course. she’s not hard to please, and she’s already soft on him in most ways that matter. “ binge something with me. ”

[graveyardiary]

hopeless fountain kingdom sentence starters

[ascentofx]

giiilbcrt:

THE PROLOGUE

❝ civil blood makes civil hands unclean. ❞

❝ i am a child of a money hungry, prideful country. ❞

❝ hands so bloody, tastes like honey. ❞

❝ i’m finding it hard to leave ❞

100 LETTERS

❝ i find myself alone at night unless i’m having sex. ❞

❝ i don’t let him touch me anymore. ❞

❝ i’m not something to butter up and taste when you get bored. ❞

❝ i have spent too many nights on dirty bathroom floors. ❞

❝ please don’t go away ❞

❝ it’s too late. ❞

❝ i can’t stop thinking that i almost gave you everything. ❞

❝ i can’t stop wishing that i never gave you anything. ❞

EYES CLOSED

❝ i know where to lay. ❞

❝ i know what to say. ❞

❝ it’s all the same. ❞

❝ i know how to play. ❞

❝ if i keep my eyes closed he looks just like you. ❞

❝ he’ll never stay, they never do. ❞

❝ if i keep my eyes closed he feels just like you. ❞

❝ you’ve been replaced. ❞

❝ i’m face to face with someone new. ❞

❝ tell me where i went wrong. ❞

❝ tell me how to move on. ❞

❝ he don’t realize that i’m thinking about you. ❞

HEAVEN IN HIDING

❝ no time for wishful thinking. ❞

❝ i can put up one good fight. ❞

❝ i can put on a show. ❞

❝ don’t you see what you’re finding? ❞

❝ this is heaven in hiding. ❞

❝ i don’t have no time for conversation. ❞

ALONE

❝ i’m still alone in my mind. ❞

❝ i know you’re dying to meet me. ❞

❝ baby, as soon as you meet me, you’ll wish that you never did. ❞

NOW OR NEVER

❝ i don’t wanna fight right now. ❞

❝ we’re running out of time. ❞

❝ i’m calling it a night. ❞

❝ trying to talk to a wall, but you could never tear it down for me. ❞

❝ i want you to love me now or never. ❞

SORRY

❝ i’ve missed your calls for months it seems. ❞

❝ i still know your birthday. ❞

❝ sorry that i can’t believe that anybody ever really starts to fall in love with me. ❞

❝ sorry i could be so blind, didn’t mean to leave you and all of the things that we had behind. ❞

❝ i run away when things are good. ❞

❝ it seems i broke your heart. ❞

❝ someone will love you, but someone isn’t me. ❞

GOOD MOURNING

❝ there’s a place where love conquers all. ❞

❝ don’t trust the moon, she’s always changing. ❞

❝ she begs to be loved. ❞

LIE

❝ breakfast is cold. ❞

❝ i’m watching you choke down the words that you said. ❞

❝ i get the message you wish i was dead. ❞

❝ if you don’t love me no more, then lie. ❞

WALLS COULD TALK

❝ i’m about four minutes from a heart attack. ❞

❝ i think you make me a maniac. ❞

❝ damn, if these walls could talk. ❞

❝ shit is crazy, right? ❞

❝ that ain’t your baby no more. ❞

BAD AT LOVE

❝ he’s calling me a bitch again. ❞

❝ i believe that we’re meant to be. ❞

❝ jealousy got the best of me. ❞

❝ i always make the same mistakes. ❞

❝ i’m bad at love, but you can’t blame me for trying. ❞

DON’T PLAY

❝ i don’t give a damn what you say to me. ❞

❝ i’m moving on. ❞

❝ motherfucker, don’t play with me. ❞

STRANGERS

❝ she doesn’t kiss me on the mouth anymore. ❞

❝ she doesn’t look me in the eyes anymore. ❞

❝ we’re not lovers, we’re just strangers. ❞

❝ she doesn’t call me on the phone anymore. ❞

❝ i must’ve crossed a line. ❞

❝ i must’ve lost my mind. ❞

❝ i miss the mornings with you laying in my bed. ❞

❝ i miss the thought of a forever, you and me. ❞

❝ all you’re missing is my body. ❞

ANGEL ON FIRE

❝ nobody seems to ask about me anymore. ❞

❝ nobody seems to care about what i think. ❞

❝ look at me. ❞

❝ i’m faded away. ❞ 

❝ you know, i used to be on fire. ❞

❝ i’m standing in the ashes of who i used to be. ❞

DEVIL IN ME

❝ i scream too loud if i speak my mind. ❞

❝ i don’t wanna wake it up, the devil in me. ❞

❝ you said i’m too much to handle. ❞

❝ now i gotta wake it up, the devil in me. ❞

HOPELESS

❝ boy, you make it look so easy. ❞

❝ sorry, baby girl, but i can’t tonight. ❞

❝ you know the truth hurts, but secrets kill. ❞

❝ you and all your friends hate me. ❞

❝ it’s easy to forgive. ❞

feel free to send to @ignoredlimits​ too.

[bluesmemethings]

various starters

[ascentofx]

beesmemethings:

❛  you’re a weapon and weapons don’t weep.  ❜

❛  hurt me once, I’ll kill you twice.  ❜

❛  never trust a survivor until you learn what they did to stay alive.  ❜

❛  death is the only god that comes when you call.  ❜

❛  I am teeth. I am royal. you are nothing to me.  ❜

❛  the sun will rise and we will try again.  ❜

❛  we’re just kids. we aren’t supposed to be heroes.  ❜

❛  I like my women like I like my Absinthe: bitter and intoxicating.  ❜

❛  what doesn’t kill me better run.  ❜

❛  she wasn’t looking for a knight. she was looking for a sword.  ❜

❛  don’t dehumanize bad people, because it’s their humanity which makes what they’ve done so terrifying.  ❜

❛  she isn’t just pretty. she is otherworldly and vaguely threatening.  ❜

❛  magic is not good or evil. is a knife evil? only if the wielder is.  ❜

❛  I don’t want your crown. see, I’ve come to burn your kingdom down.  ❜

❛  they broke my wings. they forgot I have claws.  ❜

❛  all that blood was never beautiful, it was just red.  ❜

❛  what do you do when there’s no hero in the story? simple. you kill the monster and crown yourself.  ❜

❛  how terrible it is, to love something that death can touch.  ❜

❛  you may not be interested in war, but it is interested in you.  ❜

❛  I feel divinity in my bones like aching. like fire.  ❜

❛  you make me feel and I don’t like it. I want it to stop. now.  ❜

❛  you are losing my interest and that is very dangerous.  ❜

❛  she will burn your kingdoms down, herself with it, if it means your ruin.  ❜

❛  it’s okay to be scared. it means your about to do something brave.  ❜

❛  she looks like divine absolution.  ❜

❛  I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find and impossible to forget.  ❜

❛  be careful with words. they can be forgive, but never forgotten.  ❜

❛  you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself.  ❜

❛  I’m tired of fighting. for once, I want to be fought for.  ❜

❛  never run back to what broke you.  ❜

❛  I was quite, but not blind.  ❜

❛  your gut knows what’s up. trust that bitch.  ❜

❛  we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.  ❜

❛  do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.  ❜

❛  I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, wishing it was a donut.  ❜

❛  you can miss something but not want it back.  ❜

❛  you can’t save people, you can only love them.  ❜

❛  I came, I saw, I made it awkward.  ❜

❛  we buy shite we don’t need, with money we don’t have, to impress people we don’t like.  ❜

❛  you’re always one decision away from a different life.  ❜

❛  my brain has too many tabs open.  ❜

❛  I’m not saying I hate you, just that you’re like the Monday of people.  ❜

❛  there’s no ‘we’ in fries.  ❜

❛  apology accepted, trust denied.  ❜

❛  death and I have been scandalously intimate for some time now.  ❜

❛  life happens. coffee helps.  ❜

❛  I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.  ❜

❛  I rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony.  ❜

❛  very early in my life it was already too late.  ❜

❛  is that a threat or are you flirting with me.  ❜

❛  was the use of force necessary in completing your objectives?  ❜

❛  I’ll let you drag me to hell if it means you’ll hold my hand.  ❜

❛  I do bad things, and I do them very well.  ❜

❛  you drink too much, you cuss too much and you have questionable morals. you’re everything I ever wanted.  ❜

❛  they will kill you, but first they will have to catch you.  ❜

❛  drugs might kill you but they’ll never break your heart.  ❜

❛  good girls are just bad girls that haven’t been caught.  ❜

❛  a pretty face doesn’t guarantee a pretty heart.  ❜

❛  no airbag, we die like men.  ❜

❛  true evil is, above all, seductive.  ❜

❛  it takes more courage to suffer than to die.  ❜

❛  you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. but the wolf? he only needs enough luck to catch you once.  ❜

❛  justice is vengeance in prettier packaging.  ❜

( these are pretty cool. @kcns-el​, @ignoredlimits​ )

[magnctics]

@miisfired

“ i might renig on the other thing, but i’m not giving you pancakes. ” of all the things she’s said aloud in the last few days, this might be the strangest. but roning, in all of his sarcastic glory, is getting what he deserves. looking for her replacement. pfft. she snorts, shifting on the couch and untwisting her shirt from the corner it got caught in. “ but you might be able to make it up to me. ”

[magnctics]

notyourpenguin:

Oswald was not having a good day, Not only did he have an unauthorized visit from some stupid superheroes but he also had to find out some of his men were selling that stupid super pill. It was a good thing they were too stupid to actually try and use it against him or his men.  He really wasn’t looking where he was going when he heard someone mutter something “ My apologies did I hit you with the door? I’ve got a lot on my mind are you okay?” 

lydia glances in his direction, repressed annoyance clear on her features. if you were gonna be an asshole knocking people over with doors, being nice immediately after was vaguely unwelcome. give her someone to be annoyed with. “ it’s fine. ” it’s not, and her shoulder already hurts from hitting the curb wrong last night, but that’s her own fault. “ nothing to see here. ”

[magnctics]

lascrveined:

☼. || ❝ you could’ve held the door for her. ❞ kara bites at the previous, super-hearing picking up the mutterings of the door’s tired victim. in her hands, a carrier of coffee: one for herself, one for kon, and an extra because she accidentally ordering the wrong drink for kon. and forgot what he liked. she looks at the girl and asks on impulse, ❝ … coffee ?? ❞     

unrepentent, lydia flips the bird at the stranger before glancing at kara. a familiar face–a teammate, no less–in the midst of the crazy is always welcome. especially when that familiar face comes with caffeine. “ please. ” she reaches a hand out without second-guessing herself. too rushed? maybe. did she care? not in the least. coffee deprivation was an important thing, after all. “ you’re a life-saver, kara. really. ”

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“ note to self, don’t ever go to work on three hours of sleep and no coffee ever again. ” lydia mutters a few choice words under her breath and reaches for the door just as someone else exists, stopping short as the door collides with her shoulder and the stranger keeps walking, oblivious and ignorant. “ you’re welcome. ” it’s a boring quip, but also all she can manage on such limited brain power. 

[magnctics]

About: Valerie Noel Woods

Born and raised in Coast City, California, she was the only child of a single mother and a low-level criminal (who ditched shortly after she was conceived) 

Definitely the stereotypical “they didn’t have a lot, but they had each other” kind of deal. Ms. Woods did her best to raise Val right, and Val did her best to be a good kid 

Everything was pretty much okay up until the Blackest Night. That’s when things started getting really bad (instead of kind of bad). When Scarecrow was given an orange lantern ring leading up to the battle against the Blackest Night, he was well chosen. Fear was his domain and he was good at exacting it. It was this very talent, combined with the ring, that took the sanity (and eventually the life) of Valerie’s mom. Tortured to the point of literal insanity, she was incarcerated in a nearby mental facility. 

There was so much damage and wreckage in the wake of that night that no one really noticed Val. It was two weeks before someone came for her. Two weeks of living on her own at the age of twelve. And the people that came for her, were not social services or superheroes. They were government agents. 

Eight years ago, the SACD was just starting to get their operation off the ground, and they needed test subjects. People to try the early versions of the Super Pill on. They needed people who wouldn’t be missed. They took orphans and addicts and the homeless. They took whoever they could get their hands on. 

In the preliminary stages, while the scientists were still trying to get ratios and percentages and strains correct, the pills often had strange side effects. They rarely lasted long, but often ended with the users in restraints. Violent fits, uncontrollable rage, strange mind-altering visions. 

It wasn’t discovered until much, much later, but the combination of hormones from puberty and over-exposure to the various types and strains of the Super Pill had a... strange effect on Valerie’s genetic makeup. This is where she gained her invulnerability. This is also when she stopped being useful to the SACD. 

Valerie has no clear memories of getting away from the SACD. How it happened, if anyone helped her. But at age 15, after three years under the watchful gaze of the SACD, she was free again. 

Freedom is a wonderful thing after confinement, but with nothing and no one to count on, Valerie struggled to keep herself afloat. She was angry, she was scared, and no amount of physical defense could save her from the havoc that had been unleashed on her mind and her trust. 

It was Starfire that found her, and Starfire who eventually convinced her to join the Teen Titans. Kori knew better than anyone what anger could do to a teenager, the ripple-effects of her own unjust history still ravaging her own moral complexes. It seemed the best fit, the only one she could think of besides handing another angry teen to Batman.

Kori is still the only person who knows Valerie’s full story.  

It wasn’t an easy transition, or a fun one for everyone involved, but eventually, Valerie found her place within the group. And Starfire was right, being around others her own age was good for her, and fighting crime gave her a purpose, even if she never quite gave up her anger towards the SACD. 

The release of the Super Pill made her life very difficult. She knew exactly what it was when it hit the streets, but to tell someone would be to expose herself. Though her team meant well, though they were good at heart, she couldn’t relive that part of her history with them. It was non-negotiable. So she kept her mouth shut. For that, she still feels guilty. 

The Hero community pieced together everything she knew pretty quickly, anyway, between what the SACD had told the heroes they were trying to recruit and what they could figure out on their own. Being around in the early stages, and being so young when it happened, didn’t leave her with a lot of information that was pertinent or useful to the functional pill they were now using. She’s angrier than she used to be, constantly on edge. Even the Teen Titans will likely have noticed a change in her demeanor, but if they have, nothing has been said to her yet. 

[magnctics]

“ I’m not saying I’m the best cook in the world, but I’m definitely the best cook in the Teen Titans. Anyone who tells you otherwise is dead-ass lying. ” 

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@getwitchy: day 28948725: dad is still a dweeb. not the big one. the professor utonium one.

[magnctics]

@notofhyphens: honestly wouldn't recommend fighting members of my family. we're not known for keeping our tempers

[magnctics]

@getwitchy: @notofhyphens traitor.

@notofhyphens: @getwitchy strong accusation, brother

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@notofhyphens: just to clarify: i am NOT yelling about big brother i do not participate in this family tradition

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@notofhyphens: wHAT THE FUCK THIS IS NOT OKAY I HATE. I H A T E

@notofhyphens: THIS IS NOT HOW THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO END I DO NOT APPROVE