Her voice was a warm whisper in my ear. "If he should kill me--"

"I won't--"

"If he should, you have to promise me something."

I waited, felt the terror rattling up through her chest and squirming out the pores of her skin.

"Promise me," she said, "that you'll stay alive long enough to kill him. Slowly. For days, if you can manage it."

"What if he gets to me first?"

"He can't kill us both. No one's that good. If he gets to you before me" - she leaned back a bit so her eyes could meet mine - "I'll paint this house with his blood. Every last inch of it."

Just so everyone's aware - if I had a Tumblr? THIS WEEK IT WOULD BE NOTHING BUT PICTURES OF CLINT AND NATASHA PAIRED WITH KENZIE-GENNARO QUOTES. I CAN'T TALK ABOUT THE MOVIE PROPERLY BECAUSE EVERY TIME I TRY I JUST DROWN IN "YOU KNOW I DO" AND "I'VE GOT RED IN MY LEDGER."

Speaking of Tumblr though EMMY NOMINATION BALLOTS COME OUT A MONTH FROM TODAY, AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Maybe you don't know what that means. It means this. EVERY SINGLE YEAR THE EMMY BALLOT IS INSANITY IN PDF FORM, I LOVE IT.

HELLO, CHUMS. [SUPERHERO BREAK TWO WORDS IN: "CHUM" IS THE WORST FUCKING WORD AND I'LL NEVER FORGIVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

I got back from visiting modernthirst last night! Or technically today, in the wee hours of the morning. SEEING ANNA/ALSO DUNCAN WHO I HAVEN'T SEEN IN A FEW YEARS = GREATEST, LEAVING FOR WORK EIGHT HOURS AFTER THE CONCLUSION OF A SEVEN-HOUR TRAIN-BUS-TRAIN TRIP HOME = WORST. South Station was full of people waiting to catch trains out to the burbs after the Red Hot Chili Peppers show at the Garden, and while I am certain that there were people at that show who WEREN'T irredeemable douchebags, none of them were on my train. NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR YOUTHS BEING ROWDY ON THE LAST TRAIN OUT TO THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE ON A GODDAMN MONDAY NIGHT! NOBODY WANTS THAT! I CALL THEM YOUTHS BECAUSE OF HOW TERRIBLE THEY WERE BUT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN MY AGE! THEY WERE EVEN DOUCHEY AT ORDERING FROM THE STATION MCDONALD'S!!!!!!!!!! I TRIED TO USE MY EYES TO CONVEY MY SYMPATHY TO THE WOMAN BEHIND THE COUNTER BUT SHE WAS SO OBVIOUSLY SICK OF EVERYTHING THAT SADLY, WE COULD NOT CONNECT.

ANYWAY while I was away I read some books, which was GREAT because I got off to a pretty good reading start for the year in January before totally throwing all of my "be a person who does things like exercising and reading and eating fruit and getting enough calcium" goals out the window that time I almost died in February, and I basically haven't read anything other than Hex Hall since. BUT NOW I HAVE.

( shatter me )

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( the scorpio races - no spoilers, just me screaming at you that you're not a complete human being until you've read this )

I find myself in a very weird position, because from Saturday at 11 until Wednesday at 4:30, I was completely and uncontrollably overwhelmed by Auld Acquaintance. IT WAS HONESTLY WORRYING ME A LITTLE BIT, GUYS, THE EXTENT TO WHICH I WAS FEELING THINGS. And I decided the best way to process was to rewatch the entire season in an attempt to gain some tiny smidge of perspective so that I could actually process and articulate all my feelings, and rewatching things just gave me MORE feelings, and we were heading into TRIANGULATE THE PRESSURE LOCUS territory and then, well.

This happened.

And all the things that were amazing and perfect and wonderful about S1 in general and Auld Acquaintance in particular are still amazing and perfect and wonderful, but WOW, if anything was going to calm me down on the EVERYONE MADE OUT front, it was THAT. FROM THE MINUTE I SAW THAT STILL, I KNEW I WOULD NEVER TAKE ANOTHER EASY BREATH WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT EVERYONE'S DEAL IN S2 IS, ARTEMIS IN PARTICULAR. SHE'S LIKE ASTHMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What I'm saying is that I was worried I wouldn't be able to summon up all of my finale feelings to make this post, BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN CONCERNED, BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUSLY 2500 WORDS OF NOT A PROBLEM.

( this week, auld acquaintance happened to me, and then i watched all of s1 and read all the comics before i allowed myself to experience the finale again, AND THIS IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT. )

I THOUGHT HAVING TIME TO DIGEST WOULD MAKE THIS LESS OF A MESS, BUT I WAS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

( young justice: usual suspects )

THIS POST IS ABOUT YOUNG JUSTICE BUT THE COMIC VERSION WHICH CAME OUT TODAY AND I HAVE A SURPRISING AMOUNT OF FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS!!!

( i had a huge revelation the second time i read this month's comic )

( also red hood, justice league, wonder woman, and supergirl )

Today is a fake Massachusetts holiday that is ostensibly to celebrate the anniversary of Lexington/Concord but is ACTUALLY Marathon Monday and some people legitimately need the day off because traffic but everyone else is just like MARATHON!!! or I LIKE DAYS OFF!!! But uhhh other than elementary school/high school when I always had the day off, I've never thought of it as an actual holiday? Eric said on Saturday that he might not be at trivia tonight because it's Patriots Day and it honestly makes as much sense to me as him saying "I might not be at trivia on Monday because Sacramento is the capital of California." THE BOSTON MARATHON IS A THING THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE, BASICALLY, the only sporting events I care about are Sean's teeball and soccer games and the occasional baseball season. Which is why everyone else took the day off and it's just me and Dan in the office today, because YES I could have the day off but I could ALSO get paid to tool around online, make reminder calls, and type addresses into a giant spreadsheet all day. WORKS FOR ME!!!

THINGS GOING ON WITH ME:

1. Maeve is in France! Or Spain, one of those, APPARENTLY they're next to each other, who knew. [CALLBACK!] The best thing about this is that I can do laundry whenever I want. MAEVE DOES LIKE FOUR LOADS OF LAUNDRY A WEEK. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IT'S POSSIBLE. She is ALWAYS. DOING. LAUNDRY. And she's super particular about it too, the amount of stuff she hangs up to dry is NUTS to me. I DON'T EVEN SEPARATE MY COLORS UNLESS SOMETHING IS BEING WASHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. One time a week or two ago I nearly MURDERED her because she had a basket of wet laundry just sitting there, so before I put my stuff in the washer I gave her the heads up that I'd be taking the dryer in about 45 minutes if she wanted to put her stuff in, and when I came up to transfer everything to the dryer SHE WAS JUST PUTTING HER SHIT IN, AND THEN SHE HAD TO RUN IT TWICE! I HAD TO WAIT LIKE TWO HOURS! It was okay, though, because when I was finishing up at ASS O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING I took all of her carefully-spaced hang drying clothes and shoved them all together. SATISFACTION.

2. disco_vendetta wrote 10 Things I Hate About You fic because she is the Julian Baker to my Brooke Davis, WRITING HERSELF INTO MY HISTORY AND POSTING FIC FOR ALL THE PAST FANDOMS THAT NEVER GAVE ME WHAT I NEEDED. Six Times One of the Stratford Sisters Got Kissed, Got Wise, or Got Married. IT'S BIANCA/JOEY, KAT/PATRICK, BUT MOSTLY STRATFORD/SISTERS FUTUREFIC, I KNOW ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE COMING TRUE BUT TRY TO BE CALM ABOUT IT, GUYS!!!!

3. Young Justice is a thing I am still internally exploding over. I watched it with Sean yesterday and was genuinely annoyed with him for not properly appreciating the emotional magnificence of the cave scenes. HE'S FOUR. I'M NORMAL.

4. empressearwig was asking for people's top five TV seasons on Twitter yesterday, and that ended with me playing Grey's Anatomy Roulette on Netflix. YOU SCROLL DOWN TO S2 IN THE EPISODE LIST, CLOSE YOUR EYES, AND TAP ON ONE AT RANDOM. IT'S GREAT BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS WIN, THEY ARE ALL THE BEST EPISODE. Except the last couple. They were undeniably HUGE at the time, but uh, all I see when I watch them now is THE SHOW GOING OFF THE RAILS and beginning its inescapable life as a show that writes the SHIT out of its characters but cannot come up with any arcs that aren't terrible and insane and nine billion episodes longer than they should be. SUPER EXCITED THOUGH, IN LIKE A MONTH I GET TO DEVOUR SEASON SEVEN! [I need a minimum one-year buffer at all times. It works for me.]

ETA 5. ALSO REMEMBER THAT BLOG I SUPPOSEDLY HAVE? Gainful employment is seriously limiting my contributions to the internet, you guys. Anyway, I did end up finishing out the One Tree Hill season, if you didn't already know: 908-912, and the series finale. For the immediate future, I have plans to post about the greatest TV show ever made, and also to assemble an exhaustive update on what Chad Michael Murray is up to these days because it is all very important and fascinating. THEN IT'LL PROBABLY JUST BE ALL ABOUT RANDOM SHIT I FIND ON NETFLIX.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO welurklate!!!! Did you know that in the alternate universe where I never added Kendra through a friending meme, I don't know half of you [even if I didn't meet you through Kendra, I probably met you through someone I met through her or through an interest I only have because of her or someone I met through her! SHE IS THE ASHTON KUTCHER IN MY LIFE'S VERSION OF THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!], I don't watch Young Justice, I don't know who Sophie Mercer is, I never had anyone to sincerely enjoy and then ruthlessly mock Twilight with, and I am generally a less awesome, less happy person with a shitty iTunes library who has never seen Breaking Bad? TRUE STORY!!!

( young justice: performance )