Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

Because I serenade Erik, and Erik sends me poetry.

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( Nail Gaiman, Sonnet )

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( Margaret Atwood, The Loneliness of the Military Historian )

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( Ellen Bass, The Thing Is )

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( Bruce Weigl, Elegy for Peter )

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( Catherynne M. Valente, A Monstrous Manifesto )

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( Stephen Dunn, Sweetness )

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( Yehuda Amichai, Ein Yahav )

"He was loved because, though patrician by birth, upbringing and style, he believed in and fought for plain people [. . .] He was loved because he radiated personal charm, joy in his work, optimism for the future.

But he was hated too — hated because he called for change, and the changes he proposed reduced the power, status, income and self-esteem of those who profited most from the old order. [. . .]

He was not a perfect man. In the service of his objectives, he could be devious, guileful, manipulative, underhanded, even ruthless. [. . .] He was a realist in means but an idealist in ends. Above all, [he] stood for humanity against ideology; against the totalitarians’ love of abstractions, he wanted to find practical ways to help decent men and women make a better world for themselves and their children. An optimist who fought his own brave way back from [disability], he brought confidence and hope to a frightened and stricken nation."










Which is to say, that was a character description... by Time of F.D.R..

Oh my god, I still exist. And so! De-hiatusing Enjolras, Maladict, Tatsumi, Takeuchi Sora, Van Grants, Captain Jack Harkness and Rorschach over the next few days. Charles is still inna-coma'd while we find out if his husband did any serious structural damage to the hospital and/or hospital employees.

For the next couple months, my general availability will be from about 10:00pm-12:00am EST, pretty much every night. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less and there will doubtlessly be days here and there when I'm not around, but that's the general picture of things. I do have some flexibility, so if there's something going on at other times or if your availability is at another time and you'd like a chunk of thread-time together, just let me know and I'll see if I can be there for it.

Woo-hoo! Good to be back!

So it became very clear to me the other night that I will never catch up on either Phoenix events or Phoenix aftermath. There's a lot of things that I think would have happened with Charles that I never had the chance to thread out. If you'd like to, we can adjust and work things out OOCly in this post. I'm also willing to thread things out, but I will be quite honest in that I'm pretty much at threading capacity for serious business now.

Here's the timeline of what happened for Charles, as far as I can figure:

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I have no idea why the fuck I said that my hiatus was lasting only through today.

The show doesn't open until this coming Thursday.

I'm on crack and also a dumbass.

See you next week.

Still Enjolras/Maladict/Tatsumi/Takeuchi Sora/Van Grants/Rorschach/Captain Jack Harkness/Charles Xavier

Passed the 5K mark with my LJ+DW comment count, so: a meme.

Disclaimer is that I probably won't start on this until at least this coming weekend, when I'll be heading into a hiatus due to work.

Sorry -- my dog died. Not up to it. Be back at some point.

So we were gchatting this morning, when I noticed something about our conversation.

me: I like how right now, you're all
me: "I AM ANGRY I WAS LULLED INTO COMPLACENCY TRUST NO ONE"
and I'm just, like
Erik: ................................
me: "............wow my hair is fabulous right now"
Erik: so basically
what you're saying
IC
me: just a little
I'M ALSO BEING RESPONSIBLE I'M WRITING PERFORMANCE REPORTS that I didn't write last night because I was too busy double-fisting drinks oops