The Doorway: a panfandom game

Ouch.

Those people really need to learn how to do a portkey.

I'm really not enjoying this heat.

[Separate messages sent to Harry Dresden and Elaine Mallory]
You've been quiet. Everything all right?

So, okay, this getting ready for Julliard thing is completely nerve wracking! I don't know how I'm going to do this again. I don't want to mess it up. I have to get in. Since there's no NYADA here in this New York. But at least it's still New York. I can't imagine being anywhere else.

I might be nineteen today but I'm not sure how it works.

Technically, if I'm just counting days, I've been nineteen a few days after I arrived.

But also technically the date wasn't right. It's right today.

and the lanterns will be going up tonight but I won't see them

It seems stupid to care with everything going on. I'll just assume I'm nineteen now either way.

I know there are a lot of you who are concerned about the bombings happening in other countries, and about the broadcasts that we've seen lately, and I know many of you are interested in helping. This is, as I'm sure you all know, a very delicate situation, and bringing this person in hinges on the countries investigating him being able to do so quickly at a moment's notice, before he knows what's going on. At this time, the best things we can do to help is to keep our eyes peeled for violence and threats to the city we're living in right now, and to join organizations such as the local law enforcement or SHIELD to be more involved in any take-down attempts. It won't help any of us to rush in unorganized. There are people here who are working on stopping him, and we need to work alongside them.

That said, I'd like to ask all of you who have experience with tracing signals and hacking to help us narrow down where this terrorist is, or anyone else involved in his organization. If you discover anything at all, please alert myself and Director Fury or Regional Director Hill. Anything we can tell them and share with each other is going to help us in the long run. When he is located, and he will be, I know that we'll be able to bring him in quickly. In the meantime, sit tight, do what you can to help us find him and don't do anything reckless. The rest of the city . No one can hide forever.

FILTERED TO TONY STARK (MCU) & PEPPER POTTS:

Are either of you in town? I'd like to talk to the both of you, if you have a moment.

FILTERED TO PEGGY CARTER:

What do you say to a kid who's lost another one of his friends? I don't know if I managed to say the right things last night.

He's gone. Ned's gone. He wasn't at work and it was so busy and someone yelled at me about my hair being in the way and I think he's really gone, not just.. sick or something.

Today has been awful and somebody thought it was funny to tie knots into the end of my braid when I wasn't looking and now my hair is so tangled, this is going to take all afternoon to fix.

Of all the things I imagined my life being after the confrontation in Cuba, tedious isn't one of them. Nor did I imagine myself witnessing threats without being able to engage them.

Okay, Okay, Okay, I have a hypothetical question. Since it's like, big gay day or whatever.

If you have sex with a dude, who is wearing a mask with your face, because you think it's a chick, and you were trying to catch that dude not being gay, and you'd been flirting with him and maybe you might have like, these weird feelings of something like happy when they are around, that totally doesn't make you gay, right?

Filtered to: TJ Hammond

Not counting a little making out and sucking each other off, that's like a freebie, right?

I'm going to accept what has happened, however unlikely it seems, and move on to what we all really want to know - when is General Hospital on?

TEXT TO NED:

» I am so sorry something happened and I do not think I can make it in today

Who: Rapunzel and OPEN
When: Monday afternoon, before a shift at Ned's
Where: Just outside the tower and then ends inside.
What: Rapunzel wakes up late and has no time to braid her hair before heading to Ned's, which unfortunately causes an accident.
Rating: Lowish

( It was all her fault, but she could fix it. )

Why do people eat soup. What's the point of it?

I think I want to try to volunteer my services to the local clinic, when I'm not working for Ned. It seems to me I should share my gift, even if it worked differently with Matty, and might with others, it's worth using. I've been reading a lot about methods of healing in this world and a lot of it seems... very messy.

At least with my method there is no mess, or invasive surgery required.

I also learned about something called CPR? I'd like to learn that as well, it sounds very important to know.

I finally watched the movie about my life. While there are some similarities, other parts were just preposterous. I'm a terrible singer.

I must congratulate Captain Picard and his colleagues for an excellent talent show on Sunday. With that in mind, if anyone is willing to share, what are some of your talents? I'd like to get to know my fellow refuges if we are sticking around.

That talent show was really, really great! Thank you, Mr. Picard, for putting it on! I really miss playing the guitar though, I love to sing (and the yodeling was fun too) but there is something really nice about the sound of a guitar.

I made myself a to-do list of all the things I want to do! Or, that I will do, I guess I should say.

1. Save up for a guitar!
2. Learn how to carve a mug. (Give one to Thor!)
3. Try a banana (Michael, you were talking about frozen bananas and someone said they were good but I've never had one before.)
4. Teach Kingsley ventriloquism (it'll be fun!)
5. Save up for new paints!
5a. and see if it's okay to paint my walls??
6. Sew a new dress together, jeans are funny, and someone told me today that there are whole stores filled with fabrics and dress designs!!!

Am I forgetting anything?

I wish Eugene was here for

First off I've been pregaming for the weekend since Wednesday-ish so coherency may vary. With that being said -

I've been sitting on this for a while so I thought it was time for my poll the audience option. Dr. Strange among other very gifted doctor-types have been working on my case (apply now to be considered for the Dream Team) and he gave me a... thing. That's supposed to help.

Supposed to wear this before I go into chemo. Thoughts?

You can say tumor but no mention of the C word is allowed in this post.

In the past few days, I've gone about a block up and down from the tower in an effort not to get myself lost. Which is very easy for me to do. However, I feel like going further than that for tomorrow. Go out of my comfort zone as it were, see something new. Would anyone like to join me? Preferably someone who would not rely on me for directions and my knowing how to get back here from wherever we go. Or suggestions on where I might go?

I haven't spoken about it much on the network, but when I was young(er) I was fixated on comic books. I think I found them more stimulating than books because they depend heavily on pictures to tell stories. The details, the expressions, the aftermath -- there are plenty of details that go beyond the words that are right there in front of you if only you're paying enough attention to pick them out. I found being presented with art to be far more interesting than depending upon my imagination to do the work for me. Not because I think I'm unimaginative, but because I'd much rather solve the puzzles than write them.

Like most comic book readers, at one point I picked up a pencil and decided to draw for myself. and I suppose, left to my own devices, that old habits die hard:

My apologies to Captain America.

( Cut for image, not filtered )

So, back home I used to eat meat. Even after I found I could communicate with animals I continued. I was a predator, just like many of my animal friends, and I didn't waste any kills. Things started to change when I learned how to turn into animals. Once I was being hunted in the skin of a creature I couldn't bring myself to eat their flesh. So, I was down to the basics. Chicken, beef, a lot of the more common meats I can find in the supermarkets here.

Recently I've been hearing about unsafe factory conditions and mistreatment of these animals and I'm really very concerned. I know there is a wealth of knowledge on the other end of my computer screen, but how much of it do I trust? Are the worst examples something that's par for the course when it comes to mass butchering in this world, or extreme cases just to shock the reader? I don't want to eat any meat if the animals are going to suffer like I'm afraid they might be. Even chickens don't deserve that.