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ash48So very excited about this! (so much so I even signed up for it. No idea how that will go but - what the heck!)
Deadlines have just been extended so no excuse not to participate! Also - there's "mini-bang" available if you don't think you can do the big one!
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Deadlines have just been extended so no excuse not to participate! Also - there's "mini-bang" available if you don't think you can do the big one!
Oh and look!
all_spn Come Celebrate Ten Years and 200 episodes of the Winchesters!and
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Date: 2014-11-04 01:32 am (UTC)LOL. I can relate to this comment.
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Date: 2014-11-04 01:33 am (UTC)wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-04 02:38 am (UTC)The reason they've kept up, aside from the advent of lingering, loose acquaintances, strung along by the social media's interminable memory, is because of that one time, that one Saturday, long long ago when the best friend was still the best friend and the neighbor was still a young rich girl at Mills. Tailgate, Big Game. Mills doesn't do Div 1, but they fancy themselves Cal's spoiled little sister. They all go. The neighbor invites the best friend. For complicated interpersonal reasons, Tracy becomes mostly a bargaining chip, and in the end she is invited, too.
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Tracy can't be more than twelve. Long before the stadium, she gets lost in a sea of blue and gold and sometimes red, ends up sitting her bum on the pavement outside of Cream, knowing the best friend and the best friend's neighbor are never going to find her now. But she's still got her ticket so she follows a tall boy and a tall girl in.
It's like they're the only things that aren't in color. The girl is dressed in something white--lace vintage; the boy, in a lumpy brown hoodie. They stand out because they didn't mean to, they aren't gold, or blue, or red. (It's cardinal, everyone always says.)
She sits with them the whole game. She steals a pickle out of the boy's sandwich when he abandons it to kiss the girl. She thinks they never notice her, but when the game ends the girl taps her shoulder, asks if she knows how to get home.
"I'm not lost," says Tracy, because that's really what the girl means, after all.
The boy doesn't speak to her at first, doesn't want to get involved. He'd like to file surreptitiously away, back south, back home; he is not in the business of rescuing children But this, this moment with Tracy, whose name he never asks, is why he falls in love with this girl. It's a chill evening at Memorial Stadium on November 20, 2004 when he falls in love with this girl.
(He hadn't spoken to his family in a year. He was beginning to think he never would again. This girl, she won tickets in a raffle. A thousand people would've paid good money for that seat, and she asked him. She know he does not like football.)
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On this day in November, 2004, this boy hoists Tracy up onto his shoulders and he and the girl wait by outside of Cream with Tracy until the sun goes down and the girl and the boy end a somewhat heated tiff about CalTrain. Now it's the boy who doesn't want to leave. He shrugs his shoulders, and Tracy too.
"I'm so glad I met you," says the girl, quite peaceably, with a finality that does not recommend counterargument.
Eventually, like out of a lost dimension, come the best friend, the neighbor. The neighbor is in tears. It is on this day in November, 2004, she indebts herself to a twelve-year old.
The boy and the girl miss their train, but they surely go on to lead glorious and happy lives. Even though Cal swept 41-6.
This is, Tracy's learned, what other people do. Live happily. Even the best friend who is not a best friend, and to a lesser extent her neighbor. (They keep each other around because of MySpace, then Facebook; they keep each other around because of guilt, and because their miseries do love company.)
Other people don't have their lives overturned by demons--by Sam Winchester's demons.
This boy and this girl, Tracy decides. They live happy.
They never have to meet Sam Winchester.
Re: wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-04 02:44 am (UTC)You kill me. <<<<33333
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Date: 2014-11-04 02:50 am (UTC)Re: wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-04 02:54 am (UTC)Re: wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-04 11:03 am (UTC)(and of course I had to figure out who Tracy Bell was! ;D)
Thank you of that! And now you have write for the sammybigbang! ;)
Re: wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-04 01:12 pm (UTC)XDD
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Date: 2014-11-05 02:53 am (UTC)Re: wtf just happened idek apologies ash, apologies caranfindel
Date: 2014-11-06 12:05 pm (UTC)AS WELL ALL THINGS SHOULD. :D XDD I'll admit that linking "not even a character in this show, really" to pieces of canon far, far removed is one of my mot favorite past times. Glad you enjoyed! <3
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Date: 2014-11-06 08:18 pm (UTC)ENABLER! ;) ♥