BINGO: column

[ysabetwordsmith]

I've made bingo down the O column of the public card for the Birthday Bingo Fest. This is a birthday candle bingo.

Creator Name: ysabetwordsmith
Fandoms: Polychrome Heroics, The Ursulan Cycle, Schrodinger's Hulk
List of Prompts: dinner, streamers, youth, regret, sunny
Link to Card: public card


Title: "firefly feast"
Fandom: Polychrome Heroics
Prompt: dinner
Medium: poetry
Size: 3 lines, 15 words
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary/Preview: A girl with superpowers celebrates her birthday.
Notes: This is the "flame" prompt.

Title: "Bitter Sixteen"
Fandom: Polychrome Heroics
Prompt: streamers
Medium: poetry
Size: 30 lines, 162 words
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Child neglect, emotional abuse, child exploitation.
Summary/Preview: Without his mother, Danso's birthday isn't very happy.
Notes: This is the "negation" prompt.

Title: "The Girl with the Hair That Would Not Be Tamed"
Fandom: Polychrome Heroics
Prompt: youth
Medium: poetry
Size: 82 lines, 541 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Internalized racism, rejection, control issues.
Summary/Preview: Texra and her hair are out of control.
Notes: none

Title: "Of the Line of Danu"
Fandom: The Ursulan Cycle
Prompt: regret
Medium: poetry
Size: 60 lines, 393 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: adultery, major character death, (unwitting) sibling incest, manipulation
Summary/Preview: Morgause has plans for the throne.
Notes: none

Title: "The Path of the Sun"
Fandom: Schrodinger's Hulk
Prompt: sunny
Medium: fiction
Size: 1,405 words
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary/Preview: Pat coaxes Bruce into a quiet birthday party.
Notes: none

Comments

Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

In accordance with the rules I set out, you get to prompt a short fic, or in your case, demifiction, since you know what I write in that genre, too.

Name a world, suggest a character and plot, and I'll sit down and work on it ASAP-- do you want it posted here, or purely for your personal use?

Congratulations!

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[ysabetwordsmith]

You can either post it here, or post on your blog and link it here.

I have this utterly ludicrous idea. You know how queerfolk say "I got bingoed again" again and eventually people started making actual cards ...? I'd love to see several superheroes doing something similar, either with straight-up discrimination ("How often do you lose control of your powers?") or embarrassing things that happen in combat ("captured supervillain was really an android"). You can use any of mine, or make up your own.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

Accused of being Illuminati	Asked to sign intimate body part on a fan	Supervillain posted pics of "me" online AGAIN	Supervillain gizmo ate my clothes	Supervillain set timer to end at 3:14 seconds
Asked to change the weather--not my ability at all	Go bag with civvies missing when I got back to it	Clueless WHO personnel accuse me of 'infecting' others	Asked to do an interview—without a translator	Accused of working for “the enemy”
Quoted out of context to create “drama"	Supervillain made an android copy of me	(909) 188-4309	Angry sentient plant	Asked to give public safety lecture—right after incident
Sentient spider—but it was just lonely	Paternity claim filed hours after appearing on the news	Accused of losing control of powers	Reporter camped out at my work place-looking for new job	Accused of defrauding the public about ability
Super villain rant about stolen research	Misquoted by local politician for their own ends	Asked to publicly support cause X—on camera	Crank call to SPOON by angry ex	Accused of stealing someone else's opportunity for origin

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I laughed at this card until tears came out of my eyes and I was panting for breath.

You just know that I4 has happened to women with superpowers too. And not even necessarily "those" kinds of powers.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

Yup, and the translator problem pretty much /everywhere/ there are dual-language news services.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[jeshyr]

THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! LOL ...

(What is the phone number though?)

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's where the superheroes are supposed to call in their bingo lines. ;) There is another fic about the playing of the bingo, which I've gotten to see backchannel, that will get posted later.

Honestly I'm eyeing some of these squares myself.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

In Ysabetwordsmith's Polychrome Heroics universe, phone numbers in Terramagne America begin with a (909) area code. This is clearly NOT in the United States, but that's all the information given directly.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

And since I did promise a FICTION piece:

Groundhog took in the humanoid form dripping what might be shaving cream, or something much, much more dangerous, as the automatic sensors at the front door deployed a downdraft of air and a sheeting chemical mist which neutralized most known zenetic enhancers. “Cut it off,” growled the figure. A hand shook globs of white onto the carpet, then scraped down the face. “It's organic and inert.”

Leapfrog scowled as he hurled a gizmo barely the size of a deck of playing cards onto the reception desk. Cheerful yellow numbers blinked 0:00:03.14 at him.

Just as he read the display, it changed to “Pi in FACE!” Then it went back to blinking the countdown.

“I don't care WHO calls me into this area next time!” Leapfrog declared. “There's not enough money in the WORLD to deal with The Numerator ever again.” He squelched as he took a step toward the bathroom just off the lobby. “Who is, by the way, a very bored nine-year-old GIRL whose parents should be forced to pay for the havoc she caused. She took apart Daddy's spare Hublot watch to make the trigger mechanism for the freaking whipped cream.”

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[ysabetwordsmith]

*LAUGH*

So. Much. Love.

Re: Ding! Ding! Ding!

[dialecticdreamer]

Glad you like it. Feel free to use The Numerator (super-intellect, STEM-focused girl, age 9 by a couple of days, absolutely freaking DETERMINED to be a supervillain to get her parents' attention. Hence, Daddy's 5K watch used as spare parts for the whipped cream sprayer.

Sadly, Mommy and Daddy just think she needs a more challenging school environment. They've heard about this great boarding school...

"The Path of the Sun"

[dialecticdreamer]

Please tell me that'll be posted soon?

Re: "The Path of the Sun"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Well, not immediately, but after "Up the Water Spout."

Re: "The Path of the Sun"

[dialecticdreamer]

YAAY! (with Kermit-the-Frog style waving of arms, too!)

Re: "The Path of the Sun"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, I do that too. I'm glad you find the story thumbnail so appealing.