January 2012
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The Masquerade
thoughtandmemory:
His heart raced in his chest, beating wildly as she looked at him from behind her mask. The stain that she wore on her lips only enhanced the red tones of her hair. One thing that he could not argue was how breathtakingly beautiful she was. He could taste the champagne, still on his lips, and listened to the click of her shoes as she sped away from him quickly. Valentine...
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The Masquerade
thoughtandmemory:
He didn’t care much for these parties. Often, he found them tedious and a bore. Simply another way for their families to show off their wealth — something many of them had much of. The Fairchilds, Valentine thought to himself, were a lovely family. At least the generation that threw this party. He couldn’t say many good things about the one that attended the Academy and was a...
December 2011
88 posts
The Masquerade
Adele Fairchild’s grip on Jocelyn’s wrist was almost painful as the older woman escorted her daughter down to the festivities. Her mother was dressed in a classy bronze dress that highlighted the flecks of amber in her chocolate eyes. Her pale red hair was braided expertly and it fell across her shoulder in a thick rope. Adele looked sharp and fierce, like she had always looked. A kind of refined...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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paintbrushesandiratzes:
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Your definition of interesting and my definition are very different.
I get that quite a bit.
It’s okay, Steph. Different isn’t always bad.
Hardly ever.
Really, though, this nickname for me must go.
Oh, you don’t like it? Well, it’s...
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Jocelyn's Outfit for the Masquerade.
Beware, sexiness happens.
Dress:
Mask:
Shoes:
Hair:
Makeup:
Tights:
Earrings:
Ring:
Gloves:
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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I do adore you, Jocelyn.
As I adore you. Even though you can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I do have to keep things interesting.
Your definition of interesting and my definition are very different.
I get that quite a bit.
It’s...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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I do adore you, Jocelyn.
As I adore you. Even though you can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I do have to keep things interesting.
Your definition of interesting and my definition are very different.
I get that quite a bit.
It’s okay, Steph. Different isn’t always...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
star-shaped-scar:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
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I do adore you, Jocelyn.
As I adore you. Even though you can be a pain in the ass sometimes.
I do have to keep things interesting.
Your definition of interesting and my definition are very different.
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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I have a perfect pair of ballet flats that would bring out his eyes. I should wrap them and give them to him tonight.
How sweet. A belated Christmas gift?
I asked my mother to ship a crate of shellfish to his house, but for some reason she didn’t oblige.
I...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
star-shaped-scar:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
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paintbrushesandiratzes:
I have a perfect pair of ballet flats that would bring out his eyes. I should wrap them and give them to him tonight.
How sweet. A belated Christmas gift?
I asked my mother to ship a crate of shellfish to his house, but for some reason she didn’t oblige.
I shall ask mine. I doubt my mother knows of...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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paintbrushesandiratzes:
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Are we still talking about him or has this conversation strayed to a discussion about his penis?
By the Angel, Jocelyn! I certainly don’t concern myself with thoughts of such things. Though I know now you do, you naughty nymph!
Well, I have noticed how...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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paintbrushesandiratzes:
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paintbrushesandiratzes:
Are we still talking about him or has this conversation strayed to a discussion about his penis?
By the Angel, Jocelyn! I certainly don’t concern myself with thoughts of such things. Though I know now you do, you naughty nymph!
Well, I have noticed how small and feminine his feet are.
We could call...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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Really, you two are just precious. You crazy kids. We all knew it would work out between you two.
Valentine is about as precious as a great white shark.
He would enjoy being something so huge and vicious.
Are we still talking about him or has this conversation strayed to a...
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
star-shaped-scar:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
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Really, you two are just precious. You crazy kids. We all knew it would work out between you two.
Valentine is about as precious as a great white shark.
He would enjoy being something so huge and vicious.
Are we still talking about him or has this conversation strayed to a discussion about his penis?
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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Stephen no….
Really, you two are just precious. You crazy kids. We all knew it would work out between you two.
Valentine is about as precious as a great white shark.
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Look, the old married couple is at it again.
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Stephen no….
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thoughtandmemory asked: Expletives always are used at best by primeval prokaryotes.
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thoughtandmemory asked: I do imagine that crimson would go with the gold of Shadowhunter weddings. Good call, that one, dear. However, you're truly not using your entire imagination for this. A disappointment. Perhaps I'll have to marry another. One with clear image and creativity. Again, I am bored with you, Jocelyn.
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thoughtandmemory asked: You've clearly thought quite a bit on this. Jocelyn Fairchild, making friends with Downworlders and stabbing Shadowhunters left and right. I suppose we can bloodlet instead of exchanging vows. Of course, I'll ask Lucian to stand next to me as my best man.
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thoughtandmemory asked: You seem to be talking quite a bit about us being married in the future. I didn't realize you had such strong feelings for me. At the very least, I can trust your mother not to poison me with shellfish. What do you say, Jocelyn? How do you feel about a June wedding?
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Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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Never, Stephen, never. My mother is trying to get Robert Lightwood to sing for the Valentine’s Day ball.
I second that motion, but my mother seems strangely opposed to the accidental murder of the youngest Morgenstern.
Oh god, don’t tell me your mother...
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Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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Never, Stephen, never. My mother is trying to get Robert Lightwood to sing for the Valentine’s Day ball.
I second that motion, but my mother seems strangely opposed to the accidental murder of the youngest Morgenstern.
Oh god, don’t tell me your mother approves of Valentine as a future suitor. At least...
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Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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Do not let my mother hear about that. She’ll start handing out brochures and everything. You’ll be the entertainment at the Valentine’s Day ball. Do you want that, Stephen? Do you?
My mother recently found out that one of the Morgenstern party is allergic to shellfish. So for some reason, crab cakes are...
Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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Do not let my mother hear about that. She’ll start handing out brochures and everything. You’ll be the entertainment at the Valentine’s Day ball. Do you want that, Stephen? Do you?
My mother recently found out that one of the Morgenstern party is allergic to shellfish. So for some reason, crab cakes are still on the menu, but lobster rolls aren’t?
...
Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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Please, they are all stuffy old banquets. Every time my mother mentions one, I seem to have other plans those evenings. I bet there are crab cakes. Jocelyn, are there crab cakes?
I’d have to agree with you there. I mean, the speeches alone take up half the night and then the fairy bands are just atrocious. Only our parents enjoy...
Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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There is a ball. It is a masquerade ball. It is happening at the Fairchild Estate on New Years Eve. My mother told me to tell my friends so this is me telling all of you.
In case we lost the copper lettered fancy invitations in the mail, I suppose. I have mine, personally, framed.
She says, “I want...
Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
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There is a ball. It is a masquerade ball. It is happening at the Fairchild Estate on New Years Eve. My mother told me to tell my friends so this is me telling all of you.
In case we lost the copper lettered fancy invitations in the mail, I suppose. I have mine, personally, framed.
She says, “I want your young friends to have fun. This...
Yes, right. Stephen reminded me.
There is a ball. It is a masquerade ball. It is happening at the Fairchild Estate on New Years Eve. My mother told me to tell my friends so this is me telling all of you.
Dress Shopping
just-wasted-potential:
Lucian winced as his eyes were assaulted with glaringly bright colors from the assortment of dresses. There were maroons, and marigolds, and chartreuses. Every color in existence seemed to be represented here - and all the dresses came in varying styles and cuts. There were hundreds of them. By the Angel, how was he supposed to help Jocelyn sift through them all? How...
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Dress Shopping
just-wasted-potential:
“That sounds vaguely like a double entendre,” Lucian said, an impish smile gracing his lips. “Are you propositioning me?”
He was fairly confident that Jocelyn wouldn’t kill him (though not so sure that he sought to provoke her). She’d be hard pressed to find a proper replacement. But that didn’t mean she wouldn’t irrevocably injure or maim him.
In truth he wasn’t ready....
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
Unfortunately, again, you’ve been misinformed. Insults do not imply any lack of truth, only to treat with a contemptuous affront. Where as I spoke of my impression of you, things I’ve only seen in my brief and tumultuous interactions with you, you’ve resulted to moral twaddle. I can very well accept your impression of me is one of unwelcome character, but I have never assumed...
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I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
You need someone to tell you how much of an idiot you are. Everyone else worships the ground you walk on but I see no reason why they should; you’re as cold as you are arrogant and almost incapable of befriending anyone. You just use people and make them think it’s friendship. You’re insulting, calculating, and manipulative and I loathe you with every...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
Not when the one responding is a complete asshole with total disregard to feelings or intention.
Is there something you’re hoping to accomplish with that comment along with the many others you’ve implied of my nature? I cannot image what it could possibly be.
You need someone to tell you how much of an idiot you are. Everyone else worships the...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
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thoughtandmemory:
You’ve put your work (your self, as you put it) out there, have you not? In doing so, you’ve opened yourself up, voluntarily, to such criticisms. Clearly, you’ve taken this awfully personally, Jocelyn, but I have no need to apologize. You’ve invited others in. Mine is simply an opinion.
An opinion I never asked for. I find you...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
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It’s…it’s not that I care what he thinks…it’s kind of complicated when it comes to my art. I’m letting people look into bits of my soul, how I see the world, how I decide to depict it. And to have someone tell me that I’m somehow doing it wrong, wrong enough for them to be “thoroughly...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
It’s…it’s not that I care what he thinks…it’s kind of complicated when it comes to my art. I’m letting people look into bits of my soul, how I see the world, how I decide to depict it. And to have someone tell me that I’m somehow doing it wrong, wrong enough for them to be “thoroughly unimpressed”, is painful. I already have a minimal amount of...
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I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
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…..That’s not the point.
He’s rude.
I am sorry that you feel that way. Valentine didn’t mean to offend you.
That’s almost as believable as telling me a chair is currently waltzing with Bach in my kitchen.
Well, if there were any warlocks involved it could be possible…
Why do you care what...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
…..That’s not the point.
He’s rude.
I am sorry that you feel that way. Valentine didn’t mean to offend you.
That’s almost as believable as telling me a chair is currently waltzing with Bach in my kitchen.
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
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Your pseudo-sympathetic face, you mean?
Look, he caught on!
You wound me, Jocelyn. Truly.
As your supposed friends wound me.
I really don’t think he meant any harm by it.
…..That’s not the point.
He’s rude.
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I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
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thoughtandmemory:
I never claimed to have artistic talent, in that respect. You, however, are known for it. Though, for knowing so much of his face, apparently you are missing something. I am thoroughly unimpressed.
Whoever said you had the right to be unimpressed over my work? It’s highly personal, almost analogous to say “I am unimpressed with...
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I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
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Your pseudo-sympathetic face, you mean?
Look, he caught on!
You wound me, Jocelyn. Truly.
As your supposed friends wound me.
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
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Your stick figures are adorable. I feel as though they’re up there, with Picasso and van Gogh.
You don’t need to humor me - I labor under no such delusions.
This isn’t humoring you. This is sarcasm. If I were humoring you, I would have put on my sympathetic face. You know, the one you said...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
I never claimed to have artistic talent, in that respect. You, however, are known for it. Though, for knowing so much of his face, apparently you are missing something. I am thoroughly unimpressed.
Whoever said you had the right to be unimpressed over my work? It’s highly personal, almost analogous to say “I am unimpressed with Jocelyn’s soul”. There...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
Your stick figures are adorable. I feel as though they’re up there, with Picasso and van Gogh.
You don’t need to humor me - I labor under no such delusions.
This isn’t humoring you. This is sarcasm. If I were humoring you, I would have put on my sympathetic face. You know, the one you said looked as though I was being mauled by a cat.
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
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thoughtandmemory:
And I simply stated that your drawing was likely true to life and you had nothing to worry about.
But it wasn’t. It was awful and disproportionate and nothing like Lucian. I’ve known him since I was a child, if he had a lumpy potato head, there would have been some deeply ingrained...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
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thoughtandmemory:
And I simply stated that your drawing was likely true to life and you had nothing to worry about.
But it wasn’t. It was awful and disproportionate and nothing like Lucian. I’ve known him since I was a child, if he had a lumpy potato head, there would have been some deeply ingrained line in our friendship about it by now.
Perhaps...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
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His head looked like a lumpy potato.
You know, you are your worst critic.
It looked like I had taken a potato and attached ears and a leering smile. That will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.
Sounds ghastly. -snickers-
Take comfort in knowing that your worst drawing is better...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
thoughtandmemory:
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thoughtandmemory:
And, my friend, he still is. However, he has his faults and it would be ridiculous to pretend that he does not. As do you. As do any of us. Even myself.
Only enemies would lie to you.
There is a difference between acknowledging the flaws of humanity and exploiting it to be cruel.
...
I tried drawing Lucian yesterday.
just-wasted-potential:
paintbrushesandiratzes:
His head looked like a lumpy potato.
You know, you are your worst critic.
It looked like I had taken a potato and attached ears and a leering smile. That will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.