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I think I might actually be coming down with a cold of some kind. Which is to say my face feels more like a puffed up ball of warm snot wrapped too tightly in thin leather than an actual face, and I'm exhausted. I don't like this. At all.

The adrenaline rush of the morning didn't help. Went out to feed Barton and Cassius and eventually BatCat (who IS sleeping on Little Bit's bed, the twerp, I may need to rectify this by finding/making more cat beds in the utility room and seeding them with 'nip) only to be charged by a damn raccoon. The gray growly one, too, who's not at all afraid of humans and is going to get beaten with a fire poker if he or she keeps this shit up. We went back and forth between the front door and the utility room for a while, me trying to put out food while the damn cats are still there and the damn raccoon trying to eat it even though I gave the stupid thing pop tarts finally in an attempt to keep it the fuck away. There will be fire pokers for you, raccoon. And possibly pepper spray via water gun.

I am so zonked right now. I want to be writing, editing, or catching up on my other online courses and all I can really manage to do is stare blankly at the computer screen. Which given that I didn't get any less amount of sleep last night than I usually get, is probably a good sign that I'm fighting something off. On the other hand I'm also right smack dab in the middle of PMS/period, so who the hell knows if I'm feeling run down because of that or because of cold. Ugh and double ugh.

Maybe I can sit and stare at the computer while lectures play. Can I do that much, brain? Maybe?

OC October: Day 12 - Sybilla, Steph, and Sophie

Day 12: Sybilla, Steph, and Sophie
This novel, oh boy. For one thing it's called Maybe She's Born With It (Maybe It's Malachy) and I really need to come up with a string of novel titles like that because this begs for more adventures. For another thing, this started because of that Netflix fuckup a while back when the Kardashians show was smashed up with the show summary for Supernatural, and everyone started talking about gender swapping it or just outright making the Kardashian sisters the itinerant demon hunters. So I did! Not directly, I took the concept and ran with it to a place of my own devising.

Sophie, Sybilla, and Stephanie. Collectively they're sisters who are in the public spotlight because of their parents a bit, because of a sex tape, because of a few bad decisions by Sophie including taking the rap for a DUI, and when they realized that the bad publicity got them general publicity for their various endeavors (a fashion blog, a makeup tips youtube channel), they attempted to parlay this into success, with some work and some luck. First they secured contracts with mid-list manufacturers who gave them product to review and publicity for both of them, then they started making money, then they kept going. Currently they're not minature giraffe, diamond-studded everything rich, but they're definitely comfortably off.

The demon hunting part comes when they're heading out to a wine tasting and it turns into sort of an abbatoir/hunting ground, punctuated briefly by not the Winchesters coming to rescue them at the end, after they may or may not have already rescued themselves. (they did. Sort of.) Eventually weird things keep happening to them, and they start researching and find out what of this is real and what they need to know to cast magic and survive among demons and monsters and magicians and so on.

Sybilla is the oldest, the one who has to take care of all of them, steeped in the makeup industry and also the least involved in magic, at least to begin with. As far as the press knows she's the responsible one, and generally that's even true. On the other hand she was also the one who summoned her demon lover, so there's that.

Stephanie is the youngest, she's the most impulsive and most impetuous because of that, she's also the most outspoken at times. And sometimes she can have the most common sense, usually being closest to her middle sister because Sybilla has had to be their mother when their mother was off doing other things. She makes a fair number of bad decisions in the history of the story and in the story itself, but she's also the driving force behind a lot of good decisions the three of them make, and may be reckless with herself because she thinks that's what she has to be to play her role.

And Sophie is the narrator, she's definitely the most cautious of the three in the way where she's careful when she doesn't have to be, and she's also in some ways one of the least self aware. She trips into the relationship with her boyfriend, who, the poor guy is the most mundane ever (and a total geek) but he's very good for her. And she is also one of the first to push to learn the magic that they end up needing to survive, and to not quite master it but dig her fingers deep into the more powerful aspects of it.

There's a lot I haven't done with these girls because the first draft meandered all over the place, and there was a lot of getting to know their characters without doing much with them? But I'm definitely looking forward to getting back to them.