let's go to the carnival!

[shelliemay]

the carnival meme

WHAT TO DO: 1. Post with your character! 2. Pick a scenario and reply to people! 3. Have fun and try not to get sick on the roller coaster! OPTIONS: 1. Games: From classic ring toss to the shooting gallery, here's your chance to win a prize for yourself or for that special someone. Some say the games at a carnival are rigged, but maybe, just maybe, you'll get lucky! 2. Food and Drink: The sweet smell of funnel cake and the familiar briny aroma of popcorn draw you over to the food and drink tent. There's cotton candy, candied nuts, and cheep booze, all here for your enjoyment. 3. Classic Rides: The carousel, the ferris wheel. All carnivals need these classic rides for kids and adults who aren't looking for the excitement of the faster-paced rides. Snuggle close to your partner and see if you can see your house from the top of the wheel. 4. Something More Exciting: This is for thrill-seekers. Here you'll find the Tilt-a-Whirl, the Gravitron, the Screamin' Swing--all the rides designed to make you lose your lunch. Hope you didn't have too much cotton candy! 5. Freakshow: Do they really have a bearded lady in that tent? It's time to find out. Buy a ticket and see the greatest oddities the world has to offer. 6. Tunnel of Love: Or perhaps tunnel of mild boredom. The red-tinted lights and quasi-romantic music are meant to make this ride a great makeout spot, if the chemistry is there. 7. Hall of Mirrors: You and your partner entered, thinking it would be easy to get out again, but dead ends abound in this wacky mirror-maze, and each mirror seems to show a more and more distorted image of each of you. 8. Fortune Teller: Whether one of the creepy machines or the even creepier women dressed up in a culturally insensitive costume, you cross someone's palms with silver and get your future told. Will it be happiness forever with your partner, or will ill tidings be bound your way? (Feel free to use this online tarot spread for extra fun!) 9. Wildcard: Any situation of your choosing happens in a carnival today! Go with the flow.

Comments

[batgirl_babs]

It was still so cool to see, up close. And she was so precise about it. Such a useful, potent skill.

"Gosh, that's still just the most amazing thing to see. I remember how surprised I was when I first saw you do that - nearly swung into a wall."

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty couldn't help a small laugh. "You should see the faces people make when I phase through them."

[batgirl_babs]

She grins at that.

"Oh, I can imagine," she says, "and I'll admit to being curious to see if I feel anything when you do. Though I also admit I can think up a situation or two in which it would be really great for crimefighting."

[goingthroughaphase]

"People usually don't feel anything, but we can always give it a shot."

She takes another bite of her burger, chewing thoughtfully.

"Oh yeah, it's definitely come in handy for crimefighting." She grins. "I may or may not have had a brief stint as a member of an all-girl crimefighting group."

[batgirl_babs]

She took another bite, grinning afterwards.

"You didn't tell me that before! That's fantastic! Tell me about it? Oh, and that reminds me - you've got to meet K...Supergirl one of these days. Trust me, she'll love you. She's like me, but a total sweetheart."

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty snickered. "You say, as if you aren't a total sweetheart. But yeah, I'd love to meet her."

She ate a few more fries, then washed it down with soda. "But yeah, the all-girl group. This was before our powers were made public, but we were using them to stop small crimes. Car robberies, petty thefts, things like that. It started three girls, including Jean of all people. Then they managed to pull me and Rogue into it. We called ourselves the Bayville Sirens. We even had cool outfits and everything."

[batgirl_babs]

She laughed, surprised.

"Ok, Rogue I can see from what you've told me about her - Jean not so much. And that's a great name! You're sure you're not thinking about moving to Gotham? You're like a third of the way to my job with just that."

[goingthroughaphase]

She giggled. "Right? But Jean was the one to start it, along with Amara and Tabitha." Which, given how Tabitha was, made a bit more sense.

"If I did move to Gotham, we should totally form our own team."

Based on a true horror story a friend of mine went through.

[batgirl_babs]

"Are you kidding? I'd have you move in!"

She pauses, blushing a bit.

"Ok, that may have been an imaginary step too far too fast - but it ought to tell you a lot of how highly I think of you. I mean, my last roommate went home over the summer, and left a class of cola in her drawer. A glass of it. In a drawer."

Oh wow

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty can't help making a face. "Ew, seriously? What the heck?"

[batgirl_babs]

"If I understood a single piece of the process, I'd tell you," she replied, with a dramatic shrug.

"Suffice to say, even if you left socks around, that's like one percent as aggravating."

[goingthroughaphase]

She laughed a little. "Well, I don't really like clutter, so I think we'd be good."

[batgirl_babs]

"Worth thinking about, maybe one day," she said, with a smile.

[goingthroughaphase]

"Definitely. I have to think about colleges soon anyway." She smiled. "Maybe I'll come and study in Gotham."

[batgirl_babs]

"Oh yeah, you're just getting all that fun! Picking courses, figuring out schedules..."

She paused.

"Presuming you're even thirty percent the Giant Nerd I am, that is."

[goingthroughaphase]

She grinned. "Well, not to brag, but I am a straight-A student."

[batgirl_babs]

"Oh, good," she said, "so you know exactly how I feel."

[goingthroughaphase]

With a laugh, she nodded. "I definitely do. Though I'm still trying to figure out what I wanna study after I graduate."

[batgirl_babs]

She nodded. "Yeah, definitely the hard part. Because 'superhero' doesn't exactly fit well on a resume."

[goingthroughaphase]

She giggled. "A school for superheroes?" she said with a teasing roll of her eyes. "Can you imagine?"

[batgirl_babs]

That one provoked an outright laugh.

"Oh, oh I can, and it would start with the drama dialed up to eleven."

She waved a french fry between her fingers as she talked with her hands.

"So Suzie found out with her super-hearing that Victor is going to ask someone else to the dance, oh noes! And Jeremy's fire powers are just, like, out of control around Steven and he's so embarrassed."

[goingthroughaphase]

Kitty laughed herself. "You sure you've never been to the institute? Because that's pretty much our everyday lives."

[batgirl_babs]

That one provoked an even bigger laugh.

"Oh no, that bad?"

[goingthroughaphase]

She snickered. "It definitely can be. It gets pretty hectic around the mansion."

[batgirl_babs]

She shook her head.

"People are the same everywhere, I guess - you'd probably have a good number of future novels out of it, if you were a writer."