Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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  • Music: Seanan McGuire, "Wicked Girls."

A world in need of wicked girls.

So—for a variety of reasons—I've had the song "Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves" stuck in my head for roughly a week now. This has started to drive me insane. Consequentially, I spent a good chunk of yesterday composing new verses, just so I'd be singing something different. I found this so entertaining that I've decided to make it a party game (yes, this is now officially a party). Give me a girl from folklore, myth, literature, or hell, modern media, and if I have a clue of who she is, I'll write a verse.

A few rules:

1. Fictional people only. Real people go in the bridge, and I already re-write that every time we do the song live.
2. One girl per customer.
3. Jean Grey is not eligible.
4. Don't make me come over there.

Game on!...and now, game off. I already have more than I can handle, and I can't handle no more. Thanks for all the great suggestions, and please don't provide any additional girls for consideration in today's admissions.

( Click here for the girls we've invited to join us so far.Collapse )
Tags: party games, silliness, song lyrics
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miintikwa

June 26 2009, 19:59:41 UTC 8 years ago

Sioned from the Dragon Prince books!

seanan_mcguire

June 27 2009, 04:07:49 UTC 8 years ago

I've never read them.

miintikwa

8 years ago

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elorie

June 26 2009, 20:01:21 UTC 8 years ago

Cordelia Naismith (Going shopping!). Or Elli Quinn, who is heroic but Not a Nice Person. Or, if you want *really* wicked, Cavilo.

seanan_mcguire

June 27 2009, 04:08:01 UTC 8 years ago

I've never read any of these source materials.

A shot in the dark

maverick_weirdo

June 26 2009, 20:13:55 UTC 8 years ago

Gil-Shalos a.k.a. Gil Patterson from Barbara Hamberly's Darwath series

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idancewithlife

June 26 2009, 20:48:43 UTC 8 years ago

I'm in the process of re-reading that trilogy as you type :-) I think Minalde would be a good choice as well. But I already posted a selection.

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maverick_weirdo

8 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

8 years ago

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erinlin

June 26 2009, 20:16:46 UTC 8 years ago

Ever read Discworld? How about Sybil Vimes (nee Ramkin)?

dimloep_suum

July 8 2009, 20:08:31 UTC 7 years ago

And if not Sybil, then Susan?

seanan_mcguire

7 years ago

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dimloep_suum

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wyld_dandelyon

June 26 2009, 20:20:12 UTC 8 years ago

River. (Firefly)

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kyrielle

June 26 2009, 20:28:09 UTC 8 years ago

...I'm just going to go back and say 'ooo' because I've thought of several and found them all here already, and really you seem to have enough for...well...a very many verses. ;)

seanan_mcguire

June 27 2009, 04:08:25 UTC 8 years ago

Yeah, I'm drowning.

closer2myself

June 26 2009, 21:11:28 UTC 8 years ago

I narrowed my suggestions down to two: Wendy Watson from Middle Man, or Elisa Maza from Gargoyles.

seanan_mcguire

July 11 2009, 17:28:29 UTC 7 years ago

Wendy had never aspired to glory or greatness,
An artist more truly defined by her casual lateness,
But she chose the wrong job, landed in the wrong place,
And was faced with a choice that most won't have to face:
Would she go save the world, would she be more than she'd ever been?
Would she stand by the Middleman's side...and could they ever win?

emberleo

June 26 2009, 21:12:37 UTC 8 years ago

Snow White (with or without Rose Red), either the original folklore versions, or the Fable versions (which I believe you know far better than I).

--Ember--

emberleo

June 26 2009, 21:13:10 UTC 8 years ago

Oh snert, even better: Mary from The Secret Garden. Or else her mother Lily.

--Ember--

dulcinbradbury

8 years ago

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emberleo

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mokatiki

June 26 2009, 21:28:31 UTC 8 years ago

Virginia! (10th Kingdom)
Kim Pine (scott pilgram)? Jenny Sparks? Delirium? Tara Chase?

mokatiki

June 26 2009, 21:29:43 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, to many.
Delirium

seanan_mcguire

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sheistheweather

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palmer_kun

June 26 2009, 21:30:09 UTC 8 years ago

Jo Lupo

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 03:17:35 UTC 7 years ago

Jo has a whole lot of guns, and she knows how to use them,
Knows all the rules and the laws and just how to abuse them,
But she's never once earned a gold star of her own,
And she knows that her bravery's coming on loan,
And she's not just sure who she'll be when that last bill comes due...
Jo knows how to shoot what she sees, but some bullets pass through.

catvalente

June 26 2009, 21:54:41 UTC 8 years ago

Ahem. Well, I mean, it is rather odd to ask. But I'd love to see Sorrow or September.

seanan_mcguire

June 26 2009, 22:09:23 UTC 8 years ago

September.

September was bored and alone and forgot to be wary
Of the Green Wind that blows little girls who complain into Faerie,
There are stories you live, there are stories you seek,
There are stories that have no regard for the meek,
So she spread our her skirts when there was neither captain nor sail...
She had further to go than she knew when she fell to this tale.

Sorrow.

Sorrow and stardust and stories and spindles surround her,
The girl in the garden caught fast in the words that have bound her,
And she's starved and she's shivered alone in the cold,
For you can't break a story that's not yet been told.
She's been praying for solace, for something to name as her own,
And the girl in the garden is lonely, and ever alone.

vixyish

June 26 2009, 22:18:01 UTC 8 years ago

I love you so hard!

seanan_mcguire

June 27 2009, 04:08:51 UTC 8 years ago

I love you, too.

vixyish

June 26 2009, 22:20:09 UTC 8 years ago

Dare.

...if that would be too spoilery, then

Jadis, the White Witch.

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 17:35:52 UTC 7 years ago

Hrm...

...too spoilery, and I have not the strength in me for villainy. I am sorry, my darling, but I must fail you.

ladyaraia

June 26 2009, 22:28:30 UTC 8 years ago

I would love to see one for Casimira from Palimpsest. :)

seanan_mcguire

June 26 2009, 22:34:37 UTC 8 years ago

Sweet Casimira requests neither penance nor pity,
A priestess of pleasures enshrined in the shape of a city.
The tourists arrive through the strangest of doors
Seeking something they've lost as they cleave to their fours,
And she gathers them close, shows them heaven, then sends them away...
For as she cannot leave, Casimira won't ask you to stay.

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seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 02:56:19 UTC 7 years ago

Alas, not at this time. :(

the_s_guy

June 26 2009, 23:03:21 UTC 8 years ago

I'd suggest Hypatia of Alexandria for the bridge, but for the verse... hmm. Susan Pevensie?

vixyish

June 26 2009, 23:12:02 UTC 8 years ago

Susan's already in the original song!

seanan_mcguire

8 years ago

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the_s_guy

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jenk

June 26 2009, 23:07:28 UTC 8 years ago

If you like: Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time, or Buffy.



seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 17:36:10 UTC 7 years ago

Haven't read it! I'm sorry.

upstart_crow

June 26 2009, 23:14:23 UTC 8 years ago

Such a pity you aren't one of the five people who has read my book The Tale of the Miller's Daughter. The title character would be perfect for this.

Otherwise, though, I'm nominating Himemiya Anthy (Anshii) from Revolutionary Girl Utena.

windbourne

June 27 2009, 02:14:03 UTC 8 years ago

*__* I...I second this. *__*
(Along with so many others...this is brilliant. Brilliant, I say.)

scifantasy

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scifantasy

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madtom_o_bedlam

June 26 2009, 23:49:10 UTC 8 years ago

How about Dr.Temperance Brennen.

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 19:00:14 UTC 7 years ago

Temperance Brennan was brilliant, and so they forgave her
For the alien light in her eyes and her icy behavior.
She's a changeling child traded by loss and neglect
For the human-born girl who knew how to connect
With the people around her, and now she can't understand why
They tell her she's broken because she forgot how to lie.

tithenai

June 27 2009, 00:01:47 UTC 8 years ago

Gerda, from "The Snow Queen," please. Girls with red shoes rock my heart.

seanan_mcguire

July 13 2009, 20:14:40 UTC 7 years ago

Gerda was foolish and faithful, designed for disaster,
A scarlet-shod girl in a world made of cold alabaster,
And she followed a boy who was frozen and cold
In the hope he'd remember he'd loved her of old,
And she walked to the wastes praying only that he'd take her hand...
Love and mercy are things that the winter cannot understand.

tithenai

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jadis17

June 27 2009, 00:49:10 UTC 8 years ago

Lucy Saxon! Please!
too many good choices.

seanan_mcguire

July 13 2009, 20:47:47 UTC 7 years ago

Lucy was lucky...or so she believed when he claimed her,
The wild rose of England, and Saxon the man who would tame her,
And he built her a prison, a modern day Troy,
And he made her his wife, and he made her his toy,
And a thousand ships sailed in her honor, a war to end wars...
And he called her Companion while other men called her a whore.

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druidspell

June 27 2009, 00:52:42 UTC 8 years ago

Persephone, for choosing to eat the pomegranate seeds.

caudelac

June 27 2009, 01:49:22 UTC 8 years ago

word.

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caudelac

June 27 2009, 01:48:52 UTC 8 years ago

Ol' Louhi, witch-queen of Poyhola.

seanan_mcguire

July 12 2009, 19:04:07 UTC 7 years ago

Sadly, I only really know her from Jane Lindskold's fabulous Changer, and cannot meet your request. :( But you should read the book, if you haven't already.

caudelac

7 years ago

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exapno

June 27 2009, 02:05:38 UTC 8 years ago

Scheherazade?

seanan_mcguire

July 7 2009, 15:06:30 UTC 7 years ago

I would love to, but her name is a whole wide world of not suiting the scansion.

akawil

June 27 2009, 02:09:46 UTC 8 years ago

To make extra sure to pick a fandom you know --

Megan, My Little Pony.

seanan_mcguire

July 13 2009, 21:19:55 UTC 7 years ago

Megan was never a girl prone to fanciful wishes;
She tended the farm, folded laundry, and put away dishes.
Then the pink pony tumbled down out of the sky
Whisking Megan away before she could ask "why,"
And she'll never go back to the farm-girl that she was before...
And she misses so much, but she can't be that girl anymore.
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