I am one of two planets dancing.

Personal Journal: penumbra (friends-only).

Multipart Fic
Freefall (Smallville): You might not want to find yourself, but you always do in the end. Lana-centric. [incomplete]
First Against the Wall (Smallville): Can Lois Lane save the world?
Meet Me in Smallville (Smallville): Eternal sunshine, Superman. Clark/Lois.
Vers (Smallville): Clark and Lois, finding their way.

Oneshot Fic
Sol and Solace (Smallville): Clark's leaving home. Oneshot. Clois.
The Moon is Rusting (Smallville): Clark's coming home. Sequel to "Sol and Solace". Oneshot. Clois.
Three Step (Smallville): season 8, "snowman". Part of the DI Holiday Ficstravaganza '07. For icancounttoduck.
Remercier (Smallville): I was there, because you needed it. Set during "Arctic". Oneshot. Clois.
Meant to Be (Smallville): Life is unfair, they say — but they never explain what it means. Character death.
Dead Flag Blues/4 Minute Warning (Smallville): The sun has fallen down / And the billboards are all leering / And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles — Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Clark and Lois at the end of the world. For radioreverie.
Reverse, Reverberate (Smallville): Clark and Lois in echo chambers. "Infamous".

Resources:
Textures: tearjerkericons; urbanstrokes.

001-003: Bringing Up Baby
Characters: David Huxley, Susan Vance.

004-005: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x16 - "The Body"
006-008: Buffy the Vampire Slayer 5x20 - "The Gift"
Characters: Buffy Summers.

009-011: Damages 2x01 - "I Lied, Too"
Characters: Ellen Parsons, Patty Hewes.

012-014: Fleischer's Superman
Characters: Lois Lane.

015-021: Futurama
Characters: Leela, Fry, Bender, Zoidberg, Amy, Hermes.

022-023: La Science des Rêves
Characters: Stéphane, Stéphanie.

024-027: π
Characters: Max Cohen.

028-035: Smallville 8x03 - "Toxic"
036-039: Smallville 8x07 - "Identity"
040: Smallville 8x21 - "Injustice"
041-042: Smallville 8x22 - "Doomsday"
Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Tess Mercer.



( She's not your Queen anymore. )

001-022: Erica Durance
Notes: These are all old icons which never got reuploaded after I reorganised things. Most were posted previously.



( I can't give you anything but love, baby. )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

( I know the very seascape of him. )

001-010: Bat For Lashes [from "Daniel" & "Pearl's Dream" music videos]

011-014: Trois Couleurs: Bleu
Characters: Julie de Coury

015-022: Smallville 8x01 - "Odyssey"
023-024: Smallville 8x02 - "Plastique"
Characters: Lois Lane, Clark Kent



( There's a place I must go. )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

- - -
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
               — E. E. Cummings
- - -

( (This always happens at the worst moment.) )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

( I don't want to be pried apart. I want to bloom suddenly, violently, time-lapsed, coaxed. )

001-005: Smallville 8x01 - "Odyssey"
006-008: Smallville 8x10 - "Bride"
009: Smallville 8x15 - "Infamous"
010: Smallville 8x19 - "Stiletto"
011-013: Smallville 8x22 - "Doomsday"
Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane.

014: The Neverending Story
Characters: Atreyu.

015-030: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Characters: Amélie Poulain, Nino Quincompoix.

031-038: Bat For Lashes

039-044: PJ Harvey

045-047: Miscellaneous



( nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals / the power of your intense fragility )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

( Lana is the only person more sensitive than Clark: I understand why he loves her. )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

( Clark is a great oak tree. )

Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

- - -
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
               — T. S. Eliot
- - -

( I never scratched out a place in the dirt and made memories there. )

Author: penumbra
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Let's say through all aired episodes, to be safe.
Summary: Clark and Lois, finding their way.
Parts: I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII

- - -
( Maybe she brushed his hair out of his eyes in the same way she had done mine, and out of that small gesture all that was soft and gentle about him blossomed. )

001-007: Final Fantasy VII/Advent Children
Characters: Aeris Gainsborough, Yuffie Kisaragi.

008-011: Final Fantasy X
Characters: Lulu.

012-013: Smallville 8x01 - "Odyssey"
014-016: Smallville 8x03 - "Toxic"
017: Smallville 8x17 - "Hex"
018-020: Smallville 8x21 - "Injustice"
Characters: Lois Lane, Tess Mercer, Zatanna Zatara.



( I'll come back when it's all over. )

Also, please join!:
vanessasociete, for fans of Gossip Girl's Vanessa Abrams.
versaeris, for fans of Final Fantasy VII's Aeris Gainsborough.

001-002: Smallville 8x15 - "Infamous"
003-005: Smallville 8x17 - "Hex"
Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane.

006-011: Gossip Girl 2x18 - "Age of Dissonance"
Characters: Vanessa Abrams



( The fences that you cannot climb. The sentences that do not rhyme. )

Title: Reverse, Reverberate
Author: penumbra
Characters: Clark, Lois.
Summary: Clark and Lois in echo chambers. "Infamous".

( With her face half in shadow like that she looks vaguely expressionistic, her whole countenance turned away, her knuckles white against the porcelain. I am always afraid to understand what she means. )

001-011: Smallville 8x15 - "Infamous"
Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane.



( One day, I am gonna grow wings. )

001: Smallville 8x05 - "Committed"
002: Smallville 8x08 - "Bloodline"
003-012: Smallville 8x10 - "Bride"
Characters: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Tess Mercer, Faora, Davis Bloome.

013-020: Music
Andrew Bird, Bat For Lashes, The Beatles, Björk, Radiohead.



( I thought, just for a minute, that someone needed me. )

001-002: Bat For Lashes

003-004: Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Characters: Amélie Poulain.

005-006: Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
007: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Cloud Strife, Aeris Gainsborough.

008: Gossip Girl 2x07 - "Chuck in Real Life"
009-013: Gossip Girl 2x12 - "It's a Wonderful Lie"
Characters: Vanessa Abrams.

014: Merlin 1x01 - "The Dragon's Call"
015: Merlin 1x10 - "The Moment of Truth"
016-017: Merlin 1x13 - "Le Morte d'Arthur"
Characters: Morgana, Nimueh.

018-019: Thom Yorke

020-021: Smallville 8x03 - "Toxic"
022: Smallville 8x09 - "Legion"
Characters: Tess Mercer, Lana Lang.

024-036: Miscellaneous



( I have never felt this way before, never. )

Title: Dead Flag Blues/4 Minute Warning
Author: penumbra
Characters: Clark, Lois.
Summary: The sun has fallen down / And the billboards are all leering / And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles — Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Clark and Lois at the end of the world.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: For radioreverie, for having the best fic ideas and refusing to write them, for having intimidatingly good taste, for being all-around awesome. I hope you like it.

( This is just a nightmare. )