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storypaint) wrote2010-07-14 10:51 am
storypaint) wrote2010-07-14 10:51 am
[The Princess Diaries] competence is a turn-on (Lilly gen)
Title: competence is a turn-on
Fandom: The Princess Diaries (movie)
Length: 241 words
Prompt: Awesome Ladies Ficathon: The Princess Diaries, Lilly Moscovitz, too clever to be mentally ill
Pairing: Lilly gen
Other: I'm not sure it ever establishes this in the movie, but in the books Lilly's parents are both psychiatrists.
Excerpt: Lilly is sixteen and she's going to save the world. Her parents just don't understand; psychiatrists have no imaginations, except when it comes to diagnosing their daughter with delusions of grandeur.
Lilly is sixteen and she's going to save the world. Her parents just don't understand; psychiatrists have no imaginations, except when it comes to diagnosing their daughter with delusions of grandeur. She's much too clever to be mentally ill, and she only puts her hair up in sparkly clips to disorient the opposition.
It's just a cable show for now, but she has an audience, and audiences can (will) grow. She talks about global warming and pickets and protests, about saving the otters and the beach and the ozone layer. She writes flyers until Sharpie ink makes her loopy, and then she prints the rest at Kinko's. She will be heard.
She thinks she's losing Mia but then she realizes that this is her big break. Suddenly she can advocate on a much greater level than before. She thinks she might not make it to Saturday; her excitement is too great. When the day comes she runs down the sidewalk, knees flashing pale between skirt and black stockings, and it isn't until Mia is twenty minutes late that she understands Mia isn't coming. She's back to her own grassroots movement, back to working on her own power, and the idea has never been so disappointing.
"Shut up and listen," she says, scowling. One day they all will, with Mia's help or not. Lilly Moscovitz will reach the world.
She just needs a bigger microphone.
Fandom: The Princess Diaries (movie)
Length: 241 words
Prompt: Awesome Ladies Ficathon: The Princess Diaries, Lilly Moscovitz, too clever to be mentally ill
Pairing: Lilly gen
Other: I'm not sure it ever establishes this in the movie, but in the books Lilly's parents are both psychiatrists.
Excerpt: Lilly is sixteen and she's going to save the world. Her parents just don't understand; psychiatrists have no imaginations, except when it comes to diagnosing their daughter with delusions of grandeur.
Lilly is sixteen and she's going to save the world. Her parents just don't understand; psychiatrists have no imaginations, except when it comes to diagnosing their daughter with delusions of grandeur. She's much too clever to be mentally ill, and she only puts her hair up in sparkly clips to disorient the opposition.
It's just a cable show for now, but she has an audience, and audiences can (will) grow. She talks about global warming and pickets and protests, about saving the otters and the beach and the ozone layer. She writes flyers until Sharpie ink makes her loopy, and then she prints the rest at Kinko's. She will be heard.
She thinks she's losing Mia but then she realizes that this is her big break. Suddenly she can advocate on a much greater level than before. She thinks she might not make it to Saturday; her excitement is too great. When the day comes she runs down the sidewalk, knees flashing pale between skirt and black stockings, and it isn't until Mia is twenty minutes late that she understands Mia isn't coming. She's back to her own grassroots movement, back to working on her own power, and the idea has never been so disappointing.
"Shut up and listen," she says, scowling. One day they all will, with Mia's help or not. Lilly Moscovitz will reach the world.
She just needs a bigger microphone.