Perils of Valora Reading Guide by Damselbinder, literature
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Perils of Valora Reading Guide
Perils of Valora 1 1-1: America, F*** Yeah! 1-2: Every Woman Has Her Price 1-3: A Taste of Victory 1-4: Tipping the Velvet 1-5: Aftershocks Perils of Valora 2 2-1: What a Scoop! 2-2: Snitches Get Stitches 2-3: 'So I'm Evil, Then' 2-4: "Drink Me" 2-5: James and the Peach 2-6: "Auehhh?!" 2-7: A Superstitious, Cowardly Lot Perils of Valora 3 3-1: The Bombshells Defused 3-2: The Reverse Pete Best 3-3: Mamma Mia 3-4: ChCl3 3-5: The Binding of Valora 3-6: Wolf 3-7: 'Mine' 3-8: 'I've Got You, Babe' 3-9: 'See What's On the Slab' 3-10: Destrudo 3-Epilogue: 'Papa Don't Preach' Perils of Valora 4 4-1: 'The Dregs' 4-2: Inferior 4-3: Submerged 4-4: Muffled 4-5: Superheroinas al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios 4-6: You've Gotta See Her 4-7: 'There's No 'I' in Hypat- in Superhero' 4-8: "Touch" 4-Epilogue: "What a Way to Make a Living" Perils of Valora 5 5-Prologue: Tempus Fugit 5-1: "In Fair Portland, Where We Lay Our Scene..." 5-2: Rat Bites Dog Bites Man 5-3: Don't Call it a
Perils of Enhancegirl Arc 2 Summary by Damselbinder, literature
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Perils of Enhancegirl Arc 2 Summary
We rejoin Sophie in part 6 some months after her kidnap at the hands of Madam Black. In defeating the psychic Mindblow, Sophie encounters Aerogirl, otherwise known as Maya Cierra. Maya is a powerful aerokinetic, but loses her powers when tied up, and she has a very poor reputation. Sophie decides to help her become more confident.
Sophie assists Maya in her investigation of a man named Ricardo Hosenfluss. He seems to have acquired a material - dexite - that might grant him the same power as the Indigo Titan, considered the world's strongest man. In their search they encounter a thief named Ocelot, who easily captures Maya with the aid of her
Perils of Enhancegirl Arc 1 Summary by Damselbinder, literature
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Perils of Enhancegirl Arc 1 Summary
We begin our tale with Sophie Scott, a spunky, quick-witted, but headstrong young college student, in the fictional city of Seacouver, somewhere in California. She seems already to be a superhero by the time we meet her, but she is not very experienced. Going by the name of 'Enhancegirl', she uses her vastly magnified senses (minus hearing) to fight crime.
In her first appearance, she encounters the slave trader Madam Black. Tricking one of Black's man into kidnapping her and taking her to Black's hideout, Enhancegirl frees herself and is about to put paid to Black's scheme...until a jar of chloroform is opened. She finds to her dismay that
An end to the Enhanceverse (more or less) by Damselbinder, journal
An end to the Enhanceverse (more or less)
I may be broadly spoiling some of the events of Enhancegirl and Valora here. It took me three years and one week, almost exactly, but yesterday I finished "The Perils of Valora." This was a very different experience to writing Enhancegirl, because with Valora I knew, pretty much, where I wanted the story to go, and how it would eventually end. There were many revisions, dodges and alterations, but it basically went where I intended. Enhancegirl went every which way - I didn't even know that 16 would be the very last story until I finished 15, which seems absurd in retrospect. When Enhancegirl ended, I have to say I felt a little like Sophie herself at the end of her: there was a great burst of applause, and I felt like the bee's knees. Writing her story - writing Sophie herself, and Mariko, and Natalya, and even Valerie as she appeared in PoEG - was relatively easy. It came naturally, and it was fun. Even in the darker and more intense moments, I could write her tales quickly, and
"What the fuck," screamed Caesar, as I began bludgeoning him, "the Ides of March aren't for like three weeks!", not realising that I had scrawled 'the Ides of March' onto my baseball bat with a compass