#false spring

[sluggoonthestreet]

Regardless of any warm breezes or sunny days, Martin waits until the last day of March to remove his self-heating hat.

[fromstormsend]

Westeros children during the Robert’s Rebellion;

-Prince Viserys of House Targaryen 🐉

-Tyrion of House Lannister 🦁

-Renly of House Baratheon 🦌

-Edmure of House Tully 🐟

[radioactive-yuri]

my doomed rarepair is always on my mind. ms. casey exists to imprison gemma scout: if cold harbor is completed, she dies. if gemma escapes, she also dies. she only exists on the severed floor for a brief moment, her entire life is a few days overall at the very most. natalie knows this. she's unsevered; her life is several decades of both lumon and the outside world, the full human experience, including more pain than ms. casey ever had the chance to experience. and a part of her job is overseeing cold harbor to its completion. the company that has full control over both of their lives has basically ordered her to be complicit in ms. casey's death, and to stand by as she's treated as nothing more than another lock on the door keeping gemma trapped.

now imagine if they were in love. imagine if every time natalie was ordered to go down into the severed floor to confront cobel, all she was thinking about was casey, eyes drifting off to where she knew the wellness room was, but she couldn't. not with the board listening. maybe ms. casey would catch glimpses of her every now and then, and feel drawn to her inexplicably; something within her knowing that this unsevered stranger needed the wellness she was created to give more than any of the innies did. "i knew she needed me", while not the healthiest basis for a relationship, is a trope i absolutely adore.

and the thing is. none of that would change the outcome. love can't overcome natalie's existential terror of lumon and what they can do, and it certainly can't change the fact that ms. casey's life is dependent on gemma staying imprisoned. she's, by far, the most dehumanized innie, and she can't get a happy ending. she never could. her very criteria for existence forbids it.

[hobohobgoblim]

It's going to snow again soon but I'm going for a springtime fit.

[runstreakerz]

Morning Bike Ride!

A bike commute morning always ensures I have a great day! It was a bit chilly (~36F) but this afternoon will be sunny and upper 60s! Hopefully I will get to bike commute all week!

[joyisresistance]

False Springs

Spring in the Pacific Northwest is both glorious and frustrating. It starts early: by February, the crocuses are popping up, the Indian plums are budding, there's a new riot of birdsong, and even though it is still chilly out, you can feel the stirrings of spring, like a lover just waking from sleep and stretching under the blankets.

Then, some time in February, we always get a few days of glorious weather. The sun shines brightly, and it's warm enough to go outside without a heavy winter coat. Every year, I think "Ah, this is it! The cold weather is over!" And every year, I know it's a lie. I know that it's only going to last a few days, and then it will get cold again. I know that spring is going to last another 4 months, and that the weather won't truly warm up until July.

The first false spring is in February, but we usually get two or three of them through March and April: fleeting days of false promises, nature teasing us with previews of the glory that we won't get to fully enjoy for many more months.

And yet, I can't be mad at these false springs. I will take whatever hope I can, however fleeting. I will go out and enjoy a beautiful day of warmth, even if I know that it is going to make tomorrow's cold feel all the more bitter. The phrase "seize the day" takes on such a palpable meaning when I know that today's beautiful weather will not last, and I must go out and enjoy it while I can.

[spookyhotmess]

[stlacroix]

[decadentdeviation]

The 30 degree difference in temperature from yesterday to today is confusing my heart and the daffodils that started blooming.

[sluggoonthestreet]

When asked, Paula checks again to see if it's time to stop hibernating yet.

[adrianspoetryblog]

False spring

A feverish week

Seattle tricks its residents with a week of summer

Soon it will be winter again

You haven't left your house in a day

So we sit in the sun in your backyard

Discussing shakespeare

And nothing past the next week

We wear very little clothes

So desperate for each other we sit a few feet apart in mild conversation

I can see the marks on your body my teeth have left

I'm always dressed wrong for the weather

What do we have time to do?

[radioactive-yuri]

first ever ms casey/natalie fic in the world btw

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64838323

very short, very sweet if i do say so myself

[vaguely-croc-shaped]

Love the secret fifth season where we oscillate between below freezing and the most magnificent weather ever (65 and sunny)

[skubratts]

Snowday (its still coming down)

[ladymalchav]

It was 60F yesterday...