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I'm sorry... for everything I've done, haven't done, and am about to do.

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Ten Petals

“Hmmm…you know, it’s pretty clever.” 

He cocked his head at his Queen, the slight movement making a crickle-crack that had grown more pronounced in his middle age. “What? The fact that our spawn managed to annoy us whilst also celebrating our romance?” 

“Annoy you,” she retorted, but it was with a smile. “I’m perfectly happy to receive flowers from our kids.”

He groaned, casting a half-heartedly withering glare at the delicate pink petals of the two primroses before them. “But these blasted blooms? They know how I feel about them.”

Her golden eyes, still so so brilliant and beautiful and bold even with the slight wrinkles around them, softened. “They also know that because of them, because of the Potion they make, because of everything that happened…we met.”

He was silent at that, thinking it over. There…was a seed of truth to that. Instead of both of their lives being broken and bitter because of their heartbreaks on their respective Fateful Days…

…this flower had brought them together one Fateful Night. 

“And I was talking about it something else, actually.” She touched his shoulder and pointed. “Look. Primroses have five petals each. Two primroses…”

“…ten petals altogether,” he finished, the realization dawning on him. 

“Ten years together.” Her smile was a soft slant. “Like I said, clever. Or cute, but don’t tell them I said that.”

“Cute works for this,” he chuckled, feeling far more fond of their children’s gift. Five children, the strange and magical offspring of Forest and Fields, five petals on a primrose…how appropriate. Yes, he definitelyappreciated the gift far more. 

“And for you,” Marianne declared, eyes tender and her smile teasing. “You scaly backed cockroach.” 

“Likewise, Tough Girl,” Bog replied, pulling her to him with the purr of a growl that had never failed to make flowers of fire bloom in her blood. 

Their kiss was deep and sweet, full of feeling and fierce with devotion. Ten years of healing hearts, of warm wickedness, of a love neither thought they could ever have…

The petals to mark their years together would grow, but their love?

That was endless.  ________________

Ten years ago, I experienced Strange Magic for the first time, and my life was never the same again.

I started sharing fanfic and fanart for the first time, and the friends I’ve met and made thanks to this movie have changed my life. This movie is strange and sweet and vibrantly its own beautiful creature, and it will always have a place in my heart.

Happy 10th Anniversary, Strange Magic. You make my heart sing… 💜

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there are no hard rules for human interaction but honestly i think everyone online would benefit hugely from operating under the assumption that, unless you have been given a specific reason to think otherwise in discrete instances, internet strangers do not want to be approached with:

your trauma, illnesses, or deep-rooted self worth issues

any come-ons or sexual content

over-familiar playful rudeness

information about your dnd characters/ocs

disagreements with their harmless subjective opinions

if it is your first time speaking with someone i can not highly enough recommend that these do not be your opening topics

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wait-

I just realized...

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My vibe about ships since forever tbh

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The Crow VVitch by Natalya Glushenkova

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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the thing about being neurodivergent is that i literally derive the same amount of pleasure from imaginary scenarios as I do from the very real thing happening & i feel like neurotypicals don't understand this

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Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.

The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.

Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.

A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"

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Saying you’re proud of someone for doin’ their best really can make their day when things get rough for them :D

But yes Husker is getting better, and Angel is just trying his best to cover his overlord duties but sometimes it gets a little overwhelming ;0;

Y’all they’re just too dang cute I can’t 😭🩷

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Hey Strange Magic fans!

I run a site where we turn fanfiction stories into audiofics, fully narrated by a cast of voice actors. We just finished and posted our first Strange Magic audiofic: "Waking Meadows" by the talented @magically-strange.

Feel free to check it out and we at Audio Fanfiction Library hope you enjoy!

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i love this type of post

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Jealous little brat 🥰 Angel I promise they’re just sharing intel about overlords, relax bb girl asgbswjjhwjhwhjwjw

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"Don't use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead" is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.

It's well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn't affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there's absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn't exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).

Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you're gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.

One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.

*Yes, this is a blog post, but it's a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.

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The 10th Kingdom (2000)

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Words and archaic words for “February” in various dialects and languages.

Important: many of these words are quite archaic. Take Germany and Scandinavia for example. Very few people there would have heard these words except if their (great)grandparents happen to have said it. Februar(i) is universal now.

The change from the ancient Norse “Thorri” to “Góa” was in the middle of February, so it is interesting to see that parts of Norway have used “torre-month” as February, while others use “Góa-month”. In Iceland and much of Norway it never got this change of meaning though, and is only used for the old month system, not the Gregorian calendar.

> “Tærrin me sett skjægg låkke bånna utom vægg. Goa me sett grin jåggå bånna in” > “The Tærri with his beard tempt the children out. The Go with her grin chance the children in”. > - Saying about the weather.

Otherwise the map got quite crowded. Hope it wasn’t too bad!

by jkvatterholm