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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY WIFE! @5am_bam our first year of marriage together has been everything I hoped it would be, we grow stronger and stronger everyday, we have baby Krumm on the way, & I can't wait to see whats in store for our Rebell family. I love us, always and forever ❤️ Apologies folks for the lack of wedding photos, and thank-you's, there is meant to be thankyou cards. (Issue with the photographer's) but thankyou with ALL of our hearts to Robin our celebrant ❤️ Goona Warra Vinyard the venue and staff ❤️ Jen for the cake ❤️ Ethical Jewellery Aus for Sam's rings ❤️ And thank you to our guests ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/CE5bcx8nwGT/?igshid=1go3qlc2aa20

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“Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”

— The Fifth Season’s opening line, N. K. Jemisin

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this place has everything

flying obelisks

Black fantasy

living statues

polyamorous pansexual pirates

a really pissed off mom

casual apocalypse

a trans scientist who would live inside JSTOR if she could

geode village

the most accurate and exquisite explanation of imperialism and systemic oppression I have ever encountered in science fiction and fantasy

dirt wizards

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Quick 2 hour trip up too one of our favourite book shops @aesopsatticbookshop #earthabides #thewordghost #thelightofallthatfalls https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Q0qCdBNKQ/?igshid=6wqu68fxopkt

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Picked up my copy of @australia_burns this arvo from @ascmelbourne also grabbed something for the wife ❤️ @5am_bam If anyone needs me I'll be getting emotional over the awesome stories & art inside this outstanding donation to the cause that is #australianbushfireseason https://www.instagram.com/p/B-JxFZahimi/?igshid=3wdk0tzhhuis

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This servo has toilet paper folks 👍👍 #doingmypart #aussietoiletpapercrisis #doesntbotherme I get my toilet paper from #whogivesacrap ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/B9WFSVFh6kZ/?igshid=1lv5m29vwl2i0

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“[…] The Breaking left a thousand wonders behind, and there been half a dozen empires or more since, some rivaling Artur Hawkwing’s, every one leaving things to see and find. Lightsticks and razorlace and heartstone. A crystal lattice covering an island, and it hums when the moon is up. A mountain hollowed into a bowl, and in its center, a silver spike a hundred spans high, and any who comes within a mile of it, dies. Rusted ruins, and broken bits, and things found on the bottom of the sea, things not even the oldest books know the meaning of I’ve gathered a few, myself. Things you never dreamed of, in more places than you can see in ten lifetimes. That be the strangeness that will draw you on.” “We used to dig up bones in the Sand Hills,” Rand said slowly. “Strange bones. There was part of a fish—I think it was a fish—as big as this boat, once. Some said it was bad luck, digging in the hills.” The captain eyed him shrewdly. “You thinking about home already, lad, and you just set out in the world? The world will put a hook in your mouth. You’ll set off chasing the sunset, you wait and see… and if you ever go back, your village’ll no be big enough to hold you.” “No!” He gave a start. How long had it been since he had thought of home, of Emond’s Field? And what of Tam? It had to be days. It felt like months. “I will go home, one day, when I can. I’ll raise sheep, like… like my father, and if I never leave again it will be too soon. Isn’t that right, Mat? As soon as we can we’re going home and forget all this even exists.””

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The Eye of the World, chapter 24 “Flight Down the Arinelle”.

“You’ll set off chasing the sunset, you wait and see… and if you ever go back, your village’ll no be big enough to hold you.”

Domon has a point, and it’s something that is borne out by the series. All of the Emond’s Field gang grow and change, and build new lives for themselves that could not possibly be lived out in the Emond’s Field of their childhood.

Even Perrin, who tries to go home - only to discover that his home has gone, his village has changed and he has other responsibilities that prevent him from staying - has to eventually accept the change within himself.

But on the other hand, there’s Tam. Tam managed not only to return to his childhood village, but to give every indication of being at peace with doing so. He raised his son to be content with their rural lifestyle.

The difference is that Tam came home over 20 years later, after four wars and a successful military career, and he and his wife had an infant to raise. He was not looking to pick up the threads of an old life so much as to build a new life with his family.

At the end of AMOL, some of the Emond’s Field gang need to recuperate after the horror of war, and/or are interested in a career change, and/or now have spouses or infants to consider. Yet it’s impossible to imagine any of them immediately settling down on a farm in the middle of rural nowhere - partly because they still have on-going responsibilities and connections to the wider world, and partly because they’re all still so young. 

Years down the track, it’s possible one of them will make a similar choice to Tam’s. (I’d argue it’s highly likely at least one will.) But none of them are at that point yet.

(via herenya-sedai)

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#coffeereads #satdaycoffeewalks #onasunday #BeBatman #DeanRankine #resilience #overcomingadveristy #gettingthroughtoughtimes #shootingstarpublishing https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wr84jhSvI/?igshid=197ngtx9mx246

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#satdaycoffeewalks #coffeereads #BeBatman #overcomingadveristy @deanrankine https://www.instagram.com/p/B7uDFNmh3SI/?igshid=9ih414aybc8r

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Too many books to read. Not enough coffees #coffeereads #satdaycoffeewalks #onasunday https://www.instagram.com/p/B7eujGbBgg8/?igshid=8y69nhf0mucm

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The #smokehaze has been this thick for 3 days now... #gippslandfires #melbournesmokehaze #bushfireseason #climatechange #climateaction #climatecrisis https://www.instagram.com/p/B7URxu3Blnv/?igshid=6yfnavn88vt0

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The future is bleak https://www.instagram.com/p/B61yFsAhAFA/?igshid=1i4dm5n7sgjuh

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Today the forecast is #smokehaze #bushfires #bushfireseason summer can't end soon enough! I normally hate summer, but this one is shaping up to be particularly horrible. 2019 was the hottest & driest year for us... & Summer has only bearly begun. Thinking of the Worrior Fire Fighters, out there right now, fighting of this bush fire season. #firefighters #australianfirefighters #respectforthefirefighters https://www.instagram.com/p/B61b5m3Bg3c/?igshid=5hgt3pwb9eut

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A cute little spash of colour in the form of some #originalart from @fatrocketstudiosofficial this piece is #handpainted & also very #Limited (they've only made a handful of them!) #grabthemwhileyoucan https://www.instagram.com/p/B6rVUDzh6em/?igshid=i6in0a2hd2kv

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NYNAEVE!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!

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today is a VERY good day! my soul is very happy to once again have easy access #Tool ❤❤❤❤❤ #peaceofmind #mentaltherapy #happyplace #soultherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ro4wsh0Q1/?igshid=1vo0dkpsemztx

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VAN HELSING (2004) dir. Stephen Sommers