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Crown made for Elenanna

Étoiles Étoiles Tiara by Chaumet, Paris

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Pam

*tsk* Gotta hate it when you chip a nail.

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Reuven @ Pam (the second part, anyway)

nerds are all "acab" and "be gay do crime" until you write a fanfiction they don't like, then they try to narc on you to the literal feds

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Reuven

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Kit’s character development: I was doing okay but now I have angst about my biological daughter and her parents - okay, they’re probably dead now and people just keep dying because of me, I think I need to keep this dog - the dog is dead and I have no will to live

Reuven’s character development: Okay, let’s do something - what the fuck is wrong with Pam - I am going to kill Pam I swear to god (repeat ad nauseum). I miss my husband and if he gets hurt it’s my fault; I killed somebody and it’s very upsetting; I am not fucking going to let anything happen to Kit.

Pam’s character development: Let’s fuck everyone and everything up! Ad hominems are helpful! Buy some Wild Turkey! I need to shop at Hot Topic while we’re on the run! I cut off a guy’s finger! Dragon firework! Give me the Dwarf Ring! I’m gonna carve some potatoes! Mohammed is dreamy. Fight with my friends some more! Try to start a prison riot! Get hit by lightning! I’m pregnant.

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@cattlecrossing Kit?

helpful grammar tip! farther is for physical distance, further is for metaphorical distance, and father is for emotional distance!

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Elenanna

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I mean...

*fails to stop apocalypse cult of Sauron

*puts off world-saving responsibilities on random humans

*finds prophecied saviours with free cruise scam

*wanders off and leaves his friend alone in the desert

*travels around the world to find prospective allies and then misses them by two hours

*impossible to contact

*uses umbrella for a staff

Yeah, I’d say so.

is alatar problematic

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Chapter One aesthetic for Pam Martel

(PC belonging to @natalie-is-my-name)

The OCs Project

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Chapter One aesthetic for Kit (Kaelyn) Howard

(@whimzhbeeaffairs’s PC)

The OCs Project

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Things Reuven Has Totally Done

(somehow this ended up being a call-out post for my character, in the vein of ‘guess what my trashy friend did, I love him’ and idk, I’m pretty all right with that)

-literally pierced his ears in high school to be even more Aggressively Gay despite not actually… wanting… pierced ears…

-after babysitting for a friend, told him, “Oh yeah, so I let her have popcorn and stay up an extra twenty minutes – it’s supposed to be a secret, so when she slips up and tells you, make a big huge deal about it.”

-told his stepfather, in response to God-knows-what allegation about protests and rallies, “You think I’m afraid of jail? I lived in your house.” He was literally still living there.

-in college, in response to a friend he was walking with making an inappropriate comment loudly about some girl they walked past, yelled “FUCKING NO” and pushed him off the sidewalk and into a hedge

-said to his husband, in front of his in-laws, ‘Oh, yeah, that’ll make your family life easier; I’ll pick a fight with your mother.’

-went to his high school reunion for the sole purpose of pissing off the people who had probably assumed he wouldn’t show

-insisted that his stepdaughter refer to their celebrations on December 25th as ‘Gingerbread House Day’ until she can think of something better because even if it sounds dumb, “it’s also a lot less likely to give your grandparents a coronary!”

-blasted Phantom of the Opera for like three days after a neighbour in his college dorm suggested he ‘tone it down with the gay stuff, already’, until he caused a suitable amount of regret - while in fact wearing earphones most of that time, because he… wasn’t even actually all that into musicals. And then periodically played it for a couple hours once or twice a month as a reminder (of what? Who knows. ‘Don’t fuck with me,’ probably. It’s highly unlikely anyone needed to be reminded he was gay. Except Maggie.)

-gotten himself out of tricky babysitting and then later parenting corners using loopholes so often that his eight-year-old stepdaughter announced with disgust, “Dad, he’s cheating at life again!”

-described his sister-in-law’s husband’s personality as ‘toast with saltless butter on it – it’s not technically dry, but it doesn’t actually taste like anything’

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Reuven Svobodya, Chapter One

(An aesthetic for my PC in my current tabletop game.)

The OCs Project

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@cattlecrossing More Kit-related stuff.

You're asexual? But...

“but sex is what makes us human!”

  in 1916 a French officer in his twenties writes his

doctoral dissertation under

heavy mortar fire.

he sends it by mail, a page

at a time, to his wife.

a week before he’s to step up to the podium and

defend his work rather than his country

he is killed in action.

even as the bullets rip

through him he still wishes he could have become a professor

in French literature and

the university awards him a posthumous Ph.D.

sex is

  a woman breaks down in tears on the phone because

a week is not enough time to

get over a breakup.

her sister drives an hour across town,

comes up the front steps with

a gallon of ice cream and some beer

and together they eat moose tracks and marathon

every

single

Godzilla movie

ever made.

  sex is

she’s late for work but her car isn’t

starting and even through her coat and hat she’s cold.

she knows she can’t be late again because she’s missed

one time too many already because her

father’s nurse was sick with the flu and someone

needed to help him bathe.

the clock ticks past fifteen after and she hits

the wheel like it’s a heavy bag as though that will help

steps on the gas like the car will go

and wonders how she will pay rent

and how she will feed her father.

sex is

  it takes three people to hold the predator down because

even with the cover over his head

a bleeding eye and shattered wing

he is trying to hurt them.

none of them have seen this bird before in their lives but

they bandage his wing and head and give him a painkiller and

put him in a warm place to sleep and heal because

it is right.

at first he is paralyzed and cannot

fly but soon he is taking steps

and then fluttering, and then soaring, and

six months later he is whole and healed and hunting.

once he is gone they never see him again

which means they’ve done their jobs right.

sex is

  in 1969 a girl watches grey-and-white footage on her parents’ tiny television and

can’t quite believe that what she is seeing is not a movie set but

another planet.

the men on the screen look a little like

aliens with bulbous heads and no faces and fat

marshmallow arms

but they are still men.

her mother puffs on a cigarette behind her and declares that

this is progress

even if it was just a small step.

the girl grows up to be not an astronaut but a secretary

and her boss calls her ‘sweetheart’.

but sex is

  a boy is taught that real men don’t cry so

he doesn’t.

when his best friend dies from a self-inflicted

gunshot wound, he locks himself

in the shower every day and sobs under scalding

water until it runs cold

so nobody will see him grieving

so nobody will see that tears are just love that

has no place left to go.

he learns to dull love rather than suppress its expression and

soon the owner of the liquor store knows him by name.

three DUIs, two evictions, and twelve steps later,

he is feeding people at a homeless shelter,

and telling them it’s all right to cry.

Sex is

  the broken man tells the comedian

that he didn’t mean to step in front of the car but the rain

made it hard to see.

he seems okay but his leg

does not.

the comedian clutches a grubby receipt with the driver’s

plate number scrawled on the back

in pink pen, stands out in the rain so the broken man

can have his umbrella,

and gives him the comedy routine that ruined his career

so the man doesn’t think about the pain in his leg.

once he’s out of the hospital, the fixed man sends him a thank-you card

with kittens on it.

what makes us human

  yawning is contagious,

and there is a species of bird whose young we call “pufflings”.

melodic collections of sound, spaced by silence,

can move us to tears.

the tallest building in the world is

two-thousand seven-hundred and seventeen feet tall.

in less than eighty years we went from our first powered flight

to touching the moon,

and in one-hundred from the first phone call

to instantaneous connection between thinking machines of our own creation.

we make pies out of tree organs

and let cow’s milk ferment until it hardens and then

we put them together, because apple pie with cheddar cheese isdelicious.

what makes us human is

the earliestfossils of anatomically modern humans are

two-hundred thousand years old .

we have had pet dogs

for sixteen-thousand of those years, longer

than corn

or the wheel.

the steps we take are part of

one of the most energy-efficient gaits the

animal kingdom has ever seen.

we invented the concepts of love

and hate

and justice, and mercy

and we invented the language to convey them.

we sharpened rocks, then metal, to convince other people

who don’t hold the same idea of those things as we do

because we think

it’s right.

we are two hundred millennia of love and disappointment and

sorrow and innovation and

mercy and kindness and dreams

and failure

and recovery.

“but sex is what makes us human.”

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This is a callout post for RAFIQ FUCKING BASHIR, the goddamn Nazgul.

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I burned so long and so quiet, you must have wondered if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

Annelyse Gelman, from “The Pillowcase” in Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (via alonesomes)

Reuven and Pavel

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Kit stuff

Couldn’t find the horses in the fog. Luckily they found me.