caught in between being desperate to have time to write fic and also doing my best to navigate adult responsibilities which this week alone look like: an assignment due, a lawyer meeting (everything is fine I just had some questions about stuff), an interview, and my bestie about to go into labor at quite literally any second and I have to be Available
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so it's like this.
you're young and you're scared and you're trapped in the feywild (happens to the best of us) with the love of your life. You're a half-elf and she's a fullblooded elf but you don't think about it very much because you're barely surviving day to day. And you get offered a deal to get yourself home again, and you take it. And the price of your freedom is that you leave her still trapped there, alone.
And then five years pass. And you age a century in that time, and you grow, and you change, and you find her again, and you're still in love, and you meet people, and you lose people, and you love them too, and you learn, and you start wanting a future again, and caring again, taking care of yourself, taking care of other people--
and after all of that, at the end of things, you find out the man responsible for all of the misery in your short, sad life has cast a spell which gives him complete control and ownership of you- mind, body, and soul (again. this happens to the best of us). And you are given the choice to stay under his thrall, and live a thousand years-- or to age and die, like humans do, and to be free of him.
And the love of your life is there, and you're married now, and she's still a full blooded elf, and you're still a half-elf, and you think about what that means a lot more than you used to.
And still, after everything you've learned-- you choose your freedom. You choose leaving her behind.
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I hope you’re able to modify your vessel to be bigger later on as seeing how you said you made your body immortal im guessing that stops you from growing.
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okay yes yes i’m glad that (usually) after the first day of excruciating back pain and some tylenol my period is nothing more than the mild inconvenience of having to change my tampon every few hours but i am soooo annoyed that lately my periods have been getting longer (today is the 6th day...) while my cycles stay the same length. wtf
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anyway our CNS & brains are pretty complex, like we've barely figured out getting people with partial spinal cord damage back driving their own bodies + when we do it's still a roll of the dice & the processes are not all well understood... encephalitis can caused locked-in-ness like with sleeping sicknesses, akinetic mutism, etc where the body itself is not physically incapable of movement & action, but nothing is out there that jumps in and takes over from a driver who's paralyzed or asleep at the wheel... that's not actually a thing, it's fun speculative fiction but not representative of reality— so really, no worries lol
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Okay Homo sapiens, how can y'all categorize all non-raptorial/psittacoidean avians as barnacles? Is it because of the hard shell, simple personality, and hair-like feeding tentacles? Actual avians don't even breathe through gills. I mean, YEAH, all vertebrate embryos(including avians) have gills, but here's one eensie-weensie little fact-avian embryos grow lungs at the cost of their gill-pouches. Barnacle-mermaids, like their crustaceanoid-kin like crabs and shrimps, start off as nauplii-tiny, beating blobs with a singular eye and two arm-like appendages for swimming. Also, barnacle-mermaids CANNOT breathe air-they just can't. They might do okay on land when inside their shells, but most will perish if not returned to seawater. Their feeding-tentacles also function as respiratory organs.
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What is your favorite algea? Mine is shotgun kelp, Agarum clathratum. It just rolls off the tongue, ya know?
I'm biased toward cyanobacteria (which under the botanical definition is still considered algae despite being bacteria)
Based purely on aesthics, aphanocapsa liIacia (if im remembering the name right). It's always my favorite when I do transfers bc its purple :-]
But hopefully starting in the fall I'll be working fischerella species. So hopefully they become my favorites (again, aesthetically Fischerella is gorgeous)
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