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[knightswaypoint]

Day 2: Royal Library

Court Sorcerer Merlin, post magic reveal, working to restore all the remaining magic knowledge and books to the royal library.

[youronebraincell]

[amuseintime]

Shattering Realization (Pt 3)

Star Souls AU

Bonnie doesn’t understand why Stupidfrin isn’t moving or why no one can do anything about it. So they take matters into their own hands, sneaking into the tent.

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Bonnie squinted at the setting sun. They were still camping at the same place as yesterday. They should’ve still been moving, but Dile said they could wait until tomorrow afternoon, no later. If they waited, the curse might get them. So they should’ve still been moving!

But they couldn’t, because Frin couldn’t.

Za was still distracted talking to Belle on watch, and Dile was reading, so no one was guarding Frin’s tent. They slipped through the cloth barrier as silently as a cat, stopping in the doorway. It was dim inside, but maybe that was better. They didn’t like looking at his face like this, didn’t like seeing him stare at nothing forever and ever no matter whether they were standing in front of them or not. He was still curled up in his sleeping bag, looking almost like he was sleeping but he wasn’t… was he? Not even Dile seemed to know, and she knew everything!

“Frin… Frin!” They whispered, lightly shaking him. He didn’t respond.

“… is this really you?” They said, taking his arm and pulling up the sleeve. It was cool to the touch. “I know you said you’re you and you’ll be back, but you’re not acting like it! You’re all cold and stare forever and won’t move!” Their whispers were verging dangerously close to yells. They swallowed the lump in their throat, eyes stinging. “Why won’t you say anything? Why didn’t you tell us, you- you…” They sniffled, rubbing tears away from their eyes.

More than anything they wanted him to wake up, to be flesh and blood, to tell them they had a nightmare and he never got hurt. They wanted him to move and talk and just do something besides lie there! Anything! Even if it was yelling at them!

“Frin? C’mon, wake up! Wake up, Stupidfrin! Belle said you aren’t cursed, so you gotta get up now!” They shook him a little harder, but nothing.

“… Frin?”

Nothing.

Bonnie bit their hand to muffle their sobs, big fat tears blurring their vision. Desperate for something, anything, they pulled up the corner of the sleeping bag and wiggled in. It wasn’t particularly comfortable, Frin was hard. He was hard and cool to the touch, but it was as close as they could get. They tugged one arm to hold themselves to his chest, feeling their own warmth seep into his clothes, into the sleeping bag, slowly replacing what should’ve been there, but wasn’t. All the while, their tears made an increasingly damp spot on his cloak.

“Please, please wake up…”

Something touched the back of their head. At first they thought they imagined it, but it repeated. Gloved fingers threaded through their hair in a slow, rhythmic pattern, and they held Frin all the tighter.

“Frin! That’s-that’s you doing that, right? I feel it! You’re here! You’re here…”

They didn’t know what else to say, just nestling against him as he stroked their hair. No more words were said, they just held each other until Bonnie fell asleep.

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I prefer tea, but buy me a Kofi?

[theconfusedacorn]

Yall,

Who

THE FUCK

Was going to tell me that:

The guy from The Amazing Devil, is ACTUALLY a guy named Joey Batey, and that this guy, Joey Batey, PLAYS THE BARD GUY IN THE WITCHER!?

AND HE DOES MORE MUSIC FOR THE SERIES BECAUSE HES A BARD!?

HELLO!?

I COULD'VE GOTTEN MORE MUSICAL CONTENT FROM THIS MAN THIS WHOLE TIME!?

WHO THE FUCK WAS GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT "BURN BUTCHER BURN"!?

SERIOUSLY!?

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME!?

[angelonhelios]

having a normal one.

[elexuscal]

because i've been in been in the biology industry for so long that i can no longer judge what's common knowledge and what's actually very niche

how aware are most people that there's a protein called Sonic hedgehog protein, coded for by the SHH gene?

and that it is one of the core proteins responsible for development in all animals?

i can say 'Sonic hedgehog causes cancer' and i'm not even shitposting. it's scientific fact.

[thepersonalwords]

People would rather be equal thank free.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

[gogandmagog]

– excerpt from “Freaks of an Author's Mail Bag” by L.M. Montgomery, featured in the Montreal Gazette, 1931

[infectedgirlsss]

tbf jekyll was onto something

[ploompkin]

Thinkin’ more about Tilly and Zev.

Tilses being much younger and newer to the Hellriders, full of hope, ambition and good will- not able to believe or come to terms with their exile just yet. Because that’s not what Hellriders do, right? Desertion is punishable by may-as-well-be death. Why would their comrades actively chase them out? This isn’t forever, surely. Just a brief misunderstanding.

Tilses, having so much respect and admiration for Zevlor, adoring him and looking up to him so much that when he snaps at her and tells her Avernus changed things, that he’s no longer her commander and neither of them are Hellriders anymore, it just… finally makes it all sink in. They were exiled. They aren’t technically soldiers anymore. She’s a mixture of angry and despairing for herself, but downright outrage for him. How could something like this happen to someone she looks up to so much, someone who’s inspired her so deeply? Someone who, in her mind, would never- could never- do any wrong.

Zevlor finds her later, brooding to herself in the woods. He knows that look in her eye, and when she startles and stands up, going to offer him a salute only to stop herself, remembering… he can see her heart break, and just gently pulls her into his arms, silently sharing in her grief.

[mumblelard]

a familiar's work is never done but fortunately that work include lots of naps or happy friday the thirteenth imaginary constructs

[of-crowns-and-echoes]

Very Important Question!

I've managed to salvage a somewhat old draft of chapter 2! It does not have all of the content, or even the most recent version of the initial bits of the chapters, but I've been editing and reworking it, and I think I can finish at least this part by this weekend.

With that in mind, would you rather have the chapter updated in two parts according to the content I have written and the content I haven't, or split according to where I think the content has a reasonable break, or not split at all? The first two options mean a smaller update sometime this week, the latter means a larger update next month.

[perpetual-mind]

I LOVE POSTING. FEED MY EGO. GIVE ME DOPAMINE.

[petitegoose]

[clevermanka]

"Dora was the woman who lived. She made lace, tended flowers, and kept pet birds; she was remembered as a smiling old woman who died peacefully. She lived a long and healthy life. So why, I asked myself, hadn’t her story been preserved along with that of Lili Elbe? Elbe was a painter, supported largely by her partner, and she even wrote a book about her experiences. Dora, on the other hand, eschewed the limelight. She was not glamorous or well-heeled. She had no higher education, no grand aspirations, no claim to titles. She worked menial jobs in factories and as a maid. Her experience reveals the quiet life of a person who, above all, wished to be an ordinary woman. There are many more Doras than Lilis — thousands of transgender people leading lives that will not be memorialized. And that is what makes her so very important right now. Pulling her story from the fragments of history likewise helps us recognize there are countless transgender people who have always been among us, living, loving, struggling, and also quietly thriving."