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“Does it hurt?” The childish question had escaped Harry’s lips before he could stop it. “Dying? Not at all,” said Sirius. “Quicker and easier than falling asleep.”   

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don´t wait for anything to live your life. Don´t wait to lose weight to use that dress, don´t wait to make that travel. Don´t wait to have better skills to start a sketchbook, to write that story. Go!

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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This fic is sooooo good! It starts in such a tender note. But beware! It will break your heart! Love it!

A Little Life - Chapter 6 - Mistakes

Rated: E, Words ~40k/~71k. 6/12 Chapters. Read the tags!

Chapter Excerpt (Read on AO3):

Ezra was grateful for the domestic quiet of the empty flat, but there was no peace to be found. With a sigh he decided to complete some chores, hoping that being productive may provide some small, positive counterpoint to the uncomfortable, unmoored feeling of the last few days. The laundry hamper was overflowing, Ezra would start there.

Lost in his thoughts Ezra carried the hamper to the bed, tumped out the clothing and began sorting, turning them right-side-out and emptying pockets. When he reached into Anthony’s pockets he found they were filled with shredded tissues, napkins, scratch paper and bottle wrappers. Among the rodents nest of debris were note cards and sticky notes with different pieces of information written, often repeatedly, in Anthony’s small, neat print.

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Summary:

When Professor of Botany Anthony Crowley met bookshop owner Ezra Fell one November afternoon both knew their lives had irrevocably changed. From that moment forward, Anthony and Ezra’s existence was intertwined. Their story was written in the moments and memories they created as they moved through life’s chapters of coming together, building a family and facing the challenges of being human. This is a story of unconditional love and the joy and humour, obstacles and grief that inevitably come with choosing the same person, day after day, over and over and over again.

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A huge thanks to @goodomensafterdark for the writers community. And an extra special thanks to @hakunahistata and @the-literal-kj for beta'ing this story. Finally, a huge thanks for @fuzzygoblin for the song prompt that inspired this work.

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You are amazing! And I love you! 💖🏳️‍⚧️

Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022

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During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

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THIS!

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So happy with my evolution 🖤

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

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Tenho vontade de chorar, porra!

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I cannot even put to words how scary the situation is getting, not only in Portugal, but in Europe in general.

The world is being consumed by the far-right, and if we don't stop this the next change we get, i am afraid things will go bad for this generation and generations to come, not only on a social level, but on an economic and environmental as well.

And it is honestly so fucking sad to see this happen to my country on the 50th birthday of the democracy, on the year we were supposed to celebrate the fall of the fascist regime of Salazar on the 25th of April of 1974, and instead we get 50 fascist deputies on Chega's behalf, one for each year we lived free since then, as the biggest fuck you on portuguese history...

...And to think of all the left wing people who put their lives at risk then, some of which are my teachers and my family, alive to this day, who are witnessing this downwards spiral back into what they tried so hard to get out of, it is so. Fucking. Sad.

I like to pretend like i don't care about politics on a day to day basis, but i can't deny that this made me fucking lose a lot of hope. I just want to know what the people like Mario Soares and others, who have sadly already died, who gave freedom to this country, would think about it's current state.

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Sunday was a sad day for Portuguese Democracy. A fascist right-wing party has got 18% of votes - gathering 48 deputys. It's a party with racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and homophobic ideals. And their slogan is borrowed from our late dictatorship.

This year we celebrate the 50th year of the 25th of April - the revolution, and the overthrow of the dictatorship. And we are falling, willingly, in their claws again... I don't feel safe, and I'm starting to question who are the people that surround me? Are they supporters of this ideias??

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🖤

it’s so crazy having a follower base on tumblr knowing full well it’s not based on selfies or anything like people are here for your crazy twisted mind. i feel like nietzsche

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It's so ridiculous people not knowing how to enjoy fandom in a genuine way. Today I even saw a post on Instagram teaching people HOW TO ENGAGE WITH FANFIC. You even need instructions on how not to be an idiot, to not upload fics on goodreads, on how wrong it's to try to make money with others people art, the right way to leave commentaries without being an asshole to the authors...

Wtf???

You are tearing down amazing interactions, amazing art (FREE... can you tell me what you can get for free in this capitalist society?!).

You make things go viral, and then you destroy it right after.

okay so in the last few days i’ve seen at least a dozen tik toks from various hp fic writers (mostly dramione) who are taking down their work from ao3/tumblr because it’s being bound and sold on etsy without their permission.

and i’ve seen even more videos from the people who read these fics, talking about how they can’t believe people would go so far against someone’s wishes and be so disrespectful.

but then the caption says “I have the pdf, I can send it to you!"

and there are hundreds of comments asking for it.

the lack of self-awareness is insane. y’all are so unwilling to believe that you’re part of the problem.

some of these fics have been online for over 15 years and are well-known and loved by entire communities online, and they’ve been able to stay up for that long without any major issues up until the last few years when people who have no understanding of how this shit works have come out of the woodworks.

idek what to say about it anymore other than i’ve been in fandom longer than some of y’all have been alive and i have never seen anyone act this entitled. never seen anyone have less respect for the people who put this work online for free. it’s exhausting. and it’s an issue in every corner of the hp fandom bc i see it here in marauders every gd damn day.

if a fic writer takes their work down, it’s because they don’t want any more people to read it. it’s bc they don’t trust their community to respect their work. and it’s really fucking sad that this is what it’s come to.

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Brussels, Belgium 🍟🍫🇧🇪

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First of the year - Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪

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we were meant to live slowly!!!! we were meant to savor moments and feel unabashedly lazy and frolic and smell the flowers and laugh with our entire hearts and love with our entire souls!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for resting!!!!!! don’t ever feel guilty for slowing down!!!!!! enjoying life shouldn’t be something you’re ashamed of

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Not to be a drooling socialist cuck, but if a full day's labour can't purchase three square meals, 24 hour's worth of rent and utilities, a fraction of a month's clothing budget, and a reasonable portion to be saved for when you can no longer comfortably work, what the fuck are we doing shit for

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Needed this!

me as a writer: Oh no I can’t write that, somebody else already has

me as a reader: hell yes give me all the fics about this one scenario. The more the merrier