Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025
I knew forgetting George was something of a running joke in the fandom, but I just started book 10 and Horace genuinely forgets about George after he takes an arrow for him π heβs about to leave the battle scene and George is lying half-conscious on the side of the road. Like I get heβs a bit stuffy but you grew up together!!! He saved your life!!!
βBet I know a thing or two about your dove.β βLike what?β βLike sheβs delightful to look at, swishes around in bright colors, and sings like a mockingjay. You love her. And oh, how she seems to love you. Except sometimes you wonder, because her plans donβt include you at all.β Something something, Coriolanus calling Lucy Gray "my girl" versus Haymitch calling Lenore Dove "my girl."
THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER
a comic adaptation of βthe endβ
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βWilliam Thatcher, A Knightβs Tale β TheΒ Letter
πΏπ
βOne touch of nature makes the whole world kin.β
D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Novels and Writings of D. H. Lawrence
β Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)
Kaider Wedding Portrait version two~ (version one)
and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, shall be liftedβnevermore! β’β’β’ nineteen years of living on this planet and still somehow unable to make connections properly β’ infp 9w1 β’ in a perpetual state of indecision between reading or writing more β’ trying to maintain a sense of whimsy admist the gruelling nature of everyday lifeβ’β’β’rangerβs apprentice β’ the lunar chronicles β’ the hunger games (and many more)
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