one of the things i love about normal people is marianne & connell's thoughts. all the things that they left unsaid. it was just so beautiful.
multiple times he has tried writing his thoughts about marianne down on paper in an effort to make sense of them. he's moved by a desire to describe in words exactly how she looks and speaks. her hair and clothing. the copy of swann's way she reads at lunchtime in the school cafeteria, with a dark french painting on the cover and a mint-colored spine. her long fingers turning the pages. she's not leading the same kind of life as other people. she acts so worldly at times, making him feel ignorant, but then she can be so naive. he wants to understand how her mind works. if he silently decides not to say something when they're talking, marianne will ask ‘what?’ within one or two seconds. this ‘what?’ question seems to him to contain so much: not just the forensic attentiveness to his silences that allows her to ask in the first place, but a desire for total communication, a sense that anything unsaid is an unwelcome interruption between them. he writes these things down, long run-on sentences with too many dependent clauses, sometimes connected with breathless semicolons, as if he wants to re-create a precise copy of marianne in print, as if he can preserve her completely for future review.
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“she knew her father had broken his son's heart a dozen different ways, and alastair was doing the best he could with the pieces.”
just because i miss alastair carstairs so much
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today someone reminded me that will and tessa's copy of a tale of two cities was destroyed and idk, i forgot about it and i wanted y'all to be reminded by it too :)
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Fenrys Moonbeam is a golden retriever and Connall Moonbeam is a black labrador.
No, I will not elaborate.
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in tid, i fell in love with a man who pretends to be a drunk
in tlh, i fell in love with a man who actually drowns himself in alcohol
and both guys are caught in a love triangle with their parabatai
apparently, i like hurting myself 🙂
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THE BEST BAT BOY
CASSIAN appreciation post.
"I can't think of no better way to end my existence than to defend those who need most."
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i was rewatching greys s6 and i was reminded that izzie left alex through a note... and years later alex did the same thing to jo.
WHAT KIND OF SICK CRUEL JOKE IS THIS
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ur recent post made me think and -
loa and helion's story is gonna be the epitome of pining and of the lovers being forced apart trope. their story is how feyre and rhysand might have turned out had she not panicked walking down the aisle and had he not called in the bargain. and add to that lucien, a son he doesn't even know is his, a living piece of his love for his mate. their family reunion is gonna be one heck of a journey and it's gonna be so important
also just realized that after centuries of being away from his mate, in lucien's book we might get to see helion reunited with his love, and he'll get a son, and a daughter-in-law all at once
we've talked about the amount of closure lucien's gonna get, but now let's for a minute look at the closure helion's gonna get -
his family's finally gonna finally be together after centuries, but with the added bonus of a daughter he dint ask for but absolutely will more than gladly take under his wing and 100% spoil and love and protect and provide for. with elain he's gonna make up for all the years he's lost with lucien - the teasing his son for having a crush, the giving advice on how to woo her, comforting Lucien when he reaches a breaking point and thinks elain's never gonna want him, the getting disgustingly affectionate with his mate in front of Lucien and "ew dad stop hogging mom, you're corrupting my eyes!!", the going above and beyond to give them a lavish mating ceremony, the spoiling his grandkids, ALL OF IT!
"a living piece of his love for his mate"
you don‘t understand ... I want all of this
I also think that once things settle down a bit, helion will do absolutely everything he can to make up all the time he‘s lost 🥲 and I agree with you that elain is gonna be a huge part of it, please, imagine how he‘s gonna tease her and lucien
but most of all, I want to see helion and lucien and the lady of autumn be happy together. they‘ve all been suffering quietly, lucien and helion both masking their own feelings and the lady of autumn? we don‘t know much about her, but my guess is she‘s being silenced and suppressed at home. what we don‘t know about her is what makes this all so tragic to me, and I hate to know she‘s being abused and doesn‘t have anyone (or much) to feel safe with. the only thing that gives me a little comfort is that she probably feels relieved lucien got out of the autumn court, but then ... she was under the mountain too. as you said. lovers forced apart trope, but let‘s take it a step further and this is the family forced apart trope 🥲
I JUST WANT THEM REUNITED AND HAPPY 😭 imagine helion and his lady of day as grandparents ... I‘m feeling unwell.
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