“would it help if i stayed?” -foxtavia zombie / @myhiraeth
cautiously, octavia stokes the low burning fire because by now it seems sleep won’t come. which is fine by her. the scatter of stars illuminating the sky above mean that at least she’s had a few hours. despite the fact that before this world any nightmares that attacked octavia in her sleep, allowed her to wake quietly. silently with whimpers and nails dug into skin. now however, as the violence of their every day survival seep into her core, she wakes with a fright. unable to shake the paranoid terror that something is wrong. will go wrong at any second.
emerald hues flicker towards nicklas and fox’s movement, but she just as quickly adverts her gaze, focusing on the glowing embers in the fire. with their tent accommodations, octavia knows they’ve heard her. the whole group has over the past few weeks as fall lingers closer. would it help if i stayed?
brows furrow, attention lifting from the fire to fox’s gentle offer to stay with octavia for now despite the fact that both fox and nicklas are on watch. the two hardly stray from each other but nicklas doesn’t object, just gives fox’s arm a squeeze before turning back to their perimeter. “ thanks...you didn’t have to, you know, unless you wanted out of watch, ” octavia winked, trying to lighten the air between the girls. it doesn’t work however, as her eyes lower again. “ that stuff... ” octavia nudged her head towards her tent, referring to the way she no longer slept through the night these days. “ it doesn’t bother me, i’m fine. ”
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despite having no clue where the fuck she was going to go, gale has been counting down the seconds until she could leave. hospitals have never been a place she enjoyed, and it only got worse after the legacy killings the year prior. after what feels like an hour of contemplating what address to give her assistant as her drop off location, she finally lifts her eyes from her phone and is greeted with an unexpected, but familiar face. " sidney? what are you doing here? " she's up in an instant, nose scrunching at the tug of her stitches. arms wrap around the other in a hug, grateful sidney had been safe this time . . . for once, no one had harmed her. as she pulls away, smile creeps up on her lips as she sighs. " like i said, they didn't get me. poked a couple holes, sure - but i'm fine. "
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we are literally throwing up so hard everywhere. this is a horrible day under capitalism for literally everyone alive.
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Momma and Amelia at grandma and grandpas. This was her first Christmas with us.
Do you match with your children? What color eyes do you have?
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She probably helped that girl solve her teen sexuality dilemma anyway, because if that were me and I asked an adult for advice only to find out the adult’s not only worse off than me but also the dumbest person alive, I’d accept the lesbianism just to get out of the awkward situation...
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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
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