#facts about emeralds
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Emerald gemstone is one of the four recognised precious gemstones along with sapphire, ruby, and diamond. It is also the known birthstone for May. It has long been regarded as one of the most valuable and sought-after coloured gemstones. Due to its distinctive green colour, durability, and rarity, an emerald is currently one of the most expensive and popular gems. Let’s take a look at some of the facts about emeralds.
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so we can all agree that the newest 2WEI song (take the crown) is the trailer song for an Antarctic Empires Emerald Duo pg14 movie where Techno is a gladiator who earned his freedom and has vowed to destroy the government that enslaved him and Philza is an old demigod banished to a solitary plane of existence for five decades after attempting to run a coup against the ruling class.
They meet on a battlefield, Techno having joined up as brute muscle and Phil having used some minor illusions to pass as a quirky avian and join the bombardment team. Combining some similar plot beats as Oceans 11 and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, they gather a specialized team of insurrectionists, anarchists, battle mages, and warriors to take down the imperium from the inside, eventually planning on restoring the nation to the democracy it was in Phil’s earliest memories. But will they manage it, or will their bloody pasts and violent present seat Technoblade on the throne as the Antarctic Emperor, with Philza as his right hand, the Angel of Death? (Spoiler, the second option. It’s the most controversial film finale decision of the decade.)
The movie is filmed in a style somewhere between Dune 1, the Prince of Egypt, and Topgun. (denis villeneuve is too busy and too expensive, but it’s clear they’re taking inspiration. Bold colors and lighting and a lot of shots of the sky, wildlife, architecture, or of characters’ hands.) It’s scored by an up and coming indie musician, working under the consultation of Ludwig Gorannson in his spare time as a pet project, though his association with the film doesn’t really come out until it Smashes the expected theatre income in the first two days of release and critics start Raving about it. Techno’s actor is nominated for an Oscar for one of the most compelling intricate portrayals of ptsd and platonic devotion in modern cinema, but doesn’t actually get the Oscar.
Tumblr is flooded with gif sets of Techno in the Obligatory No Armor After Gladiator Fight Scene and the Late Night Vibing With Phil In A Loose Poet Shirt scene (firelit, lots of closeups of his eyes, the film is obviously attempting to express his complex emotional state and his deep relationship with Phil, and is failing miserably at doing Anything but making him hot. The internet is ✨gay✨ about it, because when is the internet not?) Also most of the simps are calling Phil a dilf.
Fit MC is the fan-favorite side character, his four scenes and nine lines of dialogue are clipped and edited and giffed and memed into the dirt. (His armor and prosthetic, the makeup and costuming department say, were the hardest thing to do in the entire film, which is why he isn’t in too many shots.) Though, a close second is Niki, who is played by a woman built like a brick house who doesn’t wear sleeves, so…. Yeah. We all know what the response is there. The effects, including Phil’s wings, are almost entirely practical and the only real places it gets iffy is Steve, the giant war polar bear that’s pretty clearly clipping through a few snowbanks here and there. Nobody can agree on which characters are morally reprehensible.
Within a few years, very few people outside a dedicated fan base have seen it and a few assume it’s made up like Goncharov. It’s also, for some ungodly reason, been labeled a Christmas film. (most of the plot happens in the ice and snow, hence ‘Antarctic Empire.’) I guess nothing says ‘Christmas spirit’ quite like ‘unmitigated violence, platonic yearning, and overthrowing oppressors.’
#molten rambles#technoblade#mcyt#philza#philza minecraft#film idea#2wei#antarctic empire#smp earth#Emduo#emerald duo#This arose from the depths of my psyche like a worm from the sand#And consumed me body and soul#and i genuinely love it so much#BRB gonna go cry about the fact this isn’t real#Tcu#Technoblade Cinematic Universe
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deranged post-canon farleigh speculation
so. archie madekwe said something that makes me question a lot of the other post-canon speculation (often quickstart dynamic post-canon fics, speculation, etc.). Basically, he was talking about how tired Farleigh was getting, in the point in time that the movie is set. This is depicted through his confrontation with Felix, which Archie confirmed was the first conversation Farleigh has had with the cattons about the issue of bias.
a review by hilton als briefly touched on farleigh's possible future, as well. it was a very negative and... honestly understandable idea of what farleigh would grow up to become. aka, someone who exploited and tokenized their race for "brownie points," pun not intended. i see a lot of people crafting stories of farleigh finding different ways to rejoin the ultra-rich class. and i kinda wanna say that i... don't like that. here's an anecdote: my cousin and i had a conversation about his experience moving from a white-dominated, suburban environment. he argues that although racism is still prevalent where he now lives, the racism he experienced in his hometown was so painfully, covertly delivered. it's this sort of "could you just call me a slur or something" mentality.
although farleigh is terrified of change, although farleigh is terrified of losing what he believes is an accommodation for his marginalization (it isn't; you can't buy your way out of racism), although farleigh learned to be materialistic through the ways in which he was raised, although farleigh is constantly running away from something--i think he was reaching a point of genuine hatred for the ways in which racism is delivered to him in this environment. i would also go insane. so freakishly insane. i think his conversation with felix made him understand that maybe the cattons will never even try to change. that the cattons couldn't even acknowledge the problem in the first place. that you can't really win, with people like the cattons. it's always a game of when, and never if. when will they finally, politely discard me?
this leaves a couple options. the first, farleigh learns to be financially independent and very much successful. he would never rely on other people again, especially not white people. this leaves room for hilton als' interpretation, but the fact that farleigh was cognizant of and willing to mention racial bias to felix is evidence for me to assume that farleigh is beyond belittling himself like that. farleigh already experienced so much shame from catering towards the cattons and their whiteness... i don't think he'd keep going with that. not with the way it ended. not after he had the horrible wake-up call that was both his cousins dying. so, maybe farleigh does find his way back to wealth. maybe through fashion, through modeling like his mother, through another form of art, through business, whatever.
the other option is that farleigh just... doesn't acquire that level or even close to that level of wealth again. i kinda like this idea. i kinda like imagining farleigh in a city flat or smaller suburban house, finding a significant other and probably never ever having kids. that, of course, still leaves room for farleigh to go and brutalize oliver out of saltburn. but i'd like to think he wouldn't take saltburn back. as i've said before, farleigh was never greedy. he never wanted to replace or succeed the cattons, nor did he want any form of dominance over them. to be their equal, yes. to be seen and heard and given attention, yes. but never did he play his games to knock felix or venetia down. i feel like farleigh would be the "eat the rich" that saltburn didn't have. not in the corny way, because farleigh is no robin hood, nor is he an innocent and selfless person.
my ideal "sequel" type situation would be farleigh returning to saltburn after living comfortably and humbly for the last 20 years. he's not here out of moral obligation. he's not here to steal back the catton wealth. he's here selfishly, and out of burning hatred. he's here because oliver stole any sense of closure farleigh could've ever had. he's here because oliver never gave farleigh the opportunity to forgive his family, nor to mourn them, nor to visit those memories, nor to make new ones. farleigh is here to wreck oliver's shit. it's not healthy, it's not pretty, it's not clean. i'd imagine 40-year-old farleigh, having matured, returning to saltburn and regressing to the same games he always used to play. lying, people pleasing, pretending, sex, drugs, sass, etc. ahhh. my ideal sequel. a man who found peace without closure and finds closure through a significant lack of peace. and, also, oliver dead as hell.
#farleigh start#i have class in 6 hours and i need sleep#saltburn#i threw this down in 15 minutes#it's not good and is in fact deranged#do u guys get me tho#i'm sure if emerald fennell were to write this sequel then maybe the quickstarters would b right#but i kinda hope she would maybe like#she does talk about quickstart as like a#idek#i love emerald#but i have Thoughts on this movie#and this character.#and these fans.#and arghgdjflds#i just want oliver to be CRUSHED#LIKE A WORM#i wouldn't care if emerald added in the hate sex that you freaks so DESPERATELY crave#like I KNOW I KNOW THEY'RE HOT??#whateverrrr i care more about angst#guys angst mmmmmmmmmm#being asexual is so funny sometimes#i feel like i'm watching penguins in their little enclosure#deprived of freedom#sliding around and feral and slapping each other because they're in an enclosure#i'm so tired help me#i just mean that#you guys are funny like i cannot imagine living life with this craving that u guys r being crushed by#“cmon guys where is the farleigh x reader fanfiction cmon guys” like hello? hello hi?#i'm flipping the script actually
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Modern crystal healing: It opens your ~chakras~ you will attract ~abundance~ you will ~connect with the universe~
Medieval crystal healing: This shit makes you invisible, stops your periods from hurting, and makes your husband love you.
#chatter#Yes those are all taken from real medieval descriptions of crystals.#I can't remember the last one but the first two are topaz and carnelian.#I prefer older crystal healing sources I will not lie.#Its the fact that they're less vague and more confident about their assumptions.#I have read modern (70s) crystal healing books and they are INCOMPREHENSIBLE.#The thing about these books from the 70s is that if you follow the citation chain of modern books they all lead back to them.#I don't know how you could get any useful information from Healing “diamonds are so strong they cause cancer” Stoned.#Want medieval rock information?#Hildegarde von Bingen's Physica and Albert the Great's De Mineralibus.#English translations: Priscilla Throop and Dorothy Wyckoff respectively because I've read those.#Physica includes a lot more than crystals and Throop's translation is easy to read so I recommend it in general.#Wyckoff's De Mineralibus contains a lot of interesting footnotes that explain what Albert could've been referring to.#Because shockingly in a society without ways to definitively test minerals sometimes every green rock is an emerald.#Bonus: Want some Roman crystal knowledge? Pliny the Elder's Natural History volume 11.#||#witch#witchblr#witch memes#witchcraft#crystal witch#crystals#witch meme
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Willow & Darius: Rebels of the Group
I’ve been thinking about this for ages…
How Willow is meant to mirror Darius here!
It’s really funny, considering how Darius became the Abomination Coven Head. The track Willow struggled so much with in the past…
The pair don’t seem to have that much in common on the surface, but Willow’s goal upon receiving her palisman was to protect everyone she loves. Darius’ priorities are "to help people and to care for those that he loves." I know, ‘protecting loved ones’ is a common character trait, especially in The Owl House, but the fact that this is said by/said about Willow and Darius has to count for something.
Both are willing to sacrifice themselves/surrender if it means saving their friends.
Willow trains hard to get strong. Darius is strong. (In magic and judging by his muscles!) Both are incredibly powerful in their chosen magic track.
Willow is said to be the leader (by Boscha, no less!) of her friendship group. Darius is a— if not, the main— leader in the Rebellion against Belos. He’s the one organising the game plan for the Day of Unity.
It might not seem so at first, but Willow is a rebel, just like Darius, and she encourages others to go against the Emperor’s wishes. Remember when Willow stood up onstage, defended Eda before her petrifaction, and stirred up the crowd into agreeing with her?
Willow might have started out meek and not wanting to draw attention to herself, but as the show goes on, we see she actually has a chaotic side. She was the one ordering the Emerald Entrails to land Darius’s airship when he captured them. She could be just as much of a rebel as Darius! In the Human Realm, we see her poking customers with a devil staff and stealing her costume from a shop. (Well, she tried to pay for it with a snail coin…)
Willow vows to get some revenge on Belos before she leaves the Human Realm. It’s never stated aloud by Darius, but I’m sure he resents Belos for what happened to the Previous Golden Guard (Darius’s mentor), and his rebellion stems partly from this need for revenge.
Darius and Willow each have beef with the Blight family. Darius used to be friends with Alador, but then fell out with him at some point as they got older. (Did Odalia have anything to do with their separation, perhaps…?) Willow was friends with Amity when she was younger, until Amity’s parents ordered her to dismiss Willow for being ‘weak’. Thankfully, Willow forgave Amity, and Darius made up with Alador.
Both Willow and Darius have a habit of bottling up their trauma and hiding it from others. Rather than talk to Hunter about his lost mentor, Darius treated Hunter like an annoyance (Darius must have been grieving, yes, but Hunter didn’t know this) until Hunter defied the Emperor’s Coven and got out of the castle. Willow doesn’t go as far as neglecting her friends, but she did distance herself from them when she was upset in For the Future. And in Understanding Willow, we see how much anger she’s been harbouring for years after being picked on by Amity and her friends.
We don’t see Darius playing Grudgby or Flyer Derby, like Willow, but we do see him attending the Bonesborough Brawl when Alador wins. Both seem to understand the importance of self care after working hard!
Obviously, both Willow and Darius care about Hunter, and they help guide Hunter away from Belos.
If Willow had remained in the Abomination Coven and she’d ended up working for Darius… I think the two of them would have got along well. Willow would have been his apprentice in the Rebellion
#The owl house#Willow Park#darius deamonne#character analysis#parallels#Also the fact that their BOYFRIENDS are in the same position in the top pictures#Owl House character analysis#I love them both so much#Also… If anyone wants a fic about Willow confronting Darius I might have written one#It’s called ‘ Trust Earned’#And I’m working on another one for Emerald Trio week#After ‘Watching and Dreaming’ Darius offers Willow a job opportunity#Huntlow#It’s not really Huntlow but we gotta tag everything
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I know ultimate sacrifice is dying in fight for what matters the most and in 100% cases it was reversed by kissing headcanon is strong, but what if your existence was erased from the universe and only I remember about you now instead, huh?
#the fact that 100% cases is a one game is irrelevant#so far rule was simple: hedgehog has to be kissed to be deadn't#sonic the hedgehog#sonic prime season 3#shadow the hedgehog#i know that making potentialy at least several episodes if not a whole season without titular character is unlikely but what if?#it seems to be year of Shadow so its more likely than ever#sonadow#the “i heart you too”/“you must hate having to admit you need me” callback potential is too good#its not even as much about shipping as hoping for it to be meanigful in any way#i just want it to be more than everyone being sad and constantly saying how amazing he was and how they miss him#& brooding shadow grudgingly working with nine/anyone else because they forced him to and them winning because of power of friendship#and shoving a chaos emerald up sonics ass and everything going back to how it was#i want character development for shadow too damn it!#i want him to make some sort of a sacrifice too#i want him to fight for it. i want him to struggle without sonic. i want him to regret. i want him to go trough 5 stages of grief.#i! want! him! to! FEEL!!!#and what i DEFINITELY dont want is '06v2#which potentialy can be the case but with “everything is back to normal as if it never happened but i remember Everything” instead#(hopefuly cause if theyre gonna retcon themseves again i swear im gonna give birth of cacti out of my ass)#sonic prime#sonic prime s3#sth#in this concept sonic goes away somewhere in the first episode/somewhere early in s3 btw#and other ppl will remember sonic in some way at some point or at least help shadow cause lets be honest he needs all the help he can get#but make it gradual and more like a snyder sized movie than a tvshow
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Yet another Glass Onion post
People on here and on Twitter being like “omds can’t believe Rian Johnson predicted elon musk” bro? Do you think musk only started being an idiot when he bought twitter? Or that people only just realised his stupidity?
musk has always been an idiot and people have known this for a long fuckin while. The thai football team pedo scandal, the uglass truck, teslas blowing up, the shattered “unbreakable” window?
This is the same shit as when people are like “ooh dystopian novel x totally predicted y” No, it was commenting on shit that was happening in the contemporary society
It’s a great movie but it didn’t predict shit
#glass onion#knives out#elon musk#idk why im so pressed#same shit when people found zach fox tweet about kanye being like omg how did he know#cause kanye was acting a fool saying shit like slavery was a choice#do y'all think the apex is the only part of the fucking mountain??#and ofc he's always had his defenders but ffs#the whole buying the title of founder instead of actually inventing anything thing has been known#the fact that he has a billi kids that he doesn't take care of has been known#the fact that he inherited wealth from his dad's emerald mine in apartheid era south africa has been known#so what exactly did RJ predict????#like azelia banks wasn't calling him apartheid clyde years ago
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re: your recent tags about the gameboy sp! that boy's got headphone adapters i POMISE!!!
the magic of modern science. wow...
#ask#sapphicdroid#i did look it up to fact check myself after i reblogged the post and saw the adapters#honestly when i was younger i never knew it didnt have a headphone jack#granted the only time i ever saw one in person was on the school bus with a friend#he played pokemon blue on it and i dont remember the details of all that went on during#i mightve also seen another kid on the bus play pokemon emerald. i dont remember.#however that was my first exposure to gen 3 pokemon. as a kid i only knew about Red Blue Yellow and Crystal#my brothers had Red and Blue. and so thusly i have both games now. i... dont know where my copy of Red is though.#i have a copy of Yellow from Ebay but it loses its memory sometimes. which i think is why it was put on Ebay in the first place#Crystal however? well first i knew of gen 2 through pokemon stadium 2#we had both pokemon stadiums for the n64. or. well. still do have them.#speaking of. sure does suck to go through the gym leaders and elite 4 in those games. mostly due to how long rounds are.#emulated it a while back and i had to use the fast forward feature a lot#anyway. Crystal. somehow i got my copy from a random coat in a clothing store. just. in the pocket.#i dont know how i managed to find it. it was either in a coat my mom was looking at or i was looking through pockets... probably the former#anyway within like a week. a kid in 3rd grade stole it from me#i... think i got to the elite 4? i remember getting to the last dude with the charizard. forgive me for forgetting his name.#but like right after i had it stolen. i got on the bus and vented to my friend and he was like ''oh i have two copies of crystal''#and then gave his second copy to me. i forget if it was on the day of or if it was the next day.#anyway that same day it got stolen again. by the same kid. that kid stole so much shit from me#he switched schools the next year so i couldnt do anything about it#i have uhhh... soul silver now. so its not that big of a deal these days#anyway thank you for the ask :) i appreciate you telling me anyway
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#I can’t tell what gayer here:#the fact that Call literally cut his soul into pieces so Aaron could live#or the fact that he’s almost hours away from certain death after Jasper and Tamara (Call’s girlfriend!) ran away to the Assembly#to tattle on him for raising Aaron from the dead#which is a death sentence#and all Call can think about is#how Aaron’s skin was like marble#how Aaron’s eyes were like emeralds#how Aaron’s lashes burned golden in the sunlight#Gay#lgbtq#lgbtqia#Call Hunt#Callum Hunt#Aaron Stewart#Aaron#Call#call/aaron#Calron#tamara rajavi#jasper dewinter#the assembly#Magisterium#The Magisterium Series#The Iron Trial#The Copper Gauntlet#The Bronze Key#The Silver Mask#The Golden Tower#books and reading
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Oh Diamond, my Diamond.
Two icons, two legends, two divas met the other day. So pleased that Jinx had the opportunity to meet the incomparable Miss Patti LuPone. They both look stunning here!
#the fact they saw each other OMFFFGGGG#two absolute legends#i’m so happy for jinx and she is always so relatable#bc I also would have made it about su#i love how she NEVER misses a chance to bring it up#and patti is so tiny in comparison 🥺🥺🥺#patti lupone#jinx monsoon#steven universe#su#suf#steven universe future#steven universe the movie#emerald#yellow diamond
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four different people have sent me "barry keoghan looks like a beautiful lesbian" tweets since last night and this is how i've discovered that i'm the barry keoghan person in my friend group. a devastating blow to my personal brand
#[marge simpson voice] i just think he's neat#no i have NOT seen saltburn i have a blood feud with emerald fennell#the fact that he doesn't even have a tag on my tumblr is fucking hilarious this is the most offline i've ever been about an interest
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this is already essentially true and effects nothing so i’m just gonna believe that mobians all have special access to their very own personal hammer spaces
#hammer space both physically exists and can be interacted with by other’s and also doesn’t and can’t <3#sonic puts stuff in his quills and it is there and occupies physical space because stuff can be knocked out or interfaced with by others#but things are also not there#they’re just not there#amy puts her hammer behind her back and it’s behind her back#but also her hammer is clearly not behind her back and is not capable of being behind her back#tails keeps his miles electric strapped to his hip where it’s not there#and if you really wanted to you could take it from his hip#except for the fact that it’s not there#actually wait i’m torn if personal items in hammer space can be interacted with by others#or if that’s just a chaos emerald thing#everyone keeps their stuff secure in their own hammer spaces except for when the universe deems it necessary for it to be stolen#when tgey immediately take their stuff out of hammer space into their real hands#except the chaos emeralds which refuse to be put in hammer space#and instead create their own fuckery of simultaneously existing in physical space where anyone can interface with them and knock them out#and also they Don’t#also humans can’t do any of this they just have bags#rambles#this is funny to think about
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Just wanna post this because I haven't heard anyone talking about it here. The amazing talented Emerald Fennell who wrote and directed Saltburn and Promising Young Woman is ALSO Midge in the Barbie movie. I think everyone was so stunned by Midge being in the movie in general that no one really comprehended that it was Emerald. It makes sense for her to be in it. Margot Robbie was a producer on both of her movies, but I haven't seen too many people talk about it with the popularity Saltburn has gotten.
#saltburn#barbie#emerald fennell#margot robbie#barry keoghan#movies#movie facts#i just still think its wild and idk why more people aren't talking about it lol
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And I look up to the sky
And I know you're still alive
But I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark
#my art#Star Madness (across the universe)#Star Trek PIC#Jean-Luc Picard#qcard#because that’s 100% what I’m referring to here#300th post and its Lord Huron and Star Trek lets fuckin GOOOO—#I WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FROOOZEN PINES#IM GONNA FIND A WAY THROUGH THERE’S ANOTHER LIFE BEYOND THE LINE#I am a Lord Huron enjoyer/listener/fan first and an artist second. human comes dead last on my list and even then i dont want it there#Emerald Star by Lord Huron is ALSO made a fantastic tune for this piece#also-- a very good line came from Beverly in s3e3; “When the galaxy comes calling for you; you are not put-upon by it — you love it!''#and I was making this while I heard that and I was just. yeah.#SIDE NOTE; the fact that out of uniform he wears more neutral grey-ish and blues. he got to the calmer more subdued aura he rejected#in Tapestry eventually :’]#ignoring the fact he’s mostly wearing *black* in PIC right now if I think too hard about that I’ll explode#rea rambles in the tags#rea’s trash
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YOUR PISTA ABPUT YOUR TIMELINES SONIC DYING AT 18 FILL ME WITH DELIGHTFULL DREAD AND ANGUISH
the timeline is that ~three years post current timeline, the chaos force deems sonic strong enough to use as a vessel to help escape from the containment of the chaos emeralds into the real world and enact total chaos on mobius. after many challenges and obstacles tossed at him, Sonic’s ability to overcome men, gods, and monsters gives the chaos force enough confidence to green light basically possessing him. during a confrontation with Eggman, sonic achieves new super forms and new chaos abilities during the week before his 18th birthday before they uncover the mysterious source behind his abilities and silver’s ruined future, and the chaos force plays tug of war over Sonic’s body and subconscious with sonic himself, trying to take over and allow chaos to reign supreme.
this all culminates on Sonic’s 18th birthday, the day that originally, the chaos force was supposed to completely take over and fulfill the prophecy of the mural on angel island. instead, sonic defies fate and destroys all chaos energy, which unfortunately includes himself, so he dies on his eighteenth birthday.
tails is 11 and he’s right there to watch it all unfold, right there to watch as sonic destroys himself and the emeralds and saves the world one last time.
#THIS TECHNICAL AU DRIVE SME CRAZY :) i want to talk about it so bad but also i don’t want to give TOO much away but also yes i do#master emerald brothel#if you want a fun fact i was going to have sonic die at 17. thé inherent trade by of dying as a child and all that. but I felt the motif#still worked with 18. and it better matched all my timeline stuff anyway
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Part 2 in my pinned post ( > Gaiman > short stories > poll 2). I'm considering a third poll, feel free to make suggestions.
#polls#neil gaiman#gaiman's short stories#the facts in the case of the departure of miss finch#chivalry#a calendar of tales#the price#the thing about cassandra#instructions#a study in emerald#click clack the rattlebag#harlequin valentine
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