"He can't be gone, he can't, he can't," says Wu Xie, breathlessly, struggling with yards of slippery silk and a hundred tiny buttons. "I'm going after him, just help me get out of this fucking dress—"
"Okay, Tianzhen, but calm down first! Whoever this supposed prince is, he can't be that amazing. You're just a cheap date. Hold still—"
"You weren't there, Pangzi," says Wu Xie, starry-eyed. "He fought them off like it was nothing. Like some kind of goth vampire ninja wuxia assassin, I've never seen anything like it, he—"
They both freeze. A slender man in a black suit and black necktie has just let himself in at the open window, its curtains blowing with his movement. They all stand there staring at each other for an endless moment.
"Wu Xie," says the man in black, and Wu Xie's answering grin could light up an entire ballroom.
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send me a pairing and an AU and i’ll write you a ficlet!
love in steddie fics where it’s in Steve’s pov and he casually mentions Eddie had to “do a little business” as if Eddie’s “business” isn’t selling hard drugs to minors
i had two glasses of wine and didn't drunk text somebody inappropriate even though i WANTED to and it would have been FUN PROBABLY. THIS IS WHAT BEING 31 IS.
It was bedtime, and the Prettiest Princess demanded someone cuddle her to sleep.
[Video Description: Guinevere, a red cocker spaniel, lays in the middle of a bed. She makes repeated impatient "HMMM!" noises, complete with exaggerated lip motions and occasional emphatic licking. Finally she makes an exasperated rumble.]
ok but the thing is that "hurt" is an adjective, verb, and noun. so the linguistic poeticism is still there, albeit in a slightly different way. yes, "hurt" as a description of a person's state holds true across tenses because it is indeed an adjective, but the fact remains that it's a lexicologically interesting word! personally, what i find really neat is that "hurt" is both an intransitive verb used for the person being wounded and a transitive verb for the act of wounding someone. it's an intriguing concept to think of pain as something that draws connections between people. something that weaves together victim and perpetrator in some inseparable way. that you can't hurt someone without it changing you as well. idk what exactly that says about pain as a human experience, and it's a lot of using imagination and metaphor to extract and extend meaning from language, but it's still fascinating!