There’s something so important about Gillion - who never heals himself, who rushes into danger, who hides his wounds- facing death and realizing he isn’t unafraid as he was raised to be. He uses his magic on himself to help with the exhaustion, to keep his life intact. And still he tries to comfort Jay and Chip while he’s coherent, being realistic about his chances but refusing to make it painful. Wanting their possible last moments to be light, to be about seemingly inconsequential things, small favorites that still mean the world to him purely because they’re Chip and Jay’s favorites. And then when all is said and done, he makes a raccoon for Jay. He talks about raspberries for Chip. He uses his last saved up arcane energy to try desperately to stay awake, and it works, and it saves him in the final hour.
It’s just. There’s something about how he hasn’t had a chance to rest since the Feywild, really, truly rest. How this whole time he’s been down on himself and taking extreme risks. And now, at what might be the end of it all, he realizes he doesn’t want to die. He wants to live. And not to be able to save others, not to fulfill his destiny, not out of obligation to anyone else - but purely for himself. For all the little things. And though it’s not quite healing in the literal term, his nearly final act was spent trying to save himself - and it worked.
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Saturday Morning Confessional
Hell lingers behind every shadow;
I leave the lights on, yet they stay.
Electricity bills climb higher,
Nights get longer,
Temperatures colder.
You’d think Hell could pay a heating bill
Once in a while, but in spite,
The nickels and dimes stack up.
I miss the sun.
This daughter of God thrives on routine,
But the clock shifts back and forth;
The government’s grasping attempt
At brighter mornings. Bitter as I may be,
I am grasping with them.
Light, light, God grant me more light;
Even if it casts shadows, at least
I’m not in the dark.
For all the scrambling to daylight,
I sleep longer, frittering away
Morning hours. Shorter days chopped
Ever slimmer. I used to sleep
When the sun went down; beat the
Dark to my bedrest and
Flee from the fear. Now, it’s 6:30PM,
The night already creeping, dinner
Not yet made. I stay awake,
Forget time, shiver in the gloom.
It does not bode well for winter.
Thanks be to God, who turns the planets on their axes
My alarms went off on a Saturday, and
I could not get back to sleep. Thanks be
To God, from whom the sunrays burst
In helium-synthesis glory; the day was
Majesty’s declaration, cool and bright and joyful.
Thanks be to God, I got up early, amen.
The laundry’s in the dryer, the food bought
For the week, the carpets are all vacuumed;
I’m resting, not asleep. May every chore I do
Be prayer and praise together:
Thanks be to God, I’m having a good day.
Hell lingers behind every shadow;
May God’s angels clear them away.
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For the three ask songs game (I see ya):
#11, #13, #30
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=~D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11) three favorite songs from movie or TV series soundtrack
*SCREECHING UNCONTROLLABLY AT INHUMAN VOLUMES AND PITCHES AND FREQUENCIES ENOUGH TO SHATTER FRAGILE OBJECTS AND SHAKE THE BUILDING FOR AN IMMEASURABLE AMOUNT OF TIME IN LITERALLY HOW THE ACTUAL FRICK DOES ANYCREATURE HAVE ONLY THREE FAVORITE MOVIE OR TV SHOW SONGS OUT OF EVERY MOVIE AND TV SHOW EVER THROTTLING YOU*
…Fine. I will pick three movies and a favorite song from each of those, and three TV shows and a favorite song from each of those.
And because of me actually having a stupid amount of indecision over just the fact that some movies I thought of were movie musicals and some just happened to have a song or two in them, frick it, separate sections for movies alone!
MOVIE MUSICALS
Get Back Up Again from Trolls
The Greatest Show from The Greatest Showman
Welcome To The Show from Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks
MOVIES THAT HAPPEN TO CONTAIN A SONG OR TWO
Aisling’s Song from The Secret of Kells
Kaze Ni Naru from The Cat Returns
Petey’s Song from the Fantastic Mr. Fox movie adaptation
TV SHOWS
Are we counting web serieses?
…Frick it, I’m going with the Exact Wording and saying these have to be shows actually on TV. Maybe I’ll do three from web serieses separately if anycreature asks.
Our Movie’s Better Than Yours from Phineas and Ferb (this is not my number one favorite Phineas and Ferb song, if you have just one there’s a good chance you haven’t heard enough Phineas and Ferb songs, but it is one OF my favorites and it’s massively underrated.)
My Evil Dreams from Sofia the First (I don’t think I have a one favorite song from Sofia the First either, it’s another show with a LOT of good ones, but yeah this is one)
Finale from Hazbin Hotel
13) three songs you want at your funeral
Jubyphonic’s acoustic english version of Itte or Say It by Yorushika
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, though there is the slight problem of having no idea what version, especially since I haven’t heard a single rendition of it that has ALL the verses I’ve ever heard. ….maybe one day I’ll do that myself and they can play a recording of that at my funeral.
…frick it. We Ran Out Of CD Space by Psychostick
30) three songs you really want your followers to know (for reasons other than those above)
Wicked Girls by Seanan McGuire
A Glacier Eventually Farts (And Don’t You Listen To The Song Of Life) by Chris Christodoulou
Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care by Relient K
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