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stevenuniversetanzanite · 4 years

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The Angel Among Us (Cordelia X reader) Part 1

(This chapter has been rewritten/ edited since original post)

General Notice: I’m trying to get more works out during this time that is rough for all of us. That being said I am trying to keep it’s quality up.

This is technically a prequel to Fallen Angel (Work in progress), however it can be read as a stand alone series.

Summary:

If your reading as a stand alone: A witch heads back to Miss Robichaux's 20 years after she left in hopes of being a teacher there. The only problem is she hasn’t aged a day.

If your from Fallen Angel: The event’s leading up to Y/N joining Michael and the Cooperative.

Warnings: N/A

Parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 , Part 4(will be added when done)

It had been years since you left Miss Robichaux's academy or spoken to your best friend from that place. How long it had been exactly was something you were unsure of. It felt like days, but it could have been decades. The school's exterior hadn't aged a day since you first stepped into that academy for extraordinary young ladies. To be fair, neither had you.

The two-story building towered over you as it did at 18. You tried to move on from those days alas your memory of the place remained in your stagnant life. You had ambitions once, now unsure of what they were. You weren't necessarily from New Orleans, but your ancestry was from Salem or at least from what the letter your mother sent you explaining your oddities.

Years on and you stood in front of the cast iron gates just as petrified as you were on your first day. You had nothing to lose except your old way of thinking. Now, there was her. You wouldn't expect someone to accept you as you are. There was no way to explain what has become of you because nothing has, you were the same person you were when you exited her life.

The chuckles of girls playing in the yard filled your ears on the fine summer's day. Break time, you thought to yourself as you tugged your cardigan closer to her frame. You used to spend all your free time in the greenhouse with your friend. Potions weren't your forte, but she loved it so acted like you did...for her. It wasn't until recently that you learned to appreciate the natural science of it.

Your friend was your main reason for your resurgence into the world of magic. Her passion to teach the next generation of witches fuelled your pilgrimage of discovery of the world. To teach the wonderous world of extraordinary beings to the youth of today. You excelled in the history of Salem witches and your passion extended across other magical beings. The two of you used to joke that after years you would be the only two to remain behind. You wished for nothing more than to be with her for all eternity. Some dreams never go as they're planned. Namely, her husband, Hank Foxx. It could have been because you spent years surrounded by women, but that man didn't sit right with you. Nor did he to your friends Mother, one of the few things you got on with that woman about.

Her mother was a vile woman, the supreme witch since she was 18. She rarely took interest in the coven unless it was for self-benefit. She was a distant mother to her daughter, shipping her off to the school at the early age of 7. Your friend sought out a mother figure elsewhere, finding it in Myrtle Snow who ended up working for the council and doing the work the supreme refused to do. Her mother, Fiona, was long since dead, four years to be exact. Her title ironically passed down to her daughter. The worlds changed since your school days. You'd heard the news from your local sources, discovering Fiona's death when news of witches was broadcasted to the world. There was no way in hell Fiona would allow that. You were tempted to go to the opening, say hello to your old friend. But what would you say? It's been years. You left her all alone for years. How were you going to forgive yourself?

With a flick of the wrist, the gates were open. Your heart pounded to the beat of your footsteps. Your breath stilled when you knocked on the door. Maybe this was a mistake, you contemplated leaving. No one was answering. It was probably for the best.

The truth was years ago you had the chance to return but you refused. The only reason you were here now was for purely selfish reasons. The balance of good and bad had shifted and in your trail to correct the scale, you wound up in a lot of trouble. You had nowhere to go. Your home was no longer your own and you were on were on the run.

You sighed, turning around, and heading down the concrete path. The iron gate closed before you could leave. Your ears register a voice a second later. You spun around to be greeted by a young woman. She was short (but compared to you most women where) with long straight brown hair.

"Good, I got your attention, I thought you were going to escape," the woman joked. You chuckled awkwardly in response. Now that you were leaving, you did not really want to be there. "You knocked on the school's door?"

"-Yeah." You didn't even imagine the possibility of it not being- of course, it wouldn't be her. She was supreme now, she had better things to do than answering the school's door. "Yeah, sorry. I'm slighting out of it, nerves and all."

"It's alright. Most girls are nervous when they first arrive."

You chuckled once again, awkwardly, "I bet."

The woman let you inside telling you she would lead you to the Headmistress to fill out all the paperwork.

"Crap, I forgot she's in a meeting right now," the young woman said. "And I have to teach a class in a minute."

"You're a teacher?" The woman was used to the question from how young she was. "What age range are you teaching?"

"Right now, Pre-teen years. They're usually the worst to deal with."

"I bet. I could sit in and watch you teach them while we wait for Cordelia. Hell, you might be able to teach me something." Zoe hadn't mentioned the Supreme's name, so she assumed you knew it from the television segment a while back.

"If it doesn't bother you."

"It's no problem at all."

The woman led you to the kitchen dining room where a bunch of restless girls were mucking about. They all stilled, taking their seats, a few still mucking about as they did so. All the girls stared at you, one asking why you were so tall. You laughed, saying "Platforms" showing your four-inch platforms that were hidden by your floor-length skirt before you stole one of the free seats moving it out of the way so the woman could teach.

As the lesson when on you noticed one of the girls was struggling with her work. You noticed how she seemed to be too shy to ask for help. The girl beside her flying head and boasting about her skills, most likely bringing the girl down (unintentionally), in the process. You stood up and quietly as to not disturb the class and moved over to the girl.

"Hi, my name's Y/N. What's yours?" You asked her quietly.

"Emily," she whispered.

"Nice to meet you, Emily. Do you need any help with your work?" She shook her head. "Can I help you with your work?" She looked at you hesitantly then up to Ms who was too busy to notice you had moved over to the girl.

"If you want."

"How about you tell me what you're learning?" You started with. She shrugged. "What's the title of your worksheet?"

"Types of Magic?"

"Yes, that's correct. Now, what are the two main types of magic?" She remained quiet. "Clue: what's above you?"

"A roof?"

You chuckled, "Technically, that is right, but I meant that-" you point to the light globe.

"Oh, a light. Light and dark!" She got excited, raising her voice from a whisper. This caught the attention of the teacher.

"Yes, that's correct. All magic users fall into one of those two. Us witches fall into the light magic, even the darkest, most evil witch still uses light magic. There are others who would also fall into this side such as angels."

"Angels exist?"

"Supposedly. I've never met one," You said. "Even though there is light and dark magic, the purpose a person uses it for can differ. You know who I mentioned a witch using her light magic for evil?" Emily nodded. "She would be using-"

You went on explaining to Emily. A few of the girls around her joined in listening to you explain the course to her. You added pointers their teacher hadn't mentioned and some you picked up from your years of living a magic-filled life. You only noticed you had stolen the attention of all the girls when the others began asking you questions. The teacher was gone from where you last saw her. You asked the girl what the teacher's name was. You had forgotten to ask earlier.

"I'm so sorry Zoe, I didn't mean to take over your class," you said when you finally spotted her. "I was only trying to help Em with her work."

"Em?" Emily repeated.

"I give all my friends and family nicknames. I didn't think-" She leapt up and gave your waist a hug before you got another word in. She repeated the word friend back to you excited by the prospect of gaining a new friend. You gathered she was new or had a hard time with people since she found the idea of you being her friend exciting. You chuckled, rustling her hair with your hand. "Okay, enough hugging. I better let you get back to class. I stole enough of your time."

"Actually, class is over," Zoe said.

"Oh~ I'm so-" You went to apologise when the woman cut you off.

"No, it's fine. It's better they understand the work then rushing ahead and then not knowing it correctly." She silently conferred that what you had said to them was correct. She would have interrupted, adding her two sense if something seemed off. The teacher found your allegory's to be helpful in explaining the content as well as refreshing.

"Zoe's right, it's better that they understand the work. One wrong preformed spell and it could be disastrous." You knew that voice anywhere. "I was informed that we had a new student, so I came down as soon as I-"

Your head perked up to look at the woman that owned your body and soul. Your eyes begged for her to recognise you, to pull you into her embrace. You smiled sweetly at her in the way only you could. She returned the gesture. Her face was warm and welcoming as ever but as she got a better look at you, you noticed the change in her expression. The shift was slight but noticeable solely because you sought it out. You pulled yourself away from Emily carefully. As soon as you were detached, you headed over to the headmistress offering your gloved hand to her.

"L/N." She accepted your offer of a handshake. Her grip was strong excuding confidence dissimilar to the woman you left behind years prior. You kept a natural level of eye contact to not seem suspicious. Giving your last name was a test. You didn't want to scare her off immediately nor face the slap she will most likely give you when she puts the pieces together. "I was actually here to offer to be a teacher if you needed one," you said. "I know you had a large incline of students recently as well as limited staff. I don't know if that has since changed. Even if you just need someone to mark homework or assessments, I don't mind. I have all the credentials I would need for a normal teaching job along with working with children's card. Everything's in my satchel." You didn't find in necessary to mention the repercussions of not being accepted. Stating your problems wasn't your way. They were yours, there was no need to share.

"We can discuss this further in my office." Cordelia gestured into the hallway. You waved bye to the girls and said goodbye to Zoe.

Before Cordelia left Zoe pulled her aside. She noticed the facial expression shift too.

"You alright Cordelia?"

"Yeah," She whispered back to her friend. "She looks like a friend, I had years back."

"She could be a relative. Sister, daughter, cousin-"

"She had no living family," Cordelia told Zoe. "The girl's too old to be a daughter." She sighed, "It's fine, it's a freaky coincidence."

"You don't need to hire her."

"It would be helpful to have some extra help around here. She seemed to be great with the younger ones and we know how much of a feat that is." They both chuckled. "I shouldn't keep her waiting."

Cordelia kept eyeing you occasionally when talking to Zoe. You gathered she was talking about you, but it wasn't your place to listen. It's not nice to eavesdrop.

You remained quiet, listening for her to talk as the two of you headed to her office. Upstairs, first room on the right, just as you remembered. "As you know, that is Zoe. We had another teacher but unfortunately, we lost her. You will occasionally see an older woman here named Myrtle; she doesn't teach the students, but she helps me with council work." You smiled knowing Myrtle was here and still a part of the council.

Cordelia opened her office allowing you to walk in first. You noticed the familiar redhead in the corner of Cordelia's office drinking. Cordelia told you to take a seat at her desk while she got the paperwork ready. You pulled out your documentation placing it on the table before drawing your attention to the older woman behind you. Myrtle was talking to Cordelia about something irrelevant to you when she stopped mid-sentence, something you had never seen her do.

Cordelia cleared her throat, earning your attention. You spun around slowly. Cordelia told you that your documentation would not be relevant since they had an unorthodox away of job selecting. The past isn't relevant to her as long as you weren't her to bring harm to her girls. You insisted she took a look to ease your mind and to make her away of your qualifications.

"Now Y/N-" She wasn't meant to say that. She quickly went to cover it up, "Sorry I mean-" She picked up your papers searching your name on them.

"No, you were right." You adjusted the wire framed glasses on your face. One of the few new things about you. "Y/N M/N L/N."

"Is Y/N a family name?" Cordelia asked. "Like how some men name their son's the same name but call them junior."

"I don't believe so," You said, acting oblivious. You already came off strong demanding a job. "I don't have much of a family."

Cordelia's eyes widened. It couldn't be?

"Can I see your ID?"

"Sure." You fish through your bag pulling out a worn-down purse that she gifted to you years ago. Cordelia went to say something but held herself back, instead looking over to Myrtle with a questioning look. The oldest woman in the room shared the same level of confusion. "I should warn you; I apparently look a lot younger than my age."

You handed over your card to Cordelia.

"Y/n, what had you want to become a teacher?"

"Well, that's a tough question. I mean, where to begin?" You laughed. "I've always had a knack for the history of the Salem coven and it transformed into a fascination with magic in general. I guess I want to put my knowledge to good use. There's no point allowing it to waste away up here and recording it down in a book never sounded as appealing as verbally communicating it." Cordelia nodded along keeping a hold of your identification. "One of my friends used to joke that we'd both be here teaching together. Things didn't go as planned."

"They never do." Cordelia said. "I hope you don't mind but I need a secondary opinion on your resume." She ushered over Myrtle and the two had a quick conversation. She didn't believe you, she had to be asking about if it was possible, Myrtle would probably suggested plastic surgery as a possibility as to your appearance or some other thing you couldn't do.

"Could she have done Tempus Infinituum or something similar? It would explain why I- we haven't heard anything from her." The two look at you sat there twiddling your thumbs.

You always assumed your ageless appearance was some genetic thing or something to do with your magic. You're still trying to figure that out and was hoping she could help you out with that, or someone here could. Obviously, that wasn't your purpose for coming back.

"Is it really you Y/N?"

You nodded. Her eyes teared up and a smile formed on her face. She shook her head not wanting to jump the gun or overstep her boundary. It had been years and she had no clue what you had been through. It would have to be hell in order for you to leave. The two of you were inseparable before you vanished.

"I can prove it. Ask me anything only I would know."

Your words were enough, the tale you told of your friend and how much of a history buff you were.

"I can do one better, give me your hand." She laid her hand out for you to grab. You didn't understand. "A lot has happened since you left, one being I got The Sight."

As soon as you heard that you grabbed her hand allowing the skin to skin contact to explain away everything it had to. It hit you a second later, you shouldn't have rushed it. There were things she didn't need to know that she may now have access too. She tore your glove from your hand allowing her fingers to slip between yours. She gasped watching your earlier twenties up until now flash through her mind.

She retracted from you, allowing herself a moment to get air in her lungs. "Y-y-you-" she stuttered. Her eyes flicked from you to her aunt. Shock covered her face. Her eyes settled on you and you expected her to say something about how this was unbelievable. "Why are your hands so cold?"

"What?" Not what you were expecting.

"You're freezing, I'm going to find you a blanket."

"You don't need to, I'm fine-" Her glare at you urged you to shut you up quickly. She used to do the same thing back in the day. "I'm serious, I'm always this cold. Why do you think I dress like this?"

You got up, following her down the corridor and up the stairs to a bedroom. You attempted to reason with her that you were fine, you were always ice cold which concerned her more. "That's not normal Y/N/N" 'Y/N/N?' You smiled upon hearing your nickname from long ago.

"You'll learn not a lot about me is-" You kidded.

"Sit down on the bed, I'm getting out the winter blankets."

"But it's summer-"

"And your freezing."

She headed into her closet only returning a few minutes later with the thickest blanket she owned. You were already dressed inappropriately for the weather, cloaked in long sleeved maxi length dress, thick woollen stockings, below the knee boots that were hidden by your dress. You also had a cardigan you removed upon entering the school grounds. Cordelia wrapped the blanket around before forcing you to lay down. You whined, using that you were wearing shoes as an excuse. She removed them, seeing how much big the sole was she asked, "How do you walk in these?"

"How do you walk in heels?"

"Touche."

The two of you started cackling. Soon you were swaddled up in a blanket, lying on what you assumed was Cordelia's bed telling stories and laughing at each other's misfortune like it was old times. You had learned the unfortunate events that led to her ex-husbands death. A witch hunter, you should have guessed.

"I missed you," Cordelia admitted. You remained quiet, wanting to say it back but not having the courage. Like the last time, you had seen her, her wedding. You, the maid of honour, left early. You knew you would have to explain it to her, but you couldn't. You didn't want to force your feelings onto her, that's why you never told her then and that's why you can't tell her you missed her now. You missed her more than she could ever believe. "I saw- I mean... I know. I know you miss me too." She moved closer to you, resting her head onto your shoulder. "I know you missed me too."

#cordelia x reader #cordelia foxx x reader #cordelia goode x reader

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cosmicjoke · 4 years

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Ash and Recognizing His Innate Goodness

I’ve talked a lot about my belief that Ash was, from the very beginning, an innately good person, and that, while Eiji gave Ash something extremely special in giving him, for the first and only time in his life, the experience of what it felt like to be unconditionally love and accepted, I don’t think you can give Eiji, or anyone else in Ash’s life, credit for making him a GOOD PERSON. I think Ash just always was, it was just that his life was so hard and difficult from so early on, that he had to develop this hard, cold exterior as a way to protect himself. But it wasn’t something created in him through the kindness of others. I think the reason Eiji connected as deeply as he did with Ash is because Eiji was able to see past that armor and see Ash for who he really was. He saw how much pain Ash was in, how much it cost him to have to do the things he did, that he wasn’t some emotionless monster, and that he never was in danger of even becoming one. The one time the two of them really fought was when Eiji started to make the same mistake everyone else had made, thinking, because Ash was doing the things he was doing, it was because he was losing sight of his own humanity. The same way Shorter accuses Ash in Angel Eyes of becoming like the people who abuse him. Just like he was with Shorter, Ash is incredibly upset that Eiji would think that, and gets extremely angry, because it’s not true. It hurts Ash that Eiji could think that. That he could believe Ash could be someone who hurt others just because he can, or because he wants to. Ash isn’t killing Arthur’s men because he enjoys it, or because he wants to. He’s killing them because if he doesn’t, they’ll kill him and all of his own boys. He’s doing it because Arthur and the rest of them forced the issue by refusing to back down. Ash gets no pleasure out of what he’s doing. Just like he got no pleasure out of seducing Ricardo. It’s an act necessary to survival, and that’s all. Eiji eventually comes to understand that, and that’s the real turning point in their relationship. That Ash didn’t kill because he was a devil or a demon or a ruthless killer. That Ash didn’t kill because he was a bad guy. He killed because he had no other choice if he wanted to keep living and if he wanted to protect those he cared for.

There's so many things that point to Ash having an inherently kind and caring heart. The fact that he cares as much as he does about everyone around him, even before he really gets to know Eiji, like Griff, Skip and Shorter, and everyone in his gang. A good example of this is the fact that Ash is only working with Dino at the beginning of the story still because he needs the money in order to pay for Griff’s medical bills. Dino is Ash’s worst abuser, his longest abuser, and the last person Ash wants anything to do with. But he keeps working with him just so he can care for his big brother. He subjects himself to being around a man who raped him repeatedly as a child so he can have a way of keeping Griff safe and alive. This is the definition of self-sacrifice. This is before he ever meets Eiji. Definitely Ash was influenced by Shorter and Eiji, in terms of how he was able to open up and be outwardly softer and less harsh, but other people don’t determine for you what’s in your heart. They can’t create a capacity to care in another person. That has to be inborn. I feel like the fact Ash is as good as he is from the start of the story really proves he always had a strong, moral inclination. Really it’s in SPITE of all the horrific pain Ash has been through that he's as good as he is, because anybody with a shaky or nonexistent moral foundation, if they had gone through even a fraction of what Ash did, would have turned out viciously cruel. Yut-Lung is a good example, actually. Yut-Lung has been through similar experiences, though not entirely the same, as Ash, and he acts in ways that are entirely selfish and petty. Yut-Lung didn’t really have anyone in his life to help guide him, but even despite this, we see moments of regret and remorse in him, because he isn’t ENTIRELY without goodness. Still, he’s noticeably selfish, self-centered, petty and vengeful in a way Ash never was. Even at his lowest and most desperate moments, even when he was most alone, with no friends and no one to support him, Ash never hurt anyone who didn’t first hurt or try to hurt him, and he never hurt anyone out of spite, or jealousy, never tried to take anything away from someone just because they had it and he didn’t. Ash, from the very beginning, only ever acted out of self-defense. Even with positive influences like Shorter and Griff and Eiji, if Ash hadn't started out with having a strong, natural sense of right and wrong, given the truly massive scale of his suffering, he would have been a lot more morally corrupt from the start. The greatest tragedy of Ash, I think, is that he's really such a good person, who's been forced into such an awful, brutal existence through no fault of his own, and it's driven him to hate himself. I think the whole point of Banana Fish is to show the true damage that child abuse can cause. That it can take a good person like Ash and make him believe he's a bad person.

I think people can influence you, definitely, and can influence the way you turn out, but I also think there's an equal balance between nature versus nurture. I don't think you can create a strong moral nature in someone if it doesn't exist from the start. It’s why you can find genuinely bad people who have never experienced anything traumatic in their lives, and they still go out of their way to cause harm to others. Like basically everyone in the story who abused Ash. It’s also why you can find people who have experienced truly traumatic things, and they’re still good people deep inside, wanting to do the right thing, even if they’re also damaged and maybe don’t always understand how to go about it. Like Blanca, and of course even more so Ash himself. If that goodness DOES exist from the start, other people can nurture it and grow it and give it a safe place to express itself, and that’s what Eiji and Shorter did for Ash. But you can't give a moral conscience to someone who doesn't already have it. Kind of like you can't create talent or intelligence in someone. They have to be born with it, and then you can develop it. I just think, with everything we know about Ash, about the way he was from the start, the way he reacted to things, the things he tried to achieve, like keeping his friends and family safe, even trying to spare enemies of his, trying to break free from Dino, etc… and the things he didn’t ever care about, like money and power, the way he cared about people, the value he placed on human life, despite all the hell he'd been through, etc... it shows that he always had a good heart, he just lived in a world where if he let that show, it would get him killed. Which, the most tragic thing of all, it eventually did.

One more point to make about all of this is a parallel we see between Private Opinion and Angel Eyes. There are scenes in both stories in which Blanca and Shorter see Ash smile and laugh genuinely, in the carefree, childlike way children do, and they're both struck by how sweet and cute Ash is. Because they're seeing Ash as he really is in those moments. This sweet, adorable little boy. They’re amazed and stunned, because it’s the first time they’re actually getting to see the real Ash, and it's so at odds with the detached, uncaring facade Ash usually wears. Ash shows that part of him to them in moments of lighthearted, carefree abandon. He smiles and laughs like that around them after he's come to realize he can trust them, and that they won't hurt him.

I think what's important to remember is that, as horrific as the abuse Ash suffered is, and honestly, it’s about as bad as it can possibly get, it never defined WHO Ash was.

The abuse he suffered destroyed his life. Absolutely. It ruined his life. It changed, irrevocably, the course and direction of where he ended up. It changed and affected the way Ash interacted with people and situations. It altered and affected the way he behaved. It forced him to harden himself, to become harsh and blunt, to cut himself off in order to survive, to push people away because he couldn’t trust them, and because he was thrust, through no fault of his own, into a desperate, cruel world of violence which made him dangerous to be around. It damaged him in permanent, irreparable ways, emotionally and mentally. Caused him to develop dangerously low self-esteem and other, deeply unhealthy habits and ways of thinking. It made him hate himself, made him think of himself as worthless and not deserving of love. It caused him painful and overwhelming stress and anxiety, and forced him to live in a constant state of fear and uncertainty, leaving him unable to ever relax, unable to stop, unable to be himself, unable to be a boy, unable to just LIVE. It affected and changed and dictated every aspect of his life.

But the one thing it never changed, the one thing it never altered, was who Ash was fundamentally inside himself. The abuse destroyed his life, but it never destroyed HIM.

Despite it all, Ash never stopped being a good person.

This is so vitally important to the story, I think. To realize this about the story. Ash's abuse didn't turn him into an abuser. It didn't make him a bad person. Ash says to Foxx, right before Foxx rapes him, that he can do whatever he wants to him, because it doesn't matter, because Ash's mind and spirit are his own. He's telling Foxx that no matter how badly you treat me, no matter how hard you try to make me like you, I never will be. I'll never be as ugly as you are. Ash never lost himself, despite the sickening hell he suffered, and I think that's exactly in line with the message of Banana Fish. That even if you've suffered trauma that's destroyed your life, it doesn't mean that trauma defines who you are. It doesn't mean that trauma has destroyed you, or made you a worthless person. That your trauma isn't WHO you are. It's something you've been through, maybe even something you can never move past, but it doesn't mean that's all you are as a person. It doesn't mean that's what you are as a person. That bad things happening to you don’t make you a bad person. They may affect the way you act, the way you behave, the decisions you make, but it doesn’t change what’s in your heart. And Ash’s heart was always golden.

#Banana Fish #Ash Lynx #Meta

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bananafishmetas · 4 years

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Ash and Recognizing His Innate Goodness

I think what's important to remember is that, as horrific as the abuse Ash suffered is, and honestly, it’s about as bad as it can possibly get, it never defined WHO Ash was.

But the one thing it never changed, the one thing it never altered, was who Ash was fundamentally inside himself. The abuse destroyed his life, but it never destroyed HIM.

Despite it all, Ash never stopped being a good person.

#Banana Fish #Ash Lynx #Meta

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popcornblotter · 6 years

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My Top 10 Favorite Films of 2017

Good news everyone! No need for intros here, let’s end the year on a high note shall we! Here, we, go!

#10

Writer/Director Sofia Coppola further proves her mastery of filmmaking with The Beguiled. A drama set in Virginia during the Civil War when a wounded Union soldier makes his way to an all girls school in the summer, the Headmistress and students wonder what to do with him, and subsequently find out how he affects their lives.

The biggest standout for me was the lighting and cinematography. Each shot is perfectly well framed as well as only using light sources that would be available in that setting. Candles, lanterns, and the sun brought this ambiance of uneasiness. The location of schoolhouse and it’s surroundings was marvelous as well, transporting you to an almost ethereal bayou of sorts.

Colin Farrell continues to impress as he furthers his career. Bringing an edge of quiet fear, seduction, and anger all within a 95 minute runtime.

I know this film was very divisive for comic book fans, and I can understand some of their qualms, but Justice League was just a heck of a lot of fun.

I loved the coming together of the team, as well exploring a bit into the newer character’s stories. Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa were the standout actors here.

I loved the humor, the interactions between the characters, and man did I love the scene when The Flash knew he was in trouble.

Despite it’s problems, the sometimes not great CGI, I still had fun, and would easily revisit this film again as it made me hopeful for what is to come from DC Films.

The first time I saw this movie, I wasn’t super crazy on it. Did I think it was funny? Yes, but something didn’t quite hit the first time. So after a second viewing, I grew to love this film. While the first Guardians is a little more straight forward, plot wise, stop the bad guys from doing this, and save the day. Guardians 2 is a little less structured, there isn’t a necessary Point A-Point B plot because most of this film is exploring familial relationships. Whether its Peter and his dad, Gamora and Nebula, or Yondu and Rocket. It brings forward the idea that your family doesn’t always have to be blood. And by the time this movie ends, I was a mess.

Blade Runner 2049 was a surprise for me this year. Mainly because I’ve never seen the original. I was curious, it looked cool, I’ve enjoyed director Denis Villeneuve’s work in the past, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

The way this film is shot is extraordinary. You could take any shot out of this film and have it be a painting on your wall. The sound was so booming and explosive it transported you to this neo-noir Los Angeles. The acting is superb as well, especially the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas. You felt from the first scene they have that this is a couple who’ve known each other for a while.

My only nitpick with this film is a pro and a con, which is it’s pacing. This film moves much slower than a normal film does these days. It has a very slow pace, which I enjoyed for most of it, because it allowed you to soak in this world with so much to see and hear. But towards the end, when things start coming together, you expect for things to speed up, which they don’t. In that, its very realistic to a world that is far removed from ours. I’d just hoped it would’ve wrapped up a little faster.

Despite that nitpick, I loved this film, its great, and it is genuinely a great mystery that keeps you guessing until the end.

This past July, the web slinging, wall crawler returned to the MCU in a big way.

The biggest achievement of this movie is the cast that is multi-racial, extremely talented, and can make you laugh at a moments notice. Director Jon Watts was able to represent the population of New York with the characters they have, even changing the origins of some to fit the story.

Tom Holland is obviously the standout, being able to be funny, awkward, and charming all in one go. I just loved that we actually got a high school looking Spider-Man. Yes, I know Tom Holland is in his 20’s, but it’s all about what age you can play, not what age you are. Versus Maguire and Garfield, looking like they were both about start investing in 401k’s.

Michael Keaton as The Vulture does a great job, probably being the second best villain, behind Loki. He was able to make you understand where he was coming from and why he was doing what he was doing.

This is a big thumbs up for me that’ll have you laughing all the way through.

All I can say is cool, cool, cool. I’ve been a fan of writer/director Edgar Wright for a bit, and his films always have this top, fun layer that you can appreciate, but then there’s this emotional layer underneath that just hits it home, and Baby Driver is no exception.

Ansel Elgort plays Baby, a get away driver with tinnitus, so to drown out the ringing in his ears, he constantly plays music on old iPods. What comes out of this film is a rollicking good time with all of the great witty dialogue Wright is known for, along some of the best edited action I’ve seen in a film. Since we watch the film through Baby’s perspective, we’re constantly hearing the music he’s listening to, either loud, or droned out. But when the action kicks up, you can’t help but say wow as gunshots and hits are timed perfectly to soundtrack in Baby’s ears. And I’m just a nerd for that kind of stuff.

Ansel Elgort has charm coming out of his ears in this film, and makes you wonder how he isn’t swarmed by women everywhere he goes. You also have a great supporting cast in Jon Hamm, Jon Bernthal, Jamie Foxx, and a small role from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

If you’re looking for an action flick with a twist check this one out.

With no surprise to myself, Marvel Studios gets another spot on this list with Thor: Ragnarok. I was immediately hooked into this new tone change from the first trailer. Marvel was finally going to let Chris Hemsworth do what he does best, and that’s be hysterical. I think the person to thank for that is New Zealand director, Taika Waititi, who’s known for wacky, off the cuff humor that works brilliantly.

I was hooked within the first minute when Thor is trapped in a cage, talking to someone about how he got there, and they flip the camera, and it’s a skeleton, which then proceeds to drop his jaw. That is the type of ridiculous humor I love. We then get a taste of the awesome action accompanied by Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. And I was smiling ear to ear like a fool.

While the previous Thor movies have been done with a more serious, Shakespearean tone, this one goes for crazy, balls out, 80’s metal look with almost every frame look like something you’d want painted on the side of a van.

All of the actors were great. Tessa Thompson was great as Valkyrie, I loved the appearance by Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange, and of course you can’t forget Tom Hiddleston as Loki and his chemistry with Hemsworth. Other great additions were Jeff Goldblum as The Grandmaster and Taika Waititi voicing a rock alien named Korg.

To me this was the tightest made film that Marvel Studios put out, with a crisp runtime of a little more than two hours it’s just enough to make you want more, but not long enough to check your phone.

Anyone who knows me knew this would be on my top 10 of the year. I’m a Star Wars nut! What can I say that I haven’t already? Porgs, porgs, porgs, porgs, and porgs.

If you haven’t seen this film yet, do yourself a favor and get your ass to theater.

I’ll be completely honest here, I didn’t have high hopes for Wonder Woman. At the time, here’s a studio with three movies with mixed results critically, and this one being directed by someone who hadn't made a film since 2003. But I went opening day with some slight chance of hope. And I gladly ate my words.

Words can’t necessarily describe how great a film Wonder Woman is. Patty Jenkins made what some have called a masterpiece in superhero filmmaking. I agree with about 98% of that. My only qualm was that on the second viewing in the theater, I did feel its runtime a little more, which is why it isn’t in the number 1 spot.

Gal Gadot and Chris Pine have a romance that seems practical for the amount of time they spent together, it seemed genuine, and I loved how Diana would call people out on their shit if she thought they were wrong. The No Man’s Land sequence left me in tears of joy at how wonderful everything worked from the cinematography, the music, the acting, the action, just everything.

You can’t miss this one, even if you aren’t a fan of DC characters, this is just a damn good movie.

I wanted to put some honorable mentions that didn’t quite make the cut.

What would’ve been #12

Christopher Nolan’s war film, Dunkirk is a technical marvel. The cinematography is breath taking and the sound scared the shit out of me. I saw this in an IMAX theater and when bullets fired, you never knew where they were coming from until they made contact. This literally made me jump several times throughout. The reason that this didn’t make the top 10 is that none of the characters particularly stood out in any way. I could tell you the names of the actors, but not their character’s names.

What would’ve been #11

The reason It isn’t higher is because I’m not a fan of horror movies. But I was intrigued at all of the critical success this movie was gaining, so I saw it with a few friends.

The reason this movie works as well as it does is because of the writing and the great child actors they got. Aside from Finn Wolfhard, of Stranger Things fame, the rest of these kids were unknown. But damn it if they didn’t knock it out of the park with their acting chops and chemistry. But if it wasn’t for that reason, I probably would’ve left the theater within ten minutes because I don’t do scary well. And as much as I enjoyed this one, I probably won’t revisit it.

And my favorite film of 2017 is

Logan is the perfect combination of my two favorite types of films. Action blockbusters and deep, emotional character pieces. When I went into Logan, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. I’d heard it took some inspiration from some of the comics where Wolverine is an older man, but that was about it. What I got was something that seriously fucked me up.

Like a lot of people, I grew up with Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine since the first X-men film in 2000. And it seemed with each iteration Jackman tried to deepen the character to reveal Logan’s core, instead of just being a mindless killing machine. With this you get the best of both worlds. Jackman stripped Wolverine down to the point it seems like he’s given up and is ready to die. But at the same time we get to see what would actually be the effects of a guy with claws for hands mauling people like an animal, and you learn that in the first few minutes. It is gory, but damn is it awesome!

Patrick Stewart also has a phenomenal performance as a Charles Xavier that we’ve never seen the likes of in the films. His mind wandering, breaking down, plagued by what I assume is the mutant version of dementia or Alzheimer’s. Seeing Stewart’s and Jackman’s near 20 years of working together is heart warming, heart breaking, and brutal.

This film also breeds a new star in newcomer Dafne Keen as Laura. This is a girl who is wise beyond her years as an actress. For about the first half of the film she doesn’t say a word, but you see all the emotion in her face communicated brilliantly. She is definitely someone who will have a prosperous career.

What director James Mangold succeeds with Logan is that he’s able to make a superhero film, but not have it be about something super, per se, but makes it about something everyone can relate to, family. Whether it’s Logan’s relationship to Charles, Logan to Caliban, Logan to Laura, its about the relationships that you grow with and foster when you inevitably have to say goodbye. Mangold was able to make a western, a superhero film, a family piece, a deep character study, an action film. This literally has something for almost everyone. I think Logan is the perfect example of what the superhero genre could and should become.

I’ll be completely honest, like I said before, this movie fucked me up. And I was crying for almost the last five minutes. And for me to cry at a piece of media, whether it be a series or movie isn’t uncommon, but to the degree that I did was what stayed with me. It was a typical silent cry that I usually do with most films I see, but this was uncontrollable, hard breathing, loud noised, ugly face sobbing. When the word “Daddy” is said, I lose it every time.

I guess I didn’t expect to get as attached to this film as I did. But I guess with Jackman playing that character for as long as he did, he sort of became synonymous with that role. I guess it’s to the effect of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker or Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter. But the sendoff Jackman and Mangold give this character is one of pure mastery, sadness, and hope. With the Fox/Disney deal, there is some part of me that wishes Jackman will return as Wolverine for the MCU, but if he doesn’t, that’s fine as well. Because this film is all but perfect to me.

I hope this film gets nominations for Jackman, Stewart, Keen, and Mangold for the Oscars because I think it deserves it because it broke boundaries of what a superhero film could be. And that is why Logan is my favorite film of 2017.

I want to thank you guys for reading this and for the support. Here’s hoping that 2018 will be even better! In the vain of a dumb catchphrase I tried to start years ago, stay tuned for more blotter!

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Furthermore, the risk of having an unexplained stillbirth doubles when a woman has had a previous c-section. – Marsden Wagner • But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. – Deepak Chopra • Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison • Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part. – Rene Dubos • Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene. – Dalai Lama • Cows’ milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed. – T. Colin Campbell • Do a little more than you’re paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends. – Art Linkletter • Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – Benjamin Franklin • Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. – Gautama Buddha • Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance. – Dennis Kucinich • Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. – Maude Barlow • Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also. – Theodor Adorno • Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. – Mahalia Jackson • Finding and creating your life’s work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do – your unique and special vocation…Your life’s work involves doing what you love and loving what you do. – Dennis Kimbro • For life is only life when blessed with health. – Martial • For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation – Bruce D. Perry • Free education and health care are essential for the welfare of the population. – Jose Ramos-Horta • Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure. – Jennifer Hudson • Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding. – John D. Rockefeller • Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment. – Alice Waters • Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. – Lord Chesterfield • Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer • Happiness lies, first of all, in health. – George William Curtis • He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. – Thomas Carlyle • He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends. – Marcus Terentius Varro • Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other. – Joseph Addison • Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors. – Quentin Crisp • Health depends on being in harmony with our souls – Edward Bach • Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. – B.K.S. Iyengar • Health is an announcement of agreement between your body, mind and spirit. Honor your body, keep it in good shape. When you are not healthy, look to see which parts of you disagree. Your body will demonstrate the truth to you. Notice what it is showing you, listen to what it is saying. – Neale Donald Walsch • Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. – Josh Billings • Health is not valued till sickness comes. – Thomas Fuller • Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, – an open and noble temper. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. – Gautama Buddha Health is the greatest of human blessings. – Hippocrates • Health is the greatest possession. – Laozi • Health is worth more than learning. – Thomas Jefferson • Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. – Wendell Phillips • Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. – Redd Foxx • Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. – John Henry Newman • Healthy people are invalids who don’t know it. – Jules Romains • Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy. – George Herbert • I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude. – Kris Carr • I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. – Nelson Mandela • I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe – from hard-earned experience – that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem. – George Vithoulkas • I believe that if you’re healthy, you’re capable of doing everything. There’s no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me. – Pedro Martinez • I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety. – Erin Brockovich • I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. – Lorna Luft • I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system – one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy. – Andrew Weil • I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health. – Voltaire • I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true. – Audrey Hepburn • I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It’s like a tonic. – Studs Terkel • If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? – Paul Farmer • If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – John Locke • If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease. – Robert Green Ingersoll • If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. – Elbert Hubbard • Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out. – Zafrullah Chowdhury • Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! – Thomas Carlyle

• In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself. – Mantak Chia • In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. – Henri Frederic Amiel • In the next ten years, one of the things you’re bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. – T. Colin Campbell • It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. – Mahatma Gandhi • It must never be lost sight of what observation is for. It is not for the sake of piling up miscellaneous information or curious facts, but for the sake of saving life and increasing health and comfort – Katharine Kolcaba • It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician. – Meryl Streep • It’s important for people of color to link up with issues around globalization, food security, health, the environment. – Danny Glover • It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. – Jackie Mason • It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti • Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything. – Nhat Hanh • Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not. – Kris Carr • Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn’t resist it. – John Ehrlichman • Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection. – Dalai Lama • Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. – Thomas Browne • Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich • Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. – Charles Caleb Colton • Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. – Paul Stamets • Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health. – Gro Harlem Brundtland • Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. – Benjamin Franklin • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. – Albert Einstein • Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. – George Bernard Shaw • Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. – Robert Orben • One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. – Harold S. Kushner • Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity – a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life. – Ralph Bunche • People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. – Henrik Ibsen • People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. – Laurence Sterne • Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly – along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish – are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field. – Aaron Rodgers • Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. – John F. Kennedy • Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation. – Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld • Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men’s necessities. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness. – Paramahansa Yogananda • Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern. – Bill Drayton • Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination. – Mick Dodson • The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. – Jimmy Carter • The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The groundwork of all happiness is health. – Leigh Hunt • The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. – Benjamin Disraeli • The highest ideal of cure is the speedy, gentle, and enduring restoration of health by the most trustworthy and least harmful way. – Samuel Hahnemann • The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. – Harry Johnson • The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat. – Bernard Lown • The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals – Chrissie Hynde • The minute anyone’s getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They’re the two vital elements for a healthy life. – Francesca Annis • The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. – Mark Twain • The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer • The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. – Charles Churchill • The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself, and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives health, hope, and courage, and it extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind. – Enos Mills • The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child. – Jean Ping • The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine. – Hippocrates • The wish for healing has always been half of health. – Seneca the Younger • The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn’t acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated. – Evo Morales • There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice. – Angeles Arrien • There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price. – Brian Tracy • There’s a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it. – Josh Billings • ‘Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. – Henry David Thoreau • To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. – Gautama Buddha • To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration. – Robert Owen • True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness. – Christiane Northrup • Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It’s not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change. – Charles Duhigg • Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. – George Bernard Shaw • Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. – George Bernard Shaw • Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we “stand for” in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus. – Donald Watson • We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we’re healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present. – Clive Barker • We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. – Aaron Antonovsky • We drink [to] one another’s health and spoil our own. – Jerome K. Jerome • We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. … There’s opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that’s what life is. – David Steindl-Rast • We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. – Jacque Fresco • What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. – Henry David Thoreau • What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease. – Alexander Pope • What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things. – Esther Williams • When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. – Billy Graham • When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself. – Ibn Hazm • Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. – Louis Pasteur • World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners – governments, international donors, civil society, the private sector, the media, families and individuals alike – to develop sustainable activities for the survival, health and well-being of mothers and children. On this World Health Day, let us rededicate ourselves to that mission. – Kofi Annan • You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. – Gro Harlem Brundtland • You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow. – Gro Harlem Brundtland • You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day. – Ali Vincent • You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae. – Paul Walker • You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters. – Courtney Thorne Smith

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I'm excited to share these Entertaining Tips and Tricks with you from the lovely, talented Kate Haaf of The Everyday Hostess.

From a casual tailgate party to a swanky New Year’s Eve soiree, we love putting our personal touch on any event! At the same time, no party discriminates – they can all lead to some serious stress! And since we probably shouldn’t legally recommend always having a spare bottle of wine at the ready (but like, you should), we’re here with five entertaining and party planning tips and hacks that will make your hosting life easier! The key in my book: Prepare, prepare, prepare... Let’s get to it!

How to Host a Stress Free Dinner Party

1. Start A Few Weeks Out

You can never give yourself too much time to prepare for a party! I prefer to front load all of my preparation in the weeks leading up to the event so that I can enjoy the day of! No matter what, something will pop up day-of that you weren't expecting (you ran out of ice or one of your ingredients went stale and you need to go back to the store) and the last thing you want to do is have to deal with that plus something else (like trying to select the best floral for your centerpiece) that could have been handled earlier in the preparation process. The best types of parties are when the hosts are relaxing and enjoying time with their guests, so prepare in advance to help reduce any last-minute stresses!

2. Set up the Night Before

This is my number one party trick and key to success! I always set up as much as I can the night before as if it’s the actual party. So what does this exactly mean? Set the Table - If you’re hosting a sit down dinner, fully set the table as if someone will be arriving any minute (less the food and drinks, of course). I always have a vision in mind for the tablescape and then find ways to tweak it once I’m actually putting it together. Setting up the night before allows me some extra time to make these small little improvements as I see it coming together. Set up Platters - Pull out your platters and serving pieces in advance and label them with sticky notes with what will be served on them. Then if you realize you need one more, this gives you more time to find one to borrow or buy. Also, this helps me to ensure that I don’t forget to serve anything on the day of the party! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had numerous appetizers to serve and then just forget one of them on the day-of. Having platters ready with labels helps to remedy this! Prep the Meal - Most menu items can’t be made the night before, but they sure can be prepared in advance! For example, if I’m making a chili, I will cut all of the veggies in advance and store them in a plastic bag and refrigerate overnight. The same goes for any dry ingredients. Then all I need to do the next day is mix them together and cook! Gone are the times of hours of chopping on the day of a party. On the day of the party, make sure you give yourself enough time to complete any final tasks, like doing a final house cleaning or last-minute food and drink preparation. In my opinion, I’d rather start earlier in the day and have an extra hour of free time to finish getting ready or enjoy a glass of wine in the quiet rather than working up until the minute your first guest arrives.

3. It’s all About the Details!

The devil is in the details... and by “the devil,” of course I mean wowing your guests when they walk through your front door or sit down for dinner! Look, I love channeling my inner Gatsby at a lavish party as much as the next girl, but for one reason or another that kind of grandeur isn’t always realistic. I’ve found that you can make just as much of an impression on partygoers with a shrewd attention to detail as you can by writing a huge check for your event. From colorful straws to personalized napkins, or coordinated centerpieces and place settings, there are myriad ways to show your attendees that you’ve poured love and care into your party. Some of my favorite detail hacks that go a long way: Place cards - I love to incorporate personalization anywhere I possibly can and this usually starts with cute place cards for each guest. Printables - Printables are an adorable and very budget-friendly way to add some customization to your party. Whether it’s a cute print for your cocktail bar or labels for each buffet item that corresponds with your party theme, these are the perfect way to add an extra tailored touch to your party. Straws and Napkins - These may seem like a small detail, but when your paper straw or napkins perfectly correspond with your party theme, people notice.

4. The Menu

Since he’s probably reading this, I’ll go ahead and say my husband is a GREAT bartender and budding mixologist ;) But I don’t want him to miss the mixing and mingling at our parties and then blame it on the a, a-a-a, a-al-cohol – even if Jamie Foxx says it’s OK. So, I like to simplify the drink menu. I always recommend serving beer, wine, and then a signature cocktail that correlates with the party theme. Be sure to choose some crowd-pleasers, especially if you’re getting adventurous with your cocktail – but a signature drink is a great way to make a statement and also allow you (and your husband) to interact with your party guests! Unless you’re having the party catered, I like to have as many menu items as fresh and homemade as possible; however, a multi-course meal can be difficult to plan and coordinate. Therefore, I like to have a signature and gourmet dish, a couple sides that are delicious but not too time-consuming, and then I’ll add a few premade options that I have tweaked to look homemade. For example, I’ll serve a cedar plank salmon with goat cheese mashed potatoes and a caesar salad. All will look homemade, but in reality, I’ll use a bagged caesar salad and then make homemade parmesan crisps to add to the top to make it look like I worked on this salad all day long!

5. Clean Up

Make sure your dishwasher is empty before people arrive. That will make the clean up and end-of-night tear down way easier on you and much fewer dishes will be staring at you from the sink in the morning. Also, try to avoid cleaning while guests are there! Sit back and enjoy and take in every minute with your friends and family. There will be no guest guilt associated with not helping and they will be able to fully enjoy as well! Want all kinds of party inspiration in your feeds? Follow The Everyday Hostess on Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. Happy hosting!

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The Similarities of “Valentine’s Day” and “Love Actually”

Written by Gaby Baizas Edited by Joshua Chan

I’m sure everyone who’s watched both Love Actually and Valentine’s Day can agree that the two movies have striking similarities – both have star-studded casts, multiple storylines, and one universal holiday. However, after seeing both films multiple times, there are actually several specific plot points that prove that Love Actually may have influenced Valentine’s Day.

Kid in love

People may know Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt from The Maze Runner, Jojen Reed from Game of Thrones, or the voice of Ferb from Phineas and Ferb. However, the first time he stole all our hearts was as Sam in Love Actually, who had a massive crush on his American classmate, Joanna.

Sam’s entire storyline was focused on how hard he worked to get Joanna to notice him. This included learning how to play the drums to perform with her at the school Christmas program and running past airport security to say goodbye to her. The lengths Sam went for love, and how it was eventually revealed that Joanna noticed him all along, is still nothing short of emotionally sweet.

On the other side of the fence in Valentine’s Day, Edison, played by Bryce Robinson, had been feeling down from “being lovesick” early in the film. Edison’s crush is more subtle than Sam’s crush on Joanna, as Edison’s story line seems to stray away from his “lovesickness” every now and then.

Towards the end of the film, it is revealed that Edison’s crush happened to be his teacher, Julia Fitzpatrick, played by Jennifer Garner. While this plot twist was abrupt and disappointing (bordering on uncomfortable), the core of the original story in Love Actually is strikingly similar to this plotline in Valentine’s Day.

Sex-related profession

In Love Actually, John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page) are two actors that meet on set for a pornographic film, and while the two actors are very comfortable filming sex scenes with each other for work, the two of them are actually very shy, modest, and wholesome in real life. The two actors then become friends, and flirt with each other here and there, and finally end up dating (and getting engaged!) towards the end of the film. The film’s emphasis on their professions points out that love can be found anywhere, even in the strangest of places (in this case, the set of a pornographic film).

In Valentine’s Day, Liz Curran (Anne Hathaway) is a phone sex operator, and is shown attending to many clients throughout the film. She takes on several personas as a phone sex operator, complete with different accents, but is very secretive about the job. When her boyfriend, Jason Morris (Topher Grace) finds out about her underground profession as a phone sex operator, he becomes very appalled. This prompts the two to fight, as Jason couldn’t bear to accept Liz’s negative qualities, and Liz was mad that he was making her underground profession define her whole being.

The focus of Liz’s profession as a phone sex operator emphasized that you should be able to accept your lover completely, and to not just love their good traits while disregarding their bad ones. I, however, personally felt that it was unnecessary to make her profession sex-related, as it very well could’ve worked with a non-sex-related profession, such as an underground illegal drug dealer, for instance. There was no specific reason that she had to be a phone sex operator, and I felt that the creators of Valentine’s Day were trying too hard in making it similar to John and Judy’s professions in Love Actually.

Celebrity linking all characters together

In Love Actually, Billy Mack’s (Bill Nighy) new Christmas song, entitled “Christmas is All Around” is constantly played throughout the film and pops here and there in different story lines when different characters listen to his song or watch his music video. But instead of the character being a running joke throughout the film, Billy Mack eventually wins over viewers by the end of the film when it is revealed that the character actually has a heart and loves his manager no matter how tarnished his image may be.

In Valentine’s Day, there was more than one fictional celebrity figure that connected the other characters together. This included radio DJ Romeo Midnight (voiced by Paul Williams), sports reporter Kelvin Moore (Jamie Foxx), and Sean Jackson (Eric Dane), a closeted football player that everyone has their eyes on.

While these celebrities were less cringe-worthy than Billy Mack, these characters end up feeling undeveloped, one-dimensional, and empty, ultimately ending up as filler.

Cheating

Cheating was actually a distinct plot point for two separate storylines in both movies. In Love Actually, Jamie (Colin Firth) comes home to find his girlfriend cheating on him with his brother. Jamie and his girlfriend break up immediately, and Jamie finds love again later on in the film. In the other subplot, Harry (portrayed by the late Alan Rickman) gets involved in an affair with his secretary, Mia (Heike Makatsch). Harry later gets caught by his wife, Karen (Emma Thompson), and this causes a great rift in their marriage, ending in an ambiguous ending that fans of the film will always have on their mind – Did they remain married?

In Valentine’s Day, Edison’s grandparents, Edgar (portrayed by Héctor Elizondo) and Estelle Paddington (portrayed by Shirley MacLaine) go through a rough patch after Estelle admits that she had an affair with one of Edgar’s business partner several years ago. Edgar walks out and initially goes to watch a movie on his own, but Estelle finds him and they manage to patch things up. Julia (Jennifer Garner) starts seeing Dr. Harrison Copeland (Patrick Dempsey), a (supposed) divorcee. Later on in the film, it is revealed that Harrison is actually still married to his wife, and is actually juggling two relationships at the same time. This makes Julia furious, and it is eventually revealed that Harrison’s wife has left him.

Overall, while Love Actually focuses on a victim of cheating (Jamie) and a cheater (Harry) and Valentine’s Day focuses on showing an unknowing victim of cheating (Julia) and a cheater showing remorse for their past actions (Estelle), both films are united by this common theme – cheating.

Airport chase

In Love Actually, when Joanna has to leave for America, Sam and his father, Daniel (Liam Neeson), decide to see her off at the airport for Sam to give his final goodbye. Unfortunately, Joanna’s flight is just about to leave, and Sam decides to run past airport security to make it to the gate to give Joanna his goodbye. Before he is whisked away by security, Sam manages to make it to Joanna, and Joanna gives him a goodbye kiss.

In Valentine’s Day, however, when Julia’s best friend, Reed (Ashton Kutcher), realizes that Harrison is cheating on her, he decides to chase after Julia at the airport to convince her not to see him anymore.

The handling of the airport chase is distinctly different, as while Sam’s airport chase was adorable and heartwarming, Reed’s airport chase was more humiliating, and served as arguably weak comic relief.

Setting

Both movies are set in different cities during two different holidays, but the two movies seem to give off different vibes with regards to the holiday being celebrated. Love Actually focuses on London during the Christmas season, however, Love Actually had an overarching theme besides Christmas – it is not so much a Christmas film, but rather, a film that happens to take place during Christmas. Christmas was far from the main focus of the film, the underlying message being that love was all around.

Valentine’s Day, however, opts for a more over-the-top approach with no overarching theme – the film was called Valentine’s Day and took place during the titular holiday. The connections among the characters in Valentine’s Day was far weaker and more simplistic than what Love Actually accomplished, with the connections feeling as if they were just forced into the script.

Overall, despite the similarities of the two, I will always forever favour Love Actually over Valentine’s Day. However, I won’t distinct differences, and both are ultimately still enjoyable holiday films for anyone to enjoy.

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Someone Must Get Hurt (Cordelia x Reader (Part 4))

This is set during around and through coven so she’s still Cordelia Foxx technically.

I’m not American so any odd spelling, phrases or inaccuracies. I apologies for in advance.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

What time was it? Twelve? One? The other girls were asleep. Zoe had tried to convince you to call it a night. You compromised, promising you would head to bed after you finished your tea. Your once hot beverage, now undrinkable. You barely touched it; an ever-growing feeling of regret sat in the pit of your stomach. It had been like this for weeks now, since Cordelia had been blinded after an acid attack. You could help her, but something prevented you.

The two of you had grown close due to your love of botany. You spent hours with her on the weekends and after classes helping her in the greenhouse. The two talked about everything and nothing. All of this had stopped since she had been blinded. You longed for the late-night talk sessions that went until one of you grew tired. Once or twice, one of you had to the coax the other awake so they could be transferred to their bedroom. Maybe you were used to the late nights? The guilt was new. For the first time, you faced something you wouldn’t be able to hide.

A smashing sound snapped you out of your dazed state. You jumped, hitting your knee against the circular table you sat at, cursing at the tea you spilled due to the sudden noise. When looking for something to wipe up the mess, you noticed the blonde that had preoccupied your thoughts in the kitchen, her head facing in your general direction.

“W-Who’s there?” Cordelia asked. There was no noise in the kitchen area until she smashed the glass, she’d assumed everyone had retired for the night. You announced yourself, her face growing visibly more comfortable. “You gave me a heart attack. I didn’t realise you were still up; you were so quiet.”

“Sorry, I was spaced out.” It was common nowadays to be out of it for hours at a time.

You made your way towards her, offering to clean up the broken teacup from the floor. You guided her away from the shards, making sure not to touch her skin. By now all the students had found out about her new power- the Sight. There was no way to predict what she would see. Whatever it was, it wouldn’t be good. A lot about yourself, your past, was hidden from your sister witches. What they didn’t know couldn’t hurt them. Or you. “Stay here,” you told her as you left to clean the broken ceramic.

Your brain hoped the silence to continue but your heart wants were different.

“I missed you,” her voice was mouse like, timid and unsure of itself. Her head was lowered as if she felt your gaze bore into her. How could she miss you? You were still there. You didn’t think she would notice your pull away from her. How naive you were. “I understand if my- disability has caused you-”

“Stop that thought right there!” you demanded. The sudden switch in the tone of your voice shocked her. Her head darted in your direction. Her eyes moved about looking for you but you both knew they wouldn't find you. You never found a reason to yell. “I don’t care that your blind, that doesn’t change the incredible person you are.”

“Then why would you leave me?”

You didn’t leave.

“I was trying to help.”

It was more complicated than she thought. She wouldn't understand why you had to do what you did.

You always leant a hand in the background. When you were with it, you would move items she was searching for closer or make coffee in the morning before she woke up. Never making a noise or letting her know it was you.

“You give strength. Made me strong when everyone else made me feel weak and when I needed you (Y/N) and you abandoned me.”

You left her when she was blinded and when she found out Hank was cheating on her. She had asked for you. You fought with Fiona, who called you selfish. She’s one to talk. The others probably thought similarly- at least Madison (whose now back- you hadn't wrapped your head around that yet) and Queenie. Zoe could see the inner struggle every time one of them told you that you were requested. It stayed with you from dusk till dawn, your head was always elsewhere. Nan knew what you were contemplating. She had promised to keep it a secret long ago. Everyone has limits to what they can take. Your mind was screaming, driving her mental. She had the right to complain. She knew it was only time before you make your decision and because of how nice you were to her; she kept her promise.

“I-I want to help. I thought-”

“You don’t need to; I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself.”

“I know, Delia.” You hadn’t called her since acid attack. On the mention of her shortened name, she broke the little strength she had left.

“Can I have a hug?” She asked hopefully.

Her power.

“I-I can’t.”

“Why not?”

She was hurt.

All your weeks of thinking came down to now. How to proceed?

Who was more important to you? You or Cordelia? Who was more important to the coven? This shouldn’t even be a question. This should never have happened. Screw the stupid bastard that did this to your dear Cordelia. Everything weighed on your decision.

She didn't need you anyway, she had that new girl. That swamp witch, Misty was it? The two got on instantly. She's probably better for Cordelia too.

If you give a part of yourself that no one else could, would she be happy? As long as she was happy that's all that matters. It doesn't have to be with you.

Face to face with her, you stared into her foggy eyes.

You could take away her pain for a price. There was always a cost when it came to your magic. She would be fine; she wouldn’t have to pay for it.

“I can g-get your eyes back,” You choked up but try to play it cool. Her question forgotten.

“How?”

“I can heal.” That was an overstatement. You couldn’t remove the damage, but you could transfer it to yourself. The school needed someone running it who could see. “I’ve been doing it for years.”

Cordelia smiled and laughed out of pure happiness, “Why did you never tell me? That’s amazing,” she kept babbling on about how amazing it was, but you zoned out. “Wait, if you knew you could heal, why save it until now? Why not use it on yourself when you broke your hand or when you were attacked?” you remained silent. “y/n?”

“I cleaned up the mess, but I wouldn’t go into the kitchen until I vacuum it, in case their chips left,” you avoided the question.

“Why didn’t you ever heal yourself?”

“You should probably sit down.”

“Not until you talk to me.” You sighed. Gently, you brushed a strand of her hair off her face. She leant her head towards your touch, but you moved away last minute. She reached out for you, grabbing the fabric of your jacket and pulled you closer. Her hands fumbled their way up to your shoulders. She gave them a gentle squeeze to reassure you that you could trust her. You take in her appearance for the last time. She's so pretty, you're gonna miss seeing her. You let go of your emotions, she can’t see it, so what’s the harm. “Y/n, you’re scaring me.” Your sobbing caught her attention, “Please talk to me.”

She was the last thing you wanted to see. Shutting your eyes, your mind was finally made up. You rested your hands on her temples causing her to gasp. Time was limited. Once she came back to reality, she would but up a fight. She was shaking you in her grasp as you kept her pressed up against one of the counters.

She saw everything, you helping your friends when you were younger, what you did for the boy on the street, for Queenie as well as your attempts to hide said injured. It was all too fast and was hard to keep up with, but she got the message. You helping her was damning you to her pain. Her grip was bone crushingly tight. She had to stop it this instant.

When she snapped out of her vision, she pushed you away, but it was too late.

Light flooded into her eyes; shapes could be made out. It was too bright. She had to blink to allow her eyes to adjust.

The unsuspected push caused you to fall to the ground. You crashed into a counter opposing her. Cordelia fell forward and stumbled over to your body muttering, "Stupid, stupid girl".

The commotion had woken the house. The girls dashed downstairs thinking either Cordelia had injured herself or someone was breaking into the house. The girls prepared themselves for both as they slid into the kitchen.

"Cordelia, what happened?" Zoe asked.

Cordelia’s head darted towards the group of girls. Madison pointed out her eyes were back to the brown colour they once were and the acid burn missing from her skin.

“Oh shit, she didn’t,” Queenie knew exactly what happened.

“Why didn’t you tell me she could do that?” Cordelia snapped fuming at Queenie.

“Fiona made-”

“Fiona,” She growled. That woman had only caused trouble from the moment she arrived. Her attention was brought back to you when you started to whimper. However enraged, Cordelia tried to comfort you. She pulled you up onto her lap allowing you to cuddle into her. She clutched your head in her hands, caressing your hair line.

Myrtle was the last to show her face but when she did Cordelia motioned her over to show her the sacrifice you’d made.

You didn’t make Cordelia happy.

She wasn’t going to make the same mistakes that you had. She clung onto you. You were more fragile than you had ever been. In her eyes you always were. Your closed off personality, the scars on your body and now your blindness cemented this.

She was furious at you. She wanted to scream at you, telling you how foolish you were for doing that. Yell at the other girls for not telling her. None of it would fix the problem.

You were her problem; she hadn't foreseen what was to come until it was too late. All her students were more powerful than she had been led to believe. Queenie was right when she told Zoe that she was teaching them to surprise their abilities. One of these girls was going to be her mother's successor and she had been holding back their potential. Too much goes on when she isn't around, that end's now.

She wanted to know what was running through your mind as you did it. You had barely spoken since that early morning. The reality of what you had done hadn’t set in yet. Your goal out of this was incomplete.

Days passed. The coddling was suffocating you. You loved it at first, being the focus of her attention but your mind drifted. Your crush on her wasn’t enough to distract you. Even though you didn't talk she could tell when your head was in the clouds. Your grip on her would loosen and your breathing became more audible. She would call your nickname and when you don't respond she would lightly shake you. There were times she couldn't snap you out of it, the only thing signifying that you were still alive was your breathing.

You rested on the side of your bed twiddling the white cane Cordelia gave you in your hands.

Cordelia was talking to Zoe in the hallway. The headmistress wanted to stay close in case you called for her. They were talking about you. It was all she seemed to talk about when you were around.

You had enough.

You heard the floor creak. You fumbled for your glass of water. You grabbed hold of it tightly. A hand was placed on your shoulder. You jumped, standing up and smashing the glass full of water on the person’s head. You heard Madison cry out.

“Don’t sneak up on the blind, you bitch!” You went to sit down on your bed, but you fell on your butt. You felt around feeling the wooden floor beneath you. You didn’t move much, so where’s the bed.

“That was priceless.” Madison laughed her ass off. “I didn’t expect you to teleport behind me. Shit that glass would really hurt if I wasn’t the living dead.”

“Shit, are you alright?” You feel around for her. You got close but she stepped back.

“Your girlfriend warned us to stay away from your ‘magic hands’. She doesn’t want another incident. Well another, another incident. Queenie told us what happened.”

“Course she did,” you rolled your eyes. “Fiona’s going to be in some major shit when she shows her face in this place. Killing a student-”

“Not telling Cordy that her pet had a power that could be dangerous to her own safety.”

“Stop talking about her like she’s my girlfriend. You and I know very well that would never happen. She’s married. Even if there was a chance, I screwed it up.” You said. “We shouldn’t be talking about this, she’s just down the hall.”

“Yeah, down the hall.”

“Help me back to my bed?” You were surprised when you were helped back to your bed. You grabbed onto her shoulder. The fabric of her dress was damp. “Jesus you’re wet.”

“Not as wet as you’re gonna be when Cordelia’s done with you.”

You reddened. “Do you ever shut up?” She said no. Once you were on the bed, you thought about the conversation. “Wait, did you say I teleported?” You couldn’t teleport, could you?

“Yeah like two minutes ago, keep up.”

“What are you doing here anyway?”

“Mostly bored, wanted to mess around with you for a bit.”

“I’m not sleeping with you Madison.”

“That’s not what I meant.”

“I’m not Zoe or that frat boy you two brought back.”

“I wish you could see Zoe’s face as you said that.”

“She’s here?” you squeaked.

“She’s not the only one,” Cordelia said. “We heard noise and came back.”

“How long were you here for?”

“Long enough,” Cordelia answered. “We better get you cleaned up Madison”

“I can-”

“No, stay seated.”

“You’re in trouble~” Madison sung.

You slumped in your spot on the bed, resting her head in the palms of your hands. Zoe was ordered to watch over you as Cordelia cleaned Maison up. You insisted that you didn't need to be babysat, Cordelia wasn’t having it.

You weren’t a child; you didn’t need to be watched 24/7. Yes, you made a choice that had been considered stupid by all including you, but did you regret it, no. It was your choice to do it, no one should feel bad except you. You didn’t have free will not to use it.

Nothing was spoken about your conversation with Madison or how much Cordelia had heard. Avoidance was one of your best traits and she didn’t seem to mind it. If she liked you she would have said something. Confirmed or deny Madison’s suggestive comments. You had admitted to liking her, it was out in the open now. All Cordelia had to do was reciprocate it or reject you. It was as easy as that.

In the next week in one of the few times Cordelia wasn't in your room, Myrtle snuck in to speak to you. It was brief, she notified you she had a plan to help you get your sight back as well as get rid of some 'pests'. You nodded along. All she asked of you was to distract Cordelia long enough to execute it.

She was doing this for Cordelia more than you. She could see how frazzled the whole scenario has called her little bird to become. With your sight back everything would be back to normal and you could better address the situation you'd all been caught in. Enemies were everywhere, no one knew who to trust anymore.

Myrtle invited the council (Quentin Fleming and Cecily Pembroke also known as Pembie) to dine with her as a symbol of 'forgiveness' for burning her at the stake. She brought out a palate cleanser of little melon balls. She reminisced with Pembie (the other female on the council) about when they used to serve a palate cleanser at Sunday supper. A sensible tradition that nobody bothered with anymore.

"Now, Myrtle, Pembie and I were just saying, in addition to how thrilling it was to get your phone call, we-" Quentin was interrupted by Pembie.

"I've-We've just had such terrible regrets about the whole misunderstanding."

"And we cannot get over your skin. No burn scars. You look younger than ever. We-- We've got to hear all about this Misty Day and her magical mud. Should we be looking into it? Selling it, perhaps? Oh, my God." The two laughed.

"You miss the point, darling. Swamp mud is a metaphor, her metaphor. She's a sophisticated witch with extraordinary gifts hiding out as a hippie swamp rat. From humble hillbilly stock, she's been a witch since birth her power and humanity separating her from everyone around her. In fact, those around her have tried endlessly to destroy her in order to mask their own evil purposes. Yet she rose from the ashes stronger than ever, more fully realized. A living testament to the greater ideals of our coven. Power, compassion and uniqueness. We are lucky to have found her, and she us. It resonates with my own story, doesn't it?"

"Myrtle, I want to toast you for your spirit of-" Pennie stammered. "-give."

"Forgiveness, you say? Forgiveness is and always will be the high road, the preferred road. Would that we had such luxury."

She explained she spiked the melon balls with monkshood causing temporary paralysis or ‘Human Statue Syndrome’. It affects the nervous system first, then your muscles harden into cement and it feels like ice in your veins. Then the respiratory system. She eloquently described the process to strike more terror, “Or is it the other way around? Well, no matter. Is it? Are you terrified? You should be.” She stood behind them, occasionally getting to their face as she spoke to them. She was going to make this as unpleasant as possible.

Myrtle continued, “At any rate, I'm not going to kill you. Well, maybe after dessert. I put a lot of effort into the key lime pie. I do love a key lime pie, even more than an Ãle flottante. Call me a Philistine. Heh. Enough chit chat. You've both wanted to eliminate me for years so you could dominate the council. But I was never worried you'd be hapless enough to try. Quentin, you're a fatuous fool and a drunk! Pembie, you're even worse. You're weak-willed, boring, and your fashion faux pas give me nightmares. I've invited you here not to chastise you or exact revenge but to help out the coven. Misty isn’t the only witch among these walls who has compassion, another girl, Y/N, was willing to sacrifice herself for the coven. She gave her eyesight up so my beloved Cordelia and her headmistress could see, if that is not dedication to this coven then nothing is. I promised them both to find a way to undo this. Heh. I bet you thought, ‘Oh, she left the melon baller in there. She's growing old and forgetful.’”

She picked up the melon baller and rose it to Pembie's eye, scooping her brown eye out and storing it in the bowl then she moved to Quentin, removing one of his blue.

Myrtle announced her presence. The door flung open, she thanked Cordelia, but she wasn’t the one who had done it. Myrtle walked in with the severed eyes in a bowl. She made no attempt to hide them from Cordelia, knowing she would find out in due time.

“Auntie Myrtle?” Cordelia asked not expecting the older woman’s presence. “Whose eyes are those?”

“Delia, help Y/N lay down.”

Cordelia didn’t second guess Myrtle, she followed her instructions, helping the red head whenever she needed it, otherwise she stood back, biting her nails. Once the procedure was done a white sheet was laid on your face and you were instructed to rest a bit before testing if it worked. Cordelia waited by your side the duration of the time.

“I know you had the best of intentions, but you could've asked her or even me first.”

“Delia, does one ask a drowning man before throwing him a life preserver?”

“I guess not.” Cordelia peered over at you, “It will be nice for everything to go back to normal.” She hugged Myrtle. Wait, something was wrong. “Hug me again.”

“Of course, I will, my darling girl.”

"Nothing. It’s gone. My power, it’s gone. I can’t see anything.” Cordelia let go of her Aunty. “I didn’t notice it before, I was too distracted. I can’t protect the girls if I don’t have my power.”

“Delia-”

“So, it was all a waste?” You asked, the rag covering your eyes now fallen to your lap. The world was too bright for your new eyes. It was too early for you to use them. You couldn’t help it after hearing their conversation.

“Y/n, you shouldn’t be using your new eyes yet.”

“You don’t need your power to protect us,” you told Cordelia.

“It helped me figure out your intent before gave me back my sight. My eyes have made me blind to everything around me and being truly blind had helped me to see.”

She better not do something stupid because of this. She ceased the conversation before it went any further. Myrtle excused herself to take care of some important matters. Cordelia offered her hand out, asking if you wanted to go for a quick walk around the school with her. She didn't want you to overwork your new eyes. You passed a mirror, you stopped to take a glance at your reflection. You were rough, your hair out of place and your clothes off skew. You tidied your appearance, fixing your clothes. Cordelia moved a few strands of hair into place before combing it with her fingers. It took a while to notice your eyes, two different colours. It didn't look half-bad. The acid burn remained behind but some of Misty's mud might help with that and if not, it matched the rest of your damaged skin.

You made it to the living room when the two of you found Myrtle again. You thanked her for the gift of seeing again.

Fiona decided to bless them with her presence.

"Who let this charcoal briquette back in?" Myrtle asked.

"Oh, sweet Jesus." Fiona exclaimed seeing her daughter's eyes restored.

"He gets no credit," Myrtle said.

"It was (Y/N) who restored our beloved Cordelia."

Fiona's gaze darted straight to you. She scanned your appearance picking up on the burns on your face and the change in eye colour.

"You're not witch enough to pull off something this delicate." She was right, it wasn't all you. She'd seen your power weeks prior; you were getting closer to healing, but you took on too big of a task, that's all. You weren't just a walking museum of broken bones.

"You underestimate me."

"And the burns and eye colour?"

"I never said it was a perfect job. As for the eye colour change, heterochromia. I normally wear (e/c) contacts."

She hummed. You weren't sure if she was falling for it. If she didn't, she let it slide. Fiona fought with Myrtle about her blinding Cordelia. Myrtle questioned her reign as supreme (which everyone did but not usually to her face.). Cordelia had to step in and tell them what their priorities should be.

"Like it or not, Fiona is your Supreme, and you need to start treating her like one. And you, you need to stop accusing Auntie Myrtle. We both know she's not the one who blinded me. The real danger is outside these doors, not inside."

She was wrong dangers were amongst the walls as well and no one as safe.

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