Shoreless Sea snippet
Instead, she met her sister’s gaze and saw a stranger. Faelit blue eyes shot through in temper, in magic, silver flame and dancing light, more dawn that drawing fire. Opalescent. Sunrise on serene water, like she’d stolen some more magic to match that pearl smeared all over her body.
Of course she had.
“You,” Feyre swallowed, thick. “You’re been in Summer this whole time. I tried to go there, I tried”-
A gentle frown reshaped Tarquin’s handsome face. “Borders are not flexible. Not after what you took from us.”
The first humiliating, furious tear, ran down Feyre’s nose. “To find Amren. To get back my family.”
Silent, they did not need to speak to carry out the charade, Tarquin twisted and Nesta pulled her leg free. Stood in a slide of soft silk layers, fingertips dancing across Tarquin’s back as he leaned forward and away.
Hand held out between them as she moved, Nesta offered a handkerchief, soft grey fabric forming between seconds.
Feyre fought the urge to take it. To throw it back in her face.
The minute went on and one, before Nesta dropped her hand. Squared those familiar, stubborn shoulders, and went stone still.
Feyre swallowed. “What do you want? For access to the Library?”
“What do I want?” Her voice was a whip crack.
A fresh wash of tears tumbled free. “You’re my sister,” Feyre said, choking on the word, “We need the library. We need- people are dying.”
Nesta did not even blink. It was like the words could not even reach her. “The Library is open to all who do not break its rules.”
She couldn’t-
“Do you want to come home?” Feyre offered, frantic. “Money. Jewels. To be Emissary. Anything, just”-
Very slowly, Tarquin rose to his full height. No true menace in the motion, but something worse. Concern, unhidden, bleeding free, the whole of his attention on Nesta’s bone white, stone cold face. He didn’t try to protect her from Feyre’s anger, painting the air with sparks, rug ruined. Did not even bother to try and end the fight; all Tarquin did was reach for Nesta’s hand, cupped in both of his.
“You would like to be High Lady,” he said, without looking up, Nesta’s unmoving hand a dead thing between the gold adored darkness of his grip, “You only have one job. Take care of your people.”
A thousand miles away, Nesta whispered, “Are they dying? Or are they paying?”
Keir, nothing left of his body but a handful of carved bones. Morrigan’s brothers, cousins, eaten whole. It was only low fae who lived, servants and prisoners fleeing, freed. A wraith who’d spit in Feyre’s face, when she’d promised they’d find her a home.
No High Fae could live through that night.
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Her final tweet on October 8 reads:
“Gaza’s night is dark apart from the glow of rockets, quiet apart from the sound of the bombs, terrifying apart from the comfort of prayer, black apart from the light of the martyrs. Good night, Gaza.”
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i'm obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he's the man of the house now
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you motherfuckers have no concept of what "land back" or "decolonize" even mean. you're too busy demonizing entire groups of people, terrified, shitting yourselves, that they'll do even half of the horrors to you that you've done to them for decades or centuries. this shit comes off as hella racist for real. you hate arabs so much. you hate first nations people so much. you hate black people so much. even if you sympathize with them, you can't fucking bear the idea of them gaining freedom, independence, autonomy, safety, because you're so, so scared they'll hurt you back and cause chaos in the streets. these same people who just want to rebuild. who just want to go home. who just want to see their families again. who just want food. who just want medical care. who just want dry, warm shelter. you're so focused on the ideas of colonization, of "us vs. them", of one people displacing the other for a state to exist, that you cannot comprehend coexistence, and your only idea of peace is if an entire group of people were just gone and dead.
grow the fuck up. for the love of GOD, grow the fuck up.
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" Percy denied immortality" and "Percy did poison stuff" well guess what
Annabeth swore that she would protect Percy on the river Styx
At THIRTEEN
SHE HADN'T EVEN KNOWN HIM FOR A YEAR AT THAT POINT
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when you were herbivore
couldn't look you in the eye
you're just like an angel
your shell makes me cry
you float like a leaf
in a beautiful pond
i wish i was aquatic
you're so fucking aquatic
but i'm a creep
i'm terrestrial
what the hell am i doing at sea
i don't belong here
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So I made them Salty Shark Crew ocs!
And I love them so so much!
Aaaaaaand I also kept these two freaks-
because they were too fun a duo to give up to somebody else
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14k Gold Labradorite Sea Turtle Ring
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focalors with her giant ballroom gown oceanid fins from the concept art! doodled from memory so she’s a mix of canon foca/furi too here~!🪞🫧
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