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I think toy doctors are so nice actually like i remember being a little heartbroken kid when one of my beloved stuffed animals got old and torn up and my mom just threw him out. And i know what it would have meant to me, to have someone lovingly stitch him back up instead so i could love him just a little longer. And I’m really glad there are little kids out there who get to see pictures of their stuffed animals and dolls with little fake hospital beds and casts as they “rest & heal” before returning to them good as new. Like what a sweet thing to do with your life.

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Unpolished, but you can see the vision here...

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lockwood and co & random message text i found

bonus:

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being alive is like: you want to go home. you don't know where home is. you want to go home. you don't know where home is. you want to go home. you haven't known for a long time. you want to go home but you don't know where you'd go. you want to go home you want to go home you want to go home

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“father! can i box him? please.” corin is so unhinged i love him 😭

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One day I will write a dissertation on why Peter and Lucy Pevensie are perhaps the most important character dynamic to me of all time, but it's so special that words tend to fail me so here is an old edit instead:

He is literally just pure security for her and she is pure safety for him and —

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hey so TEG takes place late summer/early autumn yes, so conceivably the fall of Fittes house could have been on September 29th yes, and September 29th just HAPPENS to be the feast of St Michael the Archangel, who as patron saint of soldiers and police officers would OBVIOUSLY be the patron saint of psychical agents, I mean coincidence?! I think not!!

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last month, my dad passed suddenly. some of my favorite memories with him were watching christmas movies together-- it's a wonderful life would make him cry every single time, and i loved him for that. i miss you dad.

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we shouldn’t support teenage pregnancy, but we should support pregnant teenagers

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I am DISTRAUGHT.

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*whispers* y e s

You know the line in EPIC where Poseidon asks Odysseus "After everything you've done, how will you sleep at night?" And Odysseus's responds "Next to my wife." It's very Lockwood coded. Like, you can't tell me that isn't the response a married Lockwood would give to an old, decrepit hanger-on of the Orpheus Society taunting him about all the mistakes he has made.

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"And so he read about an orphaned boy who was like him, in many respects — lonely, scared, and sore all over from learning a new skill. A boy who spent a lonely night sleeping among tombs, as he listened to jackals howl in the distance; when Anthony was done training, when he was an agent, he reckoned that would be what his life looked like. Wandering half-asleep through graveyards, the only howls to keep him awake the death cries of the Visitors he was trying to hunt."

Anthony has only been training with Gravedigger Sykes for a week, and he already can't sleep. Good thing there is a bookshelf in his room.

"The Adventure That Shall Fall to Us" pt 2: The Horse and His Boy

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Secret Panel HERE 😌 tapas.io/episode/2676049

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Lockwood and Co. | Behind the Hauntings

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guy with abandonment issues x girl who’s always leaving really is the ship dynamic of all time

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That scene in Squire's Tales where they're going through the lake with the eels is sooo good and hits so hard even today because Terence is fourteen, at most. He's cold, he's tired, and he's terrified because he's in a lake surrounded by poison eels and he's CRYING. I cannot emphasize enough how much I love love love when a character, especially a young character, cries because they're scared. We see screaming, we see freezing up, we see running away, but for some reason crying in terror is very rare in media even though every child I know does it. And then. And then Terence is still forging ahead. Still walking. He's so scared he's crying but he is doing it scared.

And Gawain sees this. He can probably hear him sniffling, hear the tears in the dark and mist, knows that in spite of those things Terence got down to WALK through that murky water to lead the horses. He's watching this boy do something that it is even rare for men to be able to do, not because of the physical task itself, but because a terror like that would normally be debilitating. And I think this is the moment. They've had their adventures before, have been getting to know and care for each other, but this is the moment that Gawain realizes he can trust Terence with his life. Because no matter the danger, no matter the terror, Terence will not break and run. He will stand firm, and he will do it scared.

When I was younger I didn't quite understand this. I didn't realize why Gawain was so impressed by Terence walking through a lake, but now I get it. It was never about the task itself. It was about Terence shivering and crying in terror, and taking the next step anyway, and I think that's beautiful.

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Rereading the Horse and His Boy for the first time in years has been a trip