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she’s a 10 but she runs a disturbing tumblr blog which makes her an 11

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YOU can write whatever you want whenever however forevrr. i have to write something perfect and earth shattering and i have to do it perfectly the first time or else

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Wednesday 100: Pandora’s Box

“Ye ken she has it still?”

“Beg pardon?”

“Your ring.”

John felt the color drain from his face. She kept it? After his having to implore her to even wear it in the first place? He’d assumed she’d tossed it down a well.

Jamie stared at him, possessive, of course, but also…searching. For understanding, John realized.

Well, he wouldn’t find any here. John didn’t understand it any more than he understood what his heart was doing at the thought of his ring tucked safely away in the medicine box he’d gifted her.

So, all he said, rather stupidly, was: “Oh.”

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“My poor baby. My poor sweet little boy,” I lament out loud over a whole grown adult man who is not mine but is in fact a fictional character with fictional hurts. What matters is my feelings are real

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Sometimes a family is you and your brother and your brother’s secretary and your brother’s boyfriend and your brother’s boyfriend’s ex-boyfriend and your girlfriend who one hooked up with your brother’s boyfriend’s ex-boyfriend and your brother’s boyfriend’s ex-boyfriend’s new italian boyfriend who is also a famous author of gay erotica

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(They're definitely Up To Something)

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i could recognise her by tags alone

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The Last Binding Trilogy Cover Art - William Morris designs

I love how beautiful these covers are, and I love how William Morris is used throughout the books in little ways.

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Freya didn’t give us “I love you” in any of TLB books, but she did give us:

“I would write you into immortality.”

“You look like a Turner Painting.”

“Maud, darling," she said, very soft. "You're worth more than this quest. I've told you that all along.”

“I am nothing like you, and yet, I feel more myself with you.”

“I would take your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own.”

So many details of her books FLOORED me.

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rip alan ross you would’ve loved luigi mangioni

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Third Leyendecker inspired piece for @fahye's The Last Binding trilogy, the other two can be found here and here. To express the overbrimming joy the last book gave me and draw some more hats.

(my The Last Binding tag, and my art tag)

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Wednesday 100: The Third Ring

Jamie opened his fist wordlessly.

“Where did you find that?” Her hand twitched, as if to snatch it, but stopped herself. “I thought it lost, it was—”

“In yer wee box, aye. I found it when ye asked me to retrieve that powder today.”

He expected anger, shame, indignation. He hadn’t expected the rush of tears that came.

“Don’t…get rid of it. Please.”

He was shocked by an absence of rage in his own gut, feeling his heart clench instead at the sight of her tears. He set it carefully on the nightstand, then took her hand.

“I won’t, Claire.”

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ok, because i just saw a terrible take, i feel compelled to say that there is no "fic market" to "oversaturate" in fandom. good gravy.

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In Time

“You can’t look at William, can you, without seeing him.”

John’s words were an echo of a conversation long ago. Another husband, another life.

“I only mean,” he continued softly, “It’s a constant reminder, of Jamie, of what was lost.”

I nodded, holding back tears that were never far from the surface.

“And don’t bother asking if I might forget him in time because…”

I choked on the words, unable to speak, tears falling freely now. I needn’t have worried. John wrapped me in his arms, murmuring gently against my hair.

“Oh my dear, that amount of time doesn’t exist.”

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james mcgraw-flint first date ideas

take him to a hanging by the docks and tell him his worldview sucks

take him on a canoe to kill a shark while you're both delirious from starvation/dehydration