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more green, more grow

more green, more grow | sheith | post-war, no s8 | road trip | g | 2k

After the war, before they get together: Shiro and Keith take a road trip to the Colorado Seed Vault. They know they're in love.

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Written for @ursae-minoris-world for the Sheith Secret Santa 2024 exchange!!

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new years eve!!! wooo!!! go crazy go wild! 🥳🥳🥳

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A Farewell to Les Mis Letters 2024 (and a welcome to 2025)

Thank you so much for following along with Les Mis Letters this year! Even if you haven’t yet finished the entire book, I wanted to congratulate you on making it to the end of 2024. Reading Les Miserables is a massive undertaking, and I’m glad you joined in to make the attempt— whether you stopped reading back in Digne or made it all the way to the tragic ending in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.

Running this online book club means a lot to me. This subscription project is a labor of love that takes a lot of time to put together. Manually setting up 365 scheduled emails without any way to automate the process, administrating a Discord server, and running various social media accounts, all take countless hours of work. However, it’s all worth it to help people find motivation to read or reread my favorite novel– and to have great conversations with the fun, kind, readers who have been following along!

I wanted to send a special thank you to the readers in the Les Mis Letters discord server, whose insightful conversations and goofy baloney helped make 2024 a great year for this readalong. It’s been lovely to make new internet friends through this book club.

I also wanted to announce that Les Mis Letters will continue for another cycle in 2025! (Tell your friends who are interested in reading Les Mis!)

Feel free to stay subscribed for 2025 if you want to reread, if you’d like to join more of the conversations on Tumblr or Discord, if you fell off the reading schedule and want to try again, or if you just want to have Victor Hugo’s daily letters in your inbox even when you’re not following the schedule– this subscription is still a great place to be! You can also follow us here at @lesmisletters on Tumblr.

Thank you again for following this readalong, and I hope you have a lovely New Year! A farewell to Les Mis Letters 2024, and a welcome to Les Mis Letters 2025.

Sincerely,

@secretmellowblog from Les Mis Letters

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having a younger sibling is so embarrassing iwouldnt stoop this low for anyone but her im like quadruple texting "JUST TELL ME IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE AQUARIUM ON DECEMBER 29TH SO I CAN GET TICKETS" and she leaves me on read 10000 times.

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Note to self do not leave pens in the car in arizona i gUESS????

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11, 14, and 19 for the end of year questions!

hello!!! 🌱

11. do again: run a half marathon. it’s a tough but doable distance and training forces me to actually run

14. book: answered, will send you some more :)

19. excited for: visiting a friend who moved back to the country. also both excited and really nervous about serious organizing at work

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5, 14, 22, 23 and 24 for the end of the year asks :)

hi!!!!! :) 5. tv show: I’m really enjoying culinary class wars! Triple threat of food, competition, and compelling underdogs to root for. 14. book: i read a lot of good books for my class that I probably shouldn’t announce and not much outside of that. however I did pick up a book from my favorite college class that’s still at home and loved rereading it with a decade of real world organizing experience. it’s I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles Payne.

22. place: i had a great time in New Orleans! a rare instance of traveling for enjoyment without anything work related. gators are awesome and so is live jazz by a charismatic group of college kids.

23. message to my 1/1/24 self: everything you’ve done builds on itself, and you know more than you think you do. trust yourself!

24. resolutions kept: I kept a journal for the first few months but stopped around May. a recent non-resolution thing I’m proud of though: asking for and accepting help 😌

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tbh i never really considered seals. until i finally saw one irl and was like omg. the creature

this is my artistic representation of what they looked like on the beach from where i was standing in the distance

it was the most magical day of my life

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Thank you for your likes, reblogs and comments in 2024! ❤️

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End of the year Asks

Song of the year?

Album of the year?

Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Movie of the year?

TV show of the year?

Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

Favorite actor of the year?

Game of the year?

Best month for you this year?

Something that made you cry this year?

Something you want to do again next year?

Talk about a new friend you made this year

How was your birthday this year?

Favorite book you read this year?

What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

Post a picture from the beginning of the year

Post a picture from the end of the year

A memorable meal this year?

What’re you excited about for next year?

What’s something you learned this year?

What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Favorite place you visited this year?

If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

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Walasse Ting, Grasshoppers, 1964

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My name is Nour, and I’m 21 years old from northern Gaza.

I once lived a peaceful life with simple dreams, but everything changed on October 7th, 2023, when war tore through Gaza. I had to flee my home, leaving behind everything I knew, and now I live alone in a tent made of torn fabric in southern Gaza.

The constant bombings are unbearable, but being a lesbian in a society that rejects me is even harder.

I live in constant fear of judgment and violence. On top of this, I face extreme shortages of food, water, and basic supplies.

Life has become a daily fight for survival.

Dear LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters around the world, I turn to you in my time of desperate need. I have no one else to ask for help. The world around me looks at me with disgust, and I can no longer bear this life. I am exhausted, broken, and alone. Please, I beg you, help me leave this place and find safety, dignity, and a chance to live as myself. I cannot survive here any longer. Your support is my only hope.

Every day, I fear for my life. But I refuse to give up. I want to live. Please, your support can make all the difference. Every donation, no matter how small, gives me hope for a better tomorrow.

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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follow your dreams at a sustainable pace

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Do not really know what to say. A year ago we were making posts about how Gaza was being bombed through Christmas- how the oldest Christian community was being bombed- how the birth place of Jesus was being destroyed and his people murdered. A year later, it is going to be Christmas again soon, and the bombings have not stopped. But the news, and the attention seems to have died down considerably. It feels terrible and scary.

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Nine ghosts of Christmas

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