#;;visage | {masha voronina}

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I didn’t make me, but I made Masha and Anna. Look how cute my girls are!

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Understanding what it is to be human has never been an exact science. People, by nature, are messy and flawed. They’re also vibrant and full of goodness and chaos. If I wanted precision, I would have been an engineer.

Masha Voronina, NP, Chief Science Officer & Acting Chief Medical Officer of the USS Volya

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Leningrad, 1926:

And we mistook our joy for romance and let friendship bloom between our ribs where our hearts should have been. I was never yours and you were never mine. Still, we made those days feel filled with sunlight and purpose, as war ravaged the world around us. You don’t recover from love like that. 

Yours is the best friendship I have had the joy of knowing. I’m not sorry it’s over. We saved what we could from the wreckage of our ill-fated affair and found that the understanding, the compassion, the warmth, and humor were more valuable than all the wealth of the czars and just as precious as the ideals we fought so valiantly for.

I’d rather pour you a cup of tea as a friend than curl into your chest as a lover. You’d rather walk freely across the bridges of the Neva than be shackled to my arm. So we sit in tea houses and recount our days. Our eyes sparkle with mirth at the other’s joy. Our brows furrow in consternation at the other’s sorrow. When our hands brush, we no longer feel electricity, only the comfort of a wood-burning hearth. 

I hope someday someone will be worthy of you; you hope someday that I will make room in my heart for someone to truly love. All the while, we are friends. You know my flaws and I know your secrets. We keep them locked in secret smiles and eye rolls. You laugh at me without malice and I’ve never cried over you. Let people wonder what we are, what we have been. We know the truth: the world is as it should be. 

You see, we were destined to meet and fated to love, but never like that. 

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These pictures make me want a James-Bond-esque, maybe-Cold-War-era Masha-as-a-spy AU. 

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