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open starter ; ft. orwell washington.
location ; shrike county hospital.
@shrikestart
it had already been several days since orwell had arrived in hospital - and they knew it would be several more before they would be discharged. the first blood transfusion had given them a terrible reaction, so from then on they were being closely monitored in case there were any delayed side effects. the fever didn’t seem to want to go away, and it took everything in her not to scratch her arms until they bled, but the medication they gave her helped a little. as someone who could barely nick themselves with a razor without getting an infection, their weak immune system was a cause for concern.
“ please, i’m going insane, ” they said. their day to day life, especially as of late, was full of their favourite activities - desperate to distract themself from the overwhelming thoughts of impending doom. “ you must entertain me. find a way ! even if it involves releasing a wild animal in this room. i’m not above disturbing the entire ward. ”
#☆ orwell washington#☆ orwell washington // thread#another day of not knowing how to write a decent starter#never written a decent starter in my life !#shrikestart
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IanFM: Out of Context pt. 2
A collection of references from threads. Pt. 1
Featuring (in order): Dustin Waerea ( @takemecn ), Patrick Webb ( @bitcme ), Arne Berman ( @highfears ), Viola Lancaster, ( @viola--lancaster ), Orwell Washington ( @horrorbxby ), Leaf Wozniak ( @urdamage )/ Kit Sombun ( @shrieks ), Romy Davis ( @fearsless ), Dolly Jensen ( @finaldarlings ), & PJ Bolton ( @rufficns ).
Part 6 of 13 Days of Halloween Part 5
#shrikejournal#I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear ◑ musings#takemecn dustin#bitcme patrick#highfears arne#viola--lancaster viola#horrorbxby orwell#urdamage leaf#shrieks kit#fearsless romy#dollyjensen dolly#rufficns pj#ian talks about food and apparently valentine a lot despite never meeting him LOL
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Putin Won – Time Magazine Annoyed That He Does More Than Superman
by Angelina Proskurina
Translated and captioned by Leo.
Hello friends, with you is Angelina Proskurina, and today I would like to talk about latest issue of the popular American magazine “Time”, on the cover where we can unexpectedly see President Vladimir Putin.
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Almost the entire publication is dedicated to the Russian leader. But not even opening the journal can we notice that the Americans were able to make a truly serious opening. Russia in their opinion presents itself as a new type of empire, which spread its tentacles to literally all 7 continents. And special attention was given to Washington, which could not resist this encroachment.
In all honesty, this cover reminds me of a poster for some new fantasy Marvel movie. But not for something as serious as the “Time” magazine. A bloody red background, a large amount of the Kremlin’s stars all over the planet, and in the center is the silhouette of the Russian leader which reminds me more of Slenderman hanging over the whole planet. Is that enough drama for you?
Importantly, the article is written by journalist Simon Schuster. He gives the same opinion as given by many American “experts”. Thanks to America’s favorite Russian conspiracy of how they helped Trump “Make America Great Again”, there is now a new different allegation. American experts think that for Putin, he doesn’t have enough influence on just the West. For a while now, he has spread his politics all over the world, hoping to cobble up the whole planet.
There is more growing confidence that this material was written by George Orwell or Aldous Huxley, but not by a journalist of one of the world’s most prestigious publishers. If we throw aside all of the delirium by this fantasy writer, then we can notice the parallel red thread of this act: the rise of Russia’s influence in the world.
There is a critical discussion about “Putin’s empire.” Yes, yes. You can take a look at the cover one more time and have a closer view at the sub-headline. Which verbatim translates to from English to Russian like this: “How Putin built improvised empire of tyrants and rogue states.” The author sweeps dust to dust spreading word of the empire scheme which Vladimir Vladimirovich is building.
Critically I emphasize the inconsistency for the full absence of such a system. But even here they show contradictions, since later the journalist admits that there is a system. It’s just that for the Americans, it doesn’t suit their taste. When the West offers the world only investigations and money, Russia provides freedom, safety and a readiness to go into compromise. The main one here is freedom, which it views as the most important value.
This is exactly why Russia’s influence in the world continues to grow. The governments of many countries want to cooperate with us into making contracts for the delivery of military weapons, like Turkish President Erdoğan did. And no matter how the US angrily threatened them with sanctions over their offer of supplying Patriot surface-to-air missiles (SAM) instead of our Russian S-400s, Ankara firmly was confident in their decision and continues their talks with us
This is why until the American elite understand that you can’t take exceptional methods of whipping right and left through the use of sanctions, the more their authority will begin to fall in the political arena. Nobody cancelled diplomacy. Until that point, Russia remains and will remain in the winning position instead of Washington. We already have a handful of advantages.
And for today that is all. My friends, leave your comments and don’t forget to subscribe to our channel. And until next time!
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Speed-reading apps: can you really read a novel in your lunch hour?
Apps such as Spreeder and Spritz are bringing speed reading back into fashion. But what gets lost in this race for the last page?
This article contains 1,993 words. If you were to read it to the end, without being distracted by your email or your dog or your children or the contents of the fridge or the bills you have to pay, it would take you, on average, a little over six minutes. But what if you were able to imbibe all of its (undoubted) nuance and richness in half of that time? Or a quarter? What if you could glance at the text and know everything it said just by running your eyes down the page?
The idea of speed reading was invented by an American schoolteacher named Evelyn Wood, whose search for a way to improve the lives of troubled teenagers in Salt Lake County, Utah, by teaching them to read effortlessly, led her to the belief that she herself could read at the rate of 2,700 words a minute, 10 times faster than the average educated reader. And further, that the techniques that allowed her to do so could be taught and sold.
With Doug, her husband, Wood opened her Reading Dynamics institutes across the US and beyond in the 1950s and 60s, and her methods became a self-help craze. The way in which we read, she professed, in the managerial spirit of the moment, was inefficient in terms of time and motion. We had to stop subvocalising saying words out loud in our heads as our eyes moved across the page as well as learning to outlaw the pauses and detours that led to us reread phrases when our minds drifted or our understanding snagged. Print should be consumed in blocks rather than words and sentences. To achieve this, Wood promoted a technique of running a finger down the middle of a page to activate peripheral vision. By the end of a course in Reading Dynamics, breathless students were reading Orwells Animal Farm at the rate of 1,400 words a minute, and telling tales of revolution.
President Kennedy, who believed himself to be a gifted speed reader (and who colleagues observed reading the New York Times and the Washington Post each morning in 10 minutes flat, scanning and turning the pages), sent a dozen of his staff tothe Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute in Washington. Presidents Nixon and Carter, under mountains of briefings, followed suit. The science of Woods method was never remotely proven, however, and by the time of her death in 1995, her ideas had fallen out of fashion.
Recently, the attractions of speed reading have been revived and promoted, for a couple of reasons. The first is the persuasive perception that we are living in times of information overload, that we are daily presented with more words than we can possibly cope with, and that new tactics are called for to enable us to make sense of it all. The second factor is the belief that since text can now be presented more dynamically on screens we are not restricted by the rigidity of printed sentences on a page: surely there is a better way?
These twin perceptions have led to a wave of businesses and apps that once again aim to revolutionise your reading speed (at the cost of $4.99, or whatever, a month). For the past couple of weeks Ive been experimenting with a few of the best known, mostly on my smartphone. The apps generally use a technology called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), in which individual words, or blocks of two or three words, appear one after the other in the centre of your screen. The rate at which they do so can be set to 300 or 500 or 1,000 words a minute, enabling you to feed in text and books to be read faster and faster.
Two of the more popular platforms offer a slightly different approach. The Spreeder app allows you to choose the number of words you see at each moment, and to vary the rate at which these words come at you. I found that I could just about take in three-word chunks of Animal Farm for sense at 800wpm, but that in doing so I not only had a slight feeling of panic in trying to keep up, I lost any sense of the rhythm of language, and with it any of the tone of what was being said.
Spritz technology, meanwhile, developed by a company in Boston, is based on the idea that much of the time wasted in reading is spent in the fractions of seconds as the eyes focus moves between words and across the page. Spritz which drives the app ReadMe! offers successive individual words in which one letter, just before the midpoint of each word, is highlighted in red, keeping your focus on that precise point on the screen (the Optimum Recognition Point). With this technology I found I could just about read simple passages for sense at 700wpm, an ability I imagine would become more natural, if not necessarily more comfortable, the longer you practised it.
Both of the apps and there are dozens of others to choose from come with tutorials and exercises to help you master the system. In most cases you start, as Evelyn Wood used to, with an assessment of your current (bad) reading habits. Its the nature of my job as a journalist to often assimilate a lot of information under time pressure, so I like to think no doubt along with pretty much everyone else that I have developed quite fast comprehension skills. An app called Acceleread was mildly impressed with my ability to read a passage about deep sea creatures and then answer a series of questions about it.
The assessment began positively enough: 385wpm Fantastic! You already demonstrate some advanced techniques such as reading words in groups rather than individually. But the assessment had caveats: You may still find that you often say words silently and get easily distracted. (Youre not kidding.) Your program will focus on reducing subvocalisation, strengthening your eye muscles and increasing your capacity to absorb more information at once. You should see rapid and dramatic results
Before embarking on this body-building course for my eyes and brain, I read through some of the quite complex science of reading (generally at no more than 200wpm, and with plenty of distractions). There have been many studies of the claims made by speed reading courses, going back to the early promises of Evelyn Wood. As well as arguing that it was possible to utilise peripheral vision, she claimed that our eyes were lazy, unless yoked into rigorous training. The studies most definitively a large-scale research project, So Much to Read, So Little Time: How Do We Read, and Can Speed Reading Help?, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego and published last year concluded that in general such training is neither biologically nor psychologically possible.
The mechanics of reading have only recently been fully understood. They depend on a brief fixation of the focal point of the eye, which lasts about 0.25 of a second on each word. The transition of that focus to the next word is allowed by saccades fine, ballistic eye movements, which last for about 0.1 of a second. The eye then either keeps moving forward or momentarily and subconsciously flicks back to confirm the sense of what has been read so far. All the experiments suggested that short-circuiting any part of this process led to a loss of comprehension and retention. The genius of normal reading is that it can minutely vary those fractions of seconds depending on how much of the sense of what is being read has been grasped. In a dense sentence, with sub-clauses and unfamiliar language, fixations and saccades are adjusted accordingly, so there is no break in reading flow. In easier passages the eye dances along swiftly. About 30% of the time it automatically shrinks the saccade over a familiar run of words, skipping past those it can predict.
How does this understanding bear on the apps such as Spreeder and Spritz? The acceleration they promise tends to depend on three issues: sub-vocalisation, looping backwards, and the time lag between words. The So Little Time study examined each of these in turn. When scientists tried to get people to eliminate sounding words subliminally in their heads by having them constantly hum while reading, for example comprehension dropped precipitously. The evidence suggested that when people saw words, they instantaneously accessed the sounds of those words to help understand them. The two processes worked seamlessly; speed dislocated them.
The problem with the second promise is perhaps more obvious you dont have to use the apps on fast speed for very long to realise that without the ability to go back and reread a phrase or a sentence, you can quickly lose the thread of what is being said. (Some of the apps have recognised this and added a rewind button.) The issue with the third claim has to do with rhythm. While it is true that you dont receive any fresh information in the spaces between words, the research suggests that the millisecond pauses are crucial for cognition: they are our brains tiny spaces for reflection.
In the fast lane: the speed-reading innovator Tim Ferris. Photograph: Amy E Price/Getty Images for SXSW
One of the things the studies dont dwell too much on is the nature of what is being read. I cant imagine ever wanting to read a novel at more than the normal 300wpm (by comparison, a speaking voice is roughly 150wpm and even cattle auctioneers can only rattle at 250wpm), but the virtue of reading short articles or emails on RSVP at double that speed seems more plausible. Chances are, however, that most of us already use various intuitive skimming techniques to extract information from such documents when time is short.
You dont really need studies to prove (though they do) that the more familiar we are with a subject, the more likely we are to be able to extract important information from it at pace. It is for this reason that JFK was able to read the New York Times so quickly presumably he knew most of the stories first hand, anyhow, and was just letting his eye flick across headlines and first sentences for a sense of argument. Most of us do something like this with material with which we are familiar although we are all probably less adept at it than we imagine.
Ronald Carver, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Missouri, proved in a landmark study of brainiacsin 1985 that, even for very practised speed readers, attempting to read above 600 words a minute meant that comprehension of any text fell below 75%, and went down dramatically as the reading speed increased beyond that. There is some evidence to show that we can, however, develop the ability to fillet a book quite quickly if we use adaptive techniques. In another study of the various techniques of skimming, two researchers at the University of Bath showed that skimmers who were most successful at extracting and retaining meaning were able to focus on critical sections of an argument and to jump forward as soon as the rate at which they are gaining new information drops below a threshold. They were particularly alive to bullshit or repetition.
Much of the buzz of our so-called digital overload comes from those latter growth industries. It has been argued that the subconscious mind can process 20,000,000 bits of information per second; but of those, the conscious mind holds on to only about 40 bits at any moment. Rather than trying to read more quickly we might be better advised to read more selectively. A lot of our lives can be scanned and scrolled and skipped, but reading remains a more immersive kind of act, dependent on detail. As Woody Allen observed: I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in 20 minutes. Its about Russia.
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Ur-ANMURICAN IDIOT
YOSH
3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
5. Besides, disagreement is a sign of diversity. Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks for consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. Newspeak was invented by Orwell, in 1984, as the official language of Ingsoc, English Socialism. But elements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.
LET’S GET FUCKIN IDIOTER
In the past, if someone knew nothing and talked nonsense, no one paid any attention to him. No more. Now such people are courted and flattered by conservative politicians and ideologues as “Real Americans” defending their country against big government and educated liberal elites. The press interviews them and reports their opinions seriously without pointing out the imbecility of what they believe.
YOSH
In a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” where the chairman of a Senate environmental panel brought a snowball into the chamber as evidence that climate change is a hoax, where almost one in three citizens can’t name the vice president, it is beyond dispute that critical thinking has been abandoned as a cultural value. Our failure as a society to connect the dots, to see that such anti-intellectualism comes with a huge price, could eventually be our downfall.
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YOSH
Reality seems to have weakened as a constraint in politics. Where the whole idea that there are common facts that everyone has to accept just because they’re facts—and we can disagree disagree violently about them, about the cause and what to do—that idea that there are factual truths that don’t depend on opinion has—for some reason which I don’t think we understand—taken a hit in the West.
YOSH
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, "Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans' rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism."
VERDICT STILL OUT ON HOW LONG IT TAKES TO MAKE AN EARTH: COULD BE SIX DAYS, COULD BE A WEEK MINUS ONE DAY, NO ONE KNOWS SHIT.
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(Get back to the dark ages is the statement I’m making here)
Without knowledge, you are in the DARK AGES
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To Hofstadter, intellectualism is not at all the same as intelligence. It is a distinctive habit of mind and thought that actually forbids the kind of complete self-assurance we often associate with very smart people.
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THE BLUE BLAZES ON THE ANTI-INTELLIGENTSIA’S kkk HEELS
EXTRA extra EXTRA extra
#Umberto Eco#George Orwell#richard hofstadter#Charles Simic#Idiocracy#Mike Judge#isaac asimov#James Burke#The Beatles#dan carlin
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + jayden lightwood.
location ; tracks.
@shrikejayden
orwell leans right onto the counter, not taking into account whether or not jayden is ready to serve them yet. “ please, please tell me that my order has come in. kate bush’s hounds of love ? i’m not exaggerating when i say i can’t survive another day without it, ” of course, being one of their favourite records, orwell did already own it. however, an incident had lead to a scratch in the vinyl, causing a skip in the record that was absolutely unbearable. “ if i have to hear the record skip during and dream of sheep one more time, i’m gonna loose it. ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + ian vogt.
location ; showtime.
@ianfm
“ i am technically not supposed to have a chair back here, ” orwell slapped the back of the chair that they’d pulled behind the showtime counter, “ but if i faint and hit my head and die here, i’m sure that would be much worse for business than having an employee sit down for a minute, right ? ” they asked ian as they sat themself down. it was difficult being back at work. but orwell’s apartment had started to look just as messy as their mind – which meant they wanted to spend as little time there as possible. she’d started to think it was a bad decision, however. when there were little to no customers and things were quiet, she found herself staring off to the aisle where the attack had happened. she could feel the searing pain in her abdomen like it was happening all over again, and she felt her throat closing as though someone nearly inhuman were gripping it. it usually took someone asking a question to jolt them out of it. “ what do you think is the best movie that came out this year so far ? i’m thinking beetlejuice. it’s gonna be a cult classic for sure. i can imagine all the little baby goths watching and falling in love with lydia. but am i the only one who thought that delia was kinda hot ? ”
#☆ orwell washington#☆ orwell washington // thread#☆ ianfm#☆ ft. ian ( ianfm )#i hate to break it to you mad but i just cannot write for shit
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + hector reyes.
location ; showtime.
@hector-reyes
" you know i can see everything you rent, right ? ” orwell asks him, looking up from the computer screen, “ your rental history is looking awfully suspicious right now. ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + juliet eisley.
location ; orwell’s apartment.
@sublimethrills
the two of them were sat comfortably in orwell’s lounge - juliet being sat on the near brand new sofa, and orwell on the ground at her feet, a pile of books in front of them that they were sorting. despite the books in front of them, their apartment was unusually tidy. they were in a habit of making things presentable for juliet, which was more than they often did for their other friends - though they weren’t quite sure why. “ when i get better at french, i want to read some french novels. maybe even ones that haven’t been translated into english yet. doesn’t it amaze you that’s there’s a whole other world of stories that can’t be accessed if you only speak one language ? ” she was rambling a little, but she was simultaneously wondering if she should sort the books alphabetically by author, or if she should organize them even further into genres and subgenres. she doubted she had enough books for it to be efficient, but she liked the idea. orwell tilted her head back, messy curls falling away from her face, “ by the way, i have no idea how you sound so beautiful when you speak. i was practising last night - listening to my language tapes, and i can’t help but feel that i’m doing it wrong because i don’t sound like you. ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + malakai kings.
location ; a new chapter.
@malakaism
orwell was awkward and anxious at the best of times. but the worst thing to ever happen to them was their foster brother getting a job at their favourite store. the two of them were never really close. perhaps that made it worse. every interaction had her insides tearing themselves apart as her anxious mind begged for malakai to not mention anything of their past. “ whenever i’m in a library or a bookstore, i’m always incredibly conflicted. i know that there’s a system of organisation. but without a computer or a guide, it’s not really practical. part of me longs for the entire thing to be organized alphabetically by author. but then, there’d be the issue of genre. it’d be chaos to include fiction and non-fiction alongside one another. not to mention all of the oddly specific sub-genres i would like to have access to. horror is fine. but what if i’m looking for a very specific vibe of gothic-ghost-mansion with extreme lesbian subtext ? ” they were speaking much too fast, evidence of their nerves. orwell placed the haunting of hill house on the counter, needing it to replace the well-read copy she had had to throw away due to the binding being beyond repair. “ there is no perfect organisational system and i think that might just kill me. ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + ian vogt.
location ; boan’s apartment.
@ianfm
it had been far too long since orwell had stepped foot in their apartment. during ian’s recovery, orwell did their best to comfort their friends. but once she felt that they could stand on their own, she returned to being somewhat of a hermit. even now, as she stood outside of the apartment, rapping on the door, she didn’t seem quite herself. dark circles under her eyes, hair a mess. illness, both physical and mental had taken its toll on her. regardless of how she felt, she greeted ian with a smile. “ hey. is bo here ? we had plans today. ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + leaf wozniak.
location ; the commune.
@urdamage
orwell paced the greenhouse, carefully checking the plants for anything that may cause concern, whether it be parasites, too much moisture, not enough heat, etc. they were impressed with the current growth, but at the same time disappointed that there were no problems to solve. everything had seemed to be going wrong for them lately, outside of work at showtime and with leafwell. they felt that it was only a matter of time before it was them in the hands of the killers of shrike heights. and they also felt that they’d never get the chance to experience the world, or even something as simple as real romantic love before it happened. they felt rather sorry for themself – and leaf was the only person they felt safe confiding in, knowing that bo and ian had their own issues to deal with. the last thing they wanted to do was make it about themself when they were concerned. “ i keep trying ��to throw myself into work so that i can keep my mind busy. i think i’m a lot sadder than i want to admit. i don’t know if i’m ready to feel it all, you know ? i get scared about that. it makes me think about all the emotions i felt when i was bouncing around from place to place, not knowing how to deal with any of it. does that make any sense ? ” she asked, turning to face him, “ like, i’m not sure if i would know how to deal with any of it now. no-one really taught me how. i don’t even really know how to process my emotions surrounding her leaving, before i even really had the chance to… i don’t know. confess my feelings or whatever. how on earth do you do it ? ”
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + dolly jensen.
location ; orwell’s apartment.
@finaldarlings
“ sorry i’ve been… absent, ” orwell said quietly, fiddling with a small horse minifigure that they’d recently painted for ian and bo, yet hadn’t gotten around to giving them. something had gone wrong with the sealant – making the final coat slightly sticky. they hadn’t played dungeons and dragons themself in quite some time. they wondered when they’d be able to enjoy such things again. dolly was one of the few people allowed inside of orwell’s apartment. despite it being a little messier than usual, the blonde was desperate for company. with dolly having a little free time, they extended an invitation. “ i’m still not really okay after everything. of course mentally, but physically too. migraines, vertigo, nausea, all that. sometimes i think i’ll never have fun ever again, ” they said a little dramatically, rolling their eyes. they had to be light-hearted about it or else it might have eaten them alive. it was a mix of their terrible physical health and intense anxiety that had brought on these consistent issues. but as usual, they didn’t have much of an idea of how to deal with it. “ i feel bad that you had to see me like that. how are you holding up ? shit – you know, i’m sorry, you don’t have to answer, i’m sorry, ” they felt guilty – was it really fair to be bringing up such a traumatic moment without warning ? what if dolly wasn’t ready to speak about it at all ? “ i didn’t mean to invite you around just to talk about all that sad stuff. do you wanna watch a movie ? ”
#☆ orwell washington#☆ orwell washington // thread#☆ ft. dolly ( finaldarlings )#☆ finaldarlings#i'm notoriously bad at starters i am sorry#this was for that starter call i posted 10 years ago
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closed starter ; ft. orwell washington + jane howard.
location ; orwell’s apartment.
@bitcme
it wasn’t often that orwell invited anyone to stay at their apartment. it wasn’t that it was messy, because it wasn’t, really. more like organized chaos of books and records and comic books, creative things that kept their mind busy. jane was one of the very few people that orwell felt comfortable having around. and feeling disconnected from most of their friends and the small town they’d spent their entire life in, they needed some time with jane more than anything. jane was the first person to have been to their apartment in months. “ i think i envy you, ” she told her. the two of them were sat at either end of orwell’s sofa. “ i always wanted to just... up and leave. sometimes i wonder if it’s too late. i wonder what would happen if i just left, without telling a soul. i could go and be someone new. ” orwell laughed half-heartedly. “ sorry. that’s a little dramatic. there’s just been a lot to think about lately. but i think you’re one of the bravest people i know. ”
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