#Tess and Jacob

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Robin: This doesn’t seem right. Levi: How did we get so lost? Aster: The others can’t be far.

Penny: What a stupid place for a field trip, who the fuck even cares how a lumbermill works?

Robin: Um, guys.. when did it get dark? Jacob: It’s not-.. wait. Tess: It wasn’t dark a second ago, right?

Robin: Holy shit, where are we..?

Aster: We clearly took a wrong turn somewhere. Penny: [snorts] Y’think? Tess: What is this place?

Levi: Who knows-.. fuck finding the others though, we’re totally going spelunking!

Penny: Spelunking? Levi: Alright, it’s not a cave but still… Penny: What?

Tess: I don’t know, we should probably turn back-.. whatever this place is, it’s creeping me out from here.

Robin: Let’s have a quick look around at least. Jacob: Seriously? Levi: Hell yeah!

Jacob: Fine, but if I have to save anyone from a pile of rubble…

Aster: [snickers] What if you’re the one that needs saving? Tess: No one’s gonna need saving, shut up! Robin: It’ll be fun, c’mon.

Aster: Last one in’s a rotten turd!

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I thought this was funny

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The Sacrifice - Part 11 - The End

"How are they, Tess?"

"I've treated Roman's injuries and he's resting now. I've also given him antibiotics and painkillers, so he should be comfortable...as much as he can be, given the circumstances."

"As for Evelyn, I've done all I could for the moment, but we'll have to wait for the morning change before I can perform a full examination. Her wounds seem to be healing remarkably fast though."

"Is it because she's a werewolf?"

"Yes, although I do want to take a closer look at that bite, in case it's at risk of becoming infected. I admit I don't have any experience treating demon-inflicted wounds."

"They are prone to infection."

"I still can't wrap my head around the idea that anyone would do something like this! To their own child, no less!"

"It shocked me as well."

"You took such a risk in confronting her, Fiona! The inhabitants of the Hellplanes are not to be trifled with!"

"I'm aware of that, Dad. Would you rather I'd let Jacob and Evelyn go in there alone?"

"Of course not - what you did was very brave - but we can't help worrying. The whole thing could've gone so much worse."

"Well, it worked out fine, so you can let it go now."

It was Abby who brought the conversation back on track.

"Is Roman going to be all right?"

"Physically? Probably. He had a number of deep gashes that needed stitches, several broken bones including two ribs, a bruised lung, plus the...runes carved into his back, which will be uncomfortable for a while. Assuming there are no complications, these should heal in time."

"Mentally, it's a different matter. I'm not an expert, but I don't think the kind of trauma he's been through is something he'll be able to just shrug off. Speaking to therapist might help him."

"May we go in and see them?"

"You may, but just for a little while. Jacob is with Roman already; he hasn't left his bedside since I brought him back to the ward."

"Mr Stigfinnare is with his wife as well. He's been worried sick about her, prowling around the waiting room like a caged wolf."

"I'm surprised he didn't kick the door down."

"He might've done, if I hadn't let him in."

The trio - together with Ulf, who refused to be parted from Evelyn - gathered around Roman's bed.

Roman was exhausted and wanted nothing more than to sleep and forget, but he forced a smile on his face as he looked at each of the people who had risked their lives to save him.

In truth, he could hardly believe it.

"I don't know what to say. I owe you my life - no, more than my life. My soul. 'Thank you' doesn't seem like enough..."

"This is the second time I had to help save your ass, Turner! You'd better not make a habit out of it!"

Evelyn's cheerful tone helped defuse some of the tension, although Ulf kept his arm wrapped protectively around his wife. She was putting up a brave front, but he could tell she was hurting more than she was letting on. He hated it!

"It's over now."

"Maybe...maybe not."

"Fiona...? What do you mean?"

"The ritual circle carved into his back. The Nameless One may be have been banished, but those runes are magic. He's tied to the Hellplanes now."

"WHAT?!"

Roman sat up so fast that white stars burst before his eyes and his injuries flared painfully despite the medication keeping the worst of it at bay. He felt the cold panic rising like a tide.

"Are you saying it can come back?"

"Fuck. You're not, are you?"

"There are many doors between the planes, and things have a way of slipping through the cracks. That sigil is one such door; closed for the moment, but not locked."

"But you can remove it, right?! Or...render it inert, or something?"

"I...I'll do some research. Ask around."

Roman looked so crestfallen, Jacob's heart twinged in sympathy.

"Guys? Can you give us a moment, please?"

"Please try not to think about it, all right? If anything happens, my whole family are witches; they'll help. You need to focus on getting better."

Roman smiled humorlessly; it was hard not to think about the interdimensional door to Hell itself he carried around on his back, but he was so very tired. Sleep beckoned, demons or no demons.

But first, there was something he needed to say to Jacob.

"I have to admit, I didn't expect you to come to my rescue. Considering how things are between us..."

"Look, just because we broke up doesn't mean I don't still lo- care about you. Besides, I didn't actually do much, it was mostly Evelyn and Fiona."

"Still. Facing down demons and witches when you're just a regular person with no special powers took guts."

"I did have an axe."

Something happened then that Roman did not expect: he burst into laughter. Which hurt, but it was worth it, and his heart felt lighter for it.

"I think I'd like to sleep now..."

"Yes, you should. I'll be back to see you in the morning."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

As Roman sank into the cottonwool depths of drug-induced sleep, a smile fluttered on his lips.

The End!

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed the story!

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The Sweet East (2023), directed by Sean Price Williams

Cinematography: Sean Price Williams

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Tess McMillan for Marc Jacobs Beauty

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Jacket, and skirt by Marc Jacobs. Necklace by Yutai.

Photographed by Cameron McCool. Styled by Alex White. Modelled by Tess Breeden.

Elle September 2024

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💙💜🩷 Upcoming Bisexual Book Releases of 2025

💜 My little bisexual heart is SO excited for this upcoming bisexual book releases of 2025. Which ones are you adding to your TBR?

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💙 Daughters of the Blue Moon - Millie Abecassis 💙 A Gentleman's Gentleman - T.J. Alexander 💙 Last Hellos and First Goodbyes - Elba Luz 💙 Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone 💙 If I Dig You - Colby Wilkens 💙 Tenderly, I Am Devoured - Lyndall Clipstone 💙 Modern Divination - Isabel Agajanian 💙 Don't Drag This Out - Emery Lee 💙 For One Night Only - Jessica James

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And now, the moment we’ve all been waiting for…

The Cast List!

Cielle - Ishani Kanetkar

Bea - Tess Segal

Tatiana - Maya Ann

Danny - Fa Grajeda

Riley - Jon Reneé

Larry - David Jeffress

Eris - Vyn Vox

Fiona Winters - Fay Roberts

Jay Reese - Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall

Lewis Reese - Garrett Niall

The Pharaoh Khafre - Ivy English

Khamerernebty - MakkaVA

Anne Bonny - Ki Garland

Nathaniel Valleur - Jacob Scherer

Emily Noah - Billie Hindle

Privateer - Caoimhe Preshur

Valdria - Blakelee Holmes

Lazarus - Beck Andrews

Additional Voices - Atlas Andrews, Beck Andrews, & Jacob Reed

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height reference

i keep freaking losing my height charts, so i'm putting this here. very much a work in progress! i eventually need to figure out how to adjust height without just changing scale, since that distorts the heads. i rarely do head-to-toe shots tho, so i can generally cheat it. for now i just need to get an idea of relative heights for setting up scenes.

Wolfgang (6'3"/191cm - needed him to be tall for a few shots in GOBC so now he's tall)

Dillon (6'2"/188cm - needed a huge height difference between him and Elle because of the kinds of couples pose packs that work for them, and I didn't want her to be much shorter than 5'4")

Caleb (6'1"/185cm - i think I'm going to make him shorter, i arbitrarily made him my brother's height but I don't really like how he fits like that, plus his hair makes him look taller)

Ethren (6'1"/185cm)

Darrel (not pictured, 6'0"/183cm)

Tess (5'11"/180cm)

Greg (5'10"/178cm)

Rory (5'10"/178cm - I wanted Rory to be the second tallest woman in the cast, because I am a jerk)

Flora (5'9"/175cm)

Jacob (5'9"/175cm - still growing though, he'll be between 5'10"-6'0" when he's done)

Kristopher (5'9"/175cm - Jacob is about to outgrow Kristopher and BIG FEELS)

Vlad (5'9"/175cm)

Lilith (5'8"/173cm - in heels she's sometimes taller than Caleb)

Inna (5'7"/170cm)

Morgyn (5'7"/170cm)

Lou (5'6"/168cm)

Maria (5'6"/168cm)

Emilia (5'5"/165cm)

Lily (5'5"/165cm)

Brandy (5'4"/163cm)

Elle (5'4"/163cm)

Celene (not pictured, 5'3"/160cm)

Keisha (5'3"/160cm)

L (5'2"/157cm)

Samantha (5'1"/155cm)

holy fucking god that's a lot of characters.

Lilith, Inna, Brandy, Elle, L, and Samantha generally wear high heels, which is not reflected on these charts. Tess, Flora, Morgyn, and Keisha sometimes wear heels.

A few smaller groups:

presumably they made Lily and L stand on boxes for their promotional GOBC photos. as a shortish half-asian with an even shorter asian family, that's what we have to do to get in the same shot as my enormous brother. Height difference between him and grandma is the same as Wolfgang and Samantha 😂

i love how Keisha seems to collect tall friends. she wants to be the smol one i guess! having often been the smol of the group, it can be pretty fun.

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Kim Lim (1936-1997, Singaporean/British)

In 1954, Kim Lim left Singapore for Britain with the aim of studying art and becoming an artist. In London, she enrolled at St. Martin’s School of Fine Art and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, studying printmaking and sculpture with equal enthusiasm—two approaches that formed the basis of her work in the four decades that followed. During those formative school years, Lim studied under Anthony Caro and befriended other artists like Tess Jaray and Julia Farrer. She was particularly fascinated by the work of Brancusi, a shared affinity with William Turnbull, who became her husband in 1960. Lim began exhibiting work relatively soon after finishing her studies, with her first solo exhibition at Axiom Gallery in 1966 where she displayed early, colourful works such as Borneo II and Candy (as seen in the studio shot below), acquired the year after it was made by the Arts Council Collection. She exhibited regularly through the 1970s and 1980s with Nicola Jacobs Gallery.

Much of Lim’s early work can be characterised by her engagement with materials such as wood and bronze. Her printmaking practice was equally pervasive and prominent from the beginning. Works such as Abacus I and II (1959), two sister relief sculptures, modelled after the ancient Chinese calculation tool, employ a poverty of material and reveal Lim’s ability to transform fundamental shapes and concepts with an elegant gesture. Made of plaster shapes hung on wire within a rectangular wooden frame, these works eschew “high art” material for simplicity of form. Both works are now in the collections of the Singapore National Gallery and M+ in Hong Kong, respectively. Lim extracted inspiration from her own personal journey from the East to West, with the vernacular of those artists she admired from the West such as Giacometti. Importantly, Lim looked outside the “canon” of art as well. A keen observer of nature and of natural forces, she would echo the sinuous curves of a vast desert plain, the waves of a silent sea breeze, and other experiential moments of life in her work. The strength of a Gingko tree’s trunk, for example, as seen in the 1989 sculpture titled after this living fossil, in which a monolith of rose aurora marble fluted and carved by hand rests on a Portland stone base.

Lim’s 1970s work is marked by a deeper experimentation into concepts of “form, space, rhythm and light”. Her series Intervals, which refers to both sculptural and paper works, employs negative space with equal detail as it does with ideas of density and volume. The year 1979 would prove be a watershed moment for the artist, culminating in a mid-career survey show at The Roundhouse where Lim would exhibit works from every period in a non-linear and non-chronological method, partly in response to the venue itself, a circular gallery space. This was also the year that Lim moved toward an embracing of stone and marble mediums, materials that would remain present in her practice until her untimely passing in 1997.

Continue reading https://www.turnbullstudiokimlim.com/kim-lim

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Penny: [huffs] What now? Levi: Déjà vu much. Penny: Shut up.

UNIDENTIFIED RETINA – ACCESS DENIED

Aster: Woah. Penny: Don’t suppose you can pick that? [Robin scoffed, shaking his head]

Jacob: Maybe one of these bodies would work. Levi: Jesus, no one’s dragging a dead body around-.. besides, the eyes are the first to rot. Tess: EW-.. how do you know that?

Levi: It’s basic anatomy! Aster: Nerd. Penny: Lol.

RETINA IDENTIFIED – ACCESS GRANTED

Levi: What the fuck, Robin?! Robin: I didn’t do anything! Jacob: You didn’t hack it?

Robin: No, I just looked at it! [Levi squinted suspiciously] Robin: What?! It’s not like I’ve been here before.

Levi: If you say so. Jacob: Pretty weird, either way. Penny: Whatever, let’s keep going.

…

Penny: [groans] This place is even more disgusting than the last. Aster: Yeah.. if this is a prank, I’m way over it. Penny: Same.

Robin: Well, we’re stuck here until we find a way out. Tess: Great. Jacob: C’mon, let’s sit down for a sec…

[electricity humming]

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:333

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Walden BACC

"Hello, ladies! Here to make another appointment?"

"Yes, thank you, Damien. Same time next week."

"You're doing the treatment, aren't you? Very exciting!"

"It is! We - Are you all right, Hayden?"

"Yeah, it's...it really took it out of me, is all. More than I expected."

"Well, I'll book your appointment right away and let you go home and get some rest. Take care, both of you."

"You too, Damien."

"Are you sure you're okay? I could admit you for tonight to keep an eye on you..."

"I'm...just tired. And sore. Do alien abductees feel this crappy afterwards?"

"They don't tend to remember what happened, but it's safe to assume the procedures are pretty different. After all, our version involves a lot of guesswork and cobbled together tech."

"If it works, it'll all be worth it."

"Please, Watcher, let this work..."

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Meanwhile, in the background...

Umm, excuse me?! What are you two doing?!

Sam, there's a RING on your FINGER, and Kate? You've been with AIOS since forever! Plus you two have, like, nothing in common, so cut it out!

[murkyhazed]

i'm just gonna put up some pairings that i really want these days. some are familial, some are friendship, some are romance. a lil bit of everything!

*bolded means i am willing to play either muse

bilbo & thorin

bilbo & frodo

frodo & gandalf

frodo & pippin

frodo & merry

frodo & sam

frodo & aragorn

frodo & legolas (cause they never interacted and thats both hilarious and disgusting)

frodo & gollum

pippin & merry

pippin & gandalf

tauriel & kili

tauriel & legolas

tauriel & thranduil

bella & edward

bella & jacob

bella & charlie

emmett & rosalie

emmett & edward

emmett & jasper

carlisle & charlie

carlisle & esme

abby & buck

athena & bobby

athena & hen

buck & eddie

buck & ravi

buck & bobby

dina & ellie

dina & joel

dina & jesse

dina & tommy

daryl & carol

michonne & rick

michonne & carl

michonne & judith

tess & joel

tess & ellie

tess & tommy

abi & nick

abi & emma

abi & kaitlyn

dylan & ryan

dylan & kaitlyn

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Find the word tag

Tagged a long time ago by the lovely @tabswrites -- thank you! Read Tess's excerpts here, including one about an ancient bear in the woods :D

I'm gonna search Bent Nails or Something for these excellent words! We're getting into some later scenes here, how fun >:)

Hunt:

“Are you kidding me,” Michael said, turning in his seat to glare properly. “Are you three years old?” “No,” Sutton said defensively. “I didn’t think of it. I go barefoot at your house, and you called me out and I was unprepared! I wasn’t thinking about making you wait while I went on a mad shoe hunt, okay?”

Sharp (ie):

“You think it over,” [Jacob] said, pulling a sharpie out of his pocket. “Come see me on Wednesday and tell me your decision. Give me your arm. Come on, give it to me, I’m not gonna chop it off.” He took her wrist and pushed her sleeve up, writing on her arm with the sharpie. An address flowed to life in ink. 28 Winston Farm Rd. “That’s permanent marker,” Sutton said blankly, staring at the ugly letters on her skin.

Cry:

“Do you know what I’ve been thinking?” Sutton asked, and Michael knew her well enough by now to know that it was a rhetorical question. “All I can be is jealous of you, Michael Bradley. Yeah, your dad died. He didn’t mean to leave you and nothing short of the accident would’ve made him. And Nick isn’t a replacement, but he’s pretty damn good to you. So why me? Why am I the one who ended up with a dad who fucking walked out on me the moment he could?” She was crying, he thought.

Breathe:

“You know why you’d stay?” “Sure,” Jacob said, the farthest thing from a coward Michael had ever seen. “There’s a lot to like in this town. Good people, good work. I could convince Reynolds to let me rent it for a few months more, hell, I could convince him to sell with a little gentle arm wrestling.” To sell, to sell, to sell. “But not if there’s no Sutton,” Jacob finished, looking down. “Not if there’s no you.” Michael breathed in.

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@revenantlore @indecentpause @zmwrites and @cherrybombfangirlwrites! Your words are celebration, proud, listen, jaw, and height <3

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Jacket, skirt, and pumps by Marc Jacobs. Necklace by Yutai.

Photographed by Cameron McCool. Styled by Alex White. Modelled by Tess Breeden.

Elle September 2024.