#a fire

[thoselovelythings]

[phanthoughts]

this entire video was such a shitshow in the absolute best way

[renee-writer]

A Fire Chapter 21

AO3

“Mama?” She rests, feet up in the great room.

 

“My darling,” the smile she gives me is wistful and there is a film of tears in her eyes, “It is hard to believe you are about to be a bride. Seemed only yesterday I was holding you in my arms as a newborn.”

 

I take a seat beside her and place my hand on her small bump. “Soon you will have another.”

 

“True,” She rests her head on the back of the couch, “but there is nothing like your first born.”

 

It is an opening and I take it. “But mama, I wasn’t your first born. That would be my sister, Faith.”

 

Her head jerks up and she stares at me. “Bree, how do you know about Faith?”

 

“Fergus told me. He said she was born in Paris.”

 

She nods. “Right, he was there. He brushed my hair. Trying to get rid of the guilt. He blamed himself.”

 

I am captivated. “Why?”

 

She sighs. “That horrid man I told you about,” She waits my nod, “he hurt him,” a shake of her head. Her eyes get steely, “no, far worse. He raped him, sodomized him. He was only eleven.”

 

I gasp, feeling my stomach twist. A feeling of dizziness and nausea runs through me.

 

“He cried out. Your da ran in, caught him. They dueled. He wasn’t too, I was trying to protect Frank’s line, as I believed he would come from him. It was his much nicer brother, Alex, that he actually… A story for another day.

 

I rushed out to try to stop them. I didn’t know then why he… Fergus told me later. The stress the shock of it, I started bleeding.

 

She was born to soon, this tiny doll like creature. Had skin so thin I could see through it. Red hair, slanted closed eyes. I held her for the longest time. Couldn’t bare to give her up.

 

The good Mother named her Faith. She is buried in the hospital ‘s cemetery.

 

I almost died myself.”

 

“Mama!”

 

She pats my hand, her eyes far away. “A piece of her placenta didn’t  get delivered. Master Raymond, a dear friend and fellow healer, he drew it out of me. In truth, there was a time then I wanted to die.

 

Jamie was locked away for the duel, our baby was gone,” She blinks and returns to me and the present, “Now I am so glad I lived. To see you married, to have a chance to raise this baby with Jamie, to see my grandchildren.”

 

I rest my head against her. “I’m sorry about Faith, mama.”

 

“Thank you love.” We sit and watch the fire.

[jaypgartifacts]

an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

[teaboot]

Okay so I'm a security guard, right

And part of why I like my job is cause I'm pretty good at deescalating conflicts without violence or police involvement

And that *might* be because my primary coping mechanism for stress is humor, and if the guy in the uniform isn't stressed out, usually nobody else is either

But anyhow today I witnessed a crime, which 911 had already been called for

And I'm telling the guy, you know, as he's running away, that nobody's gonna touch him, we don't do that here, I don't have any weapons and he can totally walk on out if he wants to

And he gives me this 'go-fuck-yourself" type answer, right? As you do

And I fucking

I fucking. Start danCING

I DONT KNOW WHY

I WAS JUST LIKE "aight guess I'll go fuck myself then, cheerio" AND START FUCKING DANCING

LIKE MY BRAIN WAS LIKE "Cool not being attacked, gotta keep the witnessed calm, gotta stay chill and breezy" AND THE PHYSICAL RESPONSE FOR THAT WAS TO SYART DOING THIS SASSY FUCKING JIG

I DIDNT EVEN REALIZR I WAS FDOUNG IT UNTIL SOMEONE POIU TED IT OUT AFTER

and it all ended fine and the dude is in custody and I get a call from my boss like "Yeah we're gonna need to send footage to police"

AND

FUCKING

THIS IS GOING TO BE SHOWN IN COURT SOMEWHERE

IM DOUNG A SRUPID LITTLE DANCE ON CAMERA AS THIS GUY LOSES HIS MIND AND ITS GONNA BE ON COURT SOMEWHERW

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IVE WVER DONE

I HATE MYSELFD

[anishenanigans]

they're adding new pvp features to pinterest

[froopa-coopa]

"I never asked for this"

[candycatfalls]

bill cmon man this is getting embarrassing

[steveyockey]

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

[wlwaerith-moved]

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[disableddyke]

[cookie-kat777]

Atla nation, come get y'all's juice

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[sadmages]

Having ocs is fucked up they make you wake up and think stuff like what if i learn to code in renpy and make this into a visual novel. Who said that