#border country

[landwriter]

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Dream is returned from the Waking, his mantle of night draped once more across his shoulders. Still, he lingers for a moment. Reflects.

He avoids the impulse to run his hands over every spot Hob has touched. Even in the Dreaming now, his skin feels a Waking thing, a woken thing. It is an ill portent that he cannot find it within himself to regret.

Half-clothed in a robe, he still feels less exposed than he did with the line of his throat beneath Hob’s lips. He feels less. He should not need to remind himself that is good. He touches his fingers to the spot Hob kissed on his throat, and shuts his eyes. As he does so, he carefully reaches out to Hob’s dreams and wraps himself in the golden warmth of them. One last touch, unbeknownst, while his friend sleeps.

Once a century, he will meet with Robert Gadling, immortal. Once a century, he will dress by hand, and be undressed by another’s. Once a century, he will allow himself this small thing.

He thinks about stories of courtship and ruin, and how both can be done slowly enough, sometimes, to escape almost all notice.

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thank you anon! here is an excerpt from Border Country verse, part of a coda that i cut out but will almost certainly recycle into the sequel(s) for it. one of which will DEFINITELY be my take on the comicbook Wine Toast but with hob dressing dream for battle and both of them being very normal buddies about it :)))))

[that-rad-jewish-girl]

Hey so having a country border is actually not the same as engaging in apartheid.

…Just thought people should know that.

[irishmansdaughter]

DROGBA

[orangeblossombitch]

Germany hit rewind on ultra speed, "From the River to the C" is officially, legally banned, Bavaria wants to treat it the same way as showing SS flag and you can get up to 3 years of jailtime for saying it, so; fun times alltogether. Germans continuously seem to be unable to stop projecting their genocidal feelings towards Jewish people on Palestinians. No matter our demand, the echo of their grandparents voice seems to be reverberating in their head. In the midst of an ongoing Gen0cide against US they are still trying to blame us for Antisemitism altogether, even the fucking Hol0caust itself. All while committing Antisemitism and Hol0caust revisionism left and right, not to speak of the statements that would put HitIer to shame.

Our minds are not like yours, clouded with greed, imperialism and fascism, From Ras al Naqoura to Sinai, P4lestine will be free. From the northern most point to the South; historic P4lestine WILL be free from settlercolonialism, Ap@rtheid, military occupation and siege, Zi0nism and any and all injustice and pain you have imposed on us. Freedom, justice and dignity for all inhabitants of this land. And in case any fuckers wanna impose their genocidal worldview on this slogan, forget about it. I'm like 99% sure I coined it, so I hereby Explicitly state, that it has one meaning, and one meaning only. No room for your vile misinterpretations!

[ravewing]

[mochinomnoms]

Malleus when someone tries to harm Yuu in a very deadly manner or tries to kidnap them.

https://youtube.com/shorts/IdiXgGPd4fk?si=K5xJT-bdAtmopMM4

lmaooooo I forget sometimes that Malleus is in fact one of the most powerful beings in all of TWST and not just some silly dragon man that stands outside the dorm with autism and a love of gargoyles.

To be quite honest, canon Yuu could probably stick around Malleus as like an attendant or something and be set for life if they get stuck in TWST. Maybe he can get them citizenship papers and stuff to Briar Valley, I think everyone kinda forgets sometimes that Yuu does not legally exist in TWST.

Does Crowley note down any monetary associations to the player and Grim as miscellaneous? Can Yuu technically travel around without papers as long it's within the context of NRC? Who cares! Just tell your big magic friend with horns about all your troubles and the next day you've officially become a citizen of Briar Valley complete with a new birth certificate, social security number (or the equivalent), and passport! All problems solved!

You don't need to know the details, just take the gift with graditude and accept your fate of never leaving your friend alone :). Never :). Ever :).

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai 🤝🏽 Taiwanese Communal Wardrobe item #1

Theory of Love ep 5:

En of Love: This is Love Story ep 1:

HIStory 4: Close to You ep 1 & 14:

My Secret Love ep 10:

Check Out ep 10:

Mama Gogo ep 10:

Kiseki: Dear to Me ep 9:

(all credit to @chickenstrangers for this one)

+ bonus not in a series but...

and...

[megpricephotography]

Favourites from November walks with Barney & Flynn, in years gone by.

[mogoce-nocoj]

Kris really either goes "freedom to me means no alarm clocks" or "we should eradicate country borders" there's no inbetween

[landwriter]

hiya Gloam <3 for the writer asks: 18 (Border Country), 19 (Emissary of the Night), 29 (Border Country but tbh literally any of your works I'm absolutely fascinated), and 46? 👀 😘💕✨

jules!! fanfic writer ask meme

If you wrote a sequel to Border Country, what would it involve? Hahahaha it's ALREADY PLANNED OUT. Border Country II: Getting Dressed Edition.

Dream shows up at an unusual time outside of their century meetings. He thought about visiting Hob in his realm, but he wants to do this in the Waking. In the physical world. His body has become a tame thing to Hob's hands, and he doesn't know when he'll get a chance to feel his touch again. So he breaks their tradition twice over: he shows up at the wrong time, and he asks Hob not to undress him, but to dress him. To armour him. And Hob, of course, does. His hands seem to remember armour, and he performs the role of squire with such easy competence that Dream almost feels cheated: wishes he were clumsier, slower. It's over too soon. Hob kneels before him, and presses a kiss to his knuckles. My lord, he says, and Dream, for a terrifying moment, fears he will not be able to leave. Then Hob stands, flushing, and brushes off his knees and makes a joke about most drinking buddies seeing each other more often than once a century, anyways. Dream cannot tell Hob now that he does not know when he'll be back. Perhaps, he says, and leaves.

If you wrote a spin-off of Emissary of the Night, what would it involve? Also planned lol! I want to do a third and final installment that covers The Cat's adventures prowling through men's dreams. It starts, I think, in the Library of Alexandria?

What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want! NOT PLANNED. A few longer fics have had songs I listen to when editing, but I write in silence, so Border Country has No Songs. That being said... Townes Van Zandt - Lungs Fiona Apple - Every Single Night The National - Slow Show Wolf Larsen - If I Be Wrong Nick Cave - Into My Arms

Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write? Computer only! Could never write full sentences on my phone, can't hold a thought in my head long enough to get it down if I'm not touch-typing haha

[emaadsidiki]

Haute Savoie, Southeastern France. 🌄🌲🌿🐄

[hiraethwrote]

just woke up to see the results. sending all my love to my american friends. i hope you manage to stay safe despite everything

[irishmansdaughter]

Source - DELIA

[chronurgy]

It's the modernization it's the mechanization it's the way the old world has to die for the new world to be born and by killing gortash you've slowed it down but you haven't stopped it because ideas can't be stopped and the industrial world that will destroy your way of life is coming and you can't stop it by killing him any more than the luddites could stop it by smashing up a few factory machines

[crazysodomite]

immigrating in general is extremely difficult even if you have resources for it but immigrating ANYWHERE if you're disabled is basically impossible. and a lot of people don't understand this

[knifesxedge]

🐶🦴!