#the last letter

[fromkenari]

Waterloo Letters #5: bad metaphors about maps

bad metaphors about maps A agcd@eclare45.com                9/25/20 3:21 AM to Henry h, i have had whiskey. bear with me. there’s this thing you do. this thing. it drives me crazy. i think about it all the time. there’s a corner of your mouth, and a place that it goes. pinched and worried like you’re afraid you’re forgetting something. i used to hate it. used to think it was your little tic of disapproval. but i’ve kissed your mouth, that corner, that place it goes, so many times now. i’ve memorized it. topography on the map of you, a world i’m still charting. i know it. i added it to the key. here: inches to miles. i can multiply it out, read your latitude and longitude. recite your coordinates like la rosaria. this thing, your mouth, its place. it’s what you do when you’re trying not to give yourself away. not in the way that you do all the time, those empty, greedy grabs for you. i mean the truth of you. the weird, perfect shape of your heart. the one on the outside of your chest. on the map of you, my fingers can always find the green hills, wales. cool waters and ashore of white chalk. the ancient part of you carved out of stone in a prayerful circle, sacrosanct. your spine’s a ridge i’d die climbing. if i could spread it out on my desk, i’d find the corner of your mouth where it pinches with my fingers, and i’d smooth it away and you’d be marked with the names of saints like all the old maps. i get the nomenclature now—saints’ names belong to miracles. give yourself away sometimes, sweetheart. there’s so much of you. fucking yrs, a p.s. wilfred owen to siegfried sassoon—1917: And you have fixed my Life—however short. You did not light me: I was always a mad comet; but you have fixed me. I spun round you a satellite for a month, but shall swing out soon, a dark star in the or bit where you will blaze.

Re: Bad metaphors about maps Henry hwales@kensingtonemail.com                9/25/20 6:07 AM to A From Jean Cocteau to Jean Marais, 1939: Thank you from the bottom of my heart for having saved me. I was drowning and you threw yourself into the water without hesitation, without a backward look.

McQuiston, Casey. Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel (pp. 318-320). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince, Ch. 17: Girl, So Confusing

Fandom: American Dragon: Jake Long

Summary: When Jake's girlfriend spills the truth about her missing twin sister, Jake vows to help her find her sister, but the world that it plunges them both into a new world, one that their teenaged eyes had been closed to. It leaves everyone involved on a journey to self-discovery, wondering if they are the person they should be or if they should become the person they were meant to be.

Rating: M

Genre: Romance/Family

Characters/Pairings: Jake/OC; Jake/Danika; Rose/Brad; Jake/Rose (endgame); OC / OC; Spud/Stacey; Spud/Trixie; Nigel/Rose; Kyle/Trixie; Everyone/Everyone

Chapter: 15/?

New Chapter

Chapters 1-10

Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten

Chapters 11-20

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

[sillytriumphdragon]

"We lost someone today. You’d think I’d be used to it after all this time, even callous toward it. A few years ago I was. I have no idea what’s changed lately, but now it feels like every loss is exponentially harder than the last. Or maybe they’re the same, but I’m different. More angry."

Rebecca Yarros, The Last Letter

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

The Last Letter - Syndicated - December 8, 1956

A presentation of "Death Valley Days" Season 5 Episode 7

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Directed by Stuart E. McGowan

Hosted by Stanley Andrews (as The Old Ranger)

Stars:

William Pullen as Alex Todd

Clint Eastwood as John Lucas

Forrest Stanley as Jacob Moore

George Pembroke as Henry Conklin

Russ Todd as Sam Osgood

Joseph Sargent as Reuben Bennett

Greg Barton as Abner Bell

Robert Sherman as Willam Ballou

[thisiskatsblog]

Sad today.

[yourcprcrn]

Saddest Scene?

"I’m a Gentry,” Colt said, managing to pry his eyes open again.

“You are. A Gentry and a MacKenzie. Always.”

“Always?” he asked.

“Always. I will always be your dad. No matter what. Nothing will change that.” Even death. My love for him would cross however far God took him.

“Colton Ryan MacKenzie-Gentry. I got everything I ever wanted.” His eyes closed, and his chest rose only half as high.

[thisaintourhome]

pig tails, chasing all the snail trails.

where are you goin’, where are you goin', regina?

[laurrrrrrrrra]

“Yeah, that didn’t go so well.” I looked up at the cloudless Colorado sky. “We did a number on her, Mac. So if you’ve got any pointers on how to win over your sister, I’m all ears.”

Oh idk maybe just tell her who you are.

[freyadarling]

This book was so heartbreaking and so wonderful at the same time.

[fruityyamenrunner]

u don't think about T being near the end of the alphabet, but it is. TUVWXYZ. T and U are the last holdouts against those monsters.

[foolsocracy]

this is actually so funny. imagining garth quipping and contributing to the conversation in his head cause he forgot the rest of the teen titans can't pick up on his telepathy

[infinitaregna]

"Unlike Black Sorter, Pink Wastebasket was very delicate, though highly intuitive - the machine equivalent of a Russian countess."

"...I believe there are some backward areas on Terra where the great advertising potential of telephones and telegrams hasn't been fully realized and they are still used in part for personal communication."

[we-are-all-of-legend-now]

Love Letters

Fandom: American Dragon: Jake Long

Summary:

Rating: T

Genre: Romance/Angst

Characters/Pairings: Jake/Rose

Chapter: 1/1

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[in-the-multiverse]

Every season has a distinct feel, I tried a new style to tell their stories through distinct shapes (and rl is like that for funsies)

[trashmancer]

Does anyone else think about Gale all alone dealing with his chronic pain in Waterdeep?

[emmavakarian-theirin]

obsessed with the way lucanis just says "no." sometimes