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I am here! I've got laundry and house things to catch up on before my work week starts, and I'm playing catch up in my discord group verses, but I'm around to plot and do a lil light writing so hop in my messages if you need me! <3

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Heads up on my schedule! This is the first day of my new work schedule, two girls are leaving the restaurant and I've got extra shifts for the next several months. I'll be doing doubles at the brick-and-mortar jobs, triples with social media shifts in the morning, most days and I should have Sunday off from here on out -- this is at least until the middle of January, most likely until April, so expect me here on Sundays if I'm not super exhausted!

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"Blot it, smear it. What we need is some wax paper, get it in between the pages before they dry like that." Not that Faith's been in the room when manuscripts were damaged by Buffy's Starbucks, by Oz and his Caribou, by the off Willow Rosenberg and her oh-so-dangerous Swiss Miss. Giles, tea. Even Xander, who single-handedly kept Surge in business all those years. Faith's been pretty lucky, there, but the invitation to have coffee with the white hats was never really on the table. Ooof, that was an emotion she doesn't freaking like. She gets, now, why so many vamps turn them off.

She reaches for paper towels, eyes still subtly on Elena. "You know this stuff happens, like, literally every research fest, right? You're kickin' your own ass for nothing, here."

Yea it's fine. It's totally fine. Right? So fine? The most fine even. Theres no reason at all to panic about a low key acidic liquid being on centuries old paper. Surely it's fine. Surely the world wouldn't end because Elena managed to fuck up the one text that told them how to save it. Right?

"Do you think we can like.... blot it with a towel or something?" Elena sighed. "Pretty sure the longer it sits the less chance we have to save it..." This is EXACTLY what team slayer needed right now.

This is what happens when you pull an all nighter with only coffee in your system and the existential DREAD that comes with the weight of the world resting on your shoulders.

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oopsie ; @little-elena

Which probably wouldn't have been all that big a deal if the book hadn't been open to the one ancient-ass page they needed. Faith's trying to snap a pic with her own phone before the text has a chance to smear or, worse, the paper tear, "Perfect. Maybe there's another tomb guarded by zombie oracles we can break into and snag another copy." She's trying to be angry, she's not the only one who almost died getting that damn book, but the truth is Faith's just exhausted. She knows Elena is, too.

The Hellmouth in this town doesn't call in the wacky like Sunnydale did, but it's a constant barrage of horrors and the marathon of it all is draining as fuck on a good day. It's like being in the middle of a natural disaster, the amount of folks they've lost since the ground started rumbling is staggering. The few white hats left try to pick up the pieces, but the more time passes, the fewer pieces are left to pick up. If the world would stop trying to end itself for five seconds, she'd throw a couple bucks its way. She rests her weight on her hands, propping them on the kitchen island on either side of the Oracle Eye, on the fence about trying to fix this with paper towels when she shoots Elena a little side-glance, "Hey, don't freak, okay? From where I'm standing, this is totally fixable. No problemo." But it was all problemo.

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I have triples today (support desk, hotel then restaurant) so I won't be here later on but I have a couple of hours to play with this morning! I'm going to try and use what little time I have this next week and a half for Halloween things! If you have reblogged Halloween memes, LIKE THIS and my Slayer shall torment thee!

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Arf arf, Psycho.

Faith Lehane (via thatslayer)

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I just got home late from the second shift of the day and I'm heading into the third, so I won't have time to write today and I might be scarce this week because several girls at both my brick and mortar jobs need time off. I shall try!

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That gets a little side-eye from Faith, who's crouching beside a wood stove and busy trying to light a fire with a cigarette lighter and a cotton ball that's been dipped in candle wax. "Huh. I thought we said we were gonna try for less cryptic from now on?"

"... I feel it."

"The footsteps on the lost leaves of our roots. The road has been opened."

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"Yeah, sounds like a stellar plan but seeing as how I'm holding my guts in with my hands right now, I dunno how much more I actually have." as she slinks back out of the monster serpent's line of vision, around one of the last pillars standing in what's left of this old library. Both hands over a wound just off-center of her stomach, pushing in as best as she can. Okay, so she exaggerated the problem, but one more nip from their great, big friend and it's lights out. Faith motions in a backnod to an open gym bag on the floor, tucked half around a corner, "There's a vial in there, looks like blood... think you can make it there and back without Biggie seein' you?"

"Doesn't seem like anything is working. What can we do but throw whatever we have at them? That might work? When in doubt switch to chaos."

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The way I do not have enough action/fight threads going.

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Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

All the words are gonna bleed from me And I will think no more And the stains comin’ from my blood tell me “go back home”

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time of your life ; @prettytm

The exhaustion in Faith's expression isn't quiet. It's loud, in bold type. !!Exclamation points!!. She rolls her eyes and has to drop her hands from her hips to push back a jacket sleeve to make sure her stake bracer is securely fit to her arm, "Yeah, that's what all the boys say after they almost get my face shot off. You know I'm up for a little quality violence, but if you're walkin' me into a war zone again, a heads up would rock."

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BUCKY BARNES / THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (2021) Season 1, Episode 2: The Star-Spangled Man

Steve believed in you. He trusted you. He gave you that shield for a reason. That shield, that is… that is everything he stood for. That is his legacy. He gave you that shield, and you threw it away like it was nothing. So maybe he was wrong about you. And if he was wrong about you, then he was wrong about me.

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MISC SENTENCE STARTERS WITH A DASH OF ANGST

❝ i can't even say he deceived me. i knew exactly what he was and i jumped in anyway. ❞

❝ i think eventually i got so used to the chaos and the pain and the toxicity i began to look for it. ❞

❝ i never got a chance to discover myself. i never had that privilege. ❞

❝ you can tell me anything. i mean i can't promise i'm good at keeping secrets, but i'm a hell of a listener. ❞

❝ no one wants to yearn anymore. ❞

❝ i'm doing some of my best work here and you don't even have the decency to roll your eyes at me. honestly it's hurtful. ❞

❝ i know what you're thinking. ❞

❝ if i ask for your help are you gonna make a big deal out of it? ❞

❝ can we just be normal for like two seconds for once. ❞

❝ i would say i don't know what's wrong with you but i actually do and that's the problem. ❞

❝ against my better judgement i trust you and i think that says a lot about the state of the world right now. ❞

❝ i don't actually care but i'm bored so i'm here. ❞

❝ last time i listened to you we almost died. ❞

❝ i would've come sooner. i would've been here if you'd only asked. ❞

❝ i don't want to hurt anymore. ❞

❝ you don't have to hurt anymore. you can let go of those burdens. ❞

❝ it'd be a lot easier if i actually cared as little as i pretend to. ❞

❝ i do need you. i wouldn't be here if i didn't. ❞

❝ sometimes you don't know it's wrong until it's too late. sometimes you don't know you're being hurt until you realize you're in pieces. ❞

❝ pretending you don't need people doesn't make you strong it just makes you a jackass. ❞

❝ you're gonna be okay. eventually. but first you gotta not be okay for a while. it's gotta suck so you can actually recognize when you're alright again. ❞

❝ you shouldn't have said that. ❞

❝ sometimes i wish they had done something worse. then it'd justify how hard it's been to get over it. ❞

❝ i wish you actually understood me. ❞

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"People? Is that what you guys are callin' yourselves these days?" Faith tips back what's left of a free beer, in a green bottle for some god-forsaken reason, and she uses the thing to motion in the vampire's general direction, "What, 'Vampire' suddenly not woke enough for the Undead Americans? Listen up, Person. If you're gonna come at me, you best do it and save us both a twenty-minute monologue."

"Just a vampire? Do you make it a habit to underestimate people--- chiclet?"

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Loving someone means taking the risk that they might f*ck up your nicely ordered little life.

Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother (via perfectfeelings)