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Hey, also, all the anarchist shit aside, tomorrow I want you to make something.

I forced myself to draw something after the 2016 election. I forced myself to draw something when my mother died in 2018. I forced myself to draw something when my spouse was hospitalized for multiple organ failure in 2021.

When you are miserable, make something. Add a row to your project, bake a box cake, draw on a sheet of lined paper, write a poem on a napkin, fold an origami shirt out of a dollar bill, make your favorite recipe for dinner, but make something with your hands, something that you can hold and look at engage your senses in.

It won't fix the world, but it will change the world. You will have made something that didn't exist before. You will have impacted your reality, even in a very small way. And it is going to be something you made *after.* Something bad happened, something shook you, and you made something after, in spite of it.

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So how has your 10 year wait been?

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X Files really had it all while still giving me nothing

Only one bed

Stuck in the rain

Lost in the woods

Among Us style mystery killer paranoia

Fake marriage

Kidnapped (every conceivable way possible)

Crying over your hospital bed

Camping

Stranded on an island

Stranded in Antarctica

Using my clothes to cover/warm you up

Terminal illness

Quarantined together

“I’m keeping your [sentimental item] safe until I get you back”

*can’t go 2 hours without calling you*

Pizza & movie nights

Attending work functions together

I went back in time and you were there

We have to strip to check each other for ominous skin abnormalities

Wrote you love letters

New Year’s kiss

Spent my holiday on a case with you

Cleaning each other’s wounds

*wipes your face when you got food on it*

Road trip

Undercover together

Stake outs

Instinctually reaches out for you

I can recognize you even if I can’t see your face

Even brainwashed, I refuse to hurt you

Literal soulmates

Secret relationship

They even gave us goddamned surprise pregnancy

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Siuan Sanche waits for only one woman...

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genuinely cannot fathom the inner lives of people who say there aren't enough well-written female characters to get into. i'm obsessed with women from shows i've never even seen.

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Morrigan based on Edmund Charles Tarbell’s painting Lady with a Corsage

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The Yellow Dress (The Wardrobe Room, Stratford-on-Avon), 1948 by Dame Laura Knight (English, 1877–1970)

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Your icon is violently in love with you for 5 weeks how screwed are you

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Welcome Home, My Lady A drawing I did for the Black Emporium rarepair exchange.

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This fic was a gift for me and I definitely recommend it if Vivienne/Clarel and/or creepy Deep Roads adventuring intrigues you at all!

Kicking off 2024 Longfic Book Club!

Full Schedule Link

Need more time to dig into a longfic? Overwhelmed by the number of works in the collection? (Side note: congrats to our participants for helping us create 3x amount of works than sign ups!) Want to reread your favorites?

We're going to be kicking off our 2024 BE Longfic Book Club: a group effort to read the collection, leave kudos, and write comments!

You can also chat in our Discord channel #longfic-book-club. We start with the works with the highest word count, and then move down the list.

General good behavior rules still apply; please only leave positive comments on the work and in the Discord server. There is no pressure to engage with works that bump against your boundaries or just simply "are not for you." You can either take a break that week, or getting started on the next week's work!

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willow

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just to get the Ladies all in one place

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Heinrich Vogeler, Dreams II (aka Spring or Expectation), 1912, oil on canvas

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hmmmm i made a quiz y'all should take it and tell me what you got in this poll

reblog for reach!

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