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If you ever need to know what time dawn is—as opposed to sunrise—it looks like SunToday.org has you covered…

The Old Farmer’s Almanac will tell you the times for the various forms of twilight in addition to sunrise/sunset…

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Thinking about the doom of Atlantis often lately (not least of which because of Donovan’s “Atlantis”)…

…so, naturally 😂, while I was working in the garden this afternoon (the peas are planted! I dug up an ~8' section of pine root right along where the trellis lives! less sucking of water from the veggies!), I had this bizarre idea that Hope and Josie are refugees from Atlantis, and they end up washing ashore together in the land of the Amazons. (No clue what else happens 😂)

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HOPE + looking at lizzie S04E11, Follow the Sound of My Voice

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LEGACIES | S4E08: You Will Remember Me

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Finished my final ‘setup’ scene (818 words), only to realize I need to write one more 😢

So now (574 words), I am actually, finally, officially ready to start writing the ending of this mutant one-shot 😂 (6882 words)

Right now I conceive of it as three scenes (or perhaps two, with the first having three distinct parts…dunno for sure how it will break in the actual writing), the stuff I’ve been waiting to write for…checks calendar…almost two weeks now.

There was a long, lingering gaze between them as the pair separated and Josie left the room. Neither seemed conscious of what they were doing, and it only finally broke when Josie pulled Hope’s door closed behind her.

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…or are writing it to publish on AO3?

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

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listening to one of my favorite bands and the hosie thoughts are eating me alive omg

they have this one song called ‘amsterdam’ that goes

“We were kids when we met/We were young and we didn't wanna be alone/We got higher than the birds up in the sky/You're forever written in my blood/And I'll never wash you out”

and if that isn’t hosie from josie’s perspective (could also be hope’s, but i feel it fits josie more) i don’t know what is

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Joseph Morgan as KLAUS MIKAELSON

THE ORIGINALS S02E18 - Night Has A Thousand Eyes

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Danielle Rose Russell as Hope Mikaelson on Legacies season 4 episode 11

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My vanity aside, you are cursed, child.

LEGACIES Season 4, Episode 8

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Two little scenes tonight (plus the tail end of last night’s scene), 729 words. A week to go 😬 But I only have one more ‘setup’ scene to go before I’m into the final set of scenes (3-4 short-ish ones) that make up the ending. So it should be fine 🤞 knocks on wood

That was what she kept telling herself as she made a beeline back to her dorm room, where she had exciting plans for Valentine’s Eve: rearranging all of her illicit grimoires hidden under the floorboards.

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I was so tired last night that I do not remember a single thing I wrote then 😳

It was all of one paragraph, and it surprisingly needs almost zero editing 👏

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I hadn’t really ever listened carefully to the lyrics of Gene Pitney’s “Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa” before tonight…

[song.link for other services]

…but tonight I did, and if it isn’t a fun image/scenario for a cheating songfic…

Hope’s on her way back home to You-Know-Who and pulls over at a roadside motel in a small town, and she runs into the most breathtaking woman she’s ever seen, one Josie Saltzman (Salvatore?), they get a late dinner at a small cafe or diner, maybe dance to a few records on the jukebox after the meal…and it’s all over for Hope’s marriage/relationship…

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One thing that has always pissed me off is when people call the Enemies to Lovers troupe toxic romance and say it's abusive. Like I don't know what was advertised to you as enemies to lovers but babe that is so not what this trope it's about.

Now listen I'm a fantasy reader, so my normal level of enemies to lovers is "they have tried to kill each other at least once" or "they have definitely physically fist fought" at like the minimum. Anything below that is rivals to lovers to me. Just wanted to make it clear I'm not sugar coating anything here when it comes to my ships.

Enemies to lovers was never about the abuse or the fighting and the attempted murder, that's not what makes the trope.

Enemies to lovers was always about seeing the worst in each other first, being unafraid to show someone the ugliest part of yourselves and them still managing to fall in love with you. It's about realizing that the only person who has ever truly known you is the one person you cannot stand, it's about them being an outlet to each other the one person they are not afraid to be negative towards because that's your dynamic all the time.

This is also why people enjoy the fighting and the bickering between the enemies, because it's the one time when these characters are not holding anything back, they are unafraid of showing each other cruelty because why fear being disliked by someone who you already hate, that also hates you back?

It's about this chemistry these characters have, how they are somehow always pulled towards each other, how they can recognize each other in a crowded room immediately because they are annoyed by each other's presence obviously. It's about them always somehow ending up in a situation together even though the last thing they want is to be near each other.

They start noticing more about each other, they realize their habits, they know little stuff about them that almost no one else has ever noticed and maybe along the way they realize that maybe they're kind of different from what they thought at first and maybe they're not so different from each other.

It's about name calling turning into pet names, verbal sparing turning into old married couple type of bickering, going from dreading each others presence to searching for each other in a room, sneers turning into smirks, it's about keeping the same dynamic you had but making it more lighthearted, warmer.

And this is my personal opinion, but I truly believe there is no way to make a good enemies to lovers story without it also being a slowburn. It makes absolutely no sense why these characters that hated each other until now are suddenly falling in love so quickly. Enemies to lovers was never just Enemies -> Lovers, There needs to be some forced proximity thrown in there, a begrudgingly friendship, actual friendship, unexplained feelings, realization of feelings, secret pining because we barely became friends there is no way they would ever feel the same way, confession and by the end lovers. It just makes sense since they have a very complicated relationship and they need to grow as people and need to get used to familiar feelings first before actually getting together.

And this is what enemies to lovers is all about, these characters knowing every part of themselves, from the worst to the best, hiding nothing and being free around each other. It's about truly knowing every single piece of your partner's heart and soul, from their anger to their joy and loving them not just despite it, but especially for it.

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ah yes, my favourite foreign language feel, “I know what all of those words mean individually but not together like that”