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Existo:

( congrats on the move!!!!)

"new pov?? is gabe old enough for a pov that'd be so cu--OH HOLY CRAP"

MOM COME PICK ME UP THEYRE MAKING ME EMPATHIZE WITH A MORALLY GREY ANTAGONIST

oh great heavens it is culty in here. the Children sent a shiver down my timbers

"i have heard her" I DO NOT LIKE THIS

YES MARIA TALK SOME SENSE INTO THIS POOR DEVASTATED MAN

(thank you!!!)

tbh i'd love to give Gabe a POV but yeah that was So Much Worse T_T

MOM HELP

FUNGUS CULT did not have to go that hard except it definitely fucking did, i tried to tone it down and it Refused

Tommy needed that cry (and new pair of lungs but beggars can't be choosers)

THANK <3 <3 <3

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tail end of precatio:

the natural science museum anecdote? no aftercare? am i just a kudos to you?*

*the weight of these characters' clear affection for each other is indeed aftercare

tommy using prayer to soothe and validate ellie? right in the childhood religious trauma (positive)

POOR ELLIE FINALLY CRUMBLUNG SCCHHHHNGAAAGAGGHHH. AGGGGHHHHH JOEL'S SOFT STEADY COMFORT AAFAFFFGYHYHHHFJDESJSSNSSJSSKKK

HELLO THIS HAS INDEED MADE MY DAY

FUCKING the SCIENCE MUSEUM HELP, that scene was such a double gut punch i do actually owe you a public apology (i'm sorry)

AGH Tommy & Ellie are so special to me forever and ever best buddies i adore them SO MUCH

WAGH Joel's really holding us all together at this point everybody say thank u Joel T_T </3 <3

Thank u thank u thank u ily and appreciate ur asks so much <3 <3

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Some people, he thought, are drawn to the light as surely as flowers that bend toward a sun.

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Chapter 55 snippie and I'm sorry in advance T_T

As they approach the gate, the halogen lamps emitting their sickly yellow glow turn towards Estela like a pair of enormous insect eyes. She turns her face away and tries not to heave. Andre announces their arrival to the guards, and the gates creak and shudder on their hinges. It’s almost a parody, the use and guarding of the gate, when the wall itself is consumed by rot. It’s down in at least three places, and what still stands is plastered with thick layers of fungus and the hollow, blooming shells of infected which, in the throes of their final, second death, sought a scaffold for the Cordyceps to climb. For several years, they made an attempt to patch the wall where it had weakened, but since taking Jackson, Malcolm and Maurice have shown little interest in the diversion of resources towards the repair of the the Pocatello settlement, which they will soon abandon entirely. The horde itself serves as the perimeter, a wall of bodies laid thickly, like bricks, mortared together by the rot.

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THE WILD ROBOT

WATCH THE WILD ROBOT! IT IS SO GOOD!!!

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“Untitled“ by | Joni Lehtonen

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“Untitled“ by | Joni Lehtonen

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gentle winter fog

by Denny Bitte

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y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

as a secret santa gift, @femmefacetious commissioned @rachelhankeart to draw these ellies from my fic fisherman hats and carpet stains!!!!!! <3<3<3<3<3 aren't they so perfect?!?!

this is the first time i have ever had art drawn of a fic i wrote - i am finding myself wishing desperately for a time machine so i could tell my 13 y/o self that this happened today. she would lose her utter shit :-) dream come true!!!!!!

femme & rach - thank you both so so so much!!!!!!!

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i love being a fan of media. ur favorite character shows up on screen or page and ur just like hiiii baby

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Rhetorical Devices

These devices, sometimes called “figures of speech," appear in all speech and writing (you can find them in advertising, political speeches, and newspapers, as well as in essays, letters, and poems).

EXAMPLES. It helps, if you wish to give a brief description of what a writer is doing at a given moment, to know some of these shorthand terms for frequent practices.

Alternative Ordering - "A man that looks on glass, / On it may stay his eye, / Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, / And then the heaven espy."

Analogy (comparison of A and B) - "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: / Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud."

Anaphora (repetition of opening word) - "All shuffle there, all cough in ink, / All wear the carpet with their shoes, / All think what other people think; / All know the man their neighbor knows."

Anticlimax - "In silk, in crepes, in Garters, and in rags."

Antithesis (opposition of A and B) - "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who are as dark as hell, as black as night."

Apposition (list of different formulations of the same thing) - "The Mind of Man, / My haunt, and the main region of my song."

Catalogue - "The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard."

Chiasmus (an X-like arrangement) - "By brooks too broad for leaping / The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lept girls are sleeping / In fields where roses fade." [books : boys :: girls : fields]

Hierarchical Ordering - "Such sweet neglect more taketh me / Than all th' adulteries of art."

Metaphor (comparison without "like" or "as") - "Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, / The land of spices; something understood."

Metonymy (assemblage by parts) - "Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass."

Onomatopoeia (imitative sound) - "And murmuring of innumerable bees."

Paradox (union of dissimilar qualities) - "There is in God, some say, / A deep but dazzling darkness."

Parallelism - "These are thy wonders, Lord of Power . . . / These are thy wonders, Lord of Love."

Periphrasis (circumlocution) - "The Peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide" [= opens scissors]

Personification (an abstraction made into a person) - "Love is swift of foot, / Love's a man of war."

Pun (a play on two meanings of one word) - "Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, / And in our faults by lies we flattered be."

Quotation - "My flesh began unto my soul in pain, / 'Sickness cleave my bones.'"

Simile (comparison with "like" or "as") - "Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end."

Synecdoche (use of the part for the whole) - "Diadems — drop — and Doges — surrender."

Zeugma (two dissimilar objects of same verb) - "Or stain her honor, or her new brocade."

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