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NO MORE DREAMING OF THE DEAD— a ct holiday gift exchange fic for the lovely @sunshine-lover // (a piece of) the long-promised old kingdom jily AU // 4.3k words, rated T

As the Old Kingdom's Abhorsen, death would always surround her. She banished the waking Dead; she walked in the realm of Death; she quelled necromancers whose magic had been corrupted, and Free Magic creatures who defied the order of the Charter. This was as meaningless as trying to inform Lily that her own hair was red, or her own eyes green.

READ.

sunshine-lover

Screaming, crying, throwing up!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for the most perfect gift 🫶🫶🫶

#jily #the old kingdom #fic recs #everyone and everything has a time to die

arte-artem-artibus

Huang Yuxing - A Night Rain on the Seine, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 180 cm

#art #queue can jive

movie-gifs

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU dir. Gil Junger, 1999

#10 things i hate about you #queue can jive

bloombursts

"meet john smith." // veronica mars, october 11 2004

#veronica mars #queue can jive

cainsgibsongirl-deactivated2025

thinking abt couples kissing in front of klimt's kiss

cainsgibsongirl-deactivated2025

#art #queue can jive

clare-with-no-i

Percabeth | canon-verse (ish) | 4.7k

read now on AO3

#fic recs #percabeth #clarewithnoi

ellynneversweet

A thing I’m low key absolutely obsessed with is Mogget, in Abhorsen, calling the Ranna bell on his belt ‘sister.’ Being temporarily hauled into an alternate slipstream of time by what remains of Astarael so they could have a Private Talk in which she gave him the benefit of the doubt, which he seems outsizedly pleased by. The Dog/Kibeth still being immediately and personally enraged at the very sight of him, thousands of years after he refused to take a side because he’s not some guy who refused to take part in an alliance he was invited to join, he’s Yrael who she maybe came into being alongside and who refuses to have the same violently passionate reaction as her to Orannis and his shitfuckery.

It’s all very ancient pantheon. Yes, they have crazy comic power, yes they have innate natures they can’t go against, but they’re also a family and their grudges are ancient and complex and, well…a little petty.

(These thoughts are brought to you by wondering how it was that Mogget knew Something Was Up In Belisaere when Kerrigor attempted his coup. Is the Charter on its conscious level the family group chat where he has view-only privileges and the very stones themselves are pointing at the royal line going ‘he’s infected! Someone help! Mogget, tell your charge to get over here…!’)

#queue can jive #the old kingdom

princesskuragina

The amount of hamlet your teenager can recite is in direct correlation to their deteriorating mental health. To be or not to be is a warning sign but if they're doing rogue and peasant slave too it's time seek help

#queue can jive #hamlet #shakespeare

apocryphics

lydia davis

snakesonacartesianplane

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"

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attachmentbarbiee

born to be a rom-com couple, forced to be a non endgame teen drama couple

#queue can jive #gossip girl

riverwindphotography

Three distinct cascades of Undine Falls slip over layers of volcanic rock, Blacktail Plateau, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

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1st-1

kat-got-your-tongue14

If you rearrange the letters in the light it spells alien

truthtoldslant

If you add in the partial letters touched by the light it’s “E.T. Alien” 👽

1st-1

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dcminions

WEEVIL x VERONICA in VERONICA MARS S01E10

#veronica mars #weevil x veronica #queue can jive

only-cat-memes

coolishfoolishness

He's lying on the red paint because it has more positive associations than negative ones. C'mon, this is basic color theory

heyhoneyfox

This will never not be funny

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ymutate

Anastasia Trusova (Russian, born 1989)

“Cat in the Garden”

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papayajuan2019

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

ourplague

chilewithcarnage

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

transchakotay

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

xic4-4

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."

- Vincent van Gogh

#queue can jive #words to live by