To my queen, my dear @dwightschrute11 I hope you have a wonderful Holliday. 💓🫂 Thank you for your lovely presence, positive vibes and friendship! 🎄🎁 LYSM!
In memory of Lin @dwightschrute11-deactivated2025 a brilliant light and talented artist who brought joy and laughter to all. Left April 2025.
(Who I hope is well and returns someday)
Salutations to Calypso
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Author’s note: To everyone who doesn’t know she deactivated I apologize. I hope it’s okay I included your mcs as I saw her interact with you the most.
This is very sensitive for me to post but I think it’s needed. We shall not forget one of our own.
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Something happens when someone leaves suddenly. People pretend to move on but no one sees them clinging to the pieces left behind by that precious person. Looking over the old pictures over and over. Crying and laughing while reading through every old message. They catch themselves thinking “oh I can’t wait to tell so and so this!”
They question themselves if they did anything wrong or was there something they could have done that they didn’t. Could they have noticed it, could they have made them stay?
That’s where Johanna found herself, broken and tear stained.
She’d gone for a visit. It had been a month since she’d seen Calypso and she wanted to check in and surprise her. She could imagine how her dear friend's eyes would dance and how she’d shriek with so much enthusiasm. Perhaps she would have convinced Jo to watch a horror movie and they would have screamed and laughed together.
But what she found when she knocked on her door was silence. The house was completely empty and devoid of the life Calypso usually had. There were no flowers in the windows, no music playing. Not a sign of her precious camera or scrapbooks, or a drawing utensil in sight. Not even a note.
She went to Carollota first, one of Cal’s many girlfriends, and she even didn’t know. They checked all her old haunts, everywhere she would have gone. But there was no sign of her. The girls sat together in sadness on the porch and talked about life, the things they might have shared with Calypso.
Auri was the next one to have Johanna haunt her doorstep. She answered the door cursing only to pause when she saw her grave face. Auri didn’t have many friends but Calypso had won her over. So she let Jo in and offered her a drink. Why was it everyone she ever loved left? Johanna wondered too.
They drank until they fell asleep.
Auri had just seen Cal hours ago.
Avania was next. Johanna held the taller girl as she wept. What more was there to say? No one knew what to do.
One by one Jo told everyone and one by one they eventually accepted it. However they couldn’t go on without remembering her, not with everything she did and how bright she shone. They gathered together on the first day of May, her birthday.
The location was a flower filled meadow overlooking the ocean, which were two of Calypso’s favorite places to go.
And how fitting that it was snowing, Calypso loved the cold.
Sally and Clora set up a little tea party and the girls all sat around pleasantly visiting and sharing their favorite moments with the white haired, green eyed, sunshine like Calyspo.
Siobhan spoke on how she loved to rest among her wild curls and play ratatouille. Lorrain recalled the days spent taking photos and collecting flowers for Cal's scrapbook. Inger and Lyssa choked back tears as they laughed with Jo about the time she turned Sebastian into a chicken and made flower crowns. Millie, Eloise, Violette, Lamie, Aura, Lyla and Clora about how she wanted to steal them from Sebastian. Evelynne and Johanna chimed in that it was the same with Ominis, Gwyn and Inger said the same about Garreth.
“Practically everyone from everyone,” commented Amara.
Many tears, laughter and memories were shared by the time evening came. A line of Sebastian’s plus the other partners waited for them to finish up and come home. Yet they weren’t done yet. With heartfelt words of love they left something special. A hair clip, a stuffed animal, flowers, a line of polaroids, and a scrapbook full of unfinished drawings, and stories. A shrine to Calypso, a shrine of their love for her.
They hugged goodbye and parted ways, promising they would all stay in touch. They knew friendship was eternal. No matter what, Calypso would still be their friend until time ended. Even if there were no more tea parties, no more sabotaged dates, no more frolicking in meadows, or ice skating in the snow.
Soon it was just Jo left, shivering in the cold wind blowing up from the ocean to toss her chocolate waves around her face. She didn’t know if the salt she tasted came from that or from what her tears left behind.
Ominis wordlessly wrapped a coat around her and took her hand, leading her towards a lonely floo flame, back to their warm home. Her ever steady rock.
He let her pause by the shrine, and she pulled a tube of red lipstick from her pocket, placing it amid the pile of treasures. “In case you feel like crashing my wedding someday. Goodbye for now.”
Yes people move on, but the heart never really does. The memories blowing around like pictures in the breeze. And with someone as good a friend as Calypso, the wind never stops.
Biker Gwyn escaping home to a new town with her bike, making new friends, and possibly falling in love with a certain bartender?
The bartender is in love too but he needs to get past her new friends first 🫢
Millie belongs to @the-ozzie
Calypso belongs to @dwightschrute11
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my god i have been away for so long but i am back!! i have had this biker gwyn idea in my head for a while now and i finally drew it ㅜㅜ i miss you all so much
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! We haven’t interacted much so far but I want you to know YOUR ART IS SOOO PRETTY. I love it sm you have no idea. Biting it like a cookie
HI LIN Aww thanks so much I think your arts are lovely too 🥰 I loved seeing all your Christmas gifts, I could tell you put a lot of love into them. Thanks again for organizing and bringing us tgt 💕💕
(Btw calypso’s so cute her hair’s like rose gold?? Is that right?? It’s such a pretty color would love to learn more about her!!)
@dwightschrute11, I have the feeling that Cal would be the (moderately aggressive) disney princess of the trio. All the animals would like her—at least partially because she’d bribe them with a lot of food haha.
@ethniee, I’ve always wanted to be able to draw cats, and Reggie is very good motivation. He too cute.
MERRY CHRISTMAS GIRL!! We haven’t interacted much but ohhhh my god your art is so. Frickin. GORGEOUS. And Phoebe is the cutest ever, sending her a big fat kiss because omfg. Love you!!
Merry Christmas girlie!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! It means so much coming from you because I’m always in awe when I see your art on my feed🥹 Calypso is SO PRETTY and you’re so lovely so you’ll catch me interacting more💖 love u!!
