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[ladypoetess]

slow burn/fake date/enemies to lovers fooooor Mierin, Kamarile & Nemene

Oh Light, ok.

Slow burn: Nemene

Fake date: Mierin

Enemies-to-lovers: Kamarile

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SB/FD/EL Elayne, Min, Aviendha

Slow burn: Aviendha

Fake date: Min

Enemies-to-lovers: Elayne

[ladypoetess]

hi, i just saw your post about Diana from a couple months ago and I was wondering how she's doing?

Hi there.

She is declining, but slower than she was when I made the post originally. The hospice care has helped her be more comfortable, enabling her to eat more regularly and in turn making her a little stronger. She’s willing to eat at least some most days, as long as a. it’s meat baby food and b. I spoon feed it to her.

When she stopped eating again, we increased her pain medicine, and that seems to have helped. Some days she does really well and will eat an entire jar of baby food, and other days I’m lucky to get her to take a full spoonful. She will occasionally munch of some dry food, or take some treats, but not always. She’s still drinking water like a champ, wobbling around fairly well, and hasn’t had a seizure in the last few months. When she’s had a couple bouts of suspected pneumonia, I’ve handled nursing care for her at home, giving her breathing treatments with my own nebulizer & albuterol (diluted slightly with normal saline to make it a more appropriate dosage) (you can trap a cat under a plastic tote and put the nebulizer chamber into it with them and they have no choice but to breathe the medicine - she hates it but it helps) and doing some gentle percussion on her lungs -- basically just tapping on her ribcage, over her lungs, to help break up the crud.

Right now she’s super pleased with warm, sunny weather where I can let her out into my balcony garden where she can lay in the sun and munch on the wheat/oat grass I grow for the cats. She was cuddling with Daphne yesterday, and today I saw Maat cleaning Diana’s head, so she’s still socializing with the other cats, as well as cuddling with me.

She’s still leaving me, but she’s not quite ready to go yet, and I’m grateful for the time I have with her.

[ladypoetess]

Do you have a favorite Forsaken?

I do! My favorite is one that most people hate most, or second-to-most (sometimes edged out by Rahvin), Graendal.

I am absolutely fascinated by the backstory here, going from Kamarile Maradim Nindar, noted ascetic who eschewed all softness and pleasure in favor of rigid self-control, to Graedal, epicurean hedonist who is (seemingly) solely motivated by her own pleasures, however debased.

The fact that she was a famed psychiatrist in the Age of Legends and could heal mental conditions better than anyone else is also fascinating. I want to know more about the intersection of those identities – how does the psychiatry specialty affect (or vice versa) the ascetic behavior, and how does her pivot to the indulgent and self-absorbed pleasure-seeker mesh with her knowledge of the mind and her old life? RJ said she saw that no one else would ever measure up to her standard, and so she decided to abandon them and do whatever she wanted.

[ladypoetess]

Not sure when you changed your icon, but I love it! Very dramatic and cool.

Today! I took that selfie yesterday, before @mehuric and I finally went to see The Last Jedi, and it was very back-book-cover-author-photo and I loved it. :D

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I bring to you, a braid of my hair, a crown of may and woodruff from our fields, elderflower champagne and the sunshine from our longest day stoppered in a jar. Because you will always be a summer day to me.

I’ve been staring, starry-eyed, at this for an hour.

I would tie the braid into my own hair, rest the crown upon my head, and curl up with you to drink the champagne in the light of sunshine that won’t burn me to a crisp. ♥

[ladypoetess]

This was not easy for me. An in-progress WoT fanfic which invites engagement. A selection of tea. A very comfy chair. Draped in a quilt crocheted from the cat-inspired wool selection we've all seen. (But the finished quilt took some tracking down.) A handwritten note with a pressed flower border, of an invocation defying the distance between us - this is a summoning, after all.

I’ve been saving this in my inbox for most of a week now, just pulling it up to look at and giggle softly. I have not actually petted my phone screen. I swear. Really.

This is a most excellent summoning spell and would certainly work to bring me, posthaste. (True story, a box arrived here 2 days ago from the UK and I had a moment of ??!!???... surely not... ?? before opening it and realizing it was a friend deciding that it was a travesty that I’d never tried prawn crackers, and so having 4 bags of them shipped to me to correct this egregious oversight.)

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