#sarah buchanan

[pseudojake]

[castlerigg]

[wildkatwrites]

lucyrps asked for something written about two of my favorite characters a while back, and I was hit in the face with a need to get this written down. Plus it's a chance to hammer them out more than just an idea of beings that I love so dearly. So here we go!

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A cold nose was pressed into her collarbone, an arm was thrown over her waist, and her legs were tangled in another pair that belonged to someone else. Sarah didn't have to open her eyes to know who it was, and she was thankful for that. They were as familiar as the back of her own hand. It was warm underneath the blankets, and Sarah curled tighter into the other person to try and conserve that heat. They were jostled and slowly began to wake up, yawning against Sarah's skin and causing goosebumps to spread across the yawn's path. She shivered and squeezed her eyes tighter. It was too early to be awake.

"Sadie," a soft voice said, breaking the silence in the room. At least, whatever silence there was when in an apartment in the middle of New York City. "What time is it?"

Sarah sighed and opened her eyes, not surprised that wild, blonde hair was sticking up and to her own face. She tried to find Abi in the mess of it all without moving, but eventually gave up. The other girl had way too much hair for her own good. "Too early." She slithered out of Abi's grip and further down the bed, pulling the blankets over their heads so they were in the dark again. Sarah kissed her cheek softly, then laid her head back down, eyes slipping closed.

"Too early isn't a time, Sadie. You know that you have lunch with Sam today." Sarah could feel Abi looking at her intently even with her closed eyes. The mattress shifted as Abi wiggled towards Sarah again so that she could wrap an arm around her and press her face against Sarah's neck again. "This okay?"

The question was one that had started to be asked, and Sarah was grateful for it. "Yeah. 's fine," she mumbled back, wrapping her own arm around Abi and letting her fingers dance up and down the other's spine. "I think I'm going to skip lunch with him. He's just going to pester me about how I should be behaving more respectfully. He'll shame Rory for Rory's choices, and then talk about how he's father's favorite child." Sarah was getting tense at the thought of her eldest brother, gritting her teeth. Abi began to rub small circles into the small of her back, and Sarah tried to focus enough on that to calm down. "You should understand what it's like to have a sibling that you don't want anything to do with, A." 

Abi nodded and hummed softly. "Don't go, then. You know your mom is going to throw a fit, though." Sarah groaned, knowing that was true. She was a twenty-four year old adult who could do as she pleased. However, Sarah knew how far to push things before she would end up like Rory. Then again, Rory purposefully chose to separate himself from their parents. "Stop over-thinking it, amore."

"Fine. We're going back to sleep, though. It's too early."

Abi let out a chuckle and gently kissed Sarah's collarbone. "Too early still isn't a time."

[wildkatwrites]

My aro/ace characters mean so much to me.

[wgsn]

Womenswear student Sarah Buchanan's collection shone out at LCF’s graduate show, with her over indulgent metallics, innovative use of materials and conceptual pattern cutting. 

[nomad-magazine]

Interview // Kit Caless

At present, London is rife with change. It takes a certain asserting eye to stand back from the daily grind to question development and re-evaluate our setting. Kit Caless, along with childhood friend Gary Budden, are two individuals who have raised this question in the recently published Aquired For Development By... A Hackney Anthology. The book, created and edited by the two, features work from twenty-five different writers and documents a stage of urban transition, a shift that is happening right now.

Acquired For Development By... is a collective of short stories and poetry, which explore and dissect the soul of Hackney. "I grew up in Kent in a little village outside of a town called Canterbury, which is very immovable." Moving to London as soon as he could at the age of eighteen, Kit arrived just before the cusp, "before the tower blocks went up at Dalston Square, before Dalston Superstore, and it was a wonderful shithole. It was really nice to live in but you could tell that something was about to happen, which is really interesting, especially from an outsider's perspective. You know, watching all the changed and sort of feeling a bit powerless... to stop it changing."

The book presents a range of differing perspectives that centre around the theme of change in the borough of Hackney. "We wanted to make it fiction which evokes emotion and a sense of place that you can't really go to , because it is a fictional world even though it is set in a real place. You can't really experience what they are experiencing you can only experience the emotions that are written thoughout the pieces."

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