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charlie winsor. ❝ ─ stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop d e a d in ten seconds. see the world. it's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.❞ 22. cismale. conservation intern.

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dcnutqueen‌:

“Yeah, I guess… some people meant it more by the whole… obnoxious stealing your food ruining your family vacation kind of way,” Belle says as she tries to laugh off one of the most depressing things she’d ever say that day. God, how stupid she must look in front of him. Except that changes as he keeps talking and her cheeks go fiery red, her hands trying to cover her face. “Oh… woodpeckers must be uh… pretty rad, huh?” she asks as she tucks her hair behind her ear, afraid of looking absolutely stupid if she were to actually look him in the eye, “They, uh… they’re pretty good at…” she struggles to find any kind of smooth words to use in this moment, “sustaining themselves and… stuff like that.” 

“ some people don’t know what they’re talking about. all birds are good. ” he affirmed. charlie watched her face go on an expression journey, saw the flush across her cheeks and some part of his brain lit up and said: i like that. so he kept going. “ are you any good at sustaining yourself? ” charlie made a show of looking her over, taking her hand to lift her arm like a crank, being completely obnoxious. “ not falling apart at all! i’m totally in awe. ”

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bbreckenridge‌:

“what?” she finally manages in response to that total non-sequitur about bison. “no no, i was asking you if you wanted buffalo wings, or buffalo pizza. i’m ordering out for dinner,” she’s pretty sure no actual buffalos are harmed in the making of buffalo wings or pizza, but just to be sure, “there’s no actual buffalo meat in either of those things right? it’s just chicken? oh wait are you a vegetarian or vegan? or allergic? oh wow i really should’ve asked this before i invited you over for dinner huh?”

“ oh, right, ” charlie cringed, removing himself from a daydream about standing in an old western prairie amidst a thousand bison and reinserting himself into reality. “ buffalo sauce is actually vegan, dude. at least, most of the time it is. some people make it with butter but most don’t which is super dope for the environment. you’re good, i’m not, but i wanna go vegan to reduce my carbon footprint. i cut out beef already, but the siren call of drumsticks pulls me right back in. so yeah, to answer your question, buffalo wings all the way. ”

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tabithxs‌:

“it’s just extra change they finally scraped together to form a whole dollar. the time was always there, it just wasn’t enough to make a whole day.”

“ could you explain that? where’s the change coming from? who said keep the change? ”

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dcnutqueen‌:

Belle’s eyes went wide as she dreaded the warmth that was inevitably going to rise in her cheeks just at the sound of that damn voice. What made it all the more worse was that her jaw simply hung open for a moment as she sat at one of the tables at the bistro, her own creations sitting on a plate beneath her that suddenly did not matter one bit. “Me?” she asks, which is then followed by a mental slap on the wrist. Of course he’s talking to you, dummy, he’s looking at you. She shook her head, “Uh, I’ve been called a seagull once? Hungry, sociable, super loud.” Smooth. “But, uh, you’re the pro so… what kind of bird do you think I am?” 

“ would that be so terrible? seagulls are also incredibly attentive, compassionate, and social creatures. ” charlie shrugged. “ though one did swoop down and steal a hot dog right out of my hand. but coney island seagulls are outliers and shouldn’t be counted in the study. i think you’re like... a woodpecker. i don’t know much about them except that they’re pretty rare and every time i see one i’m totally in awe. ”

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jxdepcrks‌:

meeting charlie, spending time with him was one of her favourite things to do in wintergreen lately. she enjoyed getting his messages and him showing up randomly because somewhere–he was helping her see life in a brand new way and she was liking it quite a bit. a part of her wanted to answer rationally, because–well it made no sense, but this was charlie, and knowing him it was either something he’d read or seen, and she was curious to know which it was. “how does that–even work though? and before you answer that, is it from a book or a movie?” she grinned at him, knowing he was probably teasing her, and if he was serious–well then she’d ask him more about it.

“ neither! ” charlie held up three fingers, scout’s honor, as though that meant anything at all to anyone outside the boy scouts of america. sometimes he wondered if jade was just entertaining him; other times he wondered why he couldn’t say something smooth to her if his life depended on it. “ i just like, discovered it by accident. i was camping on my own when i was twelve and got a bit of a cold overnight, so i put some damp leaves on my head the next day since i was using my towel for something else and it worked. so if you’re ever in a pinch just grab some leaves and stick ‘em in your hair. they’ll block the sun from hitting you directly. it’s science. ”

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tesshoneychurch‌:

“Woah, slow down there, Charlie,” Tess held up a hand. “You just spurted out like, a hundred million thoughts a second. I need some time to think about these things – like, moss is really cool, and I’ve taken some wicked photos of it over the years, but I did not know they have favorite trees, so that’s neat. And I’ve never seen that movie, but I’m guessing it’s very good. But, in my opinion, no, everyone destroys something at one point or another.” She paused and chuckled at his last words. “I don’t think anyone says it’s good to sleep on your problems. Maybe you should do that thing where you write down what your thoughts are before bed and then come back to them in the morning? I’ve heard that works.”

“ sorry, my mouth moves faster than my mind and i just... word vomit. can i see your moss pictures sometime? i stan moss. it’s nature’s bandaid. some moss grow on specific tree types due to moisture. like the myth that moth only grows on the north side is really only applicable in the northern hemisphere, since the sun isn’t hitting that part of the tree and moss likes shady places. so australian moss grows on the south side. can you imagine northern pioneers fucking around and ending up in australia, trying to follow moss north? ” charlie snorted. “ you should watch it sometime, if you have time and like westerns. but if you don’t like westerns it’s a crime punishment by dungeon. ” he said with the solemn of a euology, though quickly broke into a grin as his face wasn’t particularly designed to not smile. “ but then i’m gonna think of new problems and keep opening my notebook. what do you think about before you sleep? ”

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wintergrccns‌:

eli was struck by hearing mr. honeychurch. he was pretty sure this was the first time someone in wintergreen. he was amazed. this kid seemed like a cartoon version of an eagle scout, but in an incredibly endearing way. “dude’s just fine,” he was amused, “dude or eli will work. you don’t have to worry, i’m not your boss. i’m just here to take you on a trek and get you familiar with the area and how to handle this much snow and cold so you don’t die. where are you from?”

“ are you sure? i don’t wanna disrespect you or anything. ” charlie replied, just barely resisting the urge to blur out that he’d googled eli beforehand. “ i’m from rhode island, but i’ve done some work in other places before this. nowhere that gets this cold though, but i was a boy scout all my childhood and went eagle when i was sixteen. not that i’m bragging or anything, just like... i have some experience, i guess? what about you? i didn’t google you. ” fuck.

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cxmbrenner‌:

Cam listened intently. That’s… not really what he thought the other meant by ‘crazy’ but it definitely wasn’t not crazy. “That’s for sure bananas, dude. I’ve definitely had a dick drawn on me once or twice.” Because that’s the kind of drunk he was- blackout. He leaned in as he showed him the bear. This guy really was just… so precious. The fact that fourteen people texted someone for their birthday was foreign to Cam. He usually got a call from his mom and a few from his team mates but never that much love. “That must be really, really cool. Were you scared?” It was a real question- he would have been scared shitless. He shook his hand with a firm grip and smiled. “Well, Charlie, thanks for the compliment. You kind of remind me of… I’ll think of something. I just wanted to be nice and return a compliment.”

“ i think i was too shocked to be scared in the moment. after it left i realized that i had a literal vice grip on the tree with my legs though, which was a nice thigh workout, i guess. and as far as i can tell, it’s a black bear and you know the old saying: ‘ if a bear is black, attack. brown, stay down, white, say goodnight. ’ ” solid handshake. dude definitely was corporate or something; most people had the limp wrists of privilege in their shakes. “ you don’t have to compliment me back! but i’ll accept anything you give me, dude. what are you doing out here? ”

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dvnahs‌:

dinah was still too in shock to stop and think about the implications of an avalanche on the resort. she inhaled deeply, centering her thoughts on the situation at hand. “okay.” she said channeling every thread of stoic energy in her body. “there’s still leftover food in the kitchen. it’s not much but it should last us through the night.” // @lalunettelake  @honeyethcns @vcrdure

“ just a flurry, nothing to worry about! ” charlie chirped, peeking outside the window at the feet of snow blocking most of his view. he cocked his head toward dinah. “ if it doesn’t and we have to start eating each other, who do we start with? i vote ethan. ”

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“Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law”

“How come millipedes have so many legs but can’t even move very fast”

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i wish i was a leaf instead of a person

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“ i was up late thinking about moss again. mostly about how like, different species will only grow on certain trees and how that means that plants are sentient beings. so like, plants have favorite trees the same way we have favorite movies. mine’s butch cassidy and the sundance kid, by the way. anyway, what i’m getting at is that like... is anything we do on this earth without harm to something else? can we exist at all without destruction? why did the pioneers use sheep dung in ritualistic medicine? i really need to sort out my issues before i try and sleep, dude; i was legit up all night thinking about moss! you know how people always say you should sleep on your problems? what if your problem is insomnia? ” // @tesshoneychurch

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“ what kind of bird are you? ” // @dcnutqueen

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“ sometimes i stick leaves on my hair. it helps cool your head down. ” // @jxdepcrks

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“ i am so down with bison right now, dude. have you seen the way those things move? there’s actually like, a mini-crisis going on right now with cattle farms in spaces bison used to roam. cattle are invasive species and have basically destroyed grasslands and prairies and the obvious move is to reintroduce bison to the national parks, but we’ve fucked them over so bad that doing so could be dangerous to other animals in the area. ‘cause like... disease and shit. but i hope that they can go back to where they belong and we’ll leave them alone this time around. buffalo strong! ” // @bbreckenridge

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“ leap years are actually kind of fucking terrifying. you’re telling me the earth goes around the sun, and every four years it does it... wrong? that’s not entirely comforting, especially since we’re apparently like, due for a million natural disasters and another million astronomical ones. ” // @tabithxs