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ashandthorns · 1 month

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility

#tea #trans #trans day of visibility #tdov #transmasc #transgender #transsexual #ftm #teamaker #testosterone #HRT #t #tea lover #queer #transmaculine

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ashandthorns · 4 months

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Time for some pining. New collaboration announcement and tea blend coming 1.18

#tea #tea lover #tea time #books #booksbooksbooks #most ardently #pride and prejudice #pride and predjudice 2005 #mr darcy #gabe cole novoa

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ashandthorns · 9 months

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thinking about how much crowley and aziraphale have been getting slammed for their poor communication and on the one hand... absolutely, i agree 100%. they have so much work to do in that department, they are always missing each other when it comes to seeing what they each want from the other and expressing it clearly. but on the other hand... like... encompassing six thousand years into a conversation? six thousand years of knowing each other. six thousand years of gravitating toward one another

like... the bit that really gets me, in crowley's confession, is - "...and we've spent our existence pretending that we aren't. i mean, the last few years, not really" - this implication that like... at least on crowley's part... since they saved the world together he's allowed himself to be more open in how he feels about aziraphale. that in his mind he's already long since chosen Their Side, they've chosen their side in their behavior towards each other, and they've talked about... our car, our shop, but even before that...

we see in the minisodes, the way they already act. they're a pair that shows rather than tells all the time and it's so abundantly clear that everyone around them can see it, is constantly asking about it, assuming it, reading it on them like they're an open book - with everyone but each other.

but like how do you put into clumsy human words how much love you feel for someone who stood next to you while you created the stars? who helped you create them? how do you say openly how you feel to the one person who understands you and your nature better than anyone else, who indulges your every whim because they want to see you happy while everyone else says you were built wrong, you're too indulgent, you're too soft but you're perfect for him, specifically, because you stood at the beginning of the universe together?

like how are they supposed to talk about that? especially when it's so forbidden to talk about that?

there are so few words that truly feel like they properly encompass what love truly and genuinely means? what loving someone TRULY means? how it's giving up your onliness and entrusting yourself into the hands of another, now you're not just you, now you're you but the world is brighter and sharper and more beautiful because of another? how we're all stuck on a spinning rock in the middle of space in the middle of the universe in the middle of the galaxy in the middle of eternity just little grains of sand and then there's another little grain of sand in the scheme of things, but it's the most important one ever created because of how happy it makes you?

but multiply that by six thousand years

so like of course you fucking cry and you stare at each other with tears in your eyes like you're absolutely ESSENTIAL to one another. but like how do you make it work in words when you don't know if there are even words for the prospect of existing without one another? and you have this absolutely incandescent and fragile thing between you that everyone understands to exist, you understand it to exist too, and sometimes it is scary as fuck to admit that you need someone. it is terrifying and uncomfortable and vulnerable and we're just people who live maybe 100 years on this earth? a blink of an eye compared to six thousand years of shared existence?

like...? truthfully i don't think i could talk about it easily either because oh my god that's fucking terrifying. that six thousand years of your comfortable and beloved shared existence could go up in smoke with one misplaced word. like no fucking WONDER he can't get the words out. and no fucking wonder, it's easier to couch things in terms like group and team and everything when you're on the verge of falling apart into a million pieces because the other half of your soul wants to leave you behind. it's easier to say come with me, work with me, be my second in command, than to admit he's first in your heart and mind every second of every day since you saw him bringing light at the beginning of the universe???

just... you know? they need a fucking break. they need a vacation. they need a cottage in the south fucking downs

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ashandthorns · 9 months

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The OGA Tea Guild has re-opened! The theme for August is The Storyteller’s Treasury and a collaboration with Marlowe Lune!

#tea #tea lover #tea time #books #booksbooksbooks #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #old books #books & libraries #fairy tale vibes #fairy tale #storyteller

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ashandthorns · 9 months

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Crowley and Aziraphale companion tea blends by Old Growth Alchemy. To soothe your broken heart from the season 2 end 🥲

#tea #tea lover #tea time #books #good omens prime #good omens #good omens crowley #good omens aziraphale #ineffable husbands #crowley x arizaphale #crowley #aziraphale #good omens 2

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ashandthorns · 9 months

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Neil Gaiman will pay for what he's done

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ashandthorns · 9 months

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📚🎻🌷”The Storyteller’s Treasury”

✨Introducing: A new collaborative project between Marlowe Lune and Old Growth Alchemy!

✨The Storyteller's Treasury is a celebration of beloved fairy tales and the feeling of slipping into a land once upon a time. In this ongoing project, @oldgrowthalchemy and @marlowelune will guide you on an enchanting (and delicious) journey into the lore that continues to resonate through the centuries, and it begins with: The Storyteller themself.

✨The artwork above for “The Storyteller’s Treasury” will be August’s Postcard of the Month for the Merry Blackbird Postcard Society! Crow Collector and Raven Dandies will receive a 5x7 postcard of this piece!

✨Old Growth Alchemy has brewed up a companion tea to accompany you on many a long night by the storyteller's fire listening to tales spun from your favorite books of old. The Storyteller will be available exclusively through their monthly tea club, the Old Growth Alchemy Tea Guild, as August's member blend. The Guild opens on August 1 and closes August 5 to new members, so follow along to be alerted when the membership is open once more! A mystery blend in the theme of fairy tales will also be available to select tiers, so stay tuned for more to come.

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ashandthorns · 10 months

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Crowley: An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards

New tea blend now available from Old Growth Alchemy.

#crowley #good omens #aziraphale #crowley x arizaphale #demon crowley #good omens prime #good omens crowley #tea #tea lover #tea time #fandom

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ashandthorns · 10 months

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The OGA Tea Guild is open once more for a wander to the Druid’s Grove. This month’s tea blend will be a white tea with heather and herbaceous notes.

#tea #tea lover #tea time #Druid #druidess #tea blends #tea club

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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To A Girl In A Garden

O soft and dainty maiden, from afar

I watch you, as amidst the flowers you move,

And pluck them, singing.

More golden than all gold your tresses are:

Never was harp-note like your voice, my love,

Your voice sweet-ringing.

New Sappho tea blend from Old Growth Alchemy: rose saffron and rooibos

#tea #tea lover #tea time #sappho #sapphism #sapphic #rose #saffron #rooibos tea

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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An examination of papers spanning 1730 to 1943 for paper conservation today.

#bookbinding #book conservation #conservation #antique books #antiquarian #old books

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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New collaboration with Old Growth Alchemy for the Tea Guild: a blend with author Kellen Graves. Wild Fairy Fruit tea for the guild monthly tea club.

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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New sticker exclusive for the OGA Tea Guild by Tea Leaf Weaver.

#tea #tea lover #tea time #sword #swords #fairy ring #fairy circle #fairytale #fairytales #mushrooms #cottagecore #fairycore

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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Night Circus tea is now available from Old Growth Alchemy! This blend has apple & candied ginger & cinnamon & clove & more, it's a little bit sweet & a little bit smoky & perfectly magical 🖤

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ashandthorns · 11 months

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