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MyAnna Buring as Tissaia de Vries in The Witcher Season 2 Teaser Trailer.

#yennaia #everytime we’ve seen tissaia she’s been the absolute picture of composure #every difficult situation even if she’s bent she’s never broken #even in that ‘forget the bottle’ moment we see her being strong for yen #but here . . . the possibility of losing yen . . . its too heartbreaking to keep up the unbreakable facade #I am NOT ready for season 2 #the witcher

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hi all! it’s been quite some time since i’ve been online (combo of spending most of my days at work + other various things that have just made getting online difficult) but i just wanted to come on and say that i haven’t forgotten all the messages i need to get back to or the fics i need to read. and also to give some updates on my own fics:

eternity was in our lips and eyes :

lunrah multichap - i’m hoping to have chapter 3 up within the next couple of weeks so if you haven’t yet & you’re a lunrah fan maybe consider getting a head start on the first two chapters (they’re just under 12k words and hopefully everything your angsty heart could ever dream of).

tales from the great goose war

definitely not abandoned!! life has just been a bit stressful recently, so humour writing has not been flowing as easily as i would like. i’m hoping to have an update once life calms down a bit.

until the end

yennaia multichap- on pause for two reasons. the first is that the next chapter is going to be fluffy holiday wonderfulness and so i think it would make more sense to release it closer to the holiday season. the second is that the yennaia fandom has been content starved for so long, my own inspiration somewhat dwindled (but that trailer for season 2 has me very excited for the possibilities of what is to come!)

#loq rambles

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Favorite TV Shows • Fate: The Winx Saga

#ftws #queue

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i’ve seen the “saul has elevator music in his head at all times“ trope a lot and am dying for a fic (by someone, ANYONE) where farah reads his mind and just hears elevator music. 😂

Well, I do have some time for a mini-fic!!  

End of semester faculty meetings are always the absolute worst. And as much as Farah loves her fellow professors, regarding them as something close to family, at the end of several hours of bureaucratic process she finds herself wanting to wring them by the neck and toss them out into the cold. 

All because Griselda had suggested pushing their allotted time for lunch back by several hours, in the name of efficiency. Farah’s spent several years as Headmistress at this point and she still has no good reason as to why she lets her own faculty bully her like this. 

She glances across the room at Saul who is looking at Griselda intently. The first thing she realizes is precisely how odd that is. Griselda’s presentation on the various disciplinary actions taken against students that semester - which should theoretically hold promise as one of the more interesting presentations - is notoriously the most boring. Griselda’s monotone has been drumming inside of Farah’s head for the past several minutes. Ben had slipped her an Advil but she’s still waiting for it to kick in. 

Another look around the room shows that the rest of the faculty have long checked out of the presentation. She’s pretty certain that Professor Wizgiz has fallen asleep; soft snores are indeed coming from that side of the room. And the leprechaun has pulled his hat over his eyes. 

This is all precisely why Farah cannot understand the rapt attention that Saul is paying to the presentation. He certainly hadn’t paid that much attention to her opening remarks. Instead choosing to construct a paper plane out of the itinerary and fly it directly into Ben’s head, prompting a reminder from Farah that ‘this is a place of business’.

She had made a promise long ago that she would never read the minds of her friends. But she figures that one quick peek into Saul’s head cannot possibly hurt. Exhaling slowly, she lets the tendrils of her magic cross the room until they meet Saul. She closes her eyes slightly so that she can concentrate on his thoughts, promising that she’ll leave immediately if it’s anything untoward. 

Elevator music. There is elevator music playing in Saul’s head. Farah is not aware that such a thing was even possible. She concentrates harder, surely she must be missing something. But the harder she concentrates, the louder it gets. She pulls out of his mind with a start and a newfound concern for her friend. 

After the meeting, Farah makes her way over to Saul, a pressing question in mind. “Saul, why was there elevator music playing in your head when Griselda was presenting?” 

Saul raises an eyebrow, he knows his friend better than to question why she was poking around in his mind in the first place; he knows she’d only do it if she felt she had good reason. “Well, I prefer to call it call-hold music. It’s a trick I learned when I don’t want you pesky mind fairies knowing what I’m actually thinking about.” 

Farah lightly smacks him on the arm at the faux-insult. “So, what were you really thinking about?”

“Geese.”

“Geese.” Farah sounds out the word as though it is the first time is passing through her lips. 

“The ones that live at the pond were rather mean to me today. They tried to grab ahold of my breakfast and when I politely told them no, they decided the only way to appease that insult was to hunt me for sport.” 

Farah fights against the laugh threatening to burst free. “Saul, are you well?”

Saul takes a minute. “It’s possible the geese may have nipped at my ankles causing me to fall over and hit my head. In my defense, all the snow made everything slippery.” 

Farah sighs, though not unkindly. “Do you need to go to the nurse’s office?”

“Very much so.” 

#I’ve been getting a couple asks/comments recently about where the geese thing started so ! #here’s the context 💙 #and yes chapter 3 of tales from the great goose war is in production

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#yes! #eve best

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the thing no one was waiting for but here it is anyways

#um HELLO!! this is so beautiful and painful and tragic and !! #wonderfully done #saul silva #andreas of eraklyon #ftws #sky of eraklyon

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source

#pretty things

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I change everything about me to fit in

#taylor swift #this is BEAUTIFUL

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Okay, but which one is your favourite and why.

#definitely either the second or the fourth because of hand placement #also have I ever mentioned how much I adore Miranda and Michelle #madam spellman

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Farah Dowling would get married to her long-time lesbian lover in this, no I will not be accepting rebuttals at this time

#so . . . guess I have to write a lunrah wedding fic now!

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She’s stunning as always but for some reason the only thing I can think of when I see this is

The hands!!💕

#you know she had to do it to em #farah dowling #ftws

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“the queen would scan its memories if you asked.”

✨happy pride!✨

image credit: eve best online

#farah dowling #luna of solaria #lunrah #anyway here’s ur reminder that lunrah owns my whole heart

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we were something, don’t you think so?

#taylor swift

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Chapter 6 is up! In which Terra and I are both passionate about philodendrons, and Stella asks some questions.

#HELL FUCKING YES #I swear every time I see an update for this it’s like it’s ✨Christmas✨ #lunrah #absolutely and utterly cannot wait to read this #ftws

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I’ve never known anyone deeper than I know you…

#beauyasha #critical role #cr2 #stop I’m in tears #I just #I love them so much #cr spoilers

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Sometimes I’ll be off doing stuff - laundry, errands, work, hanging with friends - and then check AO3 and see that I’ve gotten kudos on something or will get an email about a comment and it never fails to blow my mind a little, that while I’m sorting socks or buying broccoli someone has been reading something I’ve written and gotten something out of it. It doesn’t matter how many times it happens. It is a thrill and an honor and a source of happiness every. single. time.

Thank you, all of you, who have ever left kudos and comments for any of us. It’s such a gift.

#I have cried over comments left on my fics before 💙 #every comment every kudos makes my day

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me replying to messages 10 days late and blaming it on my busy schedule to hide the fact that my depression has me thinking simple correspondence is an actual workload:

#I have messages from over a month ago to get back to ….. oops!