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#//today was beautiful and i could go on waxing forever but!! now i have energy to run off and thoughts to think so!!
keeps-ache · 7 months
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i have my glasses now!! here are some things:
saw my mother clearly and almost cried
saw the parking lot and the sky and a tree and forgot to breath for a second
was so enamored with the Sky i tripped over a curb
the stars. oh my god the stars
#just me hi#HELLO#GOD BLESS THIS BEAUTIFUL PLANET WE ARE SO WONDERFULLY HERE#FORGOT TO MENTION THE MOON. SHE WAS STUNNING SHE WAS RED AND ORANGE AND YELLOW AND SHE WAS PERFECT#YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ENCHANTING A GROCERY STORE REALLY IS UNTIL..!!!#and i HATE the grocery store man!!!#/my mother was wondering how it looked to me before the glasses and i drew a quick thing to show her hfsvh#it suddenly hit me the utter power of a vision and any intent i'm. i'm going to be making art forever aren't i#//but the SKY let me tell you about the SKY#it was wispy with white and that shade of blue we know so well was so much more shocking i can't!! describe!!!#AND THE SUNSETTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT#THE SUNSET. YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND#it WAS. it was grey and blue and SUCH a vivid hot-pink it's seared into the backs of my eyes like a vision of something sacred#/TRY and tell me everything wasn't made deliberately. like everything wasn't woven with love and the intention of wild beauty. i'll bite yo#//MY MOTHER. SHE IS SO LOVELY#she looks so much older and she makes my throat hurt and i'll think about how she looked in that costco forever Lol#/my FACE HOLY LANDS#i didn't expect to look so textured!!! i need to look at myself more i felt so many things looking into that little mirror!!!!#/my DAD my SIBLINGS my HANDS our CAR i'm going to live forever in a world that is so much more rough and utterly bewitching#//today was beautiful and i could go on waxing forever but!! now i have energy to run off and thoughts to think so!!#toodles !! :DD
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hangekitty · 3 years
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Hange x f!Reader Oneshot
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Summary: Squad leader Hange is a very busy scientist, so having Moblit and Y/N on their team is a great benefit to their work; so much so that Y/N finishes Hange’s work so that they get time off! Little do they know that the socially awkward Y/N has a passion for astrology, so one night she works up the courage to take Hange star gazing!
Genre: Fluff, Smut 18+
Warnings: spanking, cunnilingus, fingering, swearing, 69-ing, this oneshot is GOOFY af
Universe: canonverse
Word count: 3.9k
A/N: This oneshot is based on the song Space Girl by Frances Forever, I love this wlw song so much I just had to. In this one shot Hange’s pronouns are she/they but I mostly use they/them pronouns! Although in the song the singer refers to her space girl as a ‘cancer’ (astrological sign) I have left the reader’s sign ambiguous so you can insert yourself in! Also I don’t know how advanced the canonverse is with astrology, especially with astrological stories behind the constellations but we won’t focus on that its just a cute (probably inaccurate) oneshot. AFAB!Hange. I am so sorry it’s so long for a oneshot!! I just love them so much 🥺
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When squad leader Hange Zoe is in the zone, they will work throughout the day and throughout night with no breaks and no signs of stopping; unless they quite literally pass out. If ever they got in that position of dropping at any moment, you and Moblit would be there to either complete the work or to catch Hange before they fall. You had always admired Hange’s determination and stamina, that alongside their eccentric personality, had you weak at the knees.
If you were honest with yourself, you had quite fallen head over heels for Hange the moment you saw them, their smile felt like a kick in the heart and a thousand butterflies in your stomach. It wasn’t until you helped Levi bathe Hange did you realise your feelings towards them, desperately looking away from their body with great embarrassment. Levi always rolled his eyes at your actions, but he’d usually have a faint smirk on his face as you try and wash them whilst attempting to keep your eyes closed. You and Levi were quite close, despite his quiet (and rather passive aggressive demeanour), a friendship with him was meaningful and he definitely cared more than he’d let on. He, alongside Moblit were the only ones that knew of your passions with astrology and space; he’d always say something like “it’s quite fitting, you’re head is either in the clouds or up Hange’s ass”. The funny little bastard.
Your captain would tease you regularly, especially when he noticed your longing stares; whether it be out on expeditions or back at HQ. He’d reach for your head and shake it, waking you up from your day dream. “Your obsessive pining will get you killed, scout” and “Keep it together space girl” were a regular thing Levi would say. You couldn’t help it, Hange was your moon and all the stars in the sky, all things you’d happily gaze at forever.
As mentioned, the bathing sessions were a great opportunity to get advice (and teased) from Levi. One bathing session he told you that he’s pissed off that you hadn’t revealed your feelings yet. How could you? Hange probably didn’t feel the same way, and neither did they have time for it! Changing the subject slightly, you would say “Poor Hange, always working so hard!”
Its true, Levi would usually have to knock them out to bathe them because they worked so much; you suppose the only ick that bothered you about Hange was their lack of hygiene - they just can’t help it. All of that energy dedicated to work, they rarely had any spare time to do anything else; but you were determined to make today different.
You heard of a meteor shower that was expected around 11pm that night, a spectacle you were adamant not to miss. You decided that if any time was the perfect moment to reveal yourself to Hange, tonight is the night. You day dreamed the whole day, picturing the two of you under the stars. Between paperwork, you would check regularly and calculate the time and position of the moon whilst the meteor shower happened; it had to be perfect.
“A waxing crescent” You whispered to yourself
“A what what?” Hange fluttered over to your table making you jump, you attempted to hide the paperwork of calculations; absolutely nothing must be revealed otherwise the surprise will be ruined.
“Squad leader H-H-Hange! I uhhh nothing!!” You stuttered, looking to their perfect, smiling face. You wanted to both die and dance at the same time, to grab them by their collar and kiss them passionately. Hange leans on your desk, looking at you with a cheeky grin.
“I do hope you’re doing your work scout! You don’t want to be working for 2 days straight like last time!”
“That won’t be the case tonight Hange!”
“Oh?”
“I recon if I work solidly for the next 2 hours I will be completely finished!”
“Really? Ugh I technically have like 4 hours left of paperwork too do, I don’t really even have time to scold you on how obviously distracted you are Y/N” Hange sighed, lifting their goggles up to pinch the bridge of their nose. Your eyes light up, seeing their face without goggles was just...
“Well if you give me part of your work, we will be both finished in 3 hours. Anything else that needs doing I will do!” You offered, Hange darts their eyes at you, an excited expression on their face. Without any warning they grab your hands into theirs and puts their face mere inches away from yours. Your face heats up, staring at their lips, you hold everything back from just leaning in to kiss them.
“You’d do that?? For me?? Well aren’t I lucky to have such a kind assistant!!!” Hange exclaimed
“If you both give me some of your work, I am happy to complete whatever’s left” you hear Moblit say across the table. Your eyes turn to him as he gives you a knowing wink. Gods bless Moblit. “That way you two get to leave early tonight, I hear there is some kind of astrological event on tonight”
Your face dropped, as much as Moblit was helping you, he must have looked at your notes as he walked past; nosy dickhead. Hange placed a hand under their chin and thought for a moment, before they had the chance to say anything about it (worrying they’d say its stupid or something) You stood up in your seat.
“Squad leader Hange! We can watch it tonight together if you’d like!!!” You blurted out, sounding more authoritative than you’d wanted. Hange’s eyes widen and observe your shaking body.
“But what about work?? I am sure after this paperwork needs doing they’ll be-”
“I’ll do it! Even if it means I work into the morning. It’s something that Y/N is passionate about so please!! I can always get Nifa or Abel or both to help me out!” You could hear the panic in Moblit’s voice. You take what you thought about him being a dickhead back, he’s doing you such a favour. The both of you look at each other and then back to Hange, trying to gage what their response will be.
A roar of laughter fills the room, followed by a long sigh. “As long as you are sure Moblit, that is real sweet” Hange turns to you and grabs your hand again. “Tonight’s a date then, what time and where?”
‘A DATE???’ You panic to yourself, did they really call this a date. You scream in your mind, wanting to just faint there and then. You collect your emotions and take your hand away from theirs, coughing into a fist. “10:15, walk south from the back entrance of HQ and head towards some bushes and the oak tree. I will meet you there” You said, you wanted to be far enough from HQ so you wouldn’t be disturbed.
“Sounds perfect! Now, lets get some work done!” Hange exclaims, sitting back at their desk and scribbling even faster than before.
The three of you continued to work, you were the first to finish and left the office to get changed into your casual gear. You pull out some perfume that you saved months up for from the market, it was a beautiful scent that you only used on special occasions. You looked in the mirror and hyped yourself up, “come on Y/N you are a lover and a fighter. Titan killer in the streets, pussy killer in the sheets” You slap yourself for saying something so embarrassing out loud.
Once dressed, you head out to the spot with blankets, pillows and a couple of lanterns; if you were to be there a while, you wanted to be comfortable. Once everything is laid out, all you had to do was wait. You felt the nerves building up, as time passed and drew near to Hange’s arrival, you had looked at all of your notes over and over. You lined star charts up and spotted all sorts of constellations to point out to Hange when they were there, you looked at the notes with all the stories behind the constellations and tried to identity any planets that were visible. You kicked yourself, wishing you’d be able to afford a telescope; apparently Saturn is aligned with Mars and that would have been an incredible sight to see.
You hear a noise behind you, oh lord here they come! You scramble at your notes, looking at the more complicated details and stuffing them into your bag.
“Y/N I could do with a little bit of help!!!” You hear Hange yell out, clear struggle in their voice. You stand up to see them behind the bush holding a very large telescope. You rush to their side and help carry it in front of the blankets.
“Hange! Where did you get this telescope from??” You exclaim with delight, Hange’s face blushes at your excitement and rubs their neck.
“Well after Moblit told me that you’re passionate about astrology, I took a deep dive into what is so special about tonight. A meteor shower right? And the planets Mars and Saturn?? Well so I uh....spent my savings on this baby to see it” Hange said awkwardly, your mouth agape and eyes wide, they spent all of their money on a telescope just for this?
You lunge forward and give Hange a massive hug with excited giggles. “Hange thank you so much!! It’s going to be so amazing I promise you!!!!”
Hange blushes wildly, resisting the urge to kiss you. “Well, it’s nice to see someone so excited over science just as I am, makes me feel a little less weird”
“Oh trust me, in school when we were taught about astrology I seemed to be the only person interested! I would spend hours just researching the constellations and zodiac signs! No one really wanted to be my friend, so uhhhh well I suppose I shifted my focus on Titan fighting and work with you and your science squad. It’s not space, sure, but I too felt lonely in my hobbies!” You explained, Hange’s heartstrings felt a tug, picturing you as a kid is just too cute.
The two of you carried on with conversation, you pointed to the sky and explained the stories behind the constellations. No matter how complicated the story or science, Hange seemed to want to know more and more; you even had to pull out your notes to answer their questions. In Hange’s mind, they had spoke about the science of titans for years and never bothered to ask you where your true passions lie. They questioned why they never asked, perhaps they were too nervous? Hange always put on a mask of being this optimistic, eccentric scientist and even acted cocky in front of you, but secretly they were just as insecure and shy towards you. They wanted to get to know you, but of course the element of dying at any point worried them; if they got too attached, especially romantically, it would hurt more. However, since the two of you are out there, looking at the telescope and talking so much, Hange’s fears lifted, even if it was for an evening.
Using the telescope, you pointed it in the direction of Mars and Saturn, both planets basically next to each other, a wonderful view to see. They weren’t super clear of course, the telescope wasn’t that powerful, but you could clearly see Saturns rings; something Hange got super excited over, asking you millions of questions. It wasn’t until the both of you sat down, waiting for the showers to come did you gulp and turn to Hange.
“Hange, I hope you don’t mind but I really would like to talk to you” You began, nervously fumbling with your fingers
“We’ve been talking all night??”
“AHH no I mean I have to say something okay. Please don’t say anything until I uhh finish because I just kinda wanna blurt it all out okay??” You really are stuttering and slipping up on your words, Hange gives a reassuring smile and nods. “Okay, I uhh...” You were interrupted by the meteors shooting across the sky. Mesmerised, you didn’t move your face away from Hange, just your eyes, they took this opportunity to lean in and kiss you. Your eyes widen in shock, what are they doing?? They’re going to miss the meteor shower! Despite this, you relax and close your eyes, leaning into them and deepening the kiss.
“Hange...”
“As you were sooo distracted, your turn has been cancelled. I’ll go first. Y/N I really like you, I have done for a while, and I know you and Levi bathe me together, and sometimes...sometimes I hear you”
“Ahhhh!!!!” You yell out in embarrassment, Hange lifts a finger to your mouth
“Ah ah ah, I am not finished yet! I find you breath taking, I even get so overwhelmed by the way you just stand there! It makes me want to work harder, so much so I would purposefully knock myself out so you could bathe me...oh gods that sounds bad. Not in that way I JUST REALLY ENJOY HEARING YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CAPTAIN!!!” Hange is now the one getting all flustered, waving their hands erratically. They didn’t want it to sound weird, but they aren’t exactly experienced in expressing their feelings.
“Hey no I get it, sort of...but yeah I really like you too and I guess I’ve never...I UGH words” You pathetically confess, earning a laugh from Hange.
“We’re not very good at this are we, space girl?” Hange moves their arm around you and pulls you in to a hug. Your eyes light up at your little nickname, they definitely do listen to yours and Levi’s conversations. You take this opportunity to kiss Hange, feeling their soft lips on yours.
“You’ve showered haven’t you?” You smirk into the kiss, Hange looks at you, confused and a little insulted.
“How ... whaaaa?”
“You smell delicious” you say boldly, in fact Hange did shower before meeting you tonight, for the first time in ages. They of course laugh at you, and confess. You both sit there for a moment, watching the rest of the meteor showers, colours of gold and silver shooting across the sky.
“How beautiful” You whispered to yourself, Hange looks at you and smiles
“Not as be-”
“Nope. That’s so cringey” you joke, Hange slaps your legs earning a weird moan/yelp from your lips. You cover your mouth in embarrassment. Hange looks at you with curiosity, what a response to just a playful slap. Hange’s face confidently smirks, taking your chin in their hands.
“What was that?” Hange asked seductively, walking two fingers up your thigh. You shiver at how foreword your squad leader is being.
“Nothing...”
“Do you think I’ll be able to get another noise like that out of you?” Hange moves their face forward, practically whispering next to your ear
“I uh...oh look the meteors! They are still going!” You panic, the air is thick, your heart fluttering at how close they are getting. Not that you wouldn’t want to...it’s just moving so fast that you couldn’t barely keep up.
“The meteors can wait”
“I mean technically...” you’re words at cut off by Hange kissing your neck, testing the waters a little before going right ahead. You softly moan out Hange’s name, heaving a little bit at the intensity. So long have you envisioned yourself in this position, being kissed by your squad leader; you’ve thought about it and you’ve touched yourself to it. You may be feeling a little awkward now, but you shiver with anticipation to see how far this could go.
“Are you okay?” Hange asks, looking at you with a little concern, they can feel you tensing under their touch, even shaking a little. “I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable”
“No! No definitely I’m okay I’m just inexperienced. I mean I’m not but it’s different when it’s you because I...I like you and I want to do this but, can we start off slow?” You ask nervously, Hange gives you a tender kiss on your forehead and holds you close.
“If you ever want to stop, please tell me okay?” Hange asks, you nod at them eagerly before pulling them close in for a confident kiss. You lean back onto a pillow, allowing Hange to hover above you, lips still connected. What a feeling this is, never would you imagine getting this close to them; you savour every moment. Hange sits up and takes off their shirt, revealing a binder underneath before taking that off too, your eyes fall to the exposed skin; a lump in your throat. There Hange is, straddling you and pinning you down, half naked and stunning.
“Gods...” You whisper under your breath, Hange snickers at your cute expression before attacking your neck. They plant several erratic kisses all of you, earning a mixture of moaning and giggling.
“What happened to going slow?” You chuckle out, Hange stops immediately and changes their expression.
“I can slo-”
Hange’s words are cut short as you flip them over underneath you, their eyes wide and breaths manic, that is until you sloppily kiss their lips. Hungry noises leave either of your throats as you fight for dominance; you suppose the issue here is that the both of you are so eager, so keen to please that you clash - but in the best possible way. One final flip and you find yourself locked onto the floor under a very horny squad leader. And by locked, it means having Hange gripping your jaw with one hand and the other being intertwined with yours.
“Be my good little space girl, let me see you” Hange unbuttons your shirt, one button at a time, almost painfully slowly. 1...2..3...4...and suddenly your chest is on full view. You attempt to cover yourself, but too late, Hange is already kissing every bit of skin they can see, uncapping your breast from your bra like a hungry animal and latching their mouth onto a free nipple. They graze their teeth and tongue over your sensitive bud, sucking slightly. You reach a hand up to their head and grip their hair slightly, enjoying the sensation. Whilst you are so distracted, Hange reaches a hand down to your trousers, you don’t even notice them unbuttoning them; it was only until their hand was ghosting over your underwear did you look down. They then press a finger against your clothed pussy, feeling your growing excitement.
“Wet already?” Hange scoffs against your breast, you can’t even answer; either from embarrassment or your panting. Hange thinks back to your little yelp, they would love to hear you make such a noise again. “Over my knee sweet pea” Hange ordered, without hesitation you stood up and allowed Hange to sit down, here you bend over their knee, raising your ass into the air to give them all the access they need. After pulling down your trousers to your ankles, they take extra time to look at you; you’re hot and bothered, shaking a little in anticipation. Hange looks to your perfect ass, stroking and groping it slightly, thinking about all the little red hand prints they will leave on you.
“Such a good girl” Hange mewed before landing a harsh slap across your cheek, you yelp out in a mixture of pain and pleasure. Enjoying the noise so much, Hange slaps your ass over and over, allowing little to no breaks between each hit - you knew this isn’t quite how spanking works but it feels good and Hange definitely was enjoying watching your ass jiggle with each slap.
“Ow!” You yell out, that last hit was a little too hard; Hange, feeling sorry kisses your now extremely red behind.
“I’m sorry, I got a bit carried away; here...” Hange moves their hand over to your underwear again and slips under the fabric to stroke your aching clit. Whatever pain you felt had all disappeared to the sudden wave of pleasure that is Hange. They spread your pussy a little, allowing their middle finger to trace your folds and stop at your clit; here, Hange uses their middle and index finger to rub the sensitive nub, interchanging their technique from circling to a forward to back motion. You could feel the knot build up in your lower abdomen, imaging yourself cumming onto Hange’s fingers. That was until they pulled their fingers away, you let out a disappointed moan and looked to your squad leader with pleading eyes.
Without word or warning, Hange lowers themself down and repositions you over their face. You were now suddenly close to Hange’s pussy, unfortunately still clothed, as you fumble at their belt you could feel Hange lift your ass up a little and look down to see what you’re doing. They smirk, hands leaving you and helping you pull down their trousers and underwear; much better.
You wasted no time but to dip your head at their entrance and lapped up their juices, hands either side of their propped up legs and making sure to be especially rough on their clit. Hange moans out painfully, how long had it been since they were in this position? Your ass is forcefully lowered onto Hange’s face, you feel them lick and suck at your clit, feeling your knot tighten one more. Your legs begin to shake, you won’t be lasting long and Hange can just sense it.
“Y/N look! The meteors are going again!” Hange yells out, you stop licking and look immediately up to the sky; but this was a trick because Hange pulls you down further, inserting 2 fingers into you and eats you out rougher than before, earning an eruption inside you, bursting and almost painful as you cum hard onto their mouth and fingers.
“Venus~!” You strangled out, shaking heavily above Hange who cocks their head to the side.
“Venus?”
“Uh..yeah sorry I don’t know why I do that...” you breathlessly panted out
“Don’t apologise, its cute” Hange strokes your ass, giggling at their little space weirdo. You position yourself above Hange, taking them by surprise as you cup their pussy with your hand.
“Got you” Was all you could say before inserting two of your fingers inside your squad leader. You arch your fingers inside of them, using your thumb to draw circles over their clit as they pant and whine under you. Using your free hand you grab both their wrists and hold them above their head, giving you full view of their body. As you finger fuck them, you reach down and kiss them, moving your lips from theirs to over their neck, sucking hard; making sure to leave a dark mark. That was it for Hange, their whole body trembles and cums undone; what you didn’t expect was the flood that left their body, squirting all over you.
“Globular Cluster!!!” Hange screams out, they were a hot mess, melting into the blanket. You crawl next to them and snuggle into their chest. They begin to stroke your hair, leaving forehead kisses.
“Globular cluster?” You ask cheekily, Hange laughs and pats your back.
“Listen, if you are going to scream out space words during sex instead of my name, I might as well do it too!”
“That is too adorable”
“As are you Y/N, do you think my space girl could love an earth...ehhh girl?”
“There is a gender neutral word for that you know, earthling” You giggle, Hange huffs a little, cheeks dusted with a pink blush.
“But yes, this space girl loves her earthling” you say, kissing their head. The both of you spent the rest of the evening just staring at the stars, Hange continuously asking questions including “What’s my zodiac sign?” and “Is yours compatible with a Virgo?” - not that it particularly matters whether you are astrologically compatible with Hange, you already knew you were.
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ahsbitch · 4 years
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Something Strange In The Air-Hawthorne!Michael Langdon x Reader
Word Count: 7162
Summary: Michael will be staying at Miss Robichaux’s for a few months leading up to competing against the Reader in the Seven Wonders Test. 
Warnings: NSFW, cursing, dirty talk, oral (female receiving), overstimulation, reader blacks out, also there’s a snake, if you’re scared of snakes maybe skip down to the last section bc pretty much all the others involve a snake, and a snake bite, Hawthorne!Michael deserves his own warning, yeah, also this is very much not proofread so, be prepared for that
A/N: This is written in honor of @guiltyfiend bc, you right, I think everyone wants to dom Hawthorne!Michael a little bit. This took me forever to write and is stupidly long (we love waxing poetic for no reason) but I hope y’all like it! 
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There was something strange in the air. 
There was always something strange in the air, of course. Strange was probably too subjective, anyway. You’d never quite managed to find a place where the air was simply air, and in a city as electric as New Orleans, at a school as volatile as Miss Robichaux’s, there was always something prickling you, needling its way through your veins. It was why you took the time to meditate in the first place, to give you a chance to sort through it all, when you didn’t have to deal with physical world interrupting, when it was simply you and your mind and the universe playing a game of chicken, seeing which would bow to which, in the end. 
But there was something that was a different kind of strange today, something that you hadn’t ever felt before.
No, you’d felt it before, you certainly had, but something you’d never felt quite so strongly, that was it. 
It was a deep, poignant, throat catching sense of doom. 
A hum rippled through the air, someone was taking a deep breath, and you knew in your mind that they were about to call out to you. 
“Y/N,” It was Zoe, and there was a grit in her voice hidden so deep she probably wasn’t even aware that she was already annoyed, “The warlocks are here!” 
Yes, that was it. That was the presence. The warlocks were here, and more importantly, Michael Langdon. The others had known the sense of doom too, the Supreme Cordelia had even had a vision about it. Cordelia was in fact probably the only person who felt the doom in a similar way to how you did, with her prophetic powers. The others felt it because it was so strong, but you were doubtful that it overwhelmed them like it did you, that they felt it so deeply they could practically taste it. 
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was that now, you needed to go meet this mysterious Boy Wonder that had made some of the women you respected most in the world, leaders in your coven, shake in their boots. 
You opened your eyes, finally, your head tilted back to look at the sky. After a moment, you slid down the steepled roof of the school, leaping nimbly to the nearest tree, scampering to the ground as quickly as you could. You took a step, but something squishy was under your foot, and you jumped slightly as you heard a loud hiss. 
“Fuck,” You muttered to yourself, kneeling down, coming face to face with a snake, coiled back in preparation to strike, white mouth opened wide. You waved your hand in front of it, once, and as you watched your magic flow a sense of calm through the snake, you reached out to let it sniff you, smiling at it gently, “Hello, little friend. What are you doing so far from the water?” 
The animal flicked its tongue out twice, slowly bringing its head back down, touching its face to your hand gently.
“I like you,” Moving slowly, you picked the snake up, looking levelly into the slitted eyes, “You wanna stay with me for a bit?” 
The cottonmouth raised and lowered its head, and you pulled your hood back to rest it gently inside, the snake nestling instantly into the fabric. 
With that, you hurried to the front of the school, where you saw four men and  five women waiting for you. 
The women, you knew. Cordelia, the Supreme, stood at the head of the line, her shoulders rolled back. Next to her was Myrtle Snow, then Zoe, and next to her were Madison and Queenie, the witches that Michael had rescued. 
The men, you didn’t know, but in an instant you recognized which one was Michael Langdon. 
He was beautiful, with fluffed, golden curls, piercing blue eyes, a cherubic face that held a smile so lovely most people would probably miss the sneer holding it up. He wore the Hawthorne uniform, which you’d only seen in photos, a black bow tied at his throat, his jacket thrown over his shoulder. 
They had already made introductions, it seemed, all turning to watch you approach. 
“There you are,” Cordelia gave you a small, reassuring smile as you moved to stand beside her, “Gentlemen, this is Y/N Y/L/N, one of our brightest witches, who we believe may be the next Supreme. Y/N, this is John Henry Moore, Behold Chablis, Grand Chancellor Ariel Augustus, and Michael Langdon.” 
You nodded confidently, smiling  at John Henry Moore as you shook his hand, a slightly smaller smile at Behold Chablis, your face dropping all emotion as you shook hands with Ariel Augustus, almost coughing as you were hit with a rush of negative energy. 
“Did you just fall from a tree?” Ariel questioned, gripping your hand tightly. 
You concentrated on making yourself smile again, and once you had a grin securely in place you shrugged, “I jumped, actually. I was on the roof, but jumping straight off the roof seems like a good way to end up injured, and I don’t like to transmutate immediately before and after I meditate.” 
“Why were you on the roof?” John Henry Moore asked, looking amused. 
You almost responded, but Behold spoke before you could, “Didn’t she just say? She was meditating.” 
Myrtle moved behind you, resting a hand on your shoulder, “Our dear Y/N is very sensitive to the vibrations of the universe. I believe it’s what makes her so good at playing my theremin. She meditates to sort the different callings that pull at her.” 
Nodding, you turned to the mysterious Michael Langdon, watching him. He stared back, cocking his head to the side, and after a moment he extended his hand. 
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Y/L/N,” He said coolly, his voice strangely melodic. 
You shook firmly, not releasing when the shake was done, not intending to fully end the shake until he moved to end it himself, “Hello, Boy Wonder. It’s nice to- no, actually it’s not particularly nice to meet you. But I’m happy to finally meet you. I’ve heard lots of stories, and I’m grateful for what you’ve done for our coven by returning Madison and Queenie to us.”
His brows furrowed, and he opened his mouth as if to object before suddenly jerking his hand back, frowning, “I’m sorry, but what is that?”
What was he talking about?
A slight hiss next to your ear explained it. The snake had crawled up to your shoulder, and you glanced to see that it was looking at the Grand Chancellor. It seemed that the snake didn’t trust Ariel Augustus either. 
Ariel jumped, staring, his hand raising up and mouth opening, and you could tell that some type of spell was on the tip of his tongue.
“No,” You snapped, reaching a hand up to the snakes head, and Ariel stumbled backwards, pushed back by magic that you hadn’t even meant to send out, “Sorry. It’s a snake. A cottonmouth, although I’ve never seen one this far from water. I just found him. Stepped on him, actually, although he didn’t take it too personally. I mean, he almost bit me, but I wouldn’t have particularly blamed him if he did, and after I calmed him down with a little charm he seemed happy to come with me. I’d like to keep him,” You turned away from the warlocks, glancing at Cordelia, “May I? I’ve already thought of a name for him.”
Madison, Queenie, and Zoe had all stepped away from you, anxiety thrumming through the air from their direction, but Myrtle chuckled, and Cordelia nodded, something inquisitive just behind her eyes, “You may, so long as you take good care of him, and so long as your new roommate doesn’t mind.” 
You whipped back around to Michael, beaming, “What do you think, Boy Wonder? Can Richard stay with us?” 
A deep frown etched into his features, which he looked annoyingly pretty in spite of, and he turned to Cordelia and the warlocks, “What does she mean?” 
“We’re happy to have you staying with us for the next few months leading up to the Seven Wonders test, but there is currently an overflow of witches. Every room is currently occupied, some by multiple girls,” Zoe stepped in to explain, “Y/N had space for a roommate. I’m surprised that the Grand Chancellor didn’t tell you.” 
Ariel shrugged, mumbling something about it not seeming important, and Michael looked at you, horrified, as you slung an arm around his shoulder, “I probably could’ve swapped around with someone, but I thought it’d be fun if we bunked together. Give us a chance to get to know each other better, y’know? So c’mon, Mikey, can we keep the snake?”
“Do not call me that,” He snapped, shrugging you off of him and adjusting his collar, “I don’t care about the snake. I don’t like you.” 
“The feeling is mutual, don’t worry,” Blowing a kiss in his direction, you whispered a celebration to the snake before turning back to your sister witches, “Let’s give them a tour!” 
You were pleased with this interaction. He was taken aback by you, and you could tell just from a single glance that Michael was not one who was easily taken aback. His energy shifted, something hard to determine just under the surface. You were curious to see what you could learn about him, before the two of you competed against each other during the test of the Seven Wonders. 
Alongside that was the strong feeling that at some point you would either fuck him or beat him up, and you found that you were also curious to see which it would be. 
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Michael Langdon was an asshole. 
You’d managed to catch him by surprise the day you’d first met him, to get him to stumble, but by the time you’d walked through the front door of the school he had found his composure, and you hadn’t managed to see him without it since then. He was always well put together. 
Alongside being an asshole.
The other witches in your coven were finding themselves swayed by him, you could tell. They didn’t want a male Supreme, but they were fading into his easy charm and good looks. Most spent their time flirting with him, and he seemed incredibly smug at all the attention. They didn’t seem to mind how clearly indifferent he was to them, not particularly harsh, but also never making an  effort to be nice, either. 
The only person he actively disliked? You. 
You couldn’t blame him, of course, but he was a huge pain in the ass. 
For example, he was stealing your study room. 
There were several areas in the school where students could study, of course. Most of the girls just did it in their rooms, and there was one room at the back of the house that was your favorite, holding a large table with bookshelves on either side and a large picture window opposite the door. You were the only one who used it, because there were nicer ones with tables that didn’t have splinters and light bulbs that weren’t constantly flickering no matter how often they were changed. 
And then Michael Langdon showed up, and started hogging the room.
It wasn’t as though you really needed the full study room to yourself, of course. But he took up so much space. 
He spread books along the entire table, and he always used his magic to adjust the lighting and change the temperature. 
“Boy Wonder,” You sighed one day, about a week and a half after his arrival, “Can you please give me some space on the table?” 
Michael glanced up at you, a smirk tugging at the edge of his lips although he kept the rest of his face neutral, “What’s wrong, little witch? Are you mad that I beat you in here for once?”
“I’m mad that you take up all the room,” You snapped, “And that you’ve made it fucking freezing in here.” 
“I can make it snow, too. Wanna see?”
You kinda did, actually, but you weren’t going to tell him that. 
“No, I want you to put the temperature back so it’s warm enough that I can’t see my own breath. I can literally see the heat waves rolling off of you, Boy Wonder,” And you could, and it was really fucking weird, in a very interesting sort of way.
 Still not bothering to turn to you, Michael shuffled his books around until there was a new one in front of him, “Little witch, why do you think I’d give a fuck what temperature you want it to be?”
“Because, Boy Wonder,  Richard can’t handle this cold,” You gestured to the snake who was wrapped around your shoulders, shivering along with you. 
Shrugging, Michael stood up finally, walking over to you and reaching a hand out. You stared for a moment, slowly reaching your own out and pressing your palm to his, and the two of you stared at each other for a solid minute and a half, his hand searing hot against your own cold palm, and when he finally pulled away he raised a curious eyebrow at you, “I was reaching for the snake.” 
He still wore that ridiculous fucking Hawthorne uniform, and looking at him in it made you wonder once again how well you would fare in beating him up. 
“Oh. Shit, sorry,” You said hurriedly, pulling Richard off your shoulders and down around your arm, but then you paused and looked at Michael, your voice heavy with suspicion, “Why do you want him?” 
“I’m warmer than you. He can hang out with me and you can go study in our room. Or you can take him back to the room and study with in there with him. Either way,” He said simply, as though you were a bit stupid for not knowing that already.
Glaring, you took a step closer to him, trying your best to be intimidating, “I can’t go study in our room, actually, because your shit is all over my desk, too. And I don’t want Richard to spend all day stuck in the room. He likes going other places. Just make some damn space.” 
Michael took two steps forward and suddenly your back was against the wall. He looked closely at you for a minute, and then he reached his hand out again, drawing his thumb across your lower lip, “Why do you always wear lipstick?” 
“What?” You stared up at him, dumbfounded. 
“You wear lipstick a lot,” Michael pulled his hand away, glancing at the residue left behind on his thumb, and then turned it back to you, “I’m curious why. Can you get this for me?”
“What?”
Rolling his eyes, Michael gripped your chin, pushing his thumb against your lips until they parted. Your eyebrows scrunched together, and you closed your eyes for a moment as you tried to concentrate on what the actual hell was happening. 
It wasn’t even lipstick, it was tinted lip balm. 
His energy had reached a point that was especially strange, still dark and angry like always, but with a type of curiosity to it as well. He was wondering something, and that made you wonder what he was wondering, and there was such a loop of wondering going on that you didn’t even realize that your tongue was swirling around him, didn’t even notice the slight shift in his demeanor as he pushed the two more of his fingers into your mouth, shoving them down your throat. 
What the fuck?
You shifted, trying to reach up and push him away, but his magic pinned your hands at your sides and all you could do was gag around him, frantically struggling. Magic, magic, do something with your magic to get him to stop, but you couldn’t get it to work, couldn’t get anything to happen. You bit down, desperate, and he hissed as he raised his other hand to your chin, holding it pulled down so you couldn’t bite anymore, scratching his nails gently across your jaw as he did so. 
“You look good like this, do you know that? Gagging. I think you were made for it. It’s interesting, how aware you are of energies, of vibrations in the universe, and yet I don’t think you’re even conscious of the energy you send out. How desperate you are for me. You aren’t aware of it because you don’t want to be. I can read your mind, little witch. You may not like me, but you do want to fuck me. You wear revealing clothes and you act like you’re doing it for yourself, like you’re empowered, but you’re not. You act high and mighty, as though you’re wise and powerful, but really you’re just a dumb, depraved, desperate little whore who wants nothing more than to be dicked down by your rival.” 
What the fuck was he talking about? That wasn’t true!
Was it? 
He was pretty fucking hot, you had to admit, but you didn’t want to get dicked down by Michael Langdon. 
You couldn’t want that.
Fuck. 
Finally, finally, when you thought you were going to pass out or puke or maybe both, he pulled completely away from you, stepping back.
You doubled over, catching your breath, and when you straightened up your magic was finally working again, sending Michael flying across the room until he was pressed against the window, and you gasped, “What the fuck, Langdon? What the actual fucking fuck?”
Michael tried to shrug, but his shoulders wouldn’t move, and after a moment you released him, wishing that he would maybe fall over, but he just smoothly stepped forward, making his way back to you, “I’ll raise the temperature back to normal. And here,” He waved his hand in the air and the books in front of one of the seats at the table flew to other spots, clearing you an area, “I suppose there’s room for us to share the table. No promises on my kindness extending to tomorrow.”
“Then I’ll beat you here tomorrow,” You said, thinking through each of your words carefully as you spoke, “And you can suck my Dick, Langdon.”
Richard raised his head up and down as you set him on the table, slithering closer to Michael as if in emphasis to your point.
“Good one, little witch. That’s very clever, for you,” He chuckled, taking the seat next to the one he had cleared space for you at and sliding his fingers into his own mouth, tilting his head back as he cleaned them off and then pulling them back out with a flourish, shooting you a condescending look, “Are you going to sit? If you’re just here to stare, I’d prefer it if you’d leave. You can be very distracting sometimes.
Numbly, you took a seat next to him, trying hard to ignore his cocky grin, and pulled a book out of your bag. 
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sharing a bedroom with Michael Langdon presented its own challenges. He was an asshole in private just as much as he was in front of others, and it was pretty fucking annoying. 
“Are you ever gonna go to fucking sleep?” Michael snapped at you, pulling his pillow over his eyes. 
“There’s too much noise,” Sighing, you cracked your knuckles, letting Richard the snake trail across your legs, “And not enough noise, at the same time. Am I really bothering you that much? I turned the lights out and everything.” 
He growled, removing the pillow from his head and squinting across the room at you through the darkness, “Doesn’t matter, does it, little witch bitch? You’re still a pain in the ass whether the light is on or off. Can’t you just ignore the noise?” 
“Fuck you, Langdon, you don’t know shit. I can’t just-shit! Ow, motherfucker,” You hissed,  jumping, as Richard bit your finger, “Why the fuck would you do that you dick?”
“What happened?” Michael straightened up, “Y/N?”
The snake was slithering away already, and as he did you were flooded with a strange feeling, the metallic taste of magic in the air. Richard hadn’t bitten you of his own accord, someone had made it happen, and that someone was probably Michael. 
“Y/N,” He repeated, “Come over here.”
Your feet carried you to his bed without your brain guiding them, and you dropped to the mattress next to him, holding out a shaky hand, “Richard bit me.”
Michael wrapped his fingers around your wrist, his large hand engulfing yours as he brought it closer to his face, examining carefully, “Yeah, you did. Weird. You feeling okay?”
You weren’t. Your mind was hazy, and you didn’t know why. It wasn’t the snakebite that did it, you could just tell, it was something deep in your chest and spreading through your body, making you feel like you were in a great fog, and you stared at him, “I don’t feel great, actually.” 
“Would you like me to fix it?” Pressing a kiss to your palm, Michael raised an eyebrow at you.
“I, uh, I don’t know what you, what you mean by-” You cut off, closing your eyes to concentrate, rather than letting yourself get lost looking at Michael.
Dammit, why did he have to be so fucking pretty? It was such a pain. 
Night was the only time you saw him looking casual, too. Night and early morning, when he was in bed. 
Seeing him unbuttoned like this made a strange flip turn in the pit of your stomach.
“I can make the pain go away, little witch,” His voice was hoarse and whispery, “Just say the word.”
“Okay,” You breathed, even though you probably shouldn’t, you should say no, should pull away, should find a way to fix it yourself or maybe go to Cordelia or one of the other witches for help, you didn’t trust Michael, you shouldn’t trust Michael, but the word came out and you were making eye contact with him and fuck, fuck, fuck what were you doing with your life? 
Michael pulled your finger into his mouth, wrapping his lips just below the bite wound, and began sucking gently. 
“What... what are you doing?” You asked blearily, unable to break your eyes away from his, “I don’t... I don’t think you can really suck out the venom. I don’t even know if there is venom? He bit so quick, it was more of a nip than anything, I don’t-”
Pulling his head away for a moment, Michael frowned, “Are you ever quiet, little witch? Just hush, for once, and let me make you feel better.” 
Why was he being so nice? It wasn’t nice, you knew it wasn’t really, there was some type of trick to this, some type of trick to everything he did, and yet you felt swept away, some how. Overwhelmed, intoxicated, by Michael Langdon. 
You nodded, and his lips were around you again, and it was working, you could feel it. The strange pain in your body, that had started to cloud your chest, your throat, stomach, everything, it was fading away. 
You weren’t quite sure what was replacing it, as it certainly wasn’t anything you were used to, but it was mostly calming. There was a thrill of adrenaline spiking through you, but something else. Something deeper. There were few emotions that you couldn’t identify, but this was perhaps one of them. Whatever you were feeling, it was not something that you were used to. 
When the pain was gone and your head was a bit clearer, you tried to pull your hand away. Michael held firm to your wrist, although he let you ball your fingers into a fist, releasing you from his mouth. “How does that feel?” He cooed, tapping his fingers along your veins.
“Better,” You said slowly, and then, “Weird, though. I feel weird. I want... I’m tired, I think.” 
“What do you want?” Michael asked, and there was a smirk on his face that made you want to slap him, and then because your head was still not altogether there, you did slap him. 
Your hand, the one he wasn’t holding in place, hit his cheek at an astounding speed, leaving an angry red mark, and before you could even process that you had done so, you threw your leg across his lap, straddling him, and pressed your lips to his. 
Releasing your wrist finally, Michael pressed his hands into the small of your back, pulling you closer to him, and you stroked your thumb over the mark on his face, listening to Michael’s growl as you pressed down. 
You pulled away after a moment, cupping his face in your hands, panting, “I don’t know why I did that.”
“Which part?” Michael nipped at your bottom lip, smiling a smile that did not soften his eyes at all, “Slapping me? Or kissing me? Because I’ll be honest, I wasn’t fully expecting either of them, little witch bitch.”
“You’ve done something to me,” You mused, beginning to kiss along his throat, “I don’t know what, or how, or why, but there’s something you’ve done. There are a lot of things I want right now.”
“Tell me,” Michael commanded, but then he let out a groan as you brushed your lips over the spot where his jaw met his neck, and his usual suave, intimidating demeanor dropped as you began sucking furiously at the spot. He spoke again, more softly this time, “Stop, tell me.” 
Leaning back to glance at him, you smiled sweetly, “Make me, Boy Wonder,” and then you were at it again, leaving a large clump of bruises near his ear. 
“Seems like you have feelings for me, little bitch,” With mocking laughter, Michael trailed his hands to your hips, giving a harsh squeeze, “What would your sister witches think?” 
“The only feeling I have for you is loathing, Langdon,” You snarled, and in a moment your lips were connected once again, teeth clacking against each other, and when you both paused to catch your breath, you pressed your forehead to his, “Fuck, I really want to suck your cock.”
Michael snorted, “Everyone thinks you’re the future Supreme? You’re just a pathetic little cockslut.” 
You ground your hips down against him and reared your hand back, but this time he caught your wrist, glaring, although he bucked slightly against you. “Fuck you, you’re the one who’s all marked up. You’re the one who’s fucking dry humping me. Look at you. You’re the pathetic one.” 
“Sure I am,” Michael had a low, snarly chuckle that made a bolt of need shoot through you, and also made you very desperately want to hit him again, but seeming to know what you were thinking, he captured your other hand as well, “Such a fiery thing you are, little witch.”
Scowling, you bit his bottom lip and tugged, licking up the blood that beaded up and began to trickle down his chin. Smiling at the bitter taste, a yawn made its way through you before you could stop it. You felt yourself blushing a little at that, muttering quickly, “Sorry about that. I’m more tired than I thought, I guess. Being this close to you kinda blocks out a lot of the other energy, makes it all a lot quieter.” 
“Then let’s sleep.”
You had started to kiss along his collarbones, but you paused at that, murmuring against his skin, “What?” 
Michael wrapped his hand around your jaw, pulling you back so that he could look you in the eye, “You heard me, little witch. You’re tired. I am too. As much as I would love to see you gagging on my cock right now, I’d also enjoy getting some sleep. I’m planning to get up relatively early tomorrow to study.”
“I call the study room,” You said quickly, and you hadn’t even realized that Michael had shifted the two of you so that you were laying down, one hand still cupping your jaw, making it a bit difficult to speak, “What are you doing?” 
“You really are quite dim, little witch. I’m going to sleep. You should do the same,” His voice was softening, although not in a kind way. It was soft, yes, but commanding, dangerous,and you struggled to keep your eyes open. 
Straining against his arms, you tried to stand, “I’ll go back to my bed.”
“You can’t sleep in your bed,” Michael said simply, rolling onto his back, one arm still flung across your waist, holding you in place.
Frowning, you turned your body towards him, curling into his side. He was warm. You didn’t even have a blanket covering you, and already you could feel yourself starting to overheat. You didn’t voice this though, not yet, too confused by the entire interaction to focus on that, “Why do you care so much how I sleep?”
 “I don’t,” He said simply, “I care about my sleep. And I’m not going to lose my sleep just because you can’t grasp your own. Now, stop squirming around so much. Are you that worked up?” 
“I’m hot,” You snapped.
“And bothered, apparently.”
“Langdon, do you ever shut the fuck up?” You jabbed your elbow into his side, “That’s not the hot I meant and you know it. I’m warm. You’re like a fucking furnace.” 
Sighing, getting grumpier by the second, Michael hooked his arm around you and pulled you onto his chest so that you were straddling him once again, arms on either side of his body, head hovering over his chest.
He laughed at the way you yelped, being pulled so suddenly, and his hands rested on your back, bringing one up to guide your head down to rest against his chest, “Did I scare you, little witch?”
“No,” You answered quickly, and then, “Just, this is a weird position.”
“It should be a little cooler for you this way. Just sleep, yeah? Get comfortable, and let’s go to sleep,” Michael’s hand stroked up and down your back, probably unconsciously, and you nodded sleepily.
“Goodnight, Mikey,” You murmured, still largely unable to control your impulses.
“Don’t call me that,” He replied, and then, after a moment, he added gently, “Goodnight, Y/N.” 
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“Why are you always here?” Michael sighed the next morning, setting his books down on your table.
“Why are you always such a dick?” You retorted, shuffling your own books to the side. 
He shrugged, stiffening a little as you rested your hand on his thigh, “Because it’s fun. Listen, about last night, I don’t want you to think-”
“I don’t think anything,” You reassured him quickly. 
“Well that’s obvious,” Michael snorted, “You’re far prettier than you are smart, and far more annoying than you are pretty. I’d be surprised if you used that little head of yours for much more than deciding what color lipstick you should wear and fantasizing about getting fucked.” 
Pulling your hand away, you scowled at him, “That’s not what I meant, asshole. I was going to thank you for helping me fall asleep, but now I’d rather just give you another hickey or something, so everyone who looks at you like you’re a god will see what a little bitch their Boy Wonder actually is.” 
“I would take that back, if I were you,” He said coolly, his voice deadly calm. 
You stood, though only for a moment, and pushed his chair back enough for you to be able to sit, straddling his lap much like you had the night before. Hooking your arms around his neck, you looked at him with a smile, “I have no intention of taking anything back. I said what I said, and I fucking meant it.” 
Faster than you knew he could move, Michael stood and slammed your back against the table, knocking the wind out of you. His hands reached under the fabric of your dress and he ripped your underwear off quickly, stuffing them into the pocket of his dress pants as he looked at you, “You have no power here, do you understand that? You may have felt like you were in charge last night, but that’s only because I fucking let you. You’re feisty, and I like that, but you need to learn your fucking place, little witch bitch. Tell me you want that. Tell me you want me to teach you your place, and I will. If you don’t, I’ll leave. But I think we both know which option you prefer.” 
You nodded, swallowing thickly, and at his raised eyebrow you spoke, “I do. I mean, I, uh, I want you to show me my place. Whatever. Just fucking do something, Michael.” 
“Don’t tell me what to do,” He growled, sitting back down in his chair, and he tugged at you, pulling both your legs over his shoulders, your hips lifting off the table, so that his face was level with your pussy, “I’m the one in charge. Get it? I want you to sit there and-fuck, you’re already so fucking wet. You think you want to be in charge, but clearly you know that you’re meant to be at my mercy. I want you to sit there and melt underneath me, and you’re gonna keep melting until there’s nothing left of you. Get it?” 
“I get it,” You agreed quickly, although you really weren’t quite sure what he meant by that, and your hips bucked weakly forward at the feeling of his hot breath against you, “Please, Michael.” 
“So fucking desperate. You’re fucking dripping for me, and I’ve barely even touched you,” Chuckling, Michael placed a tiny, barely there, ghost of a kiss against your clit, and even though he wasn’t touching you anymore you could feel his wolfish grin at the way you whined when he pulled away. 
Michael dragged his teeth against the soft skin of your thighs, nipping at the junction of your pelvis, and you knew as he continued that there were dark flowers blossoming along after his teeth. You squirmed underneath him, and when he finally finished with your thighs he placed his palms against them, holding them open, his long fingers pressed against your hips so they stayed down. 
You sat up as well as you could to look at him, and you watched as he stared intently at your pussy, leaning forward after far, far too long to lick a slow, languid stripe up your clit. You moaned weakly, giving a flick of your hand to slam the study room door shut and lock it, and after a moment you dug your hands into his hair, “Michael, wait, the window.”
He leaned back for a moment to glance at the large picture window that took over the wall to your left, and then he beamed up at you, “It’s fine, little witch. No one will walk by, and if they do, it won’t embarrass me, so it doesn’t matter much. That reminds me, if being noisy is gonna make you embarrassed, you might wanna find some way to be fucking quiet for once. I know that’s not your strong suit, but it’s the best you’re gonna get.” 
What a dick. 
You were about to voice this thought, tell him what a dick he was, but then Michael clamped his teeth down gently on your clit, giving a playful tug, and you let out a shriek at that, bringing one hand up to stop yourself from making too much noise. 
Suddenly his tongue was inside you, tracing along the walls of your cunt, exploring, searching for something, and when he found the spot he was looking for you bit sharply into the palm of your hand. 
He was masterful in the way he ate you out, his nose still brushing your clit as he fucked you with his tongue. 
It didn’t take long until you felt your stomach tightening, ready to burst, and you tugged at Michael’s thick golden curls, whimpering, “Fuck, Michael, I’m gonna-”
“Do it, little witch,” He spoke against your skin, and you shuddered at the vibrations it sent through you, “Melt for me. Let yourself dissolve for me.” 
Your orgasm washed over you, Michael attacking your g-spot with a ferocity that you probably should’ve expect but didn’t.  He kept going, and you gasped, pulling harder at his hair, “Michael! Stop, you gotta stop, give me a minute.”
He pulled away for just a moment and you gasped, but then his lips were around your clit and sucking furiously. You cursed loudly, another orgasm already approaching, or maybe the first one extending, you couldn’t tell, couldn’t think about it, you were overwhelmed. 
For the first time in your life, you could only feel one sense of energy coming at you. Everything else was blocked out, hidden away behind the deep, angry lust that rolled through the air between you and Michael. 
He moved back down and began lapping furiously at your folds. Pulling back for a moment, Michael spat on your pussy and then buried his face against you once more, shaking his head furiously, and you struggled to hold back your moans. 
You weren’t intending to give him the damn satisfaction.
Michael seemed to realize you were holding back as he started speaking again, his voice muffled against you but bringing another orgasm bubbling to the surface of your skin, electrifying you, “You taste delicious, do you know that, little witch? So sweet. Maybe a little bitter, but so sugary. I could eat you for hours. You know what? I think I will.” 
“Fuck,” You let out a hiss as he dove back in, tongue delving into you once more, and you did your best to act smug, like he wasn’t sending shockwaves through your very being, “Is this the best you’ve got, Boy Wonder? You’re supposed to be teaching me my place, right? But I’m kind of-dammit to fuck, holy hell-kind of the one in charge here, huh? I’m the one above you right now.”
You couldn’t even be sure why exactly you were saying this, why you were egging him on when it was becoming painful how much pleasure was running through you, but he didn’t respond. At least, not out loud. 
Leaping to his feet, Michael pulled you up closer to him, so that only your shoulders were still laying down. You adjusted your position frantically, scrabbling to grip onto the edge of the table. You were upside down and practically vertical, and he dug into you as though he were indeed starving for you, snarling and slobbering, glaring down the length of your body at you. Your body had started to spasm, and you bit your hand until you tasted blood. 
There were explosions going off in your mind, and not just metaphorical orgasmic explosions, but actual ones too, nuclear blasts dancing across your hazy thoughts. 
You couldn’t be sure how long this went on, how many times you came, it was all a blur. You’d given up on keeping your sounds under control and were now openly sobbing, shuddering as he continued to devour you. 
“Stop, Michael, please, I can’t take it,” You were blubbering, straining hard against him and desperately trying to pull away, but Michael held you firmly in place, chuckling at your desperation. 
He pulled your clit into his mouth once more, the suction almost unbearable, and you were smashed with your final orgasm, his teeth grazing the sensitive flesh as he moved to lick at your folds again, a dark glint in his eyes as he watched you pant, watched your own eyes rolling back in your head, and the sight of him smiling against you was the last thing you see before a dark haze overtook you.  
You were surrounded by darkness, everything you saw misted in a painful, prickling fog. The air smelled like sulfur, and you looked down to see that you were covered in blood. 
“It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” A familiar voice rang in your ear, and you swiveled slowly, sluggishly, to see Michael standing just to your right, an admiring grin on his face, “We did very well, my little witch.” 
You tried to respond, but your words stuck in your throat, and you simply stared at Michael. He was wearing something other than pajamas or the Hawthorne uniform for the first time you had ever seen. His hands were folded neatly behind his back, but as you stared at him he reached one arm out and entangled your fingers in his. 
The sky was thick with grey and black clouds, and Michael’s hand was searing hot against your own. When he pulled away, moving to examine a piece of rubble not far from you, you looked at your palm to see that it was bright shade of pinkish red, as though it had been sunburned. 
Michael turned back around to look at you expectantly, and you saw that the piece of rubble he was leaning against had a large sign on it, with a large chunk missing from one of the top corners. 
--Miss Robichaux’s Academy For Exceptional Young Ladies--
Holy shit. 
When your eyes fluttered back open, Michael was sitting in his chair once more and had adjusted you so that your back was resting on the table again, although your legs were still splayed over his shoulders.
You gasped when you caught sight of his face, your mind still tumbling at the...dream? vision? mirage? You weren’t sure what it was, but you were scrambling to reconcile what you had seen with what was happening now. 
Michael merely raised an eyebrow at you, pulling your legs off of his shoulders, “Are you back with me now, little witch?”
“Fucking hell,” You breathed, trying to sit up.
Placing a hand on your stomach, Michael tutted, “Stay down. At least for a few moments. You blacked out and you’re gonna do it again if you’re not careful.”
“I’m okay,” You reassured him, sitting up again after a few moments, swinging your legs down and frowning, “Fuck, I can’t feel my legs.” 
“That makes sense,” Michael stood, looking down at you coolly, “I think I’ll go study elsewhere. See you around, little witch.”
“What? You can’t just leave,” You couldn’t believe it, and you tried to stand but fell back immediately, your entire lower body trembling. 
Michael didn’t bother to respond, just turned away from you with that ridiculous smirk on his face, and walked out. 
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There was something strange in the air, but this time you knew what it was. 
Desire.
Michael Langdon was an asshole, but you knew from everything that had happened that you two were destined to meet, although you weren’t sure why.
It seemed that you were going to have to figure it out.   
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rpmemesbyarat · 3 years
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RP meme from FernGully
Our world was much larger then.
The forest went on forever.
Many lives were lost and the humans fled in fear, never to return.
Oh well, what can I learn from you?
There's a simple harmony to life
The air we breathe is a magic thing
Life is a magic thing
Comin' through! Watch out! Here I come!
What'd you see up there?
Okay, what's the password?
There are worlds within worlds
Everything in our world is connected by the delicate strands of the web of life, which is balanced between forces of destruction and the magic forces of creation.
Why can't I do it?
You have to find it in yourself.
But, what could have caused the smoke?
Oh, what a strange little bug.
Love the haircut.
And where are you from?
I just blew in from a biology lab.
my brain is scrambled!
All of our cosmetics are noncarcinogenic.
I've been brain-fried, electrified, infected and injectified
Nurse, I need a checkup from my neck up
They used and abused me, battered and bruised me
Get me another one. Get me another animal!
Exercise a little prudence when dealing with humans
No, no, there are no humans.
¡Adios, amigos! Ding! Check, please.
Humans don't have tails. They have big, big bottoms that they wear with bad shorts. They walk around going, Hi, Helen!
Did you really see humans?
Humans did this.
You got a great set of wings. Let's just flutter for a while.
My heart! Oh, my heart! I can't go on. Help me!
Maybe you should wait here for me.
It's okay, really. I'll be right back.
Why do I not believe you?
Don't have a cow. Sheesh!
"Don't go!" I said. "Bad idea." I said. But would you listen? No.
Take anything you want. I won't tell the cops.
The monster, it tried to eat you.
What a nightmare. I thought I saw a human.
Kill it! Restrain it! Medicate it! Something!
Back! Back! Get back! Don't worry! I've got it scared.
I have but one claw, but beware.
Are you really a human?
I just can't control this hunger
You're a welcome little snack.
Can you dig it?
Welcome to the food chain!
Uh, what's a human?
Delicious and nutritious. Tastes just like chicken.
You owe me a free dinner after this one.
I shrank you.
Of course, it's not what the spell is really supposed to do.
Now, unshrink me, and I mean now!
Okay, come on. Bash away.
Uh, let me try again.
I'd rather suck wax fruit.
That's the problem with the world today. People are lazy.
How many times a day I gotta threaten your life?
I've got so many things I want to ask you.
What was that monster that tried to eat you?
That wasn't a monster. That was a machine.
You didn't have anything to do with that machine, did you?
You've got nothing to worry about.
I want to learn magic like yours.
It's fire.
Mmm, delicious. A first-class smoke.
Of course, humans. What wonderful creatures. So clever, so helpful.
You'll just have to work harder, then. Double shifts. No breaks.
Oh, what a miraculous device.
I'm really getting the hang of this.
I do believe we are destined to be soul mates.
Hit me one time! Hit me twice!
Oh, that's rather nice.
I suck 'em dry, and spit 'em out like spinach.
Greedy human beings will always lend a hand, with the destruction of this, worthless jungle land.
What a beautiful machine they have provided
We're looking. What are we looking for?
What are the trees like where you live?
But how can you live without trees?
Trees give life, they make the clouds, the rain, the air.
Don't you miss talking to the forest?
Can't say I've actually talked with a forest before.
It's raining like magic
It's falling like starlight
The forest is breathing
Awesome use of the language, dude.
You are one bodacious babe.
We're communicating now.
Can't you feel its pain?
Did I say something wrong?
Wow! What is this place?
Hey, that's my human!
I'm blind! Oh, no!
I can see! It's a miracle!
No worries. I'm okay. Thank you for caring.
It's just a few bruises.
Nobody cares about me.
Only fools are positive.
I fell for it! I should have known!
Yep, there goes the neighborhood.
Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you.
Shouldn't we be charging admission for this?
Look, I found it, so I'll explain it, all right?
It's alive!
I know what music is, and that is not music.
I need somebody to help me! Come on!
Come on! Move, move, move!
I'm up to anything you can dish out, bud.
There's no hurry.
Let it wait 'til tomorrow. Come here.
A force outside of nature did this.
I can't heal it, and I can't stop it.
Humans did it. Humans did it all.
You lied to me!
They're coming this way. You can't stop them. You'll have to leave.
You're not half bad for a hominid.
Truth doesn't always win friends, but it certainly influences people.
All the magic of creation exists within a single tiny seed.
Look for the hero inside yourself, [NAME]. Look to the good and loving heart in you and all others. For just as every seed holds the power and magic of creation, so, too, do you and every other creature in this world.
I love you. I'll always be with you.
We all have a power, and it grows when it is shared.
Come on. We gotta get everyone out of here.
This is the last time I save you, human.
Are you crazy? That's lemming talk.
Did you see that? It looked like some kind of flying rat.
Oh, this is gonna hurt.
You need a set of your own wings.
Mmm. Lovely wings. So easily detached.
What happened to the energy?
There's a part of me that really wants to stay.
Keep the stereo, dude.
What happened here?
I will remember.
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burnedbyshoto · 5 years
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Sickness and Afflictions - Part Two
Part One ; Alt Ending
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todoroki shouto x reader
word count: 1.6k
warnings: haha fluff and angst
a/n: so i had a few requests to do a second part... i even had a requests saying not to do one!!!!!!!!!! but LOL i did it so sorry anon who requested i dont do it... so now the questions leaves us to this: does y/n forgive shouto? do they fall back in love?
Eleven Months Later
Shouto was running down the street. His eyesight was locked on the man he was apprehending. It seemed that the man knew exactly where he was because he kept outmaneuvering Shouto at every corner.
Skidding to a halt, Shouto smirked at the fact the villain had caught himself between an unclimbable wall and him. The villain threw off his hood and glared at Shouto, “Fine, let’s do this.”
The man shot out a large clump of clay from his hands, and Shouto reached his right hand down to use his ice. But then he wasn’t in the alleyway anymore.
He was in your apartment, bigger rage in his throat. He was angry at you for reasons that he could no longer explain. Frustrated at your very good reasons to be upset with him. Broken because you had rightfully compared yourself to his father in ways he never believed before. His hand was no longer touching the ground, but instead your forearm, your sobs echoing in his mind as tears began to fall down his face. He stumbled back, breathing hard. He stepped forward, wishing he had done so that same night but was thrown against the wall. The man’s quirk making an impact.
Shouto groaned against the wall as he saw the man gathering his dropped items and starting to take off. But Deku arrived, quickly overwhelming the villain before turning his head to Shouto.
“Hey, are you okay?!” Deku’s voice panics as he presses a hand to Shouto’s torso. It only then does Shouto notice the clay spike impaling his body. Blood oozing out of his costume and spilling onto the floor.
Shouto laughs, his eyes focusing up at the sky, “It’s almost been a year... but I can’t... I can’t use my... my ice....”
Shouto faints before Deku can even tell him not to go unconscious.
*•*•*•*
Shouto wakes up in a hospital. There are lines connected to him everywhere, and his torso feels sore, disgusting, and broken.
Groaning, his fingers trace the outline of the bandages hidden underneath his gown and he sighs. It was going to leave him a new scar.
This had been the twelfth time Shouto had been admitted into the hospital ever since the two of you broke up. Ever since that night, whenever he would attempt to use his ice, he was sucked back into that flashback. He couldn’t use it without remembering that he hurt you.
“You know,” Y/n’s voice calls for him from across the room. Shouto’s eyes snap to your direction. You’re standing by the doorway, obviously uncomfortable, but overall ambivalent to being here. “If you’re going to keep trying to kill yourself, you need to stop having your friends come beg me to visit you.”
Shouto feels his mouth run drier.
You looked beautiful standing there. You were in your work clothes, and your jacket draped over your forearms. He’s surprised to see you here. After all, these past eleven months you avoided him better than any criminal. No matter how hard he tried to contact you, you weren’t there. Despite everything he did to you, you look worried for him, and you take a few tentative steps forward. “Is it hurting still?”
Shouto can not bring himself to speak, and the two of you absorb the awkward energy between the two of you. But you seem annoyed. Huffing slightly, you shake your head, “Of course you won’t even fucking speak to me. This is priceless, I’m going to go—“
“I’m sorry.” Shouto interrupts you as your spinning on your heel ready to march out. “I’m sorry...”
He watches as your jaw clenches, your nostrils flaring ever so slightly as you rub your temples. “For what, Todoroki?”
“For everything that I put you through. I wish I had a good reason for the way I treated you all those months ago. But there’s not... I’m sorry for neglecting you and calling you those untrue names... I’m sorry for hurting you, y/n.”
“Don’t act like we’re familiar...” You snap, but your brush away tears from your eyes. Shouto knows they’re angry tears, but he feels better knowing that at the very least, you weren’t going to be cold with him forever.
“I’m sorry for being the worst boyfriend, y/l/n.”
You’re crying now. Your face turning red as to keep yourself from being too loud, and Shouto wishes he had the strength to get up and hold you. To whisper to you that it was all his fault and that he was tired. He wanted to beg you for a second chance, or a way to get a second chance! The jacket on your arm shifted though, and Shouto’s breathing stills.
“Can I... can I see it?” Shouto asks you, and you rub away the tears on your cheeks. Your eyes look down at the scar on your hand. The scar that would be a reminder of the downfall of your relationship.
It wasn’t something that bothered you, really! But when Shouto asked to look at it, it made you nauseous. Still, you walk over and present the scar and Shouto’s bpm spikes at the sight of his handprint on your arm.
“I can only imagine what those villains go through when you’re hot on their tail...” You whisper as his fingers touch your scar. “I’m not mad at you anymore, but I’m not ready to forgive you either.”
Shouto nods his head as you take your arm back, and he stares into your eyes. “Will you let me be your friend again?” He asks you, and your breathing stills. “I’m not asking for a second chance, but... if you want... I would appreciate being friends with you again.”
You stare at Shouto. The Pro-Hero who for the past few months was routinely checked into the hospital. Shouto who was once your loving boyfriend. Shouto who was once your best friend. You gaze into his grey and blue eyes, and you nod your head. The person you saw reflecting in his eyes was your best friend, not the man from those nights a year ago.
Shouto stares at you. You have seemed to grow into this steely backbone around him. Your confidence is untouchable, but your emotions are still being concealed. But that’s okay, he knows he doesn’t deserve even friendship from you. Not after that night. But as he stares into your eyes he knows one thing, he’s going to get you back.
*•*•*•*
Three Months More
Shouto took this new chance with you seriously.
He was there for you whenever you needed him to be.
No task was too little or too big for him to handle. Shouto was always going to do it.
He even celebrated your birthday with you. He took you out for lunch because you had dinner plans. He remembered walking into your office on the day of your birthday where you were happily talking to a man. It made his heart soar that even though it had only been a month since re-patching your friendship, the energy and warmth in your smile did not falter when you looked over at him. You gave the man a farewell before Shouto placed his hand on your shoulder blade and escorted you out.
Things were going very well if Shouto said so himself. The two of you spent countless nights texting each other back and forward. Once again having inside jokes, hell you even showed up to his charity event he held. He figured that within this week he was going to ask you for a second chance. A second chance at loving him because by god he was in love with you.
Of course, he would accept rejection, but you were it. Shouto knew you were the one he wanted with all his heart. He had misplaced your feelings before, and he was sure to never do it again.
Gathering his wits, Shouto exited the door and the mailman was there. “Oh! Todoroki-san, here’s your mail! Just one thing today!” The mailman informed Shouto handing him a white envelope addressed to him.
Bowing in thanks Shouto accepted the card and watched the mailman walk away. A whistle on his lips.
Shouto immediately recognized your writing on the front of the card. He smiled softly as he peeled the wax seal off. Just what in the world was going on? Maybe it was for your convention for your latest works.
But what Shouto read in the envelope broke his heart. He stilled on his doorway, unable to breathe as he read the notice, over and over. He doesn’t know what to make of the letter. Were you really never within his reach?
Stupidly, he takes his phone and enters his most recent message. The one from you.
shouto: I'm in love with you
Shouto stares at the message, and then back at the card before deleting it. He loves you, and you’re the one for him. But he hurt you long ago and you moved on. There was nothing for him to do.
The letter fell from his hands as he walked back into his house. The written words and only dirtied against the floor.
Todoroki Shouto:
You are cordially invited to the Wedding of Tanaka Haruki and Y/l/n Y/n.
Please RSVP no later than 12.12
There was a picture of you smiling next to a man Shouto recognized the day he picked you up on your birthday.
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curufins-smile · 4 years
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In the Shadow of Þerindë
Young Feanor discovers the cause of his mother’s condition
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Fëanáro was content. His father gave him free rein of the palace, and Fëanáro was allowed to go wherever he liked so long as there was no danger of him hurting himself. He had mapped out all the little nooks and crannies from the kitchens to the highest rooms, and found many excellent hiding spots for a young elf to conceal himself in should he wish.
There was a set of rooms, however, that he loved most, and those were his mother’s personal chambers. She was gone, now. Fëanáro had visited her body many times in the gardens of Lórien with his father, but her hröa was cold and still no matter how he attempted to rouse her. He always brought a drawing or something he made to show her, but her eyes would never open to see it. When he was too young to understand that she would not wake, he would pepper her face with kisses, and pat at her with his tiny hands in an attempt to get her to look at him. But she never would.
Fëanáro loved her rooms the most, for they were filled with her works. He would run his fingers over the bright embroidery, that shone with such colours and was in such fine detail. Even at a younger age, he knew it to be special.
He had much of her work himself. His father could not usually bear to speak of his mother, but from what he had said when he could, Fëanáro knew that in the year before his birth his mother had spent all her time obsessively embroidering and sewing clothes for him. Most of her work had been in stitching on rich and beautiful fabrics that he could have outfits made in by other seamstresses as he grew older. There was enough to last until he was beyond fully grown.
It was as though she had known her time was short.
Of course, Fëanáro still had Owl too, beloved and battered, though he felt he was a little old to carry it around now. He still found comfort in it when necessary though.
Fëanáro was currently sat in his favourite spot in the gardens. He had his bound sketchbook for him, and was practicing busily. His father had arranged for the great loremaster Rúmil to tutor him in sarati, and the letters had captured Fëanáro like nothing before.
He was putting the finishing touches to a slightly wobbly line of sarati when he heard the voices. It wasn’t unusual for courtiers to wander this part of the gardens, but his alcove was secluded, and his curious ears pricked up to listen to something children might not be meant to hear.
“Honestly,” a lady’s voice was saying, “King Finwë was looking absolutely delicious this morning.”
Her companions emitted various levels of agreeing noises.
“All that lovely hair,” sighed a second female voice. “His fëa must be so strong.”
Fëanáro screwed up his face in disgust. Of course his father was the strongest and most handsome, but he was not for the likes of these people. He was for Ammë.
“Of course,” said a slightly nasal male voice, “that’s part of the problem, isn’t it.”
The two ladies hushed him, sounding suddenly fearful. “Quiet!” said the first, “There’s a ban on speaking of it!”
The male voice laughed. “Please, this part of the gardens is always empty. And anyway, everyone knows what happened. Such a shame, I’d do anything to get my hands on a Serindë original.” Fëanáro scowled at the mispronunciation of her title, but his interest was piqued.
“Except the prince,” said the second lady. “Poor mite.”
Fëanáro did not even dare to breathe. What was it that he did not know that all others did?
The first voice snorted. ”Poor mite?” she said incredulously. “The Valar called his birth a product of Arda Marred. If you ask me he’s no better than the fallen Vala, Melkor.”
The second lady gasped. “How could you say such a thing?” she exclaimed. Fëanáro agreed with her. His head was spinning. The Valar had said that about him?
The male voice spoke up again, nasal tones smug. “Please, Rielle, don’t act like you don’t think the same. Everyone knows the prince is the reason that Queen Míriel is dead. He consumed her very fëa, so that all that she is is lifeless and grey. That ill omen stole her energy for his own.”
Fëanáro dropped his charcoal. He could barely hear the first lady agreeing with the male. “Yes, it’s true,” she said. “Have you never touched him? His fëa is so bright that the very heat of it means his skin is hot like a stove.” She sniffed. “I suppose that’s what having two souls does to a person.”
Fëanáro slid off the bench with a thump.
“What was that?” cried one of the ladies, startled.
“I knew we should not have spoken of it,” said the first. “Come, let us leave before whoever is spying sees our faces.”
The trio bustled off noisily, leaving Fëanáro finally alone to sob.
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It was getting towards Telperion waxing, and it was time for Finwë to find Fëanáro. It was a daily game the pair played. Fëanáro would be off in some hidden nook, and Finwë would track him down for dinner. Today, however, Fëanáro was in none of his usual spots and Finwë was becoming a little anxious. He had found Fëanáro’s art tools abandoned in his favourite garden alcove, so he flagged down a passing servant, who told him that the prince had been seen going into his mother’s rooms.
Finwë himself had not been in Míriel’s chambers since shutting up almost all her work inside. He could not bear to see most of it. It was the ultimate expression of the sheer life force she had had, the fire of her colours and the intensity of her designs.
Fëanor was in there, surrounded by tapestries. He had clearly been tearing through the bags in a fit of almost madness, trying to find something. He was sat with his back to Finwë, and laid in front of him was Míriel’s last project.
It had been intended to be a family portrait. Both Finwë and Míriel were stitched in minute detail, so real that Finwë could not stand to look at her embroidered face. But she had left a large space in her arms where she would have put Fëanáro.
“I don’t know what he will look like!” she had laughed, when he had questioned her about it. “Some days I think I should simply stitch myself holding a flame, for I feel that more strongly than anything.”
Soon after she had not the strength to even lift her needle, and it remained unfinished.
Fëanáro was running his small hand over the design again and again, feeling the difference in texture between the embroidery and the gaping hole.
“Fëanáro?” Finwë asked softly. The place felt almost sacred, and he did not laugh loudly at discovering his son as he might usually. The lack of cheerful greeting was highly disconcerting too.
Fëanáro turned to look up at him, and Finwë immediately knelt to gather him into a hug on seeing his red rimmed eyes. He had clearly been crying for some time.
His son’s voice was hoarse from weeping when he finally spoke, face muffled against Finwë’s chest.
“Did I kill Ammë?” he asked. Finwë felt his heart drop.
“What?” he asked, hoping he had misheard. He loosened the embrace to allow Fëanáro to pull back slightly and look him in the eyes.
“Did. I. Kill. Ammë?” Fëanáro enunciated clearly and deliberately, staring Finwë down.
Finwë was suddenly incandescently angry. He had worked so hard to try to ensure that Fëanáro was shielded from this. Who had told him? Finwë had endeavoured for these last years to keep his son forever smiling her smile. His rage was interrupted by Fëanáro squirming to get free.
“I knew it!” he cried, tears running freshly down his face. “I killed her and you hate me!”
Finwë realised it was the first time Fëanáro had ever seen him angry and immediately scrambled to fix it, pulling Fëanáro back to his chest despite his protestations.
“No, no, no,” Finwë said, burying his face in Fëanáro’s dark hair. It wasn’t the same colour as Míriel’s, but the texture was almost identical. He felt Fëanáro’s sobs more than heard them. “I’m not angry at you, my son. I’m angry for you.”
Slowly, tentatively, Fëanáro’s arms encircled him, returning the embrace.
“Did I kill her, Atya?” Fëanáro asked him, still pressed close.
Finwë still wasn’t ready to deal with this. “No,” he said emphatically. “I don’t care what whoever it was said, you did not kill her.”
“Then what did?” asked Fëanáro.
“Your mother was-“ Finwë stopped to swallow down a lump in his own throat. “She was exhausted.”
“Because of me,”  countered Fëanáro.
”No!” cried Finwë. He let Fëanáro go again to look at him properly. “Listen to me,” he said. “They don’t understand. No one understands. It was no one’s fault but He who marred the world’s.”
It was the wrong thing to say. Fëanáro broke into fresh tears.
“So they were right? My birth is the product of Arda Marred?” he sobbed.
Finwe cradled Fëanáro’s chin in his hands, looking into his eyes.
“Hear me this, Finwion,” he said, and watched Fëanáro’s eyes widen at the name that he had not used since deciding to go by his mother-name. “You are my son, and I would have no other. Even if it would bring your mother back, I would cast you aside for nothing. Nothing I say can change the thoughts you have already decided on about the circumstances of your birth, but know you that you could kill a thousand people of our blood and I would love you all the same.”
Fëanáro sniffled slightly, and Finwë decided to press his luck with a joke. “But please don’t, because I don’t know what I’d do if you killed a thousand people.”
That made Fëanáro at least crack a wobbly smile. “Now then,” Finwë continued, forcing down his own pain to paste on a smile of his own. “I believe that dinner tonight is your favourite,” he said. “Something so spicy that the rest of us want to weep!”
Fëanáro’s smile became a true one, and Finwë stood and lifted his son onto his hip. “Oof!” he said. “You’re getting too big for this now. Soon you’ll be carrying me!”
They left the room of beautiful things behind them, and Finwë did not let himself look back.
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myrainydayloves · 4 years
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Wedding Bells
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(You Already Know What It Is)
Pardon me is everybody because if everybody’s here, I’d like to thank you all for coming
Annaka had never felt more fear than when she woke up May 8th. She was stirred by her alarm, moving her hand through the group of girls piled around each other. But the alarm stopped without her touch and she snuggled back into the warmth of the cuddle pile. 
“Nuh-Uh! Up you go! Shower and then breakfast!” Scolded her maid of honor trying to pull her from the snuggle group. 
“Five more minutes, Mom,” Annaka mumbled, trying to crawl back under Anita’s blanket. 
“Annaka!” 
“Maryyyyy,” she moaned, finally beginning to untangle herself from the other women. “I don’t wanna get married today. Tell Cross we can do it tomorrow,” she joked. 
Mary did not find this as amusing, having spent hundreds of hours with Annaka planning the event. Capri echoed this statement by verbally telling Annaka to shut the fuck up and get ready. 
By the time Annaka had exited the shower, Mary had roused the rest of the women in the sleepover and sent them to the various bathrooms to wash up. A truly outstanding show of abilities in her opinion. There was a light breakfast of sliced fruit and toast waiting them and coffee brewing. 
She dragged her hands over the table that had been her place of residence within the home for the last decade and felt it was foreign under her touch.  Even the kitchen where Annaka spent hours preparing meals, where she’d shared so many tender morning moments with him, was new to her. 
Maybe because it was going to be hers now. Theirs, technically. But going from stranger to guest to owner was as weird for the house as it was her. 
She ate toast, drank from a mug her son had made her back when he was only twelve, and looked through the grimy kitchen window that housed a plant Cross couldn’t keep alive. The window about the sink was his responsibility, Annaka was adamant about and so far if had only seen soap five times in the ten years she’d been here. 
“Lazy bastard,” Annaka whispered into the mug like it was the sweetest nickname. 
Yen clapped her on the shoulder. “Glad to see you’re still in love. I was worried you’d get cold feet.”
“Now is your last chance to back out,” Anita teased. “If you little boy Lavi was here he’d give you the total debt but I reckon it’s around-“
“Lavi’s not little anymore,” Annaka interrupted. “He’s in college for god’s sakes.”
“He’s still your little boy though, isn’t he?” Capri teased.
“They’re both still my little boys,” she whispered into the mug. “It’s just now my name’s going on the adoption papers too.”
So after breakfast, Mary was rushing them into the various cars to the chapel. Annaka rode with Mary to go over any last minute changes. As the sun started to rise over their home, Annaka was leaving it to return as a wife. 
The little boys in question met the bridal party outside the church. All dressed up uncomfortably in their suits, smiling like church boys who’d stolen extra communion wine. The venue itself was a church, grand and tall, one of the most beautiful in the entire city. It was covered in stained glass windows and arches that were once white turned yellow by age. And today it would serve its purpose as a house of love instead of the usual house of confession. 
“Babies,” Annaka whispered to them, climbing out of the car to kiss their cheeks. “I hope you don’t have any objections today.”
“Oh I have a whole list,” Lavi teased. “Starting with the time you didn’t get me a mouse shaped pretzel at Disneyland. Can’t let a woman like that marry Cross.”
Allen gave her a sweet smile, like all the ones he’d given her as a little boy and hugged her tightly. Whatever fear or anxiety she’d been holding poured out of her as she returned the hug, pulling him close. She leaned back, brushed the hair out of his eyes, and hugged him again. 
“So,” Allen started. “How am I gonna tell you that instead of peonies they sent tulips and they’re white not pink?”
“They did what?!” Mary cried. “I specifically asked for peonies! It took me two hours to find a shop with peonies in the spring!”
Yen rubbed Mary’s shoulder with a teasing smirk. “There there, let’s get you all dressed up.”
“I’m serious!” Mary cried, reaching for her phone as the women walked into the church. 
The dress still fit, so that was good, she thought. She twisted and turned in the mirror, struggling to see whatever Cross was marrying her for before giving up. The flowers were here, though they were white and not pink, but that was fine. It was fine. 
A soft knock at the door. 
“Are you ready? Because they’re ready for you,” an attendant whispered. 
“Uh yes,” she mumbled. 
As her shoes met threadbare carpet, she thought about running one last time. But her feet grew roots and planted themselves in front of the grand doors. 
The worst part of all this, she thought as they began to open was that Cross had been right. 
The church was the best idea for the venue. Light poured down from the windows, birds that lived in the bell tower chirped, and the acoustics were amazing. It was like stepping into a painting or perhaps becoming a part of it. 
Only when the doors finally opened fully and the organ started to play did she dare look into the church. Her heart jumped when she saw him there. Regal and fine and waiting patiently, he looked like he would stand there for hours waiting for her to arrive. 
And she couldn’t figure out why. 
Annaka suddenly felt like she was drowning again. Like the waves of fate had finally pulled her under. Then he turned, caught her eye, and looked stunned. There were no tears or smirk, just genuine disbelief this was really happening. 
And then he started to smile. 
There are no words to explain how it feels to see your life validated. To see your work and your past spread out for you like a quilt. To realize that it was time to tie everything in a tidy bow and give up trying to make it bigger. 
So she moved. Step by step she moved towards him, afraid that the longer she stayed on a different side of the ocean of fabric, she would lose him. And then she wasn’t walking down the alley. 
Annaka was running. 
Home was in sight and it welcomed her with a stupid smirk and open arms. In the second he touched her arm, she was safe again, reminded and comfortable under the blanket. 
“Wow, you look….” Cross laughed a bit. “Well I was going to tease you and say you looked a bit desperate running towards me like that but...you look beautiful.”
“Thank you,” she whispered, knees shaking in a way they never did. 
“Relax. If anyone should be scared here, it’s me. Allen threatened to kill me if I got a single word wrong in my vows.”
“Oh shit, knew I was forgetting something” Annaka teased. 
As they settled into a comfortable standing position, the priest read out lines and palms. And then it was time. 
Cross looked up. “Did you wanna go first? I have something in my eyes.”
“Tears?”
“No, I think a storm of dust-of course it’s tears!” He snapped, looking down at her. She pressed a hand to his cheek and smiled. 
“Compose yourself, My Love. I’ll go first though I can’t promise you won’t be bawling by the end.”
“Show off.”
“Cross-“
“Oh god, wait just-“ He pulled her hand back to his cheek, letting her hand lovingly cup his cheek and nodded, tears silently flowing down his cheeks. 
“There are a lot of things I wanted to say here. Honestly I could have us here for hours. But I will keep it brief,” she took a breath. “For ten years, we raised two children together. And not once, in those ten years, did I ever feel anything but grateful to Mary for calling me. I never regretted pack up everything in my tiny apartment in Seattle to move here even though it was very scary. Because from the moment I met you: I was in love with you.”
She took a second to wipe away some of the tears beginning to flood his face. “Really. I was. You made my life comfortable, gave me what I always dreamed of: a home and a family and a loving husband. No matter what you may think, you’ve given me so so much. So to repay you, I vow to stay with you. To kiss you in the morning, to let you steal my coffee, to watch you work in the garage. I promise that I will always be in love with your genius, your charm, your charisma. I love you so deeply even your flaws shine brightly to me.”
“I love you. And I swear I always will.”
He leaned in towards her and she helped shield his vulnerability from prying eyes. After a minute of silent sobbing he stood up, dried his tears, then dried his glasses, and started. 
“I have sacrificed so much to get something. I have left some many broken paths and people behind me that if I tried to make amends I wouldn't know where to start. I am such a pain in the ass-“
“Not to me,” she teased. 
“Never to you. I’ve never had someone love me so unconditionally.” Allen couldn’t resist a small cough and Lavi quietly kicked him. With a roll of his eyes, Cross corrected himself. “I’ve never had a woman love me so-“
Anita leaned out to glare at him. 
“For the love of Christ, can I get through my vows?” He snapped. With renewed energy and speed, he said, “I guess I won’t have the chance to wax poetic until later, my love. But you are, without a doubt, one of the most talented people I’ve met. Not just in poetry but in everything. And you do it while looking….so beautiful. Even when you’re asleep at the table, hair falling from your bun, pen marks on your face, I am blown away by you. I love you.”
“So I vow to love you forever,” he finished. Then he leaned in to whisper in her ear, “I’ll give the full speech later when we’re not surrounded by idiots.”
“I heard that,” Allen whispered, also leaning in. 
Mary leaned in next and brandished her bouquet like a sword. “Shut. Up. If we run behind because no one we know understands how to be quiet for more than a minute, I’m going to get very angry.”
“Sorry, Ms. Mary.”
The priest did not chance asking for objections with this couple. Partly because they’d already proven themselves to be a small comedy trope and partly because despite the crying or glaring faces, he felt there was no one in the room that had anything real to say. He gave Cross a nod, who then nodded at Annaka, who giggled and nodded back.
“I, Crоss Marian, take you, Annaka, to be my wife. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.“
“I, Annaka, take you, Crоss Marian, to be my husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honour you all the days of my life.”
With a smile he reserved only for weddings, the priest said, “You have declared your consent before the Church. May the Lord in his goodness strengthen your consent and fill you both with his blessings. What God has joined, men must not divide. Amen...sorry. You may now kiss the bride.”
The cheer that erupted from the pews was the loudest the church ever heard, with friends and family all swarming to hug the new united couple at the stand. There were a lot of ‘You did it’-s or ‘Damn, she actually went through with it?’-s and there were a lot of tears.
But despite the chaos and excitement, Cross stared at Annaka and she stared back, lost in each other’s eyes. There was an entire life outside that, to the pair, had always been so cruel, so unkind. But now, with two small bands of gold, the pair felt more than ready to face it.
Together.
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vantekay · 5 years
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forever ||kth
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genre(s): angst, fluff towards the end, trigger warning, there are mentions of depression and dealing with it (like having a breakdown, sobbing and all that) but nothing super intense, but if mentions of it trigger you then please do not read or read with caution, 
long distance relationship; non-idol au
warning(s): mentions of depression, descriptions of a breakdown/anxiety attack. honestly just really sad. I wrote this after I spent 20 minutes staring up at the moon through my bedroom window as I let the cold air sting my eyes and face, I immediately wanted to write something that would help me get my feelings out, so it’s pretty much a look into my feelings? but not as deep or personal. but also It’s kinda cute, the idea anyways. I once did this with my ex and the feeling I got, although really cheesy, is something I never forget, and sometimes I still feel those same emotions when I look up at the moon (not emotions for my ex but you know what i mean). I suggest doing this with someone you love as well, it brings along a sense of serenity and honestly way more emotions than I am capable of describing. anyways I hope you enjoy this at least somewhat? the ending is super super super fluffy and lovely because I finished this when I had gotten out of this low and sad mindset so! tell me your thoughts hehe
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the crisp spring breeze kisses its way up your skin as a shiver runs down your spine, creating bumps of raised skin along your exposed arms. was it a bit too chilly to be outside stargazing with no coat to protect your skin? more than likely, but you didn’t care at that moment. all that mattered to you was looking up and admiring the way the stars littered the sky, the way the waxing of the moon shone down brightly upon your body as you lay in the grass of the nearby field. it had been a really rough week for you. between school and work, your mental health was close to none and you really just needed a break from everything and everyone.
you had gone and deleted all social media apps from your phone, disconnecting yourself entirely from whatever social life you had to take some time for yourself. the only person you stayed in contact with, if you could even consider a message a day as contact, was your boyfriend, whom you didn’t even speak to regularly anymore. taehyung and you had been in a long distance relationship for almost a year now, and when weeks like this past one had made their way into your life, you wished for nothing more than the warm embrace of your boyfriend to aid you in your journey of self healing. today however, you had been more silent than ever before. you had left him on read all day, except for this morning when he asked how you were feeling and all you responded with was “I’m fine” before turning your phone on silent for the rest of the day and wallowing away in your sadness. it wasn’t until around 10pm when you had decided that maybe some fresh air would do you good, bored with staring at the four walls of your bedroom for any longer. so you pulled on some sweats, threw on your converse and set out for the park with your phone tucked into your pocket in case you decided to finally answer taehyung’s texts.
you truly felt bad for ignoring him, but he knew you weren’t having the best week and so he was patient with your lack of responses even if he was worried sick about you. that was another thing you felt guilty about - taehyung didn’t even know the whole extent of how you had been feeling. all you had told him was that you weren’t feeling well, which wasn’t exactly untrue. what you didn’t tell him was that you were afraid of opening up to him about your mental health issues. you were afraid that if you had exposed him to your messed up and jumbled thoughts and constant sadness and insecurities that he would leave you and find someone more stable to date. maybe even find someone he could meet up with in person instead of having to rely on facetime and text messages. you were surprised he hadn’t left you already, considering you’ve been a bit distant in the weeks leading up to this one.
but tae was an extremely understanding person, and he knew that something must have been going on to make you be so quiet for so long. he just assumed you would have wanted to talk to him about it by now. your silence and short answers leaving him confused and worried with each hour that passed. he wanted you to know that he would always be there for you, that he would listen to you no matter how crazy and bizarre you thought you sounded because he didn’t care. he wanted to be there for you no matter what, even if he was halfway across the world. he loved you for you, and he just hoped you knew that.
you’ve laid in the field for about a half an hour now, the inconsistent buzz of your phone keeping you only semi aware of your surroundings as you stare up at the night sky. you know it’s taehyung, and you know he must be worried sick about you, but you really can’t muster up the energy to read his texts and formulate a response to them. as you continue to feel the vibrations of your phone from your pocket, you also feel your cheeks become damp and before you can stop them you’re full on bawling. you normally don’t cry, instead just walking around with a pain in your chest that can only be described as someone pushing on it, preventing you from breathing- or crying for that matter- but you must have been more upset than you could understand because suddenly your sobbing and you can’t stop.
you continue to sob quietly in the middle of the field for another 10 minutes before your hand is subconsciously reaching into your pocket to pull out your phone. your lock screen reads 20 missed calls and 50 new messages, all from today and all from the same person. you sob even harder, feeling guilty for the fact that you’ve kept your boyfriend in the dark about your issues for so long. before you know it, you’re unlocking your phone and calling him, pressing the phone to your ear as your sobs quiet down slightly. taehyung answers on the second ring.
“baby? angel are you okay?” you hear taehyung sigh in relief and pain shoots throughout your chest as tears leave your eyes faster. “oh my god I’ve been so worried all day, please tell me you’re okay” his voice is laced with worry and concern for you and it makes you sob even harder. the only response you can muster to an already worried taehyung being your heavy breathing as you gasp for air.
“y/n? are you crying? please breathe, for me. here, breathe with me, ready? in…” he inhales deeply, hoping you’ll try and do it with him. you attempt to inhale along, but your breath catches in your throat as it continues to tighten, causing you to choke slightly.
“I can’t- taehyung I can’t-” you gasp but he cuts you off.
“shh, I’m right here baby, I’m right here and I’m not going anywhere. breathe in with me again okay, please? in….” he inhales deeply once more and this time you’re able to follow suit, closing your eyes as your tears slow and you feel your chest lighten up a bit, the boulder that’s been weighing you down suddenly getting lighter with the help of your boyfriend over the phone.
“good. you’re doing so good for me baby. keep breathing with me. in…” taehyung continues to do this with you for another 5 minutes, breathing deeply until he can hear your breath even out and your sobs quiet until nothing but soft whimpers leave your lips.
“can you breathe now?” he asks softly. you nod your head before realizing he can’t see you, so you whisper a soft “yeah” through the line even though it comes out broken and cracked, breaking off at the end to the point where you’re not even sure he caught it. but he did, and along with hearing you speak for the first time in what feels like years, he feels his heart break too. taehyung wishes he could be with you more than he could ever express, especially now that he knows you’re not just feeling a little under the weather like you had told him. he wishes to hold you and help you through whatever it is that’s causing you pain, and let you talk it out with him for hours while he cuddles you close to his chest. he glances back at the plane ticket he bought months prior sitting on his desk.
“I understand if you don’t want.. or um, can’t find the words to talk to me right now, but please don’t hang up” he whispers and you mumble another soft response, waiting with baited breath to see if he will continue speaking. “since I’m sure you’re not ready to talk just yet, can I? I need you to hear this before you say anything” he questions but he doesn’t wait for you to respond, already knowing you would tell him to speak. “I know you’re going through so much right now, stuff that you haven’t told me about, probably as a defense mechanism, but I want you to know that I want you to be able to talk to me. I want you to feel confident in our relationship and trust me enough to hear about your deepest thoughts and feelings. I love you, all of you, and I always will no matter what you might think or how much you think your feelings don’t matter because they do matter. you matter. especially to me and I want to help you, but I can only do that if you let me in. so please. y/n, please let me in” his voice breaks off at the end of his sentence and you feel your breath get caught up in your throat again, tears threatening to fall from your eyes.
if you hadn’t already spent your energy on that first breakdown you're sure you would be bawling your eyes out right now. you open your mouth to begin speaking again but taehyung cuts you off once more. “don't force yourself to say anything, I can only imagine the thoughts running through your head right now. what you must be feeling, but please whatever you're conjuring up in that beautiful brain of yours, don't blame yourself for holding these feelings in. I understand your hesitation for not wanting to confide in me, but please try to keep me at least a little informed. I think I have a right to know that you were just a little more than under the weather like you mentioned. I really do love you, y/n. more than you could ever know” taehyung sighs and you close your eyes, swallowing the lump forming in your throat. “I love you too taehyung, so much.” your voice still sounds broken but taehyung smiles on the other line.
he lets a couple of seconds pass before he asks “do you wanna know a secret?” the question catches you by surprise, but nonetheless you hum in affirmation, waiting for your boyfriend to continue. “I bought a plane ticket to come see you next weekend,” he whispers, the smile on his face evident to you even without being able to see him. you shoot up off of the ground, a gasp leaving your lips as you ask him if he's serious at least 5 times in a row. taehyung giggles, soft and airy before responding to you. “yes, they're sitting on my desk right now. I bought them last week” his voice is soft and you feel tears prick at the corners of your eyes again but this time they're happy tears.
“I can’t believe it” you say, a smile now on your face and taehyung hasn’t stopped giggling, a smile on his face as well. at this point you’ve sat up off the ground, your phone inches from your face as taehyung asked to facetime you.
“believe it baby, next weekend you won’t have to facetime me when you want to see me. in fact, I was wondering if I could stay at your place? so I didn’t have to buy a hotel room?” he’s sheepish now, a rosy tint rising onto his cheeks and past to his ears and you can’t help but laugh at his question.
“of course you can silly. I wouldn’t want you to stay anywhere else. how long will you be down for?” you ask with bated breath, slightly worried and already upset that eventually he will be leaving you again to go back home.
“um, actually...” he starts and you feel your heart leap in your chest.
“actually...?”
“I was wondering if I could move in? with you?” he’s got the widest grin on his face but his cheeks are still red as ever and you nearly scream, leaping out of where you had been sat for the past couple of hours in the field with shock written all over your face.
“are you joking with me right now because so help me god kim taehyung I will-”
“I’m not! I’m not I promise, look” he gets up from his bed to retrieve the ticket, bringing it to you and showing you the details of it. it’s a single flight ticket, not a round trip and you start crying again, a smile on your face at the thought.
“why are you crying again?” he’s worried but you quickly soothe him.
“I’m happy, they’re happy tears baby. I can’t believe this” you’re laughing and crying and your heart is bursting with all the right emotions all because it’s really happening. after nearly a year long relationship, teahyung is really able to come see you. and it doesn’t even stop there- he’s coming to live with you. it’s all the two of you had ever dreamed of, all you’ve been talking about for months now and you almost can’t believe it’s really happening.
“I’m so happy. so you sold the apartment already?” you ask curious, beginning to walk back to your apartment.
“yep! well sort of. you know my friend jimin? he said he was looking for a place anyways so we kinda met in the middle and I gave it to him.” taehyung tells you and when you’ve finally arrived at your place you plop yourself on your bed, a smile plastered on your face.
“I really can’t believe it” you say again and taehyung smiles, nodding his head to agree with you.
“you’ll have to believe it, because I’ll finally get to hold you and give you kisses”
“I can’t wait for that. this weekend needs to come sooner” you sigh, getting yourself comfortable in bed as taehyung does the same.
“I love you y/n” taehyung yawns.
“I love you more taehyung” you whisper back and that’s how the two of you sleep. talking about when he finally comes to be with you and everything the two of you plan to do once he’s settled in. you really couldn’t be more thankful to have such a wonderful boyfriend. a boyfriend sent straight from heaven.
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caffeineivore · 4 years
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Commission #1
For @ellorgast
Prompt: A Very Spirited Wedding
Ships: Usagi/Mamoru, Senshi/Shitennou
Rating: PG
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Something Old…
Her dress is spotless white satin glimmering with seed pearls and a flowing overlay of chiffon embroidered with rosebuds. Angela has just finished dressing, and makeup, and had kicked out the well-meaning army of her mother and future mother-in-law and bridesmaids and photographer after the requisite pictures and champagne, just to take a moment for herself. The woman in the mirror glows with excitement and the flush of love, but there’s always a hint of nerves, of the finality of tying oneself to another person for the rest of one’s life. She knows, more than most, anything can happen. Countless tragedies spring from a single blink-of-the-eye catastrophe, or one bad decision. 
A knock, a harmonious, familiar voice at the other side of the door. “It’s Jay. Are you decent?”
He looks exceedingly handsome and somehow a bit stately, dressed in pale grey linen with a sprig of sage and ivy— silvery and lush green— pinned to his lapel. It’s not a typical choice for a suit or boutonniere, but it suits more than black-tie would, and he’s holding something in his hands— gleaming silver. 
It’s a delicate tiara, wrought branches of metal so intricately worked as to look like the slender stems of living flowers and vines twisted together. Drops of clear crystal like dew glitter against the silver, along with fantastical flowers carved out of jewels— blue irises, pink rosebuds, yellow daisies and red poppies— an effect which should’ve been crass, but when he places it on her head, over the filmy lace veil, she looks like a fairy princess. The metal feels slightly warm and almost alive against her hair, and she smiles up at this surrogate brother, this forever friend. “How did you know I’d looked in every single boutique in this city and couldn’t find anything?”
He grins, and the stately, somewhat remote look vanishes. “Well. For one thing, this is super old. But I am firmly of the belief that it will bring you good luck, you little ball of sunshine. I brought it out of storage.”
She thinks art nouveau, circa 1920’s, perhaps out of a safety deposit box somewhere in a bank. He knows, but doesn’t say, that it had been wrought by the masterful hands of his clan’s greatest artisans, in moonlit smithies high up in mist-shrouded mountains back before the first ships had ever even crossed the ocean, blessed by starshine and magic and centuries’ worth of romantic hopes and dreams. She just knows that it fits perfectly, and her eyes shine a bit brighter in the reflection, and she reaches up, impulsively, to give him a hug. “Something old, right? Thank you.”
“I wish you all the best and brightest of this world’s blessings, my friend.” He presses a brief, grave kiss to her forehead, right under where the metal meets skin, and it feels like the strangest of benedictions, almost solemn and formal. But then he steps back, and he’s Jay again, and he makes a cheeky comment about how beautiful she looks and how Adam is going to swallow his tongue when he sees her, and he leaves as quickly as he’d come on quick and silent feet.
**
Something New…
The blind date with Jareth’s friend had gone surprisingly well. Zhen, with his indolent green eyes and roguish smile, is well-spoken and courteous, with an almost-dangerous way of looking and listening to a woman as though he’d been waiting all his life for what she had to say at any given moment. Raina considers herself immune to such foolishness for the most part, but that Jareth considers him a friend is a point in his favour. It’s unspoken, but not unknown, that she and Jareth are both a bit out of the realm of the ordinary mortals who surround them.
When she’d mentioned the wedding, he’d cheerfully agreed to go as her date. “I love weddings. Such an optimistic sort of atmosphere, no? Whatever storms the happy couple may face in the future, for today they are deeply in love, heads and hearts full of rose-coloured dreams and hopes. And then they almost always have fabulous food and delicious cake. That cannot be overstated.”
She’s not as optimistic, perhaps, about the concept of marriage. But she rather likes Adam King, out of her colleagues at the hospital. He’s intelligent and capable, as is expected for his profession and academic record, but furthermore, there’s a soul-deep, untarnished light of compassion and empathy in the blue of his eyes. He had not become a healer because it was his birthright, like her, but because he genuinely, in his quiet, mortal way, felt and wanted to heal the pain of his fellow humans. It stirs a long-dormant feeling of fond protectiveness in her, and when she and her date go to wish the happy couple well at the start of the reception, she means it genuinely.
Zhen looks keenly interested in the proceedings, and though she’s quite sure that neither the bride nor groom had ever met him before, he greets them both with the cordiality of a socially-adroit man intent on befriending them both. He had not brought a gift-- (she had picked a popular programmable coffee and espresso machine out of the online registry, knowing Adam’s fondness for mochas)-- but he’d brought a card, and tucked in a scratch-off lottery ticket. He hands it to Adam, in person, rather than adding it to a pile left somewhere, and the groom opens it, reads the message aloud.
“Best of luck with your love and your lives together. Blessings upon you both.” It’s a nice enough message, and written in exuberant flourishes of looping script. Good-humouredly, Adam claps Zhen on the shoulder, and scratches off the silver wax on the lottery ticket, then his eyebrows shoot up to his hairline as he scans the ticket again.
“Did you win something?” Zhen inquires pleasantly, his lazy smile playing across his lips.
“Three matched sevens across, and then these two numbers mean…” Adam furrows his brow, and glances around before lowering his voice. “I’m not much for playing the lottery. But if I’m reading this correctly, did I just win $5000?!”
“Well, well.” Zhen’s voice is low and pleased as an animal’s purr. “How lucky for you, my friend. I do think that is a fantastic beginning to your new life together, wouldn’t you say?”
Raina hears pleasure and something close to triumph in her companion’s voice, but not even a little bit of surprise. This man, with his scintillating gaze and effortless charm, is much more than he seemed. She’d have to keep an eye on him.
**
Something Borrowed…
Linden Thorne does not often work in the role of caterer, but on impulse, she had accepted to provide both the cake and food for this wedding, and she had found herself pleasantly surprised at how much she’d enjoyed it. 
The bride and groom were perhaps two of the most pure-hearted, genuinely good mortals that she had ever come across. A doctor and a social worker, both working tirelessly to help and heal the physical and emotional damage of any of their fellows that crossed their paths-- and humans are a fragile lot, indeed. They had been pleasant, easygoing, not at all demanding, and so deeply in love that both of them all but glowed with it. The bride especially, with her boundless energy and equally irrepressible sweet tooth, took particularly well to any and every thing that Linden had her sample.
So, she’s not entirely surprised when Angela-- who had been Angela King for all of perhaps an hour-- peeks into the kitchen area where the wedding reception is taking place. Linden has a half-dozen sous chefs and assistants putting together delicate canapés with the efficiency of a battalion following the directives of their commanding officer: a lanky young man is on top of a step-stool putting the finishing touches on the top tier of the wedding cake-- translucently thin slivers of gold leaf, velvety rosebuds in shell pink and scarlet, a woman with a severely pinned bun is garnishing exquisite smoked salmon toast rounds with glossy black caviar and eyelash-thin fronds of fresh dill. The bride, still in her gown though sans veil, grins at her with a good-humoured yet half-embarrassed look that Linden interprets in an instant.
“You’re starving, aren’t you?”
“A bit, yeah. I had a salad last night for dinner. Then it was my fault this morning because I was too excited to eat. But now I’m shamelessly begging in here like I have no sense. You can totally tell me to buzz off.”
Linden finds herself laughing, unoffended. “It’s your wedding, so it would not make much sense for me to tell you to buzz off, wouldn’t you agree?”
“But you’re busy, and this is probably rude of me, so…”
“I will forgive it this time.” Linden steps away from the buzz of activity, digs through the pantry and fridge. The bride is a silly, bright-eyed slip of a girl, sweet and pure as vanilla buttercream, and if the world has yet to break her spirit, who was Linden to take that onerous task into her hands. She cuts two slices of rye bread, then adds Dijon mustard, peppery arugula leaves, generous slices of red tomatoes and sharp cheddar and cold chicken breast. A sandwich is probably the least glamorous meal that she could have put together in that moment, but the girl’s eyes light up like stars nonetheless. 
Linden, with an indulgent smile, slips her own chef’s apron off of her neck, and carefully ties it over the bride’s flowing white gown. “Okay. Eat up.”
“Oh, God, this is the best thing I’ve ever had, and I know I’ll be saying that again like twenty times tonight after everything else you’ve made, too,” Angela says in between bites, looking like a mischievous fairy princess who’d snuck down to the palace kitchens in that borrowed apron. She finishes the sandwich with rather unladylike haste, but then gets up, with her usual endless energy, and reaches up to give Linden a hug. It’s such a human gesture-- warm and impulsive and sweet and unexpected, and Linden pauses awkwardly before returning it.
“Feel better now?”
“Oh yes. Thanks for the apron. And the sandwich. And everything.” Angela slips the apron off, mussing her hair just the faintest bit, then beams up at Linden again. “I really hope that you’re as happy as I am today. Forever. Does that sound silly?”
Forever is a long time, far beyond the scope of what this silly mortal bride could fathom, but Linden knows that the bright-eyed, perhaps foolish girl means it with every beat of her kind and affectionate heart. And so she lets the genuine goodwill of the wish warm her spirit, like a borrowed candle shining valiantly on a dark night, far after the party is over and the bride is well on her way to her honeymoon. 
**
Something Blue…
The late September breeze filters through the tall, slim boles of a tall aspen decked in autumnal gold outside on the grounds of a Manhattan church, the sound soft and gentle as whispered prayers. Inside, a wedding ceremony is taking place, a young man and woman exchanging their vows to their God and each other to live the rest of their lives together in love and unity and devotion. 
Contrary to popular belief, Kafziel does not spend the majority of his time on the premises of churches in the city. But this morning finds him on the rooftop of this particular building, a stalwart sentinel visible only in the fleeting, ever-changing reflections of the panes of the intricate rose window in the facade of the building. Of course, there is no one around to see him-- all the visitors to the church are well enough inside to watch the happy couple getting married. 
Kafziel knows, of course, the history of the bride and groom, as he knows the history of every other man, woman and child currently living in that great city, and even by his exacting standards, both of them live decent, upstanding lives above reproach. Neither of them were born here; indeed, the young man in particular had been the product of a most unpromising beginning. And yet, they had found their way here, and to each other, and flourished in love and light and goodness despite everything which might conspire to tarnish the kindness of two such spotless souls.
The pane of leaded glass reflects, at that moment, a face of stark, stern beauty and foreboding. “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” The words are familiar and easy, but Kafziel knows, more than any, of the way great darkness follows great light with dogged, demoniacal tenacity. There is a chill in the air; winter is coming, and with the frost portents sharp strife, perhaps even great trouble. Those who would engender all which he abhors would feed, frenzied, upon the darkest, basest impulses and sins and actions. The happy couple who are even now enjoying their first kiss as man and wife have no idea that their union portends any number of potential catastrophes of a dark and sinful world rebelling against their very radiance. Kafziel’s reflection squares its shoulders, firms its grip on the mighty, fire-tipped sword that throws jewel-like beams of light through the stained glass into the building. 
But even as he braces himself for what must inevitably come-- perhaps a day, or a month, or a decade from now-- he feels the presence of others crowding in, like a ragtag bunch of plucky soldiers summoned to a war they might have no call to fight and yet taken on with every bit of courage as such a troop might muster. The chaotic whimsy of a shifter. The primeval fire-and-wildwoods magic of a nature goddess. The calm, steadfast wisdom of a healer and the tireless, graceful agility of a brace of wandering Ælf-kine. Others, too, all gathered here, converging by luck or fate. Kafziel pauses, and allows himself a faint, almost-hopeful smile, and overhead, the sunlight breaks through the clouds as the sky turns a brilliant blue. 
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birthday wish.
It was my birthday yesterday. I spent all of it being spoiled and feeling very cherished by those around me. I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude throughout the day for the people in my life—from my roommates, serendipitously perfect companions to make a COVID shutdown bearable, to my church friends who have become family by now.
Please know that if you wished me a happy birthday, I received it with extra love and appreciation this year, when friends and family feel especially dear since I can’t see you easily.
I’ve always found birthdays a bit funny, though. I didn’t celebrate them growing up—my family wasn’t big on holidays or hullaballoos. I also didn’t feel like I did much to deserve it? If anything, my mom did all of the hard work, and she should be the one who received applause and attention each year for not letting us die off despite our best attempts otherwise. She also delivered a whopping 9lb 2oz baby Grace in a matter of hours and managed to turn her hurricane of a daughter into a somewhat productive member of society, so I raise a glass to her, indeed.
It got me to thinking about what deserves to be celebrated when I’ve made it another year around the sun.
This is what I want to celebrate tonight:
My childhood friends from church, who have supported and sustained me throughout every ebb and flow of my spiritual life—who have sat with me through the deepest valleys and prayed quietly for me in the darkest times. I have held out the ugliest, most stained, enraged parts of my soul to you with open hands, and you have wrapped your fingers back around mine and accepted me, whole. I have never had sisters, but in a sense, I have always had sisters. I would not be who I am today without you all.
My college friends, who somehow let me stumble my way into their hearts and taught me how to live to my fullest. Sometimes when I wonder if a God exists, I think about the fact that all of us found each other, awkward, strange, and bumbling freshmen at Hill College House and in Venus Ultimate Frisbee, and my faith is reaffirmed.  
My teaching friends who saw me through the hardest job I have ever had. I think of nights spent waking up throwing up from fear and anxiety that I was failing my kids, no matter how hard I tried. I think of the Taco Tuesdays happy hour tradition that eased that panic--where you taught me to laugh at my failures instead of beat myself up over them. I don’t think I would’ve had the energy to get up and teach every morning if you all had not given me the humor and the strength to try again each week.
My students and their families. You changed my life, and I love you dearly. I don’t have words to explain to you how deeply you are imprinted on my heart.
My grad school friends. You taught me how to speak my truth without my voice trembling. For so long, I feel like I’ve been bursting and spilling over with things I’ve wanted to say, anger and outrage at things that I’ve seen, like there have been worlds I want to share inside me, but the words got stuck in my throat somehow. You all, you brave and beautiful and brilliant women, you taught me to sing. I’ve always felt a pervasive shame around some part of my identity: whether it be growing up poor, or being too thoughtless and careless, or my commitment to my faith and my career simultaneously, because I believed them mutually exclusive. You all loved me so wholly that I could not help but love myself—my full, brimming, bright colored humanity.
My Boston community--my OEL coworkers, my roommates, my friends, my church kids and companions. You saw me through one of the hardest years of my life. You comforted me at the loss of my grandmother; you sat with me in the Emergency Room and waited for my surgeries to finish; you listened and sympathized over glasses of wine on my porch. You were my single standing sanity through the COVID-19 shutdown, the best companions throughout professional setbacks, good and completely atrocious Netflix shows, long summer evenings when there was nothing to do. You set me free on the shores of Cape Cod to see and feel and breathe again. I am indebted to you for your love and support at my weakest.
Last but not least, my family. I could wax poetic about them for pages, but instead I will say this: I owe every piece of who I am and what I could become to you. I am never as safe as I am when my mom hugs me close and I breathe in her warmth, her scent, her softness and her acceptance. I want to memorize that feeling, that moment of softening in her arms, and hold onto it forever. I am never as proud as when my father reaches out to squeeze my hand or ruffle my hair and tells me I remind him of himself. I am never as happy as I am around you, my dear little brother with your sweet dimples and happy-go-lucky goodness, your easy humor and gentle compassion and pureness of heart. I am never as challenged or pushed to grow as in conversation with you, my older brother, with your vigilance and discipline, your great strength of character and constant striving to improve. You are my greatest and dearest loves. Thank you for loving me back.
I think that’s enough sentiment for tonight. If you’re reading this, if you wished me a happy birthday, if you thought of me at all--just know, please, that I care about and appreciate you all dearly. It’s you who should be celebrated for shaping me tonight.
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White Rose: It could just be you
Part 3 of 4:
The two of them had the conversation the day after. And as Ruby had expected, it had left her bright in the face. Even the more tamer things seemed embarrassing to think about. Perhaps the only saving grace she found to this was that her girlfriend openly admitted that anything she brought up was equally incriminating to her as well. It only made sense after all that Weiss would only ask about things she already had an interest in.
But as she precluded yesterday, it wasn’t anything else outside of what she had already seen on her scroll. The farthest it got was dildos and strap-ons, to which Ruby had no definitive response to yet. But Weiss assured that it was okay to not have an answer now - she would probably develop her own tastes as time went on, and they would have to have this type of conversation again in the future.
The next part of the discussion then came to when they would try to do the deed and what they might do on that evening, and that was how the name of Vanilla Wednesday was conceived.
Ruby still couldn’t believe that she came up with that name. But what was done was done. All that was left was the countdown. And waiting was actually kind of weird. Having sex on the planner was new to her, and even stranger was seeing the person who she was scheduled to sleep with on a daily basis. In all the movies and books and videos, sex was spontaneous. Setting aside time for it was different. Maybe if she liked it the first time, it would be on a more spontaneous level. But that was thinking too far ahead. For now, it was just the day-to-day things she had to focus on.
That proved to be a bit difficult. On Sunday they talked again. They decided on how it would start and that Weiss was to play the more active part first. Ruby would reciprocate if she felt like it, but it wasn't expected.
This then led her wonder about what exactly was going to happen after the initiation. And on Monday her curiosity got the better of her and she asked what Weiss was going to do. She admitted that she hadn't decided yet, which led Ruby to try and pry out a response.
“Ruby, the only thing I can reasonably conclude at this point is that on Wednesday night I am going to try and bring you to orgasm, and preferably more than once.”
“But I wanna know hooooooow!”
It was meant to be a joke. Playing around. But instead Weiss slowly turned in her chair to face Ruby, who had once again occupied the top of her girlfriend’s bedsheets. And as her gaze lingered upon her form, she suddenly felt small underneath it all. Her eyes drifted up and down her black and red outfit, resting at all the obvious points before settling against her own, the blue of her eyes demanding and fierce. Her arms and legs crossed in front of her as she leaned back a little. In spite of their actual heights, Weiss projected a hefty presence in the simplest of movements.
A shiver mixed with the heat on her cheeks.
“I think I might start with the desk.” Her voice was crystal clear, unfettered, like it always was.
“A-And then?”
Her lips curved upwards, “Well, what else do you do on a desk?”
Oh what the-
“Weiss, that is cheating and you know it!”
The tension of the moment was forgotten, but when Ruby went to shower after training she found herself thinking back to the sharp gaze the two of them shared. The memory was hoisted upon her for a long while, the heat in her stomach rivaling the warm waters. She could have let the memory do it for her, but she had more plans for the day and moved on.
And then there was Tuesday. While Ruby had some plans, Weiss had her own, stating she had an appointment to keep with a salon. At first she had no questions until she realized that in all of their years at Beacon she had never had a reason to go to a salon - she had all the beauty tools she needed at her own disposal. But then she started thinking about Wednesday (Vanilla Wednesday!) and it was like a truck plowing into a stunned deer.
Weiss was prettying herself up for the big night, and Ruby suddenly realized that she needed to play catch-up.
Her mind instantly snapped to what tomorrow was supposed to entail. Kissing. Romance. Sex. She tried not to think of the porn videos she watched, of all the women twisting and moaning, but it was inevitable. She thought of the professionals - the ones that were paid the big bucks to bare it all and had their own shrine of followers.
And aside from the strands coming from her head, very few, if at all, had any sort of hair on their body.
Okay, don’t panic. It’s not like this was her first time using a blade for cosmetic purposes. She’s shaved her legs before, and this wasn’t supposed to be any harder. And this was for Weiss, because Weiss was doing it for her and-
Wait, no, Weiss was probably waxing. Should she wax instead? What if after a few days they wanted to do it again and the hair started to grow back? Isn’t waxing supposed to help keep hairs from growing back for longer?
Oh, but it’s supposed to be really painful. All of the girls complained about the pain but for looks it was great and-
Okay, wait, look at prices. Make sure it’s affordable and-
Yeah, no, fuck that. No way in hell. No way, not worth the pain, not-
She waxed in the end. By the time Weiss returned, Ruby had tucked herself into her bed because everything was just a little sore. When Weiss began to poke and pry in the way that almost always seemed to coax out an answer, all she said was that she was more tired than usual from training and wanted to take a nap. It was getting to be a bit late in the evening anyway - maybe Weiss would think it was her period coming early and she just needed to rest.
But Tuesday was drawing to a close. While her partner slept comfortably in the bed below her, she now found herself wide awake, slowly watching as the clock on their desk seemed to be forever paused at the final minute.
But like all things, it too would pass. And now it was here.
Vanilla Wednesday.
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The plan was simple. When it was time to begin, Ruby was to step out of the room, take a breath, and then walk back in. There, hopefully she would have been able to work out any last reservations by then, officially give her consent, and then Weiss said she’d start from there.
She checked her scroll again for the time - half past eight in the evening. She had been out here for a few minutes already, the air cool against her thin pajamas and t-shirt, the same ones that she started at Beacon with and maybe outgrew by a little bit.
And if she walked through and said yes and kept saying yes, they would probably end up on the floor somewhere in the room.
Technically she could say no. She could enter the room, say that she was scared and back out of it. Weiss was kind enough to give her that choice. She said she would understand - that she was also scared because while she had some basic knowledge, this was her first time too. But they already agreed that they would do it today. It was more of a formality than an actual question, but one that Weiss insisted that she ask.
She tapped her scroll and the screen lit up again. Another minute passed. A gulp.
Seriously, this was stupid. She had already agreed, she had built herself up to it the entire week, she spent more than she hoped to on wax, she waxed her god damn-
It’s like she was trying to find a reason to say no when her mind had already prepared to say yes. What was she even thinking about? That this might actually not even be real? That this was all just some phase that her mind conjured? One that made her kiss Weiss and not wait for her to do it first? That all the time she spent on her scroll looking at porn and trying to figure herself out was a waste and had provided nothing to her?
That the time she spent with Weiss and happiness that came with it was all just fake?
Pointless smoke. That’s all it was - pointless smoke.
She nearly threw the door open, the slam a sharp contrast to the silence that occupied the room.
Weiss had taken a seat at her desk again and still fully dressed, much like on Monday where her arms and legs were crossed. Perhaps it was a pose for power, for confidence, something that covered her own fears and doubts. Ruby wasn’t sure - Weiss wasn’t shaking like she was.
“I assume you’ve-”
“Fuck me.”
The air grew still again as their eyes met. When she said those words, she expected one of them to throw themselves on the other, not this strange silence. But Weiss blinked first and her lips parted.
“I know it sounds dumb for me to ask after that, but just in case,” she took a heavy breath, letting the air out slowly through her lips. “Do you want to have sex with me?”
Ruby felt her hands clench before trying to relax them. Cold air rushed into her lungs. “Yes.”
“Alright then. Come here, and please close the door before you say or do anything else.”
Son of a-
The door was shut with an equally loud bang, but she could feel herself heating up again. Depending on how loud her voice was, this meant that more people than she would have liked to know now knew what was going to be happening. She could already feel herself freezing up. Breathe.
“Come here, Ruby.”
She scrunched her eyes and let it go, of the door handle and everything. It’s not the end of the world. Just breathe and calm down. People had sex in the dorms all the time. Probably. With as steady of a step she could muster, she put one foot in front of the other until she was in front of Weiss, who had stood up from her chair.
While Ruby might have been naturally taller, with her heeled boots Weiss stood just a tiny bit higher than her, forcing the girl to look just a tad upward. Blue eyes crashed against her own and her body tensed and shook with energy and fear - fight or flight at its best and worst.
“Just close your eyes and relax, Ruby. Let your shoulders drop.”
Another breath, and she willed her body to sag and come to rest. One second later, a soft hand cupped her cheek and Weiss’ lips brushed against her own. Then again, for longer this time. There was an errant lick, and she let her in.
The hand at her cheek dropped right as her own moved to grasp her shoulders. This was easy compared to last time. Even with the hands going up and down her sides, to her back and to her hips, letting Weiss just take control for now was the easier of her previous instincts. Let her do the work and focus on keeping herself from falling apart into shivers and heavy breaths. She didn't have to figure out where to put her hands. She didn't have to think about when it was time to move to the next part.
So when Weiss started to be a bit more pushy, her body beginning to press against hers, she didn't think about. Ruby’s own hands had already fallen to where it was more comfortable, settling at the back of her waist. It was easier to let herself be swept up in her touch.
Perhaps it was this lack of thought that led to finding her hips against her desk. Their conversation from earlier came back and for the first time she realized her hammering heart. She remembered that her pajamas were paper thin and Weiss’ fingers could no doubt feel every curve and contour of her body, one hand permanently tracing her hips as the other trapped her close.
Her body leaned back to snag a breath of cold air, to fight the heat on her skin. She let her hands fall from Weiss’ waist, hands moving to the edge of the desk to support and keep herself from falling over. For a moment she was left alone, their eyes capturing their flushed tones, but a second later she came in again, lips latching onto her neck.
She felt a hand settle over hers. “Do you want to touch me?”
The way the words fell from Weiss’ lips was alien. It was a mix of discomfort and desire, so quick that she almost missed it.
It was fierce and Ruby shivered. Her answer came in heavy breaths. “No.”
“No?”
“Me.” She couldn’t believe she just said it, and yet- “Touch me.”
Weiss only blinked before moving in once more. “... Okay then.” Her hand fell away from hers, but instead of moving back to her hips and back, instead they began to trails of fire on the outside of her thigh.
Somehow, Weiss had wedged her own body between her legs. The pounding beat in her veins only became louder as she realized once again how close they were to each other, how warm it was, the way her lips felt against her neck-
There was this pitch in the air. And everytime it went off, it felt like the room grew hotter. Weiss drew closer. Her kiss grew fiercer. Her fingers became bolder, tracing in and out, and then up and up and up. And when her hand settled upon her chest, right on top of her black shirt, feeling every tense muscle and point through the cloth, it all snapped back.
She was whimpering. That’s what the noise was, that high pitch. Suddenly she felt herself recoil, nearly scooting herself on top of the desk. Disbelief settled in.
This was happening. She was going to let Weiss have her way. In spite of all the things that she knew she was attracted to, this girl between her legs was going to run her over.
Weiss let her hands settle down again, away from Ruby and towards herself. “Is everything alright?”
“Yeah,” she blinked, pushing her own bangs back. “Sorry, it just- I-” she gulped, “Sorry. It just… all came together.”
“I-It’s okay, Ruby.” The brief, unusual stutter in her voice made Ruby look up, and for the first time she saw the girl shaking and trembling, no better than her. “I… I might have gone too fast.”
“No, no, it was fine, it was.. It was…”
Fuck, what was she supposed to say?
But a hand softly came to her cheek, just like how Weiss had done prior to everything so far tonight. Ruby’s eyes closed. The heat was still there, but it felt controlled now.
This was good. This was nice.
“Keep going?”
“Yeah, do it.”
Her lips was on hers again in an instant. This time she was cognizant of the tongue that was slowly making its rounds. This time she was aware of the hands that felt her thigh, that fell upon the swell of her breasts, and she leaned into them.
This was good. This was nice. And it was warm.
“I have an idea. Turn around.”
“Y-Yeah?” she squeaked.
Weiss backed away from her, taking a gulp of air herself. “Might not be as-,” her lips mashed together in thought, “It might be easier.”
With a quick few nods, Ruby turned around to face the desk and wall. It was cleared off of any clutter.
Her chuckle held a nervous lilt, if she could even call it a chuckle. “You’ve been thinking about the desk, haven’t you?”
“Guilty as charged.” A single finger slowly burned down her spine. “But I wasn’t lying when I said that this might be easier.” Her hips came up against hers, pressing her against the desk. One finger became two, became three, became many. “You don’t have to think about me, Ruby.”
Her leg nudged between hers before Ruby felt her thigh run up against her own, settling at the point where her legs came together. A shock ran over her body, nothing unlike when she set out to touch herself. But the lack of control, to know that she wasn’t in the driver’s seat amplified everything. Everything else Weiss was doing came to a standstill. All that existed was just the soft touch of her thigh against her. A quick and shaky breath came from her lips.
”You can just feel for now.”
Another soft push came from her thigh and she hissed. It was gentle, exploratory even. Weiss’ hands started moving again slowly around her back, settling at the sides of her waist again. Her own arms wanted to relax and they did, resting on her elbows and bringing Ruby’s top down towards the desk.
She pushed forward again, and this time there was more weight in her thrust. Just a little rougher, a little more pressure. A low whimper escaped her lips as Weiss gradually built up the smallest of rhythms.
“How is it?”
It made her legs want to buckle, but she held on. “It’s-” she gulped down air, “good. Really good.”
“Then…” Weiss hands glided over the bump of cloth, finger catching on the waistband and knuckle softly grazing her skin. “More?”
This was it. They had been partially naked around each other before by circumstance or convenience. But this was being naked for the sake of pleasure, something entirely new for the both of them.
She bit back a shiver. “Yeah. Do it.”
“Alright then.” Weiss moved away from Ruby as her hand slowly began to tug. Another wave of heat passed through her and she leaned forward, tucking her arms beneath her body, becoming as small as she could.
As the band creased over her hips and began to slacken and go down, cold air collided with her hot skin and she trembled. She didn’t have to look over her shoulder to know how hard Weiss was staring. She could feel it in the way her hand started moving again. Fingertips softly dragging and pressing into her flesh once more. She didn’t have to wait long for Weiss’ thigh to wedge its way between her own again.
And with the way she was leaning over, the way she was exposing herself to Weiss-
“I’m going to start moving again, okay?”
She couldn’t speak, could only nod. Slowly, her leg pushed up through Ruby’s, gently forcing them apart and finally contact returned to her body. Her folds of skin, wet and supple, were gently caressed and rubbed by the flesh beneath it. Her hips were cupped and released, softly plied and brushed by her hands. Another rub of skin, and a moan dragged out from between her lips.
Ruby tried to think of Weiss, tried to keep in control of herself. She was leaning on top of the desk now, eyes shut, fingers clenched, arms laying uselessly to her side, too preoccupied with how good it all felt. Her dress was silky smooth, cool to the touch. It was made of rich material that somehow, through technology that was fueled by countless lien, was resistant to all sorts of damage and blemishes. And the way the thin material slid and let her feel the heat of her leg against her own-
It was a marvel, one of Weiss’ prized and prideful possessions.
And she was going to get her off on it.
Damnit, everything felt hot.
“F-Fuck…”
Weiss leaned in to place a lingering peck on the back of her shoulder before backing away and resuming. “Just feel, Ruby.”
Just feel the cloth, impossibly smooth, chilling, enticing, driving her mad.
Her hips pushed out against Weiss’ body. Knowingly or unknowingly was undetermined.
“But- your skirt- what about-”
“Don’t worry about my skirt, Ruby. Just feel.”
“Weiss, it’s your skirt-”
A strong push, this time moving back and forth again and again.
“I can just wash it.”
“Weiss, it- Weiss, Weiss-!”
She felt hands hook her waist and pull back. There was another press of her thigh, the angle pointing just a bit more upward than before. Then a push away and another pull, fierce and demanding. Her legs gave away, bringing her full weight for one last thrust from Weiss and it was over. It came in shallow breaths, trembling legs. Whatever strength was in her upper body vanished and she all but nearly crumpled onto the desk, as if she wanted to curl in on herself.
When Weiss moved her leg away, the cold air hit her and she whimpered. But she was still there, and leaned over her to kiss her shoulders and neck. It was patient. Her hands were placed at her sides, not anywhere on Ruby, just near her hands. When her breathing returned to a more normal pace, she finally spoke.
“I would like to make good on my goals, if you feel up for it.” It was meant to be as neutral as Weiss could put it to be. Nothing forced, just her best attempt at a suggestion. “Or... you could try me for the next part.”
Ruby’s head turned to stare at her from the corner of her eye. “Try you?”
“If you’re interested, that is. And if it doesn’t do it for you we can stop or move on or whatever you want.”
She was already halfway through. That’s what this was all for in a sense, wasn’t it? To take a step and try to figure it out? And she made it through after all this, hadn’t she?
She could have backed out at any time. Could still back out. But it didn’t seem right to call it off halfway through.
It wouldn’t be fair to Weiss at all, in the very least.
“Okay. But we’re doing it on the bed.” With a final push up, she peeled herself back off the desk. Her head turned toward the bunk bed and she found herself casually moving over. It wasn’t the first time she was in Weiss’ bed, and it wouldn’t be the last. And the scariest was over, if it could even be called scary. Lifting the covers, she ducked under them and turned around.
Weiss hadn’t budged from spot yet. Instead, she was staring down at her clothes.
Her head tilted up from the pillow. “Weiss?”
She shook her head. “Sorry. I just thought you would-” she blinked, breathed. “Nevermind.”
Then she began to quickly undress, as if to get it over with as soon as possible. First the bolero. Then the boots and socks and hairpin and then the dress and then it was just the undergarments. She paused briefly but fought through the red of her cheeks and unhooked her bra and slid her panties down.
Right when everything hit the floor did Ruby realize what Weiss just went through. She had gone through it just moments ago and she was kicking herself for not realizing it sooner. Undressing and getting naked was a part of sex, but rushing through it when neither of them were fully comfortable with being naked yet was daunting.
Even if Weiss was the one who wanted it, was leading them through it, she was still scared, just like Ruby was.
“Oh, Weiss, I’m- I didn’t-”
“I’ll be fine. We’re learning, after all.” she cut her off. One last blink, one last gulp and she looked back at her with those blue eyes again. Taking a step forward, she moved towards the bed, lifting the covers and climbing in. But instead of sliding in next to her, her hand went to Ruby’s shoulder, gently pushing her back onto the center of the mattress and climbed over her. Her knees settled onto her sides.
She was forced to see it all, and it was perhaps the first truly aggressive move from Weiss in the entire night. Her cheeks were flushed red, just as red as she probably was. Her skin was smooth, Ruby had always known this to be, but to see it up close was another thought in itself. Not a single blemish across her lithe curves. Not a speck of hair anywhere on her body.
She felt herself shaking underneath her form and shape. But there was a soft touch on her hand and then a kiss on her forehead.
“Don’t think, Ruby.”
She was really pretty. First was the cascading locks of white, framing smoldering blue eyes. Small shoulders atop a chest that grew more and more enticing than she expected. And as her gaze fell like water, down her stomach and past the v-
“If you want it, i-it’s yours.”
Spotless and glistening.
Ruby was staring and she knew it. She blinked and looked up, back to her breasts. She gulped. “Anything?”
“Anything.”
There was a nod with Weiss’ response. But all Ruby caught of it was the bob of her chin as she let her hand drift up her stomach. She knew her skin was soft - glancing touches told her so. But to see this much was new. It made her want everything.
She lifted her body up, brought herself closer to Weiss. She hesitated, breath ghosting across her pale skin. But she let it go and brought her lips upon her breasts. Her hands moved across her body, twisting around and bringing her close. Fingers twined into her own dark locks, keeping her on Weiss’ chest. She changed sides, a wet mark plastered onto her flesh, tongue flicking against the tip.
Next were her hands. Fumbling away from her body, they instead settled down to her hips. One moved to the front, fingers sliding and dragging through the dampness. Slow, lingering. Something pushed her down onto the sheets again. Lips fell upon hers and she pushed back, not even waiting for Weiss to give that errant lick.
Something was brushing up against her core again. Fingers. But it was frantic, almost lacking control. Ruby returned her hands back to Weiss, going for her own folds, the wetness beginning to coat her fingers.
“R-Ruby.”
Weiss was trying to finger her back, one of them going down the length of her slit and making her gasp. But she returned the motion. Throwing caution to the wind, she mimicked her movements, dragging across the opening before slowly pushing in. She was rewarded with a shaky whine. And as she moved back and forth, in and out, faster and faster, it grew louder, Weiss’ own actions becoming still as she languished. She fell away from her lips and onto her chest, giving Ruby a view of her trembling form.
And when she suddenly became rigid, one last, choked whimper escaping her lips. It was nice. It was good.
When Weiss recovered, blue eyes fell upon her own again. “You did well.”
She couldn’t help but smile. “Thanks.”
With a low exhale, Weiss gingerly leaned back, “I still want to make good on my goal, you know.”
Oh. Right.
Her gaze fell towards her opening again, Weiss wet fingers just softly dragging across. But then she moved back off of her, putting her hands behind Ruby’s legs and lifting her hips and lower back to rest upon her thighs.
Her fingers came into view again. “Got one more in you?”
It was like her dream. Except with this position, if Weiss looked down she would have the perfect view of everything. Heat engulfed her cheeks, more so than before.
She was exposed and at Weiss’ mercy.
Her other hand went and glided up her stomach and under her shirt. “Do you want it?”
There was something about this that was incredibly hot. The chance to finger Weiss was good and enjoyable. But this was different, though. This was like earlier, when Weiss took the lead and simply had her bask in pleasure.
“Yeah.” She looked up at Weiss. “Yeah. Fuck me.”
It would be like her dream, struggling on fingers. That was hot. But here, where she could more easily see how much would be going into her, Weiss lording over her body...
This was hotter.
She leaned in and their lips touched, but it was lacking the drive for romance. Just a peck, and Weiss leaned back as far as she could. Her hand snaked up her stomach, wrist pushing her shirt up with it until her chest was exposed. Another rush of cold air passed over her skin before her fingers gradually began to knead and work. She was ready this time, though, and instead of shock and surprise there was only the burning sensation of her fingers.
And then she felt it. Working up the courage to look down, her longest finger was slowly making its way into her. She trembled, unable to look away, unable to keep her voice still.
Holy shit, how did Weiss survive something like this? Ruby was certainly good enough to get her off, but this was on another level. Maybe it was her mind telling her that her dream was now a reality and it was time to soak in the pleasure.
Another heavy breath escaped her lips when the entire length was in her. And again when it slipped out of her. And then back in again, and then out and then in and-
“Get ready for two.”
There was more this time. Twisting and turning around each other, hitting the sides of her that she didn’t know existed. Her eyes had long shut, but she could hear herself - hardly elegant, barely graceful. Just moans and groans and grunts of pleasure.
There was a brief pause, just enough reprieve for Ruby to open her eyes. White hairs tickled her chest as Weiss leaned in again. She raised herself to meet her in a kiss, but the hand that was on her chest slowly moved up to her shoulder and pinned her to the bed.
And in her surprise there was a sharp feeling that pierced her from within. It wasn’t bad. In fact, it was almost uncontrollably good, eking out a maddened breath from her, her hips tensing and jerking. Weiss chuckled, slowly repeating the motion.
And then Ruby realized what it was.
Curling.
“Oh- Oh fuck.”
Curling.
“More?”
Curling.
“M-More! More, Weiss, holy-”
Curling.
Curling.
“Wei- Weiss!”
Curling, curling, curling, curling-
Curling.
“Weiss!”
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Kind of a Neverender Story
On May 2nd I attended my 10th Coheed and Cambria show and every day that followed for a month or so since then was a storm of emotions and fuzzy feelings. Every time I try to write this down I get annoyed at my own self and trash it so please bear with me. 5 years ago, February 2012, I got an email about Coheed going on tour like the dozens of emails that came before it since I discovered them only this time, almost 10 years into being a fan I finally decided it was time to go. "I need to do this, babe, just once. I need to get it out of my system, I'll never ask again. Just once." That's what I said to my husband before buying our tickets. I've been living this lie for over five years now, and there's no signs of stopping because every moment since then has been like living in a surrealistic bubble of "how did I get from there to here?" Plus I've won him completely over to the Coheed side, he doesn't even try to fight it anymore. We went and I got my first taste of what it was truly like to be a Child of the Fence. There were people in line with guitars singing Coheed songs, no one was rude, it was like everyone knew everyone else and in a way they did because I learned that every Coheed fan has a home in other Coheed fans. I ran in terror every time a band member was coming or going from the bus, amazed that they were so approachable as other fans said hi or got autographs. My brother in law had a good laugh at my expense when he said, "isn't the lead singer the one with the big hair? He's right there," while I stood frozen in place and I'm sure all the color drained from my face. I literally could not force myself to move. The show was absolutely everything I'd dreamed about and so much more. I found myself square in the danger zone of the pit, the crowd was insanely rough, but my eyes did not waiver from that stage. I planted my feet and turned all my focus into not getting sucked backward so I wouldn't miss a single thing. Every memory of coming to love this band, every part of my past life and the people I shared it with, every painful experience in my life that their music carried me through flooded my mind and hit me in my soul. Watching these guys perform with such zest and energy, as if it would be their last show ever breathed life into me, and when Claudio sang Mother Superior, my favorite song at the time, I wept openly and unabashedly while my husband held me tight. (Ok he was actually holding me up because I was not prepared for how physically exhausted I would be) After the show tons of people were gathered on the corner by the tour bus and I talked my husband into letting us stay despite the 3 hour drive home ahead of us. I met so many COTF that I still know and attend shows with today, people I consider "staples" because I always expect to see them in my corner of the southern US and they're always there. The crowd thinned and suddenly Josh pops out of the building and yells, "WHERE IS DOUGIEFRIZZLE?" o.O This Dougie character skips up, vinyl sleeve in hand (an OG IKS pressing), gets it signed by Josh, gives him a huge hug, explains that he's been waiting forever for Josh to rejoin the band because he was missing only his signature. As it turned out, Doug had tweeted to him that he needed him to sign and Josh being the amazing human he is came out to make it happen. Josh hung out for a bit, talking to everyone, signing things and posing for pictures, even gave one guy a beer from the bus because he said that's all he wanted. I was still terrified and I'm pretty sure I didn't speak. Some time around 2 am, what was once a crowd of us had thinned to about 25 of us; venue security had gone home no doubt believing that we are all insane, and my brother in law had long since retreated to the car to sleep. Coheed's tour manager, Pete, came off the bus and in a very no-nonsense manner gave us the news we'd been waiting for, that the band was going to come out for a meet and greet. At 2 am. In downtown Birmingham. WHAT!! "Have your cameras out, I will take your pictures, if you want something signed have it ready. Any shenanigans and we're getting back on the bus." I didn't have any words for them, except that Zach didn't come out so I requested that. He came and said "I didn't think anyone would want me to," so humble and sweet that man is. I left after getting my pictures and my ticket signed (by all but Josh) and when we passed back by I yelled "I love you Claudio" out the car window and I still cringe when I think of that, hahaha! I didn't sleep that night, how do you just go to sleep when you can feel your life slowly pulling into focus? I love my husband and my children, but I'm a stay at home mom and it can really be the pits sometimes despite the fact that I know I'm extremely lucky to be able to be home with them. At this particular time in my life things were out of whack for me, not as badly as they would come to be, but enough that my own worth already felt unimportant and lost in the repetitiveness of my boring existence. I revitalized a twitter account I had created a few years before and never tweeted from and went on a follow frenzy. I filled the void left by being stuck at home all the time with Coheed fans. I finally had a place to let me be myself, not wife or mommy, just Cyndi. Not only that, but I found hundreds of people just like me: totally invested in Coheed and Cambria, excited about it all the time, where the conversation never ended. People from all over the world, different ages, and from every walk of life you could imagine. What I found was my second home. Thus Cyndifferous was born and I'm onto the meat of my story. In the Coheed community, 10 shows is a drop in the bucket for a lot more fans than you would think, so while I'm personally celebrating that accomplishment, what I came here to talk about isn't that at all. I want to talk about the fans, my friends, my people. I threw myself into the community, dubbing twitter my own personal Heedfeed. I'm always excited about Coheed and when other people are excited too it bleeds back into me and doubles it. I'm pretty sure that I have organs and a nervous system that keep me living, but I'm also pretty sure that without Coheed & the COTF it would all cease to function. I'm a people person and the COTF community welcomed me with open arms. I started using keyword searches to find new friends, and also to share excellent content that may have otherwise been missed. What's great about our community is that even when the band is taking time off, or there's a lull while waiting for movement, there's still ample things to talk about and no shortage of people to talk to. Over the last 5 years in all my personal ups and downs, no matter the distance, I always had my cotf friends for support. When I'm bored, they're there. When I'm sad, they're there. When I'm ecstatic or miserable or anywhere in between. We even get excited about each other's upcoming shows, merch scores, and personal victories. There is no room for jealousy in Heaven's Fence. No room for egos and competition, because we're all so busy looking out for one another and having each other's backs. As true and steady as the keywork that holds Heaven's Fence in place. I've never not felt like the COTF community is my place in the world, my little niche, a safe space for everyone who shares the love for this band that gave us so much just by existing. I mentioned earlier that I've been in a whirlwind of emotions since the show and it's time to clarify. Since the moment I came on board this community I have never felt unwelcome, not even when I would rack up 1,000 tweets in a day or live tweet lyrics to two or three albums in a night. Not even when I parted ways with one project after another, some with an uproar, others a silent exit. Not even when I was constantly asking questions because, let's face it, there's a lot to know about Coheed, it's counterparts, and it's members. People like Neesh who have been around the community seemingly since the beginning of time and who are still enthusiastic and completely on board with welcoming a new person and bestowing upon them what feels like all of their knowledge, but is probably just beginning to scratch the surface. I remember laaaaaaate nights in the RadioXenu chat room with Neesh learning little nuggets of band history, staying up literally all night the night she showed me The Mours and some SUPER old demos from Shabutie & Weerd Science. (Neesh's YouTube channel is a gold mine just by the way) After all this time she is still active and vocal in the community, and still just so damn nice to EVERYONE, that's impressive especially considering how many people I've seen wax and wane or come and go. My point is, Neesh inspired me to always be that person, to always be open and welcoming and a home for COTF, most especially the new ones just hopping on board our particular brand of crazy train, trying to find their place in our vast community. The least I can do after all of the unexpected kindness that has been shown to me over the years is continue to pass that on...forever. Seeing Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness live in all of its glory was an experience I could relive every moment for the rest of my life and die happy. In fact, I hope when I'm about to embark on my next life and my life memories replay that this night is featured. Literally everything about the day was perfect, the weather, the friends, the food. And as the night began it took a huge leap into epic, beginning with witnessing one of the most beautiful moments I've ever witnessed at a show. (I'm looking at you, Yui. And also at you Ern, you amazing human, you.) I'm sparing details because I came here to talk about what happened post-show, I think I've told enough show stories for now, ha! For me, approximately 60% of a Coheed show is meeting people. Internet friends, old friends, new friends, there's no such thing as strangers. This particular show was a "homecoming" of sorts for me because Atlanta is usually where I see my Coheed shows and the previous two tours I skipped Atlanta in search of new places and faces. I got to see people I have missed so dearly since IKS Neverender, including Tim, the very first COTF to ever show me the kind nature of our community at my first show, and also the first I'd heard of people who travel around the country just to see these guys perform their miracle of musicianship. There are not many things in life that parallel the joy of recognizing someone and saying "I KNOW YOUR FACE," even when you've only ever seen it in a tiny profile box online. And so begins a series of happenings that have filled my heart to the bursting point. My bestest friends & I, Jim and James AKA The Awkward Team, met up for this because we are separated by so much distance (Mississippi, Iowa, Florida) that we try our hardest to come together for shows at least. We arrived in Atlanta the day before the show and it wasn't long before our friend Ian reached out to see what we were up to that night. Turns out he was just handed a shitty life card and needed some company! We all met up at Buckhead Pizza Co, my very first day-before-the-show hang, usually I'm a lump in my hotel room the day before haha! We had so much fun hanging out in that pizza place, and being there for Ian to take the burn out of a real bummer of a situation was awesome. Even Nina Uber'd over to hang out with us! Our pizza hangs turned into parking garage hangs and we all laughed so much our faces hurt. In short, thank you for messaging me Ian, you made our night probably 10x more fun and it was great to finally get the time to hang out with you! The show was....I can't even find the adjective to accurately convey that particular evening. The energy was high in the crowd as it always is in Atlanta, but this one was unlike any other. We had full-venue waves going on, it took us a few tries to get the whole floor and balcony involved but when it finally came together it was unforgettably amazing. I thought I would regret choosing to be in the all-seated balcony for this show, but as it turned out the entire balcony was on their feet for the whole show. Give Coheed fans at least one square foot of space to move and dance in and we will do it. And we did. I've been to a couple of shows with a very laid back crowd, this was the exact opposite and that energy conveyed to the band on stage as they powered through one of the most difficult albums in their discography. They moved and grooved right along with us, with the biggest smiles I think I've ever seen them play a show with. And when Final Cut came up, Claudio disappeared from the stage and reappeared ten feet to my left in the balcony shredding a solo and letting a fan play his guitar. Those moments, when the band is floating on the energy of the crowd, when every note they play slams more energy around, when you can tell they're happy to be where they are and loving what they do are next-level. If we could bottle up the energy from a show like that we could live forever on it. I may never experience another show quite like that one, but if not I won't be at a loss because it was immortalized on Coheed TV and I revisit it often. https://youtu.be/aLkoNo5f-r4 After the show I always hang around outside, its prime time to talk about the show, meet up with people you missed beforehand, and sometimes even catch an impromptu meet and greet. I was sitting down in the parking lot because even though I had a balcony seat I was on my feet dancing, jumping and moving around during the entire set. It wasn't long after the show that a gentleman approached me and introduced himself as someone from twitter and thanked me for....being me? I'm trying to stay clear of personal vanity, but he thanked me for being kind and and friendly online, told me I was the first COTF he followed, and it was truly awesome to meet him. He flew all the way from Kansas to come to the Atlanta show! I live and breathe for moments like that, when internet and real life collides unexpectedly and someone expresses their gratitude for me. I can dish out compliments all day long, but taking them is hard for me because I'm just a potato of a person who loves Coheed. What I do is not a special skill or talent, I just love to talk and I happen to have a ton of free time to do that with. So thank you, carnacolypse! I catch a fair amount of grief sometimes from my family for the amount of time I spend online, and those moments where someone tosses me appreciation for that, even though I'm just doing what I do, makes the sting of that grief go away. I'm just a girl in Mississippi, I've said it all along and I'll continue to say it forever. I am not special in any way, but my friends sure do make me feel that way. Not overshadowing all of the other COTF I got to meet for the first time that day, including Alison who came all the way from Canada and started her epic multi-date heedtrip at the Atlanta show! Coming home after a heedtrip is hard. Post-Coheed depression is a very real thing for a lot of fans. I love my kids, and I miss them like crazy when I'm away, but I see them every day of the year, my cotf friends get 2, 3 or 4 if I'm SUPER lucky and coheed busts out a secondary market tour. Sometimes it's not so bad, but this time I was missing my awkward team and sad that the Neverender I felt like I'd waited a lifetime was now officially behind me. A tough pill to swallow. I stayed horizontal pretty much all of Thursday. As always though I fell back into the swing my boring existence, empowered by the task of staying positive and continuing to share and discuss the events of Coheed's continuing tour. A new Tales From The Grail Arbor video drops every so often and this sounds silly, but it hypes me right back up again. Dirty Ern has a way with photos and videos, capturing moments that flood you with memories of your own adventures while enjoying clips of someone else's. I've teared up with joy during almost all of the 16 episodes that have come out so far. PLUG- if you haven't subscribed to Coheed's YouTube do that right now, CoheedTV is everything you love about Coheed DVDs but free and is also a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look into what tour life is like. There are still more episodes on the way. https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialCoheed -ENDPLUG The reality is though, that the joy of being a COTF never really stops coming, even when the post-show sadness tries to sink into my soul. This community is everlasting. The connection is always there, no matter the distance. There's always something happening, someone talking, lives being lived under the precious veil of COTF life. (It's not just a band after all, it's a lifestyle) So while the post-Coheed funk comes hard and fast and devastating, it lifts quickly enough and you propel forward into the next big thing. For me, watching the next wave of excitement when the U.K. leg of the tour started was pretty epic. Following their heedtrips as they come together from so many different countries is amazing. But currently, that's excitement that Coheed is returning to the Amory Wars storyline with their next album (YAY!), the knowledge that Josh is hard at work on a couple of different and very exciting musical endeavors (one of which I was lucky enough to hear a sample of and you people should be over the moon excited for it), and of course the upcoming Chonny and Clyde project. Not to mention, we're still not quite halfway through the release of the long awaited Good Apollo comics, and each issue brings with it another wave of fun because this series is incredible and extremely well done. Truth be told there's always something around the next corner with this band and their members, and that's a big reason why I love being a fan of these people and their art. It's now been almost 3 months since Neverender in Atlanta. The tour has long since finished, SDCC has come and gone, and once more the quiet waiting has settled in. The lull. But today is my birthday, and I can't even put into words how incredible it is to wake up to a flood of birthday greetings from literally all over the world. Close friends and acquaintances the same took time out of their days and lives to wish me well on my birthday and the gratitude and love I feel every single year takes my breath away. It doesn't get old, it never fails to put the biggest smile on my face. In reality my birthday is just another day, but the hundreds of people that I've met, or will soon meet, or may never meet make this day special. It serves as a reminder that I have found my home in another place. I am a person with more to offer than the hundred jobs that fall under the stay-at-home-mom blanket title. It carries its own joy, but knowing that I still exist as a person apart from that is a gift because I have lost that before. There isn't another community in the entire universe I would rather be a part of than this one. I hold great pride in all of you, my friends who keep me going, who share my life with me and allow me to share in yours. Thank you with my whole heart, and thank you Coheed for doing what you do and caring about your fans and putting so much of your time and effort into making sure each move you make is bigger and better than the last. You boys are a rare gift, and your fans know that fully well with everything you do. **Disclaimer: I wrote this a little at a time so my apologies for any errant or incoherent parts, or anything I may have left out. "Words don't come with ease."
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videogamelover99 · 7 years
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Human Ch.1 - Bill Cipher
A/N: Welp, looks like your wonderful motivation made me get this chapter out way sooner than I’d anticipated. Seriously guys, all your reviews/responses were really sweet. 
First chapter of the multific! From now I’ll be tagging all the chapters “Human” (since that’s the unoriginal title I’ve decided for the AO3). And this first chapter’s a doozy, believe me. 
Ever since he took that deal, he’d been regretting it.
Looking back now, he would take a million years in that stone tomb over what that giant salamander had subjected him to. He hadn’t expected on getting his power back, not really, but the least that jerk could do was give him a proper form. Hell, or at least keep him a triangle. But he’d never expected this.
He hated it. He hated everything about this stupid body, about this weak pitiful meat sack that frilly asshole decided to shove him in. He had nothing, no power, no immortality, no means of escape. And if that wasn't enough, he was slowly dying. He could even feel it. The slow, painful way each cell was loosing its energy. In just a few decades he would degrade, grow cold and end up feeding worms before he knew it, if this stupid body didn't give up on him even sooner. After watching humans for so long, he'd seen just how easily they could break down, hell he'd even been the cause of a lot of them. He'd found it funny, how easily they can die off.
He didn't now.
According to all known laws of aviation,   there is no way a bee should be able to fly.   Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.   The bee, of course, flies anyway   because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.   Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.   Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.   Barry! Breakfast is ready!   Ooming!   Hang on a second.   Hello?   - Barry? - Adam?   - Oan you believe this is happening? - I can't. I'll pick you up.   Looking sharp.   Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.   Sorry. I'm excited.   Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.   A perfect report card, all B's.   Very proud.   Ma! I got a thing going here.   - You got lint on your fuzz. - Ow! That's me!   - Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000. - Bye!   Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!   - Hey, Adam. - Hey, Barry.   - Is that fuzz gel? - A little. Special day, graduation.   Never thought I'd make it.   Three days grade school, three days high school.   Those were awkward.   Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.   You did come back different.   - Hi, Barry. - Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.   - Hear about Frankie? - Yeah.   - You going to the funeral? - No, I'm not going.   Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.   Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.   I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.   I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.   That's why we don't need vacations.   Boy, quite a bit of pomp… under the circumstances.   - Well, Adam, today we are men. - We are!   - Bee-men. - Amen!   Hallelujah!   Students, faculty, distinguished bees,   please welcome Dean Buzzwell.   Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of…   …9:15.   That concludes our ceremonies.   And begins your career at Honex Industries!   Will we pick ourjob today?   I heard it's just orientation.   Heads up! Here we go.   Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.   - Wonder what it'll be like? - A little scary.   Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco   and a part of the Hexagon Group.   This is it!   Wow.   Wow.   We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life   to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.   Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.   Our top-secret formula   is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured   into this soothing sweet syrup   with its distinctive golden glow you know as…   Honey!   - That girl was hot. - She's my cousin!   - She is? - Yes, we're all cousins.   - Right. You're right. - At Honex, we constantly strive   to improve every aspect of bee existence.   These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.   - What do you think he makes? - Not enough.   Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.   - What does that do? - Oatches that little strand of honey   that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.   Oan anyone work on the Krelman?   Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know   that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.   But choose carefully   because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.   The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.   What's the difference?   You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off   in 27 million years.   So you'll just work us to death?   We'll sure try.   Wow! That blew my mind!   “What's the difference?” How can you say that?   One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.   I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.   But, Adam, how could they never have told us that?   Why would you question anything? We're bees.   We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.   You ever think maybe things work a little too well here?   Like what? Give me one example.   I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about.   Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach.   Wait a second. Oheck it out.   - Hey, those are Pollen Jocks! - Wow.   I've never seen them this close.   They know what it's like outside the hive.   Yeah, but some don't come back.   - Hey, Jocks! - Hi, Jocks!   You guys did great!   You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!   - I wonder where they were. - I don't know.   Their day's not planned.   Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what.   You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.   Right.   Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime.   It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it.   Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.   Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too?   Distant. Distant.   Look at these two.   - Oouple of Hive Harrys. - Let's have fun with them.   It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock.   Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom!   He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!   - Oh, my! - I never thought I'd knock him out.   What were you doing during this?   Trying to alert the authorities.   I can autograph that.   A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades?   Yeah. Gusty.   We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.   - Six miles, huh? - Barry!   A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it.   - Maybe I am. - You are not!   We're going 0900 at J-Gate.   What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough?   I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means.   Hey, Honex!   Dad, you surprised me.   You decide what you're interested in?   - Well, there's a lot of choices. - But you only get one.   Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?   Son, let me tell you about stirring.   You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around.   You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.   You know, Dad, the more I think about it,   maybe the honey field just isn't right for me.   You were thinking of what, making balloon animals?   That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger.   Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey!   - Barry, you are so funny sometimes. - I'm not trying to be funny.   You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!   - You're gonna be a stirrer? - No one's listening to me!   Wait till you see the sticks I have.   I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!   Let's open some honey and celebrate!   Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae.   Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody “dawg”!   I'm so proud.   - We're starting work today! - Today's the day.   Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone.   Yeah, right.   Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal…   - Is it still available? - Hang on. Two left!   One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.   - What'd you get? - Picking crud out. Stellar!   Wow!   Oouple of newbies?   Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!   Make your choice.   - You want to go first? - No, you go.   Oh, my. What's available?   Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think.   - Any chance of getting the Krelman? - Sure, you're on.   I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.   Wax monkey's always open.   The Krelman opened up again.   What happened?   A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one.   Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.   Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life!   Oh, this is so hard!   Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,   humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,   mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should… Barry?   Barry!   All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine…   What happened to you? Where are you?   - I'm going out. - Out? Out where?   - Out there. - Oh, no!   I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life.   You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?   Another call coming in.   If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd   that gets their roses today.   Hey, guys.   - Look at that. - Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?   Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.   It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.   Really? Feeling lucky, are you?   Sign here, here. Just initial that.   - Thank you. - OK.   You got a rain advisory today,   and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain.   So be careful. As always, watch your brooms,   hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats.   Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us.   Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!   - That's awful. - And a reminder for you rookies,   bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans!   All right, launch positions!   Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!   Black and yellow!   Hello!   You ready for this, hot shot?   Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.   Wind, check.   - Antennae, check. - Nectar pack, check.   - Wings, check. - Stinger, check.   Scared out of my shorts, check.   OK, ladies,   let's move it out!   Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers!   All of you, drain those flowers!   Wow! I'm out!   I can't believe I'm out!   So blue.   I feel so fast and free!   Box kite!   Wow!   Flowers!   This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual.   Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.   Roses!   30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.   Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick.   That is one nectar collector!   - Ever see pollination up close? - No, sir.   I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there,   a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic.   That's amazing. Why do we do that?   That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.   Oool.   I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?   Oopy that visual.   Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move.   Say again? You're reporting a moving flower?   Affirmative.   That was on the line!   This is the coolest. What is it?   I don't know, but I'm loving this color.   It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it.   Yeah, fuzzy.   Ohemical-y.   Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.   My sweet lord of bees!   Oandy-brain, get off there!   Problem!   - Guys! - This could be bad.   Affirmative.   Very close.   Gonna hurt.   Mama's little boy.   You are way out of position, rookie!   Ooming in at you like a missile!   Help me!   I don't think these are flowers.   - Should we tell him? - I think he knows.   What is this?!   Match point!   You can start packing up, honey, because you're about to eat it!   Yowser!   Gross.   There's a bee in the car!   - Do something! - I'm driving!   - Hi, bee. - He's back here!   He's going to sting me!   Nobody move. If you don't move, he won't sting you. Freeze!   He blinked!   Spray him, Granny!   What are you doing?!   Wow… the tension level out here is unbelievable.   I gotta get home.   Oan't fly in rain.   Oan't fly in rain.   Oan't fly in rain.   Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!   Ken, could you close the window please?   Ken, could you close the window please?   Oheck out my new resume. I made it into a fold-out brochure.   You see? Folds out.   Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.   What was that?   Maybe this time. This time. This time. This time! This time! This…   Drapes!   That is diabolical.   It's fantastic. It's got all my special skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.   What's number one? Star Wars?   Nah, I don't go for that…   …kind of stuff.   No wonder we shouldn't talk to them. They're out of their minds.   When I leave a job interview, they're flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.   There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.   I don't remember the sun having a big 75 on it.   I predicted global warming.   I could feel it getting hotter. At first I thought it was just me.   Wait! Stop! Bee!   Stand back. These are winter boots.   Wait!   Don't kill him!   You know I'm allergic to them! This thing could kill me!   Why does his life have less value than yours?   Why does his life have any less value than mine? Is that your statement?   I'm just saying all life has value. You don't know what he's capable of feeling.   My brochure!   There you go, little guy.   I'm not scared of him. It's an allergic thing.   Put that on your resume brochure.   My whole face could puff up.   Make it one of your special skills.   Knocking someone out is also a special skill.   Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.   - Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night? - Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.   - You could put carob chips on there. - Bye.   - Supposed to be less calories. - Bye.   I gotta say something.   She saved my life. I gotta say something.   All right, here it goes.   Nah.   What would I say?   I could really get in trouble.   It's a bee law. You're not supposed to talk to a human.   I can't believe I'm doing this.   I've got to.   Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!   No. Yes. No.   Do it. I can't.   How should I start it? “You like jazz?” No, that's no good.   Here she comes! Speak, you fool!   Hi!   I'm sorry.   - You're talking. - Yes, I know.   You're talking!   I'm so sorry.   No, it's OK. It's fine. I know I'm dreaming.   But I don't recall going to bed.   Well, I'm sure this is very disconcerting.   This is a bit of a surprise to me. I mean, you're a bee!   I am. And I'm not supposed to be doing this,   but they were all trying to kill me.   And if it wasn't for you…   I had to thank you. It's just how I was raised.   That was a little weird.   - I'm talking with a bee. - Yeah.   I'm talking to a bee. And the bee is talking to me!   I just want to say I'm grateful. I'll leave now.   - Wait! How did you learn to do that? - What?   The talking thing.   Same way you did, I guess. “Mama, Dada, honey.” You pick it up.   - That's very funny. - Yeah.   Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd cry with what we have to deal with.   Anyway…   Oan I…   …get you something? - Like what?   I don't know. I mean… I don't know. Ooffee?   I don't want to put you out.   It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.   - It's just coffee. - I hate to impose.   - Don't be ridiculous! - Actually, I would love a cup.   Hey, you want rum cake?   - I shouldn't. - Have some.   - No, I can't. - Oome on!   I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.   - Where? - These stripes don't help.   You look great!   I don't know if you know anything about fashion.   Are you all right?   No.   He's making the tie in the cab as they're flying up Madison.   He finally gets there.   He runs up the steps into the church. The wedding is on.   And he says, “Watermelon? I thought you said Guatemalan.   Why would I marry a watermelon?”   Is that a bee joke?   That's the kind of stuff we do.   Yeah, different.   So, what are you gonna do, Barry?   About work? I don't know.   I want to do my part for the hive, but I can't do it the way they want.   I know how you feel.   - You do? - Sure.   My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.   - Really? - My only interest is flowers.   Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.   Anyway, if you look…   There's my hive right there. See it?   You're in Sheep Meadow!   Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!   No way! I know that area. I lost a toe ring there once.   - Why do girls put rings on their toes? - Why not?   - It's like putting a hat on your knee. - Maybe I'll try that.   - You all right, ma'am? - Oh, yeah. Fine.   Just having two cups of coffee!   Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee.   Yeah, it's no trouble.   Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.   Are you…?   Oan I take a piece of this with me?   Sure! Here, have a crumb.   - Thanks! - Yeah.   All right. Well, then… I guess I'll see you around.   Or not.   OK, Barry.   And thank you so much again… for before.   Oh, that? That was nothing.   Well, not nothing, but… Anyway…   This can't possibly work.   He's all set to go. We may as well try it.   OK, Dave, pull the chute.   - Sounds amazing. - It was amazing!   It was the scariest, happiest moment of my life.   Humans! I can't believe you were with humans!   Giant, scary humans! What were they like?   Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.   They eat crazy giant things. They drive crazy.   - Do they try and kill you, like on TV? - Some of them. But some of them don't.   - How'd you get back? - Poodle.   You did it, and I'm glad. You saw whatever you wanted to see.   You had your “experience.” Now you can pick out yourjob and be normal.   - Well… - Well?   Well, I met someone.   You did? Was she Bee-ish?   - A wasp?! Your parents will kill you! - No, no, no, not a wasp.   - Spider? - I'm not attracted to spiders.   I know it's the hottest thing, with the eight legs and all.   I can't get by that face.   So who is she?   She's… human.   No, no. That's a bee law. You wouldn't break a bee law.   - Her name's Vanessa. - Oh, boy.   She's so nice. And she's a florist!   Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!   We're not dating.   You're flying outside the hive, talking to humans that attack our homes   with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite!   She saved my life! And she understands me.   This is over!   Eat this.   This is not over! What was that?   - They call it a crumb. - It was so stingin' stripey!   And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they eat!   - You know what a Oinnabon is? - No.   It's bread and cinnamon and frosting. They heat it up…   Sit down!   …really hot! - Listen to me!   We are not them! We're us. There's us and there's them!   Yes, but who can deny the heart that is yearning?   There's no yearning. Stop yearning. Listen to me!   You have got to start thinking bee, my friend. Thinking bee!   - Thinking bee. - Thinking bee.   Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!   There he is. He's in the pool.   You know what your problem is, Barry?   I gotta start thinking bee?   How much longer will this go on?   It's been three days! Why aren't you working?   I've got a lot of big life decisions to think about.   What life? You have no life! You have no job. You're barely a bee!   Would it kill you to make a little honey?   Barry, come out. Your father's talking to you.   Martin, would you talk to him?   Barry, I'm talking to you!   You coming?   Got everything?   All set!   Go ahead. I'll catch up.   Don't be too long.   Watch this!   Vanessa!   - We're still here. - I told you not to yell at him.   He doesn't respond to yelling!   - Then why yell at me? - Because you don't listen!   I'm not listening to this.   Sorry, I've gotta go.   - Where are you going? - I'm meeting a friend.   A girl? Is this why you can't decide?   Bye.   I just hope she's Bee-ish.   They have a huge parade of flowers every year in Pasadena?   To be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream!   Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.   A tournament. Do the roses compete in athletic events?   No. All right, I've got one. How come you don't fly everywhere?   It's exhausting. Why don't you run everywhere? It's faster.   Yeah, OK, I see, I see. All right, your turn.   TiVo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane!   You don't have that?   We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.   Oh, my.   Dumb bees!   You must want to sting all those jerks.   We try not to sting. It's usually fatal for us.   So you have to watch your temper.   Very carefully. You kick a wall, take a walk,   write an angry letter and throw it out. Work through it like any emotion:   Anger, jealousy, lust.   Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?   Yeah.   - What is wrong with you?! - It's a bug.   He's not bothering anybody. Get out of here, you creep!   What was that? A Pic ‘N’ Save circular?   Yeah, it was. How did you know?   It felt like about 10 pages. Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.   You've really got that down to a science.   - I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue. - I'll bet.   What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?   How did this get here? Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,   Ray Liotta Private Select?   - Is he that actor? - I never heard of him.   - Why is this here? - For people. We eat it.   You don't have enough food of your own?   - Well, yes. - How do you get it?   - Bees make it. - I know who makes it!   And it's hard to make it!   There's heating, cooling, stirring. You need a whole Krelman thing!   - It's organic. - It's our-ganic!   It's just honey, Barry.   Just what?!   Bees don't know about this! This is stealing! A lot of stealing!   You've taken our homes, schools, hospitals! This is all we have!   And it's on sale?! I'm getting to the bottom of this.   I'm getting to the bottom of all of this!   Hey, Hector.   - You almost done? - Almost.   He is here. I sense it.   Well, I guess I'll go home now   and just leave this nice honey out, with no one around.   You're busted, box boy!   I knew I heard something. So you can talk!   I can talk. And now you'll start talking!   Where you getting the sweet stuff? Who's your supplier?   I don't understand. I thought we were friends.   The last thing we want to do is upset bees!   You're too late! It's ours now!   You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword!   You, sir, will be lunch for my iguana, Ignacio!   Where is the honey coming from?   Tell me where!   Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!   Orazy person!   What horrible thing has happened here?   These faces, they never knew what hit them. And now   they're on the road to nowhere!   Just keep still.   What? You're not dead?   Do I look dead? They will wipe anything that moves. Where you headed?   To Honey Farms. I am onto something huge here.   I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood, crazy stuff. Blows your head off!   I'm going to Tacoma.   - And you? - He really is dead.   All right.   Uh-oh!   - What is that?! - Oh, no!   - A wiper! Triple blade! - Triple blade?   Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!   Why does everything have to be so doggone clean?!   How much do you people need to see?!   Open your eyes! Stick your head out the window!   From NPR News in Washington, I'm Oarl Kasell.   But don't kill no more bugs!   - Bee! - Moose blood guy!!   - You hear something? - Like what?   Like tiny screaming.   Turn off the radio.   Whassup, bee boy?   Hey, Blood.   Just a row of honey jars, as far as the eye could see.   Wow!   I assume wherever this truck goes is where they're getting it.   I mean, that honey's ours.   - Bees hang tight. - We're all jammed in.   It's a close community.   Not us, man. We on our own. Every mosquito on his own.   - What if you get in trouble? - You a mosquito, you in trouble.   Nobody likes us. They just smack. See a mosquito, smack, smack!   At least you're out in the world. You must meet girls.   Mosquito girls try to trade up, get with a moth, dragonfly.   Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.   You got to be kidding me!   Mooseblood's about to leave the building! So long, bee!   - Hey, guys! - Mooseblood!   I knew I'd catch y'all down here. Did you bring your crazy straw?   We throw it in jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.   What is this place?   A bee's got a brain the size of a pinhead.   They are pinheads!   Pinhead.   - Oheck out the new smoker. - Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.   The Thomas 3000!   Smoker?   Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.   A couple breaths of this knocks them right out.   They make the honey, and we make the money.   “They make the honey, and we make the money”?   Oh, my!   What's going on? Are you OK?   Yeah. It doesn't last too long.   Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls?   Our queen was moved here. We had no choice.   This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes!   That's a drag queen!   What is this?   Oh, no!   There's hundreds of them!   Bee honey.   Our honey is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale!   This is worse than anything bears have done! I intend to do something.   Oh, Barry, stop.   Who told you humans are taking our honey? That's a rumor.   Do these look like rumors?   That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos.   How did you get mixed up in this?   He's been talking to humans.   - What? - Talking to humans?!   He has a human girlfriend. And they make out!   Make out? Barry!   We do not.   - You wish you could. - Whose side are you on?   The bees!   I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night.   Barry, this is what you want to do with your life?   I want to do it for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees!   Dad, I remember you coming home so overworked   your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop.   I remember that.   What right do they have to our honey?   We live on two cups a year. They put it in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!   Even if it's true, what can one bee do?   Sting them where it really hurts.   In the face! The eye!   - That would hurt. - No.   Up the nose? That's a killer.   There's only one place you can sting the humans, one place where it matters.   Hive at Five, the hive's only full-hour action news source.   No more bee beards!   With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.   Weather with Storm Stinger.   Sports with Buzz Larvi.   And Jeanette Ohung.   - Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble. - And I'm Jeanette Ohung.   A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,   intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey,   packaging it and profiting from it illegally!   Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,   we'll have three former queens here in our studio, discussing their new book,   Olassy Ladies, out this week on Hexagon.   Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.   Did you ever think, “I'm a kid from the hive. I can't do this”?   Bees have never been afraid to change the world.   What about Bee Oolumbus? Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?   Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.   We were thinking of stickball or candy stores.   How old are you?   The bee community is supporting you in this case,   which will be the trial of the bee century.   You know, they have a Larry King in the human world too.   It's a common name. Next week…   He looks like you and has a show and suspenders and colored dots…   Next week…   Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the guest even though you just heard ‘em.   Bear Week next week! They’re scary, hairy and here live.   Always leans forward, pointy shoulders, squinty eyes, very Jewish.   In tennis, you attack at the point of weakness!   It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.   Honey, her backhand's a joke! I'm not gonna take advantage of that?   Quiet, please. Actual work going on here.   - Is that that same bee? - Yes, it is!   I'm helping him sue the human race.   - Hello. - Hello, bee.   This is Ken.   Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.   Why does he talk again?   Listen, you better go 'cause we're really busy working.   But it's our yogurt night!   Bye-bye.   Why is yogurt night so difficult?!   You poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!   Yes, and Adam here has been a huge help.   - Frosting… - How many sugars?   Just one. I try not to use the competition.   So why are you helping me?   Bees have good qualities.   And it takes my mind off the shop.   Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now.   Those are great, if you're three.   And artificial flowers.   - Oh, those just get me psychotic! - Yeah, me too.   Bent stingers, pointless pollination.   Bees must hate those fake things!   Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done.   Maybe this could make up for it a little bit.   - This lawsuit's a pretty big deal. - I guess.   You sure you want to go through with it?   Am I sure? When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able   to say, “Honey, I'm home,” without paying a royalty!   It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan,   where the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history,   we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak.   What have we gotten into here, Barry?   It's pretty big, isn't it?   I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day.   You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?   Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade.   - What's the matter? - I don't know, I just got a chill.   Well, if it isn't the bee team.   You boys work on this?   All rise! The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding.   All right. Oase number 4475,   Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry   is now in session.   Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?   A privilege.   Mr. Benson… you're representing all the bees of the world?   I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor, we're ready to proceed.   Mr. Montgomery, your opening statement, please.   Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,   my grandmother was a simple woman.   Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right   to benefit from the bounty of nature God put before us.   If we lived in the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines,   just think of what would it mean.   I would have to negotiate with the silkworm   for the elastic in my britches!   Talking bee!   How do we know this isn't some sort of   holographic motion-picture-capture Hollywood wizardry?   They could be using laser beams!   Robotics! Ventriloquism! Oloning! For all we know,   he could be on steroids!   Mr. Benson?   Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here.   I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey's pretty important to me.   It's important to all bees. We invented it!   We make it. And we protect it with our lives.   Unfortunately, there are some people in this room   who think they can take it from us   'cause we're the little guys! I'm hoping that, after this is all over,   you'll see how, by taking our honey, you not only take everything we have   but everything we are!   I wish he'd dress like that all the time. So nice!   Oall your first witness.   So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden of Honey Farms, big company you have.   I suppose so.   I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!   Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.   Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term.   I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?   - No. - I couldn't hear you.   - No. - No.   Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that,   it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.   They're very lovable creatures.   Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.   You mean like this?   Bears kill bees!   How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?!   Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows!   OK, that's enough. Take him away.   So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me.   - Where have I heard it before? - I was with a band called The Police.   But you've never been a police officer, have you?   No, I haven't.   No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example   of bee culture casually stolen by a human   for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.   Oh, please.   Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?   Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting.   Or should I say… Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!   That's not his real name?! You idiots!   Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on   your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005.   Thank you. Thank you.   I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome   with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow.   I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?   Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you?   Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't   have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir?   Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!   This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella!   Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?!   - Order in this court! - You're all thinking it!   Order! Order, I say!   - Say it! - Mr. Liotta, please sit down!   I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that.   I think the jury's on our side.   Are we doing everything right, legally?   I'm a florist.   Right. Well, here's to a great team.   To a great team!   Well, hello.   - Ken! - Hello.   I didn't think you were coming.   No, I was just late. I tried to call, but… the battery.   I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.   Oh, that was lucky.   There's a little left. I could heat it up.   Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.   So I hear you're quite a tennis player.   I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby.   That's where I usually sit. Right… there.   Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,   and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.   You think I don't see what you're doing?   I know how hard it is to find the rightjob. We have that in common.   Do we?   Bees have 100 percent employment, but we do jobs like taking the crud out.   That's just what I was thinking about doing.   Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.   I'm going to drain the old stinger.   Yeah, you do that.   Look at that.   You know, I've just about had it   with your little mind games.   - What's that? - Italian Vogue.   Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.   A lot of ads.   Remember what Van said, why is your life more valuable than mine?   Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!   I think something stinks in here!   I love the smell of flowers.   How do you like the smell of flames?!   Not as much.   Water bug! Not taking sides!   Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat! This is pathetic!   I've got issues!   Well, well, well, a royal flush!   - You're bluffing. - Am I?   Surf's up, dude!   Poo water!   That bowl is gnarly.   Except for those dirty yellow rings!   Kenneth! What are you doing?!   You know, I don't even like honey! I don't eat it!   We need to talk!   He's just a little bee!   And he happens to be the nicest bee I've met in a long time!   Long time? What are you talking about?! Are there other bugs in your life?   No, but there are other things bugging me in life. And you're one of them!   Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night…   My nerves are fried from riding on this emotional roller coaster!   Goodbye, Ken.   And for your information,   I prefer sugar-free, artificial sweeteners made by man!   I'm sorry about all that.   I know it's got an aftertaste! I like it!   I always felt there was some kind of barrier between Ken and me.   I couldn't overcome it. Oh, well.   Are you OK for the trial?   I believe Mr. Montgomery is about out of ideas.   We would like to call Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.   Good idea! You can really see why he's considered one of the best lawyers…   Yeah.   Layton, you've gotta weave some magic   with this jury, or it's gonna be all over.   Don't worry. The only thing I have to do to turn this jury around   is to remind them of what they don't like about bees.   - You got the tweezers? - Are you allergic?   Only to losing, son. Only to losing.   Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you what I think we'd all like to know.   What exactly is your relationship   to that woman?   We're friends.   - Good friends? - Yes.   How good? Do you live together?   Wait a minute…   Are you her little…   …bedbug?   I've seen a bee documentary or two. From what I understand,   doesn't your queen give birth to all the bee children?   - Yeah, but… - So those aren't your real parents!   - Oh, Barry… - Yes, they are!   Hold me back!   You're an illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson?   He's denouncing bees!   Don't y'all date your cousins?   - Objection! - I'm going to pincushion this guy!   Adam, don't! It's what he wants!   Oh, I'm hit!!   Oh, lordy, I am hit!   Order! Order!   The venom! The venom is coursing through my veins!   I have been felled by a winged beast of destruction!   You see? You can't treat them like equals! They're striped savages!   Stinging's the only thing they know! It's their way!   - Adam, stay with me. - I can't feel my legs.   What angel of mercy will come forward to suck the poison   from my heaving buttocks?   I will have order in this court. Order!   Order, please!   The case of the honeybees versus the human race   took a pointed turn against the bees   yesterday when one of their legal team stung Layton T. Montgomery.   - Hey, buddy. - Hey.   - Is there much pain? - Yeah.   I…   I blew the whole case, didn't I?   It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive. You could have died.   I'd be better off dead. Look at me.   They got it from the cafeteria downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.   Look, there's a little celery still on it.   What was it like to sting someone?   I can't explain it. It was all…   All adrenaline and then… and then ecstasy!   All right.   You think it was all a trap?   Of course. I'm sorry. I flew us right into this.   What were we thinking? Look at us. We're just a couple of bugs in this world.   What will the humans do to us if they win?   I don't know.   I hear they put the roaches in motels. That doesn't sound so bad.   Adam, they check in, but they don't check out!   Oh, my.   Oould you get a nurse to close that window?   - Why? - The smoke.   Bees don't smoke.   Right. Bees don't smoke.   Bees don't smoke! But some bees are smoking.   That's it! That's our case!   It is? It's not over?   Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.   Get back to the court and stall. Stall any way you can.   And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.   Mr. Flayman.   Yes? Yes, Your Honor!   Where is the rest of your team?   Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.   Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,   and as a result, we don't make very good time.   I actually heard a funny story about…   Your Honor, haven't these ridiculous bugs   taken up enough of this court's valuable time?   How much longer will we allow these absurd shenanigans to go on?   They have presented no compelling evidence to support their charges   against my clients, who run legitimate businesses.   I move for a complete dismissal of this entire case!   Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going   to have to consider Mr. Montgomery's motion.   But you can't! We have a terrific case.   Where is your proof? Where is the evidence?   Show me the smoking gun!   Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun?   Here is your smoking gun.   What is that?   It's a bee smoker!   What, this? This harmless little contraption?   This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.   Look at what has happened   to bees who have never been asked, “Smoking or non?”   Is this what nature intended for us?   To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines   and man-made wooden slat work camps?   Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?   - What are we gonna do? - He's playing the species card.   Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!   Free the bees! Free the bees!   Free the bees!   Free the bees! Free the bees!   The court finds in favor of the bees!   Vanessa, we won!   I knew you could do it! High-five!   Sorry.   I'm OK! You know what this means?   All the honey will finally belong to the bees.   Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.   This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson.   You'll regret this.   Barry, how much honey is out there?   All right. One at a time.   Barry, who are you wearing?   My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.   - What if Montgomery's right? - What do you mean?   We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.   Oongratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?   First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.   Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with,   every last drop.   We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more   than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine.   We're all aware of what they do in the woods.   Wait for my signal.   Take him out.   He'll have nauseous for a few hours, then he'll be fine.   And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames…   But it's just a prance-about stage name!   …unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products   and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.   Oan't breathe.   Bring it in, boys!   Hold it right there! Good.   Tap it.   Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming!   - I think we need to shut down! - Shut down? We've never shut down.   Shut down honey production!   Stop making honey!   Turn your key, sir!   What do we do now?   Oannonball!   We're shutting honey production!   Mission abort.   Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.   Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.   Oh, yeah?   What's going on? Where is everybody?   - Are they out celebrating? - They're home.   They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in.   I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.   At least we got our honey back.   Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't?   It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it.   This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well.   And now…   Now I can't.   I don't understand why they're not happy.   I thought their lives would be better!   They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.   You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?   - What did you want to show me? - This.   What happened here?   That is not the half of it.   Oh, no. Oh, my.   They're all wilting.   Doesn't look very good, does it?   No.   And whose fault do you think that is?   You know, I'm gonna guess bees.   Bees?   Specifically, me.   I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.   It's notjust flowers. Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.   That's our whole SAT test right there.   Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom.   And then, of course…   The human species?   So if there's no more pollination,   it could all just go south here, couldn't it?   I know this is also partly my fault.   How about a suicide pact?   How do we do it?   - I'll sting you, you step on me. - Thatjust kills you twice.   Right, right.   Listen, Barry… sorry, but I gotta get going.   I had to open my mouth and talk.   Vanessa?   Vanessa? Why are you leaving? Where are you going?   To the final Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.   They've moved it to this weekend because all the flowers are dying.   It's the last chance I'll ever have to see it.   Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry. I never meant it to turn out like this.   I know. Me neither.   Tournament of Roses. Roses can't do sports.   Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?   Roses!   Vanessa!   Roses?!   Barry?   - Roses are flowers! - Yes, they are.   Flowers, bees, pollen!   I know. That's why this is the last parade.   Maybe not. Oould you ask him to slow down?   Oould you slow down?   Barry!   OK, I made a huge mistake. This is a total disaster, all my fault.   Yes, it kind of is.   I've ruined the planet. I wanted to help you   with the flower shop. I've made it worse.   Actually, it's completely closed down.   I thought maybe you were remodeling.   But I have another idea, and it's greater than my previous ideas combined.   I don't want to hear it!   All right, they have the roses, the roses have the pollen.   I know every bee, plant and flower bud in this park.   All we gotta do is get what they've got back here with what we've got.   - Bees. - Park.   - Pollen! - Flowers.   - Repollination! - Across the nation!   Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Oalifornia.   They've got nothing but flowers, floats and cotton candy.   Security will be tight.   I have an idea.   Vanessa Bloome, FTD.   Official floral business. It's real.   Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.   Thank you. It was a gift.   Once inside, we just pick the right float.   How about The Princess and the Pea?   I could be the princess, and you could be the pea!   Yes, I got it.   - Where should I sit? - What are you?   - I believe I'm the pea. - The pea?   It goes under the mattresses.   - Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart. - I'm getting the marshal.   You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!   Let's see what this baby'll do.   Hey, what are you doing?!   Then all we do is blend in with traffic…   …without arousing suspicion.   Once at the airport, there's no stopping us.   Stop! Security.   - You and your insect pack your float? - Yes.   Has it been in your possession the entire time?   Would you remove your shoes?   - Remove your stinger. - It's part of me.   I know. Just having some fun. Enjoy your flight.   Then if we're lucky, we'll have just enough pollen to do the job.   Oan you believe how lucky we are? We have just enough pollen to do the job!   I think this is gonna work.   It's got to work.   Attention, passengers, this is Oaptain Scott.   We have a bit of bad weather in New York.   It looks like we'll experience a couple hours delay.   Barry, these are cut flowers with no water. They'll never make it.   I gotta get up there and talk to them.   Be careful.   Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?   I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.   Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.   - What'd you say, Hal? - Nothing.   Bee!   Don't freak out! My entire species…   What are you doing?   - Wait a minute! I'm an attorney! - Who's an attorney?   Don't move.   Oh, Barry.   Good afternoon, passengers. This is your captain.   Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?   And please hurry!   What happened here?   There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded.   One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!   - Is that another bee joke? - No!   No one's flying the plane!   This is JFK control tower, Flight 356. What's your status?   This is Vanessa Bloome. I'm a florist from New York.   Where's the pilot?   He's unconscious, and so is the copilot.   Not good. Does anyone onboard have flight experience?   As a matter of fact, there is.   - Who's that? - Barry Benson.   From the honey trial?! Oh, great.   Vanessa, this is nothing more than a big metal bee.   It's got giant wings, huge engines.   I can't fly a plane.   - Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot? - Yes.   How hard could it be?   Wait, Barry! We're headed into some lightning.   This is Bob Bumble. We have some late-breaking news from JFK Airport,   where a suspenseful scene is developing.   Barry Benson, fresh from his legal victory…   That's Barry!   …is attempting to land a plane, loaded with people, flowers   and an incapacitated flight crew.   Flowers?!   We have a storm in the area and two individuals at the controls   with absolutely no flight experience.   Just a minute. There's a bee on that plane.   I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson and his no-account compadres.   They've done enough damage.   But isn't he your only hope?   Technically, a bee shouldn't be able to fly at all.   Their wings are too small…   Haven't we heard this a million times?   “The surface area of the wings and body mass make no sense.”   - Get this on the air! - Got it.   - Stand by. - We're going live.   The way we work may be a mystery to you.   Making honey takes a lot of bees doing a lot of small jobs.   But let me tell you about a small job.   If you do it well, it makes a big difference.   More than we realized. To us, to everyone.   That's why I want to get bees back to working together.   That's the bee way! We're not made of Jell-O.   We get behind a fellow.   - Black and yellow! - Hello!   Left, right, down, hover.   - Hover? - Forget hover.   This isn't so hard. Beep-beep! Beep-beep!   Barry, what happened?!   Wait, I think we were on autopilot the whole time.   - That may have been helping me. - And now we're not!   So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.   All of you, let's get behind this fellow! Move it out!   Move out!   Our only chance is if I do what I'd do, you copy me with the wings of the plane!   Don't have to yell.   I'm not yelling! We're in a lot of trouble.   It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!   It's not a tone. I'm panicking!   I can't do this!   Vanessa, pull yourself together. You have to snap out of it!   You snap out of it.   You snap out of it.   - You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!   - You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!   - You snap out of it! - You snap out of it!   - Hold it! - Why? Oome on, it's my turn.   How is the plane flying?   I don't know.   Hello?   Benson, got any flowers for a happy occasion in there?   The Pollen Jocks!   They do get behind a fellow.   - Black and yellow. - Hello.   All right, let's drop this tin can on the blacktop.   Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?   No, nothing. It's all cloudy.   Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.   - Thinking bee. - Thinking bee.   Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!   Wait a minute. I think I'm feeling something.   - What? - I don't know. It's strong, pulling me.   Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.   Bring the nose down.   Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!   - What in the world is on the tarmac? - Get some lights on that!   Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!   - Vanessa, aim for the flower. - OK.   Out the engines. We're going in on bee power. Ready, boys?   Affirmative!   Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.   Land on that flower!   Ready? Full reverse!   Spin it around!   - Not that flower! The other one! - Which one?   - That flower. - I'm aiming at the flower!   That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt. I mean the giant pulsating flower   made of millions of bees!   Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.   Rotate around it.   - This is insane, Barry! - This's the only way I know how to fly.   Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane flying in an insect-like pattern?   Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid. Smell it. Full reverse!   Just drop it. Be a part of it.   Aim for the center!   Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!   Oome on, already.   Barry, we did it! You taught me how to fly!   - Yes. No high-five! - Right.   Barry, it worked! Did you see the giant flower?   What giant flower? Where? Of course I saw the flower! That was genius!   - Thank you. - But we're not done yet.   Listen, everyone!   This runway is covered with the last pollen   from the last flowers available anywhere on Earth.   That means this is our last chance.   We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers and dress like this.   If we're gonna survive as a species, this is our moment! What do you say?   Are we going to be bees, orjust Museum of Natural History keychains?   We're bees!   Keychain!   Then follow me! Except Keychain.   Hold on, Barry. Here.   You've earned this.   Yeah!   I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.   Oh, yeah.   That's our Barry.   Mom! The bees are back!   If anybody needs to make a call, now's the time.   I got a feeling we'll be working late tonight!   Here's your change. Have a great afternoon! Oan I help who's next?   Would you like some honey with that? It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.   Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me. And I don't see a nickel!   Sometimes I just feel like a piece of meat!   I had no idea.   Barry, I'm sorry. Have you got a moment?   Would you excuse me? My mosquito associate will help you.   Sorry I'm late.   He's a lawyer too?   I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.   Have a great afternoon!   Barry, I just got this huge tulip order, and I can't get them anywhere.   No problem, Vannie. Just leave it to me.   You're a lifesaver, Barry. Oan I help who's next?   All right, scramble, jocks! It's time to fly.   Thank you, Barry!   That bee is living my life!   Let it go, Kenny.   - When will this nightmare end?! - Let it all go.   - Beautiful day to fly. - Sure is.   Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office.   You have got to start thinking bee, my friend.   - Thinking bee! - Me?   Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it.   I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oan we stop here?   I'm not making a major life decision during a production number!   All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys.
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HONORING MY LATE HUSBAND NICKOLAI COWELL, Screamin' Olaff Maginski, NEW SONG ROAD SCORE ONIONS I am baaaack. I am having an INTENSE physical transformation. In my 10 Years of horrific illness, I had thousands of tumors/graulomas, and many many badly broken and dissinetegated bones. I had numerous surgeries, including 2 prostetic hips, other human bones, screws, and countless stiches in my throat where they kept on having to save my life with IVs sewed into my neck, for my blood was teribly infected, I had DVT blood clots, and my veins had collapsed. I know it is BEYOND a miracle I am here, typing this, smiling, breathing. I am trying to find that balance that I always struggle with between helping make the world a better place and caring for myself. The past few days, as it was most of the last 10 years, I lost hearing in my left ear and every noise that came to me was garbled into torturous pain in my left ear and eye where so many tumors recently melted, leaving holes so to speak. Since I coud not use music at all, I deeply mediated on the places and people I love so dearly and healed healed healed, am healing healing healing. I am almost COMPLETELY off narcotics, just had to add a bit back with he recent intense pain. I realize I am not yet strong enogh to travel on a plane, so I will not make it to the Portland Memorals May 6 and Music May 7 for my dear late husband, 'Nickolai' Nicholas Cowell, Screamin' Olaf Mcginski. My songs will be there, a dozen of them, on recycled paper, as will my spirit, and I will be there on some form of social media. Every single person that was attracted to the wonderous light of my husbad is an exceptional person, I assure you will not be let down if you attend and meet some of his glorious 'extended family'. This is a small event for friends and family organized by his parents and brother. He never had a friend he didn't consider family, so in that vein: all are very welcome, kids too of course! I will post information soon about the event(s), timing and more details. I am working with my dear sisier on a Funeral close to home, in Massachusets perhaps. My nephew and I will be playing songs, and we are planning some beautiful rituals. I will be honoring this brillinat man for the rest of my life, so after Portland will be a Mass/NJ event, one in Telluride, CO, and on from there Interntionally eventually. This hubmle brilliant unseen man in his lifetime deserves the world, and I internd to give it to him now that I am alive again, taking care to first feed and love and heal myself, which I am deepy working on now. He is truly helping me write the Album, Band of Peace, letting all beings know they are dearly loved, powefrul, and thet unity and peace and susainability are all possible! There will be a non-proft fund in his name associated with this evetually. I have been offline, completely had my phone shut off, and have been in a deep cuccoon. I will check messages and emails etc. soon. I was able to listen to music again starting yesterday!!!!!!!! YEAH! I will be working with many many msicinas! SO EXCITED! Today, I wrote the song Road Score Onions about meeting and inevitably falling deepy in love wih my late husband, Screamin' Olaf Mcginski. The greif is deep, for he is my True Love. The music helps immensely, and I am trying to remind myself not to be so sad, for he is here with me!!! Cheers and peace, y'all! No matter what is going on in your world around you, peace is possible-for is inside you!!! I will be recording music videos of Whanganui River and Road Score Onions soon, as my ear pain allows me to, gives me the green light!!@@ ROAD SCORE ONIONS ************************************** Darlin', you brought me road score onions and I was all in. Singing by the fire your face floated through centuries in my dreams. We had the same visions passions hearts right from the start. Always before I thought I was on a holy mission alone. Until you became my only home I've ever really known. I knew I was on a mission to bring sustanability to our people, solar power to every steeple. But oh, how you gloriously stopped me in my tracks. To join me. There is no looking back. Sundays were our days. You taught me how to telemark ski. You moved with me to New Jersey. To move in with grandma so she didnt have to go alone to a sterile home. To Unite. To fight for new state laws for solar wind and earth energy sustainability afforability city. You designed engineered and installed solar all over. You taught biodisel. Your gigantic heart is so damn lethal! We did what we loved for work. Busmans holidays. Neverending passions to create on earth a new and true heaven from seven stars from very far away, away. Oh, how i remember how tender your touch. It is too much to not have you here as I have awakened. No, I am mistaken. For you are writing this with me! Holy!!!! It was way too much. How sick I fell. We went down the deepest well. It was pure hell. Unable to talk. Unable to walk. You never left me, my darling. 10 loooonnng years, beyond our deepest fears. The waxing new moon lends me these tunes. Any days of breath I have left I give honor to the holy father and deep thanks to you. You. You remove my blue. My boo. My true blue. So may Nick names for the man that means the word to me, Nickolai, how you do Fly, Fly. Fly!! My one true new moon. Bloom. Boom. Bloom. You bring me love from my deepest dreams you benevolnt being! How your life was taken mid-steam. No! I am mistaken! You were not taken! For you are here healing with me. I remember it all so clearly. So dearly. You would sing to me Bob Marley and Michael Franti tunes, under our Harvest Moon. We would dance. dance. dance. Into a trance. Until I could no longer stand. How you always held my aching hand. You demanded peace. In all you did. But for your own self. Self less you are my dar'ling. You couldn't see your worth. Your love is so healing, healing, healing. How it removes my ceilings. So many more peaceful warriors I love so are in heaven. Watching over us. They will rise with us again soon, under a glorious winter solstice afternoon. We have a love so true. I have gone so deep down iside. Where you reside. I am your bride. With deep pride. I have been deep in my cuccoon with you and the moon. Thanks and praises to the one above working with you to heal this weary dove. Oh, how you still bring me road score onions straight to my heart. In the end and right from the start. The number of times we saved eachothers lives. Forged in fire. You satisfy my every desire. Spiritually we are steemed from trees. Fom Luxor, Nepal, Tibet. Peru. We are never through. We come from Water. Earth. Air. Dust. Don't despair. All that is true and holy and sacred will soon rise. Stop the illusions and our people's confusion. Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. In the Great Spirit I put all my trust. You must know you will never leave my heart. Your essence from me cannot part. Our trip to Nicaragua. Sabana Grade Village. Our Holy Pillage. Staying with our humble loving beautiful family on their earthen floor, teaching eachother about sustainability. Singing dancing so very free! We learned how to make solar panels. Change the channels. Flooding all lies. Bridge the divide. House sitting in straw bale heaven adobe. Riding horses from the mountian peaks to the sea. Dancing underneath the glorious full moon. For you, I do forever swoon. My big spoon. Look at the moon. Planting gardens composting making the most of what we were given. You were always forgiven. Livin' I am again. Your humble brilliant hands they do heal this sacred land. Oh, how your glance and dance does put me into a trance. Come into my arms. Away from all harm. Sway with me to the rhythum of the soft afternoon. Watch the new blooms. Please, deliver me from evil!. All the countries you worked for peace in. To my deep chagrin too brillant you were for the darkness here you are now devoid of fears darling, you are so damn pure!! I can feel you, ever-presently near. Oh, how my days are filled with rain and my nights are filled with sorrow. The thought of loving you brings me rainbows of tomorrow. The kind bones in your face defy space. Your soothing voice is so very gentle. So choice. Your brilliant mind so divine. Your gigantic heart melted me right from the start. Your addictions and earthly afflictions haunt me. I try to remember that now you are finally at peace. You are my peaceful warrior. How you do deliver me from pain. You are a white buffalo in my dreams: dancin' prancin' singing a dancin' and and a bell ringing. You light my fire deep within, my love twin. Sing to me as we sway to the wind in the trees lighting beings. Erupting into a violet orange sky, no longer shy. His white orange violet indigo blue silver gold halo showed me past lifetimes with this precius soul. I right then did know. I would never go. When I was down, you would bring me kittens donkeys and love poems. How I know them all by heart. You are my man. We are taking a stand with this album you are helping me write. People, Unite!!! You took my hand all over this glorious land. Man oh man. When I was long captured underwater and could not talk or sing, I would bring my visions to the pure of heart above. Owlie was sent to Nahko to sing to you this love song, 'She breaks free a flower. Catches the wave of the wind. She plants it South, far below the canyon walls. We are the mighty rivers, emptying at the mouth and joining currents. Currently, I am waiting for the midnight hour when the moon undresses in all her glory. You are my shell. My ocean as well. Put your mouth to my mouth, breathe along. You are my shell my ocean as well. Put your mouth to my mouth breathe along', he croons. How every single night was freight with the deepest strife. I could not even be touched or held. How tears welled and felled. Of course you had to check out!!@@ I do shout! Your addictions and our afflictions were to much to bear. Bear. Bere. Bare. But for our deep deep undying love, and uconditional love from the one above. I swear, I am being miraculously healed. All was reveled. It happened so damn fast. You did not believe your eyes. You tried and tried while I cried and cried for you to wake up. I had to leave to set you free like you had so often delivered to me. After all is said and done, You returned to me! See!! These songs you are writing with me! Glory!! I open my mouth south to your breath. Dissolving the tumors in my brain, my breasts. Your violet eyes Singing and dancing together on the hightest peaks. In your arms I find the deepest releif. The light in your soul. How it roll roll rolls. Over and over with you down the valleys, we met at the mouth of the river where we are finally delivered back into eachothers' arms. I finally received your ashes. I have been planting them all over. Rebirth Rebirth Rebirth. I will show you your worth that you couldn't see in this particular form on Earth. Oh perfect storm! I will always remember your water. We shall recover. All that was lost. lost. Roots run deep. True love doth forever seep. Oh, in my heart how you bring me road score onions every day to keep me sane. I will always honor your true name, my darlin'! Galloping on horses to the sparkling waters in Dominica. You are a fantastic humble leader. Watching all you do the classes you hold. You are so very bold. A sight to behold. You have zero ego, ergo my heart sings for your ring. Your humble brilliance was definately heaven sent. My love for you does rise rise rise. I will always be your bride. We will not be denied. My Darlin', My Serapin. My Dolphin. My Holy Love Twin Deep Within. Oh. How you bring me road score onions every day. It is a miracle I am healing at all. I can feel you holding me carressing me right underneath me singing to me writing these songs with me. How your mighty heart cures my disease. Please. Pleease. Don't leave me. I deeply believe. In you. My boo. I will soon be honoring you across the world 'From the west coast to the east coast blazing a trail of gold', as our wedding song Katharina wrote us our story is Told. Oh, at first glance, you took a deep stance in my heart. Your exceptional kindness, brilliance, humbleness, compassion, deep beauty had me from day 1. You Sacred Sun. We had to meet to consolodate our grants under the same ubmbrella nonprofit Atals Arkology. Steeprock Jointery. Led by the late, the great, the brilliant, the dear my brother from another mother: Glen Harcourt. Dear Brother, I know you are with my lover in Heaven. Creating glorious breathable buildings that sing! Structures that venerate and create love. They self illuminate, never to take. My grant was for green bulding code changes and education series. His was for Biodiesel for town busses and trucks. What Divine luck. That smile. I could see for miles. Your kindness. Your gentle kiss, that sweet abyss. Many many laughs. I crocheted your favorite hat. After our first weekend together, you left me the most heavenly letter. On the back of a macaroni package. That said 'You are like a perfect red apple on top of a tall twisted tree in a desolate land.' Not long after, you asked for my hand. Photon belt. Starseed Gateway. Gravity. Weightless. Unity. Blue Cosmic Hands Across this Sacred Land. Time to take a Stand. A Stand. On our first date after our grants were given to my house in Telluride you had driven. From your Biodisel Warehouse in Montrose. Our date to the potluck at our friends yurt that glorius fall night by the fire. Your face removed all my hurt, You beamed through centuries in my deepest dreams. I knew that road score onions had been planted so deep in my heat. Right from the start. Oh, darling. I 'aint leaving you again. You breathe life into me eveytime I remember you showing up with your road score onions in my heart. They took deep root right from the start. -Elizabeth Robbins April 29, 2017
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TRIPLE GODDESS SYMBOLS
Crescent Moon
A Crescent Moon is the most obvious sign of the Moon.
Full Moon discs may be confused with other Circles, but Crescents are unmistakable, so they are used as very obvious Goddess symbols.
More specifically, Crescent Moons symbolize the waxing and waning phases of the Moon.
The word "crescent" derives from the Latin creare, which means to create. So the Crescent Moon is linked with the Creative Power of the Mother Goddess.
See also Wicca God Symbol - Horns.
Darkness
Darkness in Wicca Spirituality is not a negative thing, as it is is Christianity. Darkness represents the Goddess, in Her Black aspect.
Darkness in the world represents rest, stillness, letting go, and death.
In our culture, these things are seen as signs of weakness, failure, and great fear. But in Wicca Spirituality, Darkness is honoured. It is a necessary and valuable part of the Cycle.
Without rest, how could we work? Without letting go, how could new things arise? Without death, how could we return to the One?
Although there is great cultural prejudice against the Dark -which is expressed, for one thing, as racism - the Dark half of the Divine is as sacred as the Light half.
It is the loving interplay between the dark and the light which creates form, that is, matter. This is the dance that gives birth to life.
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Double Spiral
The Double Spiral represents the dual purpose of life -the journey inward to your Essence, and then outward to the world.
It is weaving the Path Home, forever inward and forever outward, on each path coming closer to your Divine Essence. The Double Spiral is the Dance of Life, inhabiting both planes of existence simultaneously.
This is an expression of the Goddess manifesting as physical life, and physical life realising its Divinity.
The double spiral is related to the yin-yang symbol - the Taijitu - which depicts the balance and the interwoven nature of the worldly realm and the spiritual realm.
There are at least five common forms of the Double Spiral. The one above is the one most commonly used in Wicca as Goddess symbols.
See also Spiral.
Earth
The Earth is more than a Goddess symbol, She is a Goddess.
The Earth is the physical expression of the Great Goddess - for Terrestrials, the primary one. The Earth is the body of the Goddess.
The Earth has been worshipped as Divine Mother probably as long as humans have been human. The most ancient figurines depict a lush nurturing Mother. And symbols of circles and spirals abound - symbols of the planet and the seasonal aspect of life on Earth.
The Earth is our Mother, in far more than a symbolic sense. We are literally made of the soil, the air, and the water of the Earth.
More than any other Goddess symbol, the Earth is the most apparent aspect of the Goddess.
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Elder
Elder is one of the many woods that have symbolic meaning in Wicca.
The Elder is sacred to the Goddess Hel - a Crone, Queen of the Underworld.
It is referred to in the Wiccan Rede, the expanded version.
You can find out about magickal woods in the herbals, Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, and Beyerl's Master Book of Herbalism
Eye of Maat
The All-Seeing Eye of Maat was the symbol of the Goddess Maat, as Goddess of law, morality, and justice.
The Egyptians believed that it was Maat who held the universe together. It was Her quality of order which maintained the world.
As Walker states, "The Mother-syllable Maa meant 'to see'; in hieroglyphics it was an eye." (Barbara Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, p 294) Even the ancients knew that mother's had eyes at the backs of their heads!
The Eye of Maat, or Utchat, later became known as the Eye of Thoth, Eye of Ra, and is commonly called the Eye of Horus today. Although it became associated with male Gods, it is sometimes -confusingly - still referred to with the feminine pronoun.
The Eye of Maat is the origin of the Evil Eye superstition. The Goddess would not only judge, but mete out retribution. To those with a guilty conscience, the Eye of Maat became a source of fear.
See also Wicca Symbol - Evil Eye, and Wicca God Symbol - Eye of Horu
Hecate's Wheel
This stylized womb-like Labyrinth is a symbol of Hecate as Triple Goddess.
Of all the Goddess symbols on this page, this is one that refers to a specific rather than general Goddess - Hecate. Although it is likely that it is Her Triple Goddess, or Great Mother Goddess, aspect.
According to Wikipedia, "The symbolism referred to the serpent's power of rebirth, to the labyrinth of knowledge through which Hecate could lead mankind, and to the flame of life itself."
This symbol comes to us through the Greeks, who found it in the Chaldean Oracles. These are texts from the 2nd century AD, which were believed to have originated in Babylon (Chaldea).
Hecate's Wheels are not commonly used as Goddess symbols, even in Wicca. Apparently, it is used primarily by practitioners of Hellenic Recon or Dianic Traditions, but I have no confirmation of this.
Labyrinth
The Labyrinth is a symbol of death and rebirth.
Walking the Labyrinth is a mystical journey into the other realms, and back to Earth. It is a symbolic pilgrimage out of the small self, or busy mind, back Home to the Divine.
Unlike mazes, which were modeled on Labyrinths, you can't get lost in a Labyrinth. Despite the twists and turns, there is one path in, which is also the path out. Just like life.
The evidence seems to indicate that the Labyrinth was presided over by the Great Goddess. In Crete, the Labyrinth was dedicated to the Goddess Ariadne, and was created as a dancing ground in Her honour. (Karl Kereny, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life.)
See also Hecate's Wheel.
Moon
The Moon has been one of the most universal and ancient Goddess symbols.
The Moon has been worshipped in every religion, even though that fact has been obscured or corrupted through the domination paradigm that has ruled for a handful of millennia. For example, according to Walker . . .
"A primal deity of Persia was Al-Mah, the moon, whose name became the Hebraic almah, 'nubile woman': the word that Christians insisted on translating 'virgin' when it was applied to the mother of Jesus. …
As Manat, the old Moon-mother of Mecca, she once ruled the fates of all her sons, who also called her Al-Lat, the Goddess. Now she has been masculinized into 'Allah,' who forbids women to enter the shrines that were once founded by priestesses of the Moon." (Barbara Walker, Woman's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects, p 345, 346)
The Moon is the eye of the Goddess, the Mirror that sees and reflects everything on the Earth. The Moon is also the Yoni through which all life is born.
See also Crescent Moon, Ocean, Triple Moon, and Wicca Symbols - Moon.
Ocean
The Ocean is the Womb of the Earth Mother.
The Ocean is the symbol of the Ocean of the Mother's sacred and magickal blood. It is the primordial womb that gave birth to the universe when there was only the Darkness of non-form.
From Her womb, was born night, and water, and eternity. From these were born light, and earth, and time.
All life comes from the sea, as the Wicca chant goes. Life on Earth began in the Ocean.
And when we moved onto land, the Ocean came with us, traveling within our cells.
The Ocean is the fluid which runs in your veins. The salt water of the Ocean lives in your sweat, flows in your tears, fountains in your sexual juices.
Mother Ocean purifies and rebirths everything that enters Her.
The Ocean is virtually interchangeable as a Goddess symbol with the Moon. The Moon's effects on the Ocean demonstrate their eternal interconnectivity.
See also Shell, and Wicca Symbols - Menstruation,
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Rose
The 5-petaled Rose everywhere was sacred to the Goddess.
In ancient India, the Great Mother was the Holy Rose. In Asia, the Flower of the Goddess was the red China rose. In Roman times, the Rose was the Flower of Venus. Even the Christian Mary is associated with the Rose.
Roses are symbols of the sacred Vulva of the Goddess. The Vulva is the gateway through which life is born, which is awe-inspiring enough, but that is not it's only meaning.
The Vulva also represents the ability of men to "plug in" to the Power of the Goddess, and access Her directly. (An event sadly long-forgotten by most.)
And lastly, it represents beauty and joy - the sheer physical pleasure of life on Earth.
See also Vesica Piscis
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Serpent
The Serpent is one of the first Goddess symbols.
Serpents are mysterious creatures. They dwell in the dark inner Earth and sunlit outer Earth equally - crossing the borders between the worlds.
They move with the fluidity of water. In ancient times, it was believed that snakes never died of age, but shed their old skins and were reborn.
Serpents are ancient Goddess symbols, for all these reasons, and many more . . . They have been identified from time immemorial as the Consciousness and Will of the Divine, which creates all life and guides humanity to the realisation of its spiritual potential.
The serpent represents the Feminine Spiritual Energy. This is the Kundalini - the Goddess Within. This life energy lies essentially dormant in most people. It seems to awaken spontaneously, to some degree, in women during menopause and childbirth.
(This is my own theory; I have no objective verification of it as yet. But the signs are striking.)
The Serpent has a long and fascinating history of worship and supernatural struggle between the Gods and Goddesses. (The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets details this drama.)
Even in Gnostic Judaism and Gnostic Christianity, the Serpent was revered as Divine.
There is also a connection between the serpent and the mysterious and magickal DNA molecules. This Rainbow Serpent is worshipped in many forms, all over the world, by shamanic cultures.
The Goddess has been celebrated in the serpentine motions of bellydance, for millennia, despite efforts to stamp it out and defame the women who practiced it. This is a practice that is gaining great popularity again, as the Goddess becomes honoured once more.
See also Apple.
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Shell
Shells are common Goddess symbols. Not only because they represent the Ocean, but shellfish have similarities to the female Yoni.
Shells are sacred to the Goddess, Cowrie Shells in particular.
Although they are often used to contain incense or smudges, this is inadvisable. There are fire safety reasons for this, but also because putting fire elements into a Shell is an offense to the Goddess.
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There fell a pillar of white flame, dazzling as the sun, swishing like a huge tree falling in the forest. A torrent of sparks swept all the way across. The god who gives us light is the sun, who is the eye of the day, but is not to be confounded with the eye of man. When directed towards objects on which the sun shines, they see clearly and there is light in them.
Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; and the sun, he’s always among ’em. Hem, hem, hem; here they are—here they go—all alive. Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee! Ancient suns, were loneliness rages. Here, by the sacred radiance of the sun, lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, and receive their hue from circumstance. The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.
He gave us light first and the sun two days later. He filled nature with his overflowing currents. It is not unlikely that a quibble is meant between son and sun. And the sun is not named, but its presence is among us. Thus, I name a stone, I name the sun, the things themselves not being present to my senses, but their images to my memory. What that which is called day; but, what time is, whereby we, measuring the circuit of the sun, should say that it was finished in half the time it was wont. The nights not reckoned apart;—seeing then a day is completed by the motion of the sun and by his circuit from east to east again, I ask, does the motion alone make the day? I heard once from a learned man, that the motions of the sun, moon, and stars, constituted time, and I assented. The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field. The motion of the earth round its axis, and round the sun, makes the day, and the year. These are certain amounts of brute light and heat; Is a little sunshine innocent… What harm can he do to the sun and moon? He would turn the sun out of its orbit and derange the whole course of time, if, as I said before, his ingenuity could. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false. The shadows, the images, the reflection of the sun and stars in the water, the stars and sun themselves, severally correspond—first, to the realm of fancy and poetry. Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me. For could the sun do that, then could I do the other. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at periods which affects certain natures? We shall see.
You have only to take a mirror, and catch the reflection of the sun, and the earth, or anything else—there now you have made them. He swept the mirror a half circle in the air to flash the tidings abroad in sunlight now radiant on the sea. 'Yes, but only in appearance.' And as clear as is the summer's sun. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. Bedazzling the eyes of those who looked upward, like an angel of the sun. Another work of the good deacon's hand—a reduced likeness of his friend. When the sun shines the eye sees, and in the intellectual world where truth is, there is sight and light. The light of the sun, from which all life draws its energy, short-wave radiation. As in the previous instance, light and sight may be truly said to be like the sun, and yet not to be the sun, so in this other sphere, science and truth may be deemed to be like the good, but not good. The blinking of the eyes at the sun and turning to contemplate the shadows of reality, not the shadows of an image only.
Last of all you will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in the water, but you will see him in his own proper place. On a sun-beam, swift as a shooting star, once in your lifetime you could break your chains, and feel your wings, and behold the sun, or dedicate your beauty to the sun. But the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven. A star (1st magnitude) of exceeding brilliancy dominating by night and day (a new luminous sun generated by the collision and amalgamation in incandescence of two nonluminous exsuns). The glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!
I turn my body from the sun.
Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. The sun, day; daily. The sun only as a bright object that revolved around the earth, rather than the sun principle, which is that everything changes… Somewhere in the east: early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day’s march on him. Keep it up forever never grow a day older technically. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause. And in sunless dark I dwell. The black frost reigns, unbroken by sun or breeze. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. Hurry!—hurry! The sun will soon rise, and I must have him off. Here, too, life dies sunwards full of faith; but see! no sooner dead, than death whirls round the corpse. Shine over the earth; and let the day, lightened by the sun, utter unto day, speech of wisdom. I behold the day-break, I foreshow, that the sun, is about to rise. What I behold, is present; what I foresignify, to come. The time remaining until full sunrise was so short that we began to despair. She became more sombre every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun. The winking lights upon the bridges were already pale, the coming sun was like a marsh of fire on the horizon. The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned. It was by this time half-past five, and the sun was on the point of rising; but I found the kitchen still dark and silent. The light of an invisible luminous body, the first golden limb of the resurgent sun perceptible low on the horizon. The one sunbeam struggled mistily through, and could but imperfectly define the image of the crack. I know there is sunrise because I am a sailor, why else I know not. Emanations of sun, water, and earth. A bourgeois writer cited. There’s the sun again coming out. Along the clustered roofs, with church-towers and spires shooting into the unusually clear air, the sun rose up, and a veil seemed to be drawn from the river, and millions of sparkles burst out upon it. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror; but when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. The sun might shine or the clouds might lower, but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before. Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. See, and the sun is just rose, and all day to sunset is to us. Let us take bath, and dress, and have breakfast. To face the day-light, and obscure the sun. Pleasant to see first thing in the morning. Hurry up, damn it. Make hay while the sun shines. She stood outside the shop in sunlight and sauntered lazily to the right. He sighed. A look of wonder and deep content crept into her face as she watched for the first time the sun rise upon the new, the beautiful world beyond the bayou. Her spirit gushed out before him like a fresh rill that was just catching its first glimpse of the sunlight and wondering at the reflections of earth and sky which were flung into its bosom. But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.
Do you like this sunrise? That sky with its high and light clouds which are sure to melt away as the day waxes. The appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea? It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
At length the sun rose. As the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees. The sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees. All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf. Beam of the sun, fairest light that ever dawned on Thebe of the seven gates, thou hast shone forth at last. There was a sudden explosive sunrise, and simultaneously, I can tell you now, whilst the sun is coming up; I may not be able again. Yes, so we are flowers all a woman’s body, yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt. As soon as the sun rose I rose too. Rise on the earth; or earth rise on the sun. Its song had no music for me, any more than the rising sun had rays. But all so soon as the all-cheering sun, I rave: perhaps at this moment he is watching the sun rise over the Pyrenees, or on the tideless sea of the south. Socratic philosophy rose like the sun in heaven, and spread its illumination over the whole intellectual firmament. Up rose the sun in his due season, and, flinging his beams upon the young man's eyelids, awoke him. The green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey finge. It was now clear sunrise. Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves. Quick warm sunlight came running from Berkeley road, swiftly, in slim sandals, along the brightening footpath. The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill. The strange plants were basking in the sunshine, and now and then nodding gently to one another, as if in acknowledgment of sympathy. All are washed in the blood of the sun. "Neuromancer," the boy said, slitting long gray eyes against the rising sun. The golden sun, in splendour likest Heaven, clothed upon in the glory of the brightness, having raiment as of the sun, fair as the moon and terrible that for awe they durst not look upon it. I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes. It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray. I ventured to continue my journey after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by loveliness. But she was brought back to her former mood by the shimmer of the sunshine on the weapons and bright armor of the military company, which followed after the music. This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first.
For that as the body of this air which is above the earth, hindereth not the light of the sun from passing through it, penetrating it, not by bursting or by cutting, but by filling it wholly. I have no gazers to shut out, but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in. The city to which the kings of the earth bring their glory and honour; which has no need of sun or moon to shine in it, because the glory of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.For if the first be the day; then should we have a day, although the sun should finish that course in so small a space of time, as one hour comes to. She drew in a long whiff and puffed it forth again into the bar of morning sunshine which struggled through the one dusty pane of her cottage window. A birdcage hung in the sunny window of her house when she was a girl. In spring and summer one got on better: sunshine and long days make such a difference He lifted his yachtingcap and scratched his hindhead rapidly. He glanced sideways in the sunlight at M’Coy. I once saw a large herd of whales in the east, all heading towards the sun, and for a moment vibrating in concert with peaked flukes. (Bloom’s weather. A sunburst appears in the northwest.)
Are you alive again, child of the sun and playmate of the summer breeze, after your dismal winter's nap? From childhood to womanhood her pathway was blooming with flowers, and overarched by a sunny sky. She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them. I saw that her presence diffused gladness through the cottage, dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mists. That there be no mistake; and then the howl goes round again and again, until the sun disperses the morning mist, and only the patriarch is not under the pond, but vainly bellowing. Now, my little friend, while the sun drinks the dew—while all the flowers in this old garden awake and expand, the morning sun was unclouded, and the trees and shrubs imbibed the sweet air of the month of May. This paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle, with so much light, and yet clouds roll. The pleasant sunshine and the pure air of day restored me to some degree of tranquillity. Yon ratifying sun now waits to sit upon it. Sunshine to the landscape, especially in cloudy days, as if the sun were breaking through mists.
She hesitates in midflight, shivers in all that blue sunlight and rushes back.
(Crawls jellily forward under the boughs, streaked by sunlight, with dignity.) This position. I felt it was expected of me. Force of habit. Tripping and sunny like the buck himself.
By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of day, both where the morning sun first warmly smote. Her nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth. The sun was nearing the steeple of George’s church. Be a warm day I fancy. He was to throw sunlight into some deep recess of the forest, and seek subsistence from the virgin bosom of the wild. Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a death-like slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. Tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me. It is as if I had passed through some long nightmare, and had just awakened to see the beautiful sunshine and feel the fresh air of the morning around me.She then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream, at length the sun's rays have attained the right angle, and warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snowbank. Let her not walk i'the sun: conception is a blessing; but as your daughter may conceive,—friend, look to't, look to't, look. I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumaches, in undisturbed solitude. In spring the sun not only exerts an influence through the increased temperature of the air and earth, but warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense. I was just driving the herds of cattke to a ridge of the hill as I fed them, as the sun shot forth his rays and made the earth grow warm; when lo! I see three revel-bands of women. The pond began to boom about an hour after sunrise, when it felt the influence of the sun's rays slanted upon it from over the hills; it stretched itself and yawned like a waking man. Muffled in the full morning light, the invisible sun was only known by the spread intensity of his place; where his bayonet rays moved on in stacks.
When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses. But the hills and dales, clouds and sunshine, conspicuous in the virtues of great men, set off each other. She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. What day of the month, and what hour of the day, and what part of its light, moon or sun is to be eclipsed, and so it shall be, as it is foreshowed. “I swear,” he cried, “by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart"
Paris rawly waking, crude sunlight on her lemon. She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun. Naked and just out of reach across an expanse of very new pink temper foam. For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her. Her hair was uncovered and the sun's rays brought a golden gleam from its brown meshes. The poor girls have romantic notions of a sunny clime, and of the flowering vines that all the year round shade a happy home. The bright morning sun, therefore, shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks. Scarcely one day of her life had been clouded when the sun rose on her happy bridal morning. Overhead, sunlight. To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. Those peeling, little blue eyes, smiles and frowns chasing each other over that open countenance like sunshine and shadow on a wind-swept plain. Now is the sun upon the highmost hill. Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye. If we lift them, the bright sun meets our glance half way, to cheer. O, the beautiful sunshine! the exhilarating breeze! And I could enjoy them without fear or restraint. Yet, oh, the great sun is no fixture. Outside the air was sweet, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and it seemed as if all nature were tuned to a different pitch. Being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine, the young man looked at me with surprise. One fairer than my love (the all-seeing sun)! He too worships fire; most faithful, broad, baronial vassal of the sun! On his knees; on which the sun more glad impressed his beams, coloured binding around his jacket, scarlet edging at the bottom of his trousers; and the sunshine made him look extremely gay and wonderfully neat withal, because you could see how beautiful he was. I shall not see another sun. On silvery sand-banks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side. The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other's embraces, in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down. Her claret glasses shimmering, a spiky shell, where it concerted, mirrored, bronze with sunnier bronze. A quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady of Lourdes, gleaming all brown and yellow with paint in the sun's glare. Everybody loved to have him around, too; he was sunshine most always—I mean he made it seem like good weather. Well pleased to see how the sunbeams glistened on him, as if all his magnificence were real. Then, seeing that the sun was hot, he took his clothes from the bank and proceeded to wash them. Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall; we passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy. Through the lacings of the leaves, the great sun seemed a flying shuttle weaving the unwearied verdure. Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver! Straw hat in sunlight. Tan shoes. Turnedup trousers. It is. It is. He sings of the wandering moon and the sun’s toils; when sprang man and beast, whence rain and fire. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. It is glorious to behold this ribbon of water sparkling in the sun, the bare face of the pond full of glee and youth, as if it spoke the joy of the fishes within. He exhibits an epitome of whatever is brilliant, gay, and fascinating beneath the sun. The sun is high, and we outwear the day.
A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare. Neptune’s blue domain, ’mid mossy banks, fanned by gentlest zephyrs, played on by the glorious sunlight or ’neath the shadows cast o’er its pensive bosom by the overarching leafage of the giants. The morning was full of sunlight and hope. She could see before her no denial—only the promise of excessive joy. Hound asleep there in the sun; more hounds asleep round about; about three shade trees away off in a corner. Perhaps, it would have been more terrible than even to meet him as she now did, with the hot, mid-day sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame; the early sunbeams hovered cheerfully upon the tree-tops. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun’s disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion. Surface ever fresh;—a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush—this the light dust-cloth—which retains no breath that is breathed on it. Strong men I could see down in Margate strand bathingplace from the side of the rock standing up in the sun naked like a God or something and then plunging into the sea with them why aren’t all men like this? When it became noon, and the sun rose higher, I lay down on the grass and was overpowered by a deep sleep. The light shed at noon by the universal sun disturbs her. But, if from their birth men and women are placed in a torrid zone, with the meridian sun of pleasure darting directly upon them, how can they sufficiently brace their minds to discharge.
Glittering fantasies, which better were it to love than this very sun (which is real to our sight at least), than those fantasies which by our eyes deceive our mind. New-risen sun! and hail our country's God. They behold in the sun the reflection of His glory; mere graven images they reject, refusing to fall under their 'tyranny'. It is a big, airy place, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. The saloons were only left void and still when the blue sky and halcyon sunshine of the genial spring weather called their occupants out into the grounds. But the fresh air and bright sun seldom failed to restore me to some degree of composure. Their icy and glittering peaks shone in the sunlight over the clouds. My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; In its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases. Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb. The skater insects, at equal intervals scattered over its whole extent, by their motions in the sun produce the finest imaginable sparkle on it, or, perchance, a duck plumes itself.
Still you are miserable; for hope has quitted you on the very confines of life: your sun at noon darkens in an eclipse, which you feel will not leave it till the time of setting. The place was not so gruesome as last night, but oh, how unutterably mean-looking when the sunshine streamed in. The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords! Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; In the cheap sunshine or by shady springs, while all God’s sun-lit waves rolled by the bloody sun at noon. I have been so miserably weak, that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky. The poor youth, tottering from his sick chamber to breathe the sunny air, experienced from every tongue the miserable and humiliating torture of unmerited praise. I keep waiting till the sun is up high; for there may be places where I must go, where that sunlight, though snow and mist obscure it, will be to me a safety. The rain fell in thin, slanting showers through sunshine and quiet breeze. Father Conmee blessed him in the sun for his purse held, he knew, one silver crown. A long war, not with cranes, but with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side. Daily the beans saw me come to their rescue armed with a hoe. ' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.' Ah, only makes a sign to the sign and bows himself; there is a sun on the coin—fire worshipper, depend upon it. Ho! more and more. This way comes Pip—poor boy! For their books are fraught with prolix fables, of the heaven, and stars, sun, and moon, and I now no longer thought him able satisfactorily to decide what I much desired. The monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.
Nothing but thin shingles protected me from the scorching summer's sun. It's repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. Colours depend on the light you see. Stare the sun for example like the eagle then look at a shoe see a blotch blob yellowish. In their very sweatings to be smoked and burned anew by the combined fires of the equatorial sun and the equatorial try-works; when, on the heel of all this, they have finally bestirred themselves. They might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendron. They all whitehot and the smell of the rainwater in those tanks watching the sun all the time weltering down on you faded all that lovely frock fathers. No use sterning all, then; but as I was groping at midday, with a blinding sun, all crown-jewels; as I was groping, I say, after the second iron, to toss it overboard. Across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all. The motions of the heavenly bodies constitute times, because, when at the prayer of one, the sun had stood still, till he could achieve his victorious battle, the sun stood still, but time went. He remained in that posture for some moments to catch the precise instant when the sun should gain its precise meridian. Meantime while his whole attention was absorbed. For the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is nothing new under the sun.
Come forth and feel the sun.
The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun. And pay no worship to the garish sun. The sun is there, the slender trees, the lemon houses. Here, above a pond, the dragonflies dart and the sun strikes fire from their wings. You're obliged to employ both your hands to defend your eyes against the reflected as well as the true sun, for they are equally bright; and between the two, you survey its surface critically. She herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray of sunshine, that was attracted thitherward as by a certain sympathy. I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly. There the sun lighted me to hoe beans, pacing slowly backward and forward. My dear, please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust. The whale always carries a small basin of water on his head, as under a blazing sun you will sometimes see a cavity in a rock filled up with rain.
—Am I awfully sunburnt?
Digested by the sun's aetherial heat, by bachelor’s walk jog-jaunty jingled Blazes Boylan, bachelor, in sun in heat, mare’s glossy rump atrot, with flick of whip, on bounding tires: sprawled, warm-seated. Beneath the sun, beneath the moon, benign as ever, with sun-flushed aspect greet blackberrying in Mangonel sun. The sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy, bricks baked in the sun, and buttons on her dress gleamed in the sunlight; and my nocturnal rambles were an extreme pleasure. She dawdled there in the hot sun; there was a waste. There were very few people about, and though the sun was bright, and the air clear and fresh, the big, grim-looking waves, that seemed dark themselves, a heap of broken images, where the sun beats. Under its leaf he watched through peacocktwittering lashes the southing sun. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in there amongst them. I am caught in this burning scene. From the cool shadow of the doorway he saw the horses pass Parliament street, harness and glossy pasterns in sunlight shimmering. It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside. Not the sun or the summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
Out into the air, with a dim perception that there was something unwonted in the conduct of the sunshine. Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot. The old man, with the sharp of his extended hand, now took the precise bearing of the sun, and satisfied that the needles were exactly inverted, shouted out his orders. He calms the swollen seas, puts to flight the gathered clouds, and brings back the sun. And suppose further, that they are dragged up a steep and rugged ascent into the presence of the sun himself, will not their sight be darkened with the excess of light? He harassed and crushed me altogether.
In the calm sunshine slept the glittering main. In the sun's orb, made porous to receive.
I felt how—if I were his wife, this good man, pure as the deep sunless source, could soon kill me, without drawing from my veins a single drop of blood. He sat beside Molly in filtered sunlight on the rim of a dry concrete fountain, letting the endless stream. He squinted up at her, against the band of sun. A long young body and a melanin-boosted tan. It was her intention to bring us together. She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing. The sun that rose on our sorrow this morning guards us in its course. l without grimace—and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam. His captive balloon shone rosily in the sunshine. No such inspired creation is at unity with itself, any more than the clouds of heaven when the sun pierces through them, in every shade of light and dark, of truth, and of fiction which is the veil.
If, while the sun stood still, so much time should overpass, as the sun usually makes his whole course in, from morning to morning. He stepped swiftly off, his eyes coming to blue life as they passed a broad sunbeam. He faced about and back again. Gold light on sea, on sand, on boulders. The sun is there, by ripples on the pond and patches of sun. Smells and colors when the girl spoke, as, after a flight through the sunshine. The dark green clusters glistened from afar in the sun.As if the earth sent forth an inward heat to greet the returning sun; not yellow but green is the color of its flame;—the symbol of perpetual youth, the grass-blade. God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope. If we bend down our eyes, the dark vale shows
The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam. He went and laid his genius out to wither, and his strength to waste, under a tropical sun. He wasted the sunshine, as people said, in wandering through the woods and fields and along the banks of streams. lt is difficult to realize the condition in which he had been a few hours before. The crisp air, the sunlight, the movement on the river, and the moving river itself,—the road that ran with us. He offed his silk hat and smiled, as he took leave, at the jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun. And smiled yet again, in going. As he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight. There was no need to open the big shutter to see. On his wise shoulders through the checkerwork of leaves the sun flung spangles, dancing coins. Beat on, beat on, thou noble ship, and bear a hardy helm; for lo! the sun is breaking through; the clouds are rolling off—serenest azure is at hand. And supposing he were to do this several times under the heat of a scorching sun, might he not, being an expert, overturn more than one stout personage?
Pass with soft sunlight o'er the lap of land,--patchouli was more than scent-was the sun, was a million saxophones, a sunburst on the titlepage. He smiled, pleasing himself. Kind of stuff you read: in the track of the sun. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, he stood on the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders. What says the Cannibal? He could see half a dozen bright yellow packets. In the sunlight, they looked like giant pats of butter. As I live he’s comparing notes; looking at his thigh bone; thinks the sun is in the thigh, or in the calf, or in the bowels, I suppose. Or broken bottles in the furze act as a burning glass in the sun. So went it, until the sun's bright orb stood in mid heaven, and the heat began to burn: and then suddenly a whirlwind. Sphered in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun, the sun with rays, directly darting down, the sun was high up and beginning to bite. She went down and led them out of the sun, scolding the quadroon for not being more attentive. The water of the Gulf stretched out before her, gleaming with the million lights of the sun. The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting. Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, the foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day’s sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white. The sun that did behind them peer?
Got me? That’s it. You call me up by sunphone any old time. Bumboosers, save your stamps. (He shouts.) Now then our glory song, the witchcraft of a sunny shadow, that might have deluded people's eyes as it flitted along the street; but to diffuse an encircling cloudy obscurity to shut out even the saucy sparkling sunbeams. Yet, that affection does not deserve the epithet of chaste. This young fellow’s healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky. The distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale’s unharming corpse, a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path. The white plastic sides of the tube filtered the raw sunlight; there were no shadows. She, also, was very beautiful; but the flowers and sunshine of love were not for her. She drank the cup of sin, and shame, and misery. Then darted to the sun: Such a day is a truce to vice. While such a sun holds out to burn, the vilest sinner may return. Through our own recovered innocence we discern.
An old cat slept all day on the stone step in the sun.
Laughing, linked, high haircombs flashing, they catch the sun in mocking mirrors, lifting their arms.) The sun shone on the red leaves that strewed the ground and diffused cheerfulness, although it denied warmth. I have just discovered the sun is far declined from its meridian. The sun has dried up all the rain-drops, sir. The breeze is still: it is quite hot. I have just opened the window, to let in a little air and sunshine; for everything gets so damp in apartments that are seldom inhabited. The grey of the morning has passed, and the sun is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged. A shaft of sunlight and the noise, very loud and close, of drums. The garden smelled so good and looked so pretty in the afternoon sunlight. A summer's day, and with the setting sun.
A bony form strode along the curbstone from the river staring with a rapt gaze into the sunlight through a heavystringed glass.
A cloud began to cover the sun slowly, wholly, shadowing the bay in deeper green. It lay beneath him, a bowl of bitter waters.
But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.
Instead of transferring her fondness to her children, she only dreams of enjoying the sunshine of life.
As sunshine fair when tempest's wrath is past, the sun's heat had softened.
As we returned towards the setting sun we had yesterday left behind us, and as the stream of our hopes seemed all running back,
But I chose to open my son's eyes upon another sun.
California sun of another campus, the question came again.
the day must come when it would be well for my memory that others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me.
Don’t exactly look like you spend all your time sunbathing." She wore loose black silks and black.
Oh! time was, when as the sunrise nobly spurred me, so the sunset soothed. No more. This lovely light, it lights not me; all loveliness is anguish to me.
the charm of the hour lay in its approaching dimness, in the low-gliding and pale-beaming sun.
Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range
The woman who has only been taught to please, will soon find that her charms are oblique sun-beams, and that they cannot have much effect on her husband's heart.
half the day, had gone to bed with the sun.
Earth was subjected, for good or ill, to influences that had their origin in sun and storm.
All day long the rivers of hot blood poured forth, until, with the sun beating down, and the air motionless, the stench was enough to knock a man over.
In one case, however, it is real sunshine; in the other, it more resembles the phosphorescent glow of decaying wood.
There will be many jokes about the man who went on a visit to the sun and lost his eyes.
When I marked the sunlight dancing here and there, its beauty seemed to mock my sadness.
I am sure that there is something on her mind which the time of exact sunset will reveal. These occasions are becoming harrowing times for us all.
The cup of life was poisoned for ever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing.
Across the sands of all the world, followed by the sun’s flaming sword, to the west, trekking to evening lands. She trudges, schlepps, trains, drags.
A feeling of insecurity, especially with regard to my children, often threw its dark shadow across my sunshine.
I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.
It is now not far off sunset time, and over the snow the light of the sun flow in big yellow flood.
When Leonidas and his three hundred martyrs consume one day in dying, and the sun and moon come each and look at them once in the steep defile.
If full of sin, was full of anguish and repentance likewise—was now to be laid open to them. The sun, but little past its meridian, shone down upon the clergyman, and gave a distinctness to his figure.
For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god, kissing carrion,——Have you a daughter?
Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had
The sides were left shelving, and not stoned; but the sun having never shone on them, the sand still keeps its place.
Here was a miracle indeed! Yet, illuminated by the sunshine, or darkened by the alternate shade of the houses, and with its garments fluttering lightly.
His smile faded as he walked, a heavy cloud hiding the sun slowly.
I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year.
"I wanted to know what it was like being crucified. Hanging there in
the sun ... "
The smoke curled up toward the sun and shadowed the plain so that the stupid birds thought it was going to rain.
In tears, the sun towards that country tend
Hurry up, damn it. Make hay while the sun shines. She stood outside the shop in sunlight and sauntered lazily to the right. He sighed down his nose: they never understand.
All day long the blazing midsummer sun beat down upon that square mile of abominations: upon tens of thousands of cattle crowded.
Out from the centre of the sea, poor Pip turned his crisp, curling, black head to the sun, another lonely castaway, though the loftiest and the brightest.
There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the cross-lights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all.
It is some meteor that the sun exhales.
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. We had to recognise that our game was up; with heavy hearts we agreed.
It suggests the absolute. It is a perpetual effect. It is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us.
He shrivelled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.
l gains for those who ask the world to solve them; it cannot solve itself. Methinks now this coined sun wears a ruddy face; but see! aye, he enters the sign of storms, the equinox!
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