TWO DAYS until Johann Appreciation Week starts! AND the FINAL countdown post! That’s right, we’ve made it to the showcase of all the seventh fics of the years before. Thank you so much to all who counted down with me! See you soon ;) 1 2 3 4 5 6
2021 - Prompt: Legacy (M/M, Teen, 1.9K)
Johann bargains with the Raven Queen. Surely, a legacy is worth more than this ending.
2022 - Prompt: Francis Forever/Two Slow Dancers by Mitski (M/M, Teen, 2.4K)
A continuation of the 5th fic of 2021. After Johann’s giftgiving is thwarted, he has a hard time keeping it together.
2023 - Prompt: Coda (M/M, Teen, 2.7K)
After Magnus’s death, Avi just wants him and Johann to sleep in each other’s arms. But fate and work tug its strings on Johann’s soul.
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Archival #15 [Long]
Spring 2023
Kissing the hand in the dark
All of your lips course and spark
Raising the hairs on her fingers
like trees in wildfire lose bark
.
.
Nothing will ever placate
my nature’s indiscretion
An everyday intoxicant
A gauntlet of obsession
Scriptwriter,
would you not
write me wise?
What is ironic
about the look in your eyes?
I cannot see
you easily
but I feel the film careening
I hope they capture
the way that you are
.
.
The temperature plummets
I cannot face the wind
I am radiating heat
and steam rises from me
like a hissing snake
slithering in the blue morning
skyward over a copse of trees
.
.
Someday there will be a change and we will all feel it.
.
.
No landmarks
No good or bad
No consequence
No decision
No direction
No closure
No end
.
.
Red flag,
freezing wave
Caught between
movement
At the mercy
of two hands
Fingers at a
half-mast
.
.
I steal a cup
to collect you in
I shake it on the streets
with my head bowed low
The pedestrian shuffle
sounds like your name
repeating
Who am I to you?
Who am I to anyone?
.
.
Will you let me find
a new way to say
these words?
A different way
A better meaning
Like how moving furniture
can really change a space
.
.
The floor that gave with every step.
.
.
It sees the bigger picture
It hands me an eraser
It wants me to know
the mistakes I am making
It wants me to change
but I do not
And my ears close
and my throat closes
and I wonder
if death is worth fearing
at 29
.
.
When was the last time
I stayed out
til I feared the sun
would see me?
When was the last time
I felt his eyes
upon my head
as I turned away to sleep in agony?
In the morning
he’s still watching me
and I wonder what he thought
about the words I spoke
in my dreams
.
.
You pass a witness
on the path
Your way divided
A yellow dash
Reflection only
in pavement passed
Beneath like bows
on presents wrapped
Giftgive in silence,
in nods and glance
A strange encounter
A stranger dance
The denim, blue on
blue black bike chain
Grease on my pant leg
I mix it with air
I pat the way down and
continue on.
.
.
I have one minute and it’s all I’ll ever need.
.
.
I’ve been taught
the most and the quickest
by the people who know the least
I have been given a scythe
with no deadline
for a field of wheat
Final stalk uncut
I grasp it gently between my fingers
and cut it like I were loosing a ballon
.
.
Two streams moving beneath two gentle stars.
.
.
I want to start making promises
but I’ve never known
something that cant be broken
.
.
Tiny sips
at a manageable
pace
Banging a
stack
of paper
on a desk
40 corners
and then
You turn
your back
I twist
spin in
the chair
form
a cycle
in
my heart
and keep
you deep
down there
.
.
It is possible
that the world may spin
without an impossible
complication
There are mornings
which may rise
without melody
in the throats of men
The silence is not empty
It is working too,
whispering
the implication
between me and you
.
.
Fake everything.
.
.
The spider in the ice cube
You saw it as you filled
You didnt care to warn it
You turned away and killed
It melts down in your water
and climbs upside the cup
And falls into your stomach
and never comes back up
.
.
Birds at nightfall
but which will be
the last to sing
a song for me
If one is followed
in tune by two
I wait for three
or else it’s you
.
.
I will never amount to anything and twenty minutes ago I considered how likely it was I could never write a word again
I am looking down a million pinholes backwards through time so what is a pair of binoculars to the Abyss Watcher?
What is age to the man about to die?
If you are reading this then it is too late
I see your eyes now
moving across the sky in an extraterrestrial pattern
Deep in the distance you are waving the world away
and I mistake it for a greeting
.
.
Fog is lifting.
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Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Gifts for People Who are Hard to Shop For
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Gifts for People Who are Hard to Shop For
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Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2023 here. If you’re interested in reading other people’s responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
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