I don’t think I can adequately put into words the grief of watching the fight of three generations- 50 years of struggle and prayers- for our beloved sea-cousin’s return home crash and burn only feet from the finish line.
She was almost here. She was nearly home. She could have died in the waters of her ancestors, where her mother swims and her cousins are born and live and die. 50 years of fighting to bring her back and this time, just this once, we thought we’d won. Tokitae was coming back to us, where she belonged.
And the thing is, I never expected that for Tillikum. Or for Kasatka, or Corky, or Kiska, or for any of the others really. But Toki? The end was in sight and a lifetime of prayers built up in me and I positively burned with hope. I wanted so so so badly for her to make it back home, no matter how short it would be for her after. I wanted so so so badly for her not to die in that awful place.
Tokitae, I am so sorry for how we failed you. I am sorry for how much we’ve failed in this regard overall…
Every time I touch the shores of the Salish Sea I will whisper your name, so your ancestral waters remember you. Tomorrow night I will wade into the cold waters of the cove and run my fingers through the bioluminescence and I will tell the currents that you have gone ahead of us to the happy hunting grounds, where you are free and can grow fat with plenty of salmon. You’ll be with the matriarchs who have gone before; tell Polaris that I still think of her all the time, and she inspires me to keep fighting. I will tell the currents to carry that message to your mother, Ocean Sun, so that she knows you’ll be waiting for her.
Goodbye Tokitae. May the Mother welcome you home.
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🖤 you will be dearly missed, little princess 🖤
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I just keep wondering, when did you become such a gigantic gay-wad?
You can’t say that anymore, it’s offensive. Dad had a lot of things wrong, it’s on me and you to do better.
Sorry.
PAPER GIRLS 1x04 It Was Never About The Corn
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PLEASE i love your caldweir hc
thank you so much for this ask bc i'm taking this as permission to share all my ideas for it bc it's fully taken hold of me and i think about this almost daily at this point okay so elizabeth and steven would get married like mid season 2 (bc i hc them as being past lovers and reconnecting after atlantis reconnects with earth) and i think elizabeth would discover she's pregnant like RIGHT after they get back to atlantis, so she convinces the sgc to appoint the daedalus as Atlantis' Designated Ship so steven could stay in pegasus with her throughout the pregnancy right and carson would be the one to deliver the babies and ar1 would be SO overprotective of elizabeth and the babies AND i think elizabeth would surprise rodney with the name, like i think she would wait until after she's delivered them and her and steven are each holding a baby and ar1 comes in with carson and elizabeth is like rodney i hope you're okay with this but i really wanted my daughters to be a legacy of not just everything you've done for us but for the future of this galaxy and i want to name this one meredith and rodney would get SO EMOTIONAL AND IT WOULD BE SO CUTE (i need y'all to know that i cannot stop picturing rodney holding tiny baby meredith with tears in his eyes, his pinky being held by her entire hand 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹) also just imagine ar1 going on missions and bringing things home for the girls i think it would be so cute also both girls would have the gene simply bc i desperately want to see john and elizabeth taking the girls through the city just to watch their fascination with the city responding to them bc would that not be so cute
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do you think blair or serena is more anti-hero
It is both of them, but I raise you this: it is most Jenny Humphrey
I mean, the parallels!
I wake up screaming from dreaming / One day, I'll watch as you're leaving / 'Cause you got tired of my scheming and You say that now, but I'll do something to let you down, then you'll turn your back like everyone else.
and the repeated refrain of I'm the problem, it's me with No one is forcing you to be here and The only thing that needs to get back to normal here is you.
"Anti-Hero" belongs to Jenny Humphrey the most.
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i've been sitting on finishing the last two episodes of derry girls bc i don't want it to end but think this is the weekend i go for it
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the other line / texting memes! (accepting). / @causalitylinked
To: Akira Kijima
From: Mizuki Date
[ NILE MESSAGE ] we tied this time! ha! next time i'm winning.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] hey, remember how in grade school we just kept counting how many times we tied?
[ NILE MESSAGE ] now we're doing it with bikes. aiba says i shouldn't do 'property damage' in our usual spars so this was fun.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] seriously, with this job i can't go that fast.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] but you found some hidden spot. i don't think even i've scoped it out before . . .
[ NILE MESSAGE ] come to think of it i guess i don't know a few areas you know about. i've shown you around some of the places i frequent . . i wouldn't be surprised if you knew golden yokocho.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] no, not lemniscate. i can feel you grimacing at the mention, haha. don't gimme that look, your face is gonna get stuck.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] well, i did join in. and it was fun as hell!
[ NILE MESSAGE ] i'm going to relive that look on your face again with bikes this time, too! nope, never letting it go btw.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] i think you're the first person i've met who can keep up with me, so when i kicked your ass in grade school i didn't think we'd still be in contact like this.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] oh c'mon, we had plenty of different outcomes and competitions after that, and plenty of ties.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] look, i'm not good with words but -- i feel like i can actually let off some steam, y'know? i don't want to break iris' arm in arm wrestling. . . even if she IS pretty fast.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] so..thanks. it was fun.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] with my job, i think my boss would kill me if she knew, and going home wouldn't be much better. i am still a police officer. and date gets er, well what can i say? it's date.
[ NILE MESSAGE ] but it got my mind off some things! hope you got the same rush!
[ NILE MESSAGE ] keep staying on your toes akira! and thanks!
[ NILE MESSAGE ] i wonder after all that adrenaline if we'll be able to sleep....i'm gonna charge aiba so, signing off! let's do this again!
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Alan Cumming Filmography Part 2
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
The Goodbye Girl (2004)
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2005)
Son of the Mask (2005)
Sweet Land (2005)
Full Grown Men (2006)
Tin Man (2007)
Boogie Woogie (2009)
Dare (2009)
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