DE AMORE EX TEMPORE by persephoneflouwers.
Explicit || 21 chapters, 101K words || status: Completed 🪽🤍
{poster by @ladychlo <3}
"Jump! For fuck's sake, Louis, jump!"
Louis looks down curiously at the ground and notices that the backpack is gone. The grass appears greener than it did before; a minute ago there were streetlights in front of him - why is there no light now? His brows furrow.
“Is there a blackout tonight?”
He starts coughing uncontrollably as if water has flooded his lungs. He brings his hands around his neck, feeling like he cannot talk nor scream for help – he can’t breathe.
“Louis, jump!”
And he can’t see, feel or hear anything, but trusts the voice. He jumps.
Then it’s just cold and dark.
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Or: the Middle Ages AU where Harry is a philosopher, whose thoughts happen five centuries too soon and Louis is a painter, whose art happens five centuries too late.
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Or: the Time Travel AU where alternate versions of themselves live simultaneously in different realities and their paths collide every time, until somehow, they converge into one.
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PATHEMA PROTELEIA by persephoneflouwers
ABO, 53K, completed, mature 🥀🗡️⏳
A few years ago, Omega Prince Harry left his husband and mate Alpha Louis without any apparent reason. When enemies of the Royalty make an attempt on his life and threaten to hurt Omegas, Louis has to ask the Prince for help.
Or
A Greek tragedy AU (but with the happiest ending)
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I've fallen down an internet rabbit hole on figure skating ever since I began thinking about that skating AU I mentioned, I think I have an idea that might justify Kaisa only coming to the national/international competition scene later in life.
Apparently the ladies' singles discipline is. Super problematic (sorry if it's obvious, I knew literally nothing about this sport until last Saturday), and I'm imagining Kaisa could have been a victim of that. Maybe she trained under Abigail or that other nameless witch who looks like Abigail. Maybe she was a pupil of her (their?) academy, and had hopes of competing as a teenager.
But her coaches kept pushing her, to do triple and quadruple jumps without proper technique, relying on keeping her weight low and on overworking her back. Pushing her to do the routines they wanted, without the artistry elements she loved. Pushing her to diet in unhealthy ways and overtrain. Maybe they convinced her she could only be a proper skater with those technical elements, that she was struggling to master because they are hard as fuck and because Kaisa is already a scrawny person, if you stop her from eating on top of that things are not going to look good.
Her coach(es) doesn't really have her as one of her favourites, keeping her from competing for a long time since she couldn't master those jumps. But eventually she does, at the expense of her own body. The coaches sign her up for a bigger competition, then, and maybe she even makes it the first time or two, but without ever getting to a nationals. Because at some point, when she's practicing her routine full of backloaded jumps for extra points, she falls and suffers an injury.
This wrecks her completely. She doesn't want to compete anymore, because she has realized that this lifestyle that is being forced into her is sucking all the joy out of skating. Good thing too, because her coaches decide to put their energy into even younger athletes. So Kaisa goes back to the ring where she used to skate for fun when she was a child, and asks Tildy for a job.
And then, years later, Tildy asks her to give private coaching to a pre-teen who is just sooo talented. And sure, Lauren annoys the hell out of Kaisa with her attitude (something Kaisa makes sure to retribute), but in her Kaisa sees something different. Here is a teenage girl in singles figure skating who isn't destroying her body for the sake of pulling dangerous moves that will earn her points. An athlete who actively chooses to practice just for fun even when everyone tells her she should be going competitive. An artist who does amazing programs that are loved by everyone even without those technical elements that Kaisa had been so unhealthily pushed to pursue when she'd been her age.
And, well, if Lauren corners her one day to ask her why the hell she wasn't competing since she clearly liked it so much, Kaisa had always been the sort of person to need a little encouragement to be pushed into action, hadn't she?
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I really do not feel like going into this more on Twitter because it’s fucking
Twitter
But my god, sometimes it’s jarring to realize what a unique upbringing I had and how that affected my worldview.
The people in an uproar about this are out here like “Who’s she even talking to, the blind?” And “How do blind people even know what ‘a blue suit’ looks like?” And “If there’s deaf people there how come she’s wearing a mask? They can’t read her lips!”
And it’s just like, yes, she is talking to an audience that includes blind people. Not everyone was blind from birth, and some do have some vision—enough to, say, discern the shape of someone in a blue suit from another person sitting in the next chair. And they’ve never even heard of sign language interpreters, something I took for granted as a fact of life since I was about eight.
And then I remember that it’s because they are deeply incurious. They are absolutely unconcerned. They have a certain picture in their head of what blindness is and what deafness is and what accommodations they may want. Why should they care to learn about things like descriptive audio for films, or a TTY relay, or alt text for images? Do you think they’ve ever even wondered why the fire alarms in the mall have a small strobe light under them? They have no use for them, so what does it matter?
And that’s for disabilities that they at least have to have heard of.
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I have a light blue Valenar Steed that I purchased with another one of my party members and I love her.
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don't have much work to do for university today, that's all gonna happen in the next couple days, so i'm just gonna vibe on dash today.brain's still slightly picky with drafts so i may just reblog some memes.
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