hazy shade of winter – chapter 2 (harry osborn/peter parker)
He eases his body off the wall but keeps a hand propped there to support himself. Peter’s still moving around inside like a mini tornado and Harry doesn’t rush him further. He is kind of intruding, after all. He’d feel worse about it if convenience wasn’t currently a luxury he couldn’t afford.
Finally, the lock unclicks and the door swings open.
“Hello again,” Peter says a little breathlessly, a warm smile on his lips. His brown hair is thoroughly ruffled from his hasty change of clothes. He’s wearing gray sweatpants and a maroon tee shirt with a cartoonish image of an atom, surrounded by the phrase, never trust an atom, they make up everything. Jesus.
Harry kind of hopes there isn’t an afterlife if it means being cursed to a second plane without him.
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"If anonymity was required [for reconnaissance and espionage] the woman going about her business, between markets, was the perfect messenger. The Compaignon's news was taken to Lille by a female courier. Writing to the English government on the eve on a projected Scottish invasion Sir William Bulmer was interrupted by the arrival of the wife of one of his spies who had come because 'hir husband was suspect, so that he durst not come hyself. . .'. Equally, Sir William reported that among his spies in Scotland in 1523 he numbered one he called 'the Priores'. In the border war of intelligence it was reported, two years later, that the Scots had lost a female spy at Durham where she was captured and interrogated. There should be little surprise at this, for as Philippe Contamine points out women were much involved in medieval warfare and were employed as messengers and spies throughout the Hundred Years War. But again it is to Edward IV, and the great crisis of his reign, that we must turn. With Warwick and Clarence in France allying with Margaret of Anjou, the king sent Lady Isabel Neville one of her servants bearing an offer of peace. The woman's real business was to plead with Clarence not to be the ruin of his family, and to remind him of the deadly feud between York and Lancaster. Did he really take Warwick at his word when, having done homage to Henry VI's son, he said he would make Clarence king?* The choice of this woman was made because of her shrewdness and because she could gain access to her lady, and thus Clarence, quicker than any male agent."
-Ian Arthurson, "Espionage and Intelligence from the Wars of the Roses to the Reformation", Nottingham Medieval Studies (1991)
*The source for this is the memoirs of Philippe de Commynes, who later served in the French court and was very cognizant of espionage in contemporary politics and warfare. It's not proven or disproven by any other source.
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( Me talking about Klarion for the 16th time to my friends)
Friend: "So you have a crush on him or what?"
Me: "He's more like a zoo animal.. that I lovingly throw peanuts down at.."
Friend: "Huh??"
Original inspiration
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adaptations that are a deliberate alternate telling of a story arent all that crazy to me (and also sometimes its as simple as someone like o'malley saying "the books already exist") ive been quite fascinated by this concept for a long time but alas i do not have many examples of this off the top of my head. but i do love picking apart adaptations and differences as a general thing. hoho !
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There's like fifteen characters in Merriment and Mirth with corvid theming because I am a predictable ass motherfucker but the characters Ravena and Ravenley, who have Raven in their very names, use owls and rats (respectively) as their motifs
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I'm not deeply attached to three characters and crying because they're SO.GODDAMN.CUTE.
YOU ARE!!!!
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hey has anyone else read the green rider series by kristen britain i just finished book five (mirror sight) and i swear i’ve yelled at this one book twenty times. my heart has been torn asunder. i might have literal actual emotional damages. it is my most prized possession.
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SON #3! 😭
Also if this outcome is a reference to the end of the Student Council arc (in Utena) then I fear what they have in store for us the rest of the series. WILL WE COME BACK IN TWO WEEKS TO SOME MOTHERFUCKER WHO IS A FIGMENT OF PROSPERA’S IMAGINATION?
anyway. see everyone in two weeks (unless they air a recap episode on mother’s day). 😭😭😭
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