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jwgh · 1 year

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Brown University's Ugliest Buildings

This is a lightly edited version of a Livejournal post I made on July 8, 2009. A dreamwidth version is up at https://jwgh.dreamwidth.org/561585.html .

My alma mater, Brown University, has a campus which has grown a fair amount over the years, and it has a variety of buildings in a variety of styles. The result could be described as a bit of a hodge-podge, but I kind of like the mixture, even though it means that not all of the buildings are very pleasant to look at.

Last weekend I decided to wander around campus and take pictures of the ugliest buildings, and the results can be found below. Historical facts about the buildings were generally taken from the Encyclopedia Brunoniana.

1964: The John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

This is generally one of the first buildings that comes to mind when Brown students think of ugly buildings. It was designed by Warner, Burns, Toan, and Lunde. Danforth W. Toan said of it, "In developing the exterior architectural design, we sought to match the modest monumentality of John Hay by developing a series of paired piers on the building perimeter which incorporate air conditioning risers with structural columns. The projection of these piers, along with the variations in the wall plane and fenestration, produce varying horizontal and vertical rhythms intended to reduce the building’s scale and reflect the interior functions. The cantilevering of the main floor, necessitated by the need for greater area, provides a strong horizontal band which hovers above the undulating terrain of College Hill." Since the John Hay library is a marble building in the English Renaissance style, and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. library is a concrete monstrosity, I cannot agree that the architects were 100% successful in harmonizing with the older building's look. On the other hand, I do appreciate the use of the word 'fenestration'.

This library is generally called 'The Rock'. There is an urban legend that the Rockefeller family got wind of the library's nickname and asked that Brown's administration try to curtail its use, with the result that students took to calling it 'The John' until the Rockefellers realized they should have just left well enough alone.

One spring I decided to go barefoot all the time and I got away with it for a couple of months or so until I was kicked out of three separate buildings on the same day, at which point I decided it wasn't worth it and started wearing shoes again. I think the Rock was one of the three buildings I was evicted from. 1965: Barus & Holley

Barus & Holley was designed by Sherwood, Mills and Smith of Stamford. It was originally supposed to face Hope Street, but after East Side residents complained that they thought it would lower property values this was changed and it was instead built at a right angle to Hope Street. It is also largely concealed by trees, which is a good idea, although due to its size (it contains 300 rooms, including two large lecture halls) occasionally you will get an unexpected glimpse of it looming over a more attractive building, as here:

B&H is the home of the engineering department, and a friend of mine (a mechanical engineer) once mooned it. 1968: The Graduate Center

I can only assume that the Grad Center was originally intended to house grad students, but when I went to Brown all the grad students lived off-campus and the Grad Center was largely inhabited by sophomores, along with the occasional miserable junior who had gotten a really bad number in the housing lottery. It has four separate towers (A, B, C, and D) linked by a fifth structure (tower E) which houses a snack bar, some ping pong tables, the Grad Center Bar, and a few other oddments.

My recollection is that the heating is all completely centralized, so that there were some rooms which were cold year-round and others where you had to have the windows open even in the dead of winter to make living in them at all bearable.

The main entrance to the towers was on the third floor, although I also seem to recall that as the Grad Center is on a hill the stories of the different towers didn't always match up the way I expected them to. 1971: The Sciences Library

My only entry not from the 60s. (Some would have also included the Center for Information Technology, which is right next to the Sciences Library, but those people are wrong, as I think the CIT is actually kind of neat.)

It was designed by Warner, Burns, Toan and Lunde, who you may recall had also designed the Rock seven years earlier. It's fourteen stories tall, and supposedly Playboy identified the thirteenth floor as a popular place to have sex.

After the CIT was built next to the SciLi there was a big wind tunnel effect between the two buildings, and at one point, when the revolving door in the SciLi was replaced with a cheaper, lighter model, the wind turned it into a mini turbine, causing the door to revolve faster and faster, until it hopped off of its axle and broke into a million pieces. I was attending Brown at the time but unfortunately did not get to witness this.

Since the SciLi is the tallest building in this part of Providence, the popular strategy of hiding ugly buildings behind trees doesn't work with it. For instance, here's the view from the main green:

On the upside, one spring members of Brown's Tech House put Christmas lights in all the windows on the south side of the building, hooked them up to a computer, and made it so you could play Tetris on the SciLi.

#ugly buildings #Brown University #architecture #There was also a livejournal poll about which of these buildings was ugliest and B&H was the popular choice #I agree that B&H is ugliest #The SciLi came in second but I actually kind of like it

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mimis-take · 2 months

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would you look at that

not sans !!

this silly little guy is Scilis !!

#oc art #oc #digital art #i painted the shorts in the lineart layer #i almost kms

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unseentravler · 1 year

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Plague Muffins | WEBTOON

Experimenting with a new muffin recipe, Scilis, a town baker, accidentally creates a cure against the deadly black plague. Learning this, the Plague Doctor Society hires him and he begins to distribute this new cure. However, there's been a change of leadership in the Society: Head Doctor Malcolm is now in charge, and he wants Scilis gone!

This story follows Doctor Scilis and Apprentice as they attempt to rid Malcolm of his position and stop his corruption of the Society.

Updates Thursdays (ish)

#weebtoon #plague doctor #bubonic plague #fun comic #comics

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sapropel · 1 year

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HI saw you tag that brutalist library post with something about the scili, and im sure lots of colleges call their libraries that but by any chance did u also go to brown?

Haha hiiiiiiiiiiiii *twirls my hair* what are you a fucking cop

#yes I did!

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teamfortresstwo · 2 years

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Apprentice: My family turned into corpses

Scilis: That’s rough buddy

#plague muffins

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11crowsinatrenchcoat · 10 months

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First round of slurch members :D feel free to ask questions I'll be happy to answer. lore will come after the second round of guys

This is Elysium, He's the one running the church (we will cutely ignore the fact the sun god literally speaks to him for now)

This is Scilis, they are the resident cleric and Elysium's assistant

This is Magnum, and unlike the last 2, she is based on a stingray. She also acts as a guard, mostly just for show though.

This is Lilith! she is based off of a jellyfish and works as a chamber maid (she also hands out the pocket sun lamps)

Anyways that's all I have and I'm going to take a break from working on the rest of the refs because of personal things.

#art #oc #original character #digital art #sillies #sea slugs #stingray #sea critters #jellyfish #lesbian pride #the chemicals in the water are making the friggen slugs gay >:]#take me to slurch #joan of arc moment hehehehe

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inviaggiocondante · 10 months

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Paradiso III

Paradiso III.

La bellezza luminosa della Carità di Piccarda Donati.

Oggi lascio la parola totalmente a Leonardo Lugaresi e al suo sempre arricchente commento (trovate tutto sul suo blog):

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Oggi nessuno penserebbe a Piccarda come a una donna forte, e libera. La libertà, il coraggio e l’autodeterminazione (come oggi insensatamente si dice) tutti andrrebbero a cercarle dalle parti di Francesca, dove non ce n’è affatto. Ma Piccarda è della razza di Vestia e Secunda, le due umili donne cristiane di una piccola cittadina dell’Africa Romana, Scili. Arrestate e mandate davanti al giudice, minacciate di morte se non abiuravano la fede, un giorno di luglio del 180 risposero semplicemente così: «Vestia dixit: Christiana sum. Secunda dixit: Quod sum, ipsud volo esse». “Ciò che sono, proprio quello voglio essere”. Alla lettera, perché eccezionalmente ci è arrivato il verbale del loro processo.

#paradiso

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creature-song · 11 months

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so when i was a kid, i had a close knit group of friends.

and every summer or easter break, they would, all together as a group, go to the scily isles for a week. and i didn't. and as an adult, i know that was because we didnt have the money so i couldn't go. but still, they all went together as a group and i didnt, i was a kid who didn't know abt money, i was just left out of the exciting thing my closest friends did.

and my aunts would also go, once a year for a couple weeks, every year. and they would usually visit us on the way there or the way back, and they'd bring their friends, and tell us all about it when they visited, and again, this was another thing they did and i (we) didn't do.

this year, literally years after i thought i forgot abt that and moved on, my aunts invited my mum. and so she and my dad and other aunt have all gone off together to the scily isles.

and i have been left behind to babysit the dog and try not to kill my brother.

and im an adult now and ahould be over it. but. i think i am not. and i think this is maybe dragging up some stuff i never dealt with. rip

#personal #vent #my aunts are step aunts we are similar ages btw #i am going to have half a bottle of wine abt this and Process #my mental health tanked at the start of this week as well which obviously isn't helping

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johnnygstaffordshire · 1 year

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on...the SciLi?? word???

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444names · 2 years

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diseases + dinosaurs + scottish surnames BUT excluding "a"

Berevnes Beykus Bhevus Bindon Bodelops Bodol Bodos Boidh Bolithrus Bolus Bonpus Bonych Bonykuidh Bonykus Brezops Brism Brong Brops Brovus Bràin Bràthus Buidh Buimus Bulchus Bulgh Burus Butirnin Bychris Ceriturus Cerus Ceryptops Ceryx Chill Chilotis Chitimin Chius Chonis Chubein Chuelops Cille Cillephus Cilles Cilophin Clechlus Cledus Cleòir Clops Codon Codong Codrus Coell Coesinis Coetigus Coillfhis Coldòmh Comch Cophodon Copsis Coxes Croluig Cromh Cràil Cràin Crìgheyim Cuidh Curus Deimp Deinus Denops Deshus Destechus Dichus Dicops Dideidh Dientops Dilleryx Dinon Diornis Diphus Dipteng Docerus Donops Drong Drops Drotops Drypon Dunnube Duruin Durus Dusone Dylos Dyluis Dylus Ekris Ekterus Eliterhin Elles Eloch Elopold Elops Eltir Eltornis Emill Enledonor Eoccill Eohisilin Eolliurus Eolus Eonykus Eophold Eosbond Eosin Eothein Epinyx Epionus Eproidh Eptes Eptor Eryphuir Esmops Euquech Eurus Ferotitor Feryx Fighlàr Fliti Foide Foideimhg Foromedh Fukelon Fukufelon Fukuin Fukuneus Fukus Fulis Funeluis Futhyrig Futiùbhsh Geimus Genych Gilim Gilles Gillesis Gilus Glophor Gocepidh Godoscus Grios Grongein Gryps Gulopukus Gurus Gwynthne Heidh Hengon Heroideis Heroveis Heryps Hetig Hionole Hismoor Hodon Hodonoch Homodon Homyx Hospos Huesis Hurus Hussus Hydrops Hyluib Hyptor Hyrich Hyror Igillein Illon Innus Inomus Ithuimon Iubelmim Iuteurus Jendor Jengch Jingoyon Jinus Judides Junnus Jurus Kinosimus Kinus Konnus Kosis Kotenodon Krius Kryptert Kuibele Kuneus Kurus Lemus Lentodon Lenyx Lepholon Levneurus Lewinflus Leòidh Leòilenos Libis Ligmor Lilleid Limimus Limurus Limus Linotus Lites Lithoid Litis Lodon Lodruinn Lokerus Lontops Lophous Lopukus Luelus Luibelor Lymplous Lyophidh Megon Meinus Melon Metre Meuchis Meurus Millus Mimeum Mimhus Mimidh Mimun Mimus Minflis Moceptong Modonyx Moide Moiris Monemimus Month Monts Moodt Mtorn Murus Màrtopton Màrtulis Nedex Nefritip Nefrus Nelon Nelus Nesin Neuchurus Neurus Ninosin Nocilops Nocus Nothidh Nqius Ntubhig Nychthon Orcrotops Orizonube Ornim Orrhodon Ospodrus Otelus Otophus Otornus Oturusus Pedmoris Peimum Peinnlu Peititis Peleinhor Pelig Pelopsis Peluch Penius Perus Pestes Petor Phonykus Phorridin Phous Pichor Pingyps Pnebh Pododon Polim Pongeir Pongosin Pongyps Poryx Potoromil Premim Preoce Pricis Prinn Proch Procuimus Prodein Prokes Prompsill Prong Props Protill Psile Psotycor Ptenyx Puerus Purus Pyllin Qijin Qijurus Qilius Qinus Quinn Rerin Reurus Rhysis Ribrus Rimus Rioptops Rodong Romim Roping Scericoid Scili Sclimus Sclopus Scryx Scurus Sectus Sefrus Seitig Sellops Selontor Selotig Seludios Semon Sepin Septops Setor Setrig Shoelle Siligrus Silleus Simus Sinkor Sistrion Sitinn Sivenops Skelonych Smich Sphor Spich Sping Spori Spoton Spotrus Squin Stelle Sterbelus Stesir Stishis Strex Strich Strin Strinnlus Strodong Strops Styluin Sucnus Sutedmous Sutopelus Suzhus Sylus Symin Synemimin Syngmon Synth Szhodrus Szhops Temimus Teornitis Terbh Tetersus Teurus Thbhrus Tholospin Thophyps Thuns Thypon Tionghus Tircuidh Tishis Titzkylon Tocon Tonotich Tosuch Trilon Trong Troplonn Trovimus Trurus Tsuch Tunleidh Turus Turust Tylukurus Tylus Uides Uitiseis Ungshrin Urichus Utimholor Utongh Venosis Venykus Wuloidh Wulong Wyngillon Xenyx Xingtitis Xixice Yimnospor Yimus Yizhor Yurus Zechuis Zhodh Zhodon Zhodonyx Zhoidh Zhoperor Zhuim Zupotych Ìomirch

#444names #444 names

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malepresentingleg · 3 years

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is it 2013 again? cause i have a rant about teen wolf coming and i feel 16 y/o.

so due to dome heavy procrastination I've consumed a lot of teen wolf content, i skipped a bunch of episodes and a lot of scenes in the ones i haven't but i still have some Thoughts TM

it's good??? i had a Good Time watching, it was funny but intense and dark and i felt Feelings watching, some of the plotlines were meh (or maybe i just skipped them heh) but a lot were interesting and i loved the characters and their interaction

scott. my sweetheart. my baby. such a cutiepie, such a great protagonist 10/10 i love him and would die for him. he's so pure and cute and his little smile melts my heart. i love how he's fundamentally Human no matter how non human he is. he's a great character all around and i kinda wish they didn't do that shit to him at the end (imma get there) or treated him like he ISN'T the protagonist for such big parts of the shows

people KNOW. Stiles knows from day one, allison finds out soon, his mom finds out in season 2! the sheriff in 3, and they just become part of the gang and can help them with stuff bc they UNDERSTAND. shows like that get really tiring when the teens constantly lie to everyone around them and it was very refreshing. the running gag with the coach ruining things tho was funny and I'm ok with it.

Ok this is mellisa appreciation time. she's SUCH a great, complex and unusual mom-of-hero character. i absolutely love her and her attitude, i love how she's not simply being used as a tool to cause scott pain (just.. sometimes) and their relationship is parenting goals.

also isn't it fucking hilarious how she's a nurse but she just knows everything medical. she's also a surgeon and a mortician and a doctor. ik it's for plot reasons but it funny af.

in general women on the show.. had a lot of potential, i love them, but i hate how they were treated.

allison was all around great imo, her and scott's relationship was built very well and was two sided from the start (unlike... yeah), she has emotions, she's smart and brave, but also human and scared, she kicks ass and, again, exists outside of Scott's GF status (mostly). andddd they killed her. idk if the actress had to/wanted to leave or it was a pure writers decision bc they needed to keep just her father or something, but that would have been ok if not for all the other things

we have 3 main kickass ladies with powers- lydia, kira and malia. lydia spent close to FIVE whole seasons not knowing anything about her abilities/not knowing how to control them. cmon, it gets old. scott masters his powers after a season or two (and had control a lot sooner), parrish finds out what he is like half a season after it becomes relevant etc.

malia- do i need to explain? she was CONSTANTLY struggling controlling her abilities, no matter how badass she supposedly was. and kira oh boy, they did her dirty, didn't they?

kira was such a cute adorable character. i loved her and her little crush on scott and wanting to make friends and being freaked out about relationships, i love her discovering her past and heritage and learning to fight and gaining control and becoming a badass. but. what? they just undid all this? oh no the fox is taking over she has no control no agency of her own she needs to disappear for years now bye :( again, idk if the actress needed to leave but it was so unsatisfying and was insulting to the character. she wasn't even mentioned later a bunch like allison was, just they needed her mom for a plot tool and didn't even acknowledge it was her sword they were breaking. uhm rude?

LET WOMEN HAVE POWERS AND BE AWESOME WITH THEM. and not just minor/bad characters thanks.

i love the concept of a pack on the show and how you don't have to be a werewolf to be a part of it, how scott becomes a true alpha and how he cares about his friends. i kinda feel like in later seasons him being an alpha was more talk than show which like /: meh. like i said, he stopped BEING the main character, just talked about as if he was.

i love how friendship is valued, but i think it could be more.. i mean the scene in the motel, all season 3b, scott and lydia, all the girls with each other.. i love it. too many times tho it "wasn't enough" and only romantic love worked which SUCKS. in 6a i was so happy scott went in to try and remember stiles and the memories hit me right in the heart. then when it "wasn't enough" i was SO pissed and frustrated goddammit. i guess that leads me to the next point-

ships, should i talk about ships? i don't want hate in my asks but oh well it's been a few years maybe there's no fandom to care. I'll start with the end

malia and scott. what. the. fuck. when, out of fucking no where, they had like a lingering look or something i was just "nope. no thanks". and then every scene they had together i had to cover my eyes bc it felt so wrong and bad and awkward. jesus. no build up at ALL, they're like family, i just. ew. no. it felt way too much like "oh we gotta pair off the leftovers" or "the main character can't end up single" well guess what, he fucking can. it was. god. i can't even explain the disgust. when he needed to heal and all she had to do was kiss him ugh. it felt so fake and empty of meaning. i would 100% prefer for it to be stiles (I'll get there) or his mom who snapped him out of it.

melissa and chris, i could get aboard with that. def cute, def weird af since his dead daughter was dating her son but, well.

stiles and lydia is a ship i have conflicting feelings about. i absolutely hate the concept of "the nerd" is in love with the popular girl since freshman year and he's borderline being a creep ("oh but it's stiles! he's a dork and he's harmless" no.), completely obsessed with her and she ignores him but then they end up getting together.. i mean, it sends a bad msg to obsessed boys about how it's worth it in the end, and it makes the whole relationship feel unbalanced from the start, makes her reciprocation feel unatural. BUT, i have to admit the show did kinda make me warm up to this ship by the end, curse them. it was kinda cute. i wish there was more mutualness before it became such an important part in 6a tho.

just gonna put it out there: malia/kira and lydia/allison. i wish we saw more girl on girl interactions in general but the ones we had were very good, great dynamics.

i won't get too much into it but i.. i don't ship st*rek. i understand why they're the biggest ship (two white hot boys that interact with each other, i mean.), and i see the couple of fan service-y moments the show throws at us but just. they don't have my heart, i don't really care about them. not the characters, the characters i absolutely love! (tho this watch i skipped most of season 1 and 2 and 3a and i think that's where derek is the most asshole.. didn't he do really bad things? idr) idk if you want a bad character on the way to redemption with someone you should ship liam and theo who had way better shippy chemistry imo, even tho their ship probably wouldn't be healthy given their dynamic history, huh.

the ship that does owns my heart? scilies. I'm a softy when it comes to best friends to lovers, and their bond and relationship is just. so. pure. don't get me wrong, i love me a good platonic relationship, but there was just one to many homoerotic interactions between them for me not to ship it, hard. (not to be that person but my guess is that if Scott was white it would have been a way bigger ship, but who knows?) i love their love, i love they would do anything for each other, and i feel like there were a bunch of very missed opportunities for them in later seasons :(

so representation. this feels like a show that is trying to be Woke TM but it's not going so well. the main character is supposedly latino but it's never ever addressed. idc about "oh we want a world without prejudice" you can still fucking address it. i mean they went to Mexico a couple of times, stiles keeps saying "Mexican cousin" i mean. god. give us something. did i mention scott was told he'd make a great "nazi youth" ..

and you don't need to be a genius to see the most characters are very white or at least very white passing. and when you don't address their non whiteness they might as well be..

i already mentioned how poorly i feel kira was treated, but also mason, who is a wonderful character, gets no depth? we know nothing about him other than being gay and smart pretty much.

i also spoke about the women already but, they were really really great women characters, but not enough of them, not enough that lasted.

there's not much to talk about disability bc it just wasn't on the show. the only blind character was healed which. /: same with epilepsy and asthma..

i think the show is probably very proud (ha) with their LGBTQ+ rep bc they're like "oh let's make this insignificant couple gay bc hey nbg". examples are lydia's grandma, La Bete and marcel, i think nolan and jiang were exes and then nolan and gabe were a thing? idr if it was explicit. the couple of girls in the tent.. probably a couple more. it's nice, def better than all random couples being straight but that's not satisfying as rep.

Danny was great. i think he and ethan were.. cute? i think he was awesome, i loved danny so much and was very excited to learn he KNOWS at the end of season 3 and was waiting to see him join the pack. instead he fucking disappeared?! wtf. #WhereDidDannyGo

brett was cute rep, especially being bi but i feel like it could go into the insignificant pool which, again, is better than nothing.

mason and corey i just don't have strong feelings about. they were definitely cute and I'm glad they were together, i love mason A Lot. i think this relationship could be explored more, or at least the characters could be explored more to give this relationship more depth.

very interesting how there's no wlw canon couple, not even hinted. just fan servicey hot malia kira dance which /:

not to mention transgenderness. god can you imagine the interesting plotline of transitioning while being a werewolf 0:

i think the rep i was most happy about was ethan and Jackson. even tho i don't think there was build up or clues in the first couple of seasons, I'm happy for the actor who i know was struggling with coming out publicly, and it was very fun and refreshing for the ending. even if we got very few scenes with them the dynamic was 10/10

the biggest problem is obviously stiles. i just don't understand why, if they're so supposedly progressive, they went to that length to queerbait without following through. the whole gag of wanting to be attractive to danny and to gay guys, the whole "aww danny want to have sex with me that's so nice", the whole "do you like guys too?". it's a gag. his alleged bisexuality is the butt of a joke, and it pisses me the fuck off. they don't have to make it a big deal or have him get a bf for it to be official. it wasn't subtle subtext. it was a CHOICE. to put a spotlight on his sexuality but not deliver. -100/10 would not recommend.

also they could talk about his mental health more.

and about Scott's, please and thank you.

and everyone's.

i had some more feelings, like villains changing sides without getting a proper redemption and having no consequences, the wholesomeness of the sherriff and mellisa being each other's kids second parent eichen house (wtf??), and more, but i think i wrote enough for now.

tl;dr- good show with A Lot of problems, will always have a place in my heart bc I'm a nostalgic gal.

#teen wolf #scilies #scott mccall #stiles stilinski #allison argent #kira yukimura #malia hale #lydia martin #rant #fandom #werewolves #I'm sorry i couldn't add a read more thing on mobile but I'll edit it when i get the chance

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