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I think we deserve a soft epilogue, my love. We are good people and we’ve suffered enough. – Seventy Years of Sleep # 4. nikka ursula (n.t)

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes. --- I never expected this to be my most popular poem out of the hundreds I’ve written. I was extremely bitter and sad when I wrote this and I left out the most beautiful part of that class. After my teacher introduced us to this theory, she asked us, “is love a feeling? Or is it a choice?” We were all a bunch of teenagers. Naturally we said it was a feeling. She said that if we clung to that belief, we’d never have a lasting relationship of any sort. Ever since that class, since that project, I never looked at relationships the same way. I discovered the difference in feelings and commitments. I’ve never gone for the person who makes my heart flutter or my head spin. I’ve chosen the people who were committed to choosing me, dedicated to finding something to adore even on the ugliest days. I no longer fear the day someone who swore I was their universe can no longer see the stars in my eyes as long as they still choose to look until they find them again.

Create a beautiful, unique star map of the alignment of the stars above you at that significanthappyimportantdeliriouslove-filledstunningemotional moment! Start by selecting the location and the time where that special moment took place.

harry potter was so messed up guys not the book series the character he was so messed up like he lived in a closet and was hungry and treated like crap and no one helped him escape that life for a decade and then he finally gets to know his heritage and his family and oops kiddo you’re kind of famous?? wizard jesus??? so deal with that without any kind of adult guidance whatsoever you’re eleven and grew up in a house without any kind of emotional support you’re mature enough to handle that and THEN he finds out that he’s actually got people in this world that want him and want to love him and he finds out that… this world… hates them???  like one’s a werewolf and the other is a “criminal” and this world that celebrates his life hates the people that want to genuinely love him and care for him??? and the family that also loves and protects him are treated like crap because they are poor?????? and aren’t racist???  then he grows up a bit more and then suddenly he’s got this fuckin’ genocidal war lord out for his head specifically and he’s killing people and shit and NO ONE BELIEVES HIM they literally look at him like YEAH RIGHT YOU ARE JUST THE LITTLE BABY THAT SURVIVED A BAD NIGHT YOU DON’T KNOW ANYTHING and Harry’s like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK YOU KNOW WHAT NO FUCK YOU

AU from the Hot Water arc in DoS. Instead of reverse summoning to the deer realm, Shikako finds herself in an alternate verse where Danzo is Hokage and Kakashi is a missing nin. -- Most recent chapter: https://www.fanfiction.net/topic/180237/137948546/585/#170470229

The year 2000 has arrived in Tokyo, and the girls are enjoying the long peace that they've earned. Sadly, it's not gonna last much longer. The sudden appearance of Setsuna, stricken with amnesia, is the herald of a chain of events that will pit the girls against the ancient kingdom of Atlantis. A re-hosting on AO3 of a classic of Sailor Moon fanfiction. Originally written by The High Judge. INCOMPLETE/DEAD FIC

Summary: Han Solo. Luke Skywalker. Leia Organa. Time travelers. TLJ to ANH

She doesn't die screaming and she doesn't die fighting. It's a deceptively quiet end for someone who was never good at being quiet and Ino wakes up over a decade before with the memory of blood in her throat. It goes like this: She forgets how to smile with kindness and learns only how to bare her teeth.

Crocker Magitech is among the foremost developers of innovative magic and technology for the modern home, and the team of Crocker, Lalonde, and Strider are among the most important cogs in their clockwork machine. After a long dry spell without new projects to work on, Jane hits it big with a grand new discovery: a remote island out in the South Pacific that’s teeming with lost majyyks to rediscover. What the team finds out there is far more than their next big break: a lost settlement, a forgotten god, strange arcane flora, and a friendly boy living in the lake. Not even the combined knowledge of the team can prepare them for their expedition to this strange, hidden island. Magic, sex, and mayhem ensue. (Arc: “I have no idea how to elevator pitch this story, the concept is so *weird*. HEY Y’ALL, THREE DISILLUSIONED FRIENDS GO TO SOUTHERN PACIFIC SEX ISLAND AND HAVE CONVOLUTED SEXY MAGICAL ADVENTURES.” City: “Make that the exact line right there in the fic summary. Draw people in with what they didn’t know they wanted.”)

“This is reckless.” Sasuke mutters and Sakura can’t help but snort. “Oh no. We can’t be reckless. Anything but that.” She intones as dryly as possible, and Sasuke shoots her an irritated glare for that. Naruto swats his shoulder absently, pensively staring at the glowing seal between them. (In which four Konohans are driven to desperation, and a seal goes miserably, miserably wrong. Featuring an Uchiha Sakura, Senju Shikamaru, Actually Uzumaki Naruto, and a Mysteriously Missing Sasuke. Forbidden love, OP Team Seven plus Shikamaru, and everything in between.)

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: “Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 - Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said: “I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380 - Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs: “It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441 - General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war: “[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71 - On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying: “The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source - The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman: “I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here - Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities: “I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source - Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings: “I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forresta

Overview Produced as a 12" x 15" coffee table book, this perennial favorite starts with The Times front page from the day you were born, followed by every birthday in your life. Available with a leatherette ($100) or premium linen ($130) cover. 

Steve Rogers. Cheerfully Slutty. But not going to take your shit about it. Bucky Barnes. Voted most likely to fall in love first.

It takes months for Valentine to find the Mirror, and longer still to defeat him. Afterward, Alec has another first that he shares with Magnus: the strange and tentative transition from being not together to back together. He’s not handling it as well as he’d like.

Comedian. Funny

Poor white king with his delusions of grandeur. Poor white queen in her gilded cage.

It’s amazing how someone can teach themselves a whole new language by themselves. I self-studied Japanese and never used a textbook. There are so many resources for learning, online and free. You can learn just using the online or free resources listed here and beyond. But where do you start?

Kyle and Warren, from the beginning to the end of the beginning.

country singer bitty accidentally writes a hit about nhl player jack

This whole college gig would be hard even enough without Winry being the best wingwoman Ed never wanted… and without the blog. Definitely without the blog.

Relationship drama, twin swaps, a minor diamond heist - just a standard Saturday brunch at the Marbella.

If you write something on your skin, it will show up on your soulmate's skin as well.   James doesn't quite fall in love over physics discussions and cheeky book quotes and coding and riddles inked onto his skin, but he comes close. And then he actually meets Q.

parallels in their relationship

At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.

As the unwitting personification of Death, reality exists to Lily through the veil of a backstage curtain, a transient stage show performed by actors who take their roles only too seriously. But as the Girl-Who-Lived, Lily's role to play is the most important of all, and come hell or high water play it she will, regardless of how awful Wizard Lenin seems to think she is at her job.

“This is the only reason you were born,” her mother said to her once, standing on the balcony of their palace, running her fingers through her daughter’s golden hair and weeping.  "This is the only reason I was allowed to have you.“ Venus–already Venus, only Venus, golden girl born to lead, trained from the cradle in flirting and fighting side-by-side, until her smile became a weapon, until her hands were filled with blades and broken hearts in equal measure, six years old and already leaving them dead and dying in her wake–kept her eyes on the sky.  As long as she didn’t look at her mother, the moment might continue, might stretch and spool between them, unbroken, unchanging. “I am sorry that I could not love you,” said her mother, and her voice broke like crystal, like a silver crystal scattering stars across the sky. The shuttle was set to arrive in the morning, to carry the young princess who would never be a queen away to protect another princess, a princess who mattered in ways this princess never could.  The shuttle would come.  Nothing she did could stop it, and she didn’t want to.  She wanted to be far, far away, somewhere on the other side of that sky, somewhere she wouldn’t see her mother weeping out of the corner of her eye.  Let her little brother take the crown and hold the throne.  She was meant for bigger things. She was going to be the confidant and best beloved of a queen. “Remember, my little star,” said her mother, and kissed the top of her head, and Venus swore never to forget.

"Why are graven images forbidden by the Torah?“ I once heard Abraham Joshua Heschel ask. Why is the Torah so concerned with idolatry? You might think that it is because God has no image, and any image of God is therefore a distortion. But Heschel read the commandment differently. “No,” he said, “it is precisely because God has an image that idols are forbidden. You are the image of God. But the only medium in which you can shape that image is that of your entire life. To take anything less than a full, living, breathing human being and try to create God’s image out of it - that diminishes the divine and is considered idolatry.” You can’t make God’s image; you can only be God’s image." — Rabbi Arthur Green

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: “Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease”. “That depends, Sir,“ said Disraeli, “whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.” “He had delusions of adequacy.” - Walter Kerr “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” -Clarence Darrow “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas “I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends..” - Oscar Wilde “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend…. if you have one.” (George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill) “Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second  …. if there is one.“  (Winston Churchill, in response.)

It's AU but the shadow world. I took the canon bits I like and made up the rest of it and will continue to make it up. Also, these are the TV show characters. Also, I love angst and the deepest kinds of emotions I can describe. Alec has vanished without a trace. Magnus has been looking for him to no avail.

Dying within Aizen's soul, the Hogyoku gave Aizen's Zanpakuto a choice: to die, or find a far better master. Accepting life, she is sent to a new master, one who needs a guardian to protect and guide him. Together, with friends they make along the way, the two of them will tear Dumbledore's plans to shreds. Seriously, no flames. Don't like, don't read. Rating may change later on.