Best Draco/Hermione Fics Dramione Shippers Read in 2021

A few weeks ago, I asked you what were the best Dramione fics you’d read in 2021. Here’s the long list of your excellent, marvellous, fantastic recs (in alphabetical order):

A House in the Country by BoredRavenvlaw620: “That’s it, just no. I’ve done my duty to the Wizarding world. I gave up my childhood, I gave up my dreams, and for what… a tiny cubicle in which I put the Ministry stamp on endless permits. No more. I quit. Effective immediately. I think you’ll find I have ample vacation saved up. I’ll owl human resources on where they can send my check.”She spent her childhood fighting a war she didn’t start. Now life is passing her by. What will she find when she makes choices not based off expectation? T, 12 Chapters, 25,871 Words

A Week to Atone (a Hogwarts-era series) by real_jane: Hermione gives Draco a week to atone for all the hurt he caused her for the last seven years. Atonement only scratches the surface of what he does for her. 7 Works, 28,040 Words

A Well-Behaved Woman by femme_ecrivain: Astoria Greengrass can’t remember a time when she didn’t know she would one day be a Malfoy. Her entire life has been focused on one thing only: becoming the perfect wife to the scion of Wizarding society’s most prominent Pureblood family. Not even a war can get in the way of that goal—but her fiancé’s feelings for Hermione Granger just might. On the evening of her engagement ball Astoria’s world is rocked to its foundations and she finds herself facing some difficult decisions. But if there’s one thing she’s learned from Hermione (and Draco) it’s that well-behaved women rarely make history. And sometimes the drastic choice is the only one to make. T, 3 Chapters, 12,229 Words

A Woman of Independent Means by PacificRimbaud: In London, 1851, Draco Malfoy, Earl of Wiltshire, has been tasked with gifting the British Museum with a bequest from his grandfather’s estate. Simple enough, but for the mysterious contents of the gift, and the museum staff assigned to receive it. M, 1 Chapter, 5,023 Words

Adrift by In_Dreams: Life is closing in on all sides and Draco Malfoy is drowning in expectations. Something has to give. A chance encounter with Hermione Granger infuses his life with something new―but she doesn’t even remember her own name. E, 45 Chapters, 177,855 Words

An Apparition Condition by ChaosAndCrumpets: Every time Hermione Granger is in close proximity to Draco Malfoy, she is seized by a sudden urge to flee his presence. What on earth could be the reason for that? E, 4 Chapters, 9,538 Words

Anchors In A Storm by inadaze22: Draco’s current mistake—well, it wasn’t simply one, but three—was a chain of seemingly unconnected events that, when spliced together just so, made one hell of a shit storm. E, 9 Chapters, 30,442 Words

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Best Draco/Hermione Fics Dramione Shippers Read in 2021

A few weeks ago, I asked you what were the best Dramione fics you’d read in 2021. Here’s the long list of your excellent, marvellous, fantastic recs (in alphabetical order):

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Mary E Pearson Book Quotes Rp Meme

[kiss of deceptionl, heart of betrayal, the beauty of darkness,dance of thieves, vow of thieves]

“I will find you.In the farthest corner, I will find you.”
“Some things aren’t meant to be known. Only believed.”
“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.”
“Some things aren’t meant to be known. Only believed.”
I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”
“Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.”
“Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way.”
“Every mile, every day. I’d do it all again. I’d chase you across three continents if that’s what it took to be with you.”
“If one can’t be trusted in love, one can’t be trusted in anything. Some things can’t be forgiven.”
“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”
“Once upon a time, there was a man as great as the gods…But even the great can tremble with fear.Even the great can fall”
“But you’re everything I want. Remember that. I love you. Not a title. And not because a piece of paper says I should. Because I do.”
“But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we’re all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time… even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.”
“Love didn’t end all at once, no matter how much you needed it to or how inconvenient it was. You couldn’t command love to stop any more than a marriage document could order it to appear. Maybe love had to bleed away a drop at a time until your heart was numb and cold and mostly dead.”
“It doesn’t matter how many universes come and go, I will always remember who we were together.”
Then hold on to me,Let me show you the stars.”
“We all have our different skills. You’re patient to a fault, which sometimes doesn’t work to your advantage. I, on the other hand, have the patience of a wet cat. Only on rare occasions does that come in handy.”
“There are no rules when it comes to survival.”
“It began with the stars.”
“I do want tomorrows with you. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.”
“Don’t be afraid, child,The stories are always there.”
“The rules of reason build towers that reach past the treetops. The rules of trust build towers that reach past the stars.”
“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”
“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”
I want to kiss you because I want you, every part of you, even the parts that infuriate me beyond telling, because you’ve infected me with a poison that I don’t want to flush out, because you’re a mad viper twisting around my middle, cutting off my breath, yet I want you more than I want to breathe. Yes,I want to kiss you, just because I do, but the one thing I cannot do is promise you any tomorrows.”
“Because I so stupidly loved her.”
“These moments when we’re not hating each other.”
“Who was this girl who thumbed her nose at two kingdoms and did as she pleased?”
“There is something about her eyes. Eyes don’t breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.”
“I suppose if we’re going to fall in love all over again, kissing will be part of it.”
“Truth is as free as the air and we all have the right to breathe as deeply of it as we wish. It cannot be held back in the palm of any one man.”
“Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
“The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.”
“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”
“If I could only reach out and touch the stars, I would know everything. I would understand.”
“Sometimes the enemy is just one person who will bring down a kingdom.”
You have given me a universe of stars and stories,Where there was emptiness.You’ve unlocked a part of me I was afraid to believe in, And made the magic of wish stalks come true.I vow to care for you, to protect you and everything that is yours.Your home is now my home, your family, my family.I will stand by you as a partner in all things. With you by my side, I will never lack for joy.I know life is full of twists and turns, and sometimes loss, but whatever paths we go down, I want every step to be with you.”
“And if you didn’t whisk out knives and threaten to cut pretty necks, I think we might be friends too.”
“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.”
“A perfect night… a perfect forever”
“Hear the language that isn’t spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind it.”
“This world, it breathes you in, sniffs, it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you. You’re not contained here in this single place alone. The wind, time, it circles, repeats, teaches, reveals, some swaths cutting deeper than others. The universe knows. The universe has a long memory.”
Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn’t need the magic at all.”
“I do hope the things I’ve forgotten don’t matter.”
“This was more than an unexpected turn.It was an unchecked slide into hell.”
“Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.”
“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”
“Sometimes we’re all pushed to do things we thought we could never do.”
“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”
“You must find the magic that warms your skin in winter, the magic that perceives what cannot be seen, the magic that curls in your gut with fierce power and will not let you give up, no matter how long or cold the days.”
"Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”
“Maybe now it was I who would become the assassin.”
“I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.”
“Blink last.”
“For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.”
I am a soldier in my father’s army.”
“There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery of the gods. It is all around you.
“There is one true history And one true future. Listen well, For the child sprung from misery Will be the one to bring hope. From the weakest will come strength. From the hunted will come freedom.
“I didn’t need to fall in love with him again. I had never fallen out.”
“A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king.”
“Maybe some lies, maybe most of them, were lies we only told ourselves.”
“It was our story. It didn’t have to have a happy beginning or a happy ending, but the middle was a feast at a banquet, a rich soapy bath, a night’s rest at an inn and full stomach, a warm chest nestled up against my back, the soft heat of lips at my nape, stories whispered in my ear.”
“There are many ways to feed people.”
“You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely”
“It’s not an easy thing to tell the girl that you love more than life itself that you’re going to marry someone else.”
“Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can’t define your identity.”
“I don’t care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I’d make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you”
“When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we’ve taken, it will cripple us, and soon we’ll take no action at all.”
“When you think you’re at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you’ll find the rope is longer than you thought.”
“We wove our dreams together like armor.”
“Were any losses worth the gains?”
“There were many ways a life could be sacrificed, and it wasn’t always through dying”
“a little exaggeration was always expected when describing weapons, victories, and body parts.”
Laughter reveals in the same way a sigh or a glance does. It’s an unintentional language. Worry, fear, deceit - they hide in the things unsaid.”
“Every kiss, every touch, was a promise that we both knew, I was his and he was mine, and no conspiracy or scheme of kingdoms had a fraction of the power that surged between us.”
“How did you end up with an assassin and newly crowned king as your confidantes?”
“The gods have a wicked sense of humor.”
“There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it”
“it was only me, a thousand blinking stars, and the beauty of darkness stretched to the ends of the universe, snuffing out the endless games of courts and kingdoms.”
“Let’s just call this a friendly warning. If you hurt my brother, I’ll make sure that you regret it.”
“There are all kinds of friends you make in life… But there’s something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.”
“You two seemed inevitable.”
“Greater stories will have their way.”
“When your life has had few events to occupy it, it’s amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.”
“Love didn’t even seem like the right word to explain how I felt about her. The word seemed too small, too used, too simple, and everything I felt about her seemed complicated and rare and as wide as the world.”
“It’s not every day one has a first kiss,‘
'May I remind you that it wasn’t your first kiss?’
'It felt like it was. It was the first one that mattered.”
“It wasn’t good to dwell on maybes. Maybes could be twisted into things that never really existed”
“It’s other people who make us wise, and I haven’t known nearly enough.”
“I was becoming stronger in some ways but weaker in others.”
“Duty. That was a word I hated as much as tradition.”
“Choice is powerful and can lead to great things if not held in the tight fists of a few.”
“She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.”
“Seconds could change everything. Seconds could erase one path and send you reeling down another.”
“No matter how great a gift or skill, it’s impossible to foresee every outcome.”
“Sometimes you need to own one whole day. Maybe that’s what makes you brave enough to face another.”
“It doesn’t always take an army to save the world. Sometimes it takes just one person who won’t let evil win.”
“Betrayal tends to familiarize one with weapons.”
“I understood monuments now. Some were built of stone and sweat, and others were built of dreams, but they were all made of the things we didn’t want to forget.”
“Because if I could believe in tomorrow or the next day, maybe that would give the magic time to come true. Or better, maybe by then I wouldn’t need the magic at all.
“love’s always a messy affair better left to young hearts”
“Be brave, be victorious”
“Every one of my tomorrows is yours”
“Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.”
“There were two ways to approach the inevitable—being dragged to meet your fate or taking the offensive.”

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This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

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im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

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UNMUTE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!! #intears #lmao

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alkjfaslkjalskdjald!!!!

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Reblogging this with the tag australian dog because I spent HOURS searching for it one day…

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So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

Oh! I forgot to mention! I saw him at lunch the same day, and he ran up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, pointed at this super sweet girl who comes to GSA and asked if she’s gay. I told him he should ask her because that’s not my place and he said he would.

I thought that would be the end of it.

Except ten minutes later he came back and told me he found out (she’s bi) and that both of us have a shot. I said “You more than me.” because he’s attractive and popular.

But this wholesome dumbass looked really confused and asked, “Because I’m tall?’

So this isn’t lesbian/jock solidarity but I thought you guys would want to know-

My math teacher was trying to fix the rolling whiteboard and he just offhand said “This would be easier with a wrench”

And deadass, dudebro said “Hang on” and then proceeded to pull a fucking wrench out of his backpack

Update- after school today he saw me in the library and he didn’t say anything? He just pointed at the book he was holding and I gave him a thumbs up because it’s a pretty good book, and he went “Yes!” Really quiet and pumped his fist and then left

Okay so today he asked me if I know how to help people having a panic attack and I was like yeah? And he smiled at me and then went “cool I think I’m having one”

And I was like what the fuck Colin we’re in the middle of Tech class sit down and we went out in the hall and sat there for a while and he told me about the test he’s stressed about so we kind of went over his study guide and when he was feeling better he kind of like… smacked his head against mine gently? And I helped him up even though he’s almost a foot taller than me and yeah

Today at lunch we walked to the football field and laid in the grass and I told him thank you for being my friend (because I don’t have that many) and fistbumped me and said, “You always looked so nice and chill, how could I not want to be your friend?”

And honestly y’all, I would’ve started crying if he hadn’t sneezed and accidentally smacked me

Thought you guys would want to know-

Gray is me, white is Colin. We’re idiots

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I FOUND THE HIMBO POST

THIS

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THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

this for real fucking works

I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.

In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.

Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.

Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.

Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!

Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.

In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)

And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.

And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'

All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.

was anyone gonna tell me this existed or was i supposed to find this masterpiece by myself

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Burning some steel wool [x]

oh yea.h yeah yess yeah t.hat is the. the good shit yessssd

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i learned that a makeup artist with Parkinson’s just launched a cosmetics brand for people with shaky hands (x)

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Have a link to the actual site!

https://www.guidebeauty.com

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hey neat! there are videos on their site about how to use each product, and they look fantastic. Also using my cheekbone as a rest/pivot point for my hand is how I do my eyeliner, its much easier.

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If you wear concealer/foundation/contour/etc and don’t want to mess it up by resting your hand on your face, you can use a powder puff as a barrier! You’ll still be able to brace your hand just fine, but the makeup underneath will stay looking good as new ❤️

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Every time this comes up I have to reblog cause everyone deserves to be able to put on makeup if want to.

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book quotes that make me believe in love:

*VERY SPOILERY*

~feel free to add on (:

•“Nothing existed except for that and Annabeth at his side. Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world” -Heroes of Olympus 04 - The House of Hades

•“Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her” -Heroes of Olympus 03 - The Mark of Athena

•“You said you loved the words of my heart, the shape of my soul. I remember. I remember every word you said from that day to this. I will never forget them. There are so many words I wish to say to you, and so many I wish to hear you say to me. I hope we have all our lives to say them to each other”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I know how you are with your words, and, Will—I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. “Marry me,” he said. “Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it”. -Clockwork Princess

•“There is nothing about you that I can imagine not loving”. -Clockwork Princess

•“there will never be a time when I do not love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I do not wish you other than you are, Tessa. You are what you are, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“Tessa was lying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will’s voice as he read. It was a tenderness so intimate and so profound that Charlotte stepped away immediately, letting the door fall noiselessly shut behind her”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all” -Clockwork Princess

•”I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I am—I am catastrophically in love with you” -Clockwork Princess

•“When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off” -Clockwork Prince

•“I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?” -Clockwork Prince

•“You want this?” His voice was hoarse. “Yes,” she said. “Do you?” His finger traced the outline of her mouth. “For this I would have been damned forever.” “For this I would have given up everything.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I want you,” he says. He says “I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you”. -Unravel Me

•“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend,” he says. “The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body, Juliette—“ -Unravel Me

•“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time” -Unravel Me

•“I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,” he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it” -Unravel Me

•“I’m so—I’m so desperately in love with you” -Unravel Me

•“I love you, I whisper. “I love you exactly as you are”-Ignite Me

•“he kisses me, kisses me until time topples over and my head spins into oblivion. It’s a heavy, unbelievable kiss. It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. The kind that takes forever and no time at all. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.” -Ignite Me

•“I will be here every night,” he whispers, his words so soft, so tortured, “to keep you warm. I will kiss you until I can’t keep my eyes open” -Ignite Me

•“I want you to be happy, I tell him, my eyes searching his. “I want you to have a family. I want you to be surrounded by people who care about you, I say. You deserve that.” “I have you,” he says, resting his forehead against mine. His eyes shut. “You should have more than me.” “No,” he whispers. He shakes his head. His nose grazes mine. “Yes.”-Ignite Me

•“You are my salvation, Feyre.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction, even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or starved. I couldn’t leave him to his own dark thoughts, his own guilt. He’d shouldered them alone long enough” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Am I supposed to deny,” he drawled, but something sparked in those eyes, “that I find you attractive?” “You’ve never said it.” “I’ve told you many times, and quite frequently, how attractive I find you.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Smile again,” he whispered. So I smiled at him, broad and without restraint. “You’re exquisite,” he breathed”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers—who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I’m thinking,” he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, “that I look at you and feel like I’m dying. Like I can’t breathe. I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate half the time I’m around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•”I couldn’t … I couldn’t stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can’t stay away.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“And now I want you to know, Rhysand, that I love you. I want you to know … ” His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. “I want you to know,” I whispered, “that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I missed you. Every second, every breath. Not just this,” he said, shifting his hips for emphasis and dragging a groan from deep in my throat, “but … talking to you. Laughing with you. I missed having you in my bed, but missed having you as my friend even more”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I’m grateful,” he said after a while, as the camp beneath us stirred in the building light. “To have you at my side. I don’t know if I ever told you that—how grateful I am to have you stand with me”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have … The wait was worth it”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to … so I could find you.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I told him how I had fallen in love with him—every glance and passed note and croak of laughter he coaxed from me. I told him of everything we’d done, and what it had meant to me, and all that I still wanted to do. All the life still left before us”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“And will you come with me? On this adventure—and all the rest?” Rhys leaned forward and kissed me. “Always.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“She loves you—in a way I’ve never seen anybody love anyone.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I love you,” he breathed. “More than life, more than my territory, more than my crown”. -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I lifted my eyes to his again and found stars and darkness waiting. Found home waiting. Never enough. Not to paint him, know him. Eons would never be enough for all I wanted to do, see with him. For all I wanted to love him.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“You make me so very happy. My life is happy, and I will never stop being grateful that you are in it.” I looked up to find him not at all ashamed to have tears slipping down his cheeks in public. I brushed a few away before the chill wind could freeze them, and Rhys whispered in my ear, “I will never stop being grateful to have you in my life, either, Feyre darling. And no matter what lies ahead”—a small, joyous smile at that—“we will face it together. Enjoy every moment of it together.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop”. -The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)

•“By you, I am forever undone.” -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart if you must. Just come home.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soils of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours”. -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Because I love you!” Her mouth fell open. “I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he’s always known how I felt, too” -Assassin's Blade

•“He brushed his lips against hers. “I love you,” he breathed against her mouth. “And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that’s where I want to be. Forever.” -Assassin's Blade

•“I just want to be with you, he murmured. “I don’t care where we go. That’s all I want”. -Assassin's Blade

•“He was so beautiful—so full of all the things that she wanted, all that she hoped for.” -Assassin's Blade

•“this relationship between them, this bond that was forming, so unbreakable and unyielding that it made the entire axis of her world shift toward him”. -Assassin's Blade

•“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“he was made to be worshipped”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you. When you were away from me you were still present in my art”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“He was helping. And he was willing to meet a horrible fate in order to keep her alive. He hadn’t left her alone. She hadn’t been alone.” -Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass Book 3)

•”I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us … I would find you. I don’t care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.” -Queen of Shadows

•“And damn if it didn’t kill him, the quiet joy in her face. They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile … It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him”. -Queen of Shadows

•”You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.” He didn’t have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss. So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night”. -Queen of Shadows

•“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.” -Queen of Shadows

•“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“And when Aelin laid her palm flat on him again, she said, “You are mine.” Rowan’s breathing started again, jagged and savage as the waves breaking around them. She flicked open the top button of his pants. “I’m yours,” he ground out. Another button popped free. “And you love me,” she said. Not a question. “To whatever end,” he breathed.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“He was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. Hers—he was hers, and— “You are mine,” Rowan breathed, and she felt the claiming in her bones, her soul. “I am yours,” she answered. “And you love me.” Such hope and quiet joy in his eyes, beneath all that fierceness. “To whatever end.” For too long—for too long had he been alone and wandering. No longer” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” Rowan breathed onto her skin, and flicked his tongue over the spot where his canines had scratched. “I’d walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you”. -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She whispered onto his mouth, “I’ll always find a way back to you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken.” Her tears flowed past him in the wind. “And I will be with you …” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you always”. -Kingdom of Ash

•“Aelin awoke to the scent of pine and snow, and knew she was home. Not in Terrasen, not yet, but in the sense she would always be home, if Rowan was with her”. -Kingdom of Ash

•”Because he was false,’ said Damen, ‘and you are true. I have never known a truer man.’ He said, into the stillness, ‘I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly”. -Kings Rising

•“I want you,’ said Damen, ‘I’ve wanted you for so long, I’ve never felt like this with anyone”. -Kings Rising

•“The kiss happened because they couldn’t help it, and it was so sweet and so right that Damen felt a kind of ache”. -Kings Rising

•“You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs." “I'm not a hallucination," Neil said, nonplussed. “You are a pipe dream," Andrew said”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“He straightened and turned to find Andrew had shifted closer. There was nowhere for Neil to stand except up against Andrew, but somehow Neil didn't mind. They'd been apart for seven weeks but Neil keenly remembered why he'd stayed. He remembered this unyielding, unquestioning weight that could hold him and all of his problems up without breaking a sweat. For the first time in months he could finally breathe again. It was such a relief it was frightening; Neil hadn't meant to lean on Andrew so much”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making Andrew's pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•”Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty, and the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.” -The Song of Achilles

•“Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other’s bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” -The Song of Achilles

•“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world” -The Song of Achilles

•“He is half my soul, as the poets say” -The Song of Achilles

•“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.” -The Song of Achilles

•“In the crooks of your body I find my religion” -Sappho

•“she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out”. -Caraval

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aturnoftheearth

Anonymous asked:

WAIT THAT LAST TWEET WASN’T AN EDIT??

aturnoftheearth answered:

NO IT’S REAL AND DELETED SKDJKSJFKS

prismatic-bell

Can someone who’s into SPN PLEASE explain this? Preferably on this post so my inbox/dms aren’t getting blown up for the next three days?

This has been all over my dash tonight and I’m so confused.

ariasune

@prismatic-bell I don’t know if I have the lay of the land accurate - though I might have followers who do! But this is my very rough understanding of things:

Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles co-star in Supernatural for 15 years, during which time Jared Padalecki was generally and increasingly unpleasant, including: physical assault (up to and including, arrest), bribery, racism. He owns a MLM, and I can’t find a better citation, but there’s community rumblings about inappropriate touching of other cast members.
The tl;dr I’m reaching here is he seems like a pretty meh colleague.
Supernatural finishes abruptly and speculatively because Padalecki is interested in a reboot of the Texas Walker.
Jensen Ackles states he would have happily continued playing his character and after the series concludes, states intentions to work further in the Supernatural universe.
Jensen Ackles turned down offers from Padalecki to star in the Texas Walker reboot, as well as offers to appear as a guest or direct an episode.
Padalecki starts working on Texas Walker, cast as lead. Its previews and premieres go attrociously and it is not well-received.
Jensen Ackles announces a prequel series to Supernatural right before something happens with the Texas Walker show. This is a project he planned in discussions other members of the various team involved in Supernatural, notably including: Robbie Thompson, Eric Kripke, Misha Collins. These people congratulate and hype Ackles.
The prequel series is not well-received by the fandom, because it centers a disliked character, theme and honestly, just,, nah.
Jared Padalecki proceeds to tweet that he is happy for Ackles’ project, but wishes he could have found out about it not through public sources. He further adds his dismay that his character was not included in this prequel. He says that he is gutted.
Robbie Thompson posts a positive tweet about the SPNFamily, very generic. Padalecki replies with et tu brute tweet as above and then deletes it. He also unfollows, refollows, unfollows his former colleagues and stuff like that.
Padalecki’s response to the situation acts as heat sink to the hatred of the prequel project’s announcement, which isn’t even lit for a pilot yet for real. All this over a twinkle in a producer’s eye.

So, my ken of the situation is show ended with Padalecki having alienated most people involved, the rest of the crew and cast started work on other projects and deliberately didn’t involve Padalecki, who is now having a very public reaction to it, which might have something to do with his own failing show, and ironically, helps beat the dead horse.

prismatic-bell

……..

………..WOW.

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

if anyone is interested, i summarized in this post why the hate for jared has intensified so greatly since the finale, and if you go back through my jared tag you can find the receipts for it.

another layer to all of this is that the cw apparently fucked over both jensen and misha (and dean/cas in the process) in regards to the ending of spn in order to center jared for walker, and jared apparently allowed this to happen, fucking over his “friends”. he made some pretty horrible comments indicating that dean’s sudden death was a “success story” because it allowed sam to go live a normal life free of the burden of his (often suicidal) brother. they also completely ditched sam’s love interest, eileen, who was a Deaf woman, in favor of a faceless woman seen in the distance, and jared approved of this too.

he also seems to be a pretty shitty father to his three young children, openly admitting that he can only stand taking care of them for 20 minutes before dumping them back on his wife, and complaining that he doesn’t know how to play with them or he doesn’t want to play with them outside in the heat.

and then there’s also the racist, bootlicking nature of his walker show, the whole point of which is to romanticize the ~conflict~ of being a cop whose duty is at war with his humanity. 🙄

fans have been speculating for MONTHS about a “j2 fallout theory” because of how they have been acting, and we’ve been going wild because this whole thing confirms it. it has really seemed like jensen was pissed off, for the following reasons:

he looked visibly unhappy in the last scenes of the finale
he did nothing to promote the finale or even ACKNOWLEDGE it on social media, did nothing like ‘congratulating’ his costar on the end of their 15 year show together. he and misha were both left out of the cw’s ‘thank you and goodbye’ twitter video.
he was completely silent on social media for something like 3 months, and his only recent likes had to do with the third-to-last spn episode, which was misha’s last episode and the infamous nov 5th episode where destiel went canon. his first like/comment after 2 or 3 months had to do with that episode as well.
in online panels, jensen was animated and excited when talking about the destiel episode, but flat and miserable-looking when talking about the finale. we know from old conventions that this is not the ending he wanted for dean.
jensen and jared were once so close that they bought neighboring houses in austin to raise their kids together, but not long after the finale jensen up and fucked off to the mountains in colorado with his whole family. despite the fact that they have a brewery in austin, to my knowledge they’ve been living in colorado for a good six months while jared films walker in texas.
jared did not acknowledge jensen’s birthday in march.
jensen made one little perfunctory tweet promoting the premiere of walker, but it wasn’t exactly enthusiastic.
jared said that he wanted jensen to star in walker, and after jensen said no, obliviously blathered on about how he was “blowing up jensen’s phone” and that he was going to drag him “kicking and screaming” to either guest star or direct an episode. jensen has said NOTHING.
what compounds this is that jensen famously loves cowboys and dressing up as cowboys. in theory, dressing up as a cowboy and playing around with, ostensibly, his best friend should be a no brainer.

so THEN jensen drops this bomb that he’s planned out a prequel - announcing it on twitter THIRTY MINUTES before walker is set to air on tv!! - without it ever reaching jared’s ears. which, considering the number of people that must have been in discussion, seems like it had to have been a deliberate slight rather than an accident.

also, robbie thompson is one of the more beloved of spn writers, and he left the show after s11. according to the prequel announcement, robbie has been tapped as the head writer of the prequel, therefore the vitriol jared spewed in his direction makes me inclined to think that he tried to get robbie to write for walker and was again turned down.

so all of this to say: this has been a long time coming, confirmed a lot of our speculations, and the asshole deserves every minute of it. ✌

rogueangelshunter

I just wanted to sort of gently tune the dial in a bit more on some aspects of the story so that there’s a bit more detail…

luxshine

There’s also the fact that Jensen HAD dealt with prissy insufferable “golden boys” before who got him written out of a series out of jealousy and like a fucking pro, he remained silent (check the whole Dark Angel drama for that) so he wasn’t going to let that happen to Misha (I didn’t know about the s2 fight but it makes a lot of sense)

And also: the Osiric thing wasn’t an “accident” in the sense that Osiric didn’t know how to defend himself. Dude is a trained stunt and martial artist BEFORE being an actor and Everyone had told JP that horsing around was dangerous. While Osiric obviously didn’t want to hurt JP and apologized profoundly, what happened was the result of a trained fighter defending himself from a bully who was used to use his size to win fights.

rogueangelshunter

Oh, for sure - the stuff that I’ve heard about happening to Jensen during his stint on Dark Angel was just beyond shameful. Michael Weatherly and Jessica Alba have both individually apologized to Jensen since, but it doesn’t change the fact that Michael Weatherly was a ginormous dickbag to Jensen out of nothing more than insecurity and gross macho posturing. How sad that Jensen got looped into doing another show with a shithead just like Weatherly who felt like he had just so much he wanted to prove but no character to prove it with. And when I say ‘accidentally’, I don’t mean Osric was being negligent or anything - quite the opposite. Jared was the one who put him in a dangerous situation acting like a bull in a china shop, like he so often does. Osric used his skills to keep himself from getting seriously hurt and it just had the side-effect of resulting in Jared’s shoulder getting hurt in the process. Osric knows his stuff, but like you said - this was a case of JP trying to use his size against Osric and it wound up backfiring on his ass hugely, because Os actually knows how to defend himself properly.

castielslostwings

This is genuinely the greatest thread of all time in a world full of unearned JP worship and I respect the hell out y’all for compiling.

Encourage anyone reading along to click the links and get the full picture.

As I have said for a long time, JP may love Sam, but Sam wouldn’t want anything to do with his actor.

livebloggingmydescentintomadness

i highly recommend reading @rogueangelshunter‘s readmore details. i’ve been in the fandom since 2013 and there was a lot in there that even i didn’t know about that paints an even douchier picture of jared than i could have guessed. thanks for the valuable information!

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fatimafares123

Now YouTube has a habit of recommending me the weirdest stuff recently, but today i got this on my recommendations

And about halfway through listening to this, I went and read the comments, literally I could not stop reading I was there for hours, here are some of my favorites

moonlit-grimoire

First off, Oliviaalee’s channel is a godsend for writing. My favorites right now are:

Give them a try here

Also…honorable mention

safetytank

I use this channel for my DnD campaigns. Works perfectly every time.

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infpconfessionsoflife

If The Types Came with an Instruction Manual: INFP Edition

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner/friend of an INFP! Here are a few things to take note of with your new best friend! Oh, you didn’t know INFP was now your best friend? Well now you do, because if you have one, it’s going to stay by your side for pretty much ever.

1. Your INFP comes with the innate ability to scope out good and bad! This particular model is very good at determining whether or not a person is being truthful and genuine or totally fake! You just acquired a lie detector as well. Your INFP will be able to break a person down in about 5 minutes flat !On top of that, they will warn you as well like the little Golden retrievers they are! 2. Your INFP is an INTROVERT! This means that more often than not, your INFP is going to be just as happy staying in and watching a movie by his or her self, than going out. So remember to keep the super social things down to a small amount or this will drain your INFPs battery.* They tend to like one on one things or a small group often a maximum of 3-5. Be sure to ask INFP how they feel. Be prepared for a 30 minute conversation.

*CAUTION: If INFP loves you, INFP will try to force itself to go to gatherings so as to make you happy. Then you will not see INFP for a week or more. Be careful with INFPs willingness to participate as likely they do it for you.

3. INFP cares Deeply!! Your INFP comes standard with the ability of caring too much and too deeply. Usually this trait makes them resent themselves more than anything, but when they find that person who appreciates them for it, they become very happy and stick to you like glue. Please be sure to listen to INFP when they speak and try your best to understand them, because 99.9999% guaranteed, your INFP listens to you and remembers most everything you like and dislike. 4. Your INFP usually likes one of the following: Writing, drawing, music, etc. This is a way your INFP expresses themselves, and is a very important thing to them. There is a 40% chance that INFP will show you there art/writing/music choices one day. When/If they do, know that INFP finds you very special, as this is very uncommon and you have become the chosen one.

5. Your INFP is obsessed with something. No really, your INFP has something that it loves and expresses said love for it. Whether it is something as small as a fascination with rocks to a unhealthy love of rainbows. Please indulge this. INFP will show this feature the more you spend time with them. Pro Tip: If you get a gift for INFP that involves said obsession, you will become their favorite person ever and will likely keep with gift in a place and remember you every time they look at it. Plus they will likely never expect you to do this for them.

6. Your INFP is not good at confrontation. Your INFP DOES NOT like confrontation and will do anything to avoid it. They are diplomats and they keep true to the title. They try to make peace in bad situations and can often stop fights by being the nuetral go between. They are able to see both sides of the coin and will try their best to make everyone happy. Please avoid confrontation to spare INFPs becoming mentally exhausted/Upset/using every emotion they have and know of…

7. INFPs are VERY GOOD AT CONFRONTATION. (Yes we are aware of what was stated above in 6) While INFP does not like confrontation, when a friend of INFP has been wronged, it is as if something snapped in INFP and suddenly INFP will become bullet proof and will destroy its target. In plain terms, your Golden Retriever has now switched to full on Rottweiler guard dog mode. If you want this action not to be completed on your behalf, you must tell INFP before it annihilates the person that has wronged you. They have a very hurtful almost eerie way of completing this action and It is not pretty. Distract INFP with something shiny or its favorite thing to spare the person.

8. Your INFP in the embodiment of the word contradiction. (See 6 &7) Your INFP can be decisive and indecisive on the same day at basically the same time. One moment your INFP will be meek and mild like a lamb about one thing, and as vicious as a bear protecting it’s young about another. This is normal and in time will become less and less surprising.

Pro Tip: Don’t try to change this quality. It actually adds to INFPs quirkiness and overall personality. Plus their feelings WILL get hurt

9. Your INFP is very strong and can be very stubborn, but will cave if they love a person. Treat your INFP with care as their love for you will make them give in to doing most of what you want to make you happy. Consult with your INFP to be sure what you re doing/planning makes them happy too. More often than not it will, but they will appreciate the consideration and only love you more. (Be prepared for a 15-30 minutes conversation and possible tangents)

10. Your INFP needs to talk to you! Your INFP has a habit of keeping everything in. In their mind, the less they trouble you with their problems, somehow to them makes it better for everyone else. If left unchecked, INFP will slowly erode and self destruct and feel unlved and misunderstood. You must ask them how they are doing and spend one on one time with them often. It would be simple if asking how your INFP was was a simple as asking “how are you?” But it is NOT. You must sometimes be a little forceful. Show that you care.

Pro Tip: Invite INFP over for bonding time. Give them a warm cup of coffee/tea and a cozy place to sit. Be ready to listen. CAUTION! This will likely take from 2-8+ hours. Make a day for it!

These are the top 10 instructions for your new INFP friend! We would post more, but sadly the model INFP comes with 75 additional volumes each with 700+ pages per volume! But this is a good way to get started and get to knowing your new INFP!

Have fun with your new friend and Congratulations!

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render94

typewriter!

theclockworkjudas

I love the orchestra trying and failing to maintain a straight face throughout

silly-jellyghoty

Exactly. These people had to rehearse at least a few times all at once yet when it's nkt their turn to play they still look at that guy with the typewriter as if he was the most fascinating thing they have ever seen.

ironwoman359

My husband's wind ensemble played this song when he was in high school! you can do it with normal auxillery percussion, but it's so much more fun if you do it with a real typewriter

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stephsu

inspired by this post

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gaykagome

okay this reminded me of the strongest human being (I use that label with some reservation) I have ever met and I still think about him like once a week because about 4 years ago on Thanksgiving night my sister, cousin, and I were going to pick up a friend about a 40 minute drive from home, and I got lost and tried to turn around on a little gravel pull-off on the side of the road, but my front tires got stuck in the snow.

we were in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception, and the only sign of life was a single, completely dark house across the road from us.

We all did our best to push the car out, and we’re strong people, but we couldn’t make it budge. Cold and stuck, we climbed back and wondered what to do. A car full of men pulled over beside us and asked if we needed help, but getting out of our locked car on a backroad at night with strange men felt like a bad idea, so we said a tow was coming and waved them along. We did that twice before finally deciding our only option was to accept the next offer for help and just risk it,

when a man came out of the house across the street.

He’d clearly been watching us and figured out why we’d been lying to people, which really surprised me & he said “it’s okay, you can stay in your car and keep the doors locked. Just start backing up when I say so.”

I had the window cracked and told him “it’s too stuck. There’s no way we’re getting out. Could you call a tow?”

And he said “just back up when I say so.”

So he walked around the front of the car, squatted, and said “okay back up,”

and I did, and

he lifted

the front of the car Into The Air. Off its front wheels, and we backed up while he essentially wheel-barrowed us back onto the road.

And we were honest to god yelling. We couldn’t help it. We just yelled until all four wheels were back on the ground and he was waving us off while we thanked him.

And then I looked at my sister and cousin & said “he REALLY told us we can KEEP our doors locked as if THAT WOULD’VE FUCKING STOPPED HIM!!!! As if he couldn’t have just RIPPED EM OFF THE HINGES.”

I later looked up the weight of my car, and it’s 3200 pounds without anything or anyone in it.

This haunts me.

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plaguedocboi

Here it is folks:

My definitive ranking of my least favorite bodies of water! These are ranked from least to most scary (1/10 is okay, 10/10 gives me nightmares). I’m sorry this post is long, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this.

The Great Blue Hole, Belize

I’ve been here! I have snorkeled over this thing! It is terrifying! The water around the hole is so shallow you can’t even swim over the coral without bumping it, and then there’s a little slope down, and then it just fucking drops off into the abyss! When you’re over the hole the water temperature drops like 10 degrees and it’s midnight blue even when you’re right by the surface. Anyway. The Great Blue Hole is a massive underwater cave, and its roughly 410 feet deep. Overall, it’s a relatively safe area to swim. It’s a popular tourist attraction and recreational divers can even go down and explore some of the caves. People do die at the Blue Hole, but it is generally from a lack of diving experience rather than anything sinister going on down in the depths. My rating for this one is 1/10 because I’ve been here and although it’s kinda freaky it’s really not that bad.

Lake Baikal, Russia

When I want to give myself a scare I look at the depth diagram of this lake. It’s so deep because it’s not a regular lake, it’s a Rift Valley, A massive crack in the earth’s crust where the continental plates are pulling apart. It’s over 5,000 feet deep and contains one-fifth of all freshwater on Earth. Luckily, its not any more deadly than a normal lake. It just happens to be very, very, freakishly deep. My rating for this lake is a 2/10 because I really hate looking at the depth charts but just looking at the lake itself isn’t that scary.

Jacob’s Well, Texas

This “well” is actually the opening to an underwater cave system. It’s roughly 120 feet deep, surrounded by very shallow water. This area is safe to swim in, but diving into the well can be deadly. The cave system below has false exits and narrow passages, resulting in multiple divers getting trapped and dying. My rating is a 3/10, because although I hate seeing that drop into the abyss it’s a pretty safe place to swim as long as you don’t go down into the cave (which I sure as shit won’t).

The Devil’s Kettle, Minnesota

This is an area in the Brule River where half the river just disappears. It literally falls into a hole and is never seen again. Scientists have dropped in dye, ping pong balls, and other things to try and figure out where it goes, and the things they drop in never resurface. Rating is 4/10 because Sometimes I worry I’m going to fall into it.

Flathead Lake, Montana

Everyone has probably seen this picture accompanied by a description about how this lake is actually hundreds of feet deep but just looks shallow because the water is so clear. If that were the case, this would definitely rank higher, but that claim is mostly bull. Look at the shadow of the raft. If it were hundreds of feet deep, the shadow would look like a tiny speck. Flathead lake does get very deep, but the spot the picture was taken in is fairly shallow. You can’t see the bottom in the deep parts. However, having freakishly clear water means you can see exactly where the sandy bottom drops off into blackness, so this still ranks a 5/10.

The Lower Congo River, multiple countries

Most of the Congo is a pretty normal, if large, River. In the lower section of it, however, lurks a disturbing surprise: massive underwater canyons that plunge down to 720 feet. The fish that live down there resemble cave fish, having no color, no eyes, and special sensory organs to find their way in the dark. These canyons are so sheer that they create massive rapids, wild currents and vortexes that can very easily kill you if you fall in. A solid 6/10, would not go there.

Little Crater Lake, Oregon

On first glance this lake doesn’t look too scary. It ranks this high because I really don’t like the sheer drop off and how clear it is (because it shows you exactly how deep it goes). This lake is about 100 feet across and 45 feet deep, and I strongly feel that this is too deep for such a small lake. Also, the water is freezing, and if you fall into the lake your muscles will seize up and you’ll sink and drown. I don’t like that either. 7/10.

Grand Turk 7,000 ft drop off

No. 8/10. I hate it.

Gulf of Corryvreckan, Scotland

Due to a quirk in the sea floor, there is a permanent whirlpool here. This isn’t one of those things that looks scary but actually won’t hurt you, either. It absolutely will suck you down if you get too close. Scientists threw a mannequin with a depth gauge into it and when it was recovered the gauge showed it went down to over 600 feet. If you fall into this whirlpool you will die. 9/10 because this seems like something that should only be in movies.

The Bolton Strid, England

This looks like an adorable little creek in the English countryside but it’s not. Its really not. Statistically speaking, this is the most deadly body of water in the world. It has a 100% mortality rate. There is no recorded case of anyone falling into this river and coming out alive. This is because, a little ways upstream, this isn’t a cute little creek. It’s the River Wharfe, a river approximately 30 feet wide. This river is forced through a tiny crack in the earth, essentially turning it on its side. Now, instead of being 30 feet wide and 6 feet deep, it’s 6 feet wide and 30 feet deep (estimated, because no one actually knows how deep the Strid is). The currents are deadly fast. The banks are extremely undercut and the river has created caves, tunnels and holes for things (like bodies) to get trapped in. The innocent appearance of the Strid makes this place a death trap, because people assume it’s only knee-deep and step in to never be seen again. I hate this river. I have nightmares about it. I will never go to England just because I don’t want to be in the same country as this people-swallowing stream. 10/10, I live in constant fear of this place.

Honorable mention: The Quarry, Pennsylvania

I don’t know if that’s it’s actual name. This lake gets an honorable mention not because it’s particularly deep or dangerous, but it’s where I almost drowned during a scuba diving accident.