elsewhereuniversity

[elsewhereuniversity]

Congrats on the boat! Good luck with your business! Blessings and good fortune be upon ye!!!

Thank you!!

#<333

[elsewhereuniversity]

hey everyone! very very sorry for the radio silence from the archivist - my partner and I have been busy purchasing a boat (!!!) and it hasn't left me much time for anything else. now our seasonal work is picking up, so unfortunately it's likely that elsewhere u will remain on hiatus for a few months more. I will be back when I have the time, but I wanted to let you all know I'm alright, as I've gotten a few very sweet concerned messages. thanks so much for understandings, and to those who checked in with me! <3

#the hardest part of Owning a Business is honestly the social media posting #believe it or not 13 years on tumblr has not exactly left me primed to appeal to the general public #still very excited #all the same elsewhere is dear to me and i can't wait to get back to it when time allows

[elsewhereuniversity]

pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

[elsewhereuniversity]

Give me your name.

It won’t cost you much really.

Just a bit of yourself in return for power.

Is that really so bad a bargain?

As I've said in the past, it's yours if you can find it. It certainly isn't mine any longer.

#the archivist

[elsewhereuniversity]

Pardon me, Archivist, but do you know where that hand-made booklet got shelved? I've entirely too many things to be worried about, all of which will go much more smoothly if I stop worrying and simply let them happen, and this seems like exactly the sort of linguistic challenge that'll thoroughly distract me. In exchange for at least a general idea of where to start looking, I can offer you a glass fishbowl containing a trio of origami koi. Don't worry, they're not alive, just pretending to be.

You'd have to as the librarians! The Library has a habit of reshuffling its contents as it sees fit, so once a book has been returned to the shelves only they can tell you where it might be. If it's ended up somewhere very far afield or perilous to reach, they may send a Page with you, as a guide for the journey.

#the library

[elsewhereuniversity]

*left on the bulletin board*

Good news everyone! the fairy rings can run DOOM.

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#lmao #bulletin board

[elsewhereuniversity]

hey, for the idiot who swapped my cat with a changeling: I hope you enjoyed the two hours it took for her to leave and get back to me, but I'm keeping both cats. If they want to return as well that's their choice, but you can't make me give back my new kitty.

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#cats

[elsewhereuniversity]

To the friend who finds comfort in salt and hears the calling at night -

You have found us. We are so proud. There is a small group of us at this school. We are more at home here than most other places, you see. The forests may have worked, when knowledge of how to build houses and live off acres of land was plentiful, but now we live here, among civilisation.

We call ourselves the Others. Some of us were once fae, cast out and left with only the plants to commune with, while others have blood of mermaids in our blood, having to always remind themselves that they can in fact drown. We are not quite one race, not quite cleanly two, but a secret mix of past magic and future humanness.

Some of us have known we were Other since the time we were born, with eyes a little too odd or fingers that reach for tendrils of power that are not there. Some of us don’t know we are different until they discover the lure of acceptance and true familiarity.

Sometimes, we meet, in the nighttime when more of us feel at home. We call out to the sky in search for others who may find comfort in our little group of outcasts, if people who don’t quite fit in. We are not perfect, we are not quite whole, and we have scars and nightmares aplenty, but we are our own home.

What do you say, friend? Will you join us the next time you hear our call?

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#stories #long post #legacies #changelings

[elsewhereuniversity]

Dearest Archivist,

Recently, I have happened upon the realisation that neither my given name nor my chosen one is my true name. I realise that perhaps not having a true name could keep me safer from the Gentry than I could ever dare hope, yet I feel... Empty. Can names be stolen if you've never had one, Archivist? For that is what this feels like. As if a part of me has been taken, except that part never even existed.

Maybe it's because I'm a theatre major, I can take on and shed names like they never even mattered, and perhaps they wouldn't if this was Anywhere else in the world, however Elsewhere is not quite like Anywhere is it? Names here, I have learned, are more precious than even gold.

Archivist, I feel as if a new name is in order. Perhaps one that is gifted will stick better than one that was taken or forced. One that is like the silence found in the tucked-away corners of the library, the pleasure of a show well done, the feeling of being drunk on starshine and knowing that Magic is Alive.

In exchange, I offer you this glass beaker of fresh dew collected during the first flush of pink on the first dawn of the New Year. A single drop can heal any injury, body or soul, as far as I know. I recommend exercising caution while drinking it. I have known many a people who have fallen prey to their desire to heal things that cannot (and sometimes should not) be healed and they have never come back the Same.

I patiently await your reply, Archivist, and hope the coming year treats you well.

~ Nameless, for now, but always a friend.

Thenery

#names

[elsewhereuniversity]

I was cleaning out my crafts supplies and I found some thread I’d like to share, so that someone else might also benefit. It looks like plain white thread in the light, but in the dark it glows bright enough to read by. However, only the person wearing whatever garment the thread was used in can see the glow.

A charm for you in turn: a pen which writes in light. Perhaps this will be somewhat familiar to you, if you are used to spinning light already. The marks it sears onto a page are bright blue, and grow brighter as it writes wordplay.

#charms #the crazed sewing kit v

[elsewhereuniversity]

Another notice for the notice board: Its super exciting so many people are signing up for the sign-language class, but we all know why its happening. STOP TRADING YOUR VOICE

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#bulletin board #yes it's a net positive probably but cmon

[elsewhereuniversity]

Is this where we offer up items that would be better in the hands of someone else? I've a pair of tweezers that cleanly pluck whatever hair you grip them with- but each hair always grows back thicker and longer the next day, which defeats the purpose I got them for. Perfect for those looking to gain more-than-fuzz facial hair or fight balding though!

A painful way to grow thicker hair, but I'll grant you it's efficient. Let me offer you something in return for this, charm for charm, both hopefully made to make life a bit easier: a neverending tin of herbal candy which soothes any sore throat and tastes like the way fireworks look.

#charms #food

[elsewhereuniversity]

I got rid of my name as I killed the old me this summer, and I've been walking around without one. Can you give me something to cover myself while I find a proper one

Mace

#names

[elsewhereuniversity]

Archivist, I've had in my possession for some time a certain charm. It allows the holder to temporarily return to a moment they can never go back to. I do not recall how I obtained it; I initially thought it was a precious blanket from my childhood until I wrapped it around myself and became lost in the memories. I've asked others, and the charm appears to take the form of some object unique to the beholder's past. I give it to you now, for I fear I've grown dependent. Take care of it, please.

Memories are given away or lost so frequently here that this will surely be of high value to someone. Let me give you something in turn, as you move towards the future: a ship in a bottle, which sails in tomorrow's weather - slack-sailed across glassy calms, heeling terribly through nauseous green whitecaps, blazing along through gentle following seas. Something to look forward to, maybe.

#charms

[elsewhereuniversity]

May I ask for a safe name?

I understand if you are busy, but the one I have is too close to me and carries too much weight besides.

The shadows and moon and sea and earth and sunlight all call to me, it all calls to me, and I fear there is not enough of me to go around. There are so many things I'd like to do, and so many things I've been told I need to do, and my name comes too close to the things I cannot name.

Much obliged, I gift you stones from the ocean, she gave them willingly to me (even if she made me work for them) they are freely given to you now

Lemiscate

#names

[elsewhereuniversity]

You signed up for a creative writing workshop and somehow ever since then you have been cursed to talk only in second person. You'd like a new name to see if your curse lifts. Help you. Please.

Scimitar

#names

[elsewhereuniversity]

The saddest and most anger inducing thing about being faculty here is not having to tell parents their children Changed because they were Taken. Its having to tell those cOMPLETE AHs who pretend they're decent people that their children changed because they WEREN'T Taken, and that all those kids needed to bloom was to be away from them.

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#oof :( #student life