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#(meanwhile i'm just screaming 'why on earth SHOULDN'T she???')
fictionadventurer · 1 month
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Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.
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stromuprisahat · 3 months
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Never take your Sun Summoner into the Shadow Fold sans previous announcement
Siege and Storm- Chapter 8
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Nichevo'ya's bite?
Or the second amplifier too?
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Once in her life, Alina makes a decent deduction, and immediately brushes it aside...
Meanwhile Sasha: "Oh babe, you're touching me from the inside?!"
Yeah, there's the age-old question how does the Fold feel to Aleksander?
If nichevo'ya are torn away from his very being, and the Fold was made through the same force, but with different intent, how well is he aware of the thing? And how aware of it he was to begin with? Did he have to "die" also because when the Fold was fresh, it had been too overhelming to function? I have SO many questions only Sasha can answer!
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Alina doesn't want to participate in Sturmhond's experiments, because she doesn't think it's a good idea.
Why?
Because doesn't ~like~ it, and last time Maaal got hurt...
Why not offer stronger arguments?
The first time she entered the Fold, it was swarming with volcra even though they're supposed to move in small flocks, the Darkling literally told her he's like a beacon to them and "Like calls to like" right?!
"Hey dickhead, I'm not supporting your hunting expedition, because you wouldn't have the firepower necessary even if they weren't fucking starving. Do you want a living Sun Summoner, or to stroke your ego over our corpses once we'll crash?"
For a person, who likes to mouth off, Alina can't stand up for herself even if it would be prudent.
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I know I'm fucking annoying, but shouldn't this lead to some kind of awakening?
Isn't this a moment a heroine should realize war is a terrible business, turning living bodies into mincemeat, so it should be stopped?!
Shouldn't this be a turning point, after which peace becomes her priority?
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Oh yeah, babe! Panic attack!
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... triggered by the slaughter…
... and when we're at it:
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... broken in half?!
I raised my hand and brought it down in a blazing arc, slashing through the air. An earth-shaking crack echoed through the Fold as the sandskiff split in half. Raw screams filled the air and the volcra shrieked in their frenzy.
One of its masts had snapped in two... ?
The one you'd Cut, Alina?!
I felt the weight of the collar around my neck, the steady rhythm of the stag’s ancient heart beating in time with mine. My power rose up in me, solid and without hesitation, a sword in my hand. I lifted my arm and slashed. With an ear-splitting crack, one of the skiff ’s masts split in two. People bleated in panic and scattered as the broken mast fell to the deck, the thick wood gleaming with burning light. Shock registered on the Darkling’s face.
Shadow and Bone- Chapter 22
It's nice Alina doesn't feel fine, even looks for the bodies, but it somehow falls flat after avoiding to voice (even to herself) this didn't just happen to the skiff. She DID it.
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... and we're back at "Feeling ashamed for even thinking about the Darkling", aren't we?!
Alina and the Darkling's little mental rendezvous will get its own post.
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dreamingwithbts · 5 years
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New Family - Chapter 8
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Genre: Poly!AU; Hybrid!AU; Fluff; Angst
Pairing: Hybrid BTS x Female! Reader; Human!Reader, Wolf!Namjoon, Alpaca!Seokjin, Black Panther!Yoongi, Red Fox!Jhope, Corgi Dog!Jimin, Tiger!Taehyung, Bunny!Jungkook.
Summary: After receiving a promotion at work Y/N realizes that she has more free time so she decides to use this time usefully and ends up volunteering in an organization that rescues abused hybrids. What she doesn't know is that this will completely change her life!
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I wake up again by myself, what's with these hybrids to let me wake up alone. I left the room and heard several noises in the kitchen. I go inside and see my hybrids happy eating a lot of food. "Guys? Where did this food cams from?" I say and a fluffy Hoseok looks at me with his mouth full of food looking more like a hybrid squirrel than a hybrid fox and points to the kitchen where I see one of the yesterday hybrids happily cooking.
"Good morning! You didn't have to!" I say. "Good morning! It's my thanks for everything! Is the least I can do and it doesn't hurt! I like to cook!" says the hybrid. "Well if it makes you happy it also makes me happy but don't feel obliged to do it!" I say atonic with the beauty of this hybrid making me distracted. "Thank you! I'm Jin by the way! And my injured friend is Namjoon!" says the hybrid making me go back to earth. "I'm Y/N! I think you already know my hybrids Yoongi and Hoseok! If you don't mind what kind of hybrid you are?" "I'm an alpaca!" he says. "Really! Own! That's so cute!" I say making the hybrid embarrassed making his cute little ears appear. "I'll take some food to your friend, go rest and eat!" I say wanting to get out of there before I embarrass myself even more. I pick up the food and go to the room where the other hybrid is and knock on the door.
"Come in." I hear. "Hi, I brought some food!" I say laying down the food and helping the hybrid to sit down. "Thanks." says the hybrid. "No problem!" "No seriously, thank you for helping us. There are few people like you." says the hybrid almost making me cry. Why do all hybrids like to make people cry!
"Your friend said that your name is Namjoon? I am Y / N! If there is no problem what kind of hybrid are you?" I ask curious. "Oh, I'm a wolf." says Namjoon smiling, showing the dimples making me look at him. Again what's with the intense beauty of these hybrids! "A wolf! With an alpaca ?!" "Yes, it's strange, isn't it? I'm a wolf, but I've never been to follow the rules ahahah so no one ever wanted a friendly wolf." said Namjoon, smiling sadly. I was going to answer when the door opened.
"Jonnie! There's a black panther and a fox getting along here like us!" Jin says entering the room happy. "Really?" Namjoon asks shocked. And I stand there laughing then Yoongi and Hoseok come in and introduce themselves to the Namjoon. I look at the four hybrids happily talking and I think "Less than a day they met and talked as if they knew each other years. Happy I am discreetly picking up the food tray to be unsuccessful when Jin saw me." Y/N I take it!" "There's no need. Stay there! If you get up I'll be very upset! "I say making the hybrids laugh and I went out to the kitchen. While cleaning everything I could hear my hybrids up there." My hybrids.....What am I going to do with Jin and Namjoon? I will not leave them outside no way! Should I call the organization? "I sigh, thinking. Finishing what I was doing I notice that I need to go to the grocery store. With that I go to the hybrids room.
"Guys? I need to go shopping does anyone want to come with me?" I ask. Hoseok nod getting up quickly while Yoongi refused. "Jin, do you want to come with us? We'll buy something for you and Namjoon!" I ask. "I can go?" Jin asks in surprise, "Of course you can! It will be so much fun!" Hoseok says. Jin agrees looking at Namjoon happily making Namjoon smile. Hoseok takes Jin's hand and rushes him downstairs making us laugh. "Thanks." Namjoon says. "No problem, see you later!" I say giving Yoongi a peck and waving to Namjoon without noticing the shock look on his face.
In the street already on the way to the supermarket Hoseok was in the middle of us hand in hand with me laughing a lot of the jokes told by Jin and I notice in the sad look of Jin towards our hands while Jin laughs himself alone I turn to the Hoseok and I say quietly "Hobi ..… he look sad why don't you give him your hand, too?" He realizing what I meant he didn't hesitate and grabbed Jin's hand, making him shocked looking at his hands. Hoseok starts to run happily making Jin laugh and I scream. "HOBI! SLOW DOWN!"
While this was happening, Yoongi and Namjoon started talking hybrid to hybrid.
With Yoongi and Namjoon:
"You don't have to worry about Jin! He's safe with Hoseok and Y/N." Yoongi says sensing the concern in the other hybrid. "Thank you." Namjoon responds making Yoongi nod at him.
"So ... are you and Y/N a thing?" Namjoon asks Yoongi hesitantly. Yoongi laughs. "Kind of ... all three of us are." "WHAT?!" Namjoon says shocked. "It kind of happen." Yoongi responds making Namjoon think. "I can see the love in your eyes when you three look at each other. Your a lucky man." Namjoon says. "I know." Yoongi responds.
Meanwhile with Hoseok, Jin and Y / N:
I was pulling the cart through the grocery store in search of the things I wanted and I thought the hybrids were behind me ... how foolish I was when Jin came to me with a panic-stricken face. "I LOST HOSEOK!" And I stayed petrified looking at him. "WHAT! HOW DID YOU LOSE HIM?!" "I'M SORRY! SOME NICE GIRLS WERE HAVING FOOD SAMPLES AND I GOT DISTRACTED WHEN I LOOK BEHIND HE WAS GONE!" With this me and Jin walked the whole supermarket in search of the hybrid fox.
  Back to Yoongi and Namjoon:
"Shouldn't you be in the police?" Yoongi asks Namjoon confused. "I went to the training stuff but I wasn't qualify ... they said that I was too kind for a wolf. They sold me to a gang where I was trained to get information. It was there where I met Jin, being an alpaca they trained him into the medical field." Namjoon explains to Yoongi." And he cooks really well." He continues making Yoongi agree.
Yoongi starts thinking about something and suddenly turns to Namjoon in disbelief. "This gang were they The Black Snake? " With that, Namjoon shudders in pain at the sudden movement he made as he turned quickly to Yoongi. "Yes! That's them! How do you know?" "Me and Hobi were with them too! I was trained to murder and Hobi to hack!" Yoongi explains. "Woah! But how did we not met?" Namjoon asks. "They didn't want to put together a lot of hybrids in a group in fear we would riot together against them." Yoongi responds.
"Makes sense. Did you escape?" Namjoon asks and Yoongi begins to explain everything about what happened to him and Hobi.
After hearing everything Namjoon doesn't look at Yoongi with pity but instead he looks at him in admiration for the courage and strength of the hybrid to survive and Yoongi thanks silently for not showing pity and tries to change the subject about him. "And you? Did you escape?" "Yes. Actually Jin help me. He got all planned for our escape and only told me on the day itself! " Namjoon says making Yoongi laugh. "I just remember being with him in the middle of a bunch of vegetables in a truck coming out of the gang compound. Then we were on the streets for some days when somehow they found us. That's why I was hurt but I managed to kill them I think."Namjoon finish. "Don't you remember?" Yoongi asks. "Not much, the rest you'll have to ask Jin." the wolf says making the panther nod. "You know you have to tell her." Yoongi says. "I know. It's the least I can do. Can you help me down stairs? I want to move a little and it may be better to explain there." Namjoon asks and Yoongi gets up to help him. Then they stay on the couch waiting.
Back to the supermarket:
After several laps without being able to find him we decided to separate to look better. While I was worried thinking about the horrible things that might have happened to him I saw Jin once again running towards me but this time with a relieved look.
"I found him! His playing with that toy that moves at the entrance!" Jin says. I sigh in relief. "Of all the places he had to be there!" Knowing where he was, Jin and I quickly paid the grocerys and went to Hoseok who was too busy playing in the toy car thing. He stopped laughing at the moment he saw me.
Pissed off that he made me worried I open my mouth to scream at him when Jin did it for me making me look shocked and admired towards him. "WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR HEAD BOY! YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED YOU MADE US!" Jin shouted continuing and continuing to scold the fox making him apologise to me and Jin. "Oh Hobi, that's okay! But next time tell us what you want OK!" I say not resisting the cute sad face of Hoseok making Jin laugh at my action because Hoseok is a man, a full grow man that acts like a cute child. "Lets go home!" Jin says. And we started to go home and Hoseok took the all bags in apology for worrying us while I and Jin interlaced our arms while laughing at Hoseok malefically.
And when we got home we noticed that Namjoon was on the couch making Jin run up to him asking how he was making the wolf laugh. I help Hoseok put the bags on the table and pack everything while Yoongi as always goes to sleep without helping us.
"How are you doing Namjoon?" I ask when Hoseok and I went to everyone. "I'm feeling better thank you! How was the grocery trip?" with that Jin laughs saying "We lost Hoseok!" "You lost Hoseok? I should have come." Yoongi says miraculously awake looking at Hobi making him galp. "Sorry Hyung!" Hobi says. "Jin found him on the kids toy thing!" I say laughing, stopping when I notice a small exchange of glances between Jin and Namjoon.
"There's something I need to tell you ..." Namjoon says and then explains everything he has explained to Yoongi.
"So all wolves are trained to serve the police for being wild and dangerous hybrids? That's why there are so many wolves with them!" I say. "Of all he said was that your conclusion?" "And you didn't associate that before?" Hoseok and Yoongi say at the same time making the other two hybrid laughs immensely. "Sorryyy ...." I say sarcastically rolling my eyes. "Unbelievable!" Yoongi  says also rolling my eyes.
After all this we spent all day on the couch watching movies and rest well almost all of us watched the movies except a certain hybrid that only slept. Then it was time to sleep and we help Namjoon to his room and we said good night. I give one kiss in the forehead to Namjoon and Jin making them smile at me very happy and sleepy.
The three of us were already in our bed when Hoseok talks. "It was a fun day!" "You got lost." I say. "It was fun anyway!" Hoseok says. "It was a funny day. Bla Bla. Just shut up and sleep." Yoongi says making us laugh. And we eventually feel asleep.
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