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kojiarakiartworks · 2 months
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December 2008 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A.
■Calendar of 2024 February
© KOJI ARAKI Art Works
Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe :)
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metamorphesque · 8 months
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🌼 poems (and a love letter) that helped me live through july 🌼
One Or Two Things, Mary Oliver
Kitchen Song, Laura Kasischke
The Breathing, Denise Levertov
Trapped, Charles Bukowski
Precognition, Margaret Atwood
Rain, John Burnside
Looking, Walking, Being, Denise Levertov
At Joan's, Frank O'Hara
You, Carol Ann Duffy
Time, Louise Gluck
Effort at Speech Between Two People, Muriel Rukeyser
Still, A. R. Ammons
Sonnet XL, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnet XLIII, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Listen, W. S. Merwin
A Thin Line, Ryuichi Tamura (translated by Samuel Grolmes and Yumiko Tsumura)
Driveway, Richard Siken
The Sentence, Anna Akhmatova
Wanting to Die, Anne Sexton
Eating Together, Kim Addonizio
The Look, Sara Teasdale
The Starry Night, Anne Sexton
Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946
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alexchiu · 1 year
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“Four Oceans, One Family" (The Portland Chinatown Gate) Acrylic on Interior Drywall 30’ Wide X 14’ High 2022. This is a temporary interior mural painted in the lobby of the @portlandchinatownmuseum for the Artist in Residence showcase currently exhibiting at the museum. The mural depicts one side of the Portland Chinatown Gate from a low angle perspective.  The Chinese phrase, read from right to left, translates to “four oceans, one family.”  As a non-native Portlander, this phrase means a lot to me.  I’ve been in Portland for 10 years now.  In general there is an anti-Californian sentiment in the city.  It is hard to escape the question, “Where are you originally from?”  In my opinion this tends to be a question of white supremacy, where non-whites are put into the category of perpetual foreigner, whether they were born in the States or not. I feel very uncomfortable whenever dealing with this question.   This phrase, “four oceans, one family” gives me the hope of belonging.  It communicates to me that people of Chinese descent have a place in Portland.  It is a phrase of comfort to people in search of a new home.   The museum residency itself is my deliberate attempt to connect with the Chinese community in Portland.  My focus was to have conversations with individuals of Chinese descent to learn about their history and hear their stories.  The goal for me was to build relationships with people who share my ethnic background in hopes of learning more about myself.  I learned a lot in the process and feel like I accomplished the goal that I set for myself. The mural is painted directly on the wall using black acrylic paint.  It was painted using large Chinese calligraphy brushes.   The Chinatown Gateway is located at the intersection of W Burnside St. and NW 4th Ave.  It serves as the entrance to Portland’s Old Town Chinatown neighborhood.  The Gateway was built in 1986 by the Oregon Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. (at Portland Chinatown Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnjS0aEuUVT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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DrSnip - The Vasectomy Clinic in Portland, OR
There are several vasectomy Clinic in Seattle, WA service providers, these days, and that includes Portland, OR location. However, choosing the best clinic is an important task. One of the amazing services offered by the clinic is their website. It is one of the best sources of information about family planning and vasectomy. Aside from that, they have the most essential pages on their site such as Blog, About Us, Contact Us, and more. If you want to know more about family planning, you can also check their blog posts. You can also learn the benefits of vasectomy if you read their website.
DrSnip - The Vasectomy Clinic
The DrSnip - The Vasectomy Clinic in Portland, OR is a famous service provider in the city. When it comes to vasectomy clinic in Portland, OR, they’re dependable. They’ve been making vasectomy convenient and accessible for decades. Their founder, Dr. Charles L. Wilson, started The Vasectomy Clinic in Seattle on July 1, 1987, after years of dedication to improving the patient vasectomy experience. In addition, Dr. Wilson’s innovations include developing new vasectomy instruments and refining the DrSnip Vasectomy Technique. As a result, The Vasectomy Clinic emerged as a unique concept, a clinic focused on fulfilling a specific need in the community and dedicated to making the process easier and more comfortable for patients.
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Portland, OR
Many people like to talk about the early settlers of the Portland, OR location these days. There are people who are also curious about the said place. During the prehistoric period, the land that would become Portland was flooded after the collapse of glacial dams from Lake Missoula, in what would later become Montana. Aside from that, these massive floods occurred during the last ice age and filled the Willamette Valley with 300 to 400 feet of water. Before American settlers began arriving in the 1800s, the land was inhabited for many centuries by two bands of indigenous Chinook people – the Multnomah and the Clackamas.
Powell's City of Books in Portland, OR
The Powell’s City of Books in Portland, OR is famous nowadays. It is one of the well-known travel destinations in the city. Powell's City of Books is the largest used and new bookstore in the world, occupying an entire city block and housing approximately one million books. Aside from that, the place has iconic bookseller offering a diverse selection of used and new volumes, plus gifts for bibliophiles. Besides, their service options include In-store shopping, In-store pickup, and Delivery. Located in downtown Portland’s Pearl District, the City of Books has nine color-coded rooms and over 3,500 different sections, offering something for every interest, including an incredible selection of out-of-print and hard-to-find titles.
Oregon’s Recent Growth in Homelessness Among Largest in Nation
Based on a recent shocking news report in Portland, OR, there was a topic about homelessness in the city. Well, this is one of the popular stories at present. As reported, Oregon experienced one of the nation’s largest increases in homelessness between 2020 and 2022, federal data indicates. The number of people experiencing homelessness in Oregon grew nearly 23% during the two-year span, increasing by 3,304 people to about 18,000. This was reported by a federally mandated physical count of homeless individuals. In addition, that rate was well above the national average of less than 1% growth in people experiencing homeless and also far outstripped that of the other West Coast states, with Washington experiencing a 10% hike and California a 6% increase.
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Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209, United States Get on I-405 S from W Burnside St 4 min (0.9 mi) Take I-5 S to SW 68th Ave in Tigard. Take exit 293 from I-5 S 10 min (8.6 mi) Follow SW 68th Ave to your destination 51 sec (0.3 mi) DrSnip - The Vasectomy Clinic 12511 SW 68th Ave Suite 150, Portland, OR 97223, United States
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pcttrailsidereader · 2 years
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Book Tour Update
If you have the chance to join us for any of our upcoming book tour, please do! We'll be doing readings and showing photos and talking trail at these locations.
May 31 - Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park (Seattle), 7 pm. We'll be joined by contributors Bob Birkby, Aer Parris, and Chuck McKeever
June 1 - Skagit Alpine Club, Burlington Public Library (820 E Washington Ave, Burlington, Washington), 7 pm.
June 2 - Powell's Books, 1005 W Burnside St., Portland, Oregon, 7 pm. We'll be joined by contributors Dorothy Brown-Kwaiser, Russ Mease, and Crystal Gail Welcome
June 3 - Bloomsbury Books, 290 E. Main St., Ashland, Oregon, 7 pm
June 6 - Kalapuya Books, 637 E. Main Street, Cottage Grove, Oregon, 6 pm. We'll be joined by contributor Natalie Fisher
June 7 - Paulina Springs Books, 252 W Hood Ave, Sisters, Oregon, 6 p.m.
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kojiarakiartworks · 7 months
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November 2003 PDX Portland Oregon U.S.A. 
© KOJI ARAKI Art Works
Daily life and every small thing is the gate to the universe :)
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academiaoscura · 2 years
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2021 in books
Here is my 2021 reading wrap-up! The titles in italics are the ones I’m emphasizing as recommendations.
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january:
1. “Christmas Days” by Jeanette Winterson
2. “Antigone” by Sophocles, translated by our Lord and Savior, Anne Carson
3. “The Undiscovered Islands” by Malachy Tallack
4. “The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts” by Baba Ifa Karade
5. “Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg” edited by Corey Lang Brettschneider
6. “The Soul of an Octopus” by Sy Montgomery
7. “World of Wonders” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
8. “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara
9. “Magickal Mermaids” by Flavia Kate Peters
february:
1. “Dear Juliet” edited by the Juliet Club
2. “Memorias de mis putas tristes” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. “Midnight Sun” by Stephenie Meyer
4. “Infinite Country” by Patricia Engel (DNF)
5. “Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery 
6. “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)
7. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer (re-read)
8. “Entangled Life” by Merlin Sheldrake
march:
1. “The Dumb House” by John Burnside (TW)
2. “Hope Never Dies” by Andrew Shaffer
april:
1. “150 Glimpses of the Beatles” by Craig Brown
2. “The Passion” by Jeanette Winterson
3. “The Satanic Bible” by Anton Szandor LaVey
4. “A Coney Island of the Mind” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
5. “The Final Revival of Opal and Nev” by Dawnie Walton
6. “Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alann
may:
1. “The Invention of a Murder” by Judith Flanders
2. “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by Tom Standage
3. “Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss
4. “God is Not One” by Stephen R. Prothero (DNF)
5. “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson
6. “Loki: Agent of Asgard″ by Al Ewing (re-read)
7. “Loki: Agent of Asgard #2″ by Al Ewing (re-read)
8. “Poesia de Amor” by Pablo Neruda
9. “Modern Greek Poetry” edited by Kimon Friar
10. “Of Blood and Magic” by Shayne Leighton
11. “In Focus Reiki: Your Personal Guide” by Des Hynes
12. “Beneath the Moon” by Yoshi Yoshitani
13. “Tales of a Korean Grandmother” by Frances Carpenter
14. “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera
15. “Mercy, Unbound” by Kim Antieau
june:
1. “Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life” by William Finnegan
2. “The Falling in Love Montage” by Ciara Smyth
3. “Butterflies of North America” by Jeffrey Glassberg
4. “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
5. “King John” by William Shakespeare
6. “Girl Crushed” by Katie Heaney
july:
1. “The Death of Vivek Oji” by Akwaeke Emezi
2. “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer
3. “Wonderful Tonight” by Pattie Boyd
4. “An Oresteia” by Anne Carson
august: 
1. “Crazy Brave” by Joy Harjo 
september:
1. “The Carrying” by Ada Limón
2. “A Queer History of the United States” by Michael Bronski
3. “The Maidens” by Alex Michaelides
4. “The Black Arts” by Richard Cavendish
5. “Soiled Doves” by Anne Seagraves
october: 
1. “A Dowry of Blood” by S.T. Gibson
2. “Books of Blood” by Clive Barker
3. “We Are Not From Here” by Jenny Torres Sanchez
4. “Playing in the Dark” by Toni Morrison
5. “Deep and Dark and Dangerous” by Mary Downing Hahn (Re-Read)
november:
1. “Collected Poems” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
2. “Green Witchcraft” by Paige Vanderbeck
3. “Medicine Women, Curanderas, and Women Doctors” by Babette Perrone et al.
4. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky (Re-Read)
5. “I’ll Take You There” by Greg Not (DNF)
6. “Upstairs Girls” by Michael Rutter
7. “Fingersmith” by Sarah Waters (DNF)
8. “Once Upon a Quinceanera” by Julia Alvarez
9. “Sabrina and Corina: Stories” by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
10. “The People We Keep” by Allison Larkin
11. “Besom, Stang, Sword” by Christopher Orapello
12. “Ute Tales” by Anne M. Smith
13. “The Age of Entitlement” by Christopher Caldwell (DNF)
14. “The History of Torture” by Brian Innes
15. “Kaleidoscope” by Brian Selznick
december:
1. “Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution” by Mark Elsner
2. “A Touch of Darkness” by Scarlett St. Clair
3. “David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music” by Darryl W. Bullock
4. “Ordinary Girls” by Jaquira Díaz
5. “Postcolonial Love Poem” by Natalie Diaz
6. “Gods Behaving Badly” by Marie Phillips
7. “Future Home of the Living God” by Louise Erdrich
8. “Winter” by Ali Smith (DNF)
9. “The Poet X” by Elizabeth Acevedo
Here’s to another year of reading! DM if you’d like more personalized reading recommendations. 
-bia
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unknown-songs · 4 years
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist (Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)
Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B Something To Do - IGBO - Funk
Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul
Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop
Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk
When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House
Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock
Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House
Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique
Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul
See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock
Toast - Koffee - Dancehall Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B
Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul .img - Brother Theodore - Funk Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House
Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk  Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk
quand c’est - Stromae - Pop Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul
Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop
Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz
Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat Fast Lane - Rationale - House Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B
Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop God Knows - Dornik - Soul Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz Get Back - McClenney - Alternative Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul
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In memory of:
Aaron Bailey Adam Addie Mae Collins Ahmaud Arbery Aiyana Stanley Jones Akai Gurley Alberta Odell Jones Alexia Christian Alfonso Ferguson Alteria Woods Alton Sterling Amadou Diallo Amos Miller Anarcha Westcott Anton de Kom Anthony Hill Antonio Martin Antronie Scott Antwon Rose Jr. Arthur St. Clair Atatiana Jefferson Aubrey Pollard Aura Rosser Bennie Simons Berry Washington Bert Dennis Bettie Jones Betsey Billy Ray Davis Bobby Russ Botham Jean Brandon Jones Breffu Brendon Glenn Breonna Taylor Bud Johnson Bussa
Calin Roquemore Calvin McDowell Calvin Mike and his family Carl Cooper Carlos Carson Carlotta Lucumi Carol Denise McNair Carol Jenkins Carole Robertson Charles Curry Charles Ferguson Charles Lewis Charles Wright Charly Leundeu Keunang Chime Riley Christian Taylor Christopher Sheels Claude Neal Clementa Pickney Clifford Glover Clifton Walker Clinton Briggs Clinton R. Allen Cordella Stevenson Corey Carter Corey Jones Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd Cynthia Wesley
Daniel L. Simmons Danny Bryant Darius Randell Robinson Darius Tarver Darrien Hunt Darrius Stewart David Felix David Joseph David McAtee David Walker and his family Deandre Brunston Deborah Danner Delano Herman Middleton Demarcus Semer Demetrius DuBose Depayne Middleton-Doctor Dion Johnson Dominique Clayton Dontre Hamilton Dred Scott
Edmund Scott Ejaz Choudry Elbert Williams Eleanor Bumpurs Elias Clayton Elijah McClain Eliza Woods Elizabeth Lawrence Elliot Brooks Ellis Hudson Elmer Jackson Elmore Bolling Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. Emmett Till Eric Garner Eric Harris Eric Reason Ernest Lacy Ernest Thomas Ervin Jones Eugene Rice Eugene Williams Ethel Lee Lance Ezell Ford
Felix Kumi Frank Livingston Frank Morris Frank Smart Frazier B. Baker Fred Hampton Fred Rochelle Fred Temple Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
George Floyd George Grant George Junius Stinney Jr. George Meadows George Waddell George Washington Lee Gregory Gunn
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore Harry Tyson Moore Hazel “Hayes” Turner Henry Ezekial Smith Henry Lowery Henry Ruffin Henry Scott Hosea W. Allen
India Kager Isaac McGhie Isadore Banks Italia Marie Kelly
Jack Turner Jamar Clark Jamel Floyd James Byrd Jr. James Craig Anderson James Earl Chaney James Powell James Ramseur James Tolliver James T. Scott Janet Wilson Jason Harrison Javier Ambler J.C. Farmer Jemel Roberson Jerame Reid Jesse Thornton Jessie Jefferson Jim Eastman Joe Nathan Roberts John Cecil Jones John Crawford III John J. Gilbert John Ruffin John Taylor Johnny Robinson Jonathan Ferrell Jonathan Sanders Jordan Edwards Joseph Mann Julia Baker Julius Jones July Perry Junior Prosper
Kalief Browder Karvas Gamble Jr. Keith Childress, Jr. Kelly Gist Kelso Benjamin Cochrane Kendrick Johnson Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. Kenny Long Kevin Hicks Kevin Matthews Kiwane Albert Carrington
Lacy Mitchell Lamar Smith Laquan McDonald Laura Nelson Laura Wood L.B. Reed L.D. Nelson Lemuel Penn Lemuel Walters Leonard Deadwyler Leroy Foley Levi Harrington Lila Bella Carter Lloyd Clay Louis Allen Lucy
M.A. Santa Cruz Maceo Snipes Malcom X Malice Green Malissa Williams Manuel Ellis Marcus Deon Smith Marcus Foster Marielle Franco Mark Clark Maria Martin Lee Anderson Martin Luther King Jr. Matthew Avery Mary Dennis Mary Turner Matthew Ajibade May Noyes Mckenzie Adams Medgar Wiley Evers Michael Brown Michael Donald Michael Griffith Michael Lee Marshall Michael Lorenzo Dean Michael Noel Michael Sabbie Michael Stewart Michelle Cusseaux Miles Hall Moses Green Mya Hall Myra Thompson
Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr. Natasha McKenna Nicey Brown Nicholas Heyward Jr.
O’Day Short family Orion Anderson Oscar Grant III Otis Newsom
Pamela Turner Paterson Brown Jr. Patrick Dorismond Philando Castile Phillip Pannell Phillip White Phinizee Summerour
Quaco
Ramarley Graham Randy Nelson Raymond Couser Raymond Gunn Regis Korchinski-Paquet Rekia Boyd Renisha McBride Riah Milton Robert Hicks Robert Mallard Robert Truett Rodney King Roe Nathan Roberts Roger Malcolm and his wife Roger Owensby Jr. Ronell Foster Roy Cyril Brooks Rumain Brisbon Ryan Matthew Smith
Sam Carter Sam McFadden Samuel DuBose Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr. Samuel Hammond Jr. Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. Sandra Bland Sean Bell Shali Tilson Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Shukri Abdi Simon Schuman Slab Pitts Stella Young Stephon Clark Susie Jackson
T.A. Allen Tamir Rice Tamla Horsford Tanisha Anderson Timothy Caughman Timothy Hood Timothy Russell Timothy Stansbury Jr. Timothy Thomas Terrence Crutcher Terrill Thomas Tom Jones Tom Moss Tony McDade Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. Trayvon Martin Troy Hodge Troy Robinson Tula Tyler Gerth Tyre King Tywanza Sanders
Victor Duffy Jr. Victor White III
Walter Lamar Scott Wayne Arnold Jones Wesley Thomas Wilbert Cohen Wilbur Bundley Will Brown Will Head Will Stanley Will Stewart Will Thompson Willie James Howard Willie Johnson Willie McCoy Willie Palmer Willie Turks William Brooks William Butler William Daniels William Fambro William Green William L. Chapman II William Miller William Pittman Wyatt Outlaw
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins
The victims of LaLaurie (1830s) The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868) The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887) The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898) The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910) The black victims of the Red summer (1919) The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919) The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920) The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)
All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.
All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness. 
All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination. 
...
My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories. 
Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)  Documentaries: 13th (Netflix) The Innocence Files (Netflix) Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix) Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix) I Am Not Your Negro
YouTube videos: We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch) Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)
Books: Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery White Fragility by Robin Deangelo Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Websites: https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/ https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html https://blacklivesmatter.com/ https://www.zinnedproject.org/
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I was so disappointed in this Portland, Oregon penthouse-  Steve is an award-winning interior designer, and the unit was very vanilla, so he redid it in Maximalist Design & color. But, when it came time to sell it, it sat on the market too long, so he made it vanilla again- here are the before pictures and what it looks like now in the current listing:
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From the front door, a panoply of patterns greeted you. Geometric gray shapes ran up the door along the walls and across the ceiling. Wood floors were hidden beneath colorful floor tiles & multihued wallpaper covered up the industrial style cement walls.
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There was wallpaper on the ceiling, the dining area walls, plus purple neon uplighting. Steve chose a sky blue mid century table and chairs.
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After: The floor tiles stayed and so did the silver door, but gone is the wallpaper in favor of white walls, a plain, contemporary table & chairs, and no purple lights.
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Black & white wallpaper in the living room had colorful art and furniture in rainbow hues, as well as silver. 
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He removed all the paper and furniture. Only a strip of black & white wall paper remains by the fireplace. White furniture replaced the colors and the theme is red, black, & white.
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Instead of art, there’s a black shelf against a white wall. 
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I’m glad that he left the bar’s red doors, but everything was removed in favor of clean, sleek cabinetry, so it no longer looks like a bar.
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The kitchen wasn’t touched - the only thing Steve did was install the purple lighting, which was removed.
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The master suite had an upholstered wall and the coolest modern Gumby. There was wallpaper on the walls and ceiling, plus colorful carpeting.
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The bedroom is unrecognizable, now. 
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The master bath had a giant flower mural and blue paper. I like the glass partition colored blue, as high as the toilet.
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The only thing that remains is the blue partition. 
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This was the rainbow-hued 2nd bedroom. 
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It was just stripped and left empty.
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The multi-colored shower room that went with the 2nd bedroom.
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It, too, was completely stripped of color. 
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In the utility room, The wallpaper was left. 
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The deck had some outdoor furniture that was also removed. After stripping it bare, it still hasn’t sold. Which version do you like better?
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1926-W-Burnside-St-Unit-1602_Portland_OR_97209_M16487-26236
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utilitycaster · 3 years
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Updated Class Choices in Actual Play: main PCs
Original post here, I’m just doing the whole thing again instead of reblogging or something like that. Since making this post I’ve fully caught up with NADDPod and RQG and there’s been several new D20 seasons, so LET’S GO
potential spoilers for anything that isn’t a one-shot in Critical Role, TAZ Balance or Graduation, NADDPod, RQG, Relics and Rarities, and all D20 seasons. Also for reference: I’m counting Trinyvale and The Mavrus Chronicles as main campaigns, as well as all the D20 sidequests.
If a player or a PC leaves/character dies mid-campaign the character still counts as a main PC, as does that player’s replacement if the player themselves didn’t leave (eg: both Scanlan and Taryon are considered main PCs for CR campaign 1).
In a couple cases I did have to guess regarding what the base class was, for characters who were multiclass builds from the start, and I’ll note that.
Rusty Quill Gaming is pathfinder rather than D&D, and subclasses don’t fully line up (as for classes, most do and I’m counting Cel’s class as Artificer/Alchemist subclass in D&D).
In the case of subclass or class changes, which has happened a few times in D20 in particular, I’ve noted the change
Keep reading if you want the actual information!
Fighter is the most common, with 11, plus two multiclass dips into fighter. And, like D&D at large, human fighter is a very popular race/class combination. Champion is the most common subclass, with four characters (Magnus from TAZ, Hardwon from NADDPod, Fabian from Fantasy High, and Veros from Relics and Rarities). All but Fabian are humans, at least to start off, and Fabian and later Hardwon are half-elves. Bertie from RQG likely would have been the champion archetype in D&D as well. There are two battlemasters (Boomer and Jet, both from D20), and then it’s all over the place. The multiclassers are both barbarians multiclassed into battlemaster (Grog and Amethar). Of the fighters, one multiclassed into a rogue, one into a bard, and one (Jet) switched into fighter having originally been a rogue.
[edit on Nov 28 per an anon ask - Magnus is actually a Battlemaster despite Big Champion Energy! which means of the fighter-as-main-class, we have 3 each of champions and battlemasters, and Bertie from RQG which is pathfinder, and then one each of gunslinger (Percy), eldritch knight (Theo), arcane archer (Hungry Dave), and echo knight (Henry)]
Cleric is next up with 10, plus three characters who multiclassed into cleric. There’s no clear favorite for subclass - grave is the only domain with two characters (Caduceus and Efink) and the rest vary. Two characters, Kristen Applebees and Zolf Smith, have changed domains (and deities) over the courses of their respective campaigns. All but one of the dwarven main characters in actual play has been a cleric, and there have been a few humans, but otherwise it’s again pretty scattered. The multiclasses have also not shown a clear favorite (1 war, 1 city, 1 tempest). Note: I considered Fia and Saccharina both to be multiclasses into cleric, as well as Bob; no cleric base classes have multiclassed into another class. All the multiclasses into cleric are other spellcasting classes (wizard, sorcerer, and bard).
Barbarian and rogue are tied with 9 characters each, plus one multiclass into barbarian and three into rogue.
Barbarian: three berserkers, two each of ancestral guardian and zealot, and one each of wild soul and storm herald. There are two half-orcs and otherwise no race preference. As mentioned, two multiclassed into battlemaster fighters; there’s also a multiclass from barbarian into sorcerer (Fitzroy) and artificer (Gorgug). The lone multiclass into barbarian is Moonshine Cybin, a druid.
Rogue: there are two arcane tricksters, two inquisitives, and two swashbucklers, plus an assassin, a mastermind, and Sasha Racket who in D&D would probably be a thief. Thanks to D20 being like “toy is a race now” it’s hard to say what the overall race breakdown is, even counting all A Crown of Candy characters as human variants, but there are 1.5 goblins (Nott/Veth being the 0.5) and three confirmed humans (Ruby Rocks, Sasha Racket, and Marcus St. Vincent). Of the multiclasses into rogue, two are rangers who chose the assassin subclass (Vex and Liam Wilhemina) and one is a fighter (Magnus Burnsides, subclass not clear). The two rogues who multiclassed are Vax, who took levels in vengeance paladin and one in druid, and Ruby, who took levels in shadow sorcerer. (note: Jet Rocks is counted as a fighter as she gave up her rogue class entirely, but she was a rogue to start)
Bard is next with 8 characters, all but one of whom (swords) is a lore subclass, with one multiclass into bard. Fig Faeth was formerly a college of whispers bard, but switched into lore during Fantasy High Live. There are two tieflings and two fairies from D20, who I believe use elf stats, plus a high elf, a human, a gnome, and an aasimar. The multiclass into bard is Fabian Seacaster, a fighter; the multiclasses from a bard base class are Fig (into hexblade) and Bob (into city cleric).
Druid and Paladin are the next most common, with six characters; there is one multiclass into druid and two into paladin (and Vax is responsible for most of this)
Druid: The only repeat subclass is circle of the shepherd (Kugrash and Lillith) - the rest all again all over the place, and all six have different races. The multiclass into druid is the aforementioned Vax (rogue and paladin); the only druid to multiclass out is the aforementioned Moonshine (into barbarian).
Paladin: two oath of devotion (one of which, Ricky Matsui, switched to oath of redemption), one oath of the ancients and for a while, vengeance (Beverly), one oathbreaker (Cody “Night Angel” Walsh) and two are from pathfinder and difficult to determine from a D&D standpoint (Grizzop, of Artemis, and Azu, of Aphrodite). The races are completely all over the place again. None of the paladins have multiclassed, but there are two multiclasses into paladin (Vax and Fjord, a rogue and warlock respectively, into oath of vengeance and oath of the open sea, also respectively).
We have a four-way tie for next most common, with five each of ranger, sorcerer, warlock, and wizard.
Ranger: two beast master, two gloomstalker, and a hunter. There are two half-elves (Vex and Nyack) and no other real patterns. No one has multiclassed into ranger, but Vex and Liam W. both as mentioned multiclassed into assassin rogues.
Sorcerer: three draconic, one storm, and one wild magic. Two are human, and there are no other preferences for race. One (Saccharina) multiclassed into tempest cleric, and there are two multiclasses into sorcerer, both from battle classes (Fitzroy, a barbarian, into wild magic, and Ruby, a rogue, into shadow).
Warlock: three are hexblades, because let’s face it that class is extremely cool, one is a celestial warlock and one is a genie. No significant race overlap (technically, Lapin Cadbury uses the human stat block, and Iga is human) (I am assuming pactwraiths have revenant stats but like. who knows). The common ground for multiclassing into warlock is “Emily Axford likes to play hexblades”, with both Fig and Sofia taking levels in it; Fjord is the only warlock to multiclass out, into oath of the open sea paladin.
Wizard: two transmutation, one divination, one necromancer, and one chronurgist. Two are high elves, with no other preferences for race; Fia is the only one to have multiclassed (into war cleric) and no one has multiclassed into wizard.
And finally, tied for last but with four each, we have monk and artificer.
Monk: no subclass overlap until Sofia switched to Way of Shadow, but three are humans and one is probably a human equivalent (bittyfolk from Tiny Heist) - the subclasses represented are Cobalt Soul, Drunken Master, Shadow, and Long Death. No multiclasses into monk (like ranger, monk doesn’t offer too many benefits in a multiclass dip) but Sofia Bicicleta took a level in hexblade warlock.
Artificer: despite not being made official until relatively recently, this caught up, thanks to Zonk Verbena Zirk Vervain. Three are either alchemists or probably the equivalent thereof (Taryon is based on the UA version but is pretty clearly not a gunsmith, and Cel’s class is technically Alchemist, not Artificer, but Artificer with the alchemist subclass is probably the closest 5e equivalent), and one is an artillerist; no race preference. None have multiclassed, but Gorgug (barbarian) has taken a level in artificer.
And finally, there is one Bloodhunter, Mollymauk Tealeaf/Lucien is his name, murdering Cerberus Assembly members is his game.
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several other fun facts from the giant list I made to do this:
Number of characters who have switched races or bodies during their campaign: 3
Number of characters who have switched deities/patrons during their campaign: 7
Number of characters who have briefly not had a class while their party was mid-level, with said change representing a major turning point for their character, but then came back stronger than ever having addressed the negative behaviors they learned from a seafaring father figure and having acquired a new plot-relevant weapon, and immediately multiclassed into a class that uses charisma for spellcasting: only two but it’s weird it happened twice
Number of characters whose first name or nickname is a food or drink: 6
Number of characters whose first name or nickname is a food or drink from A Crown of Candy: 0
Number of characters who typically go by only one name (ie, actively do not use their last name or any titles): 18
Number of characters who go by a given name and title/descriptor (eg: Adjective Firstname, Firstname the Title, Firstname of the Place): 8
Number of characters with three-part names (first, middle, last): 2
Number of characters with four-part names (first, two middles/a two-word nickname, last): 3
Number of characters with no name: 1
Percival Friedrickstein Von Musel Klossowski De Rolo III: but you can call him Percy
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Bad End
Ao3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28743237 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: Major Character Death Category: F/M Fandom: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse) Relationship: Steve Burnside/Claire Redfield Characters: Claire Redfield, Steve Burnside Additional Tags: Bad Ending, Game: Resident Evil CODE: Veronica, Whump, Angst, shit's bad yo
Summary:  What if Alexia had simply left Claire and Steve to die in the Antarctic after destroying their snowmobile?
A/N:  I got the brainworms for these two real bad and I needed to get them out, so I took one of my old stories from FFnet and touched it up a bit to scratch that itch. I also got another Steve centric thing brewing for all 2 Steve fans out there.
Of all the perils that had plagued them on this now two day long mess, Steve Burnside never once thought that freezing to death would be their downfall. They were in the clear...how could this have happened?
They had made it past all the zombies, mutants, even the maniacal Alfred Ashford. They had beaten him, taken the snowmobile and were on their way to...Damnit, Claire knew where they were going. She had the map, she was driving, but something happened...The snowmobile had flipped and had been crushed by...something.
Claire...Where was she? Steve tried to turn to face the drivers side, but he couldn't? There was something pinning him down, keeping him from even craning his head around. What was-...
Oh...
The treads were crushing his chest, and he was becoming painfully aware of how hard it was to breathe. Each inhale was cut short and each exhale let the vehicle press harder into his ribs. He tried to shift his weight back and forth, but no matter how much he struggled the snowmobile wouldn’t budge. With his arms pinned as well he couldn’t even dig himself free...
"Steve?!"
He knew that voice. It sounded like it was underwater but it was unmistakable. He would have called out to its owner, but all that came out of his mouth as a pained breath. However, that seemed to be enough, seeing as his valkyrie was pushing through debris and snowdrifts to get to him.
"Oh Jesus-..." Claire gasped when she saw him pinned beneath the treads, "J-..hang on I'm gonna get you out of here, Steve. Okay? Just hang in there..."
There was a chunk of metal, the front bumper or part of the roof, sticking out from under the machinery, and it was at the perfect angle to act as leverage. Claire shuffled over, breathlessly telling him that he was going to make it out of here. Feebly, he tried to push the treads up with what little strength he had. It didn't budge much, but it gave him a bit more room to breath.
"Cl-..." he tried to say.
"S-shush." Claire put a hand over his mouth to shut him up, "S-s-save your breath..."
She grunted and put all her weight onto the piece of metal. The treads raised up with dangerous sounding creaks and groans, but he was able to take in a huge gulp of frigid air. It burned his throat and lungs but he took another one just to relish in the relief.
"Move, move!" Claire shouted at him, her entire body shuddering.
Steve shimmied out from under the treads, then immediately flipped over to his hands and knees and vomited what little he had eaten on the sea plane into the snow, followed by an intense coughing fit as his body recovered from nearly suffocating. His vision blurred, with little white dots swimming in his eyes each time another bout of coughs wracked his body. Claire rubbed his back, but she didn't seem to be doing any better, seeing as she was struggling to even stand upright. He only thought that she was just tired from lifting the treads until he saw little red drops on the snow...
"We...we need to move.." She muttered, leaning down to help him up.
That's when he noticed the blood running down her arm, the dark stains on her vest, and the huge piece of glass sticking out of her shoulder...
She must have taken note of his horrified expression..., "I'll be fine, but we're going to freeze to death if we don't move."
"Y-you're not fine!" he choked back, "There's-s-s a huge piece of glass in your s-s-s..." He couldn't even finish his sentence with his teeth clacking together.
"The Aus-s-strailian outpost w-will help! We are not dying out here now get up!"
Claire was practically screaming at him over the howling winds, and like the moron he was, he just sat there with his mouth open. He had never seen this kind of desperation in Claire all those times they had faced death on Rockfort and in the Antarctic facility. Then again...there had always been a clear way out. Shoot the zombie, burn the mutants, solve the puzzle. The only way out of this was to walk across the Antarctic tundra in the middle of a snowstorm with no proper clothing. Not to mention Claire was bleeding badly, and he probably had broken ribs or a punctured lung. Or both if he was really unlucky.
Steve reluctantly allowed himself to be supported by Claire, for now at least. As she stated, she could walk much better than he could. Even still, their pace was little more than a shuffle when pitted against snow and wind. They huddled close together, so close that their clouds of pained breaths mingled together. He could feel her shivering violently against him with each step. For Steve though, each breath caused painful tremors to shoot through his body. He definitely had some broken ribs. He couldn’t tell if he was shivering from the cold or the pain anymore.
They walked in silence for what seemed like hours, and only a faint silhouette could be seen on the horizon. Steve could only hope that it was the outpost that Claire had mentioned...
Claire...
She was dragging her feet pretty badly now. It was only now that it occurred to Steve that she had been losing a lot of blood. Looking back at their trail it was easy to see just how bad she was doing. Her eyelids drooped, breathing shallow and ragged, and soft pink lips were now blue and quivering with each breath. And even still, she was supporting his weight, forcing herself to move forward. She knew that if they stopped, they would die.
That's when she collapsed onto the snow a shivering mess. She was having a much harder time breathing now, her face was twisted with pain and silent screams. She had tears in her eyes and frozen trails down her cheeks. Ice clung to her skin like a shell and snow stained her hair white.
Steve fell to his knees beside her, frantically trying to find a way to help. In the gentlest way possible, he pulled her freezing body close to his, and leaned over her as if to shield her from the winds with his own body. He could barely feel her, his fingers had long since gone numb.
"I gotcha." he whispered to her, "I'm not going anywhere...I gotcha..."
She tried to form words through clenched teeth, "St-...can't..w-w-...my leg..."
Steve's gaze drifted down to her legs. At first it looked like everything was normal, but he did notice that her left leg looked...wrong. It was twisted, her foot pointing inward. Definitely broken. It made his stomach turn. And...she had been walking on it, and carrying his sorry ass across the ice and snow. So much for her knight in shining armor...
He pulled off his thin prisoner jacket and tried to drape it around Claire, but she shoved it away with a quivering hand.
"You'll f-freeze..."
"S-so will you if-f you keep being s-stubborn."
He wrapped the jacket around her shivering body, and with what little strength he had he lifted her up. His entire torso screamed in pain, sending searing waves of agony through him that pushed him back down to his knees. Despite this, he mustered up the strength to push onward, shuffling on his knees at first. Once his body became used to holding Claire, he planted his boot in the snow, and forced himself to stand. Steve refused to fall again, not when they had only two options. Move forward, or die. If he didn't make himself move, Claire would die.
It started slowly, one foot deliberately and carefully placed in front of the other. He moved slower than those zombies they had taken down together, but he was moving. The whole top of his body was bent over top of hers, not just because of the pain. He wanted to at least try to keep her warm. Hopefully, he would lose feeling in his sides before he passed out from the pain. His legs and hands were already lost, and his arms were well on their way.
Steve kept walking, and eventually the faint outline of the outpost formed into a more defined building. They were so close! Safety was right in front of them! They had beaten all the dangers and the struggle and now they were going to make it!
"Claire, look! There's the outpost!" he cheered.
...Why didn't she answer?
"Claire?.." Steve gave her a small shake.
Oh no...She wasn't moving... Her eyes were closed, jaw slacked, and body limp...
"No no no Claire!"
She was just passed out...right? Yeah..yeah that was it! She had been losing a lot of blood, and walking on a broken leg. She probably just passed out from the pain.
..Then why couldn't he see her breath...
"Claire come on...Wake up! We're almost there!" he pleaded.
"Claire please..." His eyes welled up and a lump formed in his throat, "Don't do this, please...we're so close..."
Steve sunk to his knees, clutching her limp body close to his in a last desperate attempt to keep her warm.
"You can't die now...Th-this isn't how things end...please..."
Tears spilled down his cheeks onto the limp girl in his arms. He choked out small, broken noises as he clung to Claire's body. The violent sobs and tremors wracked his body more than any cold induced shivering could. He sat there in the snow, holding Claire’s body as tightly as his frozen limbs would allow.
"Please...No...It doesn't end like this...please...Claire..."
He put his forehead against hers, "I-...Goddamnit I love you!"
A faint, warm breeze hit his neck, jolting him out of his grief. There was a pause, and then another one, just the same as before. It was slow, and sparse, but rhythmic and consistent. He looked down at Claire and saw her chapped blue lips quivering slightly. She was breathing. She was alive.
Steve was never a religious man, but he thanked every higher power he could remember off the top of his head that Claire was alive. He laughed and he cried at the same time and he knew that Claire would make fun of the noises he was making if she could hear them. But he didn't care. She was alive.
He rose to his feet again with renewed strength and pushed onward. They were going to live.
They were only a half a mile away from the outpost when that changed to "she" was going to live.
The cold had taken its toll on Steve. He had lost feeling in his entire body. His hold on the barely breathing Claire was slipping. His vision blurred and exhaustion threatened to overtake him. But he had to keep going.
He had to.
He had to...
He had to rest...
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songsforsquid · 4 years
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