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heartnosekid · 11 months
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domestic silk moth (bombyx mori) | source
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byherbandcandle · 4 months
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Unsolicited Witch Tip #2
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When things feel a little heated at home, place ice cubes in a bowl and sprinkle sugar on them to cool down the energies of your space. Once the ice melts, flush the water to get rid of the negativity.
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Vanessa Ives white dress in Penny Dreadful 2x10
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jomiddlemarch · 1 month
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The Philosophy Inherent in Buttered Toast
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Within a week of Shirley’s departure, Susan found that she could not fall asleep, no matter how much she exhausted herself; the windowpanes had never sparkled brilliantly so in the morning sunlight. She’d dare Miss Cornelia Bryant herself to find the smallest speck on the kitchen floor. She concocted impossible delicacies to try and tempt Mrs. Doctor, muttering under her breath about the various culinary restrictions and how she’d like to see anyone make a decent pie with the miserly amount of lard she was allotted, and she starched the Doctor’s collars so thoroughly he’d begged her to stop as he couldn’t turn his head when he drove out to see his patients, especially not that sharp curve onto the road over to the Lower Glen. Work, hard work that left her with a sore back and aching knees and hands too rough to get a pair of gloves onto for Sunday service, had always been a panacea, just as Mrs. Doctor had her garden and Mrs. Reverend had her needlework. 
Once Shirley left, after a brief kiss on her cheek and a little squeeze of her hand as she gave him a neatly tied up box lunch for the train, the week’s sugar ration used up in his favorite sweets, she turned her hand to the plow as it were and expected to find some respite. Instead she found herself lying in her narrow bed, a stripe of moonlight across the foot, her eyes burning, wide open. Her body longed for rest but her mind, her heart, her very soul itself would not allow it, as un-Christian a thought as that might be. She’d drift off in snatches in the early morning, wake with the fog of dreams, a confusion dispelled by the splash of water in the basin and the cold cloth scrubbed across her face. She felt every one of her years like a millstone and if she hadn’t already been plain Susan Baker since she’d outgrown the very little prettiness she’d had a child, someone, likely that outspoken Mary Vance, would have remarked that old Susan Baker looked quite poorly.
She began by reciting psalms to herself and then all her favorite hymns but it made no difference. Unlike Mrs. Doctor, she took no delight in watching the moon wax and wane and thought only a man could have come up with the constellations, the greatest waste of time she could think of and nothing but a lot of foolish nonsense. She took to drinking her tea as strong as she could steep it, nearly black. Coffee was too dear to waste and had to be saved for the Doctor. If he nodded off over his surgery, Susan Baker would be the one responsible for the poor soul under his knife’s untimely passing. She was comforted when Shirley enclosed a brief note addressed to Mother Susan in the letter he’d sent to his parents and sisters, but the relief of knowing him safe didn’t see her dozing in her rocking chair, let alone tucked up snug in her bed.
She remembered something Walter had once said, that there was poetry in the most ordinary things, how he’d gone on and on about a perfectly buttered piece of her toast, sliced just the right thickness, the butter spread smooth and even to the brown crust. She was known for her bread, that was common knowledge in Glen St. Mary, whether it was a white loaf or wholemeal, but she’d thought if she hadn’t loved Walter since he was a tot, she would have given a mighty sniff at his folderol. Now, though, she thought perhaps making a list of all the ordinary things that could be what Walter had called the marvelous quotidian before explaining his fancy words, perhaps making a list might take the place of counting the sheep that would never be sheared nor help her nod off.
To begin with, there was Walter’s buttered toast.
The hiss the iron made as she flicked a drop of water on it to test its heat.
The first even row of knots she threw on her needles beginning another sock in the ugly drab worsted that was military standard.
The last swipe of the cloth when she was polishing the good silver.
The greedy sound the Doctor made as he ate his slice of pie, one she would have scolded the children for making.
Winding the clocks.
Rilla’s little frown as she tried to feed her war-baby and got mashed peas all over the front of her clean white shirtwaist, a dab on her cheek.
Slipping on galoshes when it was a rainy morning.
The crinkle of the pages as she read her Bible chapter before bed.
Beans, bobbing about in the pot.
Una Meredith asking for help with her darning, her blue eyes round as buttons as she said Please, Miss Baker, the only one of the Meredith children to use a title for her.
Throwing out slops when the bucket was full.
Spools of thread lined up in her sewing basket.
Spoons, nestled tight against each other in their drawer.
The milk folding around itself in her chipped teacup like the sheets on the line in the wind.
Shirley’s way of writing the letter S, the same in her name as his own.
Fat blueberries in a bowl, waiting to be made into jam.
She began each night with Walter’s toast. Most nights, she fell asleep between the bean pottage and the slops arcing out onto the dirt. When it had been several days since they’d heard from Shirley or the papers were black with battles and casualty lists, the milk in the tea took the shape of Shirley’s cursive S. When there were letters from all three Blythe boys and the Meredith ones as well, the knitting needles fell from her hands, stitches most certainly dropped.
The night they’d learned about Courcelette, she’d counted each one of the blueberries in the bowl and wept.
And slept.
With many thanks to @batrachised who posted this summary of fake fic with this same title: Susan and Walter have a conversation about the poetry of everyday things. Susan still can't quite understand that poetry nonsense, but after Walter waxes eloquent about her perfectly ensembled toast that has just the right amount of butter scraped on top, she decides that surely a little of it is harmless enough - walter is Mrs. Doctor Dear's son, after all.
I hope my "borrowing" did the initial post justice! @gogandmagog I would have shared this today anyway, but I did love your encouragement post.
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thwackk · 1 year
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part of a longass old man halbarry comic i never finished
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himbionn · 1 year
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Another (old) comm that I worked on for @/GreenHalover.
Im just soft for them. 💚❤️
(Can you see I ship Hal with basically everyone?)
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0rchidm4ntis · 11 months
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By your side.
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heartnosekid · 4 months
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fuzzy lil silk moth :] | source
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snailtongue · 2 years
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Photograph of horse "Sully Bee," at O.H. Crew Ranch, 1963. The horse is an Appaloosa, he stands in an open field, and the photograph is taken from the side. via
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Moscow Marge.
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byherbandcandle · 11 days
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Unsolicited Witch Tip #6
Grind together lavender, lemon balm, and salt, and use this as a floor sweep to promote peace and happiness in your home.
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Dead Boy Detectives Finale AU: We're Back In Port Townsend! (Ft. Night Nurse POV and True Love’s Kiss!)
Aka: The Night Nurse does her best to identify inefficiencies in the Agency, but ends up discovering what makes each member special.
(Or: what happens when a trans-dimensional being gets attached to not just the Agency she's cursed to supervise, but the butcher an ocean and a mirror away?)
Welcome to Chapter 3, where we get the Night Nurse outsider POV, confirmed ADHD Charles and Autistic Edwin, plenty of Night Nurse/Jenny, some sweet Charles/Edwin best friendship moments, a weirdass Cat King/Monty interaction, some Niko and Crystal interactions, and True Love’s Kiss in probably the most unexpected way possible!
@tipsyscone @immacaria @antfarm-antoni @billcipherstoes @moonycorvus @anything-thats-rock-and-roll @magpiemarten @moonyslesbian @bushbees @datglutengoblin @annawry @watermeezer
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Marjorie Traitor Green's idiotic temper tantrums are starting to exhaust her fellow Cultists. This is the GOP that hasn't done SHIT and the worst one in history. They've done nothing but chase conspiracy theories because of this idiot. They can't pass a single law or uphold our laws. I've seen middle schoolers be more mature than this idiot. Vote her out. Vote blue.
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