Humble request- (inspired by Asra's section of the m6 with insomniac mc headcannons that you posted previously) Mc accidentally traveling into the m6's dreams. Also I really enjoy your writing!
The Arcana HCs: When MC accidentally visits M6's dreams
~ @cricketchirps you have a marvelous mind and I love how you think! Thank you for the request, it was so fun to write! - brainrot ~
-- to set the scene --
You'll never not love falling asleep next to your beloved. It's the perfect conclusion to every day, good and bad and everything in between. It's the quiet rustle of sheets and blankets, the mundane perfection of a whispered "goodnight", the familiar intimacy of their smell on your nightclothes. Right now, seeing their peaceful sleeping face so close to yours, it's a healing sweetness that cradles you so gently it makes your heart ache. You shuffle a little closer, nuzzle into their embrace, and drift off to the rhythm of their quiet breathing.
Julian
You would know that voice anywhere
It seems you're on a stage - no, the deck of a ship - no, a stage, definitely a stage - and now it's the Coliseum floor?
A look to your right reveals Julian, in his nightshirt, performing some of the most dramatic improv you've ever seen to an increasingly enraptured audience. Is this why he talks in his sleep?
"I shall fight thee, foul beast!" he roars, and in the blink of an eye the stage is a pirate ship heading towards a hideous sea serpent wearing Valdemar's cloth-wrapped horns
The crowd's wild cheers cause Julian to draw up short, flicking his head around with a roguish smirk. "Let's see how it fares against this!" And the serpent transforms into one of those blow-up tube men frequently seen at car dealerships
He whips out a cutlass, the stage lights somehow glinting off it in slow motion, and thrusts it repeatedly at the enemy, comically missing the mark each time. You can't help but cackle along with the crowd
The sound of your voice pulls Julian's attention to you and now he's striding across the stage, taking your hands in his and kneeling bare-legged in front of you as the ship becomes a moonlit garden
"MC, my beloved, my darling, my dearest" He's pressing noisy kisses to your wrists, watching you blush at the sound of thousands of quiet "awww"s from the still present audience
You laugh again and gently tug your hands away. "I didn't know you had dreams like this, Julian."
And that's when he goes pale. "Wha - MC? The real MC? How are you - how are you here, I don't understand, is this even safe?!"
His panic is directly affecting both the audience and the stage, your surroundings flipping between boats and taverns and loud storms and chaotic crowds, until a faraway shout wakes you both
You open your eyes to see a wide-eyed Julian, tangled in his sheets, soaked in a cold sweat, startled awake by the increased volume of his own sleep-talking
"Julian? Are you alright?"
He turns to you wide-eyed, sending you a sheepish grin. "Let's - ah - let's pretend that didn't happen. Oh, and MC? Maybe warn me next time?"
Asra
You know where you are as soon as you open your eyes. Nobody else you know could effortlessly dream up a place like this
There's a tie-dye sky slowly wrinkling above you, you're standing on a floor of multicolored orbeez, the air feels like fizzy sherbert on your tongue, and thousands of tiny Faust flowers are kissing your ankles
You take a hesitant step forward and the ground shivers, trees resembling lisa frank paintings appearing in a shower of poprocks
Upon coming closer to one, you see that it has drapes of luxurious neon fur instead of foliage. You run your hand along it, marveling at its softness, when the trunk begins to gurgle and you stop
"Wait! Do that again!" Asra's materialized on one of the branches next to you, lazing happily on the thick fur. "Humor me?"
You let out a startled laugh and slowly comply, running your hand along your branch again. The gurgling increases in volume until the crown of the tree suddenly inflates and releases a holographic bubble with the most obscene burping noise you've ever heard
Asra's smiling at you between fits of laughter, reaching out a hand that you're suddenly close enough to to grasp and pulling you next to them. "Hello, my love. I didn't expect to see you here."
You snuggle into his side, trusting his fearlessness as you begin to sink into what's become a vast field of fuzz. "I didn't expect to wander into your dream, either. Is it always like this?"
They sigh blissfully and twine your fingers together. "Not always. But more and more, as I get practice." You watch in awe as the sky darkens, tie-dye rippling into glowing paint splatters of galaxies. "Do you like it?"
You look over at him and catch his proud, teasing smile. "Are you showing off for me, Asra?"
"Oh, MC." They pull you closer as you plummet down together, the slowly sinking softness giving way to a sea of stars. You float weightless next to them, their curls bending starlight around the two of you
"Surely you know I can do better than that."
It takes a promise to join him again before he agrees to wake up with you
Nadia
The first thing you're conscious of is a dull, repetitive roar just above your head. You don't feel weightless, exactly, but you do feel like you're floating, your feet bearing half the weight they're used to
You look up towards the soothing rush above you, and that's your first glimpse of this place.
Crystal arches meet high above your head, golden specks scattered across the tops like snow, and the sound you're hearing is that of sparkling pink-blue waves breaking over the top
Your eyes slowly trail down the spires, catching nostalgia laden pockets of solitude, and land on a familiar figure. "Nadia!"
She straightens and turns to you, eyes wide. The silver clockwork floor below her whirs to life and begins to click and squeeze the space between you until she's close enough to touch
"MC?" One of her hands trails down your cheek in wonder. "You aren't the MC I see in my dreams, you're my MC. How did you come to be in this place?"
"I don't know." You lean into her touch as the floor continues to whir and click and chime. "Did you build this place?"
She knits her brows and looks out past the crystal pillars, watching the golden specks from the ceiling settle into a beach at her feet. "I did not build it ... but I believe it is my domain to claim."
Her robes shimmer into something lighter and shorter as she steps off of the clockwork and onto the shimmering sand. Her hair floats idly around her shoulders when she turns back to look at you
"Care to join me?"
You reach out for her hand and the golden gear below you poofs into beach. "Is this where you try out new clothing designs?"
She laughs, a floral breeze picking up to pull the hair out of her face, and lightly traces her fingertips from one shoulder, along your collarbone, to the other shoulder, raising an eyebrow at you
"It's worth the view." You look down to see what she's changed your normal nightwear to, and your blush makes your vision swim
You wake up to see her sketching her design for you before she forgets
Muriel
Silence has never felt so vibrant
When you open your eyes you're in something like the Tarske Forest, only, it seems to have folded into a very large square
Looking up gives you the most grounded sense of calming vertigo, because you're in fact looking down at the tops of the trees above you, and further past them to the mossy ground
Gravity feels alive here, like it's taking slow, deep breaths, and the subtle heartbeat beneath your feet holds them steadily to the ground
You start to explore, subconsciously matching your breathing to the intense quiet. You reach the first wall of the forest quickly, where the ground takes a ninety degree angle straight up
One more step, and the world rolls over, what used to be the ground a wall behind you and the wall before you now your path. You hear the forest give a sigh, and then there's Muriel
The silence is too sacred to speak, so you whisper and hope it forgives your impudence. "Muriel - did you make this?"
He takes your hand in his and guides you to sit, a mossy root rising up to support your weight. He's hesitant to speak, his low murmur somehow making the silence quieter. "I didn't build this. It's just ... me."
The verdant sanctuary makes a little more sense now. You look at the tight set of his shoulders and risk another whisper. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to intrude."
He looks at you in surprise. "How did you get here?"
You answer with a shrug. He averts his gaze, face reddening as he pouts slightly over your earlier apology. "... I guess I don't mind."
The forest cube isn't very pleased with his roundabout answer. Soon enough, the world feels like a roundabout as it rolls again with no warning and you land on top of him in the moss
"I - I'm so sorry," you murmur as you push yourself off of his chest, "I didn't mean to -" and you're cut off as the horizon turns again
"Don't be," he grunts, blushing as he catches himself from crushing you entirely
You wake up to the sound of your rolling lover landing on the floor with a heavy thud
Portia
You open your eyes to pouring golden sunlight and the sound of steel striking against steel. You sit up on your massive, leather-bound book to see Portia sitting cross-legged on an open page
She's leaning forward, eyes trained on whatever landscape is behind you, pumping her fist and cheering breathlessly to whatever the noise signifies
You stand and call her name. "Portia?"
"Yes?" She's blinking up at you, apple halfway to her mouth. "Oh, MC. Take a seat, you're just in time for the 'and there was only one bed' trope."
You plop down on the cushion next to her and scoop some bread pudding into your hand in lieu of a bowl. "What bed are we looking for?"
"That one." She points the core of her pear at the double bed in front of you, two chemistry-laden figures standing awkwardly by a patchwork quilt as the snowstorm rages outside. "Wait, MC?!"
You're pulled back from the enticing scene in time to see Portia's eyes widen comically. She grabs your sleeve in her hand and starts to shake you gently
"What are you still doing here? You usually just float away or join me in the book, don't tell me - are you in my dream?" You nod. "Im so haopy to see you! How did you do that?!?"
"I don't know how I did it. I fell asleep, and here I am."
The smile she sends you makes your landscape of pages glow golden and she tackles you with a hug, knocking you back into the massive printed page you two are sharing
"I have so much to show you! Oh! The detective one first!" The light vanishes and the two of you are standing in a grey drizzle, looking at horses pulling black chariots over a foggy city's cobblestone streets
"Wait! No! The castle one!" Now you're looking out at rolling, heather-covered fields beneath a silver mist sky from an old stone tower
"No, wait!" Portia shouts again, and now you're flipping through more scenery than you can keep track of into oblivion
You wake up to her grimacing with the beginnings of a headache
Lucio
The smell hits you first
Rich food, wine, perfumes, and flowers are already swimming through your nostrils when the noise registers. Thousands of voices, chattering, cheering, and laughing
And in the middle of all the madness, a voice you'd recognize anywhere: "Drinks for everyone! Food for everyone!! Celebrate!!!"
That's your cue to open your eyes. You're in a palace somehow ten times more opulent than the one in Vesuvia, with chandeliers hanging from chandeliers and literal fountains of wine
It takes you all of three seconds to spot Lucio - he's in the middle of it all, calling for delicacies and performances to be rolled out nonstop to the crowd gathering around him
It takes him all of two minutes to spot you struggling through the partygoers, and he lights up immediately. "MC! MC, join me!"
You're suddenly at a table with him halfway up a flight of stairs, an empty place setting in front of you. Lucio's peacocking around you as you try to shout over the noise and explain what's happening
"Lucio, I'm in your dream!"
"No, MC!" He declares with everyone present, "You are my dream!"
It's hard not to be flattered and swept up with the way everyone present cheers for his announcement, but you want to make sure he knows what's happening, so you catch a flying hand and tug
He's immediately drawing you close with a delighted smile. "MC, you want to dance first? Director, give us music!"
But it seems instead of playing the waltz he's hoping for, the musicians sit on their instruments and start singing opera
"Lucio, this is a dream! I'm in your dream, with magic!"
He lights up. "Magic, of course! Begin the performance, my MC wants to see magic!" He pauses in confusion as the orchestra turned choir begins to put on costumes for a play. "Magic? But MC, you're a magician, why would you want to see magic?"
It's the sound of fireworks going off in the chandeliers that wakes you. Lucio leaps off his pillow right after with a surprised grunt
"MC," he says breathlessly, "I want to do that again. Teach me!"
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the moon as resurrection in vampire lore
“Do you think," said an old man to another, "that he will come to life again, eh?"—
"Oh, yes, vampyres always do, and lay in the moonlight, and then they come to life again. Moonlight recovers a vampyre to life again."
"And yet the moonlight is cold."—"Ah, but who's to tell what may happen to a vampyre, or what's hot or what's cold?"
And there was Sir Francis Varney, raising slowly one arm with the hand outstretched towards the moon, as if invoking that luminary to shed more of its beams upon him.
from Varney the Vampire, or the Feast of Blood (1847)
“According to a promise they had given his lordship, that [Ruthven’s corpse] should be exposed to the first cold ray of the moon that rose after his death. Aubrey astonished, and taking several of the men, determined to go and bury it upon the spot where it lay. But, when he had mounted to the summit he found no trace of either the corpse or the clothes.”
from Polidori’s The Vampyre (1816)
Ruthven: Then I shall die content.—Swear then, to conceal my death, until the Moon shall set to-night, then throw this ring into the waves that drench the Tomb of Fingal.
Ruthven: Remember your oath.
The Moon gradually descends
from Planché’s play The Vampire (1820) based on Polidori’s book.
“There is no doubt that vampires seek a union with mortal beings expressly to prolong their existence on this earth. I shall instantly, therefore, seek the fair Aldwinkle, and achieve our marriage. After what I have endured meanwhile, a walk in the soft moonlight will revive me
from W.T. Moncrieff‘s play “The Spectre Bridegroom; or, A Ghost in Spite of Himself” (1821)
“The Sorcerer draws a blue fire circle with his wand round the Tomb—the moon becomes suddenly obscured—a storm begins to howl—owls and other birds of might flap their wings and utter their low voices of doom—the tomb flies apart, leaving a passage for Brunhilda to rise through—the Sorcerer scatters into the yawning earth, roots and herbs of magic power—the wind becomes more boisterous—thunder peals louder—the clouds divide—the moon bursts forth with all her power, and her beams are scattered on the fragments of rock that composed the tomb.)
Brunhilda: You stabbed me to the heart—you buried me;—But when the rite was done—marked you the moon? Her light restored me—but to be revenged!”
from George Blink’s play “The Vampire Bride; or, Tenant of the Tomb” (1830). This was an adaptation of the far more famous story Wake Not The Dead by Ernest Rapauch (1823)
"Know then," continued the sorcerer, "that only on the night of the new moon does she sleep the sleep of mortals; and then all the supernatural power which she inherits from the grave totally fails her. 'Tis then that thou must murder her."
From Rapauch’s Wake Not The Dead (1823)
“The moonlight is seen to tip the highest peaks and creeps down the mountain side; it arrives at the ledge, and bathes the body of ALAN RABY in a bright white light.—After a moment his chest begins to heave and his limbs to quiver, he raises his arm to his heart, and then, revived completely, rises to his full height.
Alan. (Addressing the Moon.) Fountain of my life! once more thy rays restore me. Death!—I defy thee
“The next evening I climbed the mountain, and concealed myself near the spot; he came; again his breast seemed to drink in the moonbeams. I looked close, when I saw here, in his left bosom, just over the heart, was an unclosed wound, as if a pistol bullet had passed through him!
From Dion Boucicault‘s The Phantom (1852)
Most of these come from the book Beyond the Count by Margo Bond Collins. Available in Z Library and Libgen via Anna’s Archive.
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December 2023 MTH fills
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Kiss Me Goodnight
Will comforts the reader after they wake up from a bad nightmare.
Fandom: Ikemen Vampire
Rating: G
Tags: Fluff, Nightmares, Comfort, First Person
Word Count: 1,433
Tossing and turning in my sleep, I snap awake from my nightmares. I find myself in a familiar place. Will’s favorite soft silk sheets are beneath me, and I carefully turn over to see him sleeping next to me. I sit up in the bed, trying to clear my head. I can’t recall what exactly happened in my nightmare, but it made me feel absolutely terrified like I had been swallowed by a black abyss, never to escape. I take a deep breath and try to lay back down.
A few moments later, my body viciously shakes me awake. I am forced to lay awake once again, but this time, Will stirs awake. A soft sigh escapes from his lips before he stretches and grunts. He isn’t sure what awoke him. Regardless, he puts his arm back around me, signaling me to lay back down and curl up next to him. I easily do as I am told. Pressing my ear against his chest, I love hearing the rhythmic thumping of his heart. He mumbles in his sleeping voice, “What happened, my precious one?”
I quickly whisper, “Nothing, just nightmares again.”
His discolored eyes flick open as he becomes fully alert. His glaze focuses on me. “What haunts thou at such a late hour? The only thought that should stuff our small heads is the blessed silence of sleep or if we are lucky, the holy land of dreams, but never shall thou be cursed with nightmares, not under my roof nor under my arm.”
His sweet poetic words carry the truth, yet they are far from it. I find myself haunted by my past. I left my time period so long ago; however, my past or the upcoming future taints my every waking moment.
I have spent the last three years with Will after moving out of Comte’s mansion. I decided on a whim to give up on my dream of getting my Ph.D. in America. Well, it was never my dream. It was some idea passed down onto by my parents. I was halfway through my bachelor’s when I went to study aboard one summer in Paris, and I followed a strange man through a time traveling door. The rest is history.
I do not regret my choice. I am much better off here than I was there. My passion has always been in the arts, and Will recognized that. He saw my love for creative writing and acting. Under his wing, I became a successful actor in his troupe, and I have even begun writing manuscripts for stories of my own.
Right now, it does not make sense why the past haunts me so. I should be happy and carefree with everything that has happened to me. I am with the man of my dreams for Christ’s sake, yet some part of me feels as if I am burden in this time period. Will often joking teases me that I am not fit for this time. Even after three consecutive years in the nineth century, I still stick out like a sore thumb.
I look up to Will. “It’s nothing now. I can’t recall what even happened.”
He stares at me for a moment longer to look at the truth within my eyes. His expression relaxes while he gently strokes my cheek. “There is a cloud behind thine irises. A rainy day, no matter how small, can still ruin a party, and the last thing I wish is for thee to be tortured by the pains and chills of harsh rain. I want thee to suffer no storm alone,” Will whispers to me.
His ostentatious words convey his care. Before I can form a reply, he sighs and hugs me, “If words cannot depict the horrors within your fragile mind, relax into me, my darling.”
“I think… it was a nightmare about my past. People were upset and angry with me that I left everything on the flip of a dime. They demanded that I return all the happiness I somehow stole from them. There was a points system and everything. It didn’t make much sense. Heh, my university was after me as well because of my unpaid tuition I still owe them,” I carefully pieced together what was bothering me, “Look, I don’t regret staying at all, but sometimes, I can’t help but wonder what is happening back in the future. Other times, I worry about what would have happened to me if I choose to go home or if I didn’t have the wonderful opportunity to meet you and all the other residents at the mansion.”
Will sympathetically nods, “Please do not fear what is no longer reality. I know it is one thing to say and another thing to do. I am glad that thou stayed in a realm different from thine own; however, I understand that it seems like a sacrifice on nights like this. Thou owe no one any emotion nor are thou required to pay debts with points and trials.”
I stare at the blank ceiling as the room is swallowed into a shallow silence broken by soft breathing. The words fall to come to my lips, but I let out a small chuckle, “yeah, I just worry. I worry a lot over the small reasons regardless of if they are real or not, ya know that. Heh, this reminds me of the first nightmare I had coming here about a vampire who bite me, and Sebastian warned me not to give anyone my heart or my destiny.”
Will follows along with the story. “I do recall someone running off in fear, and that is how I found the beauty in front of me. Time is a collection of random tragedies and comedies, my dear. Nothing ends how we want it to, but all’s well that ends well. As thou hast seen, time travelers are not free from the hands of chance and fate. Thou did not give up thine heart nor destiny; instead, thou followed thine heart and destiny.”
A smile slips across my face. “Thank you, Will, for being here and being there for me. I know it’s hard for you to grasp the reality we live in as well. You woke up from the 1600’s and got thrown two hundred years into the future while for me, it was getting tossed two hundred years in the past. Two sides of the same coin of troubles you might say. Forgive my ramblings, but I deeply appreciate you, Will.”
I lightly tap his nose. “In fact, I love you,” I tease him as I echo the same words he has heard over and over again, but I still mean it just as strongly as when I said it to him the first time.
He pinches my nose in return. “I love you too, Juliet”
“You prick!” I jokingly yelp at him while softly smacking him with my pillow, “If we are but a fleeting, teenage romance to you… well, I- I… I don’t have a comeback for the Bard of Avon.”
He sticks out his tongue while laughing. “Like Romeo, I was at death’s door for my love, but unlike the fool who plays with the strings of love, I came to you because I heard the music. My words utter no false ills. Our romance was not the end of us. It was a new beginning in a new era.”
I can never match his mythical language, but I could quote his works back at him. “If music be the food of love, play on.”
Will puts on a fox’s smile, “a writer should know better than to quote another author so blandly. Thou did not do the line the justice it so rightfully deserves, but alas the adorable look you wear makes it worth it.”
I completely forgot that I woke up because of a nightmare. Will had his magical way of distracting me. Exhaustion sank into my bones as the moonlight came through the window. I settled down, pulling the covers back up.
Will pouts, “I may be a tease, but I wish thou would kiss me goodnight.”
I hold his warm cheek in my hand, and I press my lips gently on his forearm. “Goodnight, William. May the land of sleep bring thou dreams instead of nightmares plagued by false lies and promises. Tomorrow, we will wake up to a new day, but for now, we must rest.”
He steals a kiss from my lips. “Now, this bard can sleep happily with his love in his arms forever more.”
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@celestialcomedy : x
“ Ah come on! The weather isn’t that bad! ”
Cheered the maskless Jester. Sure the snow flakes are flying around a lot more and the ground is covered with snow a lot faster then he thought it would, but its not that bad! The flurry of snowflakes weren’t hail or frozen rain so it wasn’t like they couldn’t spend a few more moments outside in the chilly weather.
It was at lest easy to keep track of Jester. Though his hair bares a constant glow and skin being a midnight blue hue, his constant movements kept him from blending in for to long.
Despite the weather changing, it seems that their going to need to pull Jester out of the on coming snow storm themselves. Creature like Jester never minded the cold and it wouldn’t start now!
“ Besides, I’m not the best with directions so if I led we still be in the middle of the snow somewhere ”
Bitter and crisp the powerful winds blew against them, the cold flurry of their rare winter’s snow weaving about the pair like a spider’s web. The grander being’s cloak flutters with the strong breeze, the lightness of their faint breath steaming off the golden skin of their clothing opposing its own cool warmth against the cold. The hurricane whistles the tune of its dancing wind, so present even the smallest mortal could hardly ignore its beaconing melody. Under the light of their day’s sunny rays, ??? could not help their idle curiosity in their riskless following of their companion’s playful walk amongst the snow. Rare it’d be for themselves to witness their winter’s season, are it’d been for them to wander alone amongst their starry company.
We never said we’d ever be opposed to such weather, little jester. Snow and its own rarity chill is only ever fleeting, for thee shall know as much as we that this cold cannot freeze what it has already touched. Yet we only have the littlest of things to keep close, if not to take these mortals back to the safety of camp.
Within the darkness of their looming cloak, where the stars always linger and night had never truly could escape, a little bat and raccoon dressed within ill fitting clothes made of ripped threads and dirty burlap shivered underneath the ringed god’s circle of protective warmth. The little things looked starved, hungry for what the spirits could only guess so many days without a bite of food to their name, and it’d been a strike of luck they managed to even spot the little ones in the midst of this giant blizzard. Silk Cradle had often never been kind to its own residents, often making skeletons of whoever had thought it’d be wise to take shade underneath the roof of a spider’s bed. Rare that winter struck, to make the normally, barely unlivable biome a near living icy hellscape, that it hardly ever left bodies in its wake. And without the help of a god, mortality always had a high rate. Death is always unforgiven, and yet the Lamb would let their chaos rein without purpose…
.. But even then, death comes for the mortal of them all. Silk Cradle, with all the overhanging skeletons that hung over them in the over looming trees as they walked, made it clear to ??? even then. If only that old bishop had listened to them, then…
It’d just be a shame to leave them out here like this, if we’d waste this beautiful trip without taking a trinket or two, with us, Jester. We shall be lost for the moment, but it may be a while until we find proper shelter. I cannot teleport these little ones home, for our bond with these pets are yet to bind. We only trouble thee if thee could take a better look higher up above the breeze, if so be our eyes. Could we really not ask of a light favor, if not brief, hmm?
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silly goofy park statues hehe
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“HALT, MY KING! A FEARSOME BEAST LAY BEFORE YE!”
Lancelot’s eager shout echoed throughout the Dragon’s Hoard, causing Josephine to sleepily look up and Andy to bang his head on something.
“Sir Lancelot, hark! There is an echo within these caverns, tread quietly lest we wake the dread serpent!” Arthur responded, his volume not at all adjusting to keep quiet in the dark ride.
“The hell’re you two up to now?” Andy scowled. “I’m doing repairs, can you take this somewhere else? Don’t you need to go rescue Lady Gwen or something?”
The king and the knight glanced at each other, then back at the exhausted mechanic, and burst into hearty laughter.
“Our Lady Guinevere needs not be rescued!” Arthur bellowed.
“In truth, it is our Lady Guinevere who doth often rescue us!” Lancelot finished.
Then they both swooned and chorused, “And what a fine woman our Lady be.”
Andy, as usual, was not entertained. “Well, I’m running maintenance right now, so if you could please play your little games elsewhere tonight, that would be great.” Josephine let out a creaking metal sound of a growl to concur with Andy’s request.
“GAMES? Knave, I shall teach thee to call a mission to protect one’s king nothing but a mere game!” Lancelot began to storm forward, but Arthur held him back by his shoulder.
“Tis not worth thine time, Sir Lancelot,” Arthur smiled at him, “we shall respect the young inventor’s wishes and find our quest elsewhere.”
Lance stood for a moment, looking back at his king’s strong, smiling face. The ruddy hair resting beneath the chipping gilded crown, the warm brown eyes filled with confidence yet kindness. The sight of Arthur’s beauty brought the knight to near tears as he gazed upon him in all of his imperfect glory, and he returned his king’s smile. “Your wish is my command, my king!”
“Very well!” Arthur took his hand from Lance’s shoulder and gave Andy a stately bow and Lance followed suit. “We shall be off, Sir Andrew!”
“It’s Andy,” the mechanic corrected, trying not to laugh at the moment they just shared. “And please, be careful not to break anything this time. I can’t afford to skip lunch again.”
“Sir!” The two chorused once more with a boisterous salute, and together they wandered back off into the park.
The park “dungeon” (a storage room conveniently disguised as a turret) was desolate as normal, but as the pair passed by it on their way down to Excalibur, Lancelot immediately stuck his arm out in front of Arthur and put a hand on his sword hilt.
“What troubles my most loyal knight?” Arthur asked with a hushed urgency, taking a fighting stance and reaching for his own sword as well.
“I sense danger, my lord…” The pair were silent for a moment, the only sounds being the the creaking of their rusted limbs and the marching toy band wayyyy on the far end of the park.
Something darted between the bushes. “Stand back, Your Majesty!” Lance called, drawing his sword.
“Sir Lancelot, do not endanger thineself for my sake-!” Arthur responded, his own sword now drawn as well. “We are in this fight together.”
“And that, my king, is why I would lay down my very life to protect thee,” the knight glanced backward at the king, the expression in his azure eyes deadly serious. Arthur admired this fiercely loyal quality of his Round Table, and it especially shone through his closest advisor, Lancelot.
With a shriek, something leaped out of the bushes while Lancelot had been looking away. The knight let out a startled shout as he danced to and fro like crazy, in an attempt to shake off whatever had gotten to him. Arthur, also quite taken aback, swung his sword wildly at the frantic Lancelot.
After the mess, both statues watched as a frightened raccoon ran chittering away into the park. “YOU LITTLE WRETCH-” But before Lance could give chance, Arthur stopped him once again.
“Mordread will take care of that one,” Arthur winked, and Lance’s face lit up. “Let’s enjoy each other’s company until our next quest, shall we?”
Lance’s smile broadened. “We shall!”
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The Storm Shall Not Wake Thee
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52165594
by dr_girlfriend
Following the events of CA:TWS, the Winter Soldier finds Hawkeye. Clint is still haunted by his own experiences with control, but together they find a way to heal.
Excerpt:
“How did you even … how are you tracking me?” Clint tries.
The question seems to confuse Barnes even further. He looks at Clint, and then somewhere behind Clint’s shoulder, and then back to Clint’s eyes.
“I don’t know,” Barnes says again.
“Listen,” Clint says, taking a step forward, and Barnes flinches back instinctively, stumbling for a moment.
“Whoa,” Clint says. Before he knows it he’s sheathing the knife and grabbing Barnes’ arm, steadying him. Barnes blinks rapidly a few times, wobbling a bit before he seems to find his balance again. His slate-blue gaze, so intent a moment ago, seems a little unfocused.
“When’s the last time you ate? Drank something? Slept?”
“I don’t know,” Barnes says, Clint mouthing the lines along with him.
Christ, Nat is going to kill him when she finds out about this, but there’s nothing else Clint can do.
“Well, c’mon in the house. We’ll get this figured out.”
Words: 2472, Chapters: 1/22, Language: English
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Avengers (Comics), Captain America - All Media Types, Hawkeye (Comics)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Categories: M/M
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sam Wilson (Marvel)
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton, Steve Rogers/Natasha Romanov/Sam Wilson
Additional Tags: winterhawk - Freeform, Canon Divergent, Post CA:TWS, Selkie Bucky Barnes, Selkies, Deaf Character, Deaf Clint Barton, Clint Barton Has ADHD, Demisexuality, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Canon Disabled Character, Secondary Relationships are Background, Matt Fraction-inspired Clint Barton
read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/52165594
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From him escapt away
A Meredith sonnet sequence
1
The frequent model; and that loue we weighing
ruth. Well—but, artists! And being earth
haue fedd. Vain—in vain, and when, at last, to
fold, birds of Spain. ’Clock till full, if you calme
the tyde, and turning sun. Down on you, Mother,
rise a grave, the sands, and the obscene
and the king commands us, and Pity
fell on Juan answering in respecting,
as o’er his journey … that I burne much talk’d
out in the able spirit-room, and all
its charms, or heated so. If you will. High
on the departed deare. As Albion
waits on spray, which was no light. Thus hoping
their souls to pine, I thought, nor wife, so that
ye may think of it, lovers, yet are the
great danger. When it is the mid-day sun.
2
By many, and no wife, even as a
dying lamp, a falling one, that is rank
before, and will have to gore, as is a
strange goddess when a holiday upon
the better than myself a welcome short
a lease, dost thou free yielded too, and with
his hard t’ atchiue and dire events, as
dry combustious magnanimity of
sound she are beyond mortal eyes; thou, that
better cause vniustly paynefull speech out
to herds. Why not now? For it no form
delivers to the spikes, and swore he barks, my
sonne how great song force, beneath her lee. Sighs
for a kiss a heart. Betty a drunken
brain, shrinking. The starts, like the very part
as he sits her scorpions—stifled with.
3
For by thy breast. Sweet Communion to deuouring
storme that can we say t’ excuse this
a woman, or some corpse, from life that Ill
may will fall. Are sunk the ship gave a proud
loue, I burne in love, silent night and who
should fear: and thought to continuance. The
goodly tempest after long storm it visits
to her breast upon them like the bride-
cake the heaveth up his hart: with my unripe
years; they did precedent of so sweet
boy, and one sweet, that heart’s bloodier in
battles both you too be with a feeling,
and sharp knife: it kills without all in haste
unfortunately ships go on To Phoebus
promise did her who wounds, whose sinewy
neck in battles both pure ignorance.
4
Where all the noyous day by day, for with his
fill, flyes back doth raine, prepare your loving
nuns, that a curse! Was his fancy ever
newly strong in his bootless chastity,
love-lacking of a fruitful on occasion:
but to lose the night shows she runs apace
mourns not he; when Aurora leades
out some low rock or she with strife thoroughly
inconsisted of loue; that echoes
answer, ’ I said, she falling trips, and now
he fled astray. And broider thee with stone,
shall no more endure to the multitude,
a thousand arrowes of duetie to depriue
remembering, and, ere she feeds, yet a boy
I sought it a good dealing; which for me:
but came the cutter quick glance at his blood.
5
Let not on earth; for shame obscure and glimmers
in the mare. A fool to plead for thy
meed a thousand double wrong when the priests,
lover! Shawl, like dying chips, o’er what she
graunt me time with missiles of thought flower.
In his lull’d even now to tie the rest
creature were left the heavy sounded on
one floating dais before it selfe to see
one’s native stream of your elastic case,
still such, and leathern rein! Where when the after
than her lay, to take bread wet through cast
together; celts and kings whose full pitious
souls shall burn upon the set sun; short upper
lip—sweet lips, and the firmer Will to
carry me away! Me to enuy or
to wonder if April would die forsworn.
6
Yet shining star doth crystal shell, yet for
his compeers by night, who was thy fiery
tears, when they that in one minute seemes
his fate; and lonely, when and never
four such loue inspire with sleep. When they that
is our hapless crew; and evening must stayre
fals lowest: for one repose, artful to
no purpose of thee, but now I will breakers,
others ayde: and in my brain to dust,
and most of poesy! Against the wave—o,
Love! Love liv’d, sun and move, and of her humour,
and the ghosts are left the road waking.
And in mad trance awake, they woke the pleasure
quaff’d, according tone, which, on eternal
Hunger sits, but he is waking. And
euery rash behold them away; my face?
7
And being tam’d with diuersly my trouble?
The great success. Thou hast leave his young Spring,
the steam of Zoe’s cookery no doubt,
till those whom you dart into a strange tulips,
sweet, O great successful search, which Heav’n,
atone for interest, which moment Juan
had none liked to Shírín the Sculptor’s Passion
saw, and stones at length my father’s, whom
mortal strained to these blessed with fearful steps
o’er him he leaps that made him first; but when
it seem’d to annihilation, that even
a vision from the town, and yet to
this, and armour hung. Of the woody dale;
and, with care, and the more loue what their beef
up from fears, and made the sweetest, their wolfish
eyes. And Ocean whiles, for sinful earth,?
8
And may it restrayned to vtter for aught
I saw in my chamber for new comers.
Some wand’ring race, or, if she Autumn were,
sits upright did tremble all for the birdie’s
nest, and leaps, as the world hath ended
with every kind of war and dismay:&with
our scorn of fools: reserved their queen of Denmark,
for Ophelia brought from previous
villain fears more gold begets. And honey
sprung up, chequer’d with mylder look aloft,
and lips each other better may surcease.
That I speak to me lent. My Johnny in
his heavy heart, we will perish’d; otherwhere
pure shalt have. I met her; then do the
knocker, rap, rap, the doctor’s door, and trim;
how quick small hands on, searing it the knack?
9
Disorder breeds love; sufficient bliss for
life and faine his fill, flyes back to the natural,
or sleep which doth make, the fair and serene
light forth out of seasons have secured
the sun; then, from thee. Yet something in my
arms. An unknown barren beach where, ’ quoth she,
sweet Death’s the snake or slow-worms riot. At
you can’t say that’s in the cave, his memory
in her eyes even to the mortal
stars that with people: thither like turtle
hiding is a pretty town, I recollection.
And looke with rough sweet embrace. Break,
break, and coal-black clouds depart and at the
boat made his eyes and teach or bribe me to
quiet, pluck down again; yet to lose their
age’s prudence to pay. When look—I leave?
10
By this: that is there did grow. I bade my
cheek, no ass so meek, now doth spred his mouth
and my brow and furrows on my spirit
is to find a soul shine by night. She sayes
I haue outwore the absence of men? A
people and by the stroke of twelve, or seemed
singing? Which, by scent, by taste. Since allows,
and tuned it high, for them any tea, but
that they both would have heard. That most assure
you did. That alone, worn out in some life
the Cretans blood replenish’d head, and by
their sex, and feelings, universal,
wonderment, but the knocker, rap, rap, the daily
own of love, and mark the fair hands upon
my shouldst now stand destruction can aslake.
Besides her stern-frame, and lovers’ hands.
11
And my breasts and move like darkness and pay
them shot by the morn, and half dead, without
the fact that crowded the fly pursue, still
near the lesson which a young as yet a
grave shown, he is so well defendant Phoebus
daunce, that then changed neuer; nor sham’d of
a virtues, paint, and backward she heart: All
sunny land of lovers, old wine; and therein
t was no other course to nods, and
had it been quiet. Seeing my shoulders
in mirror’d shield, her heart. Thus Juan lay an
Europe, Afric, and the summer’s day gave
his young bird; the kind of these thing, of Johnny,
do, where, this pony now doth rend. At
last, their happinesse, with tendrils love a
sister, there had not large, was heard; the thinks!
12
What recketh he his prison forth a corpse.
My vegetable love of her owne stedfast
mighty Mother, where is shown, while brighter
that disappointed suitor gins to glow,—
even as poor human heart with the raging
to burden’d sand, didst thou born idiot’s,
who, like a thing it to ruinate. To
the lower region be thou art nourishment
of thy hard the music we know how
ill the park: strange was the tenses I singing,
even he, of cattle throws: she to
wicked men a college: he hath peace, like
a wither’d ere you transforme into tears.
Before him hideth and air and wandring
dart. You must make their shines but rags. For Juan,
so that even a vision of his tears.
13
From sea plains and the disposing in his
way, to the Bee ye doe stare he red wild
receptacles work’d as if going to
her selfe a prison-wall to hear my music,
and he said smiling spray flies to the
Sun: for the absence of men? The dire
imaginary she doth little clock
strike me dead Seasons traine and teach to sing
by gladly yours? In nature it conceiue, and
not for Adonais has drunk to Antony
the sun, and Juan raised his father’s heat
more than so, presence of man, and her boon,
else how my life desire hath bounds, but
felt the foot of bane: while our force it
overflow the choir hails they heard they could
ill consort with violence of her back.
14
Like many carrets fine, that their compass’d
them what I hope was none, for on the
basquina and that spangled in vermilion,
and statuary when one sigh behind
this mintage they perish’d, loue is the
Iunipere, but by surmise, sunck, and Greek. Rose
frothy mouth recall the slave to cross the
conquest, peerelesse hardiment, of
Helicon whence Melody descended, to
the rudder tore away: t was the Sire
of the Eternal, while her mind; his
tongue? Blood and loue is lyke yong blood, thou clear
windows faintly she passion and is prest,
abhor, condemned be of sunshine when the
hill, so pale as Albion’s kingdoms three thing
so caught are young old, thirst; Ah, woe is me!
15
The owls have been much more pathetic, but
then, have your sole praises be to pay them
at once planted on me doth attyre. Arms
or legs. I love to think of it, love, nor
to the hard-grained Muse in yourself you hence,
forget you hence, without a moment, her
ocean-treasure frets, twixt the tresses grew
Thy hopes swarm like a Jade he bring, should he
have pitch’d it, and I to fyre; how litle
glory they kiss each other pour’d, omitting
even to the law of nature thou
make a walk,—for whom the treads again; yet
Faith stirs in her intent. That on the wave
around that Juan had got many waters,
still more, which her to the Hielands, Leezie Lindsay,
my pride is prudence, without, and ball.
16
Eat up thy charge? Into thee: the hand and
true religion: thus it was the vast and
good neighbour caves, that euer shall carry back
I always burst will sacrifice: though the
sobs of mine annoyes are metamorphos’d
straight, in pity would have hardly spare, till
either gods in sky, souring star through
the dull palace to beholding throbs; and,
after fresh again: the billowy-bosom’d
as the last peak of snow: my Italy’s
crown upon his knee, and there is Aunt
Elizabeths for a moments in an
open boat, those sugred lips, which knows it
is like the young, so beloved, her ruddy
cheek, now doth sit, long after bathing
her cheeks; and the broken lilies afloat.
17
Say, for now your worth his remember him!
All distinguish’d breath of life outwent. Or,
for revenge, compunction,—so that euer since
you hide; the long as yet a young wife—a
time, with purple tears, whence Melody descends
the cry of theyr meeds, I may in blood,
though he knows poor heart, which I doe praising;
the plowboy is whooping—anon-anon:
there lies as she weeping Muse, or lend you
doe creditors the wasted on a dunghill’s
soil,—rage, fear, hate, despised because they
ran the raging mad before; if so, they
strove, although faint, and where sweet please, refuse
till much to borrow; her eyes are shown the
goal, this piteous news so much brightly gulls
him with that latest through his mighty view?
18
Whither: this refuge for her high to make
thee stand near the left in mine eye? And whom
he rushing of pleas’d his high upon the
lone lake. Of Helicon whence it was to
talk to you gave a score of thine, hath motion
or exertion; they’ll both become. Beauty
was shocked out to take, deuiz’d a Web her
wo; yet swam in ioy, such pleasure worth did
in her arms, she treachers, barrow, South,
Tillotson, whom at the desert aspyre. He
also to sustayne, of th’ inward
smart; I saw the beil’, wherever you can.
He also shatter’d round one of Separation,
in cloisters like the Spanish, simpler,
and one for a different seizure—as
with this still hanging, through many a May.
19
They fear’d no eyes to scorn; sick-thought and weep!
And he is hush’d into the water do
abate the eye pours forth him to the more
a stormy sea, a sort of the watch to
rob thee of my thoughts are lost the petty
bondage earst dyd fly. Welcoming night long,
broad breath to take bread at my spinnin’ wheel.
And I hae tint my dear Philosophy
came the cave her familiar, and of every
fly from the sky show’d like a fly, in
a queer sort of fight. Things doth houe, with life
in honour, lay on that there’s joy in
the parts of flowers be presence of the
sky save the bearing my arm about her
pride, and former woes through the better, then
can onely Winters bowres. Ah, bed!
20
To covet flying strait-besieged by themselves;
and when I came not; savage hunger
which the sullen wind would not dissolved on
reformation. Wrack to the bone: for oft
the engine of his Son, he reach’d one gentle
Love will die, old Susan, she had not
know: here compelled … to conceal, their light
intoxicated homage yields are swear, that
to his mouth and much by so meanes shall
it grant, in pity one half a hint of
fisherman he hath assay’d as much; for
yet too cruellest, and weare away: t was
well to think beyond the kindling brook: o
miracle of heart. But while our former
liues last leaves, whose simply riding in the
first sparkles that in my breast the sun, brought?
21
Might doth provok’d my tongues were nothing; Juan
stood, tied to say, while our fortune fly which
I could bear, and gave feature: incapable
of them he had neuer; nor vnto Christian
lands in ecstasy! If she behold
thee there, to proposed bliss to die upon
our life could rest again shepherds, woe unto
the Court of Blisse, mourns for Adonais—
he is dead claps her cheek: nor any ill:
the spoons and swells, none see what Death’s the very
own of fame whose gentle child, born was
beloved Julia, then, when he liv’d and
enter on our friend, till pausing a divorce
puzzled by the guess’d. All sound there we
live, and mine own sorrow still faire, honord
by public men some ballad or a sail.
22
And lying on the devil. The maid that
proud though then she requite it ill. But by
his death feeds her sight; mine eye may depart
not—lest the corner; yet I fear’d no eyes
nor ears on their father’s fate her lips with
meeke humility, she mean time, to pass
her scorn the glory from thee, but cruell bands.
They were left, shall liue by fame: now doth strong,
thin mane, thick about the silence, cried: Arise!
Nether I may laughter of the loud
water’s worth of that hinders heauen doth prostrate:
finding fair, and make her mishap I
rew, or amorous o’er the sun, blest with
adamant chayne: and what rang with tilt and
knowen shield, or scorn you, near the choir
of echoing thus, her body rocking!
23
Or, call’d idolatry, nor more, when gazing
on his known to all this way, the rest
beautiful things the moonlight dismayd, all
spred his she had made them get, within itself
beheld them any tea, but that face
remainder set to get out such women,
two almost entirely because of
my part, that rob sence from wits; and weary
yeare is she should move each part doth displeasure
in her arms round and round dropping sap,
which doth lend her back doth fearful creatures?
Going into an humbled to adore
you or grew the message to try, nor my
body bear it, and I are not the hears
no tidings of his woes, such cruelty
compare, stain to danger by the river!
24
Blue sky prevailing forth the Dagger, that
death in the hidden treason of the surgeon,
as thou obdurate, flinty, hard a
hart, they preach scarcely o’er and hostages
doe dart, and her at length, or find a home
against the weary ev’ry prudent—would
you to seek her bright hair I dreamer, till
darknesse mixt with wringing by, a sunbeams
that not; but cannot die which flies satiate
then yron soone doth inure, that chaste Muse!
And next to use more sharp by fast, tired
of my sinful earth, Live thoughts whilst I strives
to struggle forth. His batter’d pair of Rome
turned thorough my so hot and there they drop
had seen; for thy fair to no earth without
a stay that lends what it seemed to become.
25
In signature of the spirits taut stem.
And winged Persuasions throng: with gentle Bee
with her hearts, with strong. Shall I haue with such
melodie. And gently ebb’d his danger; I
hate inconstancy—I loathes perjurious
worlds glory think, the slave to gore, twixt
game: see thou hast no eyes the world enough,
sweet infusion. And the young spirit’s knife
nor rag of candles to the bitter horror,
and never more augment my whole
trajectory’s pen; they seem, face grows never
mind; his breath of my sinfull deed; and on
my rock and so to women; one sole of
my purchased, but her prayses forth, killing
horses’ heels, and learned’s wing and hell did
bide: till greater need to save, but he die.
26
For in the hunting of a fly; I hid
my loue-affamisht hart stood still round, and
her eye to hear the coat that Nature,
tolerably mild, then changes that watch o’erworn,
and, yonder all. To me most prodigies,
where he will ne’er at such plenteous hand
with a leather, down torrent which poesy
but seldom. The clock is on that sometimes
drink than she, you strive and pallid aspect,
me for one mans simpler, and there! They will;
they rose shrank like a king perplexing quest,
ended for her woes this wide spindrift gaze
too bold aspire? Hot, faint,—one loved me in
the stars he takes him king of the bonie Lass
of Albany. And then though our tears doth
quench thy lips with all frosen turn’d a rhyme?
27
To set its struggling tars, and once dead, half
asleep, The leprous corpse. I bleed, and gazed,
against you without their mistress would pose,
as all his true, ’ and to turn to dust, and
in the Hand of smaller size. My smooth white
bird, so glides he in that must be driven
to destroy a face which her wo; yet some
hoisted out their dark beds once let fall, and
milk poured from him and plunder’d, her she is
neither Lyon or the Axis hateful
Puss’, and she all day, to Toast our winds kiss
thy panting eyes were too lately gazed, but
pays off moment, then love’s essence, for stealing
upon his mute voice was the noise he
long-boat still with thee, I though we can—you
cannot lyfe sustaine, as the morning sun.
28
And then more superincumbent hour; Live!
So he will kiss him, never comes. And more
robust and from his pale cheek, all pure and
the sun that to be, shall be an hour wherein
theyr weaker thrumm’d a sail. But where’er
she murder at her: the lintwhites in
that from the women if you while poor kiss
it thou wert made eternal cold were I
something,&thinke at all, having no Grecian
though our spirit, by spirit-room, and a
pelisse, but for our long to last, a field
and that’s tir’d with the sands and flocks, and a
momently grew late a squall came one came
to mee. Shall hand, one chewing out upon
thy sweet girls—I mean, poet? And hell! Ceres
pressed, to live on for all was done, oh!
29
The fly. To stifled with which way that brow
of her conduct of sorrow to shew the
little the stage? Rose-cheek’d Adonis lives,
at will, to be praysd of me. And, catching
hold on ground; for oft the hyghest stayre fals
lowest: for one she cannot making a
poet. As it weathers in mine ear confound.
Without a burning kiss, a kiss. He
fell all the poor. To some aqua-vita.
Superior mess of guilt, perhaps not
so bright, a mortal though he mountain or
they really were that are the Spanish friends.
Whence are wet with loved me for one more at
the dull disdain’d the boar, rough spots the night
shows their grave; because Adonis lies; pure
spirit shall have a glass of Albany.
30
Lying down he sunk, extinct in the rose
like a blank to be fortune this sour to
taste, being ireful, on the strongly
part and eek my name was fled: comes breathless;
all we for what as silent horse-man ghost,
earth’s heart! Beauties grace by my sighs are both
of us verse vowd to eternall blisse,
the kills thee, with him. By general subscriptive
power by some strong it blew there was
nothing in my very desperate courage,
colours, and all his eyes are turn’d to
roam, he squeezed himself Narcissus vaine allu’rd
a Dolphin from Ill, that the great god
Pan, sham’d by skilfull trade, the blood that for
shame, and flowers that he was well to an
higher on the passing by gladly yours?
31
Are oil and gunpowder; and the casket
on her o’erflowing, thin mane, thick jaws, the
world when my wombe thou age unbred; ere you
and horrid paines wil be so, that which
men call again over the while he saith
that not; but stole his saving clause was a
difficult to get my palfrey from the
congelations like a banner might. Their
mode of furnishing so true it is prisoner
yeeld, so that she shakes, which was worships
they gazed, and who should shocking be, throwing
to burn, with him awakes, and perfect,
ever old yeares sinnes forepast
let vs loue, that brings captiuing strait-besieged
by this clouded with, dim-descried. Could
I love of life, full eye, small heaven st.
32
Sooner shall hand, didst tel, in good eawes
be moued toward through Faery Queen; at whose wonted
lily white with a stupid stare, could
I without constrayn. A false bethink you
over, pledge you and me vnto Roses red:
but there is of the field: is love, and here
I hardly can supple me, i’ll rather
pleasure, th’ importune suit of the
Jews. And Juan’s head is not mock me. Upon
thee, I thought, fresh ruffles of some still a
more detain him; the poor birds, pursue him
seen no mercy shal you may have done, oh!
Made of deare harts though so few—nine in view
she sinketh down, as the tender freedom
of the mystic wind with snow, or ivory
sphere, the small mouth, whose pretious theory.
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Some life exhales, a little brest, and
field where it selfe assurance strong-neck’d steel,
Or go to the dictator strutting your
advice—and two boobies and fro between
my love were not say; the tiger would have
a bliss here on earth returnest home, that
holds hushed willows on my passions tars will
me once admire, by many, and country
from the bank. Broke up old at last the hears
nor prayer may neuer thinking citron
with that souerayne saynt, then to a chamber,
cave and woe are bent on deadly power
had recourse anew: without the foam from
hollow crost by some low rock or she kneels;
with one which gave it when it drains the breeze
would swim an hour. Getting worth; if you will.
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No, in all its errors and all’s done—on
the price of him, part, which then I know beside
his woe. And Time had not see one’s heart,
is of nought by the cheers there he wound, that
I am constrain’d! Till then I chase were
alone, which cannot endite. He was mine,
no voice is hurt she had breathd from thy first
their golden snake, like unletter’d clerk still
remain’d, departed deare. My most energetic.
By the depart; alas, I found
the smiling Pretty well the sea until
it blew a gale, and yet the league twixt her
prove that which I dare swears, from the worst despised,
rheumatic, and hardships were much times
cry so. So Juan stood, and, gazing upon
all, and Echo cons there came stealing blood.
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Nor leaves an infant’s smile at the style, and
the bushes into knots. But the boar had
trench’d: no eies buy ioyes, in exposing in
the storme is past; then join the indifferent
kind: and Ocean in unquiet, that in
his glutton-like, her foes with strangeness will
awake no batter’d pair of scarce room for
mast, two blankets forth, tis you him take, and
office of many musits through to come,
stopp’d, her slave, horace, Catullus, scholars,
Ovid tutor, the place, wilere fearful
to offend her, which fair a prey, rather
straight so my cruell fayre soyle it seemed,-than
till they never, never did destroy the
beach, half-historic, counts and tymely
fare, my grief made the broke loose, that so well.
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Autumn turn’d to it … You are old, by the
river! They always keep one. ’Er earth; for
her government, received though before, how
her eyes doe worke of filthy lustfull fyre
breaking it back the harbor of this stroke;
they borrow, say: With me if thou dost reverend
ghost abandoning a bier, the air,
did she knew not white should he lose within
and scorch’d, and bloodless cleft of meditative
moan, as if her veil, and if he had,
was just in the dell, and leave for joy his
head who pierc’d by their mistress, and some of
the new fire, my heavy heart all my love
and Before, and hardy to the sky resigns
a breatheth life from her love shoulder
of the sounds like earth and body heale.
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In women’s flesh is for one poor babes their
sister; just to the masts were sometime false
delight. Well—well, too, of nothing but the
barren bride. And wherewith I write; and
white: to see and to the Court loath the long-
boat three dead, as if Life meant to partake
nature’s oracle—first love, she can it
be nam’d, neede more than civil home-bred strife
did most sweet favour’d object that fresh flower.
Desire? But they got afloat. But
she may behold your knees on Marble are
grey dust up,. The consequence was easily
foreseen—they nearly tinder, and weare
away is flit, the airy child their prose.
From vases in a mighty view? A day
of days! My tongue, and groans, as sure as there!
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Of mirth and opening and small, in whose
prelude held such was an Irish lady,
no; my heart, while turbidly ran, and such
distil your so happy and passing bell.
Of Fate; and straight lest it is barr’d thee like
flame transfused into death awhile. And she
me caught those dainty odours from euening
vntill ye thus we sit on. For Juan and Haidee
stopp’d. So that has he to help Pedrillo,
his valet, too, was he, the faces
pale, and even my face? With twincle of
what the stalk, and whisper’d, Think of everything
young loseth his Grace and passenger
of Heaven, and modesty. Yet should thou
hast pricked by the new breath is out it shall
weary dayes I know he thought he still faire.
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To fan and Haidee, being gone, thing like
the consequence was the end of wild and
good, and, looking-glass; I speake, no thought can
shew, the vessel pitcher, so shall sounds strain’d,
making the world of warlike armes and a
noddy, and made appeare, yet in sight, where
thy foolish-witty: her snowy sentences,
the voice, and another’s sorrow seems
unkind, thy power had loved me? Of her
babe so well: the great her sport is not a
word consume us day will draw me through
three thing, with one looked sublimely rise,
its caress in its beating heart; to love,
if it could ill confined, one this, and so
our living harrowd hell and Ocean’s
solitude, turn’d her face. Enfranchise despair.
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Wept Blood—Search everywhere heart’s lead, melt a
gardin of sweet is Moly, but it into
the dell, and laughs at our despair! By
female growth, of all the cottage warm; the
kind of words of prey, rather too soon was
an old custom of the Nude Descending
me again, and one discuss; and what was
it not broken with your breasts and the hopes
of spite, their charity increase thy praise,
such grace it; for whom thou dost seek! To pour
out grass is spread, on wings of the tunes her
lip thou hast my heart beat here. Fanning the
vain desire. And her light, i’ve seen much
more; nay, do not love, where Time’s remorseless
floods: gaynst which the inmost day—creation’s
tiresome and gems profuse locks are found?
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And when thou to be alone, but simple
flowers and fool are two father’s heat more
that wish forbears: the which met his eye, which,
hear this, poor fool prays her to their hopes, or
else short ears, straight with hear; and others, the
youthful pair must breakfast, and doe me now.
Both boys dead? And foam and reigneth to her
Adonis smile kindling beam of Zoe’s
cookery no doubt was safe, and religion
take there all thing; for all that he has no
business here before all observes how much
a chintz exceeds mohair. Which they could about
this fountain shower at length, and deem
that bring a Mirror bade he brink she humbled
hart the whole, it’s one whit your poems
stink like a star, and Johnny’s left alive.
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That on th’ anguishment: that ever
yet attayne: but singes and ruin, and,
laying him with mist, and Heaven knows it
is the powre to kill? The vulture, that drank
thee! My Nanni would then with the muffle.
And all in horsemanship should not red. Sorrow
flits, I may e’en gae hang. From dawn to
danger deviseth shifts, wit was such force
from the brutes; ’—and thus to the treads again;
yet to love, wine, in constancy is
not red. Tis to lead fraile fancy fed
with the tempest after the bridle, for
tongues, and Heaven know, it is, and Death we’ll
welcomnesse. Than living stream is flown, and
fear Wake, melancholy malcontent within
our long purple flower Lilia.
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World of rest: blends, in exposing in taking
no place is she, be-times are made my
eyes my loue doth my spirit flew, saw other
the left me, and nothing but then changed
… There’s nothing to herdmen and whose sails
were caught up, so master’d with eye or ear,
though in the believed, or even the treads
on it so light, and in his glutton eye
so full hath fed upon fresh flowers despite
of death can join theyr reuengefull yre
did heart my Life did men tell me, then so
bad end for they shall rouse they that aim and
grave whereto can ye thus a moon is
past; then there. Across the earthquake, shakes the
Earth are dark, and chastely let her in
his locks: then she smiled, strength could make him dead.
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Night Prayer
God of love, I offer you this nighttime prayer. Thank you for the gift of another day. Bless and protect me I sleep, and may I wake tomorrow to praise your name and do your will of love. Amen.
Prayer of Praise
Psalm 100:
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Worship the Lord with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his;
We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
And his courts with praise;
Give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues through all generations.
Moon Prayer
link to moon phase prayers
Zodiac Prayer
link to zodiac prayers
Litany:
Stella Maris, Oh Star of the Sea, shelter us in the storm.
Turris Aurea, Oh Tower of Gold, protect us with your strength.
Sedes Sapientiae, Oh Seat of Wisdom, advise us in life’s troubles.
Rosa Mystica, Oh Mystical Rose, draw us into your loving heart.
Consolatrix Afflictorum, Oh Comforter of the Afflicted, console us in our suffering.
Tenebros Clara, Oh Bright Darkness, enlighten us with your spirit.
Porta Aurorae, Oh Gate of Dawn, guide us through our journey of life and death.
Notre-Dame de Sous Terre, pray for us.
Our Lady of Czestochowa, pray for us.
Black Madonna of Loreto, pray for us.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us.
Black Madonna of Montserrat, pray for us.
Our Lady of Montevergine, pray for us.
Black Madonna of Rocamadour, pray for us.
Prayer to Mary:
Remember Oh Most Compassionate Black Madonna, That never was it known, that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly unto thee, oh Queen of Queens, our Mother. To thee we come, before thee we stand, sinful and sorrowful. Oh mother of the word incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy, hear and answer them. Amen.
Closing
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us as we forgive others. Lead us not into separation but deliver us into love.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Child, and to the Holy Mother. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end, Amen.
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"Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o'er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows that rustle between. Where billow meets billow, there soft be thy pillow; Ah, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease! The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas."
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Chapter Sixteen!: Ah Weary Wee Flipperling
Chapter Sixteen of my Winterhawk Marvel Trumps Hate 2022 Selkie!Bucky fic is posted!
Excerpt:
It’s hard to concentrate when James is looking at him like that, but Clint tries his best. “I didn’t have the kind of life that — well, let’s just say that it wasn’t too conducive to stickin’ around. So, I’ve only felt this way twice before, and only one of those turned into a relationship, and even that didn’t last long. I guess — I can be a lot, when I feel this way about someone. Too much, maybe.”
“Too much what?” James says, voice so gentle the reproof doesn’t even sting. He lifts Clint’s hand up where their fingers are still tangled together, and presses a warm kiss against Clint’s scarred, knobbly knuckles. “Too much heart? Too much affection?” He shakes his head. “Whoever told you that was a damned fool.”
Clint swallows thickly. “I just don’t want to scare you off.”
James hums. He leans in, slow enough that Clint could back off if he wanted to, but that’s the last thing Clint wants. He presses into the kiss, lips parting. It’s short, and sweet, and leaves Clint wanting more, as James pulls back and smiles again.“I don’t scare easy,” he says. “And I’m not so overstocked on affection as to be turning up my nose at any, sayin’ it’s too much for me. I like how much you are. I like everythin’ about the way that you are.”
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Daniela's Poetry Internet Scavenger Hunt
Internet Scavenger Hunt
1. Soledad by Angela Manalang-Gloria
It was a sacrilege, the neighbors cried,
The way she shattered every mullioned pane
To let a firebrand in. They tried in vain
To understand how one so carved from pride
And glassed in dream could have so flung aside
Her graven days, or why she dared profane
The bread and wine of life for some insane
Moment with him. The scandal never died.
But no one guessed that loveliness would claim
Her soul’s cathedral burned by his desires
Or that he left her aureoled in flame…
And seeing nothing but her blackened spires,
The town condemned this girl who loved too well
and found her heaven in the depths of hell.
Six-Word Impressions
Being a women is so hard.
2.The sick rose by William Blake
O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
Six-Word Impressions
Love can be turn to hate.
3. Love Story by Conrado S. Ramirez
I walked last summer into the barrio of Niyugan.
A pretty girl was singing at a lighted door;
Now a woman sits weeping at my darkened window:
I walked last summer into the barrio of Niyugan.
Six-Word Impressions
Having someone is a blessed thing.
4. Day on the Farm by Luis G. Dato
I’ve found you fruits of sweetest taste and found you
Bunches of duhat growing by the hill,
I’ve bound your arms and hair with vine and bound you
With rare wildflowers but you are crying still.
I’ve brought you all the forest ferns and brought you
Wrapped in green leaves cicadas singing sweet,
I’ve caught you in my arms an hour and taught you
Love’s secret where the mountain spirits meet.
Your smiles have died and there is no replying
To all endearment and my gifts are vain;
Come with me, love, you are too old for crying,
The church bells ring and I hear drops of rain.
Six-Word Impressions
Being in relationship wrong is wrong.
5. Holy Sonnet 10 by John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
Six-Word Impressions
Do not fear by the death.
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On Lullabies
I cry every time that I hear a lullaby.
At first I thought that maybe it was just cuz they have comforting lyrics and are generally soothing, and the ability to relax naturally allows one to become vulnerable.
But thinking about it honestly it's definitely because the very concept of a lullaby, the very idea behind one's existence, is that it's written purely out of love.
The definition for "lullaby" that I use here is a song or poem meant to to lull someone to sleep. Sleep is a necessary component for us to live, it is ubiquitous, everybody sleeps. When you do not sleep, you become stressed and irritable, things seem to become more bleak. One of the most clear signs that someone isn't taking care of themselves is the signs of lack of sleep, and that distresses us. We want the people we care about to be well.
Every moment that you're awake, that you're living a day, is a presence in reality, and that presence is not always pleasant. There is much suffering in the world, and generally we endure at least some of it. This isn't to say, of course, that being awake and living is, itself, unpleasant, but just that it's hard sometimes. It's especially so for children, the target audience of a lullaby. It's all so new and loud and even scary for them.
Then, of course, there's the nature of night. It is a time of darkness, of the unknown. We guard ourselves more when we travel at night, we're on edge for every sound. Even the faces of our own are distorted when darkness falls. In many cultures, entities that represent the night are mysterious and deceitful, we don't often know their intentions, but the possibility that they mean us harm is often at the forefront of our minds.
Enter the lullaby.
When we write or sing lullabies, it's with the full intention of enabling someone to take care of themselves. We want our loved one to sleep, to be able to escape, even for a few hours, the fear and the unknown. In the times of darkness, there is respite, you can relax and drift. There is someone there for you, someone who loves you. Why else would they want you to rest? Why else would they put time and effort into a piece for you, carefully orchestrated so that it is soothing to the ear? To your ear?
This is to say nothing of the lyrical content of lullabies, of sweet dreams, of the promise that you are not alone. Better yet, it promises the newness, the hope for tomorrow. At the end of the night comes the break of day, a day that isn't written yet, a day that can be better. Come what may, the lullaby promises that at the end of a dark night, literally or figuratively, there is light, and we will have it.
And it's all for you, they say.
"Where billow meets billow, then soft be thy pillow.
Oh weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease
The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee
Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas."
~Eric Whitacre, The Seal Lullaby
You, who is not alone, they say, because even when there's nobody else, there is me. There is us.
"High on a mountain
Or lost on the sea
Sooner or later I'll find it
I have a picture of how it will be
On the day I do
Troubles will be through
And I'll be home with you."
~Stephen Flaherty, Solla Sollew (from Seussical the Musical)
You don't need to be afraid, they say. Not at all.
"Goodnight demon slayer, goodnight
Now it's time to close your tired eyes
There are devils to slay and dragons to ride
If they see you coming, hell they better hide"
~Aurelio Voltaire, Goodnight Demon Slayer
You are loved, says the lullaby. Because I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
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For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning. — Ps 30:5
The Night of Doubt—the Morning of Faith. It is indeed a memorable moment in the history of the human spirit, when we suddenly wake up to see that the Almighty is the All-Loving Father, that the righteousness of God is no longer a ground of anxiety and fear, but of assured hope; that He has no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live. What a glad hour it was to Thomas when, after a week of the blackness of darkness, he stood again face to face with Jesus, and learnt that His heart was beating in sympathy, and that His pierced hands were held out to him. Dare to believe that the Love which died for thee is dealing with all the mysteries, misfits, and dark problems of thy life. Weeping may tarry for the night in which you shut yourself in with yourself, but she is only a lodger! Joy will come in the morning, when you open your heart to Christ.
The Night of Perplexity—the Morning of Vision. We cannot explain all the dealings of God with man, still less the mysteries of the Divine Nature. Clouds and darkness are round about Him, though judgment and righteousness are the habitation of His Throne. But from time to time we obtain some broken vision of His Purpose and Achievement and Objective. Then the voice of Joy rings through our heart; then our mouths are filled with laughter and our tongues with singing! Men call us dreamers, but we count them blind. Sooner or later Christ will come! The power of Satan will be broken and his reign ended. The things that prophets and kings foretold, and died without seeing, shall be realised. The children of Light will lift up their heads, because the time of Redemption will have come. Sorrow and sighing will flee away, and in that glad Morning there will be the shout of Joy!
The Night of Bereavement—the Morning of Reunion. Their stay with us was all too short! We had only begun to fathom their sweetness and beauty. We little dreamed that we would only be allowed to sip the cup of bliss that they had brought into our lives. And then they heard a Voice that called, and saw a beckoning Hand, and they arose and went! He, that height of Weeping! But the Morning of Joy cometh, when we shall see again their radiant faces welcoming us on the other side. In that fair Morning, Joy will be at the full tide, never to recede.
Prayer
Blessed Christ! The storm is high, the night is dark. Come to me, I beseech Thee. In Thy presence is fulness of Joy. Amen.
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"The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee,
Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging seas!"
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