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i think if you include all the fan fiction i read this year, i did meat my reading goal sooooooo

im gonna be sick

tuatara mention!! maybe dr. arnold did teach me something because i did list three of the facts this zoologist said prior to flipping the page!

icarus mention and im shedding tears

this is infuriating

team? i think we’re cooked.

“We are like damp wood that won’t light.”

“Patroclus. I have given enough to them. I will not give them this.”

“She was shivering, like something just born. Always before, her hurts had been small, and there had been someone to offer her comfort. Now there was only this room, the bare walls and single chair, the closet of her grief.”

“I listened and did not speak. Achilles' eyes were bright in the firelight, his face drawn sharply by the flickering shadows. I would know it in dark or disguise, I told myself. I would know it even in madness.”

this writing is so genuinely stunning.

honestly? i love them and im laughing and i like their time line a lot.

immediately no and im sobbing

so! close! people use your brains!!

“All of these things had been stored away for her to pass along someday, relics to be carried up the branches of the family tree. But the family tree stopped growing long ago, its canopy thinned and frayed, not a single sap springing from the old rotting trunk. Some trees aren't meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”

this feels incredibly sad.

ugh i never want to go to an aquarium again

starting to wonder when the octopus and old lady will kiss