Blueberrywombat - Valkyriecain

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

This is apparently a hotter take than I thought but: hating on lawyers as a profession, calling them inherently dishonest etc. is politically reactionary. It discourages defendants from seeking legal counsel, puts forth the idea that it’s inherently suspicious to insist on seeing a lawyer before you answer police questioning (your constitutional right!) etc. which ultimately just benefits the state in making it easier for them to convict you. This is one of those things that “progressives” who were raised conservative often don’t realize is one of the parts of their parents’ worldview they should question more, but they should. Not only are lawyers not The Problem with “our system,” but having someone who is educated in the law whose job is to represent your interests in court — getting one regardless of your ability to pay, even! — is in fact one of the best parts of it.

Crowley watches him enter the lift and doesn't move. He watches and waits until he turns around, until the doors slide close, until the lift begins to rise higher and higher, until the blinding white light disappears.

Crowley waits until he is sure he is gone and won't be coming back.

It is the hardest thing he has ever done, and that includes clawing his way out of a pit of burning sulphur and suffering. The pain around his heart is the same: an aching pressure panicked and frozen as it tried to find a way to escape, to survive, just to be forced to face reality.

Living without heaven, without God, is doable, but living without him might kill him. Whatever is left of his soul is flowing apart like badly rotten fruit, covering his hands in foul black mould and dripping through his fingers in an attempt to follow him despite everything—even though the only way it can go, the only way he has always been able to go, is down.

Crowley drives away with his eyes clinging to the walls of the bookshop until they too disappear, and when he is confronted with his new reality (alone in the car, on the street, on earth, alone alone alone), he realises the hardest part is yet to come.

Living without him will be torture. Living with himself after letting him go will be torture.

Then again, Crowley thinks, breathing around the shape of his lips pressed against his own, so was loving him.

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Random fantasy/worldbuilding thing:

Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.

Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: "He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks." Which vaguely makes sense, but they're clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they're trying to say.

The thing is, in their own first language, there's a specific word for this kind of rock - one that outwardly seems to be a geode but it isn't one after all. This word is also commonly used as an insult, to describe a person who is charismatic, convincing and outwardly seems brilliantly smart, but is actually dumb as shit.