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This bright, new day, complete with 24 hours of opportunities, choices and attitudes … a perfectly matched set of 1440 minutes. This unique gift, this one day, cannot be exchanged, replaced or refunded. Handle with care. Make the most of it. There is only one to a customer.

Thomas Benjamin Swale, 1947-2018 (via dduane)

I am so sorry.  I really enjoyed listening to your stories of him and the things he taught you at Crossingscon. He sounded like an amazing person.

This is amazing and I love it.

cinderella: redo

so i was watching cinderella while doing my nails and waiting for them to dry which was clearly a Mistake because now i can’t help but think -

the evil stepmother was always evil, okay. say her abuse of her own daughters was different than that of cinderella’s - but it was still abuse. giving them impossible expectations, telling them they were never good enough, never pretty enough, never smart enough. and then she gets married, and anastasia and drizella are ecstatic because this man seems kind and warm and maybe just maybe he can temper their mother, maybe with him around she won’t be so cruel. so they’re on their very best behavior in the beginning, they do just as their mother taught - they trot out their best upper court manners in an attempt to get their new stepfather to like them. but it just comes off as cold and snooty and they’re trying, they are, they’re just bad at it. and they see how he is with cinderella, the smiling girl their own age, and they are jealous. they don’t mean to be, they try not to be, they know it isn’t becoming of young ladies. but she gets hugs and kisses and affection and they get rulers slapped on their hands when they reach for desert and sharp jabs to their sides when they slouch and - soon they hate cinderella, not for anything she’s done, but for what she has and they dont

but then her father dies. and it’s all a tumble of things and cinderella is crying and they’ve lost their only chance at escaping their mother’s clutches and it’s terrible. and everything settles and there’s no reason to be jealous anymore but resentment is hard to let go of and they don’t know what to do. they’re only kids too after all. and they’re so terribly bad at comforting people, they can do flowery words and know all the right bows but cinderella is so sad and they just don’t know what to do with that, because they’re supposed to be sisters but they’re not even friends

and slowly but surely their mother starts abusing cinderella, starts making her a maid in her own home, and she’s their mother, what are anastasia and drizella supposed to do? she rules them with an iron fist, and cinderella doesn’t even like them anyway, it’s none of their business.

except one night anastasia crawls into her sister’s bed in the middle of the night and wakes her up. “i was thirsty,” she explains, eyes wide and shiny, and they’re bad at this with other people but drizella has no problems with pulling anastasia into her arms. the younger girl clutches her sister and continues, “i was thirsty and i went down to the kitchen to get some water and - and cinderella is still up! she’s doing the dishes, and she should be asleep, mom is going to make her make breakfast in the morning and -” she cuts herself off with a hiccup and whispers, “it’s not fair.”

“life isn’t fair,” drizella says, echoing one of their mother’s favorite phrases. but her sister is staring at her with wet eyes, and it’s not like their mother is likely to get up before sunrise anyway, she hates waking up, so she pulls herself and anastasia out of bed and off they go.

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Jem: Don’t overreact.

Will, lying at the bottom of a self-dug grave and shoveling dirt unto himself: I’m not.

Ldyenki reads Anger is a Gift (Intro)

For those of you who don’t know, Mark Oshiro of Mark Reads wrote a YA contemporary fiction book called Anger is a Gift.  It came out in May.  I have been following Mark Reads since he was announced as a gust of honor at the first Crossingscon, and I very quickly went from puzzled ‘what is this, he does what?’ to ‘this is the most amazing idea ever.’  So I was very excited for the release of his first book and have been recommending it to everyone I know.

I decided that I would try to follow Mark’s style and read one chapter at a time, pausing after each to write down my thoughts without being influenced by knowing what happens next.  I will be posting what I wrote here, a few chapters at a time and if anyone wants to discuss this book with me I would love to talk about it.

There will be Spoilers.  If you do not want to be spoiled I will tag everything with ‘Ldyenki reads Anger is a Gift’.  I hope you will come along this journey with me.

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