Atoms and Void

Stories stall when everyone behaves. Real tension appears when someone:

• asks the wrong question • says something they shouldn’t • notices something uncomfortable • refuses to drop the topic • misunderstands something important • interrupts at the worst moment

They want something REALLY REALLY REALLY bad, but for some reason they can't ask for it -- or can't have it even if they did ask.

They don't notice something that the audience HAS noticed (like in a horror movie when the monster is sneaking up behind the protagonist, or if someone drinks a glass of unboiled water during a cholera outbreak because they don't know about germ theory)

Takes a risk (or otherwise does something they "shouldn't" do) which the audience has to sit through for a prolongued period of time (e.g. slips away from the party to go into the host's private office and rifle through their papers before the guards catch them)

i live here

im a person

its okay to make noise

youre allowed to go outside

sleep is a right not a privilege

you arent rocking the boat

“Nobody will kill two kittens in front of me then.”

Determined to demonstrate her femininity as a page to prove a sociopolitical point at age 10

“When I see anyone big pick on someone small, well, there’s going to be a fight.”

“I would have done over the whole four years.”

Aroace icon (and therefore no uncomfortable age/power gap romance) 😌

(sees any form of bullying) “This is wrong.”

Calls out Jonathan’s BS even though she follows him without a word because she’s…

Profoundly and fundamentally loyal

Several whole books of Raoul dodging social obligations and being the best knight-master hey don’t have SEX WITH YOUR SQUIRE Jonathan when I get you

Raoul to Wyldon: ‘Why the FUCK did you think she wouldn’t go after the refugees, you dumbass? You should have chained her to her horse.’

glaives are sick as hell

intentionally suffered every possible horrible fear the Chamber of the Ordeal could put her through week after week out of sheer determination to face her terror

fighting style of choice: ‘whatever. go my birds plus dog’

“I had time to run home and pack a bag and get to the beach where the boats were waiting,” said a member of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation (Collins). “We literally had minutes to get on the boats and flee before it took our town. “Once we left my house finally after packing what I could in a pack sack, the fire was right behind our place. We had to run to the beach and once we got there, it was only moments before the fire had jumped over the (train) track and was coming for us.”

it has since been confirmed that namaygoosisagagun first nation has completely burnt to the ground. if you would like to help the community navigate an ongoing crisis, i urge you to donate to the anishinabek nation 7th generation, a registered charity seeking to improve the lives of first nations people. donations are going directly to members of namaygoosisagagun first nation.