Day 1- My love for you is true, I swear it is, it will just kill you in the end
I have been doing a writing challenge on AO3 this past week, and decided to begin cross-posting it. Basically I have to write everyday.
AO3 link to chapter one- here
Next part on tumblr- here
Word count- 700 words
It was through heavy research that Edwin had found the potion in the first place.
It was not too complex to make, however some of the ingredients tended to be pricier than the agency could afford, so Edwin did try to keep its usage to a minimum. It was a handy little potion though, capable of temporarily increasing one’s level of magical energy so they could do more demanding spells without easily tiring. It was a vital potion, one that meant the two of them could take more difficult magical cases with less worry.
It was helpful that Edwin quite enjoyed the taste as well. The side effects were minimal, even if what they did to him were things he kept from Charles.
What if I was wrong by never moving on I-
The idea came about because of Crystal.
It would be wrong to believe that there had never been music in the office, Charles and Edwin loved to dance, when there was a lull between cases and no desire to explore, the two would often set a record on the ancient victrola they had acquired and dance. Edwin loved music, in a way he couldn’t find himself to while listening to waltz music, or while playing the violin or piano. Charles’ music was upbeat and loud and, in your face, it was amazing.
Charles was amazing
Crystal had been using the office to study in, something she had begun to do shortly after they came back to London from Port Townsend. Edwin, despite his desire to, hadn’t pushed the issue. She at least kept quiet and wasn’t too much of an annoyance beyond moaning about her schoolwork.
For the past century Edwin had not had to worry about schoolwork, but with the Night Nurse’s new demands for a paper trail in their cases, it could be said he understood the sentiment.
The idea came from Crystal though, while she had been studying for one of her many exams, she had begun to hum a small tune, followed by whatever equation or series of names for hierarchies that she had to remember with a tempo and rhythm that resembled a song.
It was quite easy to take the idea from that.
Edwin had always hated how much he relied on his texts for his magic, how burdensome it could be for Charles to ensure he had the most important books safely stored away in his backpack for their cases. As evident by their encounter with the World War One ghost, then everything in Port Townsend, Edwin should not rely solely on Charles to keep them safe.
So much was changing so quickly.
So, it was easy, to translate the idea from Crystal into practice. He had always been musically gifted, always finding small ways to incorporate music into his life and style, steps and movements following an unheard tempo that had branded him a Mary-Ann.
Still, it reminded him of the first time he successfully cast a spell, when he had gotten through the tune and a small flame appeared at his fingertips. Emotions flooded through him, relief being chief among them. He wasn’t sure it’d work.
It wasn’t what Charles meant, when he asked him to learn how to defend himself, but it was close enough, wasn’t it? Not having to rely on texts that could get ruined or lost or, any number of things really. It had to be enough, to show Charles that he listened to him when he spoke. Charles was probably the only person who Edwin would willingly listen to at any rate, a fact that the other boy somehow failed to notice.
Edwin would protect Charles, and Charles would protect him.
Crystal and Charles were getting closer, and sometimes, maybe, Edwin worried that he was keeping Charles from his afterlife, or even just, where he truly wanted to be.
There is no one else, no one else, I would go to Hell for.
He should not have been so naïve as to believe his confession would change nothing at the agency.
Edwin also, perhaps, couldn’t help but wonder if he should have stayed in Hell, if that would have freed Charles to his.
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there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try
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fun fact about me: When I was 6 years old I sent so much hate mail to the president (the second Bush) that the mail carrier had to tell my mom I needed to stop before we got FBI’d
I was COMPLETELY unaware of the US political scene or why the adults in my life hated Bush, but I knew I hated him because he let people shoot wolves from helicopters and that’s mean and shitty
I also had a poor grasp on how stamps worked, so given that I wasn’t allowed to continually throw money away by putting stamps on my presidential hate mail, a lot of the times I just drew squares with little pictures inside on the corner.
Love, love, love reading more proof that everyone should encourage the children in their lives to write to elected officials--it teaches them about citizenship and can also be very funny.
When I taught second grade, one of the options for students who had finished their work was to write a letter to the president. I would send all of the letters in a big envelope at the end of every month.
Watching my students get more and more frustrated with him (and concerned about his wellbeing) was not the result I'd hoped for when I came up with the idea, but it was kind of hilarious.
See, Obama had a standard packet with information and activities about his dog he'd send in response to letters from very young citizens...and of course his office sent one back to our class every single time we sent mail.
So eventually all of the letters looked something like this:
Dear President Obama,
I am writing about the environment. I am sad that the Great Barrier Reef is hurt. Also the Amazon Rainforest. Can you help? PLEASE DON'T WRITE BACK TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DOG AGAIN. WE ALREADY KNOW ALL ABOUT BO. WE COMPLETED THE MAZE AND COLORED HIM IN. It is good that you love your pet a lot. But try to remember the environment. It is also important.
ladies… has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine 🩷 i’m sure no one has ever ever ever reinforced this deeply held secret, that’s it’s okay for you to be feminine. 🩷 i know the world totally tries to tell you that you have to be manly and masculine and grow your body hair and eat as much as you want and get strong and stand up for yourself and make waves and take up space and show your bare face and show your anger. but it’s okay to do the exact opposite actually. 🩷 it’s okay to shrink yourself down to the exact same mold every other woman is expected to conform to. 🩷 did you know that it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 did you know it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 has anyone ever told you it’s okay to be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you be feminine. 🩷 will you just be feminine already. 🩷🩷🩷
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For @emryses from their one fic about Charles and Edwin getting cursed to stay close or get ill 💖 I saw the afterword and had to draw the image in my head.
But when I say the “wholesome and funny” YouTube short I have been handed of students surprise showing their teachers 10+ year old photos of themselves and most them were emo/goth in some way and every single one now has medium brown beach waves and is wearing head to toe beige and immediately screams and hides the photo like it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world is a hallmark of a deeply insidious tendency to associate socially acceptable WASPy aesthetics with maturity and responsibility and perpetuates the idea that everyone grows up, “gets right” and becomes the most digestible unobtrusive heterosexual I’m “taking it too seriously”
“It’s not that serious” oh but it issssss because every day we perpetuate the idea that non-conformity of any kind to the white straight middle class standard is inherently immature and gets “left behind” when someone becomes a socially acceptable adult
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remember when websites were written on purpose, and not generated by autocomplete in the instant you run the web search? anyway, unrelated, this webpage purporting to relay expert knowledge on which plants are safe for my snake's tank just told me I would know if he was biting them and getting irritated because he would start pawing at his mouth.
