a very quiet fiend

night at the bus stop

02.13.2001 🎉 Happy Birthday, Hudson Williams!

"Then, miraculously, early in the morning, there’s this ray of sunlight appearing on this wall in front of him. And it falls through the little tree in front of the window. There is this play of leaves and sunlight and shadows moving, and he looks at it and stares at it and he starts crying, because he’s never seen anything so beautiful. He probably has seen it, but he hasn’t noticed. Then he realizes that’s the answer to his existential crisis, to become somebody who notices that."

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an oregon forest chrome postcard postmarked sept 9th, 1969

He's worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

It's Old May Day, and as promised, here's the Four of Pentacles from the never-completed Tarot deck, Mordred at the end of the Battle of Camlann (he is described at the end of Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, as "leaning on his sword among a great heap of dead men"). Discerning readers of The Lion Hunters will recognize his physical depiction here as matching that of Medraut, and the VERY discerning among you will guess, or be entertained to know, that he is intentionally standing here among a great heap of dead Lleus. I am struggling a bit to remember who they all are. I *think* the one with his arm over the rock is Gwyn from Alan Garner's The Owl Service. The one with the flowing golden locks is certainly Lleu Llaw Gyffes of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion. I *think* that the one on the right is an early gender-fluid boy-magician character of mine named Lleu Enle, and the shiny-haired guy in the lower left is Lleu ap Artos. I also have always felt that they might not actually be dead, but posing. Lleu Llaw Gyffes just doesn't look like he's taking this seriously. Happy birthday, my marksman!

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SHANE & ILYA + parallels

Philippa/The Narrative ... Philippa Somerville narration is HERE and she is making plot relevant decisions! And she also lives of course, wow everyone here is doing really great for a Lymond book. She's also the best.

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