#bngifs

"After completing that backlog of over 17 million pieces of mail in 90 days, our performance impressed leadership so much, they sent us on to Rouen, France, where we cleared another backlog in record time. It was a lot of work, a lot of sadness. No one thanked us for our service or included us in the ticket-tape parade. Our hard work and selfless service was not recognized. We were treated better in Europe than we were when we returned back to the United States. That is, until now. People are starting to recognize us and what we did. We were even given the Congressional Gold Medal for our service. Isn't that something?"

Maester Norren writes that "the prince and his bastard girl" supped together every night, broke their fast together every morning, slept in adjoining bedchambers, that the prince "doted upon the brown girl as a man might dote upon his daughter," instructing her in "common courtesies" and how to dress and sit and brush her hair, that he made gifts to her of "an ivory-handled hairbrush, a silvered looking glass, a cloak of rich brown velvet bordered in satin, a pair of riding boots of leather soft as butter." The prince taught the girl to wash, Norren says, and the maidservants who fetched their bath water said he oft shared a tub with her, "soaping her back or washing the dragon stink from her hair, both of them as naked as their namedays."

Birdflash // Blue Neighbourhood ȯ 5/15

The Quiet

Sammie and Pearline watching the other preforming

Jack O'Connell as Remmick

“Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.” -Maya Angelou