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That was the logical choice, right? He 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 her to. He gave her the out, made it clear what she was in for if she stayed. He even tried to make a joke out of it, like that would scare her off.

Stephanie wanted to joke.

The quip was right there—𝘰𝘩 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘬𝘦, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳—but the words get tangled up somewhere in her throat, stuck behind the weight of 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.

@angelus-tenebrae

Timaeus looked around able to hear the beasts voice but where was it coming from.

Hope.It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping her afloat. His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. There was a place of safety contoured around his body like this. Annie may have been the only person he allowed to touch him or share this, but she would still feel herself asking every once in a while. Kissing and touching the places of true reverence. No lover would kiss the space on his forehead with the care and adoration he deserved for the beautiful soul he was. She felt broken open and stuffed with sunshine. They were alone in the expanse of the victor houses were secrecy, snow, and Panem could be forgotten. A soft laugh bubbling from the gates of her lips. There had been a reason why Mags had announced her journey back to her own house for a nap. Telling him to stay off the sugar while she was gone before he ruined his meal. This little awkward found family with which they had created from the brokenness and death winning a game had created. Finn wasn’t just beautiful. He was art and art made you feel something. “my sister Cora and I used to bake all the time though I would be hopeless were this is concerned even as the daughter of a fisherman. Maybe we can teach eachother. Break up the days until- the days between us. It smells almost as good as you. But the sentiment is like a kiss to my heart and definitely better than that punny poetry with which I woke too.”

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“Sister,” Kol teased with amused outrage. He loved his sister dearly even if she could be as annoying as a mule. It did help that teasing her only gave him the danger of a slight death than a dagger through the heart or a lecture from Elijah. A tsking sound passed the gates of his lips as bright eyes flashed. “It is not I who seems to wear scandal like a pink robe. A real wonder why the mortals of the town fear Nik instead of your feminine prowess. Not that I mind. I have taken up the bennet witch as my sort of conquest. She might be more useful than the quarterback if necessary. Alcohol is not my begrudging point. It’s more your taste in such a thing especially if the point is to drown out the diaster that is our family. Yet, you always were the romantic. I happen to have gotten multiple lives this morning. Nurses really aren’t as smart as they would have you think. Haven’t you learned from Elijah that it is dress to impress? Not all of us can lounge about in yesterdays outfits.”

@hiimyami Old but still wanted to address it....cause it was in my drafts and forgot to publish it XP (I’m referring to this post, btw engame spoilers the post that linked). Not sure if the “not only this” was pointed at me or at the other comment. (under the cut cause implied spoilers I guess)

Uh in Alone at Sea she smacks Steven across a boat and literally says "I'll shatter you" BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT STEVEN WAS THE REASON LAPIS WOULD NOT FUSE. Lapis wanted to go home, and yes she had made mistakes so she could get home. She was trapped in a mirror for 5,000 YEARS by the Crytal Gems, she's not going to exactly be happy to see them and she didn't understand what they were doing or what she was doing. Peridot was trying survive, she thought the gems were going to shatter her. She didn't know their intentions until Steven actually tried talking to her. She was still scared though, she even though they were going to harvest her. Jasper is not even following orders, she has no way to even get in contact with YD anymore. She is doing this on her own. I don't care if that's what she was made to do, Ruby was made to only guard and Sapphire was basically just an oracle, Pearl was nothing but a servant, and Amethyst was supposed to be like Jasper, and in Crack the Whip,we see she isn't

So first of all I’m gonna get this out of the way. You do realize that post was talking about before Alone at Sea, right? Like it quite obviously meant way before Alone at Sea. Next I’d also like to say I’ve never condoned Jasper’s violent actions and in fact hold her accountable as I do any character on this show because none of them are perfect angels, not even Steven. He’s still a child and has and will make mistakes. Now onto the rant onto my next point:

Okay so trying to kill people because want to go home is a mistake?? It’s understandably a crime of passion but definitely not a mistake. I was hurt and abused before but lashing out at others who didn’t cause me pain is not an excuse. She may now acknowledge she has done wrong but Lapis is far from perfect. She hasn’t apologized to anyone for her actions at all. She is not the only victim when it comes to Malachite. She CHOSE to become Malachite. Jasper may have been pushy and attempted to coerce her into it but she asked both times. Lapis had a choice and chose to trick Jasper and trap her under the ocean for MONTHS on end. Let’s be quite honest, Jasper had been defeated and there was a whole ocean for Lapis to use right there on the shore. You can pull the whole “She was trying to protect Steven” card if you’d like but she had manipulated the situation and trapped Jasper in this instance and admitted to doing so. Jasper had a clear objective, and it was to fuse in order to defeat the Crystal Gems point blank. Lapis doing what she did is not excusable. You don’t just abuse your abuser, you can use self-defense if needed but abusing someone because they abused you isn’t right. Two wrongs DO NOT make a right. Peridot is admittedly more forgivable in that she was in fact trying to survive (which is why Jasper was brought along in the first place) but again she still tried to kill him before being trapped on Earth unless you forgot and has said some nasty things because of her upbringing though she has apologized for it now that she has learned but Lapis has not, there is literally no excuse for not apologizing after all this time. Pretty sure if she broke my father’s leg, his car, and tried to drown me and my best friend I would feel some type of way about it so she’s lucky that Steven and Greg are so forgiving.

Jasper was following orders but at this point in time is trapped on Earth like Lapis and Peridot however she’s going to be harder to reach out to since she’s not like the original two, she’s more intimidating and was made to fight. She is a war veteran who is indoctrinated into Homeworld ideology much longer than Peridot. Lapis likely has forgotten most of those prejudices after being locked in a mirror for thousands of years, those teachings don’t matter anymore now that she’s free and lives on Earth. Peridot was easy to redeem because she is young and logically she felt that Yellow Diamond wrong that and she is less intimidating threat who was made to do maintenance. Ruby and Sapphire had to unlearn Homeworld’s way of thinking because they were forced to and they had thousands of years to figure out. And so on and so forth with the other Crystal gems with the exception of Amethyst. We know next to nothing about Jasper’s background, hell we only know so much about Rose and Pearl besides what’s told by Greg or let loose by one of the Gems. I just want people to stop acting like both Peridot and Lapis are so innocent because Steven just said in the most recent episode and I quote: 

“Usually when I meet a new gem they try to kill me and it takes forever to be friends with them.” Jasper is doing what the other gems have done now that they live on Earth, they reverted to what they were intended to be made for and eventually over time became something more. Jasper, if she gets a redemption arc, is going to be the same and it’ll take a lot more time than Lapis and Peridot because she is different from them with a different experience obviously.

I outdid you (like an idiot) I thought 2am, sounds good. Bed time in a minute. But, needed to iron a shirt, take a shower, dry out, shave. 3.15 got to bed. Oh dear. Haha