who has a voice like smarty does

[marketchippie]

Making a proper entry (what is life? baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more) (fairly accurate, honestly, as it's the midst of finals ALSO SORRY BUT I'M GOING TO TALK YOUR EAR OFF ABOUT THE LAST EP OF THAT FAIRYTALE SHOW, LOLLLLL HELP), but til then? A meme. I quite like this one.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you between

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[miss_mishi]

The one where the huntsman brings the queen a wolf pelt and a red cloak

[marketchippie]

THE PATH OF NEEDLES

Oh, she passes the law, of course. She is in a position to grant concessions. (Doesn't he understand: she's giving him everything he's ever wanted. She will rend his desires from under his skin, if she must, but she will grant them.) Yet first she sends him to the woods on his own, an axe in his hand rather than a sword, one last time. (Doesn't he understand: she's making him into everything he's ever wished to be.)

He looks at her from beneath heavy, betrayed lids, face drawn in shadows, before he goes. The look tugs at her from within and she snarls, parting her mouth to bite an ivory crescent into the rouged surface of her lower lip. She strokes his face and feels muscles twitch under the path of her fingers. He does not jerk away. Knows better, perhaps, but still he glares and she wonders if he knows anything at all. Die, then, she thinks, if you are so keen to foresake me. Die for your honor if you hold it so dear.

She does not say any such thing. She says: "Bring me its pelt when you return." When, she

[jezibabas]

fjdkalfjdla tears at this beauty

[mareeana]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT ISABEL, HOW? dfkjgdlfkjgdklfjg She has the sound of his heart to keep her company.

Crying at this whole perfection tbh.

[marketchippie]

"We ought to get a car. Go to California."

Shit, he's read Kerouac already, read it dog-eared, thinks what's left but following Jack, that path's nothing new. Yeah, maybe he's a little piqued she picked up the idea first, but still: "What the hell d'you want to leave the city for?" he asks, "it's all happening here," and she blows smoke all the way up to the rafters in a long slow stream. In the corner of their tiny apartment the radiator whuffs out another breath of lukewarm air.

"Can't stand the cold. What's a girl have to do to get a little heat around here?"

[miss_mishi]

the one where marya morevna steals koschei from the land of viy (of course because now I am obsessed)