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Filip Joelsson
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Filip Joelsson
@filiphazardous
Trebarnsfar, feminist, webbprogrammerare, fd grönt kommunalråd för MP i Värmdö, frikyrkopastor och så mycket mer. @[email protected]
Värmdö Katılım Ekim 2013
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This isn’t your forest. The ground is rocky, as though the trees burst up through some giant slab of granite. You don’t recognize the birdsong, or the patches of darkness swimming through the undergrowth. You hear music from what you think is north, water to the south.
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@QuietPineTrees Elegy puts her forehead to yours, and wraps her arms around your waist. “We’ll get time alone eventually.”
“I know,” you answer.
“I was talking to myself, love,” she says with a grin.
You turn to the stranger watching you. His body looks waxy, but he doesn’t seem to be a locus.
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@QuietPineTrees Together, you and Elegy gently surface and inhale the cool cave air. Elegy laughs, but you spot a few tears falling down to the cave floor rather than up into the lake.
“I love you,” she says softly.
“Oh!” a voice says nearby.
Elegy’s smile disappears. She groans in frustration.
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@QuietPineTrees In the dim glow of the cave, nothing is brighter than Elegy’s smile. In it you see the same joy overflowing in your chest, but also unmistakable relief.
This next step in your relationship has clearly been weighing on her mind, and she is thrilled to be in undiscovered territory.
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@QuietPineTrees You’ve kissed Elegy before, on the cheek or the hand, ever mindful of how she feels about being watched. She’s done the same with you, many times more.
But here, at last, is a moment truly alone. You finally share a real kiss, one of passion and history and unhesitating love.
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@QuietPineTrees You doff your outer clothes, take Elegy’s hand, and jump up into High Lake. You feel calm as the water shields your mind from outside magic.
Elegy looks at you, serene and ethereal. This is the first time since Lakebed the two of you have been together outside her father’s sight.
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@QuietPineTrees Elegy pushes her arms into the warm water. She jumps in, the splash behind her falling upward, back into the antigravity lake.
The water is clean, but lit from below, so you can’t see more than a few inches deep.
Elegy reappears, upside down and smiling. She reaches out a hand.
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@QuietPineTrees You admire the lake’s glassy surface. The cave is at the base of a mountain, so there’s no telling how deep the water is. Pale fish swim near the surface.
A few wooden ladders lead up to the water’s edge. Elegy grows a lotus leaf robe, sheds her cattail coat, and starts to climb.
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@QuietPineTrees She smiles. “If it is, the only way to know is to see it myself.” She walks into the clouds, pulling your hand along.
In the humid heat of the cave, the glowing soul mushrooms are reflected on the surface of High Lake… above you. The lake is inverted, like the ocean in the sky.
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@bjrnr_rsvk @onlmaps Yes, and no. It has a special international status. It is governed by Norway, but Norway does not have sovereign authority over it. (Anyone can establish an outpost there, without Norwegian permission.) If there's a Lidl on the Russian base in Svalbard, it wouldn't be in Norway?
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Today’s poll is live.
I’m very sick, so I apologize if the polls turn up late at any point in the next week. Don’t worry, I’ll survive.
Fireflies@ForestOfWhales
@QuietPineTrees “Ask?” he replies. “You’re in it!” You look around. You see the black water and starry sky are actually a cave, lit by creatures and fungi. “You’re master of caves,” you say. “I thought such hidden places belonged to Hush Count.” The Echo King nods. “So you’ve met my coward son.”
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@crow_artist We have almost all of these in Sweden too. The one I'm missing is the Bullfinch, isn't that common in UK?
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Get ready for #BigGardenBirdWatch next weekend! Or Big garden bird draw! Lets draw a bird that is regularly seen in your garden! Here is my ID chart featuring the most common ones!
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@ForestOfWhales Give us a nice length of rope, and we'll do the rest! 😆
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What.
Fireflies@ForestOfWhales
@QuietPineTrees Pollux turns to you. He dons a pair of complex spectacles, an archipelago of gold-framed lenses set upon his compound eyes. “From your boldness, I assume you are the puppet master here.” You, Feldspar, Elegy, and Nerii all laugh. The mayor is not amused. “If not you, then whom?”
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@ForestOfWhales The thing that makes me worry is: Have we finished dealing with the previous couple of ties yet? (Heck, have we finished dealing with the consequences of the Ash prince ties yet!?)
Part of the charm is now knowing if we're or if the woods, metaphorically speaking, and yet...
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You don’t want these two to tie.
Fireflies@ForestOfWhales
@QuietPineTrees “NERII!” you shout over the rushing wind. “SPYGLASS!” She carefully reaches into her bag and hands you the telescope. Through the treetops, you examine Ooavoo nose to tail. Sure enough, something catches your eye. A yellow flame burns under the shell, just above the left wing.
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@ForestOfWhales I kinda thought something like that happened, but the opportunity was too good for me not to take it! 😀
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@filiphazardous Oops! Sorry. I like to write up sarcastic tweets to laugh at later, and save them in my drafts. I didn’t mean to share that one.
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