The sequel to Ghost in the Wires (http://archiveofourown.org/works/327698) is on AO3 called You Can Always Go Home (http://archiveofourown.org/works/401430)
Hope you read and enjoy. Sorry I haven’t been around but my internet is wonky
sailaweigh replied to your post: *cries*
OMG, I loved that story! I can’t believe you wrote a sequel. Eeeeee!
Okay, so I guess it’s not so much a sequel as it is Tony’s side of Ghost in the Wires, but still. It’s done. I’m sending it to Beta number one now. Hopefully no snags come up and I’ll have it posted to both sites by next week. *crosses fingers*
I hope it’s as good as the first one and that you like it :D
I just finished this story. It is at 50,033 words. All I have to do is go through and change some things, send it to betas and then it is done!
OMG! I almost don’t know what to do with myself. I feel like crying tears of joy!!
If anyone has been looking to the follow up of Ghost in the Wires it will likely be up in a week and a half. Updates to come on the exact date.
*screams happily*
tomhiddlestonappreciationblog:
Why? Because reasons.
I’m in Newcastle, Australia.
I’m from Budapest, Hungary.
Hamburg, Germany
Kiel, Germany
Gdańsk, Poland
Berlin, Germany
Hitzacker, Germany
Baden-Württemberg, Germany… I’m sensing a pattern
^ Exact same location. THIS IS GETTING CREEPY lol
Cologne, Germany
Oklahoma, USA
^ DITTO!
I know there’s no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks. But I don’t care. I am me.
My name is Valerie. I don’t think i’ll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography that i’ll ever write, and – God – i’m writing it on toilet paper.
I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don’t remember much of those early years. But I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottlebrook, and she used to tell me that God was in the rain.
I passed my eleven plus, and went to a girl’s grammar. It was at school that I met my first girlfriend. Her name was Sarah. It was her wrists – they were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew.
Sarah did.
I didn’t.
In 2002 I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn’t have done it without Chris holding my hand.
My father wouldn’t look at me. He told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing.
I’d only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have.
It is the very last inch of us.
And within that inch, we are free.
I’d always known what i’d wanted to do with my life, and in 2015 I started my first film: The Salt Flats.
It was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed, I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again.
We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew scarlet carsons for me in our window box. And our place always smelt of roses.
Those were the best years of my life.
But America’s war grew worse and worse, and eventually came to London.
After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone.
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like “collateral” and “rendition” became frightening. When things like norsefire and the articles of allegiance became powerful. I remember how different became dangerous.
I still don’t understand it: why they hate us so much.
They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I’ve never cried so hard in my life. It wasn’t long until they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place.
But for three years I had roses – and apologised to no-one.
I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch.
But one.
An inch.
It is small and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I hope that - whoever you are - you escape this place. I hope that the world turns, and that things get better.
But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may not meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you: I love you.
With all my heart.
I love you.
-Valerie.TJIS SCENE
One of my favorite scenes in this film.
Excuse me while I sob
I need tissues. Lots of tissues!
Striped Icebergs
Icebergs sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of ice deposited on different conditions. Blue stripes are created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melted water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. Green stripes form when an iceberg falls into the sea and a layer of water rich in algae freezes onto the bottom. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
(Photos: Antarctica Series by Steve Nicol)
Iceberg stratigraphy reminds me that ice is our planet’s single weirdest mineral.
