we lived happily during the war
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'ava comes back gentle; ava comes back covered in blood.'
or: ava, joan of arc, the power of girl-gods & the in-betweens.
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- Part 1 of we lived happily during the war
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in which ava dreams of an angel who looks like beatrice, and experiences divine instruction.
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- Part 2 of we lived happily during the war
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a series of phone calls between ava & mother superion
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- Part 3 of we lived happily during the war
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'one hot afternoon the door rings and a girl rushes through, a little bit of a hurricane, and another follows, calm in the eye of a storm she seems both exasperated by and fond of at once.'
or: the kind, amused things a vintage shopkeeper & her wife in switzerland think of ava & beatrice.
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- Part 4 of we lived happily during the war
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you wish i'd seen the saint (you were before) by possibilist for unicyclehippo
Fandoms: Warrior Nun (TV)
17 Jan 2023
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'you are overcome, when you see yourself in the mirror; your soul, eternal longevity be damned, leaps: there you are. you do up an elegant pair of cufflinks and look at a reflection you have always wanted to know.
there you are.'
or: beatrice becomes herself.
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- Part 5 of we lived happily during the war
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'you read for a while, your heart caught in your throat and you have to pause, a prayer, when you read, 'nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.' the earth is here for you to become, and there is nothing wrong with you, and your wants. the earth wants, itself. all of it exists, with you; the worms and the wolves and the moss and the salt and the way your fingers warm, painful and red, at first, in the blast of the car heater, but then steady, the sting fading as you drive home.'
or: beatrice & the ways of nature & grace — an elegy
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- Part 6 of we lived happily during the war
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'you hold out your hands and wait for her to take both. there is something holy in her back, something that you had thought was the most sacred thing in the world until you met her. but there is something holier, consecrate, in the way she loves — beyond the highest order you have ever known. in the way she loves you all, and life, but especially in the way she loves beatrice, one of your favorite people in the world. she died for it. you know, in a way that makes you ache, she would do it again.
but the war is over. the war is over, and you have watched them both become.'
or: ava & beatrice, from those they love.
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- Part 7 of we lived happily during the war