by any other name

        they looked at me like i was           - - -  w e a k  - - -                     but inside of me there were wars raging and i am strong                                        i am fighting ;   i am breathing ;  i am alive

                                            i am not giving up.

Fables  ► 147

"Oh heavens no. I’ve done the cheat on a faerie thing before. Only really gets the entire faerie world hating to you because apparently they are all related and Tink’s their fucking princess.  Either way, my point is, I’m divorced, have been for a long time and do you want to get something to eat some time?"

"That sounds like a great idea. Telling me what your name is might be one too."

"You don’t know anything about faeries until you’ve been married to one. Not that i would ever suggest going out and marrying a faerie. Dumb fucking idea and I would’ve never done it if not for extenuating circumstances. Dragons… Yeah, they are shit. But it’s better than dealing with the shifting form of the spirit of the magical realm itself changing everything about itself, even if it’s nice watching Joey panic."

"So correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what I'm picking up: you're married to a faerie but you're still going to flirt with some girl knowing completely well what faeries are like--and it even sounds like there's a big-scary involved? I mean I'm not really one to talk considering my track record, and I'm definitely not complaining, but just a little curious is all."

Fables #146 cover by Nimit Malavia, out 11/19/14

and i’ve tried to erase it, forget it, run, or fake it

"It’s like people thing it’s just a coincidence that bollocks like that Harry Potter and Peter Pan get written by Brit. This place is a magical cesspool. Well, not so much the country, but the area. Entire cities just pulling themselves up from the ground and moving north, dragons, dreams coming to life, more dragons. Fucking faeries. And all that on top of the usual shit I have to deal with. So, yeah, if I get a bit touchy it’s because I haven’t had proper sleep in years.”

"Look as far as I'm concerned, you're allowed to be grumpy. Faeries, they can be pretty rude. Dragons, they're assholes--a lot nicer when you turn them into ravens though. Mermaids, obscenely catty? Giant fuckin' spiders? Not a fan. I deal with those and more everyday, and I'd hate have to the other half of things my sister used to run, so I can really only imagine what it's like to deal with that shit on top of mundy government. People get testy, shit happens."

                                                       I was dying                                             to h e a r someone say

                                               That I did not need                                          to try so hard to be perfect                                  That i was enough and it was okay