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HOLY SHIT.

I can't believe it. I seriously just can't believe it. This is a very strange moment. And something I really really needed to write down. I think I'll remember it always. Dear God, I will!

If there's one word to describe what I'm feeling, how I'm feeling -how I suddenly start to shiver and I just break down and it just feels so good and ( Read more... )

Footnotes:

Okay, I go all over the place in Polish history so let’s start at the beginning. Please be kind enough to note any mistakes.

This may prove useful: http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/polish.html

-Beginnings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The marriage between King Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila ( ( Read more... )

X

He blinked and just as his eyes had become someone else’s on a train headed to nowhere seventy one years ago, Poland was suddenly coming out from frozen memories like water, stark cold that left him shivering. He looked down at his hands and the blood had dried and been washed away. It wasn’t 1956 anymore or 1989. There only was the green of ( Read more... )

IX

He was always cold.

The scars from the war hurt when it was too cold so he knew every time comrade Russia came to see him. He also knew when he suddenly felt chapped, cold lips kissing the back of his neck in a reassuring way. Of course, it was everything but reassuring. The feel of those large, invading hands coursing his body was the ( Read more... )

VII

Everyone was dead.

He could hardly move. His back was pressed against the crumbling walls of an old chapel. Just two days ago he had stood where Royal Castle had been, but now there was only smoke and rubble. The charred silhouette of a soldier blown by a grenade decorated the opposite wall in a grim spectacle. Poland grunted and ( Read more... )

VI

The dull light of the small tavern did little to brighten his spirits, although the musical performance on that tiny, improvised stage managed to steal a few laughs from several partisans. The performer was, in one word: extravagant. Poland spared him a glance and wondered just where the hell he had managed to get all that makeup when even ( Read more... )

I

The silence that suddenly filled the room was just as deadly as the motion of Lithuania voluntarily strangling himself with the Christmas lights. It hanged like a cloud of mustard gas, uncharacteristically grey as it distilled answers from questions best left unmade. Just as the one he had just given voice to.

Across the room Poland’s ( Read more... )

Stolen from Hallie's journal...

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard ( Read more... )