love:
The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.
love:
The Lovers of Valdaro, discovered by archaeologists at a tomb in San Giorgio near Mantua, Italy. The couple have been holding one another for 6,000 years.
The Librarians: A Christmas Carol AU
Flynn Carsen is a Librarian, and to those who know him, he has a reputation for being miserable, cold-hearted and mean. He even treats his mentors, Judson and Charlene, awfully, who attribute his attitude to his ten years working alone. He’s cross, closed-off, and refuses to focus on anything but his work, despite Charlene and Judson’s urging for him to go on a vacation or make some friends.
One Christmas Eve night, Flynn is visited by three spirits. Each of them tell him that it is there job to show him the error of his ways, bring him to the spirit of love and Christmas, and to save him from his own tragic fate, should he not change his ways.
First comes Ezekeil, the ghost of Christmas past. He takes Flynn to see his Christmases as child. He’d enjoy them, but when family came over, he’d shut himself in his room with his books and his learning. As he grew older, this left him lonely with no close ties to any of his relatives, which left him destitute when his mother died. Worst of all, the spirit showed him how he fell in love with his once thought soulmate, Katie, who left him because he was too lost in his work to spend any real time with her.
Then came Jake, the ghost of Christmas present. Jake took Flynn around the world, to see families everywhere celebrating Christmas. He showed him how beautiful life really was when Santa restored the good will. how healing Christmas was. He showed him how people needed each other, and how all kinds of people built families with each other.
Finally he was left to meet Cassandra, the ghost of Christmas yet to come. She showed him his future, and the future of the Library, if he did not change his heart. He saw himself dying alone, and the Library trashed, dying and lacking in spirit.
Flynn wakes up the next morning and it’s Christmas. With a new spirit in his heart, he pulls out the Library’s old Christmas decorations and decks it from head to toe, complete with a tree and garland all over. He even invites Charlene and Judson over to his apartment for Christmas dinner.
That night, he gets sent on a case. He meets Eve Baird,the girl born on Christmas Eve, and the Library chooses her to be his guardian. They quickly fall in love, only this time, he’s determined not to lose her to his stubbornness. They find out about three potential Librarians who are in danger and bring them to the Library. Flynn dubs them the “:Librarians in Training” and brings them into his life, and his own little family. And when he looks them in the eyes, he is taken aback to see the faces of the three spirits who brought his heart to newfound light on Christmas Eve.
spirited away + water– there’s so much water it looks like the ocean
– well what did you expect after all that rain?