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The TARDIS translates the scribblings of a 19th century poet into the temporal coordinates of a terrible war. There's time to think, to agonise, and to talk. The Doctor begins a precarious descent from the stratosphere, to the summit, to the flat.
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- Part 5 of Series 12
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20 Jan 2021
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Like her ship, she redecorates – and she never really likes it, except when it’s her present.
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“I’m sorry,” the Doctor echoes, tired, almost a shudder. “It can’t happen.” But she always knew that. The Doctor was never a person to Yaz as much as she was an idea; the idea of being more, and doing good, and being sure. You can’t expect an idea to love you back.
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Good always comes at the expense of something else, and justice always has a price. Heroes, under the visage, are just people, and people are never sure.
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Nayeon is trying to get better. Steal less diamonds, make more friends.
Sana is helping. Kind of.
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12 Jan 2021
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“You, a kleptomaniac, are not stealing things because a girl is texting you?”
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“She ate a mushroom,” Sana murmurs. Her hands grip Nayeon’s. “I think it was radioactive.”
“You just had a radioactive mushroom lying around,” Nayeon whispers. God, she loves her.
“I’m a supervillain.”
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It’s an absolute nightmare. Nayeon has probably fucked up any of the goodwill Jeongyeon had left, Momo is rotting in an overpriced and legally furnished apartment, Sana is holding her ex-girlfriend’s hands and weeping quietly, and Jihyo is trying to show off her straight-jackets like it’s a goddamn fashion show.
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“I’ll love you if you leave,” Sana whispers. “I’ll love you anywhere.”
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“I just want you sitting by my side while Jeongyeon makes speeches about justice an hour after dinner is over, or holding my hand while Jihyo plays Russian Roulette with herself.”
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“You know, this conversation is going to get old one day. You’ll get tired of having to bring me back.”
“Then stop leaving.”
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“Sometimes my castle gets bigger than my head.” It’s happened a few times, now. That impulse to do something rash and painful. And then she tucks herself beside Sana in their bed and wakes up and it’s impossible to want to be anywhere but there, in the pale morning light, breathing beside Sana.
“Your castle,” Sana teases, her breath tickling Nayeon’s ear.
“My heart,” Nayeon whines. “My big stupid heart.”
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“I really do wish I had known everything, right then, and maybe I could have loved you right from the beginning.”
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“Nayeon,” Mina whispers. “I can’t like you more.”
The quiet is too perfect for Nayeon to risk speaking.
“I already like you more than I’m supposed to.”
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Sana is still in her nun costume. God bless her.
Mina laughs helplessly at everything the Joker says.
Nayeon is in jail. Again.
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"I think every good song is about you.”
Nayeon tenses. “Not every good song is happy.”
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“I want to be,” Nayeon whispers. “I want to be perfect.”
Sana's hands run down the length of Nayeon’s arms, down to her wrists. “I just want you to be real.”
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Step 1: My god, Nayeon, stop trying to revolve your whole life around her.
Step 2: Become her friend! Get to know her!
Step 3: Play it cool, Im Nayeon. Play. It. Cool.Bookmarked by marshall_line
11 Jan 2021
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Mina kisses her like she wants her too, her and only her, and it makes Nayeon’s heart soar because she’s only ever wanted her, only ever wanted Mina right here and right now and now, here she is: right here and right now with THE girl.
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“I have been waiting for this my whole life.” She whispered in your ear and you laughed. You laughed because you haven’t known her more than a few weeks and how could she know that she’s wanted you her whole life?
You laugh because you have been waiting for this too.
or;
Jamie meets her other half. And she wouldn’t change their journey even a bit.
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05 Nov 2020
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On the train platform, Harry suffered a hug from Remus, a hair ruffle from Sirius, and a "don't do anything I wouldn't do" from his mother, and then he ran for the brick wall, cart rattling before him. The snowy owl they'd gotten him hooted softly in protest. Harry had named her Ororo after the Muggle comic books his mother had introduced him to. Lily took Harry to the comic store every time he sat through a whole visit with his aunt, uncle, and cousin and didn't kick anybody unless they kicked him first.
Bill tried to wipe some dirt off a dodging Ron's nose. Ginny complained loudly about being left behind. Fred and George ran off to see Lee Jordan's spider. People watched the Weasleys from all directions--they were hard to miss--and Ron's shoulders slowly rose up and up to his reddening ears. He missed the big empty orchards behind the Burrow already.
Ron was one of the last people on the train. He slid past staring eyes and finally stepped himself into an almost unoccupied compartment-- there was just one small boy tucked in there. He had messy dark hair, slightly askew round glasses, and a comic book held up in front of his nose.
"Is it okay if I sit here?" said Ron. "Everywhere else is full."
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- Part 9 of boy with a scar
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05 Oct 2020
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the brightest witch of her age by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Jan 2017
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When Hermione Jean Granger was one year old her parents died in a car crash. She knew all about it because she asked a lot of questions and her aunt and uncle believed in answering them.
Why is the sky blue, auntie? Why are b's and d's like in the mirror? Where do songs come from? Why did Jenny Hopkins call me a--?
Her father had accelerated into a green light, like you were supposed to. (By the time she was eight, Hermione had the driver's rulebook memorized). A truck driver, going the opposite way, hadn't stopped at a red.
Hermione had been strapped in a car seat in the back, her aunt and uncle told her. She hadn't been hurt at all except for the scar that stood out, jagged, on her forehead.
As Hermione grew up into a gangly, bushy-haired, buck-toothed wonder, she thought she could remember it-- a glaring green light, a rush of cold air.
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- Part 10 of boy with a scar
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02 Oct 2020
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When Jinora finds Korra in the swamp, she tells Korra that a group calling themselves the normalists have kidnapped and killed Asami.
At least, that’s what they say they’ve done.
A Captain America: The Winter Soldier-inspired season 4 AU.
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16 Aug 2020
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Azula's growth from defeat to victory, one little step at a time.
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- Part 1 of MES series
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20 Jul 2020
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if you knew the end, where would you begin? by pistachio_cat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
07 Jul 2020
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The first time Azula dies, she is fifteen.
Somehow, she imagined that it would hurt more.
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08 Jul 2020
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confluence. noun.
- the joining of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.
- an act or process of merging.They are the blazing sun and the surrounding sea, life force and lifeblood. They are everything and everything is theirs.
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30 Jun 2020
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A grueling civil war has ended. Nayeon is now Fire Lord, but maintaining peace requires a few more sacrifices.
An Avatar the Last Airbender AU.
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- Part 1 of Burning
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- 25/25
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23 Jun 2020
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“Mina held me too,” she confesses. “There was a storm one night, and— do you ever think of one moment, one time someone touched you, and know it was all worth it just for that?”
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Mina is on Mars.
Nayeon isn't.
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- Part 1 of space
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23 Jun 2020
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We know less about the ocean than we do about space, Mina had typed out once. Nayeon supposes it was meant to be comforting, a little anchor of reference, a little cliche fun fact that’s supposed to make mystery familiar enough to bear.
But the ocean is here.
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I’ll love you faster than light.
I’ll love you louder than anything.
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I miss the angle of your jaw. I miss your eyes like wings. When I see you I’ll kiss your hands and your mouth and your ears. Last night I dreamed you came here and you stayed.
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Nayeon doesn’t know where exactly she stops being herself and becomes Mina. Nayeon doesn’t know if it’s important to have the coordinates.
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I don’t remember what your voice sounds like.
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from a mountaintop by UnderneathAnotherTree (underneaththewalnuttree) for DGeorgi14
Fandoms: TWICE (Band)
12 Apr 2020
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"Someday, you're going to love her."
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Or, Nayeon can see the future, but not her own. Except once.
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23 Jun 2020
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One day, she thinks again, one day someone will love Nayeon so much it’ll feel like the entire world’s been compressed into her heart, and that someone will be Myoui Mina. Who will tell her, and Nayeon will say it back, and mean it just as much.
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When she looks at Mina, really looks, her entire body and half of her mind tell her, this is the person. This person will love you, this person will know you and all the things you should change to be a better person, and will still think you’re perfect. The other half, however, reminds her just as readily that this is Mina she’s talking about—games on her phone and Marvel superhero references no one else gets and soft voice and sensitive and easily flustered—and it doesn’t seem like these two Minas ever meet in the middle.
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Rose goes to sleep one night next to her husband, John Smith, the man she has loved for going on three years now, and wakes up the next morning face-to-face with a complete stranger.
She just about falls straight out of bed.
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Or: Whenever the Doctor regenerates, his human double over in Pete’s World does, too.
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25 Apr 2020
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Your name is Elena and you are born of the sea.
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12 Dec 2019
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You know that the truth is the only thing you can give her, and you know it will take her from you. Her - the only being who has ever heard you when no one did. Who needs you as much as you need her. Who reminds you that you are not alone.
But if you love her - and oh, you do - then you must.
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You expect her to tell you to leave. To get off her boat and go and never darken her island again. You are a daughter of the night. Your curse has no end. Never enough a siren, never enough a human - belonging nowhere in the world.
You do not expect her to lean in and cup your face in her hands - for her to kiss you, long and deep. She lingers, her voice soft. "No. You belong with me."
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catch me if you can (if you wanna see me again) by forbiddenquill for xylomylo
Fandoms: TWICE (Band)
31 Jan 2020
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Fake Dating AU: Nayeon needs a date for her friend's wedding—thankfully, Mina arrives right on time to save the day. As she always does.
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“Can you pretend to be my girlfriend for a wedding?”Mina stares at her. “What?”
“Be my girlfriend,” Nayeon repeats with every ounce of patience she can muster, “Just for three days. It’s my friend's stupid wedding and she invited my ex along. I really don’t want to show up looking single so you know—”
“So you’re asking me—” Mina points to herself with her face growing increasingly confused “—to fake date you so that you won’t look miserable and lonely while your ex is with someone else, right?”
-(or alternatively, Nayeon dives into a fake relationship with her co-worker, without realizing that Mina has been in love with her for a while now.)
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26 Nov 2019
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She opens the handbook and finds the words: The Myoui Mina Handbook: Why Im Nayeon Loves Her staring back at her.
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The five times Mina lies and the one time she doesn't.
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05 Feb 2018
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“I don’t like you,” she repeats for good measure, against her mouth, and Mina knows what she means anyway.
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(She can’t find her anywhere when she looks at her in the eyes. The doctors say they’ve fixed her up, put her back in tip-top shape, but all they’ve done is give her a body housing someone else.)
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Nayeon is home, but it still feels like it’s empty. (It is.)
Nayeon is here, but it still feels like she isn’t. (She’s not.)
“I don’t love you,” she whispers, reaching over to brush away the overgrown bangs that fall over Nayeon’s eyes.
“I don’t love you,” she repeats when she gets up, shuts the door behind her, and her stomach twists in a way that makes her feel sick.
“I don’t love you,” she says and says and says, but it still feels like she does.
(She does.)
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Her best friend is cutting vegetables Eva doesn’t even know the names of but will surely get through eating any day if it means Noora eating them as well.
She watches her reach for the cupboard with the scale in it before pulling her hand back like she’s burned it on the handle. And she smiles right at Eva as she slides all of it into the pan at once.
Eva thinks she looks radiant in the light of the exhaust hood. And she feels too much pride to put into words.
((translation of the Norwegian I used is at the bottom))
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18 Sep 2017
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And for the first time Eva ponders that maybe the fact that there is a space that needs to be constantly filled up by people for her to be okay isn’t such a great thing.
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“I loved you long before he did. And I’ll never quit. Jeg er stolt av deg. Hver dag.”
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open your chest and take the heart from it; open your chest
[The things she's doing with Effy, they're meant to be like a plaster on an open wound; but Naomi underestimates how hard that plaster can stick.]
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18 Sep 2017
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“Don’t have any pills to cure insomnia?”
Effy smiles faintly. “There’s worse things than not sleeping.”
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“Cook and Freddie chose each other, when they realized I wasn’t what either of them hoped I would be,” she says, after a long moment.
Naomi stares at the lake and then finally sighs. “What is that, do you think? Why don’t people just accept that we are what we are? Why can’t they see it?”
Effy folds her arms underneath her head and closes her eyes. “They hope there’s hidden depth, something more, if they just try hard enough.”
“Isn’t there?”
Effy’s lips almost smile, but the rest of her doesn’t move. “Whatever it is, it’s not what they want anyway, Naomi.”
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Effy at some point stops complaining about the coat, and Naomi wonders how many other things could’ve been fixed this easily if someone had just tried a little harder, a little earlier.
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“Sounds like a good tradition.”
“It was,” Effy says, and then spears her little spoon into the sinking ice-cream. “Most things are, until they’re not.”
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“We have sex occasionally,” Effy says, and then just smiles when Naomi kicks her in the shin, hard. “It helps with the isolation and pessimism, obviously.”
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It takes Effy almost two whole minutes to relent, and when Naomi’s finally wrapped an arm around her, she wonders when the last time was that anyone bothered giving Effy a hug.
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“Because it’s so much more fucked up to admit that I couldn’t handle someone caring that much than to pretend he couldn’t handle how fucked up I was.”
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“I don’t think you need it,” she says, looking at her blackened thumb. “Fixing, like he wants to.”
“I know you don’t,” Effy says, with a small, knowing smile. “That’s why you’re just as fucked up as I am.”
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She’s almost asleep when Effy’s hand shifts from the mattress onto her stomach; lingers on her diaphragm. It takes her two minutes of barely breathing before she finally thinks fuck it, and covers Effy’s hand with her own.
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The last two tracks are the saddest fucking things she’s ever heard, and when Effy asks if she liked it, the next day, the lump in her throat prevents her from answering. Instead, she kisses her right there, up by the lockers; quickly and painfully hard, like a theft of feeling.
“Any reason for the song choices?” she asks over lunch, when she thinks she can.
Effy shrugs. “Just threw some shit together that I thought you might like.”
Naomi finishes her sandwich in silence; wonders when Effy became the worst liar she knows. [Worse than Emily; it’s completely unbelievable.]
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“Can I fuck you,” Effy asks, softly, and it’s the fact that she asks that makes Naomi’s head stutter; she’s never asked before, never gave any indication that she was expecting the answer to eventually become no, until now.
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“You don’t actually think that you and I could’ve made it work somehow, do you?”
It hurts worse than being told that she was asking for too much; so much worse, and in the span of exactly fifteen words, Naomi realizes she’s in love. In love with fucking Effy Stonem, who is going to walk all over her and demand she feels absolutely nothing, or she won’t even get to be her friend in the future.
What have you got to lose? her mum reminds her, and she steels herself; stares Effy down, and then smiles. “I do, actually.”
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Hearing those three minutes, though, settles something inside of her; unlocks and restores a portion of her heart that she didn't even know had gone missing, had followed Effy up north without even asking for permission.
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Чунмён снились синие киты, плавающие в небесах.
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18 Sep 2017
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Чунмён всегда настолько боялась задеть кого-то словами — отказом, неумением согласиться на своих условиях, — что часто предпочитала промолчать, чем высказать свою точку зрения. Она умела красиво говорить то, чего все хотели, и работать в Microsoft Excel, и никому от неё больше ничего не было нужно.
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Она думала о том, что призракам прошлого нельзя так легко вторгаться в настоящее, не предупредив.
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— Почему же ты так любишь молчать?