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You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

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I'm being completely serious when I say Granny Weatherwax's "What about the fire?" speech from Lords and Ladies has done more to help me recontextualize and manage my anxiety than like 5 years of therapy did

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💌-The Letter.

@janeuary-month

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my alectostasia agenda for @tltfashionzine

[aytmadashis]

You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

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The beginning of Assassin's Quest:

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Titania Asleep, from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Arthur Rackham (1908)

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Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

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"How did Shuro think he could marry Falin when he hated her brother?" you have to understand. Toshiro is from a whole different country. In his head he and Falin would move back to the Eastern Archipelago and they'd see Laios twice a year tops. You can pretend to get along with in-laws you don't like for a few days a year, people do that all the time.

The actual flaw in his plan– which shows he doesn't really understand either of the Touden siblings– is the fact that if the plot hadn't happened and Falin had for some reason said yes to his proposal, Laios would have packed his bags and moved away with them instantly.

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sure let’s take the lonely little boy with magical powers that lets him feel people’s life force and suffering and make him kill people. what could go wrong?

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absolutely incredible that gideon’s common fantasy is that harrow is impressed by her skills. it’s a wonder she didn’t realize her attraction to harrow sooner lmao

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golden fool

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imo i think part of the reason a lot of unfilfilled romances (whether they be straightbait, queerbait, one-sided, ect.) appeal to me and many others over fulfilled ones is bc romance arcs in stories tend to just become A Romance Arc when they're realized, rather than anything unique to the relationship between the two characters. oftentimes the relationship loses the element which makes it compelling in favor of the characters suddenly being In A Romance Now, and therefore obligated to follow A Romantic Structure of some sort. and it just loses that spice. that flavor.

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"Be happy."

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fairy tale