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[benjamin-ovich]

Every time I read or watch Lord of the Rings I can’t help but think about how Tolkien had survived one of the bloodiest, most cruel, most dirtiest and darkest wars in human history, came back and wrote this:

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

And this:

"'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.

'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'"

And this:

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."

And this:

“Many that live deserve death and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be so eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the wise cannot see all ends."

And this:

“True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.”

And clearly they were all written partly because he survived the war, because of what he’d seen and done and learned. But at the same time the unwillingness to lose faith, the courage and strength that this man had to believe in these things after going through hell! It makes the nihilists look so cheap, so uninteresting! People who’ve went through concentration camps and wars believe in humanity anyway, isn’t that proof that hope and love exist? And many, many, many of them did not return or returned broken and cruel and traumatised to the point when no faith in others was possible for them, and nobody can blame them. But there were many who refused to lose faith and hope. They have seen some of the worst that life has to offer and came back believing that we shouldn’t be eager to deal out death in judgement and should love only that which the sword defends.

No matter how many people say that humanity is horrible and undeserving of love, and life is dark and worthless, and love doesn’t exist I remember this and have hope anyway. Because there were people who have actually had all reason to believe in the worst and still believed in the good, so the good must be real. The good is real, even despite the evil, and we must trust in it.

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This has to be one of my favourite images of Sirius.... not using a chair correctly in honorable age of 36

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I'd just like to take a moment to scream about the beautiful work I received in the mail from the talented @squintclover, who took a line from Ruin Me, Beloved and turned it into art ♥️

@narcissa-black-supermacy look!!! :D

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the hungers of hadewijch and eckhart, donald f. duclow // stigmata: escaping texts, hélène cixous // you are in a hotel room, joan tierney // the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, rainer maria rilke // great expectations, kathy acker // hot-hand fallacy, jasmine gibson // erotism: death and sensuality, georges bataille // cain, josé saramago // love in the time of monsters, emily palermo // a curious night for a double eclipse, j. karl bogartte.

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Moony: Honestly, what the fuck is wrong with you guys?

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You don't fix hurts by pretending they never happened. You treat them like infected wounds. You dig deep with a burning knife and gouge out the rotten flesh and then, maybe, you have a chance to heal.

— R. F. Kuang, The Burning God

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Everyone seeing James and Sirius being attached to the hip inseparable to the point of developing a tool to keep in contact all the time, James giving Sirius a home and a family, them willing to die for each other and Sirius never getting over losing James

Art by @twinklyghostt

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Woke: understanding that describing James and Sirius as brothers is a testament of how close their relationship was and how natural and comfortable they were with each other

Broke: saying that prongsfoot is "basically incest"

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i hate it when people say not to “villainize” characters for the purpose of a fic like… people can and should write whatever the fuck they want.

if they want to make one of the characters an evil douchebag who gets in the way of the main ship, then let them. that doesn’t mean they actually think that character is an evil douchebag, that character just fills a role for that specific fic.

so calm down, drink some water, log off, breathe some fresh air, and simply don’t read it if it bothers you that much.

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Sorry, what did you just say? I was too distracted by the blood & grief on your gorgeous face.

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"Filth! Scum! By-products of dirt and vileness! Half-breeds, mutants, freaks, begone from this place! How dare you befoul the house of my fathers —"

Walburga Black, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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@/likeafunerall (on insta) james will be the death of me one day

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I want to read a fic but I want to read MY fic that I haven't finished yet

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Listen prongsfoot makes me so violently ill because u have Sirius completely and utterly overwhelmed by his adoration that he sees james as perfect and completely unable to make mistakes but james isn’t so when he does everything hurts way more than it would’ve.

And then theres james who’s people pleasing as just wants to live up to what sirius sees him as so he tries to and makes promises he knows he can’t keep so now u’ve got betrayal mixed in too.

AND the only way they can fix this is by communicating but they’re both stubborn so who knows hiw long that takes.

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young Remus J. Lupin 

reference: x

[instagram @potterbyblvnk | don’t repost - reblog only]

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"James and Sirius’ friendship is everything to me and it’s 2am so I think that I’m going to draw them suffering"

I just remembered I didn't post this here, sorry... Extra ugly-content here.