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BREAKING NEWS: Due to personal reasons (I saw a spoiler and am going to choose peace over months long lingering obsession) this reporter will not be watching Arcane s2, back to you in the studio-

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i will never leave this house

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Yrsa Daley-Ward, from bone; “waiting for the check to clear”

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"use chatgpt" that's the devil talking. buy four caffeinated drinks and pull an all nighter. this is the way.

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i need dev patel to play a vampire. I need to see him with Fangs. And bloody. I think it'd be hot and good for the environment. dare I say enchanting, even.

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‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs

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scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

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"To become a Katabasian is to shed skin and soul, to drown, and in drowning, be born anew!

Do you accept this offering from the depths?"

alts under the cut

I truly couldn't decide between the versions, so you get them all. I would like to thank Jon Ware, Muna Hussen and B. Narr for giving me insomnia

[ID: A digital drawing of Brother Faulkner from the Silt Verses podcast. He kneels in a shallow part of a pool of glowing, green water under the Grand Aquifer, straddling Sibling Rane, who lies limply at the bottom with their face right under the surface, visible where Faulkner's reflection would be. Faulkner's face is upturned, with the water surface reflecting off his skin. He is wearing an expression of exaltation morphing into dread and staring into the distance. On the first picture, his head is surrounded by a halo. On the second, by the Withermark. He is alone. End ID]

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do not go gentle into that good night

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I don't need butterflies in my stomach. I need someone who calms down my nervous system. someone who makes me feel safe.

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I cant stop thinking about The Boy and the Heron.

It's horrifying. It's fantastical. It's tragic. It's beautiful. It's hopeful.

It's about grief. It's about family. It's about war. It's, "You don't have to walk the same path your ancestors did." It's "Your lived experience builds a world as deserving of your attention and care as your inner world" and "You inherited a flawed world, and you are flawed, and that is still beautiful" and "I made this beautiful thing and it's ending and that's just how it goes, but wasn't it beautiful?"

It makes me think about the worlds we make within ourselves and how they can be entrancing and wonderful even as they lead us to walk deeper into ourselves and away from those around us. It makes me think about connection, about how love can be so flawed sometimes but it is still something we need to hold onto. It asks "What if the monsters never asked to be monsters?" and "What if things can die before they're even born?"

It's about not being afraid of fire, not being afraid of endings, not being afraid of the world falling apart, of pain, of walking away, of reconciling, of finding new family and new love even as you mourn and miss what you lost.

It says, "Beautiful, wonderful things end, but afterwards, you can go home."

I'm going crazy.

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Ferdinand du Puigaudeau (France 1864-1930) Brière au clair de lune oil on canvas 64.8 x 80.9 cm

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literally rio this episode

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ELIZA MAMARDASHVILI (born 1987).

Untitled work (n.d.)

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A Long Night

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