#Empty Mirror

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Allen Ginsberg ⸻ from Empty Mirror: Early Poems (1961)

[macrolit]

Empty Mirror and Howl Allen Ginsberg

[metalby]

Empty Mirror [Deus Profanus]. 2024. Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Youtube. Twitter(metalone).

本1stフルと共に，2022-11にリリースされた1st EP [Echoes of Eternity]もチェック．

[bklily]

He did NOT need to say all that, I think he just wanted to be a hater.

[jayktoralldaylong]

Thinking of Astarion and his relationship with beauty.

Astarion is a very vain and arrogant spawn, absolutely pompous when it comes to his looks, it's the first thing anyone knows about him. 😂 But you know.... Astarion doesn't even remember what he looks like. He's never seen himself in a mirror since he was turned, and that's 200 years ago. So how can someone like that be so vain?

The answer is so simple, so sad, so heartbreaking.

It's because he was told.

Over the course of 200 years, the one message that never died, no matter the torture or the pain, was everyone remarking on how pretty he was.

His victims would tell him as he led them to their deaths. The dungeon master told him each time he was tortured. Cazador would remind him every time he did the most deplorable things to the vampire spawn. Slowly and surely, Astarion then began to tie his worth around his beauty.

People gave him things because he was pretty, people would do as he asked because he was beautiful, they would not hesitate to succumb to his charm simply because he was appealing to the eyes, and he always would be. His beauty was also the reason he suffered so much. The reason he would always be Cazador's favourite, the reason he found no peace or rest, and Cazador reminded him day and night that he would lose all of his worth without his looks.

There must have been a time when Astarion probably hated his looks. They did him no favours. They just made him Cazador's favourite tool. He could not live, he could not die.

Astarion hated that people would look at him and see only his beauty, only a toy that they could shape to fulfill their own desires, and he dared not correct them, playing the part that would keep him alive.

Astarion's really warped relationship with beauty is an interesting study, because Astarion's love language is words of affirmation, but the kind that goes beyond his looks. The kind of words that makes him feel like he matters outside of them. The love that sees through the mask of perfection to the terrified elf hiding underneath.

Astarion is beautiful. It has been a blessing because it has kept him alive.

Astarion is beautiful. It has been a curse because it has kept him alive.

[blabbershere]

You won't see it for what it is, until you stop looking through the lens of what you want it to be.

[apnourry]

and it was a GOOD DAY

[consult-johnhwatson]

[the-orphic-youth]

The Seventh Seal, dir. Ingmar Bergman, Gutek Film (1957)

Antonius Block, we're really in it now

[shakingparadigm]

It's a bit silly that found it unlikely for Luka and Till to be the final match back then. The more that I thought about it, the more it made sense. Sure, Luka and Ivan are incredibly similar in terms of personality and image, but in terms of circumstance Luka and Till are opposite sides of the same coin. I really couldn't envision a better matchup.

[winterdaphne2]

okay so I'm re-reading the original ACD Sherlock Holmes stories for the first time in years, and I have to talk about "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor." Holmes takes a case that centers around a couple who live a rough, dangerous life together and fall in love, but then have to part because of reasons beyond their control. The husband goes off on his own to complete a task that will allow him to return to his beloved, but then gets captured. He escapes and tries to return to his wife, but by that point she's believed him dead for more than a year. He follows her to London, only to find out that she's about to marry someone else. But now here's the real kicker: when he approaches her and she catches sight of him and realizes that he's still alive, she immediately decides to leave her new fiancé for her first, true love.

Also, Holmes doesn't think the wife did anything wrong by leaving her new lover for her first husband.

Ugh. It's like Moftiss truly just lifted this plotline and embedded it into TRF and TEH, but obviously with John making the opposite decision from the wife in the ACD story.

The story literally ends with Holmes saying to Watson that they should "thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position." (Holmes is talking about the position of the second man whom the wife left, but still.) That hurt.

[realtapiocafan]

🥺 i just let out the softest whimper

[diosmaden]

Start Reading :: Latest Update :: Read The Rest Of CH1 Now

Hello everyone, and happy friday!! It's been a hot minute since I made an update notice post, and that's because when I got back from my trip I got the exciting news that Heart of the Storm had been accepted into the SpiderForest collective!

So these past couple weeks I've been busy setting up the new independent Heart of the Storm website (!!) and integrating everything into the collective.

From here on out the new website is going to be one page ahead of the ComicFury mirror, so you might want to subscribe to the new site instead!

Also, I'm currently catching up on commissions, but once I'm back on track with my queue I'm going to finalise the last few thumbnails for chapter 2 and start working on the final pages..!!

My Patreon at the moment is two pages ahead of the free release, but as soon as I finish the first page of chapter 2 I am going to start posting the entirety of the rest of chapter 1, and then pages from chapter 2 will go up as and when I finish them. There's currently 99 pages projected for chapter 2, so it's going to be in the making for a while! You can also become a supporter on Ko-Fi for the same benefits if you would prefer!

If you've been waiting for chapter 2, consider becoming a patron/supporter! The more supporters I have the less commissions I need to take and the more time I can dedicate to making HotS Real :)

[ribbonsaikeaux]

You smile into the mirror

So does your reflection

You brush your hair

So does your reflection

You put the brush down

Your reflection doesnt

You look back confused

Your reflection doesnt

You take a step back

Your reflection steps forward

You reach for the door

Your reflection doesnt

Your reflection steps closer

So do you

Your reflection reaches out

So do you

Your reflection touches the mirror

So do you

You both blink

You pound on the mirror

Your reflection walks away

You dont

[sanguine-salvation]

// quick sketches of smol!Viktor for those asks :) THEY WERE VERY HAPPY ONCE

[dewardin]