#Raging Heart

[litaesthete]

hearts in trees ♡

[teenalien-xx]

[eggdrawsthings]

"I've accepted my darkness What have you done with yours?"

[lostl1sbons1ster]

Marina and the diamonds

[natjennie]

something about "your anger isn't scary to me" is making me so emotional. something about as above so below, cassandra as a mirror of kristen. something about "I've been dropping the ball a lot lately" and kristen's struggles with adhd. something about teenage girls and rage and fury and justice. something about adaine's vision of ruining fallinel and the sylvaire looking for revenge. something about sadness and doubt and anger and love. something about "I choose to understand" being the absolute core theme of d20 in general. something something.

[purebbyfawn]

mother ♡ she’s so beautiful

[bungobble-my-balls]

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.

[txttletale]

across the NATO bloc we are faced with a political class who are openly and loudly cheering on a genocide that they are funding and enabling. this is the political reality of the "developed world"

[mistakesitakeoutonmyself]

[moonlitfairytale]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Letter to My Rage: An Evolution

[valleyofthisdoll]

𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝟱𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘀. 𝗶𝗳 𝘂 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 🎀

[teenalien-xx]

your love is like a studded leather headlock ♡

[mintypsii]

why is bro trying to take all the credit

[starry-bi-sky]

No.

No, no, no, no, NO!

He's shaking. His heart is burning in his chest, pounding like a jackhammer against his ribs, and there's a trembling, aching rage building beneath his tongue and pressing against his teeth.

In his hands, his fingers tense and wrists locked, the article reads in big, black font: JOKER LOCKED IN ARKHAM ASYLUM AGAIN!

Danny shouldn't feel so angry about this, this is a good thing. Gotham doesn't have to deal with him for another few months at the least. He should feel relieved, a little more at peace.

He is not.

He cannot swallow the fury thudding behind his eyes, the burning white heat searing a deeper hole in his chest. A searing green filling static in his ears in the way only the rage of the restless dead can have.

How is he going to kill him now?

Arkham may be the only asylum in America made entirely of tissue paper, but it's still an asylum. There are cameras, guards, other patients resting inside. Danny can think of a million different ways to sneak in and kill Joker, but someone will hear his screaming.

It'd have to be rushed.

He doesn't want it to be rushed.

It's a cruel thought. Cruel and cold and merciless, but Danny doesn't feel an ounce of shame, not an ounce of guilt, for it. He wants to be alone with the Joker when he kills him, that's all he wants. In Arkham, you are never alone.

He forces his anger to bubble back down into his chest, stuffing it between his heartstrings and his ribs like a blanket you're trying to bunch up into a corner. It sizzles and burbles. The static begins to fade out into a high-pitched ringing; it sounds like distant screaming.

Danny is still trembling, but he can think a little clearer now.

He can wait.

He can wait. He can wait. He can wait. He canwait. Hecanwait. Hecanwait.

He can wait.

He's waited five years for this. He can wait one more week. One more month. One more year. However long it takes for the Joker to break back out, Danny can wait.

And when the Joker does, inevitably, break out.

Danny uncrinkles his fingers around the edges of the newspaper, loosens his limbs just enough so he can pay for it.

He'll be waiting.

The dead, after all, have all the time in the world.

[miffysoul]

[agirlinteruppted]

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