#[[ Letters ]]

[exhaled-spirals]

[Paris] Monday [November 14, 1904] Sir I arrived last night and already would like to flee from all this telephoning, all this gossip, all these people pleased with themselves, all this smoke and nothingness. All of it contracts the Universe and the soul. We are not made to live with people we haven't wholeheartedly chosen. I isolate myself and engage with you while the fools [...]

— Excerpt from the correspondence of Anna de Noailles

[angelunderheaven]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Thanks Rebecca Solnit

[iveta777]

I left him a letter. There were only two teardrops on the paper. I had no more words to say and no more tears to cry...

I.A.A.

[arvtisticfra]

Fuori piove e io ho solo voglia di stare sotto il piumone abbracciata a qualcuno.

[thepersonalwords]

I only wrote prose before I met you. My musings were superfluous and serious as well. But now the words dance with me. I sing with them and we create poetry.

Kamand Kojouri

[blnxpc]

Hermeneutics

[sapphicdib]

Opinions on how ascension is portrayed by the community vs Canon?

I’m ngl I feel like downpour kinda…not ruined, but “christianized” ascension a bit. i mean, rubicon is literally called “hell region” in the game files. not to say that i don’t like rubicon, i actually fucking love it — it’s a twisted parody of everything we have come to know melting together and literally coming full circle, ascending from the void sea while a reversed pictures of the past plays, as the cycle starts a new. but yknow. tone it down with the red and gold hellfire aesthetic maybe.

however i dont like how rubicon kinda made it look like ascension is…bad. i feel like its up to the individual to determine that. some, like pebbles and most of the benefactors, wanted ascension. but some dont. gourmand is seemingly content where he is. i doubt rivulet or spearmaster wanted to ascend based on how underwhelming their ascension endings are. i think the benefactors (literally by nature of calling themselves that) made a broad assumption that everyone, including those outside their society, want to ascend.

ascension is morally neutral. it’s the context around it that isn’t.

in my apple juice fic (im so sorry i keep mentioning it) the colony scugs think ascension isn’t good because it takes a loved member of their family away. hunter, on the other hand, thinks it’s good, because she was raised by someone influenced by the benefactors and literally programmed to believe ascension is the answer (though i don’t think sig really gives a shit about the problem all that much)

but yeah. i don’t really like…like concrete answers to what ascension is. we don’t know what it is. it’s literally unknowable and that’s what makes the iterators’ stories so tragic. but it’s also what makes the world feel alien and cool!

so. yeah. that’s my take on it! as you can tell i kinda like rain world being left very vague because it adds to the mystery and stuff. i don’t know how the cycles work and don’t really…want to? i of course am a sucker for reincarnation stuff, like bro scugerators lilypad getting to raise hunter and rivulet as their actual slugcat daughters is so fuckin precious!! but also it could literally just be you dissolve into nothing, it’s just. like that!!

[octoberloved]

[flowerytale]

Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

[orpheusismefr]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

In 2003, as she approached the end of her life, English theatre director Clare Venables received this letter from her dear friend, Peter Thompson. She died of cancer in October of that year, aged 60.

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My much-loved friend,

It matters to have trodden the earth proudly, not arrogantly, but on feet that aren’t afraid to stand their ground, and move quickly when the need arises. It matters that your eyes have been on the object always, aware of its drift but not caught up in it. It matters that we were young together, and that you never lost the instincts and intuitions of a pioneer. It matters that you have been brave when retreat would have been easier. It matters that, in many places and at many times, you have made a difference. Your laugh has mattered. Your love has mattered. Above all, it matters that you have been loved.

Nothing else matters.

[mournfulroses]

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

[ruhlare]

we could be weird together btw if you even care

[luthienne]

rachel corrie’s letters