#absence of fear

[teathattast]

Muscles and sinew

Velvet and stone

This vessel is haunted

It creaks and moans

°•☆•°♡°•☆•°

My bones call to you

In their separate skin

I make myself translucent

To let you in

[buffynha]

Absence of Fear

By bugstories

Five years after high school Brittany and Santana were happy. They had each other and everything else they could wish for... but when everything suddenly falls apart, how much time is there to fix it? Warning: Character death.

Rated: Fiction M

Genre: Drama/Angst

Pairing: Santana L., Brittany P.

Status: Complete

Chapters: 14

Words: 76,908

Published: Sep 26, 2011

Updated: Mar 9, 2017

Adaptation as original novel:

Hold My Hand

Bethany is heartbroken when her girlfriend, Savannah, dumps her with no explanation. Slowly, she rebuilds her life, meets Amber and begins to heal. A year later they meet again and their feelings are as strong as ever. So why did Savannah leave her? Bethany is devastated by the answer and realises she will lose Savannah again – to cancer. In a world where time is fleeting but love lasts forever, Savannah and Bethany can only hold onto each other and live every dream they ever shared.

Chapters: 14

Pages: 204

Published: March 3, 2017 (Paperback) / March 15, 2017 (Kindle)

[alohapromisesforever]

Thought For the Day: Everything You've Ever Wanted Is On the Other Side of Fear

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair — Throughout our lives, overcoming fear is essential meeting and achieving our goals. Fear of rejection and/or failure paralyzes us from taking the right actions needed to move forward in life. This does not mean to recklessly jump into the fire from every proverbial frying pan. It is to say that growth and personal…

[thereweredragonshere]

I feel like Hiccup would try to pet a bear. His thought process is “Well I trained a night fury, I can become friends with a bear!” Meanwhile Astrid is yelling at him not to go near the bear.

If not friend why friend shaped

[annaofaza]

The manga not showing Vash's immediate grief over Wolfwood is something I kind of hope to see again in TriStar.

I admit, I'm voyeuristically curious, and I want to see Vash fuck up the Ark with his angel arm. But Nightow did something powerful with not showing Vash burying Wolfwood, carving his gravestone, and waiting for Livio to wake up. He refuses to speak Wolfwood's name for the rest of the series. He only breaks down in tears when he ends Legato's life, not only for Wolfwood, but for the breaking of his centuries-old promise to Rem—but he does it anyway. He makes a promise of love, and breaks the same one out of love.

I think the saddest part of vashwood is that they simultaneously realized too late and knew the consequences from the beginning. Regardless if everything were laid out in the open, it wouldn't have changed a thing. So it's better to be silent. Because then it wouldn't hurt as much.

But it doesn't.

In the end, it's something private between them. Not for the readers. Not for the other characters. Just for them.

Their last moments together.

[m-aximumjoy]

Some interesting similarities between the forms of Falling Devil and Darkness Devil.

There’s the use of multiple bodies to create a singular form, the angular shapes, the mantis-leg-like appendages, the sheer height.

These two also share very strong hand motifs, which makes sense for both of them: when it’s dark, you have to feel your way around, usually with your hands; when you’re falling, you try to grab onto something with your hands.

I’m curious to see if the other Primals look anything like these two.

[kiwiaok]

early aaron and andrew dynamic is giving eurydice and orpheus in the sense that andrew would turn around (of course he would, that is his brother, that is his blood, he has to know aaron is safe) and aaron would spend eternity blaming him for dangling false hope before his eyes only to take it away at the end of the journey (andrew would blame himself too)

[kiisuuumii]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence (tr. Sinan Antoon)

[cranberrymoons]

enough!

🫷😵‍💫🫸

i want to talk more about buck carrying eddie's child to term.

[idekwthmuistb]

So the students of Amity Park have noticed that when Danny Fenton runs to the bathroom a ghost almost always appears right after, right? Right. And eventually it becomes commonplace for them to mentally prepare themselves and to pack up their stuff when Fenton rushes out the classroom.

BUT

What about the few times where nothing happens? Cause now you've got this classroom full of kids who just automatically shove their papers into their backpacks and just...wait. They sit there, maybe making jokes about who's going to show up and at first it's all easy going but then. Then the anticipation starts to get to them. It's that nerve-wracking feeling of Knowing something should be happening But It's Not.

There's a slight buzz of nervous energy by the 5 minute mark where nothing has happened yet. It sets them on edge. Everyone is silent, shifting their gazes from the windows, the clock, the door, trying to spot anything of the usual. There's absolutely nothing.

[lacomandante]

Average sight during Wellington's mission debriefing

[wedarkacademia]

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina

[canisalbus]

I say this in the best way, but your characters feel like they're from an obscure but really good piece of media, and you feel like the artist who always draws the two main characters as ghay lovers

.

[mxtxfanatic]

The way people view Bing-mei as a villain for having an appropriate (and I’d argue it’s actually pretty damn tame) reaction to being an abuse victim needs to be studied as a critique of how society very easily turns against victims who do not appropriately perform victimhood. In the story, the cultivation world outside of Cang Qiong Mountain are in the dark about how Luo Binghe was treated pre-Abyss, but we the audience know! We know he was abused horrifically for his first 14 years of life, 4 of those years under his shizun. Three years of kindness before being kicked into hell is not going to erase the scars left by that abuse. And just because we the audience also know that Shen Yuan’s Shen Qingqiu was not responsible for those first 4 years of Luo Binghe’s life as a disciple, that does not mean that he is let off the hook for them as the person assuming Shen Qingqiu’s identity, let alone the fact that he is the one who still forces Luo Binghe into the abyss, not Shen Jiu.

Meanwhile, Shen Qingqiu, himself, knows that he wronged Luo Binghe and spends the rest of the novel attempting to make up for it. After all, the abyss, itself, and that final act of betrayal are a point of trauma on their own level above those previous years of mistreatment combined. Shen Qingqiu never absolves himself of his actions the way fandom does for him, but the fact that he feared Luo Binghe’s retribution is somehow enough to flip who the victim is and who the abuser is in too many people’s minds. Even Bing-ge and Shen Jiu get this treatment: people act like because Bing-ge allowed his resentment to consume him in his thirst for vengeance that this not only absolves Shen Jiu of the grotesque abuse he subjected a 10-year-old to for 7 years in an attempt to kill him but that it also makes Shen Jiu the “ultimate victim” of the relationship rather than the reaper of the seeds of abuse he sowed. Cause as we all know, vengeance makes a villain, but somehow baseless abuse does not (🙄).

People take fear (or claims of it) as the sign of “true victimhood” while anger is assigned as an “abuser emotion,” especially in cases of abuse where the abuser is well-liked, and I see this sort of idea in the stated reasoning behind 95% of the Luo Binghe hate.

[failedcoinflip]

catboy

indeed (day 4)

[hedgehog-hell]

Proof of life in the form of a surge redesign