#beauty is a wound

[smokefalls]

If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.

Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound (translated by Annie Tucker)

[peipurr]

just finished Cantik itu Luka by Eka Kurniawan (after two years, yep). very disturbing, yet I think it is pretty good. I love how he depicts the Indonesian society in that era and region. Those beliefs in mystical things, excessive curiosity about each other's personal problems, and lots of sex (within families, even)? How real.

[cuubism]

brandon sanderson wrote the most unhorny book series ever written (stormlight archive) and yet somehow developed the hottest fictional man in the world (adolin kholin)

[doctorsiren]

I love you Jhes, I don’t care if me in 2018 reading your page and thinking you were an axolotl creature was a misunderstanding on my part. I’m keeping that headcanon / design since we know so little <3

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

One thing I love about Malevolent is that Harlan let's the characters be flawed. They make mistakes, they make selfish decisions, they have raw emotions, they eat a man, they kill 7 people, they fist a guy, where was I gong with this? Oh yeah, they forgive the unforgivable, its beautiful. They tortured a guy too.

[tsarjozinzbazin]

guys I just realized I didnt post these here only in the server

(og fitzconte wedding picture by the beautiful @evilfaggotyuri <3)

[sculppp]

Alessandro Turchi (1578–1649)

Erminia finds the wounded Tancred, 1630 (detail).

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

13.21 "Beat the Devil"

[cowboy-caboodles]

get yourself a man who will clean your wounds after you get caught in another street fight with the Delancey brothers!!!!

rest of the comic here (ignore me misspelling Delancey)

[meangreennunseen]

Thinking sad stuff about Fulgrim

In canon he was the only Primarch, I believe, who was stated to have been married multiple times and tbh considering how other Primarchs roll, it's not like marriage is a neccessity to them (almost all were made/became rulers of their homeworlds anyways).

I guess there are many reasons why Fulgrim could have been married many times, but I personally prefer to think he did so actually because he wanted kids. Or family of his own. A whole unit. I mean if you look at him, he's probs one of the few Primarchs who would actually be good at it. And would prefer peaceful existence instead of constant warfare.

And yet, it just never happened. No matter if he married out of love, or due to political reasons, no heir ever came. So he eventually lost hope and even if entered few marriages, those were just an officiality, nothing more...

[smokefalls]

That’s the only reason God promised heaven, as a comfort to the wretched masses.

Eka Kurniawan, Beauty Is a Wound (translated by Annie Tucker)

[vintage-tigre]

[madbard]

I love how many routes of Slay the Princess there are, how many ways to be. On my third playthrough of the game right now, and so far I’ve played as…

a curious and cautious participant, watching my body perform its bound tasks in a Cage I helped to create. I’ve grown ambivalent towards personhood and fallen in love with an eldritch god, exploring various worlds and searching for ways to make peace with the only other person I’ve met.

a selfish and clever opponent, meeting my circumstances with a violent eagerness that slowly rotted into a tangle of hatred deep inside me. I’ve felt that hatred leach out of me like infection from a wound as I held the Wounded Wild, and I’ve tried to grow again, laying down my blade in hopes of creating something better for myself and my companion.

a coward who nonetheless would not be trampled by a proud god, who was reduced to powerless flesh by the Fury and then rose above it, who was broken and molded into the perfect tool in a Moment of Clarity, who is so desperate for the free will that was repeatedly denied me that I have grown to resent the only other person I’ve known.

In playing this game I have been so many people, and I have loved and been horrified by them all, and understood their actions, and hated their suffering and the suffering they have inflicted. This game contains multitudes, and my experience of it has been something so incredibly profound.

Anyway. I love this game.

[delicate-sketch]

saw a post about how people want will solace to have a gun because they don’t recognize the value of his healing powers which can be true but also

the whole thing in pjo is that for demigods fighting = autonomy and independence (which is why percy screams at the begging IT SUCKS TO BE A DEMIGOD) the idea is that the camp makes demigods safe (by teaching them how to fight) and any other type of labour isn’t that much valuable because they > don’t teach them that it is < / > they don’t live enough to need them <

The Harpies are the ones cleaning instead of themselves, the Ambrosia will heal instead of actual doctors (which puts a hell of pressure on Will when the ambrosia is not enough because he needs to treat those who are severely injured AND the light injured who already took way too much Ambrosia)

And I don’t think this was on purpose RR was just like “oh shit someone and something needs to do this boring stuff”

I think the camp should have an equilibrium going on like teach those kids valuable life skills (what is safe to eat in a forest how do I cook make themselves clean the dishes how do I treat an injurie without ambrosia ((this one for wills sake too)) how do I guide myself without a gps) and also what kind of fighting suits you because yeah in a world where monsters want to kick your ass you need to know how to defend yourself not because this is what makes you valuable but because it what makes you SURVIVE

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOOH BABY THIS ONE WAS A LONG TIME COMING. NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE!!

YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER. A DAY OF ADVENTURE WITH YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS. OH HOW TIGHTLY YOU HOLD THEM TO YOUR CHEST, AND OH HOW TERRIFYING IT IS TO WATCH THEM GET EVISCERATED BY SOMETHING YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. MAYBE IF YOU JUST LISTENED A BIT MORE, IF YOU LET THE SMART ONE LEAD THE CHARGE, THIS WOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED. ONCE AGAIN YOUR IMPULSIVENESS LEADS TO DISASTER. HEAR ME NOW, YOUNG TIDESTRIDER, YOUR STUPIDITY WILL BRING THE DEMISE OF EVERYTHING YOU WERE BORN AND FORGED TO PROTECT. HOW COULD THE PROPHECY HAVE CHOSEN SOMEONE SO USELESS? I BET YOU WISH YOU CHOSE THE RIGHT LEVER. FAILURE.

[lilaccatholic]

Man, I feel like every clip I see from Pints with Aquinas lately Matt Fradd is demeaning women. Really sad to see it, I used to love his interviews :/