#beggars of life

[uspiria]

Beggars of Life (1928) dir. William A. Wellman

[roseillith]

BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928) dir. WILLIAM A. WELLMAN

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[a2zillustration]

You know what, Araj might be tied with Orin for "people I wish I didn't have to see again"

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[dallasgallant]

The way dally has Bucks flannel on hand. He doesn’t go out to borrow one, it’s not in a drawer. He just has it to lend to Ponyboy.

I want so desperately to explore him and buck.

[val-of-the-north]

The insidiousness of Kin in Bloodborne

The game makes a clear distinction between the earthly, beastly nature of mankind and the higher, more sophisticated and advanced inhuman evolution offered by the stars, with one being feared and hated by almost everyone but a small group of irreverents and the other being the goal of most organizations in the setting. They crave the superior knowledge that the stars, sea and Great Ones can offer them and in their selfishness they drag the entire population through the mud, subjecting them to the Scourge that turns them into the reviled, de-evoluted monsters that infest Yharnam.

But there’s something to be noted when analyzing the result of their attempts at ascension... most Kin we see are horrifying and animalistic monsters, no better than the beasts that devour the population. Take for example the Brainsuckers. Their lust for insight isn’t too dissimilar from that of blood-drunk men for their precious healing blood. They do everything in their power to feed themselves on more insight, more knowledge... and for what? In their current state, it’s more of a craving than a meaningful pursuit. And their locations are rather telling too, as most of them are found in the base of operation of the Choir. How were these men of science any different than the commoners they deem blinded by beastly idiocy? All those sacrifices to turn into addicts themselves.

We also see the Fluorescent Flowers, beings who are undeniably kin but... there seems to be nothing intelligent about them. They are ultimately just predators, luring in prey with their flower-like bait. Whatever ritual or experiment made those certainly didn’t lead to a greater understanding of the cosmos. The Scholars of Byrgenwerth themselves have long since turned into mindless sludge who attacks anything they don’t recognize, drifting away in a Nightmare far from their old world. Gardens of Eyes are also just monsters who instinctively attack us despite their supposed higher intellect.

Perhaps the Celestial Emissaries are the only ones not relegated to the role of mindless fiend yet even that is debatable. While we see their individuality still persist somewhat after the transformation (Arianna even remains passive and never retaliates unlike the others) as shown when we breach into Iosefka’s Clinic from the backside, for how long will that last? The other Emissaries we see are exactly like all other Kin, attacking us on sight and sparing no grace for anyone who approaches, showing no sign of their past humanity. And even if they do retain their intelligence somewhat, the same happens to certain beasts, like the Afflicted Beggar. Despite his condition he is capable of complex thinking, more complex than even most Kin we see, and he is able to feel things too.

Other attempts at evolution fail spectacularly and turn people into hungry monsters. Adeline, the only patient of the Research Hall conscious enough to address us is starving for Brain Fluid, and her hunger gets ravenous fast. The fact she is restrained as hard as she is seems to hint that she’d get violent, and we see many patients getting violent and even animalistic at times.

Or think of the Nightmare Apostles, once cultists of some kind, now turned to mindless spiders. The only one with a head on his shoulders and a brain to match is Patches, though he seems to be an explicit exception to the rule. [x]

No matter what, the thirst for knowledge remains the same... a thirst, a primal urge. Beastly idiocy goes both ways, but the stuck-up researchers of Yharnam don’t see it, and that’s their fatal mistake.

In the end, they were no better than the poor population. Just as clueless and obsessed with the very thing that was eating away at their humanity... but while the commoners despaired at this fate in the case of beasthood, these madmen wanted it and ruined countless lives to achieve it. Ultimately, it’s hard to feel sorry for them. They got what they wanted in their short-sightedness: absolute oblivion of the self.

[booigi-boi]

I would love to get some Tinky/Ted (or any tbh, not picky) related bracelets at Starkid Innit, but I know it works like a trade and I genuinely can't make those myself (this trip literally fucked up my savings, lmao, can't buy and learn a new hobby)

I don't know, I'd just love to get some, u know? 👉👈 I just have nothing to offer in return :(

[dootznbootz]

Odypen definitely and equivalently adore each other BUT I weirdly can't see them as the type to actually say "I Love you".

They still definitely vocalize their love for each other but it's more so in "My Joy", and "Extraordinary Woman", "Strange Woman/Man", etc. And very cheesy lines (both say some cheesy shit in the Odyssey, and he definitely does in the Iliad as well. "Joy like a drowning sailor seeing land" bit???)

I could see "I adore you" but even then, that's probably during very specific moments but the actual "I love you"??? I just typed it just now for fic shit and... It weirdly just didn't feel right and I don't know why. 😅

Idk maybe it's kind of because I see them as over the top in ways, they love wordplay and riddles and I think they'd almost think "...That's not good enough >:( " about it??? I don't know???😂

[uspiria]

Beggars of Life (1928) dir. William A. Wellman

[roseillith]

BEGGARS OF LIFE (1928) dir. WILLIAM A. WELLMAN

[datamodel-of-disaster]

Reporting back... First day of new paid occupation was promising!

(Three cheers for Team Riemann! With sufficient meds we might actually manage to keep this job! Yours truly basically went, "will draw data model for cash?" and they were like, "data model? We need data model. HIRED." )

On the unpaid occupations part... I'm realizing that I'm unlikely to heal from my recent friend breakup by continuing to mull over my huge Tron fic. It is sitting finished in my docs and it IS getting posted, so no worries for those who read it! I still love it and always will. I just... feel I need to brush out the cobwebs and work on something that has fewer bittersweet memories attached.

So... poll time.

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[thecousinsdangereux]

just out of curiosity - in your nuns can fuck AU, are soulmates inherently romantic, and can a person have more than one soulmate? (Really enjoying the fic btw!)

This is a great question! Soulmates are not inherently romantic in this AU, so there is such a thing as platonic soulmates (which are still delivered via Letter). However, because the existence and prevalence of romantic soulmates makes society more obsessed with love and romantic attachments than even our universe, and because there's nothing in a Letter that says whether a match is platonic or romantic, there's a lot of pressure for everyone to conform to the """standard""" way of soulmating. So maybe two people will be soulmates and they both know it's a platonic thing because neither of them have ever been interested in anything more, but most people on the outside will assume they just 'need time' to get used to the romantic aspect. In more recent years, there has been a big push to accept platonic soulmates, so it's better than it was, but definitely not without problems.

As for your other question, there are definitely some instances where a person can have more than one soulmate. In the Letter, there will be separate paragraphs/pictures/etc. to showcase that. Unfortunately, the paperwork is much harder for this kind of delivery, so no one really enjoys being the one in charge of validating it lol, but the church does recognize the existence of it.

So glad you're enjoying the fic! <3

[queenlucythevaliant]

After his death Luther’s friends found the following words scrawled on a piece of paper lying on the desk beside his bed:

Nobody can understand Vergil in his Bucolics and Georgics unless he has first been a shepherd or a farmer for five years. Nobody understands Cicero in his letters unless he has been engaged in public affairs of some consequence for twenty years. Let nobody suppose that he has tasted the Holy Scriptures sufficiently unless he has ruled over the churches with the prophets for a hundred years. Therefore there is some thing wonderful, first, about John the Baptist; second, about Christ; third, about the apostles. “Lay not your hand on this divine Aeneid, but bow before it, adore its every trace.” We are beggars. That is true.

Half in German, half in Latin: “Wir sein Pettler, Hoc est Verum” (“We are beggars, that is true”). Luther’s whole approach to the Christian life is summed up in these last words. The posture of the human vis à vis God is one of utter receptivity. We have no legs of our own on which to stand. No mystical “ground of the soul” can serve as a basis of our union with the divine. We can earn no merits that will purchase for us a standing before God. We are beggars—needy, vulnerable, totally bereft of resources with which to save ourselves. For Luther the good news of the gospel was that in Jesus Christ God had become a beggar too.

Theology of the Reformers, Timothy George

[obliviouskara]

what i wanted was the weight of a woman on top of me not the weight of the world but oh well