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doodles-bi-tea · 1 month ago

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lewis pullman. how I adore you. (a gif set.)

Sources (in order):

Lefty/Righty (2019)

Craig’s Pathetic Freakout (2018)

Where You Are (2016)

Holy Roller - Double Feature, MAESA & Kyle McNeill

Vanity Fair - November 2021 Issue

The Voice In Your Head (2020)

A video I think Monica (Barbaro) posted from behind-the-scenes of Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - featuring her, Lewis, and Danny Ramirez

Guzzle Buddies (2024)

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nicklloydnow · 2 years ago

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“Oh my brothers, whoever is a firstborn is always sacrificed. But now we are the firstborns.

We all bleed on secret sacrificial altars; we all burn and broil in honor of old idols.

Our best is still young; that tempts old gums. Our flesh is tender, our hide is mere lambskin - how could we not tempt old idol priests!

Even in ourselves he still lives, the old idol priest, who roasts up our best for his banquet. Oh my brothers, how could firstborn not be sacrifices!

But our kind wants it so; and I love those who do not want to preserve themselves. Those who are going under I love with my whole love: because they are going over. - “ On Old and New Tablets (6)

“Oh my brothers, I consecrate and conduct you to a new nobility: you shall be my begetters and growers and sowers of the future -

- to be sure, not to a nobility that you could buy like the shopkeepers and with shopkeepers' gold, for everything that has a price has little value.

Not where you come from shall constitute your honor from now on, but instead where you are going! Your will and your foot, which wants to go over and beyond yourself - let that constitute your new honor!

Certainly not that you served a prince - what do princes matter anymore! Or that you became a bulwark for what stands, to make it to stand more firmly!

Not that your kinfolk became courtiers at court, and learned to stand long hours like a colorful flamingo in shallow ponds.

- For being able to stand is a merit among courtiers; and all courtiers believe that part of blessedness after death is - being allowed to sit!

Nor that a spirit they called holy led your forefathers to promised lands, which I do not praise; because where the worst of all trees grew, the cross - there is nothing to praise about that land!

And truly, wherever this "holy ghost" led its knights, in such crusades goats and geese and pious crisscrossing contradictors ran in front!

Oh my brothers, your nobility should not look back, but out there! You should be exiles from all father- and forefatherlands!

You should love your children's land; let this love be your new nobility - the undiscovered land in the furthest sea! For that land I command your sails to seek and seek!

You should make it up in your children that you are the children of your fathers; thus you should redeem all that is past! This new tablet I place above you!” On Old and New Tablets (12)

“My brothers! In whom does the greatest danger lie for all of future humanity? Is it not in the good and the just?

- is it not in those who speak and feel in their hearts: "We already know what is good and just, and we have it too; woe to any who still search here!"

And whatever harm the evil may do, the harm of the good is the most harmful harm!

And whatever harm the world slanderers may do, the harm of the good is the most harmful harm!

My brothers, there was a man who once looked into the hearts of the good and the just, and he spoke: "They are pharisees." But he was not understood.

The good and the just themselves were not permitted to understand him: their spirit is imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably clever.

But this is the truth: the good must be pharisees - they have no choice!

The good must crucify the one who invents his own virtue! This is the truth!

The second one, however, who discovered their land, the land, hearts and soil of the good and just: he was the one who asked: "Whom do they hate the most?"

The creator they hate the most; he who breaks tablets and old values, the breaker - him they call the lawbreaker.

Because the good, you see - they can not create: they are always the beginning of the end -

- they crucify the one who writes new values on new tablets, they sacrifice the future to themselves - they crucify all future humanity!

The good - they were always the beginning of the end. - “ On Old and New Tablets (26)

“"Why so hard!" - the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. "Are we not close relatives?"

Why so soft? Oh my brothers, this I ask you: for are you not - my brothers?

Why so soft, so retiring and yielding? Why is there so much denying and denial in your hearts? And so little destiny in your gazes?

And if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable, how could you triumph with me?

And if your hardness does not want to flash and undo and cut through, how could you one day create with me?

The creators are hard after all. And it must seem like bliss to you to press your hand upon millennia as if upon wax -

- bliss to write upon the will of millennia as if upon bronze - harder than bronze, more noble than bronze. Only the most noble is perfectly hard.

This new tablet, my brothers, I place above you: become hard! - “ On Old and New Tablets (29)

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ruerecs · 6 months ago

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fanfic writers NEVER contemplate or apologise for your fic being over 3-5k words long, we readers LOVE longer fics!! anyways have a good day/night 🙂‍↕️