#hearts in vain

[leiandroid]

"free palestine," he shouted until his last breath. aaron bushnell, we will never forget you.

as much as bushnell's actions has moved us all, please seek other ways to take actionable measures against the injustices we face in the world. none of us wanted him gone, and the least we can do is prevent another such tragedy by supporting each other in our efforts to enact lasting change.

[cuties-in-codices]

the soul entrusting her heart to the care of godliness and penitence

illustration for the allegorical poem "le mortifiement de vaine plaisance" by rené d'anjou, france, c. 1470

source: Cologny, Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cod. Bodmer 144, fol. 50v

[dendroaspis-viridis]

I'm begging you, BioWare... Learn from the mistakes of Baldur's Gates past...

[brighteuphony]

I am currently outside Saeko's house, humbly offering my hand in marriage, please and thank you. But now I'm incredibly intrigued how Sakura found out about this mysterious lady, doubly so when you consider why Saeko accepted her as a student; did Enji have a hand in both, by chance?

Saeko is a complex woman with complex wants and needs. But she also really likes to be flattered.

[kindlingkeen]

you know those instances when the pain of losing someone is too much and you consider forgetting them altogether? that, but Bruce chooses NOT to forget. instead, he'd rather remember Jason incorrectly. gaslighting himself is his coping mechanism. it's literally the opposite of honoring the dead

Oh, anon, you are really tugging on my heartstrings with this one. I completely agree. Honestly, to me, Bruce’s response to Jason’s death is unforgivable (not the immediate grief, but the way he rewrote the narrative). He destroyed Jason’s legacy, the piece him that should have lived on forever. Fifteen year old Jason Todd hardly had a chance to make a mark on the world. As Robin, he made a difference, he gave everything he had to making Gotham a better place, to standing up for people who didn’t have anyone else behind them. The public didn’t (couldn’t) know about Robin’s death, so the only keepers’ of that memory, of that legacy, was Jason’s family. And for completely selfish reasons, Bruce didn’t just obliterate it, he tarnished it beyond recognition. And he spread that poison to the next generation. As you said, it’s the opposite of honoring the dead.

To me, the true tragedy of Jason’s story is not that he died, that Batman didn’t save him, that he was a collateral damage in Batman’s crusade, that even after he came back begging for his Dad to choose him he still lost, that ultimately his death meant nothing. It’s that his father, the person that was supposed to love him most in life, made it so his life meant nothing. It’s heartbreaking.

I will never understand how dc decided to go from these two boys who loved each other so much (Batman #383):

To a father, who, almost in the same breath, could say his son was responsible for his own death (Batman Hush):

And then turn around and claim his son knew how much he loved him:

To a father, who claimed his son was nothing more than rage (Batman 614).

and recklessness (Detective Comics 790).

That is tragedy.

[starleska]

i love Jack Frost so much man. he's just so easy to rattle 😂❄️

[sleepyblr-heart]

this'll hurt you more than it'll hurt me

[spineless-lobster]

Finally finished my reread of the iliad!!!! I am… sad

[andiover]

Can we talk for a minute about how Jamie vocalizes his low points as just washing and not conditioning his hair and people are mean on Twitter about the color of his highlights?

[sarafangirlart]

Friendly reminder that Hephaestus is never actually referred to as ugly (by modern standards) in ancient sources and the closest we got is with Hephaestus himself saying that Ares is more handsome than him bc he isn’t disabled. Besides that, the ancient Greeks thought of disability in of itself being ugly. Also Hera didn’t throw him off Olympus for not being a cute baby, she threw him for being disabled, which is still messed up but not the same thing.

[lvstharmony]

you can say or do whatever you want, i will never let this dunya and the people within it harden my heart.

[timetravelsong]

𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝; 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐧.

excerpts from a book I’ll never write

[the-barefoot-hatter]

Relationships: Bill Cipher/Ford Pines (Past/implied), Bill Cipher & Dipper Pines & Ford Pines & Mabel Pines & Stan Pines

Characters: Bill Cipher, Ford Pines, Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines, Stan Pines

Tags: Blind Bill Cipher, Handyman Bill Cipher, Post-Theraprism Bill Cipher, Bill Cipher Has Issues, Bill Cipher is Trying, Family Fluff, slice of life, Sleepovers, Literal Sleeping Together, Bill Cipher is Vain, Ford Pines is not as factual and unbasised as he thinks he is, Insomnia, Late Night Conversations, shameless use of parody titles, Dipper Pines is Easy to Mess With, Billford (past/implied), current relationship status: getting warmer, bill cipher is a party girl at heart, ford is also tricked into taking a nap, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, does anyone in this house understand a responsible bedtime?

well I don’t do handsome and you don’t do sympathy

Summary:

Bill can't- won't?- sleep. And as everyone knows, the only real cure for a sleepness night- is partying until dawn! AKA Sleepover shenanigans! (blind bill au, skipping ahead to when Bill is more or less just part of the family)

[ind1exo]

Me personally...

[anarkhebringer]

Always on my mind how Elliott completely hides how miserable he was the whole time until he gets closer with the farmer. Depressed and exhausted, lonely to the core, so sucked into proving his dreams to himself that he doesn't know how to act the moment something happens that goes beyond what his mask of elegance is trained for. Being a depressed autistic artist myself I see how much he's compensating so clearly.

[the-priestess-of-dawn]

"This is not your— your fault..."

"I told you, I'm Robin. The Robin that murdered you and became the fell dragon, Grima."

"Promise me you'll escape from this place..."

"Please, return to the Table! It's too dangerous!"

Not only did Chrom's dying wishes not come true, the exact opposite did. Robin blames themself for everything to the point of embracing it, and the site where their heart was shattered becomes their only shelter.