#i cried when i read it

[raccoonfriday]

If this gets one like I will post my entry to “queering the map”

[lifealteringtimesandwich]

if they don’t physically release the rocksound article w dallon i will lose my mind. i need to hold those words.

[torsamors]

On Seatbelts and Sunsets - Hanif Abdurraqib

[dalekinapaintedparadise]

Another reason to cry about the Temperance ending: Johnny feels like V is still out there somewhere.

[el-ffej]

A Family Roast by Will McPhail

From The New Yorker, Dec. 23rd 2024

[opikiquu]

my life a movie (PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR)

[liesmultixxx]

“Why did you leave me?”

can you hear me crying?

the way annabeth thought percy had abandoned her like everyone else

… girl he fell into tartarus for you, he would never leave you

NEVER

rick was evil for that

[luxsart]

In celebration of today's update 🎇

[im-not-a-joke]

oh boy i sure can’t wait to see more of my favorite father-son dynamic in absolute flash!

[zuiz41]

IwaOi/Oiiwa Manga Valentine Special!

Happy Valentines Day, Everyone!! 💖💝💞 🎉✨

[ohhamlet-art]

such things should never happen, but they do / beside a little box, a mother cries / the swallow seeks to build its nest anew / the oak tree lifts its branches to its eyes

for Piersanti's 21 Syllables, Chapter 9

[nobunsonpesach]

No one:

House of Finwë naming their kids:

[visenyaism]

Can I get the name of the poem about eating chilled tofu with the ghost dog that you mentioned bc that phrase has been lodged in my brain ever since I read it.

So there there are two (miss you would love to take a walk with you and miss you would love to grab that chilled tofu we love) and I conflated them. They do things to me neurochemically. and spiritually.

[mariuspompom]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[dumplingsjinson]

List of responses to “what if we broke up, and I left? would you care? what would you even do?”

“Of course I’d care. How could I not?”

“I’d regret the way things ended… And perhaps I’ll always regret it, even if the feeling eventually dulls. It’ll always be a lingering kind of regret.”

“I’d miss you, no matter what. Because you’ve left such an impression on me, and because you’re such a big part of who I am now, and who I’m becoming.”  

“I don’t know, but I don’t think I’d be able to date again… Or want to find anyone else. You'd be the last one. It’s just too exhausting.”

“I mean… I said I’d love and support you no matter what. So yes, I would care even if we broke up — I will always care for you, and that’s not just conditional to us being together.”

“I would… Always wish it was you. Even if just a little bit. That it could have been you.”

“I don’t know, but all I know is it would sting if I ever saw you with someone else. And I would wish it was me instead.”

“Well, it would suck.“ “Would you be open to starting over again for a second time if we ever got the chance? If we went separate ways and became better people?” “…Yeah. Yeah, I would.”

“I’m not sure, but what I do know is things will get worse for me if you leave. You're not responsible for me and for my emotions and I'm not saying you need to stay if that's not what you want, of course not, but it's just... Yeah.”

“I don’t know how I’d feel at first, to be honest. I don’t think I’d feel much in the beginning.” 

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[deecotan]

Completely, and perfectly, incandescently happy