#in the classic sense

[maybeamiles]

Someday I will put together my thoughts on what it means to me that the entire persona 5 fandom loves goro akechi. That we all seem to agree that he is not the villain of the story. That people write so many fics where he gets to be better. Do better. Where one thing Changes and he gets to have the same happy ending as everyone else. Healing him is rotten work, but not to us. Not if it's him.

[angstics]

gerard should do “the continent of europe is so wiiiide mein herr” dance. for the laugh. for my well-being. for the art.

[starbuck]

reading and watching “classic” books and films is such an interesting experience because, before you get into them, when you only know them by name and maybe the vaguest plot outline, they’re intimidating and stuffy and up on a pedestal, but then you finally take the leap and check them out and realize that almost every story that’s achieved such a legendary level of popularity did so because something in its emotional core reached out and grabbed a lot of people by the throat and you are NOT immune.

[theology101]

Yo forgive the fact that i recorded this on an iphone in an amc, but can we like… discuss for a second

Feyd-Rautha, if he had a single second to live, would’ve started making out with Paul. This man has never been turned on more in his fucking life then fighting his predestined Cousin-Soulmate over who gets to be the Father of the Kwisach Haderach

You know he was pissed as fuck that Jessica ruined the plan. Man would’ve been SO HYPE to make Super Messiah Babies with Paul(ine)

[bottomoftheriverbed]

They keep trying to make first doctor into a stuffy old man like he's not also a feral grandpa who's absolutely batshit and has the most mischievous little giggle you've ever heard

[team7-headquarter]

HE WAS SO MAD

[peacefulandcozy]

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[molinaskies]

An interesting “side effect” of the canonization of the “classic era” meaning “younger era” is that the classic era now reads as “cute fun times” before the core cast became teenagers/tweens and things got super, super complicated.

Because the characters are “younger,” there’s an air of “little rascal innocence” to everything they do now. The new releases like Mania and Superstars now feel like little throwbacks to the young heroes just learning how to work together and make a difference in the world.

I don’t think this is a bad thing at all.

[mangocatastrophe]

I HEARD YOU LIKED TO READ???

Yes, yes I do

Frobin has a chokehold on me guys, I love these two so much, THEY GET EACH OTHER, THEY’RE WONDERFUL!!!

I headcanon that Franky’s a comic book reader, he has that vibe. I intend on making a follow up drawing one day where they’re reading together

[pixieverse-icedtea]

i want to meet myself from someone else's point of view

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Another Les Mis musical connection that's making me feral: Jean Valjean uses the same melody with which he sings to Cosette, "Believe me, / Were it within my power, / I'd fill each passing hour-- / How quiet it must be, I can see, / With only me for company"...

When he sings "You are free, / And there are no conditions. / No bargains or petitions! / There's nothing that I blame you for. / You've done your duty--nothing more" to Javert.

In my journey to map out the various leitmotifs in the show, this one really flung me for a loop because what does it meannnn?? This is the only time we hear the melody in the show, and it's applied in two very different circumstances, where the relationship Valjean has to the characters involved could not be more opposite. What connects them?? But I think I have it.

It's a reluctant release. Not of the people, but of his own desires regarding them. Let me explain.

Valjean very distinctly wants things from both Cosette and Javert, which he sings about on the rising part of the melody. With Cosette, he wants to be the center of her life: "Were it within my power, I'd fill each passing hour;" on the other hand, he desperately wants Javert to leave him alone. When he has Javert at his mercy, he absolutely does want to trade lives, which is why he sings it on the rising part: "And there are no conditions, no bargains or petitions." He does want these things--but he's letting them go.

And that's where the falling part of the melody comes in. In both situations, Valjean knows he can't have what he wants. So he gives up that desire. He accepts that Cosette wants someone else, and doesn't blame her for it ("How quiet it must be, I can see, with only me for company,"), the same way he accepts the situation between him and Javert ("There's nothing that I blame you for. You've done your duty, nothing more."). That's why immediately afterwards, he tells Javert his address, and why shortly after that, he prays that Marius be brought home to Cosette.

Cosette is his biggest security, and Javert is the biggest threat to his security. But in this little melody, he sets them free (Cosette metaphorically, and Javert literally). He acknowledges what he wants, and accepts that he can't have it, even though it hurts.

And if that ain't the most Jean Valjean thing, I don't know what is.

[doodlerose]

This is supposed to be children of Hero's who were killed by their parents, chilling in a field. Hopefully having a much peaceful afterlife compared to their lives.

Hippolytus- son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte - who was killed by Poseidon as a wish from Theseus after being falsely blamed for Phaedra (Theseus's wife) suicide.

Iphigenia- daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - who was killed in a sacrifice to Artemis in order to sail to Troy.

and Medea's and Jason's sons- who were killed by Medea for revenge against Jason, and after researching were not able to find definitive names for them in the play which is tragic. But I haven't read the play so I could be wrong.

Feel free to correct me if I got any information wrong :).

[meirimerens]

dansant accrochées au bras de leur Mère

[homophobicgerardwayau]

Resurrecting a dead meme format because it had to be done.

All Swarm tour outfits on the Futch scale! Please feel free to disagree and discourse, this is just my opinion and is extremely vibes-based

[taitavva]

Thus, Socrates says that "sophrosyne is something divine" (Carmides, 174b) and that "the sensible man is a philosopher" (Carmides, 174c).

[Enkrateia and sophrosyne in Plato: a comparative study of the dialogues Carmides, Gorgias, Republic, Politius and Laws - Juan Carlos Tellería Sebastián]

[typewriter-worries]

life film imitates art

The Kiss, Gustav Klimt | Shutter Island, dir. Martin Scorcese | Christina's World, Andrew Wyeth | Bad Dreams, dir. Andrew Fleming | Prisoners Exercising, Vincent Van Gogh | A Clockwork Orange dir. Stanley Kubrick | The Night Café, Vincent Van Gogh | Lust for Life, dir. Vincente Minnelli | Nighthawks, Edward Hopper | Pennies from Heaven dir. Herbert Ross | The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci | Viridiana, dir. Luis Buñuel | Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Jacques-Louis David | Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola