#not in the least afraid of ruins

[ellisdee161]

The Monster Akefalos 2023

[ruporas]

deserving to be held

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[deathberi]

☀️🎡☁️‎

[beanmaster-pika]

I bet when Silver was very small he just called Malleus by name but eventually someone told him that they’re supposed to address him with a title and he stopped and Malleus, whose whole thing is that his status and strength have prevented him from forming meaningful attachments with most people and he feels isolated because of it, went home and didn’t come out of his room for three days.

[andresmounts2]

It's so weird being out on certain parts of the internet but then forcing myself back into the closet on other parts of the internet.

[impossible-rat-babies]

thinking about eshka’s reasons for her still holding onto her dislike of the crows and I think it comes down to her still nursing the pain and trauma of the inciting incident, along with a strong memory of her life before. and her response to stress being anger and frustration over sadness + grudge holding stubbornness

[theophagie]

I'm not good at this staying away from social media on purpose thing. Anyway cringe diary time but whenever I'm with my friends and the partners topic comes up I'm left 🧍‍♂️ because oftentimes they lament things that honestly sound good to me... and then I reflect on what kind of relationship I would be comfortable in in general and go "mhhh yeah let's just be sympathetic and say nothing else right"

[expressionless-fr]

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[basaltbutch]

something that fucks me up most about my lola's death is the fact that. out of the massive amount of paintbrushes and art supplies i got after her death only a few show signs of any use. and all of her paintings were unfinished.

[warblingandwriting]

Okay so I'm finally starting the second Dune book and the introduction states that people disliked it when it came out because it subverted Dune's 'classic hero story'??? And maybe it's just because I first read the book as an adult, but I felt like even the first book was shouting from the rafters that it is very intentionally criticizing that type of story.

Like, the only reason Paul is seen as prophecised hero is because the Bene Gesserit intentionally seeded planets with made up prophecies so that they could one day, if they ever needed to, get the people under their sway. He is completely manufactured- and that whole shebang is not presented in a good light. It's basically an out and out criticism of colonialism.

I mean, the entire novel (to me) feels like direct response to Burroughs' Barsoom series, basically upending the idea of the epic hero taking his place as king of the native people of that planet by explicitly telling the reader that it was all manufactured from the start, and that actually, at some future date, he will destroy the very people he is now claiming to want to help. Like - his final vision does not show a bright or happy future, the book ends of a very dark note.

It makes me excited for the second book that these themes are obviously going to be more present, but I am a bit taken aback that people didn't realize them in the first book at the time.

[redheadarcher]

the only satisfactory part of the comic 💜

[lost-victorian-sailor]

spending last weeks of summer reading mickiewicz's poetry and trying to relax. can't say that things are going well but still. sometimes it's nice to be alive

[delta-piscium]

mmh and what if i rewrote an entire wip just to change the pov what then? (tears, that's what)

[harmonizewithechoes]

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[mare-the-silly-scroingle]

i wish it was worse