#the city rises and falls

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Not sure if you do requests, but could you do one about not being able to move on from your first love?

i don't mind doing requests at all !! i hope this is what you were looking for

come back. even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Steven Espada Dawson excerpt from Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart / Fyodor Dostoyevsky excerpt from The Brothers Karamazov / @/ratsandlillies (on instagram) C + M / Trista Mateer Salt / Iain Thomas excerpt from The City Rises and Falls / Yves Olade Belovéd / Amber Run I Found / Tony Belobrajdic Hands 1 / Kim Jakobsson I Won't Become / Hozier Almost

i. Steven Espada Dawson, Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother's Heart

[ "We're under the same moon and I'm sick with that knowing." ]

ii. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[ "I am too young and I've loved you too much." ]

iii. @/ratsandlillies, C + M

[ Stylized painting of a man and a woman leaning towards each other. Their faces blend together in the middle. ]

iv. Trista Mateer, Salt

[ "I want you to know that it is okay not to love me. / I want you to know that you are not the first person / who found it a little too tough, who took two steps / back when my jaws started snapping." ]

v. Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls

[ "You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory." ]

vi. Yves Olade, Beloved

[ "I choked / on such longing I couldn't spit it out. Yes, desire is so different / when God bore you hungry." ]

vii. Amber Run, I Found

[ "For a while it was love, wasn't it? For me it was love." ]

viii. Tony Belobrajdic, Hands 1

[ Painting of two hands intertwined together. ]

ix. Kim Jakobsson, I Won't Become

[ Painting of a young woman standing with her back towards the audience. Stylized various different hands hold her face and back. ]

x. Hozier, Almost

[ "The same of music haunts her bedroom / I'm almost me again, she's almost you" ]

[flowrfeast]

Breaking News!

Chappell Roan —> Naked In Manhattan

[brookbee]

David Bowie performing "Suffragette City," 1973

[reisspieces]

remember that Leo got us to penalties for community shield AND vs Porto AND tied us up w Bayern

[canisalbus]

I've got to say, I've been doing a lot of research on Italy recently and I literally can't stop thinking about your boys. I'm over here trying to read about whatever Crusade and my brain is just a constant loop of "isn't Machete a cardinal? And Vasco was from like Verona, right?" Not super conducive to learning anything, but I am enjoying myself and thought you should know.

Thank you for your lovely art and for sharing your darlings <33

That's adorable ;^; But also sorry the lads keep distracting you, hah.

I'd argue that getting invested in your characters and their stories and having to do background research for them is actually a great way to accumulate knowledge about various subjects. Often it's stuff you probably would never get around to reading about otherwise. I'm not saying it's always information you'll have many practical uses for, but learning about new things is fun and it's beneficial to you and your brain in the long run.

Vasco is from Florence actually! It's usually considered to be the birthplace and the main hub of the entire Renaissance movement. Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Michelangelo lived and influenced there and Dante Alighieri (author of The Divine Comedy/Dante's Inferno) was florentine as well, albeit he lived several centuries prior to them.

[luckyshinyhunter]

Jay Sherman in the Multiverse of Madness

[wisteriaum]

if i had a nickel for every every time i liked a character related to black swans, i’d have two nickels! which isn’t a lot but its weird that it happened twice right??

lol

[joellalovestoread]

”love is a kaleidoscope”

I found it absolutely unacceptable that I hadn’t listened to every song from the rise and fall of a midwest princess, and called myself a Chappell roan fan. So I listened to California, Guilty Pleasure, and Kaleidoscope and I have some thoughts about the last one, Kaleidoscope.

I cried. This song is beautiful.

maybe I’m misinterpreting this, but I found Sokeefe in this song! Like “And if you change your mind/ I will understand/ it will just take time/ to go back to being friends” isn’t that essentially what Sophie said in chapter 42???? And it was revealed in Unraveled that they both thought they were being dumped when they went on that walk together. So give it a listen. Add it to your Sokeefe playlist if you’re like me and can’t stop making Spotify playlists.

now I want a kaleidoscope.

[bellatrixnightshade]

Random Rafal Thought

You know something off about "Pure Good rafal?"

I think it's because Rafal has a nature of justice over mercy and one of the whole rules of Good is that they forgive.

Granted, even the best humans fall into revenge and so forth, but Rafal was supposedly "pure Good."

But how long would this last if it was this scenario:

Let's just say Rafal had a kid or something, like a happy little daughter. If someone killed her, and killed her brutally, like burned her to death, do people seriously think Rafal would just let it go?

I think he would spend his whole life trying to find out who did it and once he does, he would make that person suffer for what they did. And if Rafal had to kill someone in order to somehow bring her back, I think he wouldn't hesitate. He would never be the type to grieve and move on, and allow law enforcement to deal with the murderer. Maybe the only thing he would stop at is killing the little child of the murderer or blaming them.

I was also thinking of writing a story where a child of the main series characters was connected to the murder of Rafal's daughter but they weren't the killer. Someone in the story had the ability to bring her back to life and so Rafal wanted to kill them (and the murderer.)

Actually, it was a plot for The City of the Swans, and since I just published one chapter, I could still scrap it and use this as a plot point instead.

[yourmajestybee]

Ok but Peter Rabbit is Bunnymund’s fav movie you’d think it was some karate movie or action hero thing but no no no he LOVESSS Peter Rabbit it’s practically a gender bent spring Hallmark romcom and he LOVES it

“ NOW THIS IS THE TrUE MEAninG OF EASTER ” he says while he’s blubbering

He also defintly loves 70s sounding Romance music like he loves “Our Love” by Curtis Harding, Jazmine Sullivan and anything by Stevie Wonder like 70s rhythm and blues soul, funk and Jazz that kind of music just speaks to him

[sinistermusings]

Fall of the House of X 4 (2024) by Gerry Duggan & Lucas Werneck

[sweetnnaivete]

don't lean on me man, cos you can't afford the ticket! i'm back from suffragette city !!

[stephaniegunnz]

CHAPPELL ROAN - GUILTY PLEASURE (my painting)

[secretagentsagainstwhatever]

Idk if the Chappell Roan European tour discourse is just happening on twitter, but this feels like a safer place to give my 2 cents

Artists cancelling their shows (especially so last minute that people can’t get refunds) is definitely too common an occurrence and should be discouraged. However i don’t think I’ve personally ever seen any artists receive THIS much backlash from doing so, and i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the artist getting the most hate for doing something other performers have done and will do is a lesbian woman

[silent-guardian]

Alfred . . . The Wiseman

Alfred (to Bruce Wayne): "I won't bury you. I buried enough members of the Wayne family."

[gumy-shark]

shoutout to dream smp fansongs