#the distance and the permanence of it

[brontes]

I had a thought today about all that vampires lose in the twilight lore. Sure sure they’re fast and strong and invulnerable BUT they lose the chance to earn things because of that. The Cullens are rich but like…that just happens when you invest for three centuries. They can lift incredible amounts of weight…but just by nature and not because they’ve built up to it. They build projects and make paintings and learn…but they will always lack the satisfaction that comes from managing those accomplishments amidst the regular demands of life. Edward was seventeen…he never got the chance to earn anything by the sweat of his brow or the burning of the midnight oil.

Beyond just the bloodlust, they miss out on the regular daily challenges that make our time and pleasure meaningful. Something that is easily overlooked by teenagers reading a love story but honestly something heartbreaking to contemplate.

[sandsoftide]

I promise I care about this show beyond just mistynat but I was rewatching their adult timeline scenes and was struck by how they both constantly perform in completely opposite directions. Nat is often mean and cruel and her actions are almost entirely self-serving, but it all comes from an innate kindness and desire to do good. Meanwhile Misty is bubbly and cheerful and her actions are all intended to help others and really do nothing to bring her personal gain, but ultimately she is motivated by selfishness.

And this is completely different from their early teen timeline selves, too: Nat is kind to basically everyone and even when she's upset it's mostly directed at herself, and Misty barely even pretends to have anyone else's best interests at heart.

There’s just something so compelling about how they end up (probably unintentionally) trying to channel the other when putting up walls, almost as if they picture the other when they look for resilience.

[ladyofchroyane]

some people in this fandom are going to be really disappointed when winds of winter comes out.

you guys. you cannot treat the POV characters as stepping stones for other characters/other POV characters.

the POV characters must have a fitting end according to their character arcs, themes, foreshadowing, etc.

to clarify, the POV characters chapters are about THEM. their storylines are about THEIR journey. you cannot use their hundreds of pages of character development as a brick to build the castle your fav will live in.

this is especially true for the key 5 and for the other younger POV characters. their endings have everything to do with them, they do not revolve around your fav.

us readers out-of-universe reasons for wanting x or y characters deaths does not matter. what actually matters is if you can support your theories with textual evidence from the chapters of the POV character that you want dead.

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

One thing I find very interesting, as a learner of German, is Isolde's usage of du when speaking to Kakania. In German, there are three main second person pronouns: du, ihr and Sie. The first two are mainly used in informal and casual settings or when talking to people you're close with (with du being singular and ihr being plural sorta similar to english's y'all) while Sie is used in more formal situations (or situations which require some form of formality) such as talking to strangers, customer service or when you're talking to a doctor/patient. Kakania abides by this and uses Sie when talking to Isolde (such as in her speech at the end of chapter 6) but interestingly, Isolde doesn't reciprocate this and instead uses du when conversing with Kakania in German.

This is super fascinating to me because it implies different levels of closeness within their relationship. Isolde's usage of du implies a level of closeness and intimacy to Kakania as Isolde herself saw Kakania as a close friend (most likely due to the fact that Kakania was once of the few people in Vienna who actually sympathized with her and saw her as a human being) but Kakania's siezen suggests a certain level of estrangement or distance between her and Isolde. Of course. this could just be her maintaining her professionalism as doctors normally use Sie when talking to patients but with how things turned out after chapters 6 and 7, I'd like to think this goes deeper than just formality standards.

[skidfart]

im rlly sad bc my friend who ive know for a year lowkey stopped talking to me after she got a gf 🥀 what happened to bffs4life

[yinyuedijun]

’I do think it's really funny that this couple never achieves a normal power dynamic’ the way this is most mao fics 😭😭

hey LISTEN ......that's true LMAO but these two want nothing more than to be normal okay. all my other couples are freaks in some way but mydei is a vanilla guy doomed to have a batshit insane power differential with the love of his life for the rest of eternity 😰😰😰

[shinysamurott9]

I can't help but think of Coraline using the Megaflame Bullet to cook something now

[angelwinkteruhashi]

Happy Monday, everyone!

Yesterday, I was going to get groceries for my mom and decided to try and take a few photos, now that the season has more noticeably changed!

Cherry Blossoms really are beautiful, if not fleeting. From how they flutter down, to how they truly show the change of season, it's understandable people would love them! Even if they're only in bloom for a few weeks, that's what makes them so amazing, you know? (o＾▽＾o)🌸

[starrstruckcanuck]

Been thinking of making a tierlist of my thoughts on all the teams for a while so here it is!! As you can see, I am indifferent to or hate most of the league... 😶‍🌫️🫣 which is why I generally say I'm more of a Canucks fan than a hockey fan lol

[littlest-bugz]

Had a foot doc appointment today and got collected massive Ws. My foot doctor is the best.

[teddybear-zero]

so uh. atiny. how we feelin about the 2025 world tour they just announced.

[monimolimnion]

sometimes a yaoi man who is drawn in a way that looks more like a spider than a human being can be so personal

[oklotea]

Sooooo I haven't moved on from the trolls world tour bounty hunters.

The reggaeton trolls and their really cool designs and music....

Hickory and Dickory's entire thing with playing the long haul in trying to get close to poppy to steal her string.......

THE KPOP TROLLS AND THEIR MISSED POTENTIAL AND AND THEIR DESIGNS AND THEY'RE REALLY CUTE AND LOVELY

And CHAZ THE FUCKING SMOOTH JAZZ TROLL!??!??!??!?! need I say more. I mean just look at him.

I am going to start. A fandom. Surrounding these guys. Just watch me.

They are so silly and I love them

[pokespefangirl]

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[love-ardour-anarchism]

Moonshine palest, moonlight dearest and on my skin this faintest light it covers all my scars and scabs and sores and I am freezing on my balcony with my chest bare and drowning in the cold and faintest light

though I have gotten so much better some days are purest pain and in my head dwell devils that I know cause now is depth of winter and Alex dearest I have missed you since November when I did leave a piece of my own heart inside your dorm room I don’t know how many stories high but in your bed in your fresh sheets as outside slept the city soundly I made some memories that I hope I shall always keep and when I left I left you all my heart though some of it came back to me

Oh moonshine palest, moonlight dearest my head a mental sieve and inside it no feeling of “you love me so” could stay for long and now is depth of winter and we hope that it will pass and that we’ll live and love together and I am dreaming of us by the riverside of many other visits and of the way your body feels when we are tangled sleeping like the forest cats we know and I hope one day I’ll have plugged all of this sieve inside my head so that I can remember how I’ve truly felt and so that I can trust that long as we are true and fair and honest-keen we’ll feel that way again when worldly stress lets go of us

[imhereonthekitchenfloor]

Okay gotta be personal for a second in the tags because I am in shock