#the heartlights

[ayman-abdinasir]

“It is just a heart, how much more can it bare, how many times can it shatter”

—ayman abdinasir

[izayoichan]

My heart belongs to you. 🎶

[mgeekingout]

from what i've gather from season 2, next season will have a scene in which crowley and aziraphale do their apology dance together in the rain, they get back together again, then, using their combined power, they grant a miracle that's oh so powerful they save the whole world again

[myimaginaryradio]

Heartlight - Neil Diamond

[elisaenglish]

All the drumrolls, all the paws, all the everything to say: Happy Black Cat Day, Perkin!

You are the wholly requited part of all I am. All, complete and ever. My greatest luminescence. My heart. I couldn’t love you more if I tried. But try—and try, I will.

Mille baisers,

Mama x

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Worldbuilding issues in the Shadowstruck universe:

Can I get away with the concept that people with heartlights cast no shadows and only people without them (shades) do? Wouldn't that vary based on the brightness of the person's heartlight vs. the brightness of external light sources? Can I just chalk it up to "it's a magical side effect that we don't understand"?

How does the fact that most people (or rather, all the people who are considered people) serve as a light source affect lighting technology in this world? I imagine you'd still want external lighting to light up a whole room, or to have streetlights to illuminate an entire area so you're just not navigating by the small window of light cast by your own faint glow, but would there be less external lighting? How bright can a person's heartlight be without putting too much strain on themselves? Would lanterns be a thing? Are they considered assistive technology that's only for shades?

(How does a heartlight affect art? Does the look of a painting change when the artist themself is a light source?)

Does having a heartlight affect sleep? Are there ways to dampen ones own heartlight when you want a dark room, or want to move around without being seen?

If being ill can diminish or temporarily quench a person's heartlight, how do you tell the difference between someone who's been born a shade and someone who's dealing with a temporary illness/disability? Can shades take advantage of this if they're trying to escape slavery/imprisonment/death?

Does it diminish/overly complicate the pro-life message if a lot of people believe that a heartlight is the external sign of having a soul? This is a heresy, but a widespread one that has been taken up enthusiastically by several governments/societies that find it much more convenient to believe that the people who need extra care aren't people at all. But could I make the fact that they're wrong about heartlight being linked to the soul clear within the story? Would it make it look like all religious people are monsters who think shades should die?

Even if I could make it clear, would mixing religion into this make the too complicated? You'd have religious people who think that shades are abominations--an empty vessel that's like a person but is walking around among us with no soul--and should be killed/prevented from reproducing, while other religious people believe a lack of heartlight is a disability like the loss of any other sense, so shades have to be treated as people, while other people are like 'Hey, convenient labor source," and don't think too deep into it. And then there are atheists who scoff at the idea of the heartlight being tied to the soul because no one has a soul, so it's stupid to think shades are worth any more or less than anyone else, while other atheists are like, "Why should we have shades straining society? It's better to have them die out and rid the gene pool of this weakness." Does this make it realistic or too complicated for the length of story that I'm likely to write?

[deathdxnces]

i was rereading some stuff and the ionians referring to partners as heartlight is so cute actually??? it's the word valmar and kai use for each other in the varus oneshot comic (it's... the comic's title lmao) and also appears in syndra's story when kalan thinks of his s/o and i just think it's sweet

[yeslordmyking]

Matthew 9:12 — Today's Verse for Thursday, September 12, 2024

[nihilaraarchived]

@girlfox asked: tenderly cups his face with either of her hands, palms soft and warm against the coolness of him. thumb brushes against his cheekbone. ❛ i love you, ❜ the fox purrs quietly, gaze softening, wavering over his features━━ and how adorably tired they always appeared. ❛ my heartlight. ❜ she smiles some and presses her lips to his, hands gliding down to rest against his chest.

𝐀𝐇𝐑𝐈 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐎 𝐒𝐎… 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐘 𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐇𝐈𝐌. in any shape and any form, he has never had any illusion about her feelings. no doubt, no worry, nothing-- he knows she means every word. so when she takes his face in her hands, he melts. allows his weight to rest solidly there. lets the sight, and sound, and smell of her envelope him once again. --- immortality has not been kind to him. it has been a very long, and very lonely road. and for the longest time, it was a single winding path, desperately reaching for something that was always too far.

his hands come to rest over her own. his face is hot, his heart beating just a little quicker at her words. ah... she loves him. she loves him. he's never said it before, he's never had to. but she knows he feels the same, knows he would give her his heart if she asked. " ahri... " a reply to her nickname. there is something about it, the weight it carries that makes him feel wound up tight.

as soon as she kisses him, he returns it. there isn't even a moment of hesitation between them. arms sliding down to wrap around her, and pull her closer towards him. as he tips himself back, to fall upon a nest of blankets and pillows.

𝐮𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝

[girlfox]

ahri calling her lover her 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓. ♡

[stalkiwi]

Wym '' life used to be simple'' are you okay???

nah. life sucks bro. those moving png on my screen are all that keeps me alive. dont fall at my level. 'tis my last advice

[ayman-abdinasir]

“Memories, sometimes they come and give you a warm hug, and sometimes they creep in and smack you on the face.”

—ayman abdinasir

[izayoichan]

Home & Heart 🎶

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Phil Ware shares a study of John 9 and reminds us how Jesus viewed people so he could share the life and light of God with them and save them.

[heartsighted]

[elisaenglish]

Miss Perkin, slayer of dragon(flies)...