#the poem goes??

[wisteriasymphony]

a continuation of this post and inspired by this song

[valtsv]

not a hater but i do want to know what popular symbolism just doesn't do it for you. for me it's fruit. like it's nice when someone peels an orange for me i guess but i just don't think that hard about it idk.

[cheruib]

u ever read a poem so beautiful u wanna live between its lines? u wanna drink it and simultaneously drench yourself in it? u wanna fully become it and make every line of it a permanent part of you???

[iliveinyou]

[krispypajamalady]

If love was personified, it would be Xaden Riorson.

Xaden is ruthless, but he can also be compassionate. He is selfless when he needs to be, but selfish when he wants to be. He'd die for his loved ones, but kill too. He wouldn't pay much attention to anything that concerns him, but would leave no rock unturned when it comes to his loved ones. He would never take his loved ones for granted, but he won't tell them he wouldn't either. Xaden Riorson would never backstab you, but would happily accept the dagger you stab him with. It is dangerous to be with him, at such close proximity, but impossible to move away. He has the power to completely ruin you, and yet you will not be able to leave. You'll stay, and you'll stay because you know he would never.

And they're a few reasons why Violet loves him.

It's either you completely drown in him or you don't. But if you do, then it would become the most beautiful thing you'll feel like you could do. And you wouldn't ever want to stop.

Because when the burning in your chest will feel like home, you'll never know.

Just like Violet didn't.

There is no 'Xaden with someone else' or 'Violet with someone else'.

It's simply them. You'd be a fool to think they would let each other go. You'd be a fool to think one of them deserves to be with someone else.

Because if Xaden is the poem, Violet is the poet.

Because if Violet is the art, Xaden is the artist.

There is no one without the other ❤️

[stylosha]

maybe i'm being nitpicky but it's always came on as a red flag to me when somebody says any variation of "maids / servants / helpers" instead of "slaves" when it came to like ancient literature because like idk just say what you mean. they were slaves. they were people owned by people and i feel like using other terms can imply they were anything short of that or even go as far as to imply that they were willing to be in their predicament. but hey what do i know

[missnarcissistsworld]

Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

- John Keats

[katerinaaqu]

Latest trend: What if Odysseus sold himself to Zeus to save his men?

Me: ...

Me: Bitch, you mean what he did with CIRCE?!

[trickstersaint]

treatises on celestial selection // november 2021

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I've decided I'm gonna memorize a poem by heart this month. And possibly memorize one poem a month for the rest of the year

[qcomicsy]

Nicola Yoon The Sun is Also a Star / Batman #650 / Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010) dir. Brandon Vietti / And My Father's Love Was Nothing Next To God's Will by Amatullah Bourdon / Vulnerability - A.j. / Batman #650

[markantonys]

– Langston Hughes

[snailfen]

at the very least heres this. go my suitloon qpr

[feroluce]

When talking about Boothill's drink order in 2.6, like. Hoyo could have just glossed it over and described it as "a few" or "several" drinks. They didn't bother to program in the actual glasses or anything- it's not like any of us were gonna count them and notice if they put in the wrong amount.

But they specifically chose the number seven, and if it IS just coincidence, it is a very very fun one.

Hsr is also known to make tarot card references- we had the online event shortly before Penacony's release, I'm pretty sure there's at least a couple simulated universe occurrences and a curio, and then Black Swan's Everything.

The Seven of Cups is a card about dreams and making choices when you have multiple options it front of you. It represents resisting self-deception and false dreams, and not letting yourself be charmed by hallucinations. It is a warning to carefully consider what is real vs what is not, which is very important in Penacony as a whole, being the land of sweet dreams, and it becomes relevant to Boothill later, when Primon starts to fuck with his head.

It can also represent someone who is "deep in their cups," which is a more polite way to refer to someone who uses alcohol as a coping mechanism to an unhealthy amount.

I hate that this could be a serious comment on Boothill being an alcoholic to cope with how much horrifying trauma he's experienced...and I have to discuss it looking at Primon's ridiculous fucking face fjkdslajldk

The overall message of the card is to stand fast, keep a clear head, and make your decision. Which suits Boothill beautifully even outside of this patch, since he is the very picture of ruthlessness and straightforwardness- he is able to see that bright clear line between action and result, and he follows it doggedly! Everything he does, he does wholeheartedly and decisively! And we see it especially well when he fights through the partial regression Primon leads him into!

Straight and clear and sure as a bullet, baby!!!

[agent37]

After all, who is the dreamer? Is it myself as I had existed in that dream, or myself who has awakened from it?

[words-and-coffee]

I’m making nothing happen but my own drool, drooling, gaping, chomping at the ing ing ing. I make a nothing that whirs into being, feedback looping into a buzz saw of nothing, dome of nothing. So big it rises. Big enough to keep my people safe from the catastrophes that rain from planes. Before each catastrophe, a moment in which my people are safe. Refuge of nothing. Refuge of uneventfulness. First days, then days, and days. In a dead tree’s heart, an empty space. In the space, a small animal, useless beautiful animal, stretching its wings, wings, wings. . .

Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On - Upon Learning That Some Korean War Refugees Used Partially Detonated Napalm Canisters as Cooking Fuel