#truth of a parallel

[k1nky-fool]

I should mention for Truth of a Parallel

I do my best to make sure that Miguel's Spanish is as correct in context and intention. It is a little difficult for me because I am not a native Spanish speaker and I usually just compare different online Spanish to English dictionaries and I look for explanations on the how specifically Mexican cultures would express the same idea I need the character to embody.

However, I know that even after that, my knowledge is not perfect, and it is very likely for me to make mistakes. So if any Spanish speakers or anyone that belongs to the culture I'm representing reads something incorrect or out of place, I openly welcome any and all corrections you are willing to tell me. I will always be ecstatic to be able to change something to make it more accurate to the idea I was intending to get across.

So if you notice something wrong, please don't think you have to keep it to yourself, I would be so happy to hear from someone that knows more than me.

[technically-human]

St. Hilarion's ghost story

[hermit-frog]

[shyjusticewarrior]

Jason overpowering fear toxin

Jason overpowering cheer drops

Jason overpowering his fear failsafe

[cinematic-phosphenes]

Larys Strong 1x05 | Alys Rivers 2x03 HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-)

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[celebrimborium]

Stop fighting me and together, let us fight them.

[septemberkisses]

On Mothers and Pain - Collected Works #1

— her pain was mine, but mine not hers.

Excerpts from-

Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong • Letter to my Rage: An Evolution by Lidia Yuknavitch • honeytuesday • sixisockets • La Flor de Lis by Elena Poniatowska • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera • The Unfinished World and Other Stories by Amber Sparks • A Mother's Hate by Sam Gordon • Salt by Nayyirah Waheed

[raayllum]

Search your heart

[cherbearsz]

when shadow says to nine that "it was all about power", he says it like he's familiar with that motivation, like it was once shadow's goal as well, that he too had been reprimanded with the same accusation. and we know in the games that shadow has sought power! whether it be a "jewel containing the ultimate power", or destroying the earth, or black doom weaponizing his grief, confusion, and rage for conquest.

shadow's insistence on nine's villainy and his eagerness to be the one responsible for nine's defeat - all directed at a character he barely knows - switches from somewhat disproportionate to entirely justified when you realize shadow does in fact know nine, nearly as well as he knows himself. because nine IS shadow - a shadow without support, a shadow alone and discarded by everyone, a shadow whose maria came back only to dash his own hopes and dreams apart.

[k1nky-fool]

full disclosure, this next chapter of Truth of a Parallel is gonna be like 3k words longer than usual.

[molinaesque]

Cooper Howard & Lucy MacLean | Betrayal

[sophfandoms53]

anyways i am very much still thinking about this,,, i have not moved and i will never move on

[haifoct]

The one who couldn't be blinded, the one who helped Li Lun see.

[starfilledsea]

lying liars of all time: fight

[reunitedinterlude]

ice breakers