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Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

#just a silm fan

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Guys is it gay to want to depict each and every detail of your bestie’s body through sewing

#her tale of shim chong #yuri propoganda #this Will change your life <3

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listen. LISTEN. throughout the entire Her Tale of Shim Cheong, it's implied to be a tragedy, because we know the ending of the myth and unnie/the fortune teller keeps saying that cheong getting close to the madam will lead to her death

but cheong refuses to escape her fate because, well, her life wasn't very much worth living ?? the madam inspires her to live for herself, to fight for something, even though it will eventually kill her, and she would rather feel alive for that brief moment than live a long but miserable life

but what gets me is that whAT IT TAKES TO CHANGE THE FORTUNE ISN'T CHEONG CHOOSING TO LEAVE THE MADAM

IT'S THE MADAM CHOOSING CHEONG OVER EVERYTHING ELSE

the entire story, the madam has been trying to protect cheong from within the system that victimizes them both. it's such a good depiction of patriarchy to me--there's no amount of obedience or martyrdom that will ever make you win in a system that doesn't value you as a human being to begin with

especially in the finale when all the merchants are saying the most horrific shit like "why couldn't you just drown peacefully" or calling cheong's desire to live on her own terms "irresponsible" or "sinful"

so the fact that cheong's fate changes when the madam embraces her own agency, when she gives up the only kind of power she's ever known and rejects the system entirely for cheong is like, they saved themselves by choosing each other aND IF THAT ISN'T THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING

#<3 <3 #her tale of shim chong meta #god I love meta on gls TY FOR THIS FOOD

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Thinking about how it was Madam’s desperate wish to exist, she noticed the previous minister wife’s writing and objects. Deeply aware of the place she occupies, lonely and with little direction on how to occupy this role, she seeks out her predecessor. When there’s almost nothing in the previous wife tomb, she gets desperate because the little life she was granted - even if after death - is actually just an illusion, a formality.

When Chong says the present they build together and the memories they hold of each other are enough, she’s affirming Madam’s life, her worth. In the narrow space she allowed to live, she was able to truly live her life, with Chong.

Faced with the false memory of the previous women of the house, built to affirm status only, the two of them  build their own history together

Tl;dr, they should have kissed here

(but it’s kind of perfect that they didn’t)

#her tale of shim chong

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oikawa tooru at 30… putting everyone to shame… he might look cool here but he’s shit talking for sure there’s no question about it

#oikawa tooru #haikyuu #yaoi hands

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are we still doing this because i have a late submission

#verily

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I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go "alright, what's all this then"

#yea #best way

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Girl Ninjas

#yuri #yes #sasunaru

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everyone: what's your goal in life?

me: to write a story so soul snatching, so gut wrenching and so devastatingly beautiful that it leaves you crying at 3am when you have a 8am lecture/shift and it inspires people to write entire essays, to write entire fanfics, mood boards and playlists based on it.

#I don't ask for much #just this and a friend who knows me intimately

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"have you learned how to drive yet" i have the spirit of friendship in my heart. the joy of lifes little things in my soul. the whimsy of magic. the beautiful enjoyment of nature. the answer is no though

#yeaaa

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who is the first david you think of when you hear the name david

#david from the bible #and then I think of all the times I thought of him and jonathan in church

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hey. personality quiz right here right now. What did you do at recess. :)

#fun and dangerous swing tricks and ever after high roleplay

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#yuri

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”great” britain? actually I find it quite mid

#yea

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QUICK. RB THIS WITH THE FIRST SONG LYRIC THAT COMES TO YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU SEE THIS POST. THAT IS AN ORDER

#I want your secrets #your clementine fields #The ropes that you climb up #the parts that won't heal #I want your safe word #your passive resistance #the sickness you foster #your favorite addictions

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blood is so cool

#yea #okay who Hasn't tasted their own blood #just for funsies

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anyone have a NOPE OUT moment when reading meta? for me it's when OP relates their own irl experiences to the text... (e.g. this reminds me of when my brother XYZ)

#verily #perfect addition