mythsofaphrodite

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i've polished this anger and now it's a knife

rubyetc.com / unknown / @/rbhvleo (tumblr) / Venetta Octavia The Burning / David Lynch The Angriest Dog in the World / Japanese Breakfast Boyish / unknown / @/jovialtorchlight (tumblr)

i. rubyetc

[ Messy drawing of two hands holding a bird. "HOLD ME, / NICELY, / I'M UNLOVELY" ]

ii. unknown

[ Black and white background image of people fighting. A man kneels down holding his head with his right hand in front of the audience. Right behind him is another man raising his fist in a punch. People lay on top of each other in the background. "WHY ARE YOU FULL OF RAGE?" ]

iii. @/rbhvleo

[ "TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER / TELL ME WHERE TO PUT THE ANGER" ]

iv. Venetta Octavia, The Burning

[ "You are shaking fists & trembling teeth. I know: You did not mean to be cruel. That does not eman you were kind." ]

v. David Lynch, The Angriest Dog in the World

[ Stylized drawing of a tied up dog in the backyard of a house. "The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. / ...Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis." ]

vi. Japanese Breakfast, Boyish

[ "And all of my devotion turns violent" ]

vii. unknown

[ "You are / a better knife / than you are / a person." ]

vii. @/jovialtorchlight

[ "once you understand the form kill it / once you understand the form kill it / once you understand the form kill it / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once the form is dead hold it and weep / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / once you have wept for the dead whatever / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT / HOLD THE LAST LIGHT AND MOLD IT" ]

#about me #:) #hahaha #:)))

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WANDAVISION S01E07 – Breaking The Fourth Wall

#about me #ch: wanda

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cant fucking sleep bc wikipedia has separate lists for vampires and for fictional vampires

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oh boy new x-men 97 I wonder if rogue's gonna choose between gambit or mag-

#x men 97 spoilers #my fucking heart wtf #jesus #x men 97

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eid mubarak to everyone who celebrates!! may it fill your hearts with joy and peace 🤍🤍🤍

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ANYONE BUT YOU (2023) Dir. Will Gluck

#anyone but you

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Suki Waterhouse Gif Pack

please use my ASK BOX to get access to #125 gifs of SUKI WATERHOUSE as GINESTA/LUCY in the movie DALILAND (2022). he was born in 1992 and is WHITE so please keep that in mind when using him! all gifs were made by me, from scratch, so please DO NOT claim as your own, post in gif hunts or use in celeb rps. feel free to make them into crackships and gif icons as long as you give me credit! please LIKE and/or REBLOG this post if you use, as I am a new gif maker. thank you so so much! please be respectful of my work as this takes time and every content creator wants to be appreciated.

trigger warning(s): drug use, alcohol use, nsfw, spicy-ness gif pack features: christopher briney, ben kingsley

#suki waterhouse #reblogging here instead of the rp blog :)

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ok so a love shack is basically like a little old place where we can get together essentially

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“It’s radical thinking of a man apologizing in a really sincere way. I’m not talking about any of you here, I’m talking about other people right now.” SHOTS FIRED sjdjdjdjdjdjdhdjdjrdj !!

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half a year of unrelenting genocide in Gaza, please don’t stop caring. they are so tired, they cannot be the only ones participating in their own liberation. we have to keep caring

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doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and there never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.

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"oh yeah im just tired" ~ girl who is quickly unravelling at the seams and also just happens to be tired

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its dope how the CEO of this website can casually drop the fact that he had at least one content moderator on payroll who was accepting bribes to take down blogs on request, without revealing who was affected by this or what actions were taken to reverse the damage, and were all just supposed to be like oh ok thanks for taking care of that :D

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Another reason I love Tolkien is what he does with character death

When characters die (or are perceived as having died) the others characters grieve their loss

When Gandalf falls in Moria once the rest of the fellowship is safe in Lothlorien they take time to mourn and grieve and remember

When Boromir dies Aragon, Gimli, and Legolas stop to give him as good a funeral as they can before going after Pippin and Merry and even that's not the end of his effect on the narrative.

Denethor allows his grief to destroy him (and nearly allows it to kill his other son) Faramir fights with his grief and his guilt for not going to Rivendell instead

And Frodo, who was betrayed by Boromir, is heart broken to hear of his death

The story of the Eo family is one of a family touched deeply by grief and that's why Eowyn and Faramir bonding in the houses of healing is so important

Because they do heal, by sharing their individual grief and carrying that combined pain between them

Because when death happens in LOTR it is always with intent, with purpose, and it allows for mourning. And while grief can be destructive mostly it's not, because it's shared.

(and I know there are a lot more examples these are just the first that came to mind)

Too many times I have read fantasy novels that don't let characters support each other when a character dies. And often if a character dies it's sad in the moment and then the narrative just stops caring

Tolkien's work is a story about grief and healing from it. People are changed by grief but it doesn't have to be a bad thing, it's just something that happens and that love and mutual support can carry you through

"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."

This is why I love Tolkien

#lotr

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The Shire was saved - but not for any of the Fellowship

So, I just finished my reread of the Lord of the Rings. And while I could say a lot about how it hits different every time since I read it first at the age of 8 to now being 26, there was one thing that I never realized and that really moved me.

We all know that Frodo never felt at home again in the Shire and left for the Undying lands to be healed. But while I read through the Appendix, I realized… none of the fellowship found peace at their homelands after their quest:

- Frodo leaves for Valinor.

- Sam follows him after Rosie dies.

- Merry and Pippin go to Edoras when Éomer calls for them as he´s getting old, they continue their journey to Minas Tirith, and stay there until they die and are buried besides Aragorn.

- Legolas can´t resist the seagulls´ calls and leaves for Valinor after Aragorn dies.

- Gimli goes with Legolas.

- Aragorn grows into his role as the king of Gondor during the quest and doesn´t return to his former life at all.

- Gandalf may be the only member of the remaining fellowship that is doesn´t fall into the same pattern, but then again, who knows what he was like before he came to Middle Earth and how he´d felt when he came back to Valinor.

- Even Bilbo doesn´t find his peace at the Shire and goes first to Rivendell and then to Valinor.

To me it seems like both a warning and a consolation. A warning that adventures are not just over, they leave a deep mark. That growth comes at a price and that even if it makes you stronger, wiser, and more confident, you may have to leave something behind that will never return, even if you yourself do. 

But on the other hand, it feels like a consolation for anyone who has been fundamentally changed by an experience and doesn´t understand why they don´t feel at home anymore at the place where they used to be most comfortable. For those who longed after their former home so much during times of hardship and return only to realize that they have outgrown their old ways. 

The end of their story right now feels like a warm “you are not alone with this feeling” and there are no words to describe how marvellous I think it is that a story that I´ve known by heart for so long still can surprise me and still has something more and deeper to offer whenever I come back to it. The story of all stories indeed.

#lotr

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God rest my soul I miss who I used to be

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