#'the last right of a man is to die'

[insteading]

A spasm of pain flashed across [Hawkin's] face and was gone. But the eyes that looked up at them then were the bright, lively eyes of the beginning, of the small, neat man in the green velvet coat. ... Then he looked back at Merriman, a long unfathomable private look, and he said almost inaudibly: "Master ..." Then the light went out behind the bright eyes, and there was no longer anyone there.

from Chapter 12, "The Hunt Rides"

Every bit of Hawkin's story makes me sad. It's all well and good to tell someone all their choices have been their own, but when that person is a ward? And a feudal subject? It's an unkindness to gloss over how those relationships inflect and constrain their choices. An unkindness, too, to overlook how Hawkin being a person who owed Merriman something, given the norms of their shared time and place, made him the ideal person for Merriman to ask to do an impossible thing.

#'i gave you the freedom to choose- hawkin- and i did not take it away. i may not' #'the last right of a man is to die' #rest in peace buddy #susan cooper #the dark is rising #the dark is reading #readathon #hawkin

[i-am-me-i-am-sam]

The post about Tumblr dying is fear mongering.

tbh i dont think talking about an outcome that currently seems inevitable is fear mongering

so. is tumblr going to go down, right now? no! right now, for us users, very little to nothing will change! however, from what we know, they are actively moving staff away from tumblr, with no plans to ever grow that staff back up. as people who know more about tech than me have already said, this means updates will trickle to a stop. bugs and glitches will pile up. without the number of staff to maintain tumblr properly, eventually it will be unable to keep running.

keyword: eventually!

again, that's not right now. we're looking at the future here. so people looking to gather on other sites, to figure out where their communities are moving? they're looking towards that future. they, and i, want to be prepared, and can you blame us? while I was too young for it, I've heard about all the communities that were lost from livejournal. people are trying to prevent that from happening again.

it's not fear mongering to say "because of these actions, the site will eventually cease to run, so we should look to come together as community and have an idea of our next move when tumblr can no longer house us."

theres every chance we still have YEARS of functionality on this site left, even with the staff being cut. and, hey! maybe we'll get lucky. maybe they decide not to do this, or maybe tumblr gets bought out, and is actually able to make a profit without losing a significant portion of its user base. but a site can't run indefinitely without proper staffing.

addendum:

I did the check the blog of the original poster of the screenshot after writing this up. according to him, there seems to be no long term management plan, meaning we likely /would/ be in the holding pattern of "skeleton crew with very little to no additional support" that was already outlined in the screenshot and that people are assuming from it.

#every website will die one day 👍 #no ones saying tumblr will go down right this moment but wanting to prepare ahead of time isnt fear mongering #also posts about tumblrs 'death' happen multiple times a year. ill be here till the last day #but im still going to share those posts so everyone can Have Knowledge. big fan of people knowing things #idk man. tldr is just i disagree with you lol #asks #tumblr

[kisaraslover]

at the risk of sounding like a Very Hurt Person ill be frank. Seto Kaiba being set up as a traumatized, mentally ill kid with PTSD, who had to cope alone and heal alone and bury his past and reinvent himself, proving to and deeply convincing himself that he can do anything in the process, resulting in this narcissistic double ended blade persona, which, narratively speaking, only gets stomped on, by the good guys, antagonized, by the good guys, and as the Merciful course of action the good guys: Force Him Back Into Accepting And Becoming His Past Self (literally cant imagine a worse fate for anyone who had to erase their past and remake themselves tbh) With Its Past Loves And Past Hurts:

this shit suck lol

#not art #seto kaiba #yugioh #ygo #i might hiss like a wounded animal when Atem is near Kaiba. but worry not. its only because im personally offended when he speaks to seto #i AM projecting before anyone accuses me of it. but the interpretation is solid sadly. this post is canon compliant! #do with that what you will #would literally rather die than to have a a gang of friends following me and forcing me to accept FURTHER BACK the past i escaped like #wdym??? ill kms?????? right now?? #and the secret past is one where he was your SERVANT???? this man with THIS ego???????YOUR LOYAL SERVANT? #AND HE LOST THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE THERE????? and he spent the rest of his life MOURNING after both yall??????? #no id rather kms than acknowledge im sorry #i get him #this is why im a kaiba kinnie and youre a kaiba shipper with atem or yugi or joey #LMAO came out swinging at the last sentence im unwell rn

[kyouka-supremacy]

The bsd author realizing too late they've missed their chance during the cannibalism arc of making Akutagawa be cured from the disease via true love's kiss so to make up for it they've finally resolved around making Akutagawa be cured from the vampirism via true love's kiss. A wise choice I must say

#Have been seeing a lot of “Atsushi should save Akutagawa by kissing him” posts recently shjbaskbcvfaksbvahkvasb #I wouldn’t put it past canon tbh. Last chapter’s sheer romance made me believe anything is possible #atsushi nakajima #ryūnosuke akutagawa #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd ch 51 #bsd ch 107 #mine #When you think about it in the cannibalism arc for a moment they went *so close* to Atsushi having to face the dilemma– #he actually doesn't want Akutagawa to die. #If he hadn't been affected too right after that's probably something he would have been forced to come to terms with #But it's finally happening and it's all coming together!!!! Man I've never been so excited about the bsd manga #I've read an endless fic of the sskk reunion at the airport and now it's finally here!!! It's nice ahah

[wallywise]

Bill & Frank 🤝 House & Wilson

#no need to explain right ? #y’all see it too right ? #they’re both Lonely day by System of a down coded #I could die for them #I just love me a good grumpy old man that would rather die than live without the love of his life #i don’t know I see it #do y’all see it #house md #the last of us #gregory house #james wilson #hilson #house x wilson #bill & frank #bill and frank #bill x frank

[scopophobia-polaris]

Honestly could we throw out the idea that totk's story issue is that it isn't consistent with the lore of the older games but instead drops intresting world building from botw because it might have gotten actually dark

#seriously eveeyone keeps up bring up the triforce not being the same like the older games instead of HEY why DOES the royal family just..... #have it #like all of it #and was the sheikah tech from the last game that functions the same was as light arrows/the biden blast was uh #how do i put this #how did they weaponize lightmagic in robots and does this all tie in with the “banishment” thing #or idk dropped point from botw zelda's fucking chracter arc #i know it ended with LOOOK!!!! YOU FUCKED UP BY DOING WHAT YOU THOUGHT WAS RIGHT #But damn they could of just not done that shit in totk making her just the #what was jt #idk man they just keep taking away her agency #man and it sucks cuz the dragon is so cool but mf shes forced to do it what she gonna do stay in the past and DIE? #idk man it just all feels hasty. makes me sad #and it sucks cuz a lot of shit shit is really cool and intresting but man idk i may become a botw zelda deserved a better weiter for her #becuase girl she needs a break. not saying chracters cant go through hardship #but there is something so nasty about the framing of youll never be anything but eveey past princess zelda trope and nothing more #instead of a crystal she turns into a dragon like guys this is the same as skyward sword but idk man is it werd to say #when Hylia does it aginst a thing that wants to steal the god triangles and is also a god its like yeah you had no other choice #how the fuck did one fuckass stone make ganondorf into a god like being you would think that like #mannwhy are the stones THAT powerful and why werent the other bitches able to take them down what because #did #did rauru give sonia the equivalent of the one ring at their wedding hey wait a fuck #sorry for all my spelling mistakes but what the fuck man

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS IS HUMANITIES 11TH HOUR I THINK KIAN WAS RIGHT. THERE WAS SO MUCH HE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER BUT HE DID IT FOR GREAT REASON. THEIR RELATIONSHIP MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL. EVEN THE ECHO OF SOMEONE IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, AND THE ECHO OF YOU LOVES THEM TOO. they COPIED A HUMAN DOWN TO THEIR BASIC CIRCUTRY AS A SURVIVAL INSTINCT AND THE VERY WIRES STILL LOVE YOU. ITS THE ATMOSPHERE. ITS THE DISCORDANT AND SAD YET YEARNING CORDS IN THE AIR AS THE SKY REDDENS. ITS A WISH FOR SOMETHING MORE, PRESSING AGAINST INEVITABLE GLASS, CLEARLY NO HOPE OF CONTINUING OR BLOSSOMING. A PAINTING OF A MEMORY THEY WANT TO BE MAKING WITH NO CONCLUSION.

#cw gore #cw blood #jrwi blood in the bayou #jrwi bitb spoilers #jrwi bitb #jrwi fanart #AAUAUGHGHUHHGHH SO IM RELISTENING TO THE THIRD EPISODE RIGHT. THATS WHAT THIS PAGE WAS DRAWN FROM. #AND IM AT THE PART WHERE. YKNOW. THEYRE ON THE SEXY MOTORCYCLE AND GOING TO THE TREE. THEY LOVE EACHOTHER SO MUCH. FUCK YOUUUU IM WEEPING #ALSO I MIGHT ASWELL SAY HERE. i remember listenign to the first episode at midnight. i was heading to sleep bc i had work in the morning #and i remember hearing rolan n im like awww hes such a babyyyy lil baby giiirrrl #and then i saw his official art the next day n i was like. no WAY thats rolan he looks way too cool and chill in that. #AND THEN. and tTHEEHHEHEEENNN HE GOES AND DOES. WELL. YKNOW. N IM LIKE DAAAAAMAMNNN HELLO SIR!!!! FUCK IT UP MAN!!!! YEAHAHAHA I LOVE HIM!! #OHHH and yknow what lemme say some shit about RAND!!!!!!!! 'i love you man' 'i promise i love you man' HE CARES ABOUT HIS FRIENDS SO FUCKIN #AAUUUHHHH RAAAANNNDDDD HE WAS SO READY TO DIE. HE WAS PLANING TO DIE. UGH. #ALSO I STILL LISTENING N I JUST GOT TO THE PART WITH KIANS SONG TO BECKY. SOBBING SOBBING WEEPING IM SO EMOTIONAL ABT THEM #RUN AWAAAYYYY OOUHHOOOOO JUST TAKE MY HAND AND RUNN AWAAYYYYY EHEEEM HEEM WILL BOY YOU SHOULD BE RUNNING!!! U SHOULD BE RUNNING!!!! #HEY hey cmere. cmere n listen. im workin ona lil music video. right. been chippin away at it for the last few months #its supposed to go along with tha song 'am i in heaven' by king gizzard n the lizard wizard #go find it. go listen to it. see my vision. #HEY HEY IF U REBLOG THIS. RAMBLE ABOUT BITB N SHIT IN THE TAGS PLEASE I NDEED TO HEAR OTHER THOUGHTS. GIVE ME UR BRAIN #ALSO JUST GOT TO THE KISS SCENE BTW. ITS SOO FUNNY TO HEAR BEBO FREAKING OUT LIKE NOOOOO NNOONONO N MAKING SOUNDS. HES RIGHT #'do you want me to take anything off?' DSHUT UUPP BECKY I LOVE YOU. WHATEVER. #OKAY okay im nirmal now (lying) imm gonna go cry. alot. hope u do too. pls enjoy myart

[silens-oro]

YALL DID MY MAN ALDHELM SO FUCKING DIRTY

#the last kingdom #seven kings must die #I am SO ANGRY #seven kings must die spoilers #NOW I HAVE TO WRITE THE SADDEST SHIT KNOWN TO MAN BECAUSE I AM DEVASTATED #I just turned the movie off #didn’t finish it #because WHY BOTHER #AELSWITH WAS RIGHT ABOUT AETHELSTAN #FROM THE GET GO

[bo0bydrake]

i have got to emphasise on the fact that this is huge actually- gay rights in football is something that's just barely discussed. during the world cup in qatar, captains were banned from wearing a one love captain's band because it was too political (it was just a band with a rainbow heart on it), homophobia and racism is practically rooted in the songs sung during matches and there are no out players in the premier league, or more generally, there is only one (1) out player in the top leagues. having a character simply just,, be with another man and also a footballer in the premier league is a huge statement and will hopefully aid in trying to make football a better space.

#i listened to a podcast about why there are no out players in sports last year #and the conclusion was that it had to do with a lot of different factors #among them: the fans #take for example in the netherlands there's a hooligan group that roots for feyenoord. they threatened a fellow supporter who - #- started a supporter's group for lgbt+ fans. and also tried to light the man's place of business on fire #and in an away game to (albania i wanna say??) they brought banners that said they wanted him to die of hiv #mind you this is a FELLOW SUPPORTER #for the same club #and the songs supporters sing are a hell of a lot less tame than in ted lasso #homophobic racist antisemetic or islamophobic chants are just regular business in football matches #and in addition to that: locker room culture! #locker room culture in football and many other sports (with the men mostly) is toxic as hell! #there have been some efforts to try and nip this in the bud with trainings and seminars on diversity being given at youth clubs #but it's an issue in society as a whole that a lot of young men are just homophobic as FUCK #and i mean having a character on an acclaimed and popular show on tv/streaming right now could have a huge impact #esp on all the young ppl who'll see this thru fk tiktok and whatnot #im just really excited for what this will bring. and i hope it might do some good in football as a whole #ted lasso #colin hughes #ted lasso season 3

[space-writes]

last line tag

tagged by @mjjune, thank you! here i have the last line of chapter seventeen. three chapters to go on this draft!! ahhhhh!!

“—my name’s not fucking Viv.”

no-pressure tagging @memento-morri-writes @ahordeofwasps and @ceph-the-ghost-writer

claws taglist: @belovedviolence @foxboyclit (ask to be +/-)

#writeblr #tag games #last line tag #original fiction snippets #wip: claws #c: vivien webb #vivien 🤝 killing every character who shortens his name #it's a fun lil game in this draft #that every person he kills calls him that right before they die in one way or another #it's not his deadname but it is a dead mans name #i support vivien and all the trans wrongs he's committing in this book

[hauntingblue]

Luffy eating watermelon 🍉

#and like are we sure jewelry bonney isnt her daughter.... pink hair... loves food... idk #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 787 #jinbe again!!! well yes he wqs a subordinate for big mom last time he spoke with king neptune #i forgor #damn her own son.... just took his life expectancy #i have a feeling this hasn't happened before... so what's the deal with the crocantbouche #JINBE WITH THE CROQUEMBOUCHE!! #why is the food real here ajdhakdj omg.... and jinbe is just letting them die.... well she killed her son already #JINBE BROUGHT HER A PONEGLYPH???? its probs the one in gyojin right... i mean what acces does he have to others #JINBE NAKAMA TIME!!!! FINALLY!!!! #omg me wondering why am i getting showed ace dying again.... jinbe was there thru all that i forgor he was the mvp on marineford #that was so emotive..... #JINBEEEEEEEEE #episode 789 #jinbe saying how luffy will be king of the pirates omg...... yeah!!! he galked about luffy that much.... he is such an uncle #the sun pirates basically telling him to do you.... get a vacation from putting others first man #aladdin married a daughter of mama ajdhaksjsk #i think they are abusing the letting music extend to the ad break credits.... before they did it in important moments now its just every #two episodes.... #pedro was looking for poneglyphs.... #brook being amazed at luffy..... yeah.... #nami just casual in her armor..... #SANJI ON THE COAST????? SANJIIIII #episode 790

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Doctor turning into women and having romantic dalliances with men is every kind of queer...to me.

#EMH (pretending to be B'Elanna after having just SPRINTED down the hall): You wouldn't shoot a pregnant woman would you ??;; #Tuvok: (in the most 'give it up' tone possible) ...Come with Me doctor =_= #Tuvok gets docked points for falling for the ol' 'cough cough im sick' excuse but gains them all back by getting suspicious and starting #an investigation all on his own in the background <3 #Also Janeway being held captive and being just kinda pissed about the whole situation...yeah #HEHEHE I like this episode it's funny but also the stakes are high #Janeway sort of smirking and doing the 'come here' motion when that alien man was like 'do you know how to fix this?' - her swag..... #Janeway (captive and stressed beyond belief about the warp core): Yeah I have time to serve dom vibes #Tuvok - Chakotay - Janeway: Each having uniquely bad days #(Worst Security disaster ever - Got put in a morgue for hours - Held captive and threatened with death: + Voyager stranded) #I know Chakotay was unconscious for the morgue thing but still #Chakotay: -opens his eyes to see Tuvok standing there- #(they share a look like 'yeah it's some LIFE THREATENING scooby doo bullshit again') #Hey Chakotay maybe next time don't tell the imposter that you know they're an imposter right to their face <3 #Just some tactical strategy for next time <3 <- I love him I'm just being a bitch HEHEHE it was funny to me #Doctor: Hey I know we're in the middle of a serious thing here but like. Why don't we. You know. Hang out??? #Janeway: -sharp intake of breathe- ......ohhhh I don't really...DO hanging out. #YAY NAR~!!!!! GET HIS ASS~!!! #Nar I hope you live a simple but fulfilling life as a junk dealer or whatever it is you were talking about god bless <3 #Doctor: Now that I might die I have some last requests v_v Captain...throw my diary away. DO NOT. READ IT. Tuvok...I told Neelix about that #rash you got on your ass. We laughed about it for weeks. Sorry. #and then I smile and giggle and ass 'ass rash' to the Tuvok lore #SNRKEHEHE DAMN. HE GOT HARRY TOO??? #'Sorry I said you sucked absolute shit at playing the saxophone. I should have phrased it more delicately...damn it. It all becomes so clea #when you face the end.' (Harry: You said w hat????) SEVEN-!! #Seven: Stay over there computer boy =_= #SNRKEHEHEHHEHHAHAHAH #Janeway:....Is he...? / B'Elanna: NO. I've got him =_= I just deleted all that spam. He's FINE. #livetweeting

[feralnumberfive]

I get to see AJR tomorrow and ELO in September? Life is good 👍

#if only my sister wasn't busy in June then I would go see Mystery Skulls in Chicago 😔 #but I am so ready for AJR and ELO wooooo!!!! #both of my favorite bands that are alive (well somewhat for ELO lol) and I am lucky enough to see them 🥹 #sorry for the excitement I just love music. AJR was amazing the last time I saw them and The Maybe Man was awesome- #and their new tour is supposed to be amazing and emotional. and for ELO I am so glad I will get to see them (again somewhat) before I die #and on their last tour too!! ugh music 💕💕💕💕 #I will cry at both concerts #also life is actually very stressful right now but hey music will fix me for the most part #personal

[ayyynne]

Look I made an Eddie Diaz playlist

#90% of Noah songs remind me of him #i worry for the time i spent worrying alone it makes me sad it takes me back i break in half??? #im terrified that i might bever have met me???? #i do not exisit to die but live to die while saving you?? #you find love that lasts a while til you loose the reasons (shannon HELLO) #now watch me self destruct right on time #noah kahan #eddie diaz #911 abc #wee woo #Eddie Diaz my favorite repressed army veteran single dad hot firefighter man

[gonersgoners]

remember when i said over a year ago that vegapunk's arc would start revealing even more of sanji's power and potential and how hard that was worrying me? yeah

#i'm clearly talking to myself here since this blog is basically a corner of my brain #but last chapter having sanji deflect a light beam and both kizaru and franky reacting the way they did #and zoro commenting in wano you cannot possibly block a laser... lmao....lmao! #ooooh man i just. feel oda is cooking something for sanji. and since there was a parallel with the wings of the pirate king #in recent chapters (where oda typically shows both sanji and zoro fighting and not just one of them) #just... man. man! man. lol #i know i can't let myself go and talk about all things going through my mind anymore because of. lol guilt and fear of being annoying #but god. that moment stirred something in me. like you're resurrecting a fucking corpse #so i am both scared and excited about next chapters and what this means for sanji #i was saying from DAY ONE of this arc being centered about vegapunk that it would eventually #touch on sanji and this is it. this is happening #if this for some reason isn't it. and oda will for some reason just let this slide or die in the shadows? i won't understand it #because of JUDGE and VEGAPUNK and QUEEN being partners and being linked to vegapunk! like come on. the connection is there #and this laser deflecting thing seems to finally touch on this red thread i've been holding with both my fingers like an insane person #so yeah. lol. listening to a video right now about it and finally. FINALLY i see SOMEONE ELSE point out that #not mentioning judge still is giga weird. so here's hoping. here's hoping #also lol it was very fun to be on reddit and look at so many people being MAD that sanji managed to do that. and that we got a little bit o #mr prince vibes. LMAO STAY MAD. my boy is being treated good right now and i can't wait for oda to destroy me #(again) lol #GG rambles