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thoughtkick · 21 days

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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quotefeeling · 5 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfectquote · 18 days

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfectfeelings · 5 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfeqt · 2 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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resqectable · 9 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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thehopefulquotes · 8 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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kingsbridgelibraryteens · 6 months

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Looking for kids' books to celebrate Native American Heritage Month? Check out the new display in our Children's Room!

#book displays #Native American Heritage Month #Kid Lit #Kingsbridge Library #NYPL

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byronicist · 6 months

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"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

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quotemadness · 2 years

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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#Native American Proverb #quotes #quote #lit #literature

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fuckmeyer · 10 months

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hey bestie i'm finally here with that essay about jacob fighting for bella's humanity w/o being a love interest bc the potential that has! he's set up to be the perfect avenue for it! he's the warmth and sun that she loved from arizona; he's the community and family she could be deeply enmeshed in w/ charlie and billy; he's a childhood friend who grew up (which bella's going to lose the potential to do if she becomes a vampire! and she's going to forget that past!); he's someone who fixes up old damaged cars instead of having perfect ones, and they aren't the *same* but they're still good...he's literally thematically everything best abt being human that bella will lose, AND examples of the negatives she sees in humanity, (all the times she thinks abt how the wolves are fragile in comparison to the vampires)...and it would just be SO fascinating to see that played out w/out the romance. it would honestly be even more powerful! bc baked into smeyer's worldbuilding is that vampires prioritize their romantic partners above everything else and having jacob be the true contrast to that where he's a platonic connection that bella genuinely values equally and she has to think abt how becoming a vampire would cut her off from the potential of connections like that!!! i am thinking so many thoughts

BESTIE thank you as always for dropping the Jacob love in my inbox!

you're so right about Jacob being the perfect avenue to explore Bella's doubt about vampirism! the warmth & family & community & LOVE & acceptance & nostalgia she loves about humanity is all embodied in Jacob's character & in their relationship. she likes hand-me-downs & homemade gifts! she likes acts of service! she likes reckless stunts that remind her of her own fragility & weakness! she likes warm sodas & spaghetti dinners! she likes being reminded that she belongs somewhere! & THIS IS JACOB <3

the fact that their relationship isn't utilized to this end (or any end, really) is my biggest problem with Eclipse. Bella drops little hints in the narrative that she's nervous about becoming a vampire. there are so many opportunities— e.g. when Rose tells her story— for her to reflect on what she's giving up.

in the end, she doesn't sum up the argument in a compelling way & doesn't make her choice in a believable way.

in part because the event that kicks off her grand realization that she's not ready (AKA THE CONFLICT OF HER ENTIRE SERIES ARC) is ...graduation

big life event as a catalyst seems to make sense. but how relevant is it to her narrative? & once it's brought up, we don't we see her digging into why she's nervous. what about saying goodbye makes her not ready? what about getting what she wants terrifies her? what does she need to sort through? what plans does she need to make? we're left to wonder what's running through Bella's mind re: the biggest decision of the series...in a first person narrative. no!!!

Jacob, who embodies all these ideals of her humanity, should be the one to push her to this realization. the climax of her internal conflict should be focused around him: losing him physically/emotionally (or both), & everything he represents. there is so much weight that her relationship with Jacob adds to her choice if she's allowed to love him and Edward unconditionally! as a romantic interest, all Jacob's doing is pushing her away.

(& that's why this whole fucking triangle makes no sense. he loves her so much he remembers her from early childhood. he loves her so much he'll sit there for months & pick up her broken pieces. he loves her so much he'll spend every moment just doing silly little hobbies together. he loves her so much he wants to fight for her humanity "until her heart stops beating" AND EVEN AFTER. but he doesn't love her enough to respect her choices or opinions? he doesn't love her enough to know that by being an asshole, he's pushing her closer to death? imo this is where we see stephie's grubby hands moving pieces. Jacob loves her more than he's in love with her.)

& so, because the "i'm not ready" realization is tied to something Bella doesn't give a shit about, the realization that she is ready is equally empty

what makes her decide she's ready to become a vampire is GUILT & FEAR & ANGUISH. she's "ready" to become a vampire because she feels weak & useless. worse, this realization is not touched on as the event (the training sesh) unfolds. she has this realization OFF-PAGE & then shows up to Edward's proposal like "yeah i'm ready to become a vampire but first i wanna fuck :)"

& we're supposed to buy that? girl, you resolved nothing internally. you didn't show us what changed for you. you're making this decision out of fear instead of out of love. & we're supposed to believe this is what little miss "thoughtful & responsible" wants???

it's such a blatant disregard to all the growth she went through & the relationships she developed. you can't just turn Jacob in a fucking asshole & turn the choice into a non-choice & call it day. Jacob deserves better, Bella deserves better, & the readers deserve better!!

MAKE 👏 EVERYONE 👏 SUFFER👏👏👏

(in the name of love!)

#i am WINDED from this post but youre so right and i just want to shout it from the rooftops #you are my ultimate bestie in crime #thank you for the essay #it's so carthartic to talk about & iron out what's wrong with jacobs charcter #bc its so nebulous right #was he assassinated? were his traits in NM simply blown out of proportion? how much flak does he deserve & how much grace should we give hi #tbh even after all i dont think most of rhe fandom realizes just how dirty jacob was done #i just witnessed a discord server convo the other day abt how people who think jacobs charcterization is racist is SUS #LIKE!!!! IF YOU KNEW ANYTHING AMERICAN LIT you would know jacobs charcterization #follows a LONG pattern of anti-native sterotypes in lit-#ok ok ok im not getting on that now i will literally never leave this post #but STILL the boy is just not given enough grace and nuance in this fandom tbh #so to talk about it here with a fanfic master like yourself is a BREATH a fresh air #in conclusion: i love you

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thoughtkick · 1 year

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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quotefeeling · 1 year

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfectquote · 1 year

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfectfeelings · 8 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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perfeqt · 11 months

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Listen to the wind it talks. Listen to the silence it speaks. Listen to your heart it knows.

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