harry, as venus by botticelli
the birth of harry finally come to life, thanks to the incredible visions depicted in de amore ex tempore, a fic by @persephoneflouwers that has me dreaming like i haven't in a while. thank you <3
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thinking about mac for too long actually makes me physically ache with sadness. he wasn’t loved by his parents, he never got to have young love because he forced himself to pretend to be straight, he lived in fear that god may not love him for being gay because he sees his sexuality and his religion and opposing forces (‘they’re at war’ 13x06 and the whole mfhp dance) and where he originally sought solace in the found family of the gang he’s slowly realising they might not love him either (‘you guys like me, right?’ 13x01). even so, given the crippling codependence of the gang and the fact that they’re so far down this road of mutual destruction that they are now barely able to forge new relationships, he sees dennis as a last resort to seeking an unconditional love that he has literally never felt, but the only way he can imagine that happening is by literally poisoning him to make him dependent on him.
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Sweet things from an otherwise brutal week:
—ran into a parent who saw me and said “Macbeth right now, right? My son is so excited about it” and when I say I would never have ever guessed that. Except that as soon as he said it I was like oh yeah, he’s been volunteering to read more than usual and looks the smallest bit more awake
—I was doing some basics of writing review with my sophomores and touched on the ‘don’t use first person pronouns’ rule and we were talking about why and then Jane Eyre popped into my head so I told them that first person pronouns could be used to great effect in fiction and quoted the “reader I married him” line and two girls GASPED in wonder and delight. It was the CUTEST
—I passed two 7th graders in the hallway and they were talking about chicken nuggets and I said “I LOVE chicken nuggets” and they started to laugh and as I left I heard one of them say ‘I love Miss K.’
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absolutely gutted by the bloodbath that is the comedic guys' polls. donald o'connor was doomed on the vampire website and i can live with that. but danny kaye? dick van dyke?? if you didn't walk away from mary poppins with a lifelong crush on van dyke what even was the point. anyway. genuine propaganda, watching van dyke drop the silly for a moment and tell mr banks to go be a parent to his kids (spoonful of sugar reprise/"a man has dreams") gives me chills to this day. the little smile at about 3:00 in the video i found (idk if tumblr will take links so it's right as he says "like sand through a sieve") kills me
Donald O'Connor vs Vincent Price
Fernando Lamas vs Danny Kaye
Marlon Brando vs Dick Van Dyke
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Today is 'coming out to my parents day' for me (for reals this time) and i'm having. a bit of a rough one finally typing out my spiel. Where's 'mutual who can instantly teleport me a fuckin xanax' when I need them T_T
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Hey! AK EN translated the Arturia manga! I think some of these are the panels that spoke out to me
When she used her magic on her parents, esp the contrast between it. The first encounter with her mother even establishes that Arturia, with a somewhat childlike yet well-meaning understanding of the difficult situation her mother is in emotionally and decides that if her mother can do what makes her happy, that is what is most important, even if it lead to her death.
And for her father, it shows how it could look to an outsider someone who knows what her power is and fears what they would do if no longer held together by their inhibitions and society. It is obviously a terrifying thought and rejecting it is the logical(?) course of action.
Everything unfettered is not always kind and it is not always cruel. It breaks the social contract everyone agrees to follow in order to live but it is not something that I think is a purely evil action because we all know how the social contract can put the same people it exists to help into horrible binds.
Also Executor explains her motivations better then me:
she's like, an emotional hedonist whose somewhat childish beliefs would always lead to chaos bc society would never work if people just said what they felt and did what they liked but she's not pursuing this out of some malice for the world or a desire to see people succumb to chaos or pain, at least imo.
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another parallel that makes me sad:
"Your face was a mess. It was such a weird goddamn melange, your pointy-ass chin, your stubborn-featured, dark-browed face, a battered than the last time I'd seen it, but-wearier than I'd ever known it to be. Your eyes had little smudgy lines next to them, and they were there at the corners of your mouth, marks of this huge, exhausted sadness. You could always leave everything else behind, but you never got rid of being so absolutely fucking goddamn sad." (pages 391-392 of harrow the ninth)
"Nona couldn’t quite believe that they couldn’t all see it; but they weren’t watching, goggle-eyed, they hadn’t even seemed to notice. It was in Kiriona’s every movement—the bright, swift flexions of her arms, and the way she swung her legs, big and brash, and the weirdly easy, light grace with which she moved her dead body. Nona had never seen anyone so sad in her whole short life. It made her nearly afraid to die." (page 289 of nona the ninth)
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Chapters: 1/1
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Additional Tags: Crossing Timelines, Hurt/Comfort, Badass Future Selves, Lots of references to Bad End Timeline stuff including:, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Implied/Referenced Grievous Bodily Harm/Amputation, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Self-Sacrifice, (All deaths closer to the latter but some with tones of the former), everything is okay now, But Boy Was It Not Okay For A Minute There, If an alternate version of you gets your memories do they become you, are they still really themself if they have all your memories as well?
Summary:
“Yeah, I’m still me,” Leo says. “This guy’s just in here too, now. Along for the ride.” His chest still feels kind of like it’s exploding; he breathes through that and straightens up, pretending to straighten his bandanna, scrubbing at his prickling eyes—Casey is kind enough to at least pretend he doesn’t notice.
“It’s just…you get to meet Raph, in this world,” Leo says, in an attempt to give even the most half-assed of explanations for why he’s such an absolutely embarrassing mess right now. “And Donnie, you lost Donnie too early, he loved you so much, kid. We all did.”
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One by one, in the timeline that ended the world, the Hamato family dies--and wakes up, somewhere kinder.
One by one, in a timeline that saved the world, the Hamato family wakes up and remembers exactly how much they could have lost.
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