#destruction and death is inevitable

[butterflies-in-dust]

I want to write a book so raw that my readers go In depression for 2-3 business days

Mitra phukan is my inspiration, my admiration, My August

#mitra phukan #the collector's wife #assam #assam insurgency of 1970-80s #destruction and death is inevitable #siddharth bezbaruah #rukmini bezbaruah #indian author #indian books

[messiahzzz]

i’ve seen many people interpret gale’s outrage at nettie poisoning the player as concern for them. that it’s super sweet how much he cares and how protective he is over tav after they had just met. while he (naturally) does care about his companions, it should be pretty obvious that he is mostly projecting here. he states so himself:

player: are you all right, gale?

gale: yes. yes, i am. it's just that, had it been me... had it been...

gale is terrified of what would’ve happened if he had met the same fate. if all of his precautions had been rendered irrelevant merely due to the self-righteousness of some healer, acting as a judge over another’s life without being aware of the consequences. the destruction nettie would’ve unleashed, how many innocents she would’ve doomed to death, merely because she believed she was doing the right thing.

gale is furious at nettie’s ignorance.

gale: how dare she snuff out life with as much thought as snuffing out a bloody candle?

player: she thought she was doing the right thing.

gale: right? she had no right!

player: it was one hell of a surprise, but nettie came around!

gale: yes - against her will, without rhyme or reason!

gale: it's not right to feel the cold breath of death in your neck, then move on as if it was nothing but a soothing breeze.

gale: one respects life by fighting for it, and one respects death by fearing it.

once the orb becomes too unstable (if tav refuses to help gale with his condition and elminster doesn't stabilize the orb) he will state that he can’t stay any longer with good conscience. he will then leave the party immediately, search for a secluded place and wait for death to take him.

gale: i'm afraid this is where we part ways - my condition's deteriorated beyond even my capacity to salvage.

gale: it would be selfish of me to stay, when in doing so i'd be putting you, and everyone else within spitting distance in catastrophic peril.

[nodecontext: saddened - he's about to wander off into the wilderness to die, essentially]

#gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 meta #it speaks #has been bothering me for a while now that this scene is considered to be part of his romance #when it mostly exists to show just how afraid gale is of dragging a bunch of innocents with him #(and of death in general) #he abhors needless death and destruction #if there is a greater goal however? #some sacrifices may just be inevitable #i've also heard some people say that there's a nodecontext that hints at gale consuming poison himself once he leaves the party? #haven't been able to find it in the files tho #if anyone did find it feel free to add it to the post

[sut4tcliff]

I love making memes that only make sense to like 5 people

#omg babygirl you are sooooo doomed by the narrative #babygirl you are so tragically destructive and beautiful at the same time #nooooo babe don't do ANYTHING to make sure your partner is safe/alive haha its going to lead to your inevitable demise omg #something is wrong with my brain. #slingphries #alan humphries #eric slingby #the most beautiful death in the world #kuromyu #demoliton lovers #three cheers for sweet revenge #my chemical romance #madohomu #madoka kaname #homura akemi #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #madoka magica #kuroshitsuji #black butler

[bonefall]

SKYSTAR DOES WHAT TO ARC

Man send this guy to cat hell let his dark forest edition be one eye eating him

HE MAULS HIM

Arc goes into his territory and Skystar RIPS! THAT! BOY! UP!!!

And then later Skystar uses the will of StarClan to justify his invasion of RiverClan, which BTW is 10000% consistent with A Forest Divided (a post redemption arc book) where he completely misinterprets Fluttering Bird in a way that would get him more power.

So if you just ignore the fact they tried to write him as being so scared :( he doesn't know what he's doing :( for the 400th time, it totally tracks. That's Skystar. That's who he is.

#For the record I'm like ACTUALLY laughing #This is DELIGHTFULLY awful I couldn't have asked for better #Anyone who is here who thinks I'm not having the time of my little impish life rest assured #I feel like I'm a small plover or perhaps a seagull nestled on the syracruse shoreline #and I just watched Archimedes fire a death ray incinerator blast at a roman ship #the flames reflected in my tiny black eyes #Verily I am witnessing a destruction beyond anything my little seagull mind could comprehend #but i am inherently a being of chaos and it nourishes me to be close to the divine glow of death and terror #It is Cathartic to watch more content of the arc I hate most be SO bad #This is the love that only a true hater can feel #Riverstar is the only cat I really TOTALLY like in DOTC but I knew this would happen. #I am the one true DOTC Understander. #And it was inevitable that they would do this to him. it was never good on purpose. #riverstar's home spoilers #So while on one hand there is a disappointment I feel. It's tempered by the deep knowledge that it was always meant to end this way #A tragedy in real life.

[tmos-time]

The thing you said a while back about Eridan kinning old men has stuck in my brain lately because like, of course he does. He went LARPing as his ancestor when he was a kid

GOT ANOTHER ONE FOLKS 👏👏👏

and hey, guess what anon! here's another reason >:)

(a very sad little guy reason LMAO)

#tmos opens mail #Anonymous #eridan ampora #death mention #harry is Mostly there because like. god i think eridan would be Effected by the phone call scene #he probably likes the smoker on the balcony as a character more but inevitably finds more recognition in harrys self destruction #anyway i just. eridan feeling old because hes so fucking caught up worrying about the future. eridan being Aware of his coldblood lifespan

[yarrayora]

fix it fic where i improve the narrative by giving my most specialest blorbos who managed to survive canon a meaningful death

#yarra speaks #akechi goro stays dead after marukis palace crumbled #sawada tsunayoshi's death is inevitable across timelines to signal the destruction of vongola #the servamps eventually die alongside their eves as their ultimate happy endings #anyway [bats my eyelashes] whos on your mind?

[bijoumikhawal]

"Biden is the best choice and he's actually really empathetic and reasonable but also you can't wait for a candidate that won't do genocide and war crimes because to become a presidential candidate you have to be willing to do that" see what you fundamentally don't understand is I'm not waiting for a candidate that won't do war crimes, because I know that. I cannot morally stomach this system, it's a joke to claim its democratic, and AMERICA DELENDA EST. this country is a plague on this Earth

#cipher talk #It's baffling because okay so you know how fucked up this is but you're behaving in a way that clearly indicates you want that this shambli #Disgusting empire to cling to life until after you're dead because it'd make /you/ uncomfortable and inconvenienced #To live through its destruction (the wealthier classes and more privileged experience lesser material changes in state collapse so long as #They aren't too highly ranked/involved in politics. A Sri Lankan wrote an article specifically addressing Americans about this) #It's so dehumanizing! People's blood is so cheap to you! You've just accepted its inevitable that genocide will happen! #Because of how the US operates! You can see no other future! It hardly matters to you! #You say this like the death of Palestinians of Yemenis of Syrians is someone else's dropped ice cream cone #You understand why people hate this country and you understand we deserve it but it just. Hardly matters to you #It feels like madness to watch this. It's disgusting #I keep thinking- it'd be so easy for you to justify my people being killed if violence broke out and it was in your favor #It's unlikely because. Well. America loves 'the church of the martyrs' #But you'd do it if that was favorable. You wouldn't think twice. You might feel a twinge in your heart but that's all #Because we aren't people to you! #We aren't all that important! Not important enough for you do anything more than 'well let's vote a blue in and do some protests' #What's a protest worth if you perpetuate the system and can't see a way out and don't try for a way out? #That's killing a man then putting flowers on his casket. It's /perverse/. #You get used to the idea that Africans die that West Asians die and that's just the way of the world. My g-d do you understand anything?? #I watch necrosis take hold my parts of my culture and I watch every good person I know be ground to dust under a military regime #I talk to my friend who got drafted and is trans and may never come out because if they do they can get arrested as a 'prostitute' #I watch the wild hope for the future I was introduced to over radio at 9 years old wither #I watch people risk it anyway because just past the fence they can see they know there are people there #I watch my neighbor to the south crumble and weep because our hands are bloody and it's in part because we bloodied them for the west #And you just think that's how things are. #Fascist white death cult mindset

[pyrriax]

having such a hyperspecific au concept that borders on becoming completely original work.

#haunted ecosystem #anyways uuuuuh who here wants tortured gods and the concept of deification being more akin to death than life? of holiness being a #worse fate than even hell itself? of being the one to witness the death of your world and knowing that somehow this is your fault for #having the desire to go home? to want to return to what you used to know only to realize it's all gone now with destruction in its wake? #that your return is the apocalypse you were warned of for so many years. that around you nothing remains but the melting mass of what #used to matter most to you? that this is what was always going to happen. it was inevitable. you have become your own god. everyone #is afraid of you and there is no going back as the last of what made you *you* melts away into the vague shapes and twisted flow of #incorporeal limbs and an unholy halo. to have a body so changed that is no longer your own. to lack the basic recognition of identity. #haunted bookshelf #just because of *that* holy shit lol

[fellhellion]

head in hands miles’s arc in spiderverse means so much to me. choosing to embody all that spiderman IS by earnestly trying to save those around him and rejecting the notion that he should simply lie down and let fate take its course....augh....

#my BOY. #thinking about it so much fr #the way BEING spiderman is about the trying #trying to save others regardless of how it plays out #you arent always able to yes. thats what the critical deaths in the spiderman narrative are ABOUT but you must try #the way pavitr truly EMBODIES his identity as spiderman the moment he looks at what he thinks is an inevitable fate and says no! im going to #try to save both! #the way gwen reembraces what it truly means to be spidergwen by going to try protect miles' dad #GOD. #the way miguel sees the destruction of the dimension he hopped over to as a catostrophic consequence for him trying to buck fate #where - even though yes he must shoulder responsibility for what he tried to do - he was never more spiderman than when he tried to save #those IN that dimension #he doesnt realise. he thinks in failing he must crush any resembalence of divergence he sees in other people #because he desperately wants to crush that desire in himself even when he cant help but give in to it on occassion #such as offering gwen a refuge where per his own code he should have simply allowed her universe to play out (and without a moment to cool #off it seems unlikely for gwens dad to have relented and truly THOUGHT about what he was compromising by arressting his daughter.) #AUGHHHHHH MILES MY BOY. #across the spiderverse #spiderverse spoilers

[fr0gg13b413]

[that feeling when you finally submit yourself wholly to academia…] there are no gods here to betray, only ourselves, only our futures.

#damn that line though #academia #i am fueled knowing Time is coming for me. She does not know mercy. #nothing is terminal. death is inevitable. #nothing will stop me. #no more destruction #if it is to persist then it'll be in my favour #chaotic academia #?? #i have no clue #<3 #ineptias loquor #in other news i just had a banger nap. those ones that upon waking you have no idea who you are; where you are; or what year it is. <3333 #procrastination #achiever #the little forest cryptid speaks #musings

[kaftan]

how long do you think it will take before we’re incapable of creating any stories that aren’t about our dying earth

#I’m in a ‘climate change is fucking me up’ mood sorry #I don’t think the total destruction of the earth (within the age of humans) is inevitable but change is a kind of death #and. I don’t know. it’s getting less and less and less and less ignorable. how long till it’s all anyone thinks about.

[frostwork]

BRO YOU STILL LYIN TO THIS WOMAN MY GOD

#frostpost #watching mysterious lotus casebook #he is so determined to take his terminal illness as the greatest L #di feisheng like no #and li lianhua is like no yes i will and i dont want anyone to know i have inevitable death syndrome #so i have to speed run this issolating myself shit lmaooo #self destructive bitch no man ily dont make me cry

[tachyon-omlette]

nearly finished with Armada and lowkey WHY is Unicron so got damb horrifying. whyd they have to do that and how did they do it so WELL

#g1's portrayal made it so you could understand just how limitless and powerful and (to tfs especially) incomprehesible he is #but ARMADA made it physically impossible for this giant robot to be a clearly cut giant robot #and in doing so really pushed the notion that Unicron is still to some extent mechanical but so completely Other from cybertronians #he's organic he's inorganic he's the moon he's omnipresent he can summon spatial anomalies he has hallways that look like arteries #(spoilers from here on out) he both is and isn't Sideways like how Jesus both is and isn't God which I think fucked with me the most #because when Sideways told Thrust: 'those who serve [Unicron] will be rewarded and those who stand against him will know his wrath' or smth #in the end the only person who was 'rewarded' was Sideways. who was Unicron anyway #Unicron was never going to reward anyone. and those who stand and fight only make him stronger BY fighting. #g1 gave us Unicron the Unfathomable but Armada gave us Unicron the Inevitable. Unicron the Insurmountable #and THAT is why Armada Unicron scares the piss out of me. g1 Unicron was a transformer god but Armada Unicron is a GOD god and they SHOW it #the kind of self-serving omnipotent force of chaos and destruction and death that haunts the narrative from the very beginning #and for a kids' show they pull it off SCARILY WELL #maybe that's another part of it. the entire show is so obviously curated towards toy sales EXCEPT how they handle Unicron #and that also works to make him feel distinct and unfathomable. in a meta sort of way. i like that

[subconsciousmysteries]

The so called "unique duality of type 6 that no other type has" really isn't that special once you actually LTR. Whether a 6 is a Rebel or a Conformist they are fixated on the same thing: Faith. Finding or creating a framework that explains reality, to give them Faith that they are ready to experience reality. Not realizing that the experience is inauthentic when it is done through the lens of a mental framework, and they don't actually need a framework for everything to be alright, they already have the power to experience reality without dying.

Typing someone as a 6 because they are a rebel or a conformist is WRONG! Other types have this same duality between rebel and conformist too. It's called being a human being and facing the dilemma between doing what is right and doing what is easy. It's the dichotomy between growth and stagnancy. Every type has its own version of it. To name one example 7 has a dichotomy between being a dumb consoomer (conformist) and being a disciplined visionary (rebel). I could go on forever.

There must be the primary fixation on Faith and building intellectual belief systems to explain reality, and an intense sense of fear and lostness without this belief system solidly intact. Or else it is not a 6.

Also there's no geometric reason for any type on the enneagram other than 9 to be a unique snowflake so please just stop trying to make snowflake 6 happen. It is never going to happen.

#Read Almaas on 6 it's incredible #So the concept of essence is related to 6 #6 is the fear of death #The belief that your essence can be destroyed #So we must take all these precautions to prevent that from happening #That's where Faith comes in #6 loses Faith in its ability to Be because 6 is the birth of the fear of death #Death is fake but the 6 doesn't realize that #This explains why religions (a very 6 phenomena) focus so much on explaining the afterlife and reassuring followers of Eternal Life #The idea that my soul will die when I die is a core fear for 6 which religion puts to sleep #6 becomes scared to live (loss of Holy Faith) because any life could result in death #But they want to live so they develop faulty replacements for the lost Holy Faith #Those faulty replacements are the ideologies and the intellectual belief systems that 6s cling to #They believe these systems will allow them to navigate life without dying #But they always find themselves let down because death is inevitable no matter what you believe in #Death as in change and transition... Not destruction of the essence #6 becomes resistant to change because change evokes their fear of death and topples the systems they have placed faith in

[an-eldritch-peredhel]

I would love to hear some nessa/vana/tulkas/orome thoughts if you wanted to share?

Ohhhh yes I have so many thoughts. Firstly for the vibes I have one ultimate Brainrot Song For They which is The Cult of Dionysus by the Orion Experience.

Before I was actually shipping them they already all occupied the same place in my brain because they make a neat little box of relationships- Nessa and Orome are siblings, Tulkas and Vana are their spouses along with functionally being the "youngest" of the Valar (Vana the ever young, Tulkas the last to come to Arda), Orome and Tulkas have overlapping Domains of hunting and fighting and chase after Morgoth's beasties, Nessa and Vana are considered the weakest Valar and are associated with flowers and general disney princess vibes. That's the basis I was working on.

So it started with... probably Tulkas/Orome but Nessa/Vana wasn't far behind. Tulkas/Orome is peak "construct intricate rituals to touch other men by 'wrestling' in the forest" and also I thought their character vibes suited shipping very well (Tulkas "canonically laughs in battle" Astaldo and Orome "canonically constantly pissed off" Aldaron). Even the Tolkien Gateway article directly contrasts the two. I'm working with what I've got.

Nessa/Vana have textbook fairycore forest lesbian vibes. Making each other flower crowns and braiding each other's hair and dancing in a lush clearing with birds and butterflies and bees and delightful woodland creatures (not to mention Vana's plausible association with fertility ;) Quoth Tolkien Gateway: "Vána robed Nessa with her flowers for [Nessa's] wedding." Could this be gal pals? Sure! But where's the fun in that when it's super gay! This is the least feral pairing simply because of how they relate to each other, but they're also the most shameless.

Of course the problem is that I'm a chronic canon-shipper unless I Physically Cannot Stand it, and I do very much like Orome/Vana and Nessa/Tulkas because you get fun hunter/gardener and dance/dojo vibes respectively, so I fix this the same way that I fix every problem: polyamory!

Orome/Vana has definite Hades/Persephone vibes to me, but wilder and without the whole. Kidnaping thing. Yavanna even slots nicely into Demeter's role but again, no kidnapping. She's much more chill with her brother-in-law. I have many inarticulate vibes about Orome's Domain of the hunt and dying opposing and complimenting Vana's Domain of new life and fresh growth, and how hunters weren't supposed to kill deer in the spring. Because of this, I think Vana is one of the few Valar who has no subjugation(?) at all to Orome's Domain despite the clear nature overlap (others who wouldn't are Varda, Namo, Vaire, Nienna, and Aule, but that's because their Domains don't really overlap with his at all, except for Namo who as Death would overpower Dying.) They are, functionally, each other's force-pairs in Newton's third law- the equal and opposite reactions.

My love for Nessa/Tulkas is more characterization related: to me, they are the epitome of those 20-something Fitness Couples who keep those super detailed daily planners with spots to fill in how much water you drank, who make really healthy delicious looking meals with seemingly no effort and constantly drink various smoothies but like. Fantasy Flavor. Their idea of a hot date is to spot each other at the gym, and martial arts sparring. They would go feral for Capoeira. Crucially, they thrive off of this. Their relationship is astonishingly healthy and peppy and they serve as each other's hype-man. My vibes-only Valar-in-modern-society AU has them opening a strip mall dance class/dojo place.

So we have the siblings, and the spouses, and the spouse swap (which has some very funny crack potential, I specifically find it amusing to imagine Nessa calling dibs on Vana and tossing Tulkas to Orome before stealing her away (they are both very amused, Orome is vaguely aggravated because she could just ask for time with their wife)

Tulkas/Vana starts as something like a relationship of convenience, along the lines of "Hey, our spouses are busy chasing each other around like idiots for Sibling Shenanigans, want to make out?" but ends up as something not quite romantic but past... FWBs I guess lol. A foundation of their relationship is committing to the bit- If Nessa and Orome are arguing it's even odds as to who will side with who, but if either of them has an argument with Tulkas or Vana it is the other's sworn duty to side with their bestie, no matter how utterly stupid. They will "Yes-And" each other's stories into eternity, even if it's a blatantly untrue excuse. This drives their spouses absolutely insane because "I know you're lying, and I know you know I know you're lying, and I know for a fact that you weren't doing something as dumb as convincing Aule to put smiley face shapes in rocks" but they will double down. (The one time they did this to Yavanna while on a warpath was unintentional and terrifying once they realized, but they committed and got her so frustrated and confused that she bluescreened and stormed off, forgetting why she had been interrogating Vana in the first place). Basically, they bring out the idiot in each other, and despite having very little in common they get along very well. It is also important to me that I see their typical physical forms as being a massive, firey, golden-veined stone giant (Tulkas), and a young, uncanny, bug-eyed and golden-haired hobbit lass (Vana). To the Valar this doesn't really register as strange beyond vague inconvenience for interacting, but to any elves who see them hanging out together it Very Much Is.

To use the terms I used in Appointed, Orome and Vana are Counterpoints, Nessa and Tulkas, Nessa and Vana, and Orome and Tulkas are Harmonies, and Nessa and Orome are Tone-mates and Harmonies. Tulkas and Vana are not quite Harmonies but they harmonize regardless. Don't mind if this makes no sense lol.

#asks #lesbianhaleth #my headcanons #valar #orome #nessa #vana #tulkas #i need to come up with a convenient ship name for them... #bacchanalian gods #re: orome/vana yes im aware that namo slots neater into hades direct role thats not the point #namo is lord of the dead but orome is hunter/predator/killer the inevitable instinctual awareness of death and being chased #which is CLOSE ENOUGH for my vibes when vana slots perfectly over kore/persephone #I haven't actually listened to the magnus archives but from what I understand I think orome works very well as a kind of amalgamation #of the Fears (give or take and obviously hunt-focused) but more morally neutral/grey and less overtly negative #i tend to have him and nessa as splitting the domain of sheer animal instinct with orome as cause and nessa as effect #so like orome is fear: something-watching-stalking-you-destruction-coming-death-and-sickness and nessa is fight/flight/freeze/fawn #but the relationship there is definitely not unequal- even rabbits will kick when cornered and she is far more than a rabbit #i saw a headcanon- i think from actuallyfingolfin? that suggested that measse and nessa were just two aspects of the same vala #and that has fundamentally shaped my characterization since #i also guess i should say i don't think there's really incest going on #(inasmuch as that can apply to non-physical beings all made by the same creator whos sibling statuses seem arbitrary) #but like. nessa and orome's relationship is *weird*. definitely eyebrow-raising if they were human but they very much aren't #what with their domains and the overlap and their spouses and the inbuilt codependency of fate and sharing most of your Song #it goes to a bit of a indistinct grey area. for Flavor and Zest. #also i wobble back and forth on whether all of them are out about the relationship #i generally think it's one of those things everyone knows but you don't *say* for the valar #bc while i like my arda to be as accepting as possible there's the issue of The Canon Opinions On Polyamory re miriel/finwe/indis #but on the other hand the valar don't get incarnates or their relationships and maybe figure that elves can't marry more than one person #bc ainur don't really get married as we reckon so the whole polycule thing is fine for ainur actually but better not risk it for elves

[jadenvargen]

free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online! #motivation nr 2 wtf