Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death And Sensuality

hmmm once again thinking thinks about how when Snow hears Lucy Gray sing the Valley Song he’s like “oh she’s mine” and how when Peeta hears Katniss sing it he’s like “oh … I’m yours”

When did I become afraid of the dark?

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a souvenir 🤭

Ojos de guerko / Eyes that see all

reading children of dune and almost in tears at the tragedy of sibling-hood from both fronts

(we speak the same ancient languages that only we understand. we fight together as tigers and scheme against the world hand in hand. we bring out the ghosts of our past and then exorcise them from each other in the dark. we are the only bastion of empathy and understanding of each other. when we part i am in agony over my solitude but i will walk on and fight, warp fate and myself in order to return.)

(i am standing in the shadow of your long-gone presence. i haven't seen you in years but i hear your name spoken from all corners of the world and instead of a comfort it is a weapon that i must wield to stay in power. i stood in a crowd around you as a stranger when you spat at the temple of your legend and wished i would run to you and beg you to save me from myself but the fear gripped me too tight to move. you walked away and i realized i have no one left who will love me.)

this pride month i pray for free and safe Palestine for all my fellow queer Palestinians and for everyone

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”

- Frank Herbert.

also. been having a very hard week. our house was burglarized / mini invaded. no one got hurt, but my sisters iPad she uses for her online school and dad's phone got stolen, and our kitchen was semi destroyed, our rice supply was spilled everywhere and some?? eggs?? and canned stuff was stolen. After that, a family friend who was helping me with house duties got a stroke. So now I am all alone in dealing with all of this. It would be a huge mental health imrpovement, would absolutely mean the world to me if you guys can maybe help me boost my art? it's just that I love drawing and it's the only thing that's been cheering me up.

my Twitter is my "home base" and I've been posting lots of my drawings there that I don't post here, idk only if you'd like to follow ofc.

>> (link to my Twitter)

my patreon is only 1 dollar a month, and if you'd like to support me n my disabled family, through patreon would be awesome! if you'd like!

>> link to my patreon

and here is my imprnt

>> link to my imprnt

I also have three more slots of commissions on my ko-fi if you'd like to directly help.

My dad's phone has the philippine version of venmo, called "gcash", and it had about 200 usd in it that was only accessible through his phone (that got stolen).. it was for my mom's next hospital visit for her glaucoma and some grocery expenses.. so, if you'd like a custom portrait from me, I will do commissions. The automated message says the deadline is June, but full disclosure, the earliest I will be able to send a commission completed is JULY.

>> link to my commissions

mostly I just want a bigger audience for my drawings, I want to share my comics and my love for southeast asian culture, and would really really love a boost. Thank you for reading through n I hope u have a good day.

Some Readings on Racial and Religious Alterity in Arthurian literature

Links where they’re publically available, otherwise feel free to dm me for a pdf if you don’t have university access! I particularly recommend that if you are white and a fan of Arthuriana, you read the first article here. It’s a short read and it both addresses the Islamic inspiration for Arthurian literature and also succinctly shows why Arthuriana can be profoundly alienating to a Muslim audience.

Hermes, Nizar. King Arthur in the Land of the Saracens

Sottosanti, Danielle. The Romance of Conversion: Crossover in Late-Medieval Literature

Keita, Maghan. Saracens and Black Knights

Goodrich, Peter. Saracens and Islamic Alterity in Malory’s “Le Morte Darthur”

Hoffman, Donald. Assimilating Saracens: The Aliens in Malory’s “Morte Darthur”

Putter, Ad. Walewein in the Otherworld and the Land of Prester John.

Adams, Jenny. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein.

If there’s one sentence I want everyone who sees this to read, it’s this, from Sottosanti’s dissertation:

As critics such as Heng and Bonnie J. Erwin have noted, conversion stories, such as the Constance story depicted by Chaucer and John Gower, proliferated during this period as a consequence of centuries of crusading efforts in the East.