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My immortal companion is Claudia. My coven is Claudia. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Roxane. 😭😭😭😭😭😭

It would have taken another immortal to keep up with him.

so i haven't read the books but i did read the Devil's Minion chapter and this part made me laugh out loud:

that half-blank, half-apocalyptic look

"i can b ur angle or yuor devil" etc etc "get a man who can do both" etc etc

obsessed with this vamp i think he should get to do whatever he wants forever

the lip of the stage. arms around each other. defiant, scared. whispering last words to one another. claudia smiled and started singing to her executioners:

i don't like windows when they're closed i want to fly where the wild wind blows.

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

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

Bro, We Are Rivals . Its Ok To Pin Me Up Against A Wall . Im Ur Nemesis . I Hate You . … Bro, We Are Kiss ing Now . . No Dont Stop Bro .. Bro …

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

they!!!! husbands!!!!!

May we please get more cute daddy Baal, Luci, and baby Cain facts pls? 🥺🥺

a&m spoilers

Baal loves Cain so so much. When Cain is a baby, Baal somewhat struggles with how to hold and care for him, but once he gets a hang of it, he really likes carrying him around (though clumsily). When Cain is a toddler, he really likes sitting him on a knee or on his shoulders. Baal will also stop whatever he's doing if he feels someone tugging on his tunic, then smile down at Cain, and scoop him into his arms.

One of the first things Lucifer ever did with infant Cain was lay some of his jewelry on him and watch him play with it. Lucifer carries baby Cain with him all the time, if not in his arms then wrapped up against his front or his back. Lucifer's favorite thing to do with young Cain is go out walking with him into the forest and teach him about flowers and nature. When Cain is older, Lucifer tries to be less fussy, but he stills scolds Cain if he's ever out too late or slightly injured for whatever reason or his clothes are askew. Whenever Cain isn't there, Satan is visibly sadder, at least in private, maybe sitting on a chair and staring at the fire place silently.

Oh and I think there's a little family-esque portrait of the three of them somewhere. It's probably not an ornate oil portrait or anything, but a painting of them a stone slab somewhere, just small enough for Lucifer to bundle, then have Baal carry when the migration happens. It's just Lucifer, Baal, and a very young Cain. I think an artist suggested it to Lucifer since Cain ages and they should try to immortalize this moment, and Lucifer decided it wouldn't hurt. (i think lucifer looks pretty stern but if you squint, you can see a tiny, soft smile)

While I do dislike the interpretation that posits Heathcliff just being Catherine’s “whip” (because I think Heathcliff is more complex than that) I must say that I like how Heathcliff’s revenge makes Catherine Earnshaw truly central to the Earnshaw/Linton family history in a way she otherwise wouldn’t be. If you want to truly understand Wuthering Heights (both the estate and the book), “Hareton Earnshaw 1500” on the entry door is deceptive, “Catherine Earnshaw- Heathcliff - Linton” is the true family history. Hareton’s real power and final victory is due to him having his aunt’s eyes, not due to him being “the true heir”.

(Of course there is a discussion to be had regarding how only a man’s love can make a woman relevant but that’s for another day).

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Prayers to the Gods for the Palestinian people.

Keep sharing, keeping protesting, keep b0ycotting, but your prayers also have power, not just for yourself, but for others too. The Gods weep as we do at this injustice. They are just as angry as we are. The Gods will always care about injustice. Remember Xenia.

Also ! Anyone can use these, feel free to change the prayers to fit any other gods!

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To Apollo and Artemis to protect the young in Palestine

To lovely Artemis and Apollo, protectors of children, please give your grace to the children of Palestine.

Please let them have as many joyful moments as possible— even if it's their last.

Watch over them and protect them all the way into to their final seconds

Avert evil and harm from them as much as possible

Grant them the peace of seeing their siblings and caretakers, even if it's the last time

Let them know the joys of being a child, even if it's fleeting Let them play, sing, dance

Grant them joy and grant them peace and then extend that joy, comfort, and beauty into their afterlives/ next lives, so that they won't know this fear and sorrow again.

Love and protect the children of Palestine as they are as precious as any other

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To Ares, most unbreakable

To Ares, most unbreakable, whose courage and strength are as unlimited as he is

Please extend that same fortitude and strength to the Palestinians

Οβριμος (strong, mighty) make it so that their strength and courage never runs out

Αδάμαστος (unconquerable, indestructible) make it so they wont die without a fight, that as much as the oppressors think they have complete power of them, they never will

Τειχεσιπλητης (stormer of cities, walls) make it so they break out of the hell they've been forced it

Λαοσσοος (he who rallies people), make it so the people unconditionally come to their support

Beloved Ares, you are as kind as you are destructive Save your grace for the Palestinians, for you weep as much as we do for them.

But unleash your wrath on the oppressors and murderers

Make it so they never have another day of peace

That the blood on their hands stains everything they touch, polluting their lives, and so it may never wash off

Δεινος (terrible, fearsome), show them no mercy.

Ares, saviour and protector of people, protect and love the Palestinians as you do.

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To Athena defender and savior of people

To Athene, defender of cities

She with the most wisdom, hold them with you under your unbreakable shield

Σωτειρα (savior) please save them from the unyielding bombs and rubble that many are buried in

Αλαλκομενηις (protector) protect them always, for they are as precious as any other. Protect them while alive and after they're gone, protect their legacy, their story

Παιωνια (healer), help them use their limited medical supplies to save as many as they can. Protect the doctors and any healthcare workers, so that they may help as many as they can

Protector, Saviour, defender, please save the Palestinian people, their home, and their legacy.

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To Zeus, savior and most merciful

To Zeus, most high, extend your endless kindness and grace to the Palestinian people.

Σωτηρ (savior) please save the Palestinian people, for their lives are as precious as any other.

For they have a culture, story and history as rich as any other.

Λαοιτης (of the people) make it so they are never forgotten and while some deem them unworthy of living, make that known to the people that that is untrue

Ελευθεριος (of freedom) make it so they will know freedom and will not be under siege any longer

Τροπαιος (turns to flight, defeats), instill in them the fighting spirit they need, and the spirit to live, so they can expel the oppressors from their land.

Παλαμναιος (punisher of murderers), make it so the oppressors can’t get away with their crime, that they never can escape from their own actions

Επιδωτης (giver of good), make it so they can find as many moments of peace and slight escape as they can, no matter how fleeting it is. Whether it be sitting with a loved one or getting a sip of fresh water, give it to them.

Θεος Αγαθος, (the good god) you as much as the other Gods teach us Xenia (hospitality, friendliness basically), to hold it close to our hearts, to hold people close to our hearts. We know you are as just as angry as we are, and we know you mourn with us. And just like you, we will let no injustice pass

No one should stay silent about this or any other injustices. Speak up, protest, share, and pray

(Also please excuse any spelling, grammar, and other errors,, I did read over it but yknow)

the midwest princess!

Warning : not very coherent

I so badly wanted the slow extinction of fremen culture in dune messiah and children of dune to be an examination on how the colonial rule destroy indigenous way of life and fuck up the local ecosystem causing untold damages for the sake of "modern development" when its actually just a mindless chase for profits. But I know its not. There were some bit of writing that pointed in that direction (how terraforming destroys the habitat of desert animals, especially the worms, gradual loss of knowledge on water discipline, how riding the sandworms becomes rarer and rarer) but overall, it doesnt seem like its what frank hebert actually wanted to say.

From the first book, the fremen is seen as 'noble' or special because the harsh conditions of Arrakis made them into a society of honor with the strength and battle prowess that rivaled the sardaukar. The sardaukars were defeated by them because they've gotten too confident and comfortable from constantly winning. In dune messiah, we see the fremen slowly undergoing through the same thing as their planet becomes less harsh. The fact was regularly noted by people who went through the sietch days and somehow, its all they care about. Feeling resentment over how the new generations are weak and waterfat. Cultural things like music, communal gatherings, camaraderie, were all treated like a footnote. There was a scene in dune messiah where a veteran, Farok was complaining about living in suburban houses instead of the caves. IRL, suburban houses on a desert climate took so much to maintain. It's expensive. It wastes water, power that are currently sourced by burning fossil fuels, and it kills the local ecosystem. It also promotes loneliness because people are separated in tiny family units. There is a lot of plot potential in there. But in the book, its merely a rant that describes how Farok wanted the old ways without specifying why and how it was better for him and fremen as a whole. Meanwhile in dune it was specified how awful living in the old days are. And then of course, a part of why Paul had his downfall was because the fremen thinks its disappointing that theyre not brutal savages trained by the desert and a fear of the shai-hulud anymore

It's a wasted opportunity! The book wants you to believe the old ways of the fremen are better, but all it focuses on is how better living conditions makes them soft. They resent not sacrificing virgins and leaving blind people to die. The things they lost that the book narratively cares about is the things that aids the Atreides and their empire, not the things that makes the fremen who they are (communal living in the sietch, solidarity, appreciation for the environment).

Despite being glorified, the fremen is not treated like people. Their way of life is universally seen as best for the planet, but there is no sincere examination on why it actually works for the fremen. And the book suffers because of it. In the end, the fremen is merely a placeholder for frank hebert to spout his weird beliefs about survival of the fittest instead of a story about indigenous culture. My friend, you were so close but you missed it!

a little muad'dib and Shai-Hulud drawing

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

- Frank Herbert.

unpopular opinion: i love corrupted paul atreides. i love his moral descent into madness. people say that it was unexpected, but his tainted arc was evident from the very beginning, and frank herbert was very intentional in weaving in the foreshadowing. let paul be corrupted. let him be something other than the perfect hero. doing anything otherwise would defeat one of the most crucial points about politics, religion, and idolization of the entire series.

life is too short for me to read anything that isn't about gay men being weird to each other

Started watching for the romance and end up staying for the political commentary

Save me Brazilian catholic guilt

I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work

(Part two)

Every few weeks I think about Lucifer in angels before man. Lovely Lucifer, curious Lucifer, hungry for life and love and experience and so so curious, almost childlike_ and I think how god didn't like how slow Lucifer was going about bringing about the end so he took matters into his own hands. I think of that kind of betrayal. I think how he was pushed into doing what he was created for, not given a choice into it, punished for it, and Michael will never know the true story, and if he does, he will never trust Lucy because his loyalties lie with god.

Then I think of Uriel with the other half of his soul in the great darkness. I think of him losing his half, having to shift his loyalties for survival and from fear_and I get very sad.

Nico: Name a more iconic duo than my crippling fear of abandonment and my anxiety. I'll wait.

Will: You and me!!!

Nico, tearing up: Okay.

i'll eat you up i love you so!

if you saw this on twt no you DIDNT

Unreliable narrator that pretends that everything turned out the way he planned just to cope with the regret of what he had done.

x

Saltburn just asks the question that everyone is too afraid to ask. What if people were using their autism for evil.

you might be goth but you’ll never be fucking the grave of your unconsummated lover, who you poisoned to death (in the center of a hedge maze), in a rainstorm, on the grounds of his castle goth