Wow

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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

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Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”

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[ID: Tumblr user @slowwshoww writes:

suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!

Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:

« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)

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[ID: Tumblr user @orpheuslament:

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

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[ID: Tumblr user @faustandfurious:

the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.

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Do you still believe myths

can save you? Foolish creature

Let me be clear: every version of this story

Ends with you being slaughtered.

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Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

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[ID: Tumblr user @sawasawako:

if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now

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This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.

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Aeschylus, The Oresteia

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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

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John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

Screaming crying because I hate every piracy guide I come across on here.

MINGYU Super, 230428 Music Bank

yeah

Love this

i’m sorry, i had to

Yeah

After Nat and Tony were killed off and Steve left Bucky behind in Endgame:

😲

One of the things I hate most about people saying Captain America is a “bland patriotic golden boy who’s just the good guy” is that it completely erases such a huge part of Steve, which is his hope : Steven Grant Rogers is someone who has had everything and everyone stripped away from him, and has lived through more sorrow and pain and grief than it’s humanly possible, and yet, YET, who chooses to keep seeing the good in people, chooses to still fight for mankind because he firmly believes that there’s something worth saving, even though his own life has gone to shit : He lost his parents, his childhood best friend (oh sorry, first he lost Bucky and then he learned that he didn’t actually die, but was tortured and brainwashed for years by the very organization he fought to eliminate, destroying his life in doing so, organization who, by the way, thrived for decades when Steve was frozen, powerless against life moving on and taking all his friends away, one by one)

So yeah, Steve is a hero, not because he got some serum from a german scientist, nor because he wears an american flag on his suit, but because he gets back up. When the world hits him, over and over and over, he gets back up, because others need him. When the void in his life gets so big it feels like it could swallow him, he gets back up, because there are still people who can’t defend themselves. When he feels so very alone and out of time, he gets back up, because he has to, because this isn’t about him, this has never been about him, this is about his hope for humanity, and what he always believed it could be. Steve fights for Greater Good, but he also fights for you. Even if you don’t believe in yourself, when you’ve given up, Steve has hope. When the world is telling him to stay down and stop fighting, he gets back up.

He gets back up, and that’s what heroes do.

Yep!

chris evans ✓ (insp.)

dealing with the worst case scenario

your condom breaks

you feel a lump on your breast

your friends are ignoring you

you’re stranded on an island 

you got rejected by a crush

you get into a car accident

you got stung by a bee/wasp

you got fired from your job

you’re in an earthquake

your tattoo gets infected

your house is on fire

you’re lost in the woods

you get arrested abroad

you get robbed

your partner cheated on you

you’re on a ship that’s sinking

you fall into ice

you’re stuck in an elevator

you hit a deer with your car

you have food poisoning

your pet passed away

you fall off of a horse

you or your friend has alcohol poisoning

you have toxic shock syndrome

your house has a gas leak

YES

#scott lang calling marvel out on its baseball-game disguises