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here is a preview of our plotline, or more accurately, the beginning lead into the first chapter of an ongoing novel ! a brief note that mourners does not follow the timeline of the show, but only considers the timeline of the books and more specifically, the six of crows duology, canon in terms of events which leads us into our continuation of the crows’ stories.

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Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, Vol. Two // summer and memory and living 

1 / 2 / 3 / 4 /5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9  // memory mb pt2/3

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on tangerines and tenderness 🍊

@rosewater1997 / @ljza / ‘tintin in tibet’ by mount eerie / youqing wang / ‘we are okay’ by nina lacour / @sunsbleeding

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How do you cure homesickness?

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𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐲 - 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼

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iii | retro arcade by undeadmagikarp

preview - code

Do blogroll pages still exist? Anyways, this is a retro-themed blogroll page with a built-in space shooter game

Yeah I did it I put a mini space shooter game in a Tumblr page

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NOTES: Clearly, I got really extra with this. Code for space shooter game was ripped off of Andrew Rubin. As always, please reblog or like if you are using, and general theme rules apply. Thank you!

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poison love // about page by stardusthms

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a simple about page with a lot of text space, info boxes and a quote.

page must be edited manually. instructions for customization are within the code.

if you encounter any problems with the code or have any questions about it, contact me here.

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Theme #09 : Spotlight [Preview]

Blog. Good for text-heavy blogs.

↳ [GITHUB] | [THEME GARDEN]

Features:

Full height sidebar with big image, title, author and description

Option for transparent menu bar

3 Social links & 4 extra custom links

Accent colors (Blog author, link post, chat lines, audio meta, ask background)

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re; the mouthwound can’t for the life of me remember what provoked that train of thought maybe some quote i happened to scroll past on the futility or impossibility of speaking the self truthfully (? im guessing at this point) but it reminded me of something i read in one of leslie jamison’s empathy exams essays years ago now that talks about a “dialect” of the wound and how “we want our wounds to speak for themselves” (when they dont). hold on

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and fate? no one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward. i tell you - it was born with us the day that we are born.

homer, the iliad

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sick line

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God [Part 1/…]

Ao3 Bloodborne fanfic “Awake O Sleeper” by meradorm// The Beyond by Jairo Guerrero // Sylvia Plath // John Lennon // God of Death Moon by Zdzislaw Beksinski // Friedrich Nietzsche // Florence and The Machine // The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove Album cover // Aldous Huxley // Jason Bayani

Feel free to add your own parts or sumbit them!

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i hear, around the block, that u have some thoughts on the parallels between helen and achilles? would love and appreciate immensely the chance of hearing them bc i love both of them dearly

Yes we have that in common anon <3 these thoughts are not particularly original, just some pretty general observations i guess (also im sorry about the quantity of medea tangents but i am physically incapable of not making things about medea)

A. Divinity

The core thing they have in common is that they're both semi-divine. in the Iliad in particular they do stand out as straddling that line between human and not-quite, esp regarding their confrontations w gods (like helen vs aphrodite and achilles vs apollo and the river etc). There's like, aeneas and diomedes as well but helen and achilles are specifically disruptive to The Orders Of Things in a way those guys aren't. (the odyssey has a slightly different portrayal of achilles in the nekuia w the nature of his afterlife but that's a slightly different discussion).

I like to think of that divinity as manifesting as a kind of...too-muchness, an intensity of presence and emotion that people who are completely mortal don't have. This is partly informed by medea as well bc she has a very similar intensity to achilles in a lot of her portrayals, even the ones like apollonios where she's very much a 16 year old princess head over heels in love with jason.

B. Destructiveness

The too-muchness (i need a better term for it lmao) also i think manifests in this disruptiveness to the normal structures and social orders. Sometimes, like achilles, they're deliberately disruptive, but a lot of the time it seems like an intrinsic fact of their being (particularly in the case of helen or medea bc its also closely linked to Gender). Helen destroys both the oikos (abandoning Menelaos, whatever ur view on her agency in that situation being) and the polis in the process (her presence at troy being a destructive force on its own) - she's a lot like medea in that respect there's a REASON i think they should be girlfriends. And achilles is given the epithet πτολιπόρθιος, sacker of cities...he's a destructive force against the polis as well. The attention that homer gives to hektor's family places a spotlight on the oikos that achilles destroys too--one of the most heartwrenching parts of the iliad for me is the line about andromache drawing a bath for hektor, not realising he's already been killed and has no need for it (22.442-6). Achilles also denies burial rites to like. A LOT of people by tossing them into the river, adn of course to hektor up until the final part of the poem - his rage is characterised as inhuman and semi-divine and abjectly horrifying primarily because he forgoes the traditional boundaries of war in regards to burial rites. (burial rites tangent sorry but with homeric honour these men are here specifically to die but that death only gets remembered if they are properly buried so being denied burial is like. REALLY bad in this context). So around these figures u get the normal social orders, the ways of organising things and the Rules by which people need to live being disrupted or outright destroyed. It's like these people are Too Much to fit within those normal structures. They just don't fit.

C. Fate

And there's some kinship between helen and achilles in regard to that destructiveness, even though achilles' is far more intentional than helen's. Bc they're both trapped in their own stories, confined by fate, and so the ultimate agency they have over their actions IS really questionable. I'm bringing up medea again but in seneca's version she says medea nunc sum, crevit ingenium malis and it's like. Now i am medea. As if Medea is also a pre-existing cultural concept in the story-world as it is in the world of the writer (tragedies do have a running theme of like. An inability to imagine a world where the tragedy doesn't exist and so they have this self-referential circularity to them like w eumenides). And of course you have Helen weaving scenes from the Iliad itself, tellign the stories maybe, or dooming the men to die

D. Gods ought to fear their children <3

So zeus feared being overthrown by thetis' offspring if he were to have a child with her - that's why he arranged for thetis to be married to peleus instead. As a result, Achilles is mortal, and isn't in any danger of overthrowing zeus, but i think this story has some relevance for helen - bc she is actually zeus' child (she's not fully divine either, but like. Neither was dionysos at first and that didn't stop orphism!). Catherine rozier's article on helen's divine epithets gets at this idea of helen as a weapon that she herself can never use...she's got tremendous power. And Zeus comes from this line of sons usurping their fathers. Zeus has had a great many sons, and rarely you get an implication of succession except w dionysos, but i still think that like. Idk helen is dangerous u know? There's this link between achilles and helen as destructive forces in the human world but also the unrealised potential to be destructive to the divine world as well (keyword being potential. Their semi-divinity makes them dangerous to everyone)

E. Relationship with one another

Ok and the last thing is that Pausanias describes achilles and helen being married in the afterlife, which is a little weird but i have a soft spot for the pairing bc HD does some really interesting things with it in Helen in Egypt. Its like. Idk she really does just pick up on a lot of these things, their divinity, their confinement to their own stories, their respective searches for meaning and identity outside of the narratives once they've ended. But if u are not HD you cannot write about it <3 it is incorrect <3

also wait on the topic of weird marriages to achilles, medea ALSO has one. they’re married in elysium according to ibycus and simonides. i think this is very funny bc achilles and medea are the same person and would murder each other on sight because of it. a world where achilles and helen and medea all interact on a regular basis in a relatively mundane context is my ideal. I would like a sitcom about it <3

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Ellys taking a much needed nap, for @milfreva over at artfight!