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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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dreamstat + appearing whenever louis gets the ick

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happy 10th anniversary of "is hannibal in love with me?" to those who celebrate! 🥳🎉

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Pride and Prejudice (2005), BTS courtesy of Focus Features in celebration of the 20th Anniversary.

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Life imitating art.

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it's okay to mourn the person you could have been. it's okay to be angry or resentful at that lost potential. it's okay to be sad about it too. but i want you to know that there are so many parts of you, the you that exists right now, that are beautiful and lovely and meaningful. just because your past is lost doesn't mean your future has to be too.

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.03: Is My Very Nature That Of A Devil.

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Yearning for the ghost of grey London winters, lost in fog and fading light

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louis de pointe du lac — denial is a river

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Interview with the vampire 1.01

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"average greek sea voyage takes eight months" factoid actually just statistical error. sea voyages around greece are very short. Bad-luck Odysseus, who tripped over a monster every five feet, had to sail in loop de loops around greece to avoid various annoyed deities, and took eleven years to sail 565 miles, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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No but the dynamic between Edmund and Susan Pevensie is so important.

The traitor that was and the traitor that would be; the dark to the light of the Valiant and the Magnificent. Lucy and Peter are all overt and loud and brash and you see the work of their hands. They are not known for their subtlety.

But Edmund. Susan. You do not get called the Just without getting blood on your hands that no one but you will ever see. People headcanon Edmund as the spymaster of the Pevensies and I can completely understand why.

(He learned viciousness in school hallways and a wintry land. No matter how much you may mend, no matter how just you become, no matter how good— and he did all of these things— you never outrun the knowledge of the shadows, and he uses this to advantage.

Besides, what better way to use the abilities that the wolves and dark dwarves who came to him for clemency know best?)

You can always know what Peter is thinking; know that if ever comes a time the High King wants you dead, you will see it coming and die looking into those bright eyes as he runs his sword through you. The Just King learned to hide hurt under a veneer of belligerence and learned how to use that to create an impassive mask. If Edmund Pevensie wants you gone, nobody knows what happens to you until it’s far too late to do anything about it.

And Susan. Susan, the Gentle one, courted by kings. Among all those kings, surely there must have been at least one she didn’t favor. Surely one she didn’t care for, whose presence made her uncomfortable or who she simply didn’t find entertaining. You are not called the Gentle if you snub people, if you insult a man by turning him away with honesty— you are called much worse things.

(Susan, Gentle Susan, how many believed that beautiful mask you wore that told them there was still a chance even as you were waving them out the door? The princes that came for Lucy knew when they was out of favour— the Valiant one is a lioness. Lionesses do not know how to let someone down gently. You do not have that luxury when you are being wooed by kings. Men have done terrible things when a woman has told them ‘no’ outright.)

Both Edmund and Susan have learned to wear masks; to hide in shadows when it suits them. That creates an understanding between the two of them that’s hard to break.

So I like to think that Edmund understood when they were banished from Narnia and found this world lacking— Susan more than any of them. I like to think that when he saw her going out with lipstick red as blood (never as red as the Narnian standard; only Lucy is able to wear that red without it hurting,) he knew that it was just her putting on armor to try to fight for her own power (in the way the Gentle Queen has always known how to fight— Gentle does not mean safe, has never meant safe. Narnians know that better than anyone.)

I hope that in the New Narnia, he took Jill and Polly and Eustace aside and reminded them that all apparent traitors have their motivations; that every traitor can mend, even and especially those who were never so off-track at the heart of things. I hope he never lost faith in his sister because goodness knows that she and the others never really lost faith in him.

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tiktok is so funny a video will say "tell me your most unhinged fave fanfic tags in the comments" and ppl will be like "omg dont hate me but....dacryphilia 🫣" girl first of all men crying gets everyone hard Second of all

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losing a friend (for the one that got away) 1/3

part 2 , part 3

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more cute p&p bts pics i found online !!

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narnia has actually way too many completely devastating concepts in it that are not explored At All