#me standing in front of a mirror

[steelthroat]

I have this problem with my writing when I want to make something serious. I put down a couple lines and Ah- irony.

No! Fuck off with this self aware-ironic shit I want to write something serious in context, I want to take my things seriously and I won't hide behind jokes and stuff because I don't feel like my things deserve respect and my inadequacy.

No matter how many times I'm gonna have to put down the same sentence to say the same fricking thing over and over again. I want that sentence to be normal and serious, no jokes, no funny haha. A. Normal. Sentence.

I will describe someone's feelings without my narration invalidating them. I will describe a situation and my character's actions without a single comment.

[bogkeep]

if my many years on tumblr have taught me anything at all it's that discoursing over semantics, especially of the Who Is Oppressed Enough To Ride variety, has never accomplished a single meaningful change for anyone ever - except maybe accidentally revealed how beneficial true solidarity across identities could be - and is frankly not worth dignifying with participation

[rxttenmuttz]

Just bleached my hair (gonna dye it black & turquoise another day!!) & now ima go make a new tail, cuz I haven't made one in 3 years & I need a bigger one :3 It'll prob take me like a week, but that's okay ^_^ cuz art takes time & it's beautiful

[changelingrain]

they're going to transgenderize shadow stalker you heard it here first

[zomboyfren]

I've decided Wilson has leveled up to main f/o status

[fooltofancy]

emotional support fate run abandonment new years

[lancerslover]

anybody know why jack switched his hair from a middle-ish part to a deep side part in his mid-20s??

[stuck-in-jelly]

Maybe I’m delusional but I cant be the only one who believes that the “Rise Again” short story is a parallel to what must’ve happened when Lisa realized what Viren “had to do” to save their son.

Pretty consistently we see that Claudia is a parallel to her father meanwhile more subtly we see Soren as a parallel to his mother.

I believe it is strongest in the scene where Soren makes the decision to runaway and he tries to ask Claudia to come with him. Claudia shakes her head overwhelmed with whats going on and begging Soren to not make her choose between him and their father, much like when their parents asked her to choose which parent she’d stay with.

And so, just like their mother, Soren chooses for Claudia. Telling her goodbye.

I feel like it is especially reinforced with these images.

With that established i want to clarify my thoughts on exactly what happened to Soren when he was a kid.

I know a lot of people believe Soren didn’t actually die and instead was just really sick and about to die but between the symbolism of being turned to stone=death and how whatever spell he did crossed a line even his Mentor wouldn’t to the point of getting into a physical altercation I believed Soren actually died.

It seems to me that to at least to some degree this was resurrection. But why it didn’t require a blood of his child?

Soren was young and small and probably not dead for very long unlike Viren who had been dead for TWO YEARS.

But now onto ‘Rise Again’.

Of course the spell Claudia used wasn’t as strong as bringing something to life. She didn’t actually bring back a dead cat she was just animating cat ashes into the form of the cat she loved but regardless other she and Soren treat it as if the ashes were truly the cat and not a puppet Claudia made. But these snippets stuck out the most to me

If we take this short story as a parallel of their parents after Soren’s death/near death I feel like the language paints a good picture of how it went:

Viren:

“- I know but I fixed it.”

“It wasn’t fair that [he] died. [He] wasn’t even that old.”

Lisa:

“We had a little ceremony remember?”

“Because [Soren] died.”

But I think the biggest one is this scene:

[solar-halos]

happy mood board monday. this one is for you, sapphics

(it’s johanna and annie themed)

[anisehmp3]

[saturnnpie]

god bless

[halfdeadwallfly]

hello i just wrote a poem and for some reason it feels important

[cunthq]

omg i need this man dead

[fourdancingmoths]

If sunshipduo make one more "nobody asked you to stay" "nobody asked you to leave!" reference istg I'll. I'll cry. I'll cry even more.

[running-in-the-dark]

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