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London (3/1) | Flicker

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niallhoran: Night Nineteen Munich

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Niall on stage in Amsterdam - 03/28

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“When you grow up wanting to be a singer, this is what you dream of” NIALL YOU ARE SO LOVED LOOK AT HIS FACE GOD

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— The Show Live On Tour in Belfast, Night I (February 20th, 2024)

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did you sit on youtube replaying niall’s only solo part in more than this when you were a teenager or were you normal??

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There’s been a lot of (very excellent!) discussion recently about Brigid and Stephen and how much she’s loved, and I feel like that’s a very good segue into a topic which I’ve been musing over for a while: namely, Patrick O’Brian’s treatment of love in general. Because honestly I feel like one of the things that’s most captivated me about the Aubreyad in general is the sheer amount of love it contains, the vast majority of which is (canonically, at least) non-romantic, and I think that the further I get into the series, the more that strikes me.

Like honestly I cannot even begin to explain how incredibly good POB is at portraying loving relationships, whether they’re friendships, marriages, or parents and children (/surrogate parent and child, as the case may be). I’m actually genuinely not sure if I’ve ever read something like it. I think that a lot of media really struggles with platonic relationships, which is a question that probably deserves a 400-page thesis about it and that I’m not really qualified to answer, but the Aubreyad somehow manages to create relationships that are all so imbued with love that it genuinely does not matter whether or not the people in them are in love or not. While I’m certainly here for reading Stephen and Jack as a romantic relationship, there’s a certain point where I actually don’t care whether or not they’re friends or lovers, because the complexities of what they feel for each other and what they mean in each other’s lives is just as deep either way. And all the relationships in the book are like that: Bonden and the Surprises looking after Stephen, Jack with Mowett and Pullings, Stephen and Sophie, and on and on into infinity.

I think the thing that makes me the most insane about this is that these relationships all feel so unbelievably, viscerally real. The love that’s stored there is the same sort of love that I feel for the people in my own life, with all the inevitable disagreements and exasperation and imperfection that it comes with. I think it’s incredibly difficult to capture that exact feeling in writing, and yet somehow he’s managed to do it. There’s been so much talk about the way in which people in our day and age and media in general struggle to talk about friendship and platonic relationships as meaningful, and I’m not saying that just any writer could go out and weave a tapestry so complex as the Aubreyad does, but reading these books is like a balm for that. There’s something so reassuring in knowing that a romantic relationship is not the be-all-end-all for any of the characters in these books, no matter how you look at it. Each of them is surrounded by a web of people who are deeply implicated in their existence and who truly care what happens to them.

I think fiction, by its nature of needing to bring characters in to serve a role in a linear plot, doesn’t often leave room for love of this kind, and I don't want to be critical of that, because not all narratives can be like the one Patrick O'Brian's written (which is 100% okay—it should be that way, that's how narratives work!). But there’s something so healing about reading a story in which all of the characters are so deeply loved. It’s like a mirror; looking into it, you can see your own relationships, and by extension, just how loved you are, even if most of the time you don’t realize it. Humans are not lonely creatures, and no one captures that better than Patrick O’Brian.

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changmin winning effortlessly at kwangya this year

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THANK U ✦ FEVER TVXQ! SMTOWN LIVE 2022

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ig @yunho2154: for my haters 😘

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Yunho making sure to serve one more time before the year ends

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TVXQ! ✦ HOPE FROM KWANGYA

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has anyone ever thought of what would’ve happened to yunho’s image if he actually debuted as four seasons?

apparently he’ll be ‘spring’?? and also the youngest in the group??? lmAO DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THIS UPSETS ME because he’ll be the tallest among the four of them and can you imagine this giant hulk of a man making full use of his cute maknae image, going around hugging his hyungs and pulling aegyo out of his ass 24/7 wow highly upsetting dnw to imagine

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170425 Super Handsome Yunho for “Rose Project” to encourage people to vote for South Korean President election. Watch [3]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4bZ4630-s

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I know I’ve already giffed it like…3 times, but…the scrunch face! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)ﻭ