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The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

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to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel

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jon being silly-goofy for so much of season 5 ("methinks the spider doth protest too much," playing I spy, etc) but it's because the eye is in full power and pumping him with so much dopamine that he actually has the energy to goof around. he's full of energy and endorphins but it's all because he's powered by everyone else's suffering. makes you think.

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i try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything

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go back to the source material with mama

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idk waht to write for this one,

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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time is a flat circle

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the holy trinity

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My smiling Viktor compilation as your therapy

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Unreliable narrators are one hell of an idea. You can just write whatever, and if a reader points out "hey the way this scene happened should not be physically possible if it's done the way this character described it", you can just be like "yeah I don't trust that fucker either."

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happy severance day! here's some studies I've done while waiting for the new episode

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Anemoia

(Full version on X)

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what compels me the most about jmart in TMA is how they’re the exact contrary of the “fall in love in every universe” trope. no, they’re not fated to meet, much less to even remotely like each other. they met under these extremely weird and specific circumstances from their world, and as jon himself said, if weirder circumstances didn’t happen they wouldn’t even get along. tmagp furthers this by making a point to showcase how, in protocolverse, they lived and died without ever knowing of each other’s existence.

they don’t fall in love in every universe. they only have this one. this one chance to make it work.

and they’re not perfect! they’re fucked up! they’re messy!

their communication is flawed, martin is jealous and manipulative, jon is too emotionally distant, they are each affected by their own traumas and it bleeds into their relationship, and they keep trying! and failing! and trying! until their tragic end. and you know what? that makes them EVEN MORE COMPELLING both as a couple and as characters!

we don’t need to ignore these aspects of their romance to make them interesting, and i’d argue that these complex factors and their flaws are the exact things that DO make them interesting. they had one shot, and it was flawed as hell, but they did their best to make the most of it under incredible stressors, such as the literal apocalypse. is that a less interesting kind of romance story than the others, just because they’re flawed and not always healthy and not at all fated? do we have to pretend they’re something they’re not to be enjoyable?

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Sinners studies in heavypaint

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror