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okay but "the symbolism is Real and Trying to Kill You" is my favorite kind of symbolism

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made a little comic for class

words from "Tears in Rain" in Blade Runner (1982)

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tiny cuts.

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"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

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Keith Perelli (American, b. New Orleans, LA, USA) - Build, 2006, Paintings: Oil on Paper

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I love how Curtis apparently only knows how to flirt by way of trying to give people so much food. Fruit specifically. Faerie fruit. He does this twice. First with Felix, and later with Fraxus's mother.

Sir, sir, you can't fix all your problems with faerie fruit. You also can't just ignore your lover and unborn child for nine years or until it's convenient again.

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Okay so actually he's monstrous because he's literally a biological weapon, but he's good with kids I guess!

There's gonna be this scene where Lark goes into this cave, this cave is where something was imprisoned a long time ago. He gets to accidentally free a monstrosity that's only monstrous because of how it was treated. And they wind up having a considerable amount in common and I cannot wait to explore the parallels between the two of them.

That being said, quick reminder to myself that Out Of The Darkness by Matthew And The Atlas is a huge thing inspiring this scene.

There's just something about caves that gives new perspectives, new life, it changes characters and I love that. I don't know what it is exactly. But there's something about going into the depths of the earth... You just come back different.

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Shrine at a spring.

Wiltshire, England.

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If nothing else, I've learned to name things as they are.

The monster in me is no monster. It's just grief.

- Excerpt from This Anatomy of Melancholy // L.H.Z

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JD. Salinger // L. Frank Baum

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Marya Hornbacher // Maya Angelou

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Hey, no homo, but I am sitting on the broken swing set out back in the perfect, quiet, 2:00am blackness and picturing the softness of your voice and the darkness of your eyes with such perfect and terrible clarity that it feels like I'm choking on my own heartbeat.

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on the love that remains even after we are no longer

Pinterest / Male Fantasy by Billie EIlish / Clementine von Radics, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive / Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night / Pinterest / Stick Season by Noah Kahan / Pinterest / Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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"Fairytales don't tell children, that dragons exist.

Children already know, that dragons exist.

Fairytales tell children, that dragons can be killed."

G.K. Chesterton.

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I love antagonists who mirror the protagonist instead of contrast them. They are the most extreme version of the protagonist, someone with the same dreams and beliefs who believed these things could only be achieved by the sharpest tools. The crushing weight of knowing that could be you.

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In working on The Storyteller, I get a little sneak peak at Forest Devils every so often. It’s great. But also confusing. I song know what order this is being written in, but it sure ain’t chronological.