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eremika, paulchani, fate and time

alamy, ana gavalda, james joyce, audrey niffenegger, christipher nolan, jeanette winterson

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Love is a Blade

Ada Limon - The Good Fight // Rainer Maria Rilke - Antistrophes // Cathrynne Valente - Deathless // Mary Oliver - Knife // Andrea Galad // Sarah J. Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses // Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus // Alicia Ostriker - The Imaginary Lover // Ocean Vuong - Prayer for the Newly Damned // Madeline Miller - Circe // Vladimir Mayakovsky - Lilichka //Erica Jong // Andrea Galad // Yves Olade - Self Portrait as a Hairpin Turn // Anais Nin // unknown // Juana Inez de la Cruz - Love Opened a Mortal Wound

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“His heart is pure and terrible, and I think no other like it exists.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to T. W. Higginson written c. July 1874

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“Have I not loved you for a thousand years?”

— W.B. Yeats, from Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats; “The Shadowy Waters” (via luthienne)

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here forever... rest peacefully, my beloved, my dear.

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"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

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"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

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wanna disappear in Italy together for a month or two?

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I've said this before but Why do people position "themes and analysis" and "shipping" as mutually exclusive opposites. maybe I find two characters thematically interesting and want them to analytically fuck about it.

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I'll be very clear, I'm not an AOT fic reader and even less an eremika shipper. I seldom read fics regarding this fandom and I've always been meh about eremika. But ritual of love is so damn good I swear to God. I love characters living through the mess they created and I love how this fic doesn't make eren this poor little meow meow who made a mistake. I love the codependency these two have. also mikasa's character has always suffered everywhere else because she is quiet and not shy, so spotlight only shines on how she kills. but I love how she is processing everything. and historia! holy shit she's ruthless. she did learn a lot from ymir and that's why she's alive. armin and the others leaving sent me in a sobfest. you can't go back from this. there's no hope left anymore. and reading this fic, you can feel the love pouring from them. all of them. and it's so cruel that in spite of so much love, sometimes you lose. I hope you never stop writing.

hi! 😀🧍🏼i am… SO sorry it took me four months to check my inbox 😅😬 i don’t think i have the notifications for asks on i guess??? oh my god i’m so sorry.

thank you so so much!!!! the goal of this fic very much is to explore the consequences of the full completed rumbling on the characters and the world, and i’m trying to tackle it as realistically as i can while also telling a coherent story.

eren is my favorite character in aot BECAUSE he’s so terrible. i would never meow-meow-ify him; what i like about him is that he’s crazyinsane and his brain works in ways no one else’s in the entire world does. mikasa is my angel princess she is not a girlboss she is proud and stubborn and standoffish and maternal and it’s a bit harder to nail her down imo bc post-time-skip she’s opened up enough to be softer and then immediately get retraumatized in the worst imaginable way, so how hard is she going to shut down v be expressive, but i do try very hard to keep her herself bc i love her. but yeah she’s deep in the throes of grief. and their codependency. how can they not be they don’t have anything else!!! they’ve always been each other’s keystone and/or foundation.

i love historia she’s kinda my avatar in some ways (manipulating mikasa to make what she wants to happen happen) and i think she’s hilarious. she’s the worst and she knows it and she and eren are terrible step-cousins who bring out the worst in each other and resent each other for it and it’s very fun to write.

i love armin i LOVE LOVE LOVE ARMIN i stopped reading aot for a year when i thought he’d died and only picked it up again bc i heard he survived and i’m NOT trying to write him out i would NEVER… but i just can’t fathom him and eren being able to patch their relationship up ever. and it breaks my heart. and ofc if armin can’t, then it’s not even an option for the others… it makes me so sad but !!!

and yeah. rol is very much based in grief and the root belief that aot is a tragedy and i’m not doing anything to disengage from that. sometimes all the love in the world isn’t enough, and it’s heartbreaking and life-ending and it hurts and it sucks. but… just because the love didn’t change or fix anything doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.

thank you so so so much i love this message so dearly i am so unbelievably sorry i didn’t see this for months 😭😭😭😭 thank you thank you thank you thank you!

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Drawn to each other

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pleas and private entries - mina murray harker / jonathan harker

mahmoud darwish, memory for forgetfulness // hala alyan, interactive :: house saints // linecoveredinjellyfish // anna akhmatova, the guest // hadestown, wait for me // richard siken, planet of love

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