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hmmmmmm

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“Tears that are pearls, in ocean moonlight,”

— Li Shang-Yin, tr. by John A. Turner, from “A Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry: 121 Classical Poems,”

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Artwork for the visual novel, “Softly, With Teeth”

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“Your moon-shaded eyes and your heaven-breathing hair,”

— Marya Zaturenska, from The Collected Poems; “To Artemis, The Destroyer,” (via jardindefruits)

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wip dynamics

zephirin

both believe in doing the right thing but struggle with taking the actions they believe would fulfill that

she's more confident where he's more comforting and vice versa - the former when they're discussing papicide and the latter when she's in her feelios

he understands that even in a non-romantic context he could take advantage of her -- not necessarily through the typical means of abusing his power, but she has a blindspot where she trusts him too much in part because he holds the position of archimandrite

grinnaux

rich bastards who both think might makes right, understands noble's power plays and a keen eye for socio-political issues

grinnaux just doesn't care about it while diana does

grinn likes his bodyrippers slightly more vanilla than diana likes hers. this isn't hard.

adelphel

cute, cherubic features, blonde enough, blue eyed enough

uses their good looks to their advantage, understands it won't last forever but doesn't quite get it. where adelphel doesn't fear it, diana does.

paulecrain

crimelord's daughter and crimelord's typical lackey. she knows his sort, and while she tries to present herself as purely ladylike, he knows where to look (mostly.)

haumeric

social justice homies, if they were the same age in the same college campus i'd bet they'd cross paths fairly often

both have a barely hidden temper, both dislike charibert

hermenost

merchant's child, understands the merits of a transaction

guerrique

big fun! diana adores his good vibes, and is well used to drunkards being buffoons.

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are you mad at me? would you like to be

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death will not do us part you stupid cunt

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Motto

by Bertolt Brecht tr. John Willett

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times.

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anglerfish 

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Andrea Gibson, "DEPRESSION [VERB]", Lord of the Butterflies

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the sheer amount of directly word-for-word from siken i'm putting in one of the most (if not the most) pivotal scenes in paulefic is a bit disgusting but ngl i like it so

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Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

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Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

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Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

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from The New York Times

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“The moon pours a stream of glitter / Into the depths of my soul.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from “Nocturne,” wr. c. 1903