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“i left home a child and came back to trumpeting heralds and parades in my name and historybooks with my face on the front cover–– a hero. i left home a child and came back a hero but no one seems to see that a hero is a warrior and a warrior must first be born of war. and i see too many children chasing after my footprints with joy wearing armour like blankets and helmets like crowns laughing with eyes bright as the faraway glint of sniper scopes. and i do not want to leave a legacy of bloodstains and bruised knuckles and teeth clenched around burning bullets. and i do not want anyone else to leave home a child and come back a hero tasting blood on every passing wind and regret on every shaking breath. but i left home a child and came back a hero and only a hero–– ––not the historian who writes the legends or the god who writes the stars and i do not have it in me to stop the next warrior who leaves home a child and comes back a hero.”

— the hero’s lament ( j.p. ) || home, legacies and regrets for anonymous  (via pencap-poetry)

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Duality by abc123cnb

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‘Angel, angel, what have I done? I’ve faced the quakes, the wind, the fire, I’ve conquered country, crown, and throne. Why can’t I cross this river?’ ‘Pay no mind to the battles you’ve won - It’ll take a lot more than rage and muscle. Open your heart and hands, my son, or you’ll never make it over the river.’

The Humbling River (via thedeadofflandersfields)

It’ll take a lot more than words and guns A whole lot more than riches and muscle

(via thedeadofflandersfields)

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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”

— Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

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Last week’s comic: Perfect?!

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“Boromir’s a traditionalist - defend, defend, cut. He uses a balance of defensive and offensive moves, keeps himself well-covered even in the offense, with a lot of diagonal cuts. He does let the enemy come to him, and lets them close with him, unlike Aragorn. He’ll be slower to defeat an opponent, relies on superior stamina, but takes fewer risks and is less likely to take serious injury. Generally I think that sort of fighter will be the last man standing against staggering odds, since he takes care not to be hit. The way he died is the only you could take him down - arrows and overwhelming force.” — Bob Anderson

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Tolkien characters + Latin: Boromir

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“Your brothers could never fail me. You are cherished. You do matter”.

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Primaris Apothecary 

by Oscar Obando

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Therefore naught was done at that time, though Elrond’s heart misgave him, and he said to Mithrandir: 'Nonetheless I forbode that the One will yet be found, and then war will arise again, and in that war this Age will be ended. Indeed in a second darkness it will end, unless some strange chance deliver us that my eyes cannot see.’

’Many are the strange chances of the world,’ said Mithrandir, ’and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.’ - The Silmarillion

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it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)

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fascists latching on so so so hard to warhammer 40k because they are too stupid to realize that warhammer 40k is about how evil fascism is is easily one of the biggest ironies of idiot nerdboy culture

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“Your brothers could never fail me. You are cherished. You do matter”.

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How noble, the Old Lie, Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Sepheran

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A Flickering Hope

Another commission for @speedgnat of his lamenter Sepheran