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naples 🏛🧳📖

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How to make yourself feel again 

Sit outside and feel sunlight on your skin. Focus on the feeling and let your imagination go free. Don’t think about what is stressing you. 

Go for a walk barefoot on the grass and breathe. 

Have a technology break and just sit. 

Drink a glass of cold water. 

Read your favourite sad book. Sit and immerse yourself in the story. 

Listen to your favourite meaningful songs. Preferably use headphones and blast it. Sing along to the lyrics and focus on the words and melodies. 

Read poetry gently. Really think about what it means. 

Sit and cry. Just let everything out. 

Reminisce the past. Think over everything. 

Write all of your thoughts and feelings down. 

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sometimes i think i’m straight, then inej ghafa

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@inkedpagesnet creation meme: favorite  standalone books

the secret history, donna tartt

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?’ Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

insp.

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im a simple girl.. i see book, i buy book, i let book sit on my shelf for months unread

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sometimes i really wonder how Henry Winter did not know about the moon landing

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TSH characters as textposts

Richard:

Francis:

Charles:

Camilla:

Bunny:

Henry:

+ bonus (everyone)

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if i become an english teacher i’ll make sure that all my students turn out gay

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why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you

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The way Lust and Roy interact with each other during Chapter 38 of the manga, and for that matter FMAB, is so interesting to note. Because both of them have a similarity between each other: they have the choice to be merciless, but this mercilessness is driven by very different things.

For Lust, it is obvious to us that she is brutal and concise. She follows Father’s orders to the letter, uses humans for her own benefits, and when she doesn’t need them anymore she disposes of them quickly. Without remorse.

These actions also have a lot of self-centered notions to them. Lust has a lot of arrogance towards how capable she is, and that was why she allowed herself to basically reveal the Philosopher’s Stone — the most important source of a humunculi — because in it there was a pride in her ability to keep Roy and Jean silent in spite of how dumb that action was. She looks down upon humans and their recklessness, their weaknesses, even though she tells Roy and Jean that she is human. She sees herself, just like any other homunculi, as greater than humanity.

She doesn’t consider the repercussions of her actions, and to be fair, in her death, she doesn’t even seem to be worried or stressed about the future of the group’s plans. Lust still has the confidence to say to Roy that he will fail, that he will die before he can get to his goal.

And Roy Mustang is similar when it came to being merciless.

The many times the viewers see Roy be full of calculated brutality and bloodlust isn’t mainly from an influence of self-centeredness and conciseness like Lust. When he becomes cruel, focused on the task, it is because he is motivated by the protection and grief of his fellow man, of his closest friends.

This was his reaction to when Lust impaled Jean. In an attempt to save this man he legitimately stuffed his hand full of titty and ripped her stone out in an attempt to save him.

This was his reaction when Lust spoke badly of Hughes. And we know what happens with Roy when he witnessed Lust ready to kill his lieutenant and Alphonse — he incinerated her to nonexistence. 

When Roy tried to avenge Hughes, there is a motivation of vengeance for himself. You can see how, in his hatred, he would consider the idea of burning Ed’s arm if Ed didn’t interfere.

But the cause came from his loved ones, the people he supported and promised to protect ever since he set his eyes on the goal. He loved Hughes, and knowing that he was so close to giving him the revenge that he desires is enough to get him to the brink.

But when he does show off his bloodlust, he still has the ability to back out because of a support system, because he has the empathy to understand how absolutely horrifying it would be for him to be elected as ruler after mercilessly killing someone without even considering the consequences, and how much they effect the people he loves.

That is what separates Lust and Roy: one is merciless out of apathy, one is merciless out of love.