#Sharpe Health

[sophieeeikli]

-The Act of Carcinization, by Sophie E. Eikli

[ID by domesticatedanimals: 

a poem that goes:

No soft-shelled crab am I,

exo-skeleton petrified

around my spine like a funeral pyre.

All signs point toward crustacean

pink skin turned crisp and red,

hands curled into claws, half-hearts,

grains of sand lodged beneath each layer

of chitin, trying not to flinch

while white barnacles bury their mouths into inaccessible flesh.

You must use a knife

to open me.

End ID.]

[cloud-ya]

he was forced to eat obsidian when he was 6

[shibuiking]

[wiha-jun]

FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN

A selection of Namor scenes in BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2022)

[mishapen-dear]

something about qbad mentioning how much horror he put red team thru every time purgatory gets brought up... something about how proud dapper was of him.

like this is just my late-night read but- it feels like guilt qbad is trying to twist into pride. he keeps needling away at it. “i killed them all, over and over and over again.” “they were hunted by a monster.”

it’s like- reassurance. like a nail he’s trying o beat into his head. he’s had SO much trouble with legitimately hurting his friends, despite making that vow all the way back when the eggs first went missing, despite all the tree talk and the promises to save the kids no matter what. He never faltered with elq, and that protected them. He keeps faltering now. Sometimes he doesnt remember the code, or cucurucho, or skeppy. But that doesnt matter, right? Because he’ll protect the eggs. He’ll be the monster. he is the monster. he can and he will protect them even as his seams start ripping and he keeps breaking further and further apart. even at his worst, he’ll do whatever he needs to protect the eggs.

he’ll be the monster. wont he?

[hamartia-grander]

Wyll breaking up with the player character if Ulder dies so Wyll must become the Duke makes me wanna throw up sobbing because he actually thinks that just because his father's first duty being to Baldur's Gate made him a Bad Father that Wyll himself will inevitably be a Bad Lover because surely no one could match love with duty if his father couldn't, unknowing he has more love in one hand than his father had in his entire body. fuck

[sashaisnotokay]

I still haven’t reread or rewatched Death Note, but I’m left speechless by some posts lately that claim Misa is a “poorly written” character.

For me, Misa is one of the deepest and most complex characters in the whole Death Note.

I don’t like her, but through the story I think I see her.

I see a lost girl who desperately avoids taking responsibility. She wants someone strong and safe to lead her. She craves love and connection, but doesn’t know how to get it in a healthy way - or maybe she knows, but is terrified of rejection, to the point that she lies to herself (remember her coming out of that meeting with Kyomi, telling Mogi that she “won”).

Really, a genuine question, is Misa really “badly written”?

[crowrrupt]

Penguin kigurumi for Kidou Yuuto? Why not

[restlessthio]

An idea for a print, or maybe keychains/acrylic charms =) (which would y’all rather have??)

I rewatched a bunch of Conan eps (and made my parents watch it- they loved it!) and I really like how much Heiji helps out ☺️

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Askbox time

Assuming that Nobby has seen Edward in preservation (post 1963 rebuild) (I think it was '63), what are his opinions on Edward being rebuilt into something not-so-Furness?

tl;dr: Nobby's just glad Edward is still alive, thank you — though he knows he has to pretend to give a damn about this sort of thing

The Awdry’s explanation for Edward does not come down to a single rebuild but to numerous modifications over the past, erm (checks notes) century or so. Some of these rebuilds would have been more extensive than others but it’s not clear to me that the one after the crankpin failure would have been one where they made the biggest alterations to his design.

I am sure that some significant rebuilding took place between 1920 and 1941. So Nobby already saw the beginnings of the Edwardification of 34 before he left Barrow. 

Life is change. Most of Nobby��s own working career was before Mr Pettigrew brought standardisation to the F.R., he knows how it goes. 

And, like, look, Nobby knows that when visitors come and say anything along the lines of oh if only so-and-so was still in their original form (and they do mention the Edward case to him of course, quite a lot), his job is to make vague sympathetic noises and to be sure to sound genial rather than biting if he observes that the world already has a preserved Sharp and Stewart passenger engine, you can go visit him any time, oh yes, I’m told the Dutch take very good care of him...

Incidentally, Nobby was sceptical about the project to rebuild 20 to his original form. May have kinda definitely been polite, diplomatic conversations with earnest representatives of the newly-formed Furness Railway Trust that boiled down to Nobby being like ‘Ya can’t bring back the past, shit don’t work like that’ and the FRT blokes being like ‘lol wut, nah bro, if you throw enough money at it you totally can — relax, we’ll show you.’

(At the risk of spoilers… the attitude of both parties proved justified in the end.) 

[traumatizedinksblog]

The most profound feelings in my chest have always succumbed to the gnawing claws of depression. Another thing about depression is the inability to perceive your immediate surroundings, your vicinity.And once you realise the cold numbness overcoming your day, an existential crisis gash deeper, all you can think about is self harm. The deeper the incisions, the more alive you feel. The searing pain of the wrists opening apart, makes you feel human, makes you feel emotions which otherwise are often numbed by painful mental chaos. People often vilify self harm, not knowing how it awakens our sensations, makes us aware of ourselves. Time collapses around you, leaves you choking on all the traumas you incurred. An appalling cold aura cushions you against the fine corners of your lips when you smile. Tears dry up, and your soul wails with uncontrollable screams. And all you see is a pale, lacerated soul staring at you in the mirror. This spectrum of depression scratches deep into your chest, while the scars warmly brew itself on your skin.

[redfeathered]

[clove-pinks]

This is what you Sharpe's Rifles people are reading, right??

This was my light reading last night, and I enjoyed it very much, despite being written for children people of all ages. Foundling George Milton escapes the workhouse where he is cruelly mistreated and becomes a bugler for the 95th Rifle Regiment in 1809, after he is rescued and adopted by a Regimental Sargent Major. Awwww!

As a piece of historical fiction, it's put together with great care, with a lovely emphasis on the day to day life of a Napoleonic era soldier. The forward by Bernard Cornwall states that Richard Sharpe would approve of George Milton and even seems to hint that Sharpe could make a cameo appearance in a future volume.

But alas, volume 1 was published in 2020, and there are no signs of any sequels? I can't find any information about this series being continued.

[buckybarnesss]

but really teen wolf did gloss right on over how long lived kitsune and werewolves are in the universe.

sure, there was that vague bullshit in visionary but duecalion is implied to be long-lived and we actually do see satomi in the fox and the wolf wwii flashback and she was a century old at her death.

noshiko is nine hundred years old and kira can live upwards to over a thousand years outliving everyone she's ever known.

so the deaths of the werewolves throughout teen wolf just become even more sad and tragic when you realize that talia was murdered barely into her prime, laura's life cut short before it really began, erica and boyd were still children and hadn't been wolves for more than a handful of weeks.

scott, malia, liam and derek will probably outlive most of their loved ones.

the bittersweetness of that.

hopefully they could live happy, full lives filled with love where the horrible, traumatic things become distant and don't hurt as much with time but they still will have to bury the humans in their lives.

[scherzokinn]

Meme by @friedevd4c on Instagram

This is so true... people often think of classical music as some rich ppl stuff, but in fact most composers were broke af lmao (and mentally ill)

[sharpth1ng]

YO HEALTH COVERING THE DEFTONES????? THIS WAS DESIGNED FOR ME SPECIFICALLY

It sounds like Health fucked Purity Ring and maybe like, Joy Division? I was not expecting it to sound like this either way but I’m into it