#a tender parallel

[lilacfrostdraws]

craving a dlc where they just live a peaceful domestic life together in the hateno house

[moonlipgloss]

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

[retreat-to-your-mood]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet / @dungeonsanddragonsfifthedition / Mary Oliver Wild Geese / @berecovered / pinterest / pinterest / K.C Cramm tender is not a bad word

[raypakorn]

Fantasy vs. Reality (Tharn's Version)

[theaviatorthatcouldnotfly]

1.04 | 3.03

[unepersonnelouche]

Doodles that started in class, and ended up way prettier than I had planned

[earthshine-moon]

I’m completely normal about this

[meep-meep-richie]

how it started how it´s going

[russellius]

the babies' favourite 💕

[in-kyblogs]

“The coven master has the power of life and death over all his flock.”

Interview with the Vampire, S2 E2 // S2 E3

[moonlipgloss]

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 4

[tendermimi]

richard siken “driving, not washing” / benjamin 2018 / ilya kaminsky “while the child sleeps, sonya undresses”

[bericas]

isaac & scott / mason & theo | sometimes all i think about is you

[weavewithshadow]

Every ship is a valid ship and Larian did well with how romanceable all the party characters feel with each other, the chemistry they all have.

And.

Larian did something to the core of my being with the way they wove parallels into Gale & Shadowheart's wounds. Now, forgive me, I don't have screencaps, BUT

The way that both believe these wounds are their fault, and that penance is the only thing that will ease this pain for good.

The way that both believe these wounds are because of mistakes they are both making now, and mistakes they made in youth, when really all they are is markers of (chronic) pain due to abuse. And the ways that trauma can manifest as illness, and that the crushing thing about that is that trauma survivors then blame themselves for not being enough for others (sound like a certain wizard we know??)

And how, when he finally opens his mind to her (the tadpole does NOT connect your minds involuntarily), it is with a hand over his heart. (I have to look again but I am 99% certain it is her wounded hand)

But it goes beyond that, because of course it does. And here's where the diabolical geniuses at Larian get me.

Gale's sex scene, on a Shadowheart origin. The first thing she does to him is lean into (and kiss????) his orb scar.

And the first way that he introduces her to Sparkly Weave Pleasure™ is by taking her wounded hand in his and channeling what is ostensibly a very good feeling through it.

There's something here about recognizing and tending the wounds in each other, and turning them into sources of goodness and strength. Something about surviving and healing from trauma and being rid of that pain — eventually, potentially after years of enduring it — together.

Anyway I'm not normal about them!!!!!! Where're my galeheart girlies at!!!!!!

[bearingwitness]

Jenny Holzer, Marquees 1993 // Anäis Nin, the Diary of Anäis Nin 1939-1944 // Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind // Chen Chen, Let Me Stay Tender-Hearted // Marina Tsvetaeva, Where Does This Tenderness Come From? // Adrienne Rich, X in Twenty-One Love Poems // Kayleb Rae Candrilli, All the Gay Saints // Sophie Klahr, Tender //Jenny Slate, Little Weirds