#dawn dark

[eldragon-x]

me when sun characters are terrifying and destructive. me when light is an overwhelming damaging power. me w

[euthanatos-hitwoman]

I'm not your typical Euthanatos. No, I don't consider myself a Chakravanti ("People of the Wheel") either. What's more, I belong to a heretical faction that wants the Wheel to stop and the eternal rebirth of souls in new bodies to end...

To do this, my Avatar gives me missions, selects those victims that I must eliminate, destroying their chances of returning as a Wraith or of transcending so that they return to the Wheel. No, I want everything to fall into Oblivion!

My Avatar always takes the shape of the last one that I sent to Oblivion. The very first time it took the shape of my unborn twin! I killed her in our mother's womb...

[daughter-cain]

[bunnieswithknives]

OK JUST A LITTLE THING BECAUSE IM INSANE @cubbihue

Song: Plastic by Cheekface

[mournfulroses]

Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden: Poems; "Don't Apologize For What You've Done,"

[eleanor-arroway]

times, places, and practices that I want to learn from to imagine a hopeful future for humanity 🍃

the three sisters (squash, beans, maize) stock photo - alamy // anecdote by Ira Byock about Margaret Mead // art by Amanda Key // always coming home by Ursula K. Le Guin // Yup'ik basket weaver Lucille Westlock photographed by John Rowley // the left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin // photo by Jacob Klassen // the carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin // article in national geographic // the dawn of everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow // braiding sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer // the birchbark house by Louise Erdrich // photo by John Noltner

I'm looking for more content and book recs in this vein, so please send them my way!

[prodigal-sunlight]

how would the rest of the cast react to Pomni going Kaboom?

I mean. They probably wouldn’t be very happy about it!

[goryhorroor]

day 18 of horror: female vampires

[mother-lee]

purple pt 2

[sillyfairygarden]

the first star to fall into the night sky

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Dawn Yang

[cheecats]

— "You pretend to flinch. You know I couldn't have done it without you."

[nicollekidman]

buffy knows spike loves her during season five. buffy knows spike loves her when she comes back and seeks comfort/silence in his presence. and as she comes back to herself and tries to make peace with the fact that she’s Here Again, she still knows he loves her. and i think part of the Big Bad Grabbing The Slayer For The Darkness routine they both cling to is that it allows them to pretend this huge thing isn’t between them so they can get what they both want (someone to stay).

and like obviously buffy cannot allow herself to believe that he loves her for many reasons, but she DOES believe it, she can’t make herself unknow it even though she tries so hard. which is partially where the breakdown with tara in 6.13 comes from because the cognitive dissonance of soulless spike loving her as if he has a soul while she is so lost within herself that the only way she can reach for him is to use him (which would be fine if he was the big bad grabbing the slayer for the darkness) which is hurting him! unfathomably! but he’s supposed to be the corruption! how can he??? any of it???

meanwhile spike has watched the woman he loves be brought back as a shell and he wants to see the light in her eyes and he can touch her now and sometimes that’s enough to make her laugh but he can’t linger in those moments or she’ll go away again! so he can play the role he needs to play so she’ll stay, as if he could keep her anywhere she didn’t want to be. as if he wants her to be in the dark instead of bringing him into the light. but how could he ask for anything more when he already got her back and he didn’t even need to kill her afterwards.

and so they hurt each other and he forgets himself and asks her if she even likes him and it’s too honest and he’s asking too much (he asks for nothing) so before she can throw her life away like it’s nothing, he puts the game face on, makes himself a target, and swallows it all. and she can’t unknow. and it would all be fine except he’s a vampire and she’s the slayer and how can he just say it like it’s nothing when she needs to beat his face in just to keep from screaming.

[2014nbhd]

don’t look at the camera