#living well is the best revenge

[pazzesco]

Into The Fire Jewelry - Skull Rings

[cinematic-literature]

Old Boyfriends (1979) by Joan Tewkesbury

Book title

Midnight Express (1977) by Billy Hayes and William Hoffer

A Book of Common Prayer (1977) by Joan Didion

Going Crazy: An Inquiry into Madness in Our Time (1976) by Otto Friedrich

Living Well is the Best Revenge (1971) by Calvin Tomkins

Heavily Tattooed Men and Women (1976) by Spider Webb

Maya Plisetskaya (1976)

Secret Passages and Hiding Places (1974) by Jeremy Errand

Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr

Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 (1962) by W. H. Auden

Slapstick (1976) by Kurt Vonnegut

Colette: A Taste for Life (1977) by Yvonne Mitchell

The Laszlo Letters (1977) by Don Novello

Cheap Chic (1975) by Carol Troy and Caterine Milinaire

[badjohnspeakeasy]

You can't please everybody.

Here's Saitama talking to one of his most ardent haters, Wild Horn!

Link

[mortifiedandawesome]

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

[cephalopod-celabrator]

I know "Living well is the best revenge" sounds like a corny classic piece of advice, but I think it should get more recognition as a genuinely badass and valid take on life. Love yourself out of sheer spite. Outliving your enemies is cool, but living a happier and healthier life than your enemies is the ultimate "fuck you". If proving people wrong is what it takes for you to live a better life, than do it. Nobody can stop you. Show all those bastards what life well lived looks like.

[seasurfacefullofclouds1]

😭😭😭😭 free zayn omg

https://twitter.com/niazstruth/status/1663245217720401920?s=46&t=4gtdSfrNIbVMgPTIhKixjg

Hope Zayn goes on tour and ends them.

[gaykarstaagforever]

I get the feeling George Herbert only said "Living well is the best revenge" because he died at 39, before he could enjoy completely destroying some asshole's entire life.

Also anyone who publishes a book of their own proverbs is probably kind of full of it to begin with.

[z34l0t]

Man Proposeth, God disposeth. Living well is the best revenge. Poverty is no sinne. Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. Every one is a master and servant. He that trusts in a lie, shall perish in truth.

[cookinguptales]

me, to dead-ass Karl Lagerfeld: man, I hope you can see Harvey Guillén rn. I want you to see how good a fat man looks in the style you pioneered and seethe.

[boardgametoday]

Cryptozoic Announces Release of Steven Rhodes Games Vol. 2

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[pazzesco]

GEM-ENCRUSTED MALACHITE AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL CHESS SET By Konstantin Libman

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[starheirxero]

No but genuinely this is such a fun and fascinating turn to me!!

I will never truly get over the fact that Solar harbors guilt for "killing" his Sun and now the fact he's being hunted by the one other peson who should know that he didn't is gut-wrenching to me.

It almost mimics Lunar and Eclipse to me in some way. Just,, the vibe of "you should be the person who can help and understand me best, but instead you hurt me. Instead of being a supportive figure, I have to run away from you to feel a semblance of safety and normalcy. Instead of being able to cry into your arms, I have to raise my hands to shield myself from you." Yk????

Idk it just feels very sad to me and I can't fully explain why. It's just the ever-lingering "what could have been", I think.

[childrenofthesun77]

Assuming that the whole 'mahiru is the vessel needed to bring back the count and the 9th servamp will be the servamp of vainglory' theory will be correct, it's interesting how both mahiru and touma can be accused of this sin even if the way it applies to them is opposed.

What touma wants is to be acknowledged and to that end he was willing to become the villain who destroyed the world before mahiru and tsurugi managed to change his mind:

Mahiru's way of being vainglorious seems a lot more positive at first because he wants to be a hero who saves others, but it's self-destructive and encourages laziness in others:

But thankfully we see mahiru starting to let go of the need to make other people proud of him and to prioritize making himself proud in his conversation with tsurugi:

and later when mahiru has a meltdown because he fears his uncle might be dead and suggests sacrificing his life to save the world kuro rightfully yells at mahiru for acting hypocritical and not listening to his own advice:

(I want to mention here that I really love how horrified kuro looks as he realizes that mahiru's reckless hero behaviour comes from a very self-destructing place:

because not a lot of manga I know really acknowledge that maybe the way a lot of their protagonists try to be heroic is actually pretty unhealthy and shouldn't be encouraged? Like Sigurd pointed out at the C3 meeting, it's kind of shameful that the children have to save the day)

Which is why I love that mahiru decided to trust kuro to handle tsubaki without him going with him:

He decides to stay back with everyone else, showing that he has learned that he doesn't need to be the one to do everything and can stay back with the others to buy kuro time.

Interestingly we see touma doing something similar. Opposed to his old need to have the whole world acknowledge him he now wishes for everyone to believe he's dead and he's helping to protect the city by creating a huge barrier without making it known that's he the one doing this:

He's helping the protagonists seemingly with no intention of earning acknowledgement for it.

I think in a way it could be cool of servamp to subvert the shouned trope that for the finale battle the only one able to defeat the big bad is the protagonist while everyone else just watches on from the sidelines, not allowed to do anything because this is the protagonist's moment of glory.

What if lily's plan when he put kuro in mahiru's path was that if kuro tried to stop tsubaki at the gate surely his eve would need to be there with him, right? Because of course he needs his eve to fight and then there's also the distance limit. So why not make the vessel you need at that gate for the ritual to work kuro's eve? Then the vessel would be at the place where you need them without you even needing to do something because naturally they would be thinking they are doing the right thing by going with kuro to fight tsubaki together. And surely someone as vainglorious as mahiru would never pass up the opportunity to be the hero who stops tsubaki. It's foolproof!

Unless of course before the ritual the vessel learned to let go of their vainglorious nature, accepted that it's okay to take a step into the background and trust in others. And additionally also found a way to break through the whole forced proximity thing that the servamp and eves had going on.

I don't know, I feel like it would be a neat bow on mahiru's character arc and a unique way to thawrt the antagonists' plans if the creation of the servamp of vainglory failed because the 'it has to be me' guy they wanted to use as the vessel decided against glory and stayed back to let his partner handle things with tsubaki alone because he trusts him. Kuro on the other hand wants to make up for his past regrets and resolve the conflict through communication this time. Learning to trust in himself again by managing to talk tsubaki out of going through with the ritual on his own would be a logical conclusion to kuro's arc.

[mortifiedandawesome]

Living Well Is The Best Revenge

[cor-corbinian]

What if Michael Distortion just continued to live Michael Shelleys life? Just shows up at the magnus institute to continue his job and neither Gertrude nor Elias/Jonah can get rid of him because technically Michael has a contract as an archival assistant.

Edit: Link to fic :)