#recognition of self through the other

[synthetic-blanket-hairs]

Dracula eating all the guys who are supposed to be driving the boat that takes him to London is Exactly like me eating all the little snacks I bought at the grocery store within hours of getting home

[dailylagomorphs]

07/02/2023

[lizardlicks]

oh

Ooooooh

I like sokkla the same way I like jetko

[sinkableruby]

i think i am literally nadeko

[lollytea]

i think you should make a spotify playlist for your fanfics and share them here

for example a playlist full of songs to listen while reading the atlas and the avid reader. i thought it would be cool :)

Haha I'd love to do that but I don't think I even have enough songs I associate with Atlas to fill a playlist. I can think of maybe?? 3?? Maybe??

I might do it at some point. I'm always open to recs too.

I do have a personal little huntlow playlist that expresses the vision of them in my head. My vision of them includes my fics tho so a handful of songs are about Sunshine in Your Smile specifically. Ship in the Bottle was also added because its an Atlas n Avid Reader song that was recommended to me and it makes me go crazy.

[cemeterything]

i think my favourite version of doubling/mirroring is actually when one person is a possible future version of the other. and in turn that person is looking at them and seeing their past self. the beginning and the end points of the same road.

[strawberryblackcrown]

i gotta say, i never understood the whole recognition of self through the other easily until i looked at it like it's yin and yang. if you got rid of one half, could you even recognize what's left? without knowing what was gone? but with the other half present, you can tell what's what. and something in that clicked.

[theoldkyokodied]

good evening bloodweave enjoyers

[stellatenuem]

i am thinking about hiroto and haname amamiyas no good awful very bad parenting again and its 4 am and god i am so fucked up

everything about ren paints him as a survivor of emotional abuse and gaslighting and being brought up in co-dependency.

the fundamental distrust in the adults around him. the way he constantly self-edits to be the person other people want or expect him to be, the inherit insecurity in his relationships due to him seeing them as transactional. him being directionless without problems to solve. (my worth is measured in what i can do for others. i need to force people to want me around by providing them with something. being needed and useful.)

ren genuinely loves his friends, but sometimes that's just not enough. you can love someone and still be afraid to lean on them. especially if people you were supposed to trust, people who were supposed to love and protect you, taught you that your feelings didn’t matter, not only that, but you were shameful or bad somehow for having them.

there were cracks in rens heart long before his awakening and when theyre left to fester and more trauma gets piled on top of them it distorts into something terrible

[lucabyte]

Almost, but not quite.

[vaguely-concerned]

okay. listen. a Concept. garashir roughhousing (gone (psycho)sexual) and at one point bashir wakes up from the high of finally getting to express all his repressed aggression in a safe space with someone who not only accepts that in him but can match him and is actively Into It, especially when he stops holding back some of his lil gmo twink strength, to be horrified like 'oh my GOD garak your nose is bleeding hang on I'll get a napkin or something I'm so sorry holy shit' and garak's lying there woozy with lust gazing up at him with wide betrayed eyes like 'no wait don't go you haven't even stabbed me yet :'('

(obviously this is mostly a shitpost, but I'm just saying I think they could provide a certain kind of space for each other that way. julian gets to have a place to live out all the rougher, less socially acceptable sides he usually has to downplay and push away to seem as non-threatening as (augmented) humanly possible with someone who loves him and who appreciates getting the entire spectrum of julian bashir, from the most obnoxiously annoying and needy to the unsettlingly coldly ruthless and back. and garak gets to have the shit beaten out of him in as medically safe and infinitely loving way as possible and/or finds he can still use his bloodied hands and take care of someone with them. this to me is the definition of what one might call a win/win situation. like don't get me wrong they would be having a lot of embarrassingly tender yearning gently-stroking-your-hair-and-holding-your-hand sex too. but. also this. which I think is also very tender, just in a different way. do you feel me.)

[comicaurora]

wonder why I love writing all my characters in a constant contest to see who can sacrifice themselves for their loved ones the hardest. anyway time for my biannual yugioh rewatch

[cringefaecompilation]

hot take i don't think laudna is gonna be upset with orym when she finds out about the pact he made bc she's going to see the rest of bh (except for fearne probs) scream at him for selling himself into slavery just to gain the power he feels like he needs to help them and just listen silently like

"huh."

[jaanjahan]

smokeinsilence / sightofsea / young love by bts / nizar qabbani / abeba birhane / the waves by virginia woolf / franz kafka letters to milena / ratsandlilies.art / the butterflys burden by mahmoud darwish / underneath the stars by mariah carey

[dalandan-oranges]

SPARK

this is. about the dialogue between Bonifacio and Rizal, the impact that one had on the other, the way Rizal's novels could spark desire for freedom like a wildfire that will not be tamed. there's an element of 'I would have gone through life half asleep if I never met you,' to it. the linked tragedies, the characters from the novels themselves seem to echo forward onto Bonifacio and Rizal in their own way as well.

Rizal and the Revolution, Floro Quibuyen

The First Filipino, Leon Ma. Guerrero

Closet Queeries, J. Neil C. Garcia

additionally! the illustrated panel of Ibarra and Elias! it's a combination of a few things; them in Noli, but it's combining the character trajectory Ibarra/Simoun has gone on with El Filibusterismo (hence. the flames. dude said I came here to burn shit to the ground, and damn, it was a speech.) like. do you see the similarities between Bonifacio and Rizal in this because I cannot stop thinking about it.

Introduction to Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin's translation of Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo

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[sebbyisland]

Why don’t you etch my likeness into stone like one of your French girls(desc in alt id)