#stealing the boat

[xisadorapurlowx]

My Favourite Pieces of Writing

The Prelude: Stealing the Boat - William Wordsworth

I was first introduced to this through my time in school. This Poem is from Wordsworth's book, The Recluse where he muses about life.

This poem makes me think of times where I have been out with people and have seen the lights on the promenade go out at night, leaving the street in near darkness, if it weren't for the street lamp. It really illuminates and reminds me that although the human race is terrible and horrific, there is natural beauty in the world.

But it also reminds me of how small human beings really are. I used to lie in bed as a child and think about how small I am in the grand-scheme of things. How I am just a momentary consciousness in the universe. Most of the time, I'd scare myself thinking about it and roll over, finding something else to distract myself with.

It's a good example of an existential crisis, as at the end of the poem, the man who stole the boat, can never see the world with the amazing awe and beauty he once had for it.

2. The Spider's Thread - Ryuunosuke Akutagawa

The Spider's Thread details a story of how the Buddha is strolling through paradise and gazes into a pond where he sees Hell. There is a criminal in a pool of blood lying at the bottom of the pond. The Buddha sees that this man did one good act in his life, and moved by it, lowers a spiders thread to save the man from Hell.

This was really my first proper introduction into Akutagawa's writing. I'd only heard about him through Bungo Stray Dogs and knew only of Rashomon. The anime/manga was what really sparked my love in classics.

What struck me about this story, was how cruel and vividly I could picture the story playing out as I read the words on the page. I'd heard that in Japanese Buddhism, they believed that women who did bad things in life would be sent down to Hell and forced into a pool of blood and I can't help but be reminded of that in this story.

Akutagawa has also inspired me into writing short stories more recently.

3. Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy - Macbeth

I have spent a lot of time in performing arts. Growing up, I was always excited when my school decided to put on a play - a break from the boring and mundane sitting at a desk and being forced to memorise useless maths equations I would never use.

I've always thought that Shakespearian English is really pretty and I love this whole speech she gives herself. I can't stop thinking about the lines: 'And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty' and 'And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,' This whole monologue is so powerful.

[sprinklesharkie]

etho: ohp someone put a ren stamp in

martyn: that was me

[razberrypuck]

fucked up that charlie's stupid one-off characters can still have such a fucking hold on me

like. sir charles is a prince (likely from the middle ages, with all the talk(jokes) about the plague) who fucking murdered both of his parents AND his older brother to take the throne for himself. he's also a streamer playing video game from a scrying orb he bought from a wizard. the reason he got caught is BECAUSE of his streams, where he openly admitted to both crimes several times, and he was promptly arrested and publicly executed (also the executioner is an old friend of his?? I guess??)

like what do you MEAN all of this shit was just for his elden ring DLC streams. what do you MEAN he's probably never gonna use sir charles again. fucked up.

[sweeetsh]

yin nezha and the emo girl he pulled by being really fucking autistic

[finncakes]

mothafuckin' tanks bitch!!!! 💥👊💥

redraw of photo under the cut

[egberts]

and now for a clip from my third song. i'm still learning. it's kinda hard actually

[crabussy]

jonathan sims (random guy who looked exactly like him in every way imaginable) was on my scuba boat. naturally I was completely normal about this <- lying

[incorrect-batfam-quotes-mostly]

I love being the side character in people's lives who just shows up, looks pretty, is a menace and then leaves again

[pjchatters]

“boat boys in their divorce arc”

okay but listen, we can still get some juicy content and narratives from this, we can still get our boat boys crumbs, and all we have to do is imagine etho acting exactly like how he acted around bdubs back in double life

he was extremely jealous, kinda obsessive, made multiple attempts to break bdubs up with impulse, and clingy whenever he was around

now imagine him acting like that again, but this time towards joel, the same guy he tried to leave behind in favor of bdubs, but after double life he’s now attached to joel and he’s jealous over the idea of him making a boat with someone else other than himself because they were the boat boys

imagine etho attempting to break joel off from the bad boys so they could be in a group together again, imagine etho always trying to be physically near joel whenever he’s around, imagine etho purposefully trying to annoy joel so he’d focus on him instead of the others

and through all of it, joel knows, he knows what etho’s trying to do because he’s seen it all before when etho was like that with bdubs, and now he’s doing all those jealous ex things to him, this season etho is focused on him this time

so can you blame him if he wants that level of attention to last a little longer? to know that he is on etho’s mind the more he separates himself from him? because if that was what it took for etho to chase after him, then goddammit he’ll run

[swedenis-h]

Sofia & Katya breaking up..?? 😨😨

Inspo (X)

[blueseysyogurt]

a TRC headcanon of mine is that adam has the most beat up converse. i’m talking converse literally held together by duct tape and a dream. it’s not like he can’t get new ones and gansey doesn’t offer to buy any new shoes it’s just he thinks that they’re still fine and can last a couple more months.

[kiekiecarrera]

1x10 || 3x02

[foreverfearlessred]

I’m still there, dust collecting on my pinned up hair

[frogaroundandfindout]

He said dad 😭 (Batman #512)

[pandamanlives]

doin an anime rewatch and I cannot describe the joy the end of ep 3 brings me. zolu sailing into the sunset is just.. so beautiful *sheds a single tear*

[hyperfocusthusly]

Hiding on Tumblr this morning bc everywhere else is flooding with hideous anti immigrant rhetoric in light of the election results and instead I’m drowning in the Neil news 🙃