“It Is Dreadful To Think That Behind Me My Own Past Is No Longer Anything But Shifting Darkness.”

i don't think there's anyone out there who's more gothic haunted house narrative tragedypilled than domeric bolton. being an ok softhearted dude trapped in the dreadfort with your slimy turborapist dad i think won him that award. he was really doomed by the circumstances of his birth. roose saw him decent guymaxxing and was like 'well i guess my only known bastard son will kill him oh well.' what the fuck was up with domeric dude.

Mystical Conversation (1896) by Odilon Redon

BALLERINA (2023) dir. Lee Chung-hyeon

“Your dad’s gonna be okay, Kid. You’ll see.”

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

I always told you, your sweet side is your best side. …I guess that’s why you’re the only one who’s ever seen it.

— Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The Legend of Saint George: The Rescue

1903

Liebenwein, Maximilian; 1869–1926.

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) dir. TOSHIYA FUJITA

"Christianity is the only major world religion to have as its central focus the suffering and degradation of its God. The crucifixion is so familiar to us, and so moving, that it is hard to realize how unusual it is as an image of God." Churches sometimes offer Christian education classes under the title "Why Did Jesus Have to Die?" This is not really the right question. A better one is, "Why was Jesus crucified?" The emphasis needs to be, not just on the death, but on the manner of the death. To speak of a crucifixion is to speak of a slave's death. We might think of all the slaves in the American colonies who were killed at the whim of an overseer or owner, not to mention those who died on the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic. No one remembers their names or individual histories; their stories were thrown away with their bodies. This was the destiny chosen by the Creator and Lord of the universe: the death of a nobody. Thus the Son of God entered into solidarity with the lowest and least of all his creation, the nameless and forgotten, "the offscouring [dregs] of all things" (1 Cor. 4:13).

—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (p.75)