Oscar Wilde Couldn't Straight (ha) Up Tell Us That Dorian Was A Twink So He Compared Him To Paris And

i just have a soft spot for creatures that have no right to exist. robots with no empathy and a shortened lifespan. vampires who can't survive without killing others. parasites who possess a body and discover the joys of being human. a person created by the unwilling fusion of two other people. idk it just hits me every time

Dragon Boat Festival by lei min

Thomas Burton Kinraide

ok but dostoevsky literally went off when he said “do you know that one day i’ll kill you? i won’t do it because i’m no longer in love with you, or because i’m jealous, but—i’ll just kill you for no better reason that i sometimes long to devour you.”

subs? dubs?

or a secret third thing: watching media originally from language A (which you do not speak) dubbed into language B (which you do) and subbed in language C (which you also do) and, whenever there is a greater-than-expected discrepancy between the two, pausing to scroll through the subs in languages D-G (where available) in a trigonometry.meme attempt to triangulate the Truth based on consensus, language family, and likelihood of translation from an intermediate language (and also to see which languages are Cheating).

soukoku's story in art and poetry: chuuya's exhibition

— on loneliness

dedicated to @vminiesvsoulmates <3

holly warburton - a face in the crowd // nakahara chuuya - autumn poem // haruki murakami - sputnik sweetheart // holly warburton - night-time solitude // unknown // charles bukowski // bell hooks - the will to change // olivia laing - the lonely city // ocean vuong - thanksgiving 2006 // edward hopper - nighthawks // emanuele aloia - sempre // nakahara chuuya - poem of the guilty one // james blake - retrograde // van gogh - bedroom in arles // roar - I can't handle change // taylor swift - the archer // lowell birge harrison - a wintry walk // maurice pirenne - evening

What if Heaven truly exists but not in the shape we expect? What if it is another world, another dimension, another universe. What if death wasn't death? What if this life is just the first step of a bigger plan? What if this is just a dream? Too many questions, too little answers.

Maybe we just have to live day by day, focusing on this life, on this moment. We don't know what we'll find on the other side, after death; we could become stars, dust, shadows. Appreciate every sorrow, every happy moment, because they'll never come back. Don't be who you were meant to be, be who you wanna be and live. Like, actually live; don't survive, but live.

Anakin was a creative and innocent child. Even though he lived his whole life as a slave he was hopeful and brave, he had a strong will and he wasn't willing to be broken. He wanted to explore the stars and he was sure that he would have freed his people; he had dreams and he had them because he knew that he wouldn't be a slave forever because it was NOT RIGHT.

He dreamt about becoming a Jedi and going back to Tatooine for his people, he wanted to free every single slave of the galaxy because it was right and he thought that the Jedi were MEANT TO DO THIS. He had this belief about the Jedi as holders of peace and knights of justice, and when Qui Gon and Obi-Wan appeared he thought that they'd came to rescue everyone and LOOK AT HIS FACE WHEN HE REALIZES HIS MOTHER IS NOT COMING WITH HIM!! She knew they wanted him because of his powers, but she also wanted him to have a better life and with her he couldn't. Wrong choice.

With Wattoo he was forced to work, that's true, but he was aware of being a slave, plus, he was with his mother. In the Jedi Order he was all alone against lies, doubts, diffidence, they made him think he was bad, a mistake. When he says « I want more and I know that I shouldn't. » he wanted freedom. He just wanted to be free once and for all.

In ROTS we see Master Windu talking to Yoda saying that is dangerous to put Anakin and Palpatine together, and what are they doing? putting them together. Anakin's self destruction was started by the Jedi. When Yoda found out what he did to the younglings he said « the boy you trained gone he is, consumed by Darth Vader. » and that's NOT TRUE!! Yes, killing the younglings was a terrible thing, but on Mustafar Anakin was STRUGGLING and I believe he wanted to be saved. He just didn't have the courage to come back after what he did to the younglings. And, of course, Obi-Wan didn't help.

One thing I noticed is how many of Bungo Stray Dogs antagonists project their beliefs and emotions onto their opinions of others.

Mori expects backstabbing because that’s what he would do.

Fyodor expects Dazai to have the same feelings about humanity as a whole as him.

Verlaine expects anger, both from Chuuya (during the N fight) and from Rimbaud (during the self singularity scene).

Koyo thinks of Kyoka as a fellow “flower of darkness”

Fukuchi expects Jouno to want to join him.

I guess the line “Evil expects Evil of others” is a more important line in terms of analysis than I initially thought

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