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“fine, make your villain.” - alarkling

“we’re all monsters nadya, some of us just hide it better than others” -nadya/malachaisz 

“you’re a monster!” “yes- yes i am.” reylo

same energy

When Emily Brönte said "You said I killed you. Haunt me then."

and when M.L Rio said "Here's the thing about lust: you don't have to like each other. Ever heard of hate sex?"

and when Achilles said  “There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”

and when Oscar Wilde said "Everything in the world is about sex except sex.  Sex is about power."

and when Donna Tartt said "There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death."

?????????

Those are purely raw emotions.

Passion, love, panic, power and death are an insane combination.

“Matthew has incarnated Darcy as that complicated layered person who isn’t easy in his skin and who isn’t easy to love, yet who is a good person with a sense of honor and integrity. [Macfayden] was not afraid to be disliked by an audience at the beginning of the story and we have to dislike him because we are seeing him through Lizzie’s eyes, and we grow to love him as Lizzie does.” - Joe Wright

“You need to see that kind of rugged beauty in Darcy, knowing that here was a man who walks across fields, climbs trees, and very much manages his own estate. With Matthew, you can see that etched across his face, yet he’s also got this extraordinary vulnerability. On the page, Darcy reads as being very cold, but Mathew is so vulnerable through his big manliness that he gives Darcy extra qualities.” - Keira Knightley

PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005, dir. Joe Wright

#tfw he literally turns you on 😏

He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. […] Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I. I will have you in my hoard, Marya Morevna, my black mirror.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

Italo Calvino, Il barone rampante

“we are two reflections that cross swords with each other,”

Octavio Paz, Is There No Way Out? (tr. by Eliot Weinberger)

Anna Swir, A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, “The Same Inside,” tr. by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan

Tamer, Beautiful Crime

Last night I dreamt about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally somehow you caught fire.

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers (tr. by Bernard Frechtman)

Muse, Map of the Problematique

We love shadows of our hidden selves in others.

Anais Nin, The Four-Chambered Heart

Ilyas Abu Shabaka, Modern Arabic Poetry: An Anthology, “You or I?”, tr. by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard

Beastars summed up

If you’re a writer of any kind and you don’t plan to make the protagonist end up with the villain then please stop giving them sexual tension and better chemistry than the people they end up with. Please I’m begging you- I don’t know how much longer I can stand seeing a protagonist end up with a dry ass good guy when a sexy brooding man was waiting there this whole time. Please my weak heart cannot handle another disappointment.

“Historically, whenever women [especially young women] are interested in a form of media, we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college. Beatlemania is the province of ‘the dull, the idle, the failures,’ until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves. Women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is a radical act for a woman to love something unashamedly. And transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it reverses that ‘lady thing to respectable thing’ process. It takes a piece of media that may not have been designed for women and makes it for women.”

— Constance Grady, Why we’re terrified of fanfiction (via fluffycakesistainted)

how it started how it’s going

in conclusion, i am dead

1x01 // 15x20

Me: I’m strong and independent. I don’t need love to be happy!

Also me: If a tall, rich, and handsome man doesn’t walk across a field in the early morning mist to tell me that I have bewitched him body and soul soon I might have to do something drastic

I respect everyone’s interpretations of Beauty and the Beast but I feel like for me personally “a person who behaves badly when angry and is incompetent at relationships learns better skills through hard work and the patience and firm boundaries of someone who loves them” is an Important Narrative and I wish it would not be equated with abuse

I think I realized what bothers me the most about the shows end... That it could have been the exact same ending if the whole transending thing didn't happen. For example, if you showed someone that two parties where ready to fight but someome jumped in and put some sense in them and they stop fighting and then you jump at the very last scene at the beach you can easily say that "Well now that there is no more war, they can live their life in peace" AND IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT THE TRANSENDING!! GOD, REALIZING THAT MADE ME ANGY AGAIN!

We started watching the show for a group of people. The delinquents. And personaly I only cared about them (but their story included other parties too so I didn't mind them). I didn't care about the human race. I didn't give a shit if they were good or bad or idk! I just wanted my people to survive. So the whole transending thing was bulshit in my eyes. Plus if I hate anything in stories, it's aliens. These creatures/light could only be aliens so I was so dissappointed. Man, it's been less than a week and I feel like the ending never really happened. It didn't touch me at all.

“He looked at her…like the whole world could crumble and he wouldn’t blink.”

Safe and fine

- Remember, your imperfections are beautiful.

The amazing digital art of li shuxing

— you might make me a better man. — and you might make me a monster.

Y'know when you hear someone talk about their “guilty pleasure” and how it’s always something pretty benign? Like, “My guilty pleasure is reading erotica,” or “I love to watch sappy rom-coms; it’s my guilty pleasure,” or “Netflix is such a guilty pleasure–I binge-watched that entire show last night!”

Can we stop?

There shouldn’t be something inherently guilt-worthy about reading romance novels, erotica, young adult, or any other genre. Just like there shouldn’t be an guilt about preferring one type of music, or movie, or sport, or whatever, over another.

You don’t need to feel guilty about it!

Can we, instead, use the term “guilty pleasure” for actual things we shouldn’t be doing? Like…when I eat dairy or gluten… That is 110% a guilty pleasure. I shouldn’t do it. I know I shouldn’t do it. I’m going to regret it later, but right now I’m going to enjoy the heck out of this cheesecake.

I’m tired of society telling me I should be ashamed of enjoying romance and sex and “girly” things. (Because it always seems to be those types of things that are our “guilty pleasures”) So… no, it’s not a guilty pleasure that I watch Pride & Prejudice four or five times a year, or that I devoured an entire polyam erotica series, or that I like to paint my nails, or that I listen (and sing along) to Disney soundtracks. Those are just things I like to do. There’s nothing wrong with any of them.

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

#me

“What will you do first after we get back to the real world ?

Save waifu and get drunk. “

That’s my boys.

‘i love you, sensei’

this ship is not dead and that ending never happened

Imagine a version of Beauty and the Beast where, immediately after his transformation and the passionate kiss, the Beast dies. Belle is momentarily stunned, but then she joins the rest of her friends as they celebrate the curse being broken. Later, she travels to a provincial town, similar to the one she grew up in and wanted to leave so badly. The story ends with her looking to the horizon, like she did before her adventure.

There: you have the end of The Rise of Skywalker.

There is no world in which I will accept death as a appropriate ending to a character who has battled inner demons and faced insurmountable challenges and fought to do the right thing. Redemption is powerful because a character is forced to live with their choices. Killing off a redeemed character is a disservice to their arc -- it is infinitely more complicated and interesting consider redemption long-term than to just kill a character off. I want to see them living with their choices, because living is so much harder than dying.