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innervoiceartblog · 5 months

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“Each bough and branch gave me a map, not only of that moment but also of what had been lived by me and what might still be found. The nature in that forest harboured my life within her lap and held it out for me to retrace and to know again. She had it all, inscribed into her bark. I had become part of her body; there were traces of me laced among the trees, scattered on the forest floor, caught inside the mosses, harboured in the damp air of the night. The forest knew me simply because I had walked through her remembering heart.” ~ Carolyn Hillyer, Book of Hag

Photo: Ancient forests near Hatfield River, Tarkine, Tasmania. Photographed by Hillary Younger, Tarkine in Motion 2016.

#heart and soul #Carolyn Hillyer #Book of Hag #remembering #life #Tarkine #Tasmania #Hatfield River #Hillary Younger #Tarkine in Motion 2016 #photography #nature's wonderland

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ellery-six · 6 months

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Context not included 🙂 Enya having an extreme senior’s moment 😆

#jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #jjba fanart #stardust crusaders #children's book illustration #jotaro #polnareff #jean pierre polnareff #enya the hag #joseph joestar #artist on instagram #artist on tumblr

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dreamoons · 2 years

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all the racists in the comments have to do is read Rick’s OWN blog posts. yall do not care about book accuracy. yall just wanna be racist and disgusting. these children are approved by the author himself so sit the fuck down and let everyone enjoy this wonderful casting choice

#it's very clear these ppl are not worried ab 'book accuracy'#like we know what u rlly want #it's always the hag pjo fans with american flag in the bio like shut the fuck upp #if rick himself dgaf about race why are you pissing ur pants over it #pjo show #pjo #percy jackson show #walker scobell #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #leah sava jeffries #aryan simhadri

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xalonelydreamerx · 10 months

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Despite my best efforts, I was thinking of the Darkling.

#alarkling #darklina #alina starkov #aleksander morovoza #book alina starkov #book darkling #grishaverse #tgt books #shadow and bone #the darkling x alina #the darkling #Baghra - you hag! that woman screams Greek mother-in-law in the worst possible way 😭 rip Alina baby girl #the grisha trilogy #my edit #xalonelydreamerx edit #forgot to watermark this but don't think I won't haunt you down if anyone reposts it #darklinaedit

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dent-de-leon · 9 months

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Forever heartbroken at the thought that Lucien was another victim of a hag, at the mercy of someone else's bargain with them--like Beau, like Veth. A deal he never made, but was still forced to pay the price. Even as it tore his family apart. Lucien, young and terrified and wallowing in guilt, haunted for years by all the people he was forced to lead to a little house in the woods. Unable to bear it any longer.

"'We did owe her. Mum and Da did, I mean, but I was the one who paid that blood price.' I'm not surprised you remember the way. His stomach lurched. 'I'd...lure folk out to her cottage. Da would hand me a little paper slip, and whoever it said, I'd convince them to come along, get them near her cottage, and she would charm them. You saw what happens after that.'"

"'We were punished for seeing what they couldn't. After a while I couldn't let it go on, couldn't look at myself or live with myself, so I burned down the caravan with all three of them inside, took my sister, and that was that...No more little songs. No more farces.'"

"If all along her demise only required a dagger to the heart, then why had he let it go on so long? A parade of faces whipped by, and Lucien abruptly had to know, had to see...he raced to the cottage and threw open the door. And there he saw the parade of faces again, lifeless and now stretched..."

Lucien who knows so intimately the same pain of Caleb's past, both of them desperate to do everything they can to turn back time, get their family back. But Lucien's parents never loved him like that, were never the kind and warm family that Caleb had. They abused him and his siblings for years. And then they forced him to be part of their deal with a hag.

And all the while, as a young child Lucien was leading dangerous people deep into the woods all alone, that very same witch always intended to add him to her collection one day too. Lucien's father sends others to their deaths so easily. If the hag had outright asked for his own child instead, would he even care? Because he didn't when the hag made their first son Empty, turned him into a hollow puppet.

And what Azrahari says to Lucien is just so chilling, such a violation of his autonomy. "My beautiful boy...I had hoped to make you mine one day. What a perfect specimen you would have made. Oh, how you would have been merry with laughter and dance..." (And the comment about being beautiful? Can't help remembering Jester calling Lucien dreamy, and how it takes him by surprise. How all his life he was made to feel different, cursed--an outcast--)

Thinking about "no more little songs." Thinking about how much Lucien actually loved the little plays and performances his family put on, still remembers his lines all these years later, still carries a love for song and dance that bleeds into Mollymauk. Molly, who does get to be "merry with laughter and dance," who fills the Emptiness Lucien always so feared with joy and warmth and love.

Making a happy life for himself, taking back the freedom and autonomy the hag and the Eyes all tried to steal from Lucien. And maybe a part of Lucien always recoils from Mollymauk because he reminds him too much of the haunting mirror image the hag tried to make him, the promise of eternal happiness while tying him with puppet strings. Lucien never quite believing that Molly is real or whole or free, that such a charmed life can be anything but a dream--like the one he always chased--

Thinking of how the thing Lucien wanted most was a happy family, the "once upon a time" fairytale life from the stories he always cherished, merry little songs and plays and dance. Stories as an escape, a familiar place of childhood comfort, something to cling to in his darkest moments.

"'Once upon a time, there was a happy family.' (He recognized the sweet, musical voice of Elatis...) 'Mother and Father loved their three children dearly, and they all lived in a green wooden house with tall windows and strong doors. Mother taught the young of a fine, rich family, and Father carved instruments for the kingdom's musicians. They never went hungry, they never quarreled, and their lives were golden for all their days.'"

"'Once upon a time,' he said, eyes open and staring across the dome gathering snow. 'There was a happy family, and they were that way for a little while. Something tore them apart from the inside out...There was a happy family, and then it was gone.'"

"Once upon a time, there was a happy family... In the dream they would be whole again. In Cognouza, it would all be fixed...He told himself it wasn't too far gone, then pulled his shoulders back and clawed raw wounds down his monstrous face, smiling all the while, his teeth becoming fangs becoming tusks. Once upon a time..."

Thinking of how it's ultimately the Moonweaver who's able to make those dreams a reality, who gives them the second chance he's always begged for. "Once upon a time--" "Twice upon a time--" "Thrice upon a time--" When a part of him became Molly. When the two of them become Kingsley.

"'Once upon a time,' she says, then her milk-white eyes pop upon in surprise and she giggles. You want to stay here forever, in her odd, forever-moving sensuality. 'No, twice upon a time. Now we can begin. Begin again, I mean.'"

"Here we go: Once upon a time, twice upon a time. She pauses and giggles. 'Thrice upon a time, f--' Her white brow furrows. 'Hang on. What comes after thrice? Does anyone know?...Isn't that the strangest thing? There is nothing after thrice in the sequence, it just ends there. But that doesn't seem right, does it? Or fair. Well. I think we shall just have to make it up."

Thinking about a young and terrified tiefling whose parents handed him over to a witch, who was offered the illusion of happiness and freedom again and again, but always it came with chains. Who always feared becoming Empty, who was almost made into a doll, a puppet, a hollow shell for a hag's entertainment, something to put on display like a grisly trophy, to puppet the strings like a marionette. Thinking about a goddess of Love who cradled this wounded soul in her arms, cut him free and sang him songs, made him the beloved king of a fairytale--

#mollymauk #lucien tavelle #sorry i am once again compromised by the nine eyes book and how much love lucien and molly both had to give #the fact that a hag tried to make him into a puppet is still just so haunting to me and just #im so glad that lucien ended her because it is terrifying to think of her waiting in the savalirwoods for molly to return #and if the nein meet isharnai again? I wonder if king will get back some painful memories about hags in the woods and deals and debts--#also something about how upset lucien is when the hag wont fight and how he doesn't like seeing people suffer or give in and just #lucien--

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overcrowded-camp · 4 months

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auntie ethel’s conversation with durge in the grove is so well written. if you tell her about your dark thoughts she tells you that thinking about something is the first step to doing it. then she invites you to her teahouse. durge exposes a weakness to her (fear of hurting someone) and she strikes at it like a viper (tells them that they WILL hurt someone unless they get Her Help Specifically). it’s just so well done.

#she’s my favorite boss/major fight character in act one easy #she’s clearly an expert at what she does #that book wasn’t exaggerating when it told you to just run from green hags #also the fact that the druids don’t seem to know about her!! how long has she kept up this ruse?#do you think she’s friends with halsin?#auntie ethel

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francy-sketches · 2 years

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Still haven’t seen a single person explain why making alicent more sympathetic is bad beyond “well it was different in the book and book good tv bad always no exception” What’s so compelling about a one dimensional evil stepmother character that makes you throw a tantrum when she’s changed to have depth lol

#.txt #hotd #and don’t hit me with the ‘they’re misrepresenting the true characters!1!1!!1!!!’ bc these are not real people lol #who gives a shit about ‘misrepresentation’#I need y’all to understand book accuracy isn’t inherently the best option #are you just upset you look deranged when you call this teenager a scheming hag. be honest #targ stans on twitter test my patience everyday #saw one of them getting thrashed for their shit take and then cry about it like ‘noo stop explaining f&b to me I’ve read it more than you’#you must be a pretty shit reader then if you didn’t catch the whole ‘biased accounts’ thing #’the show is only good if you haven’t read f&b’ false lol I’ve seen plenty of people who’ve read it and still enjoy the show #it’s so weird to me holding up f&b as this perfect bible that must not be contradicted #when the majority opinion I’ve seen it’s that it’s pretty mediocre #imagine being this toxic over a fake history book lol

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oldhagtournament · 3 months

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Propaganda under the cut

Eileen

Eileen is an assassin whose sworn duty is to dispose of other hunters that have been corrupted by their lust for blood.

She won the Old Woman Tourney from the Elderly Tourney.

Nanase

she's old she's catty and sarcastic she casually uses yokai as bait or blackmail material she picks fights with teenagers on behalf of her teen/twenty-something exorcist boss. she often wears suits in a series where other women are always in skirts or kimono and yokai disguise themselves as beautiful women to try to get her favor; she ignores them bc its her worldview that you shouldnt let yourself be soft enough to be fooled by anything. she is sick as hell <3

#eileen the crow #bloodborne #nanase #natsumes book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #old hag tournament 2024 #round 1

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sophieswundergarten · 10 months

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I get the thematic/plot relevant/symbolic reasons for it, all of which are great, but the fact that in TPJ an extremely overwrought and exhausted Reynie saw Martina Crowe sneaking up on him in the darkness and immediately went "Ah, yes. Sleep paralysis demon" has me cackling

#She would be so offended I think #That he automatically jumped to Mr. Benedict's descriptions of the hag and stuff #Book Martina is Going Through Some Things and she's Not Happy About It #I believe there's a whole list in that chapter describing how many things she hates in life #What a character #the mysterious benedict society #mbs #reynie muldoon #martina crowe #the perilous journey #tpj

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fuckingwhateverdude · 16 days

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what are your top 3 books you'd show to someone to help them get to know you?

ooohhh good question!!! not necessarily books which i feel are a reflection of me but prob 1) h of h playbook by anne carson, 2) kafka on the shore by haruki murakami, 3) mary, called magdalene by margaret george <3

#basically 3 books i read that i deeply deeply enjoyed LMAO #ive been reading sm lately thank u for asking :)#readng hag-seed by margaret atwood now and im stunned as well

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ginge1962 · 26 days

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All the rear covers from Richard Corben's Shadows on the Grave maxi-serirs from Dark Horse Comics.

This was an 8 issue series and all but 1 issue had a rear cover by Corben.

Enjoy!

#comic books #dark horse comics #richard corben #rear covers #horror #mag the hag #shadows on the grave

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hag-lad · 1 month

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So I have a little basket by my desk where I keep my current reads, and there's usually like 1 - 3 books in there, maybe more if I have something out for reference that I'm not necessarily reading cover to cover. Right now I have EIGHT GODDAM BOOKS started, and it's driving me insane! I haven't attempted to read this many books simultaneously in like 10 years. My brain does not work like this, I can't multitask for shit. I really need to put at least half of them away, but that feels so sad to me?!? What if I hurt their feelings?!?!

#i know yall get this feeling #the autistic anxiety about hurting a book's feelings if you don't read it #you'd think that would be enough to motivate me but nope! stayin' in the basket after chapter one for no reason #i miss being like 14 and inhaling books at a dizzying rate. i'm such a slow reader in my old age #hag life

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v-4-l-0-n · 7 months

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Hp stans stop posting your bullshit in the anti-jkr tags challenge go ‼️‼️

#val speakz #no one gives a fuck that you ship jegulus or whatever #like can you people wait until the hag is dead #ermmm but I don’t support jkr!!!🥺🥺🥺#THEN STOP POSTING ABOUT HER BOOKS GRAHHHG #trans #transgender #fuck jkr #fuck jk rowling #terfs fuck off #jkr is trash #transmasc #transfem #ftm #mtf #lgbtq #anti jkr

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whats-in-a-sentence · 7 months

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There was an animal roaring, a clash of steel; the boys and Trumpkin rushed in; Peter had a glimpse of a horrible, gray, gaunt creature, half man and half wolf, in the very act of leaping upon a boy about his own age, and Edmund saw a badger and a Dwarf rolling on the floor in a sort of cat fight.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian" - C. S. Lewis

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rigaudon · 8 months

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if i had a dollar for every party member who's secretly a walking explosive, I would have two dollars. Which isn't much, but CAN WE STOP STICKING BOMBS IN PEOPLE PLEASE AND THANKS??

#bg3 #this is a baldur's gate tag #baldur's gate spoilers #bg3 spoilers #it's okay Karlach it's not your fault #but gale. my dude. wtf. bro #i say as I nonchalantly put on a spooky mask and got mind controlled by a hag for a hot minute until my party beat me into unconsciousness #and there was that time I found a creepy book made of human skin and decided to take it home with me #bUT IN MY DEFENSE I HAVE A HOMICIDAL VOICE IN MY HEAD #whole party is fucking cursed or possessed or possessed and cursed #god. at this point the most normal one out of the lot of you is lae'zel and that's SAYING SOMETHING

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whatudowhennooneseesyou · 9 months

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yeah ruby how dare you write about sex 🤬🤬🤬

some of us just enjoy writing it more than other genres. If you don’t like smut, don’t follow a smut writer? easy peary babes! and anyways, i love your smuts 💓

Yeah, how dare I harness my sexual frustration and needs and turn it into pieces of artistic filth?

It's like the equivalent of when ppl say you shouldn't call idols sexy but it's okay to call them cute.

Because a man in their 20s is totally going to prefer being called cute over being called sexy.

Obviously its even better to comment on their talents, contributions and amazing personality but if you're going to focus on appearance, I feel they would still preferred to be called hot.

Especially Wooyoung,

In majority of his fancalls when ppl say he's cute he'll be like...

'Sexy not cute'

And you know what? He deserves it haha

#also i have read better smut on here than i have in some published books #so pls write more and more smut for us deprived hags over here lol #whatudowhennooneseesyou moots #whatudowhennooneseesyou answered asks

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