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ted and paul have the worlds worst situationship and i will die on this hill
#its one sided because only ted considers it a situationship#but paul is also just living life#ted just reads to me as arobi with issues#and hes trying so hard (without talking about his feelings) but pauls just a force of nature who has never understood a social cue in his li#fe#theyre just#is the shipname paulted?#tedpaul?#tagging both#paulted#tedpaul#tgwdlm#the guy who didn't like musicals
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"beef" on netflix is so fucking good. i love a show about a small event that turns into something insane that nobody involved could have possibly predicted. also i like steven yeun. spoilers in tags
#amy and danny constantly trying to ruin each other's lives only to constantly get into deeper and deeper shit themselves is. peak.#spoilers follow:#literally like half the main cast dying in a gunfight with cops is Also something i could not have predicted.#rip jordan my favorite toxic lesbian queen. she was only there to start shit. stealing her brothers gf. her constant gay tension w amy#and then she GOT BISECTED???? girls it turned into a horror movie straight up so fast... poor naomi she was just there to fuck bitches.....#liza post#beef netflix#live liza reaction. if they reconcile over paul dying horribly i will have . feelings#anyways RIP paul he was like my favorite character. i love a stupid ass himbo#everyone in this show is a terrible person and it's extremely entertaining#'I AM NOT HELPING YOU UNLESS YOU USE NICE WORDS' you both just crashed your cars off a cliff after chasing each other down. ok#'i see your life' 'you poor thing'#it's such a good show at being funny and dark and poetic and Good. also crow motif xoxo#update PAUL ALIVE SWAG
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Scout's Ma is like my favorite character ever despite never actually showing up-
#team fortress 2#tf2#scouts ma#Scouts mom#my art#Shes just so fun to speculate about#to me shes a retired merc who faked her own death to live a peaceful life with her first hubby in boston#I actually have a whole post in my drafts detailing her life up until tf2#also drawing this was a biiithc#drawing people sitting on counters is hard :[#plus my phone kept deleting my progress#my ocs#tf2 self insert#tf2 oc#'btw this is not ms paul!ng ple stop tagging her'
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What is John's and Ringo's place in temporary secretarty if George is famous? Are they famous too? Do they have ordinary jobs? been thinking about that a lot recently
You’ll see! If I damn get to it…
#Paul wrote that song during his solo career so I don’t think the remaining Beatles helped :/#also I haven’t done anything for ringo sorry love#I don’t hate him I’m just very neutral#ringo probably lived a normal scouse life
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When BEV broke up, Paul invited Dudley Edwards to come and stay with him at Cavendish. It was companionable having a young northern chap of his age around the house with Jane away. Also, like medieval princelings, each Beatle tended to maintain a court who served, flattered and amused them. Often these courtiers were given a small task to perform while they shared their Beatle’s privileged existence. In theory Dudley was at Cavendish to help decorate the house in the emerging hippie style, which was characterised by a combination of old, new and hand-made. […]
Paul set Dudley Edwards to work painting tiny creatures into the pattern of the William Morris wallpaper that covered his dining room walls, creating a vast mural. ‘I started painting the mural in his dining room, but Paul didn’t seem that bothered about the mural being done,’ recalls Edwards.
‘Paul would say, “Put your brush down, we’re going out shopping.” That would be one minute and the next minute he’d say, “Put your brush down, we’re going to a night club.” And the next thing, “Are you coming to the recording studio?” I just accompanied him, went with him everywhere, basically enjoy[ing] ourselves.’
With Jane away, Paul and Dudley entertained a parade of women at the house, including the American singer Nico, who visited Cavendish when her mentor Andy Warhol was passing through town and stayed. This was Paul’s domestic scene, in early 1967, while he was recording Sgt. Pepper.
[—from Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, Howard Sounes]
“I was doing murals for the Beatles. I did a mural in Paul's house and I lived with him for six months and then a mural in Ringo's house too when I lived with him for six months. This was at the time of Sergeant Pepper. Originally Paul asked me to stay with him and I realised after a short time that Jane Asher was away in America doing some theatrical production and that he didn't really want me to paint a mural, he just wanted company because every time I got started painting Paul would say, 'Come on, let's go off to the recording studio! Come on, lets go off to a nightclub! I've got a meeting with Epstein, will you come along?
“I was just a friend really but after Jane came back he told me Ringo wanted a mural and I went over to live with Ringo. I found out that Ringo didn't want a companion, he actually wanted a mural painting.”
[—Dudley Edwards quoted in “Art, rugs and rock ’n’ roll,” BBC News]
#was going to cut the section describing the beatles as medieval princelings but it's just so funny#that book is SUCH a mess SO many inaccuracies but then it sometimes has interesting interview content like this#had no idea edwards was living with him while jane was away even though BEV comes up a bunch in MYFN#also 'i found out that ringo actually wanted a mural painting' LOL#paul mccartney#ringo starr#dudley edwards#paul and dudley edwards#1967#fab: an intimate life of paul mccartney#howard sounes
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Im gonna do whats called an Euripides move
#spin the tale around for so many stories of the bible and yet still follow the plot just to mess with people's heads:#On blast rn (most of these are tragedies):#A tragic love story betweeen Absalom and Mephiboshet#Another tragedy of Neptolemous becoming sympathetic and regretful of the things he has done in war only to get killed by his actions#The tiny story of Abbadon and Azrael witnessing the beginnings o the heavenly war and the end of time in the rapture.#Another short story of Satan forgetting his angelic name (symbolism) and trying to find Michael to help him remember.#Another short story of Gabriel falling in love with Michael and asking Miriam for help about human feelings.#Testament of Solomon rewrite where he keeps talking with the demons about their pasts and just shenanigangs#Uriel's adventures in deep space and the many extraterrestrial beings that appear. (I literally want to get a biology degree for this)#Mary Magdalene. Virgin Mary and John's lives after the death of Jesus.#The women in ministry in the early church.#Cain and Abel's story from the point of view of the older sister and Cain's wife.#Deborah's story#Job's journey through so much more becuase I love this man he is so cool.#Paul's life story and his corresponding love with Jesus.#A divine comedy inspired story but with essence of all the abrahamic religions being combined witouth answering which one is actually real#(not just the three main ones but like also as many others as I can place of the abrahamic tree)#and ummmmmmmmmm..... wait theres too muvh ill run out of tag spaceeeee
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i think jigsaw would be pro life he's so petty and puts people in traps for literally anything he would absolutely put someone in a trap for getting an abortion
#espeon cries#the thought is haunting me#bro doesn't understand like. mental illness. how being poor correlates to crimes. what drug addiction is/means#paul jeff adam and amanda r all proof of that#and he also immediately ditches jill for being assaulted and suffering a miscarriage#??#like she says that she feels like he blamed HER for that#me when I don't view women as people what the fuck#anyway peepaw is pro life for sure#the politics of the jigsaw killer: exactly as fucked as you expect#he's also just so insanely petty and spiteful. my son was killed in the womb and you dont DARE appreciate the fetus you dont want?#to the dick smasher with ye#i mean his entire thing is 'I got cancer so im going to torture people into living life in what I deem to be a fulfilling way'#because obviously giving people ptsd + physical disabilities will help them appreciate their lives but what#fucking ever#why did the tag cut like that huh#anyway
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oh my goddddd early days tom cruise films make me feel something entirely different its something the scientists havent discovered yet
#its not even that i find him attractive although he is sort of pretty in an eyebrows kind of a way but he plays the roles so rigid#and#im half convinced he doesnt know how to act he just loves being in front of a camera#but there is always some sort of intricate rituals homoeroticism and natural domesticity about the movies#hold up i need to google if jerry bruckheimer made the outsiders#theres just something so verile about the way the men are portrayed in that kind of Romantic action#prepostmodern james bond kind of action movie if that makes sense#early fast and furious has it too but grittier#transformers but the 1986 animated version#like what is that genre of classic golden age american propoganda and theatrical rock mixed with tragedy and heroism? girl idk wht im sayin#guys im so freakin pissed that narcos white guy whats his name boyd holbrook ?? was a blatant paul walker rip off but now ive watched#top gun now i understand he is also a goose rip off#like stop trying to make more media like this we've progressed past the need for reviving romanticising the 70s in what is obviously just-#romanticising the 50s....#america* btw if thats not clear#guys i hate contemporary american media and i hate the hyperconsumerism and i hate the oversaturation of the market but#dear lorrdddd something about that whole being a man with an attitude just living his life and the story is just about a guy and his bros#and of course there is obvious sexism and exclusionism <333 but this is fiction so!#just a guy and his bros ! what more could u want#plus the fuckin pre-digital age transparency between creator and art is pretty sweet#i miss watching a movie and being able to enjoy it as a viewer and not a cynical judge on the methods and ethos of what goes in#like i just dont care and its vicariously thrilling#maybe its an esoteric lack of pop culture#top gun
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Ben in my main 4 AUs (making picrews was the faster option lol (Not entirely accurate though)
You and I'll be safe and sound: Ben is Clem sole caretaker
Currupted: (Doesn't have a name yet lol) Ben joins Carver's group and becomes the leader. He is the antagonist instead of Carver for season 2
Broken Wings: Ben is a part of Delta
Hopeless Wanderer: Ben is a part of The Whisperers and looking after James and Charlie
Picrew used
#the walking dead game#twdg#twdg ben paul#twdg yaibsas#twdg delta!ben#twdg hopeless wanderer#currupted is also the only 'villain' ben story where he doesn't get a redemption arc#he's just living his best villain life#picrew
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i feel like me and my 911 watch friend are the only people in the universe who prefer lone star lol
#i don’t know why either#bc when i think about the characters like i love the characters of both a lot#we even like owen#like not actually LIKE him but we love laughing at him#the last living metrosexual#they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore#but like we also loooove hen and chim#my friend hates buck but i don’t ❤️#we looooove carlos#maybe i prefer lone star bc there’s more romance plot lines lol#like buck and eddie’s dating lives are deeply unbearable#but paul and marjan and tommy’s are super compelling#i love hen and karen and chimney and maddie and bobby and athena as couples#and obviously judd and grace and mateo and nancy#and tk and carloooooosssssssss#owen’s dating life also sucks but at least it’s funny when women might kill him
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snarling biting gnawing etcetera
#VERY frustrating to live alone the last two days!!!!!!! really fuckin lonley!!!!!!!!!#probably bc i had family party and was existing w seven other people instead of none#and now i just want a fucking hug really bad#irl#like. god i'm so lucky to live alone. but. like. the thing is there's no one around to give a shit.#like. got a cute doormat. unimportant to anyone's life but mine. net zero impact on the world.#someone came downstairs to do their laundry and gasped and cooed over how cute it was and i fr cried lmfao#like. i'm so FUCKING lonley.#and everytime i try to talk on discord i'll just talk a conversation to death or go insane about reply times or start spiraling around the#ABSOLUTE stupidest shit#listening to misery is a messy idea bc like. is paul sheldon trapped and abused and also a shitty dude? yes.#but he has company. and he's able to write.#and i'm jealous of that. just a little.#maybe i have to push my dad harder on having dinner this week. i just really badly need to feel like someone gives a shit ough.#personal#well. at least new episode comes out tonight. scream.
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“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created in recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.
“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, did. Ross Laycock had died due to AIDS-related complications earlier that same year. Visitors who see this piece are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less, like how AIDS had deteriorated the body of Ross Laycock.
The SF Gay Men's Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.
“Blue” — Derek Jarman
This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
Please feel free to reblog with more additions
#aids#aids pandemic#aids crisis#lgbt#lgbtqia#queer history#lgbt history#art tag#azure does a thing#(i cried while putting this post together.)#(something about art about those lost to aids makes me want to fall to my knees.)#(happy pride month)#long post#death tw
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There are so many places in the Villeneuve Dune adaptations where he just...takes all the narrative pieces that Frank Herbert laid out and subtly rearranges them into something that tells the story better--that creates dramatic tension where you need it, communicates the themes and message of the book more clearly, or corrects something in the text that contradicts or undermines what Herbert said he was trying to say.
The fedaykin are probably my favorite example of this. I just re-read a little part of the book and got smacked in the face with how different they are.
(under the cut for book spoilers and length)
The fedaykin in the book are Paul's personal followers, sort of his personal guard. They show up after his legend has already started growing (the word doesn't appear in the book until chapter 40) and they are people who have specifically dedicated themselves to fighting for him, and right from the moment they're introduced there is a kind of implied fanaticism to their militancy that's a bit uncomfortable to read. They're the most ardent believers in Paul's messianic status and willing to die for him. (They are also, as far as you can tell from the text, all men.)
In the book, as far as I can remember (I could be forgetting some small detail but I don't think so) there is no mention of armed resistance to colonialism on Arrakis before Paul shows up. As far as we know, he created it. ETA: Okay I actually went back and checked on this and while we hear about the Fremen being "a thorn in the side" of the Harkonnens and we know that they are good fighters, we don't see anything other than possibly one bit of industrial sabotage. The book is very clear that the organized military force we see in the second half was armed and trained by Paul. This is exacerbated by the two-year time jump in the book, which means we never see how Paul goes from being a newly deposed ex-colonial overlord running for his life to someone who has his own private militia of people ready to give their lives for him.
The movie completely flips all these dynamics on their head in ways that add up to a radical change in meaning.
The fedaykin in the movie are an already-existing guerrilla resistance movement on Arrakis that formed long before Paul showed up. Literally the first thing we learn about the Fremen, less that two minutes into the first movie, is that they are fighting back against the colonization and exploitation of their home and have been for decades.
The movie fedaykin also start out being the most skeptical of the prophecy about Paul, which is a great choice from both a political and a character standpoint. Of course they're skeptical. If you're part of a small guerrilla force repeatedly going up against a much bigger and stronger imperial army...you have to believe in your own agency. You have to believe that it is possible to win, and that this tiny little chip in the armor of a giant terrifying military machine that you are making right now will make a difference in the end. These are the people who are directly on the front lines of resisting oppression. They are doing it with their own sweat, blood and ingenuity, and they are not about to wait around for some messiah who may never come.
From a character standpoint, this is really the best possible environment you could put Paul Atreides in if you want to keep him humble. He doesn't get any automatic respect handed to him due to title or birthright or religious belief. He has to prove himself--not as any kind of savior but as a good fighter and a reliable member of a collective political project. And he does. This is an environment that really draws out his best qualities. He's a skilled fighter; he's brave (sometimes recklessly so); he's intensely loyal to and protective of people he cares about. He is not too proud to learn from others and work hard in an egalitarian environment where he gets no special treatment or extra glory. The longer he spends with the fedaykin the more his allegiance shifts from Atreides to Fremen, and the more skeptical he himself becomes about the prophecy. This sets up the conflict with Jessica, which comes to a head before she leaves for the south. And his political sincerity--that he genuinely comes to believe that these people deserve liberation from all colonial forces and his only role should be to help where he can--is what makes the tragedy work. Because in the end we know he will betray all these values and become the exact thing he said he didn't want to be.
There's another layer of meaning to all this that I don't know if the filmmakers were even aware of. ETA: rescinding my doubt cause based on some of Villeneuve's other projects I'm pretty sure he could work it out. Given the time period (1960s) and Herbert's propensity for using Arabic or Arabic-inspired words for aspects of Fremen culture, it seems very likely that the made-up word fedaykin was taken from fedayeen, a real Arabic word that was frequently used untranslated in American news media at the time, usually to refer to Palestinian armed resistance groups.
Fedayeen is usually translated into English as fighter, guerrilla, militant or something similar. The translation of fedaykin that Herbert provides in Dune is "death commando"...which is a whole bucket of yikes in my opinion, but it's not entirely absurd if we're assuming that this fake word and the real word fedayeen function in the same way. A more literal translation of fedayeen is "self-sacrificer," as in willing, intentional self-sacrifice for a political cause, up to and including sacrificing your life.
If you apply this logic to Dune, it means that Villeneuve has actually shifted the meaning of this word in-universe, from fighters who are willing to sacrifice themselves for Paul to fighters who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their people. And the fedaykin are no longer a group created for Paul but a group that Paul counts himself as part of, one member among equals. Which is just WILDLY different from what's in the book. And so much better in my opinion.
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Tom Blyth x Actress!Reader
no y/n and i try to avoid descriptors but do use she/her. you star in house of the dragon and your character is aemond targaryen’s girlfriend (let me live ok i know we could change him! he told me!!) aaaand also tbosas as sejanus girlfriend (get it bc rachel and josh and now you and tom). your character in tbosas is nova may winter.
your social media ~
just a fun little social media series, will do this in between editing my coriolanus snow x reader series. first part below the cut, sometime early 2023.
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tmz_tv trouble in paradise? rachelzegler and tomblyth spotted looking a little cozy last night! wonder how yourname and joshandresrivera feel!!!
yourname heartbroken!
↳ joshandresrivera shocked!
↳ yourname betrayed!
↳ joshandresrivera bamboozled!
↳ yourname flabbergasted!
↳ joshandresrivera devastated!
↳ yourname yeah that we weren’t invited hadbdjsndj
↳ tomblyth i hate you both 😭
↳ rachelzegler you guys literally had reshoots for tbosas though????
↳ tomblyth and we offered to reschedule for when all 4 of us could go?
↳ yourname fuck we’ve been exposed
↳ joshandresrivera gotta blast!!!
username wait are they really dating?!
↳ username no. rachelzegler is dating joshandresrivera and tomblyth is dating yourname.
↳ username waaaait i just read tbosas. obviously coryo and lucy gray, but also yourname character is dating joshandresrivera character 😂 so everyone had to kiss each others significant other 😂😂😭
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yourname here to serve your #snowbaird needs! first 3 📸 are the love of my life and tomblyth is in the shots too.
rachelzegler hahaha i love you
↳ yourname marry me when???
tchalamet where was the post for paul and luna when dune came out? #fakefriend #betrayed
↳ yourname timothée??? i literally made a whole youtube video talking about my experience with dune? and i sung your praises for like 10 minutes???
↳ tchalamet not the full first name 😳
joshandresrivera and what about the ship for our characters 🤬
↳ yourname istg you’ll get an entire post dedicated to u once the film is actually out.
↳ joshandresrivera carry on 🤭
ewanmitchell aemond and juliette didn’t get a post either 🤨
↳ yourname aemond killed my baby lucerys, he doesn’t get shit 😞
↳ ewanmitchell you did a whole post when osferth died????
↳ yourname my sweet baby osferth did not deserve to die either 😔
username damn yourname your onscreen boyfriends are low key needy af 🫣
↳ yourname i know right 😩
tmz_tv 👀
↳ yourname this was a joke. i’m laughing at you, not with you.
yourname has blocked tmz_tv
tomblyth caption got me like 😧… and what’s the last photo my love?
↳ yourname my lockscreen is what it is.
↳ username “my love”
↳ username she said my lockscreen hahdudsbdifesz one of us one of us
hunterschafer you’re my spirit animal
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↳ tomblyth “heart been broke so many times” - rod wave 😧
username i read the book. coriolanus has to choke nova may. tomblyth did u develop a choking kink 🤭😏😏😏
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↳ username someone spoil it for me why does he choke her
↳ username nova may figures out that coriolanus is the one who betrayed sejanus right when he’s executed and she goes to confront him later. this is when he and lucy gray first get to the cabin. she has a gun but he manages to throw it to the other side of the room. and at least in the book he slams her against a wall and tries to kill her by choking her.
↳ username istg they better put this scene in the movie.
↳ username but does he kill her?
↳ yourname watch and seeeee!
↳ rachelzegler so proud of my girl yourname! we can’t talk about it too much because #spoilers but you guys she’s incredible and it was so cool to watch her and tomblyth film that scene
username i bet tomblyth felt so bad having to be mean to yourname
↳ yourname all jokes aside, tomblyth aka the actual number 1 love of my life, he did feel so bad 😭 i love seeing him turn into coriolanus because it’s obviously so different from who he actually is as a person. but after each take he’d immediately ask if i was okay 🥺🥹
↳ username god i’m so single
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#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tom blyth#rachel seller#josh andres rivera#coriolanus snow#lucy gray baird#sejanus plinth#tom blyth x reader#tom blyth x you#tom blyth x fem!reader#tom blyth x f!reader#tom blyth x actress!reader#tom blyth fluff#tom blyth fanfiction#coriolanus snow x f!reader#coriolanus snow x fem!reader#coriolanus snow x reader#ewan mitchell#house of the dragon#hotg#the last kingdom
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Thinking about hatchetfield and doomed soulmates. About how in every possible universe you’ll find each other but in every universe you’ll loose each other as well. Or at the very least never be able to be truly happy with them. How you’ll never be able to live the life you truly wanted with them. Thinking about how Paul and Emma always find each other just as the world ends. Thinking about how Lex and Ethan will always end up apart from each other whether it be by death or cruel circumstance. Thinking about how the curse will forever keep Duke and Miss Holloway apart. Thinking about how Pete and Steph may finally end up together but only after great suffering and loosing those dear to them. Thinking about how the person who brings you the most joy will also unintentionally bring you the most suffering through no fault of their own just a cruel joke from the universe.
#starkid#hatchetfield#the guy who didn't like musicals#tgwdlm#black friday#nightmare time#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#paulkins#lautski#holloduke#do lex and Ethan even have a ship name
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↑ i am constantly thinking abt this reply because it is deeply reflective of the general attitude i see displayed toward palamedes, and camilla too, wherein people seem to assume that they are inherently more rational and comparatively unbiased as a whole when compared to everyone else. they are treated as if they are comparatively free from the same confines of thinking that affect other characters; they are characterised as a shining example of a truly equal necromancer-cavalier bond, of loyalty and love, and are treated as if they are perfect geniuses who can do no wrong—an attitude i feel very much inclines people to romanticise their devotion & treat paul's birth as a victorious thing.
@dve i feel summarised this phenomena the best: "i think cam and palamedes are nowhere near as revolutionary as a chunk of the fandom would like for them to be". i'd even go as far as to say that, in their role as foils to gideon and harrow, they are meant to showcase just how damaging the necro-cavalier dichotomy is to the individuals involved. i've spoke on this before but the bond is explicitly modelled on the example of john & alecto—which is already not ideal—and was built on a foundation of deception, with john hiding the fact the lyctoral process did not necessarily have to end with the death of the cavalier: the sacrifice of the cavalier is baked into it, because the history of cavaliership is indelibly tied into the avoidable deaths of the first cavaliers.
the equality ascribed to their bond is based on their seeming inversion of the exploitative nature of the necro-cav bond—compared to silas' siphoning colum, it seems improbable to say that they are anything but true equals who break away from the model, revolutionary in nature. they are devoted to each other, endlessly loyal! to the point camilla will violate the wishes and autonomy of palamedes in the name of her devotion.
camilla frames the fact she cannot sustain both of their souls in her body as her being weak, as opposed to being a product of the reality maintaining two souls in a single body the way they are doing is extraordinarily difficult and unnatural, doing herself a disservice in the process, because in her eyes she is failing in her duty to him.
his presence in her body is killing them both, and she frames this as [their] choice, but then wants pyrrha to lie to him about the fact it's killing her: meaning his choice would be based on her exploiting his absence in this moment, on a deception.
they can't keep this up forever, it is killing them both, but camilla's devotion to him means she won't accept that and doesn't want to give him reason to vacate her body. she wants pyrrha to lie—even though it's killing him too!—because she doesn't want to let him choose to let her live at the cost of his own life.
her death is avoidable but her role and her duty is to die for him, to sacrifice, to hold the sword for her necromancer. she won't let him, the necromancer, choose the cavalier's life because it is intended to be used by him—a soul to be eaten. she won't let him choose, violates his wishes and autonomy in the name of her devotion to him; i personally don't think equality in a relationship is based around denying the other their autonomy and lying to them, do you? and in this moment, camilla is treating herself as expendable, their inevitable death as inconsequential because it prolongs palamedes for as long as possible.
palamedes, conversely, has a very interesting perspective on lyctorhood:
he presumes that the original lyctors, the first necromancers and their cavaliers, sought to merge themselves from the start and that they achieved this incompletely. he posits the existence of true lyctorhood; palamedes views two becoming one, one being two, as something admirable, a truth not yet seen—grand instead of petty.
we also see somebody else who expresses a similiar belief in a perfected lyctorhood, one of the original lyctors, mercymorn the first:
the original lyctors did not seek out to merge with their cavalier, their other half in necro-cav terms, and only did so as a result of a lie, the idea of a one-way energy transfer. from mercymorn's perspective true lyctorhood is a process that preserves the cavalier; from palamedes' perspective true lyctorhood is a process that merges the cavalier and necromancer to form something new, the truest response to the call of "one flesh, one end" yet seen. palamedes' conception of lyctorhood is removed from the original context of lyctorhood's formation, and is shaped heavily by the ideals of the society he and cam were raised in.
If the cavalier and the necromancer do not take "one flesh, one end" as a maxim for their passion for each other, their bond is nonexistent. They must each take the other as their ideal.
[…]
Their love is the love that fears only for the other: the love of service on both sides. Some have tried to characterise this relationship as the cavalier's obedience to the necromancer, but the necromancer must be in turn obedient to the needs of the cavalier without being asked or prompted: theirs is arguably the heavier burden.
— Tamsyn Muir, A Sermon on Cavaliers and Necromancers
suffice to say, i do not think paul is a defiance of the empire's ideals, so much as a perfected expression of them; paul is the embodiment of the love of service on both ends, the product of a mutual death. their choice to die as two to become one was exactly in line with what a necromancer and a cavalier are intended to do.
"One flesh" is the underpinning of our whole Empire [...] One end is one empire.
— Tamsyn Muir, A Sermon on Cavaliers and Necromancers
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