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sylvies-chen · 1 year

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I think there’s something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Us’s primary thesis which is that humanity’s fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but it’s overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in you— or maybe two people or a family’s worth or any small number— and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.

joel doesn’t blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesn’t look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and it’s reciprocal. ellie would— and does— do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because that’s what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.

and it’s selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. it’s exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. don’t even try telling me you wouldn’t go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.

#i wrote a poem about this #idk if i should post it bc i dont want to risk someone stealing it #but yeah… this concept has me really thinking #the last of us #the last of us hbo #hbo the last of us #tlou hbo #hbo tlou #tlou #the last of us spoilers #tlou spoilers #joel miller #ellie williams #joel and ellie

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mylichwishes · 14 days

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what if i was your mom and you were my mom and we fucked

#mommy dom x dommy mom #i wrote a poem about this

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sorrcha · 2 months

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benthic angel

was writing about lake sturgeon for a class assignment and showed one of my friends what i'd written.. he then sent part of it back to me with line breaks to turn it into a poem! i just had to draw something for it :]

poem text under the readmore:

lake sturgeon don't know that they're endangered. They don't know anything - other than the muck at the bottom of the water column and the occasional passing touch of another.

really touched by how my friend turned my technical writing into poetry. i haven't tried to write creatively in months, so it's nice to see i've still got it- and nicer still that i could get so inspired by my friend, since i haven't made nature art in a little while, either :>!!

#art #digital art #ms paint #clip studio paint #(<- drew it in ms paint and then slapped on some effects + the text using csp)#animal #fish #sturgeon #lake sturgeon #fishblr #poem #poetry #i want to do this for another poem as well.. my crush wrote a poem about fireflies and i want to make art based on it so badly <3 #hall of fame #1k #5k

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cosaspobrecitas · 1 year

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i remember sitting in the closet i slept in, pitch black and stone cold sober, writhing in my skin, whirring with with the velocity of 10 event horizons at the pure potential of what I could be, all that i would do and become, i felt like i could die i couldn't wait. if i could just go back in time and tell my younger self she should have cut deeper! she should have tried harder to blot out this revolting little life!

#before i had all these responsibilities #she had no fuckin clue #i wrote a poem about this

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arthursfuckinghat · 1 month

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The sun is your halo, for it is always above you.

Arthur and Weetabix 𑁦𐂂𑁦 Scarlett Meadows

#It's a line from a poem I wrote I love poetry fun fact #oh the poems I could write about arthur but I shall not #<- fears the cringe #but I also just love taking pictures of arthur and the sun #he's perfect #I'm like a sponge for all kinds of imagery I soak that shit up it keeps me going #I'm a real yapper #but alas #I have my silly little blog to yap on #and lovely followers <3 #mwah #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #arthur morgan #weetabix my horse #red dead redemption community #liveblogging

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femmeconomics · 6 months

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i think it’s important everyone knows about the little roman girl who died at only five years and seven months old, and her grave reads "dum vixi, lusi" or "while i lived, i played"

#her epitaph actually has a much longer poem which contains this line #and it’s not like. stylistically high quality poetry either #which indicates this was not a poem someone was hired to write for the grave (as was a relatively common practice)#but instead written out of love by one of her family members #it’s twenty three lines of mostly correct dactylic hexameter #and it makes me bawl when i read it #we translated it in a latin class i took a few years ago and then wrote our own latin poems about our friends

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naturecalls111 · 11 months

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Attention

#one piece #lawlu #hs au #monkey d luffy #trafalgar d water law #please please please read laws poem as corny and stupid I tried so hard to make it unserious in a way that was obvious how unserious it was #the first version of the poem my friend told me sounded to serious #so I wrote the poem I ended up using in about a minute please enjoy #in my freshman year of college I used to do freestyle raps at my roommate until she told me to stop because I thought it was so funny #sometimes it would go on for a seriously long time and still I persisted #I digress #my point is the poem about is 100% the structure of my freestyles in my freshman year of college

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arcanumb · 1 month

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arcanum — Sol Rios

#going to the planetarium today and i thought of this poem i wrote a few years back #it’s about calling off of work c:

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wulfhalls · 3 months

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have you seen the poem josh brolin wrote for timothee chalamet? i need to know what happened in the dune set

been thinking about this since yesterday. he would do numbers on here. that old man wanted to be fucked!

#asks #dune #imma just real quick publish this insane poem i wrote about my co-worker!

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holly-mckenzie · 3 months

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Well, I mean, she's the bloodline, though..

SUCCESSION S02E10 / S04E10 created by Jessie Armstrong

#succession #successionedit #succession hbo #shiv roy #kendall roy #logan roy #akajustmerry #shesnake #usermonstress #mine*#all I'm saying is that shiv is the true successor #she killed kendall #i wrote a poem about it and everything

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proudplantpoet · 3 months

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When I look into the mirror,

an unfamiliar face looks back.

A round face, long hair, painted nails.

Where am I?

I look into the mirror,

an average teenage girl stares back.

I know her decently by now.

She's not a friend,

nor a fiend.

She's a shell, a disguise with

an empty soul.

I look into the mirror,

and she looks back at me,

she mirrors all my movements,

oh so gracefully.

We are alike,

enjoy dancing, singing,

smear lip balm on our damaged lips,

are small of stature, shy by nature.

She's a girl.

But what am I?

I look into the mirror,

the girl that holds my gaze,

tells me to keep on living,

try,

just try,

persist,

just a little longer.

I will cut myself free from the shackles of my hair.

One day,

I will look into the mirror and see,

Myself.

One day,

I will not have to say,

whether I am a boy or a girl.

Because I am,

and that is enough.

#a lil poem I wrote about dysphoria.#genderfluid

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poemsonmars · 2 months

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grief is fucking terrifying.

it covers everything in

such a massive layer of pain.

of confusion. of rage.

i can't breathe through it.

one minute i'm sitting in

my childhood bedroom

and the next, i can't see.

i wave my hand in front of my face

and no one greets me in return.

i don't know who i am without her.

-mars

#1/16/23 #the ones about heartbreak #mars.poetry #my poetry #lgbt poetry #original poetry #sad poetry #poetry about grief #poets on tumblr #original poem #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #button poetry #prose poetry #writeblr #poetscommunity #perhaps i wrote this while think about natasha and yelena. and what about it #coming back with the jackieshauna brainrot to say holy shit this is so Them #choose your fighter i guess

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angel-archivist · 25 days

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I thought my life would be different somehow.

#retro.art #oc #angelcore #This is from a poem I wrote a year ago!!#queer art #trans art #Idk if it translates the poem is longer and basically about this intersection of performing gender as a trans man

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shrimpricebowl · 7 months

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brrrrboard

#rain world #do i have to tag everyone???#Okay #five pebbles #looks to the moon #rw hunter #...not sure about saint #rw gourmand #rw survivor #rw monk #also i just wrote a few comic texts and poems! still thinkig about how to translate them visually though #artatat

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gayofthefae · 5 months

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Do you ever think about how "I have no idea what's gonna happen next, but whatever it is, I think we should work together. I think it'll be easier if we're a team."

is both so poetic and so euphemistic because that boy is not talking about solutions and battles that boy is talking about LOVE.

He wants it to come across, or at least have some plausible deniability that it's, "us not working together will just make the hell storm about to rain down harder" but really it's

"If I die tomorrow, I want you to be by my side; I won't be as scared"

They were already working together. Will forgave him and was acting normal. It was going to be "easier" and there was no obstacle for that. He just wanted to say "I love you" without saying I love you. In season 4, he's already fighting to say "I love you" to El while fighting NOT to say it to Will. Look at him, he's finding work arounds on both sides.

Something about the phrase "I have no idea what's gonna happen next"[but I want you to be there] is just so romantic. Elevated from anything. Beyond "whatever happens next will be bad let's face it together you and me against the world". It's

"I want to jump into the unknown with you"

#byler correct quotes #byler #mike wheeler #subtext #byler subtext #stranger things #byler poetry #im in that silly goofy what the fuck poetry mindset #i dont think anyone is really a poet i think we're all just possessed actually #i once wrote a poem about how i dont remember writing my poems and i dont really remember writing it #because how do people write not how they talk like their soul just vomits onto the lage #*page #WHAT IS WRITING #WHAT

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serendipity0930 · 4 days

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text from an original poem <3 // 12x02 / 02x21 / 09x09 / 05x22

#I originally wrote this poem about being disabled #but my guy sam can also have it <3 #sam winchester #sam winchester & bodily autonomy #also the last two shots make my film brain SO happyy #supernatural #seren edits!

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