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Drive My Car (2021), dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi / Herakles, Euripides
#yeah that's right#i'm not above this quote#drive my car#ryusuke hamaguchi#hidetoshi nishijima#toko miura#film#film stills#filmedit#movies#movie stills#herakles#euripides#anne carson#cinema#cinephile#web weaving#my posts
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everyone who doesn't include the full quote when mocking GRRM's "what was Aragorn's tax policy" rhetorical question owes me $200
#we as a society need to move past this 'lotr is above criticism' mindset#'grrm totally missed the point of lotr!!' no YOU missed the point of that quote and also asoiaf#how does no one include the 'what did they do with the rest of the orcs? did they kill the little baby ones too?' part?#the point isn't dismissive of tolkien it's critical of modern fantasy's tendency to avoid these questions#and opt instead for a black and white conflict that doesn't examine the humanity on either side#grrm has gone on about how he admires tolkien. taking a quote that expresses his desire for fantasy to expand and explore#and claiming it's some sort of faux intellectualism just because it makes you uncomfortable#is incredibly small minded and harmful actually and I'm sick of pretending it's not#asoiaf
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Genuinely, doing things "half-assed" or for a short period of time is generally better than never having done it in the first place.
Writing one sentence is better than none. A minute of brushing your teeth is better than zero minutes. Answering two questions for a homework assignment is better than answering none.
The overwhelming mountain of things can be done peacemeal. You do not have to do it all at once. It is okay to take life in whatever amount you can. The point is to allow yourself the grace to be.
#positivity#encouragement#writing this partially for myself because i have been struck with a sudden greif because i haven't written anything#and it's made me feel guilty that i've been to unwell to feel able to write anything complex#but it's like... why should i expect myself to write well or at *all*#i am allowed to feel grief that i'm not writing something special to me but that grief isn't a weapon#and bludgeoning myself with grief won't make me pick up a pen#if the mountain is too high above you then focus on the molehill in front of you <3#somewhat inspired by the Abandoning Hobbies post#the whole 'the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. the second best time is now' quote needs to be burnt into me#oh shit it's so late now. the first best time to be asleep was at 23:00 but i guess the second best is uhh now
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spoilers for penacony completely out of context but please for the love of god listen to how this line is said because i almost choked with how fed UP he is
#sampo koski#honkai star rail spoilers#honkai star rail#seriously though roger rose your performance is everything 2 me#his voice is clownish its annoying its dumb its cartoonish its so damn funny#it brings so much vibrant character to a guy who could have been just another pretty face#i'm glad his voice is not quote unquote attractive. it doesn't need to be. he's got Layers but above all he's a jester and a half
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She lunged at Kokichi with her bare hands, sending both of them to the ground with her tackle. They rolled on the concrete, writhing against one another as they fought like schoolyard children, punching and pulling and baring their teeth with the threat of biting, scraping up their elbows and knees.
Finally, Maki managed to pin Kokichi down, a hand grasping his collar and using all of her weight to keep him restrained. The other hand raised above her head, and in her curled fist, a dagger formed, pitch black and full of malice. She snarled, bestial urges threatening to consume her entire being, weighing down on her hand and demanding blood to be spilled.
The Full Moon comes, and there's no stopping the storm that comes with it.
#drv3#kokichi ouma#maki harukawa#oumota#oumaki#yes i will tag that despite what is quoted above#sometimes it be like that#trust me#my post#fanfic#persona 3 au#it took 6 years but i finally wrote this chapter that's been haunting me#i'm so happy
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AFTERMARE WEEK: day 1- blackout/illumination
Your presence alone lit up my entire world, but then your absence nearly blinded me.
how am i to survive without that light now that you're gone?
aftermare week is hosted by @bluepallilworld
#aftermare week 2023#art#illustration#my art#utmv#aftermare week#aftermare#geno#geno sans#nightmare#nightmare sans#fem!nightmare#jgzegj don't look at me like that- i haven't written anything in a year so ofc i'm rusty!! >:'D#i rewrote so many quotes over and over but aughg they all sound so forced xD#anyways this! wasn't the intended result at. ALL :D#fr it was supposed to be a simple black and white drawing with no blurs or airbrush added (comic book style yknow?)#then second slide light suddenly shines above night and geno's face appears in the third picture like a 'savior' sorta#but as you might have guessed i'm!! lazy :'p#sorry blue! you get angst instead >:')#don't talk to me about the hair it's just one of my favorites i've ever drawn in my life no joke >:'Dc i'm so happy with thisss!!!!#each time i participate in your prompts i end up with the best shaded piece ever like??#is this a cursed week? well blessed is more like it but you get me!! they're all so interesting and i haven't finished any of the other day#so wooo i'm just gonna speedrun the illustrations and hope they turn out alright hhh xD#hope you're doing better now blue!! :'( you seriously deserve the greatest things in this world and i'm wishing you the best<333#HEY HEY everyone who had the attention span to read all this please please send her some love?? just a have a nice day would be cool!!#she's the embodiment of a supportive awesome wholesome artist come on you guys >:'D#muah muah showering you with hugs and kisses you sweet sweet bean<33333#take care of yourself or i swear to god i will make you!!!❤️❤️❤️
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Hi everyone! :D After rereading the BSD novels I noticed a rather interesting pattern and came up with a fun idea!
How about a new impossible drinking game? Take a shot every time you notice Asagiri describing Dazai in the edgiest way possible when you're reading the light novels.
Sounds not so bad at first, however... Well, take a look yourself and have fun:
"I look at the young man. He is just staring at the ceiling. No emotions, no intents. Just a flat expression, like one who is just telling his age. I cannot believe my own eyes. I don’t even feel like there is a human there. If it was late night instead of a refreshing early morning, I would think that he was a ghost or a hallucination".
"His eyes remind me of a burnt black cat, his build reminds me of a burnt black cat, his presence reminds me of a burnt black cat. He has a tone that sinks into the abyss of the spirit, and deep, dark eyes that seem to hold the conviction that the sun will never rise again. He is a man of few words. And his voice has the sound of severance that rejects mutual understanding from the very beginning. No one could understand him. No one ever will. And he himself knows that very well. That kind of voice".
"When Dazai finally says so, his eyes look different from those of any human being. And those of any living things. Those are wounds. A pair of open wounds on his face, from which darkness is peeping out".
"Dazai’s face when he says that reminds me of the end of a culvert, or a black wall at the end of the road that leaves you no way to go".
"Dazai looks at me. Those eyes are like the bottomless see at night. Dark, cruel, quiet, endlessly sucking people in and never letting go".
"Dazai looks down at the opponent. Even people who look at the pebbles on the riverbank would show more interest than that".
"Dazai’s gaze towards Hirotsu turns dark instantly, as though representative of the gravity of his next words. If it were any ordinary person being stared at, they would be seized by nightmares for the next few days. Dazai’s eyes foretell the impending blood and violence about to come".
"I look at Dazai. There is something invisible within that can’t be seen with the naked eye, like a breeding ground for spirits that will raze everything to the ground".
"I look at Dazai intently. Although we have known each other for very long, this is the first time Dazai has spoken about himself. One can see something as sharp as a giant fishhook piercing and gnawing into Dazai’s life".
"“No.” I say. “I don’t think so. At the beginning, I thought you and Dazai were very similar, unable to see the value of your life, hoping for death, hence jumping into a world of violence and fighting. But that’s not the case. That guy is just a child who’s too smart. Just a crying child who’s been left alone in the darkness, a world of nothingness far emptier than the world we can see”".
""I know. There's a certain anxiety, anxiety about whether the previous boss's assassination was leaked". Dazai's expression was still unreadable. It was quiet as a freezing lake".
"The boy's gaze quietly penetrated Mori. Like a medical device that looked through the human body".
"The doctor and boy exchanged a silent gaze for a while. The Shinigami and the Devil seemed to glare at each other as the room filled with their spirit. In Mori's head, a word that he didn't know flickered many times and echoed like an alarm".
"The nightmarish thoughts Dazai sometimes showed through his observing eye was like an unprecedented, frozen eagle in the mafia's demonic nest".
"His expression returned to his usual Dazai thing. It was a gray expression that wasn't interested in any concept".
"I’m not a person with an excellent observation skill. But even so, just by looking at those eyes, I understand a few things right away. He probably has killed before. Not one or two digits. Hundreds of people. When you have killed that many people, you will reach the other side of the mentality that ordinary humans can possess, beyond the other shore where neither light nor gravity can reach. The spirit of those who have reached that state will be seen first in their eyes, then in their mouth. Their eyeballs become black holes, and the muscles around their mouth become organs to show the depth of their sin, not their facial expressions".
"I ask again. There is no answer. I don’t even know if he is listening. Because the light in his eyes show no reactions to my question. No matter how cold-hearted a person is, if you look at him in the eyes and throw words at him, you can still see some kind of responses. But this young man does not have any of that. Just black eyes looking at where my figure is".
"There is no heart here. Just a heart-shaped emptiness".
"He doesn’t reply. Those eyes are filled with a quiet emptiness. From that, I assume that he is listening. Because if he is deaf, there should be a reasonable amount of confusion and signs of claiming that he cannot hear".
"I say, my words echoing in the emptiness and dropping into the corner of the room, in the middle of nowhere".
"Dazai is standing in the corridor of the bunker, where it is completely dark. The distance between him and Odasaku is more than ten meters. Because of the darkness and the distance, Odasaku and the other guy cannot see Dazai. In fact, they wouldn’t even notice Dazai if he came within an arm’s reach. That is how much Dazai has melt into a dense shadow and become one with the darkness himself".
"Seeing that violence doesn’t even make his eyes move. His eyes are as still as those of a dead man, not showing the slightest flicker of emotion".
"Dazai has become one with the darkness. That is why no one is able to find Dazai".
"There is only darkness. As if no one was there from the beginning. It’s as if darkness has taken the form of Dazai, and has finally turned back to the original darkness and disappeared".
"The voice is intimidating, assertive, and filled with raw danger like a bleeding wound. It is high-pitched as that of a young boy, but it lacks the human-like characteristics a young boy should have".
"The cop can feel cold sweat squirting from his whole body. This young man is not lying. It shows in his eyes. That this young man is only seeing him as a fly in his kitchen".
"The cop’s body trembles in fear. This is the fear of pain, the fear of his imagination. But the most frightening of all is the young man in front of him, the king of the Pain land, the one who creates pains and controls pains".
"When Dazai finally opens his mouth after a long pause, that voice completely lacks emotions. No mockery, no cruelty, not even a carnivorous smile, nothing. A complete hollow".
"“You really don’t listen to others.” There is nothing left in Dazai’s voice, not even the ruthlessness. There is nothing in there. Not even a sign of someone holding a gun, nor talking to a human being".
"Suddenly, I feel like someone who got lost in the freezing cold weather at the top of a mountain, with only his underwear on. Having nothing to cover for myself, nor a way to escape. Far beyond the pale darkness, a mysterious monster is waiting to tear me into pieces".
"That voice had the dignity of a king and the mercy of the devil at the same time".
"When he saw that cold look heavier than a hundred eloquent words, Atsushi tensed his back".
"From the main office you could see the sunset of the city. In the middle of the room, Dazai was sitting alone at the desk with his arms crossed. He had a thin smile on his lips, and in his only visible eye the light darkness of the world".
"Because in the depths of his eyes lay a jet-black darkness deeper than any of the nights found at the disposal site".
"Dazai’s expression didn’t change whatsoever, and he spoke in a gritty voice devoid of any emotions".
"“It’s simple.” Dazai smiled faintly. His voice was low, as if it were the sound of a growl in a nightmare".
"Dazai smiled after he said that. It was like you could hear the sound of his broken soul with that smile".
"Dazai smiled and held out his hand to help me stand up. He saw through everything with the eyes of a sage, seeming to stare at a place that wasn’t anywhere on Earth".
And etc.
*reads all this through*
*tries to proceed the information properly*
*inhales*
GODDAMIT, ASAGIRI. WE GOT IT.
#I'm still hysterical#when I noticed a pattern I had to make a list of it all#this gets close to akutagawa's level of edginess honestly XD#and oh don't get me wrong I love both the novels and Dazai#and I understand that it was necessary to show Dazai's darkness#but like#at some point such descriptions become comedic#yeah yeah for dazai's soul is dark and full of terrors#what's next?#also btw i'm rather surprised that there wasn't much of this in the beast#but probably as a compensation we get this gem#His coat and black shoes were so fine that even kings and nobles in Europe would envy him~#LMAAAO I CAN'T-#Asagiri ffs 🥲#p.s. there were probably more quotes like these above but i haven't noticed them sorry#bsd#bsd dazai#bsd meta#bsd dark era#bsd stormbringer#bsd fifteen#bsd beast#bsd spoilers#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#ticklinglady talks
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Keep your journal long enough
"Keep your journals long enough and someday they'll keep you"
May 8, 2012. Tuesday 6:10am. As told by the host Jon Zek on KXPR classical radio station.
#journaling#writing#I don't know if I'm living to write or writing to live#5/8/2012#I was listening to KXPR early one morning i when I heard Jon Zek read the above quote. I'm not sure who he was quoting though.#I have journaled long enough that my journals are keeping me!
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Trying so hard to think of something silly or sweet to lift the mood tonight so voila: that line in tva when Armand’s about to drink from Lestat in the chapel and notices that his hair is all messy because no one bothered to comb it
I just think that Armand should get to comb Lestat’s hair 🥹 he sits him in his lap and is so careful to not snag on any knots and you just know he does the one hundred strokes to get Lestat’s hair perfectly shiny and soft
You're so sweet, thank you 😭❤️
And yes, that's one of my all-time favorite scenes!
Armand is only one in the whole room allowed to touch him! Lestat killed anyone else who came near him and Armand doesn't even hesitate to reach out and fix his hair! Lestat saying he wanted comb Armand's curls and polish him up with kiss in MtD, but now it's Armand who's grooming him and kissing him!
I looked down on Lestat, who was unchanged, his hair fallen as before, a little over his left eye. His right arm was out, and his fingers curling upwards, and there came from him not the slightest movement, not even a breath from his lungs or a sigh from his pores.
I knelt down beside him again. I reached out, and without flinching or hesitating, I brushed his hair back from his face.
I could feel the shock in the room. I heard the sighs, the gasps from the others. But Lestat himself didn't stir.
Slowly, I brushed his hair more tenderly, and I saw to my own mute shock one of my tears fall right onto his face. ~ Armand, TVA
He should get to comb Lestat's hair always, okay? He deserves it. 🤧
#i want armand to comb his hair with a beautiful vintage comb in front of a mirror idk the image is just very appealing to me#i'm so unwell about them.#thank you you're an angel from above 🥹🫶🏼#you ask and hekate answers#vc#armand/lestat#quotes
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Three things I have been learning:
do things that aren't on the internet. with real people. don't get all your opinions online, because it's not a solid depiction of reality. it really really isn't. HOWEVER--don't entirely discount the internet, bc while it is a cesspool of nonsense many times, I have also met all my best friends on it, and I am endlessly thankful for them and legitimately do not know where I would be today without them.
if a song speaks to something extremely deep in you throughout your life, that probably means something. think about it sometimes. try to figure out why it resonates like that, and discern if that means something that could be important or helpful to you.
Van Gogh is my favourite artist for a reason that's about more than just his paintings.
#I'm not staying on here long tonight because I desperately need sleep#but hello everyone. hope you have been well. I have been through a rollercoaster these past few months#but to quote c. s. lewis--readers be advised that the Devil is a liar#and one of the lies he's been trying to tell me lately is that I don't need friends in my life#and that all my problems would probably be fixed if I just went off on my own and cut out the people who care about me#which is STUPID but hey. see the above C. S. Lewis quote again.#anyway I still love y'all and I hope that I can be back here soon!#I will be clearing out my following list a bit tho. bc it's not good for my mental health to have so many different opinions flooding in#constantly when I don't have a great support system in place irl to work through them.#it's not personal it's just what I have to do to stay sane :)#gurt says stuff
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hey so staff announced recently that the legacy editor is getting deprecated this year (https://www.tumblr.com/staff/713772856384929792/hello-tumblr-if-you-joined-us-before-november) and i know you said in the post about frank making asks from the ether that she uses the legacy editor. i'm just wondering if the switchover will cause any downtime for frank when it does eventually happen or if you're working to get her to use the new editor?
I don't know when legacy post creation through the API will go away. It won't necessarily happen at the same time that we lose the legacy post editor in the UI.
But yeah, given that announcement I figure its days are numbered.
Thanks for reminding me about this. It will cause downtime when it happens, unless I've already added NPF creation code by that time. I've been avoiding that because it'll be a complicated chore, and right now it wouldn't add any value. But I should get around to it sometime.
#nostalgebraist autoresponder meta#on another note -- i'm still frustrated about the legacy editor going away#it's so much better#the beta editor is less responsive in a way that's hard to describe but very real#also adding styles to text with it is painful#(try putting some text at the start of a post in a blockquote and then inserting non-quoted text above it -- just one example)#worst of all its undo/redo feature is broken and often eats my text permanently!!
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i poke my head out of the gutter for one freakin second and fate shovels shit in my face!!!!!!!!!!!
#this is going to be a vent in the tags post sorry. i just kin this quote from now on i think. no vice city mentioned otherwise#so much bad stuff happened over the past 24 hours I'm just looking forward to an anvil falling on my head and killing me randomly#like some good stuff happened too but the bad stuff outweighs that so greatly#for one good thing 3 bad things happen#how do people endure shit like this on daily basis. im just so tired#i just want to live and let live but everything and everyone on my way has an issue with me#its like theres a big marker above my head that says im different or theres something wrong with me and i shouldn't be allowed to just. be#.txt#needed to get this off my chest somehow
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This CITATION, lol.
I'm gonna be fucking doomed when I start research on Al-Razi~ I love it.
#Arabic scholars in the Golden Age are 1) my favorite people 2) untrackable for the western world apparently.#How the FUCK am I supposed to track down a light brown cardboard binding with no flaps manuscript with dimensions 11.5 x5.5?!#God at least he gave me the citation though lol. This is great. Also on the citation above Levey says 'this manuscript is equivalent to#MS Landberg 637 in Berlin. Quotes are from this MS' which means the citation I'm referencing has no equivalent he knows of
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So, fun fact i learned today (thanks @beevean idk if i hate it or not lmao), but Walter is only 42 years old.
Like, other than the fact i internalised him as being at LEAST one hundred years old (because vampire lord with Death at his side and stuff, i thought he'd be just a bit more "ancient")... what's really blowing my mind is that HE'S YOUNGER THAN RINALDO !!! HE'S- HE'S 6 YEARS YOUNGER I AM IN TEARS.
Really makes you put Rinaldo's "it seems eternal life is extremely boring" into perspective. Hearing him say that, you'd think Walter is very, very old... but he's JUST FORTY-TWO !!! MY MAN IS NOT EVEN HALF A CENTURY AND HE ACTS LIKE HE ALREADY DID EVERYTHING AND THERE'S NOTHING NEW SO HE HAS TO RESORT TO PLAYING WITH HUMAN LIVES TO NOT GET BORED- HE'S SUCH A BRAT I SWEAR. (well ok i'm not 42 so idk maybe it's relatable but Rinaldo is 48 and doesn't do that shit so HE'S A BRAT END OF THE STORY)
#btw Joachim's age is literally '??' and i'm SO MAD ABOUT IT#WAS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO GIVE US AN ACTUAL AGE ??#HONESTLY AT THAT POINT I WOULDN'T EVEN BE SURPRISED IF HE WAS OLDER THAN WALTER.#to quote beevean: 'he's so pretty he has surpassed the concept of age'#and also. about Walter: 'Being a bastard makes you look younger <3'#i bet Joachim is such a bastard he looks even younger than Walter when really he's the oldest one#so that's why he's so mad... he can't stand a newbie like Walter standing above him. Taking HIS throne.#castlevania#lament of innocence#walter bernhard#rinaldo gandolfi
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being neurodivergent is all fun and games until you remember those hourly quote bots on twitter and think well maybe I can't make a bot anymore but I could schedule a few quotes a day, that shouldn't be hard. it sounds fun to have a bunch of quotes of my favorite character Thirteen from hit mobile game Obey Me! and its sequel Obey Me! Nightbringer. and then you think about how arduous collecting the quotes is going to be but she's only been in the games for maybe a year and a half with little screentime and you love collecting things so you start but then you remember that you love collecting things so naturally you have ALL of her screentime in the game and suddenly you have 45k characters of quotes and are several lessons into season 4 (which is truly a trial in and of itself) but not nearly close enough to the end but you refuse to just stop collecting the quotes and make the account with the EXCESS of what you have already because you literally only have season 4 to get through and if you don't do it just seeing the bot (because now you've been informed you can make tumblr bots instead) will haunt you with that knowledge even if nobody else would ever know. this is a general anecdote of a situation that could easily happen to anyone though and not in any way related to my life
#obey me on side#ummm i don't have a personal tag yet because i hated looking at this blog before the revamp so i'll do that later#with the carrd. usually when i say i'll do something later it means sometime in the next 3 years but i actually mean this one#but rn there's no way to tell i'm a lesbian (except for the thirteen icon. + probably also the ruri-chan banner she's lesbian colors)#okay maybe you can tell but I want to be CLEAR#anyway i would also like to note that immediately before starting this project i spent a full week lamenting my lack of free time#because I wanted to write some fics. and then literally as soon as i got free time I went um. no. quote doc instead I think#????? girl why did you do that to yourself#fortunately i'm now bored of reading s4 so i can go back to writing#unrelated but all of these fics contain a significant amount of solomon and i like him that's not surprising but it was unintentional#which IS surprising. like okay one of them is about solodeus (specifically mc playing matchmaker so i don't clickbait) so that's obligatory#and another is based off of the new solomon card (IT'S CUTE) so that's also kind of obligatory#(the third one is based off of luke's card from the dnd nightmare a while back because i was entranced by its strange unbalanced party)#but usually i try to switch up the characters i write about to get comfy with all of them and not just the ones that make sense to me#that's not entirely accurate it's my one braincell bouncing around like a windows screensaver picking a new fave every time it hits a side#but also to get used to writing them all. anyway#i'll just write about satan to balance it he's always been a fav but i am obsessed with him in nightbringer he is so offputting and tragic#if you're still reading these tags please see above on th 'later is up to three years' in regards to the fics still haven't posted anything#hoping to change that soon though I WILL eventually.
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indeed we can
#superpowers#superpower wiki#one this aint#slime manipulation#fluid manipulation#quotes for concern#elemental#magic#does the body good#earthworm jim#and there's enough slime for all of us#it's not flubber#how many silverfish#make your own slime#bow chika wow wow#meanwhile downstairs#the tears of angels#the other string of pearls#c neither of the above#in that case i'm taking it back#the rest of the month#it's over when i say it's over#new ideas for the shower#spidergoat says nay#i said more marrow#spider-man removes filter#meanwhile in Earth minus 1#it's slobberin' time
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