do yall ever get tricked into making a deal with Satan or is that just me😂
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stars
why do you look at me like i hung the stars?
it’s much more likely that it was you
sparkling even in smothering dark
even i could shine if i was next to you
we’re like the moon and sun
i’m only there because you are too
but you don’t need me to be yourself
and when i’m the moon, i rarely get to see you
we’re like light and a black hole
you glow in so many shades of blue
but of course, i suck it all up
and leave you without a clue
why do you look at me like i hung the stars?
don’t you know i hung them for you?
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I need to explain why forgetting carl had such a deep impact on rick because there’s this whole other level to it ok bear with me here:
there’s this term used in many different academic fields— anthropology, psychology, history, migration and decolonization, ethics— called memory work. it’s basically the process of remembering the experience of history and the studying of social memory. it’s largely used in relation to migrants who don’t have homes, steady routines, or consistent grounding details to help their memory, so the one space they don’t have to flee from or that hasn’t become “colonized” is their minds. memory is a way of preserving not just personal memory, but social and cultural history.
so the fact that rick can’t remember carl is HUGE. when the dreams stop, that is a big deal. because so much of what they went through as father and son happened when they were effectively displaced from their home by the circumstances of the world. their constant process of migration in the original show probably affected social memory and people’s capacity to remember in really massive ways. plus, rick’s love for carl especially is thematically embedded with ideas of legacy, memory, and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge as motivation for creating a better world. he wanted to make a new world for his son! their relationship was symbolic of the construction of a new civilization and cultural identity. that’s part of why rick grimes was so revered and admired, because his memory work helped forge a new identity and home that everyone could ground themselves in.
but then rick gets to the CRM, where there is a consistent routine, confinement to a specific place, a value on sameness and cohesion from obedience, and an isolation from these sort of “cultural” objects or artefacts that might help jog his memory of carl (familiar places like ASZ, carl’s handprints on the porch, judith’s drawings of their family, carl’s letter to rick, etc.). this means that the CRM effectively tried to destroy rick’s capacity for memory for 8 years.
he performed memory work to resist, by getting the faces of his loved ones drawn onto phone screens, writing letters to michonne and judith, keeping any possessions from ASZ that he could. but the chaotic outside world he travelled through under extreme, stressful circumstances becomes harder to carry with him when he’s being presented with an environment so sturdy and consistent that denies him contact with anything to preserve his memory of history.
so effectively, the CRM and the way their city is set up uses tactics one would see in brainwashing and the formation of cults or colonial projects. the CRM relies on separation of families and the destruction of memory to succeed.
this isn’t just rick being worn down and losing his spine. it’s deeper than that. it is the erasure of his social and cultural memory of the apocalypse and of alexandria. and carl grimes was the first price that had to be paid.
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I’ve been screaming to people how much I want to be in between Aventurine and Ratio, OH MY AEONS!!!
Beloved anon, you are so right for that 🙏
I mean….. Just look at them!?!?!?
The size difference?!??
I already knew I was down horrifically for Veritas (it’s the scientist in me), but Aventurine hit me out of left fucking field.
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i found a meme where a man was holding a big sleeping doggo with a palm to his head so that the boi was comfortable and i wanted to draw it so much 😭😭😭😭😭
turns out bull baby is bigger and weighs like 5-10 times more then a dog so i had to make some adjustments
but now they are like hugging each other
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Do you ever think about the fact that Louis clearly cares enough about the stag tattoo to have the surgery for his broken arm come as close as possible to the tattoo without damaging it? Like idk if it was much more difficult that way, but it sure doesn’t look like the default angle to try and fix a broken bone, so there was definitely thought that went into that choice.
And then think about the fact that Harry was known as Hershel Azoff around the time Louis got that tattoo.
And that Hershel means deer
Yeah me neither
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six time grammy nominated band boygenius who has written lyrics like "when you cut a hole into my skull, do you hate what you see? like i do"
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