Do you think the portrait in the coffin room is of Gabriellle? Do you think Lestat loves Louis because he reminds him of his mother?
AND ALL HER LIFE CAME TO HER DEFENSE, the years and years of suffering and loneliness, the waste in those damp hollow chambers to which she’d been condemned,
AND THE BOOKS WHICH HAD BEEN HER SOLACE,
and the children who had DEVOURED HER AND ABANDONED HER,
and the pain and disease, her final enemy,
which had in promising release PRETENDED TO BE. HER FRIEND.
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@gentlemanstarkey: ❛ we can’t help who we fall in love with. ❜ (soldier verse)
The words ring hollow in the quiet space of his car, punctuated by fat droplets of rain that splatter against the range rover's windshield before making the slow, lazy slide down the clear glass. He's watching a particularly fat one, blue eyes following every winding maneuver, watching as it drags nearby smaller drops with it. That's him, he thinks....A drop of water, small in the scheme of things, that's got no time to decide where in the hell it even is before it's being erased by something else. It's a thought that makes Joe frown, makes his forehead furrow while fingers twitch absently in the empty space of his lap, and for a moment he contemplates running for it - that's something that people do, isn't it? Just open the door and run through a downpour in an effort to outwit whatever it is that life is currently throwing at them?
He takes a deep breath, letting it out with a soft sigh that he tries to cover with a cough (he'll mumble something about the wet outside if James asks) while teeth bite at his bottom lip in an effort to keep him from losing any further pride. Even a detective inspector can be blind sided and being broken up with in a restaurant's car park is not how Joe had envisioned this particular evening... He wonders what signs he has missed, begins putting together a board in his mind (every argument, every bad joke, did you not mean it when you would text me good morning?) before setting aside such a project for later. There will be plenty of time to fall apart, to wonder how the best thing that's ever happened to him went so wrong ... for now, he seeks out the older man's expression, blue eyes holding James's own with a careful detachment.
The question, when it comes, is direct .. carried by a voice that wavers only slightly. Later, in bed, Joe will lie in the dark and feel proud of that small accomplishment, carefully ignoring the pitch in volume that he knows the older man can hear.
"Who - Who is it? Am I allowed to know that at least?"
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god willing this will not be the start of me sincerely sharing Opinions on tumblr dot com but the thing about Kindness and Empathy being paraded as easy breezy & effortless by some is that those posts are often written by very young people who have age-limited experience with the diversity of thought & expression that exists. knowing "there are people out there who think radically differently from me" =/= collaborating with those people in total sincerity and with unwavering compassion.
empathy is a skill i always always have to practice not only because i've had to sit in front of people who genuinely, sincerely hate women as a class of people because of specific lived experiences, and i still had to (and had to want to!) give them therapy, and had to work to the best of my knowledge and creativity to help them break isolation and make friends and not kill themselves, because i don't get to decide, actually, whether or not they deserve to live in misery and die alone - and anyway, building relationships can dismantle prejudices for some people -
but also because the more conversations i have (the number only ever increasing, as you get older), the more likely i am to hear a completely batshit take like, "all victims of intimate partner violence have borderline personality disorders, otherwise they wouldn't stay with their abusers," which i heard this evening. and i would humbly posit that any decent person would need to have a really, really deep well of patience to not promptly smack the person saying that with some sort of rolled newspaper, or perhaps a door.
it is easy to say things or set intentions or wtv when you have little to no chance of encountering situations where those intentions will be challenged. don't expect sainthood from yourself or others. all of it's hard. just try your best!
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overall i really like the omega dlc bc i love hearing aria and nyreen’s banter & seeing new facets of aria’s character, getting to know nyreen, all the understated lore about omega 👁 but top 3 worst boss fights ever its not fun its just exhausting :| all i do is run around and get shot at. arias not even there
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I have once again gone through the time-honoured cycle of reading silly drama on Reddit every day until I see something that makes me so angry that I delete the app off my phone in a fit of pique and don’t touch it for six to nine months
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i finished season one of the owl house and i am ENRAGED
like i love them! all!! so much!!!!!!
luz and eda are just. luz is such a mood and eda went from 'eh who tf is this human' to 'HURT MY KID AND I WILL RIP OFF YOUR SKIN' and i love her for it
AND THE LITTLE NOTE IN THE CAPE I AM CRYING OKAY
AND WILLOW AND GUS AND AMITY (and is that a crush i'm smelling) AND HOW THEIF RELATIONSHIPS ALL DEVELOPED AND THE BOILING ISLES AS A CONCEPT
Also damn I needed a series like that. Like, a bit of overarching plot,but mostly it's just several episodes spent on detailing the characters and their shenanigans and. i needed this so bad
AND ALSO WHO THE FUCK WROTE THOSE LETTERS TO LUZ' MUM AND WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MOTHERFUCKING EMPEROR DOING I WANNA TEAR HIM TO SHREDS NGL
AND THEWAY LUZ LEARNS MAGIC!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHHHHHHH
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