“To keep from crying, she talked too much and too loudly, and she laughed. And again he took her in her arms almost at once and they made love. She had entered a mist in which nothing could be seen and only her scream could be heard.”
Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.
—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)
It’s a good thing that Merlin doesn’t ever push Arthur when he’s showing affection because Arthur would implode immediately if he had to think too long about it. Could you imagine the (deleted!!) sigil scene if:
Arthur: Just… take it.
Merlin: Why are you giving me this?
Arthur: *sweating*
Arthur: It’s… a bird. And you’re a bird.
Merlin: …what?
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“It could be that the loss of her children drove the Queen deeper into her darker desires...but, I don’t believe she was fighting against them that hard before that particular tragedy. No monster does.” (Patreon)
Bonus:
Hmm, wonder what he could cover those holes with :3c
ok ok everyone please, ignore for a moment that this is a clip of The Quote. please just ignore the words and look at dans body language cuz its killing me LMAOOOO
i've been wanting to draw a character sheet of clora for a while and finally got around to doing it 😊
(@vvatari-art was the inspo for the layout, i love how she did hers!!)
there were so many good lines in the movie but i keep specifically thinking of the one where evelyn says (paraphrasing) “even in a world without hands we’d learn to play music with our feet”
i cant get over how they used the most ridiculous way possible to arrive at such a profound moment? that line should be completely hilarious given what they built it on but in context its somehow a genuinely powerful, moving moment. this movie really was everything, everywhere.