the problem with watching new stuff is seeing reactions like "oh this is so creepy, this is so gory, etc" and thinking this is what they get for not watching hannibal (2013)

Since moving to New York, I have really seen places and things that I previously envisioned completely incorrectly in books set there. I must have seen this somewhere before, though--or else saw it at the Met sometime before since moving here and then forgot it again until today--because it is almost exactly what I imagined from the scene in The Book of Night with Moon where the cats are in the Met teaching Arhu the People's mythos using ehiff Egyptian mythology as visual aids. This is the one with Urrua "slicing up the Snake like an ehiff would cut up a salami." @dduane ...Right? It has to be.

(I also got the East River almost completely right in my mental image of the scene at the very end, except that it was far too close to Grand Central.)

DOMINIC SESSA TATTOO.

Ep 9 probably

Jaune, going berserk to get to Ruby, invading the tree: I am going to sacrifice myself to Save Ruby.

Ruby, still not in her right mind, in the tree: I am going to sacrifice myself to the tree to save my friends and family.

The Tree, so fucking tired of these stupid Catholics: NO ONE IS GETTING SACRIFICED, YOU POOR CHILDREN. NO MARTYR NONSENSE TODAY!

Bend, but never break

I'm destroyed, failing and later punished By fragments of glass; Splinters born mouths of former lovers, Slivered memories of Ambivalence and benevolence, Euphemisms for a Mutually assured heart.

She’s maybe miles away, but a drink’s Mere inches so that When I can't hear the birds, I space to the tune of a TV, A reckless electricity That's been turned off for years, Turned on for but a second or two And off once again.

Turned on again, yeah, As I sought hope in blank air time – 2:00 A.M.’d “Technicolor” And the drawn out, "Beeeeeeeep," That reminds us, we're still alive, If we want to be With bed’s but seconds away. But I can’t sleep, I hadn’t in years.

So when the power’s gone, The winds pick up, And I scatter adrift, astray atop time Remembering – seedling, sprout and “now,” Buried hardwood floors and door away, I continue to Tap this ancient dance with worn shoes, A tango minus one, with practice And throughout the years, Like the tree I wasn't, but now am.

Later I'll fall, not fail, A repetition welcomed for once, Like a leaf from the organic prior – That previous me, still connected So that I can later decompose, die And be born once more; A beginning in opposition to Destroyed, failed and further punished.

And so, my advice – Be the tree; bend, but never break.

- Hathaway Hayes (2013)

the tree 

one of my comfort videos :) 

*rolling my eyes*

I just can't buy that The Brothers are "evil" "malicious" "monsters". If folks can woobify The Cat and Salem, then I don't see why people can't give the 2 shiny idiots a chance. If folks can blame The Brothers for everything, why not also blame The Tree who let them out of the Ever After in the first place an effectively let them off their chains? Did they do a genocide? Yes. Are they a danger with their temper tantrums? Yes. But look at gods across our various mythologies and you will see the same. Look, for me I don't see RWBY ending with anyone actually physically hurting The Brothers, let alone RWBY. Instead.....I honestly feel it makes more sense for a round of Talk-o-Jutsu. With all that RWBY and Ruby have been through, what they have seen and learned, I say it makes more narrative sense for our "Smaller, more honest soul" to verbally reach out to both Salem and The Brothers. For Salem, Ruby will speak of loss and how to move forward (something no one gave Salem in the past), and for The Brothers she will do for them kind of what The Cat did for Afterans. She will share her light and remind them of home, and thus The Brothers will return to The Tree. Why do I think this is the fate for The Brothers? Because to me they have more lost their way then anything, much like The Cat itself had. They have long lost sight of their purpose and goals and have lashed out at the things around them. It's time for the story to end, the characters to return home, and for everyone to rest.

Through the Magic of Friendship Loki really went from Loki Laufeyson, also Odinson, Brother of Thor, God of Mischief, the silver tongued trickster

To a tree

Absolutely stunning, 10/10, what character growth

...and the trees gathered 'round the old forest god to listen. And he spoke, in creeks, cracks, and the rustling of ancient branches. The lord of the forest imparted his knowledge to them all, for his time was short. He was dying. In fact, all the gods of nature were fading away fast. The Earth had begun its last chapter. All of the old magic had been stunted and pruned by the human infestation. The lord of the forest apologized with his last breath, and all became quiet. Even the birds paused their song, sensing the loss. Is it too late for this forsaken place? What have we done?

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A realization

Women in Film Challenge 2023: [95/52] The Tree, dir. Julie Bertucelli (Australia/France, 2010)

We’re going to miss him for as long as we live; but we’re going to have to learn to live with that. No.

The Tree. Art by Viv Tanner and Eli Baum, from Sefirot.

“Nor stones, nor bricks, nor beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of roots.”

After spotting inspiration in a friend's art, decided to take my late Aries season feelings and combine some things into this.

GHOSTS (US) | S2E4 The Tree: “He’s gonna point out every tree, isn’t he?”

And there she is the... whatever that is

Maren Morris and Hozier singing her new song The Tree, about how the country music industry and their adoration of the conservative weirdos has poisoned the actual music for her, and how she's going somewhere else to play music for fans that aren't obsessed with "owning the libs"