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↠ Tim & Lucy ↳ 6x09 | 5x01

Personally I think when Snow opened his eyes in the hereafter it would be in the meadow of the Covey house with Lucy Gray and her goat just out of reach, and he would call her name and she wouldn't turn. He'd walk and he still couldn't reach her. There were mockingjays in the sky chirping endlessly, and he ran and screamed and ran and screamed and Lucy Gray still wouldn't turn. She was there, at peace and on her own, humming her meadow song. Completely unaware of him as he was imprisoned in this most peaceful hell, agonizing for the control and love that was no longer his.

Zerxus, you pull the true heart of the Lord of the Hells into Exandria.

The moment I heard this in the Exandria Unlimited: Calamity finale, I started scrambling for references. I drew this based on Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam.

Look at my Litigation Team bruh I'm going to Trapdoor

saw a post on my FYP asking what apheIios's personality is for writing him and honestly I don't know if I can even begin to describe him and he's one of my fav characters

"Keep her safe. Okay?"

"On my life."

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I don't have enough songs in my library that feature anguished and inarticulate yelling for the song's lyrical and emotional climax

the lich & i are holding an informal competition re: who can make the rent-a-cops at the local safeway flinch the hardest when we walk in. so far i am winning

Genuinely why the fuck would I want to have sex when masturbation does the exact same job AND I don't have to temporarily give the entire ownership of my body to another person for THEIR pleasure AND I don't have to be treated like an object after the fact????

Warning- this is a very petty post, but I think I'm entitled to at least one petty, pissed-off reaction every time I finish a classic novel that hit harder than I expected so take this as my quota for the year.

Also spoiler warning for a book that came out over a century ago but still, I didn't know the plot going in so don't want to ruin it for anyone else, if you haven't read it shut your eyes. (Also Local Tumblr User Going Wild Over Book Published a Hundred Years Ago That Everybody Else Already Read should probably be categorised as akey part of indigenous tumblr culture at this point).

Anyway I just finished the War of the Worlds and in between studying I've thinking about Themes and Motifs as you do, and idly looking for further analysis. I then accidentally ran into an article called 'A Quiet Place II Succeeds Where the War of the Worlds Failed' and:

Now I haven't seen any of the Quiet Place films, this is not a rant against them and of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But re: the ending of The War of the Worlds, I have to ask, did this guy somehow miss, uh, the entire point of the book or am I just utterly insane?

how soon after will broke up with hannibal in "digestivo," do u think he regretted it? vote now in the comments below! (mostly /j)

a) as soon as he saw him in that prison jumpsuit for the tooth fairy case

b) the moment he set foot in the same court room as him during hannibal's trial

c) when hannibal revealed himself from the shadows of will's house & surrended to jack

d) the moment the words left his mouth

You know, I had heard the rough notes of how Maximum ended after I finished the 98 anime, and I wasn't sure how I felt about it. Now that I've read it properly myself, I do think it has the superior ending.

Though we don't spend a lot of time seeing Knives' thought process, we definitely see the crumpling of his self made purpose in the face of his own fear and mortality. It's no longer about the "return to Eden" in the sense of building his own. It's about eradication. It's about supplimenting his own power to stave off death. In his fear of humans and the end of his own life he consumes his sisters, and justifies it now with the ambition of wiping out all human life in the universe. Half the people he knew and trusted his entire child life chose his oppressors over him, and died along with them in the great fall. A simple choice that was made in an instant that changed the fate of his life. This is reciprocated in a split second at the end with Vash carrying Knives'weight and trying to save him, only to falter, and Knives' picks up the slack to save Vash.

At the end of the day Knives was never going to kill Vash. He loves his brother most in the world in the face of everything. He may have used protecting Vash to further justify the horrendous actions he took, but his love for him was always real.

Knives never stopped being a wounded child, he used his own power up recklessly and threw the worst kind of tantrums children in power have when they feel threatened. There was no redemption for him past that point. There was no way for him to carve out a peaceful life for himself after all the bloodshed and fear and doubling down. All that was good that was left in him that he could believe in and act on was in loving Vash.

The growth of the apple tree was his little slice of Eden, his return, and he did it more for himself than anyone else. He didn't come to love or like humans in that moment, he just recognized when he was powerless to save the one person he loved above all others, and was willing to set aside his pride in that split second decision to ask humans for help.

Knives' life for 100s of years up to this point had been bloodshed, the great fall, torturing and abusing his brother and sisters. When this all fell apart, when he used up all his power walking a dark and lonely road, there was nothing else that could be left of Knives except death. It was a blessing for him to spend his last days with his brother again in peace. It is the last kindness that could be shown to a scared boy before he departs.

The fact that he doesn't want Vash to know he's passing away is just his last kindness to his brother, after all the pain. He built them their Eden in his last moments.