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I was rereading some of my old fanfic, and found one description I did of the Light and Dark sides of the Force in Star Wars that I'm rather pleased with, heavily inspired by/scavenged from this quote from Catherynne M. Valente's Deathless:

Where is the realm of the Light and the Dark? When existence was still wet from birth and blinking in confusion, the siblings seized it and pulled and worried and divided it up among themselves, and then when Light and Dark grew up into the largest of the litter  they reapportioned everything, leaving Grey and Shadow and others like them to watch and wonder from the side, and sometimes stray too near and get sucked into the argument and mess and duel and dance.

For a time they were content to swim side by side, raring and scratching only slightly. But Light and Dark are siblings, and their ambition is precisely equal, and when sentient beings they could call to and cherish and destroy came on the scene the truce ended very quickly.

Their rivalry soon encompassed the galaxy and the struggle of it consumed more than one world. If a Republic was formed to champion order and justice then chaos and dissolution hacked and decayed its foundations until it fell, with or without applause. If the Dark’s children staked a foothold and aimed for a legacy, the Light’s children came blazing and burning to cleanse and purge. There could be no agreement between them, from the millions of children that spent their lives in their struggles to a sister and brother locked in a garden while she knelt in contemplation and he roared and shrieked to be let out.

Sometimes Light is on top, sometimes Dark. Light more often once upon a time.

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming Dark to be wicked and Light to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: Light is self-righteous and severe and sterile. In service to itself, it will commit many offenses, if not all. So, too, is Dark possessed of infinite strategies – but also passion and conviction, strength and power. Each, in their own way, can have mercy towards their children. But of an end to their argument and mess and duel and dance, we shall have none, not ever, until the end of all.

So where are the realms of Light, of Dark?

You might go to Malachor with its frozen remnants, where Dark refused to bow go quietly into the Light and destroyed itself but took its sibling with it. You might spend your life and many more searching for the first temple of the Light’s most favoured and tested children, upon which was built an order that thrived and withered and rallied and died a weak death again and again. They are not so easy to find. But you need no more than breathe and you draw their realms into your being. Every portion of existence is divided between them, savage and snarling and leaving little room for their weary, frustrated little siblings. Even the atoms strangle each other in their sleep.

To reach the country of Light you must approach it straight on and sedate, surrendering yourself utterly. To reach the country of Dark, approach it in earnest and topple over into the power you seek, though the toll is much the same as for Light.

In return for their love, all the siblings require is merely everything that you are.

#reblogging for funsies #star wars #catherynne m. valente #deathless #the final line is my own #my precious #and actually for once one of my favourites

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a little appreciation post for the highly detailed virgen the guadalupe in eurydice's candle that had absolutely no reason to be this detailed

#hadestown #Is that what's on the candle???

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• Cape of shaded ribboned silk.

Date: 1937

Designer/Maker: Charles James

Place of origin: United States

Medium: Silk

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Please for the love of god let Edwin say twink

#dead boy detectives

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View of the Skellig Islands from Bá Fhíonáin /St. Finan's Bay, Kerry, Ireland

#my photography #Ireland #skellig rocks #they were swamped in mist but I caught ya; ya bastards!!! #Ignore the bit of cloud that looks like a volcano's smoke

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two people who have been "managing" their CEO for too, too long

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I don't always agree with the decisions of Wikipedia's volunteer editors, but having learned that their decision on how to handle the James Somerton situation was to deem him non-notable and turn his article into a redirect to a brief writeup of Hbomberguy's plagiarism investigation – well, like I said, this may not be a good decision, but in context it's an extremely funny one.

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Busted (Unmute !)

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local woman who claimed she will "cross that bridge when she comes to it" arrives at said bridge

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'you ever read moby dick, real rashid?'

daniel just simply dgaf, he said if I'm gonna be eaten by the end of the interview so be it but no one and nothing will stop me from being sassy and owning your asses because I can and I think it's simply beautiful

#interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv #daniel molloy #eric bogosian

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they want to fuck each other so bad it makes them look stupid

#interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #armand #daniel molloy #iwtv spoilers

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that show is a comedy → 1/?

#iwtv spoilers #iwtv #iwtv amc #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire

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Pieces... coming back. Hours, nights. Objects... surfacing in water. It was just something she wrote. But it wasn't true. She could dream.

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #iwtv spoilers #louis de pointe du lac #daniel molloy

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I am utterly delighted that Blake Ritson's role on the show is basically WWII-era Daniel Molloy, proving that Louis has been chasing after someone to call him out for a looooooong time now

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #blake ritson #daniel molloy

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Armand:

Daniel: DISREGARD.

#assad zaman #eric bogosian #interview with the vampire

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#interview with the vampire #armand #daniel molloy #armandiel #louis de pointe du lac #iwtv

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got hooked on dbd didn’t i

#dead boy detectives