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They'll turn me in your arms, lady, into an esk and adder, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your husband dear. They'll turn me to a bear sae grim, and then a lion bold, But hold me fast, and fear me not, I am your own true love.

The Perilous Gard (1974) by Elizabeth Marie Pope

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My Roman Empire is to imagine that Kylo and Rey met secretly between TLJ and TROS.

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regency reylo save me... save me regency reylo... 💌🌿🧺

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this love is alive back from the dead these hands had to let it go free and this love came back to me

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You are absolutely right. So much in TROS was a lazy cop-out.

I just NEED everyone to agree with me that Rey's parents are nobody. We should all agree about that. We should collectively, as an audience, say, "clearly the best idea was to have Kylo Ren be a dynastic heir to the major legends of the Force who wants to throw off his family's shadow, while his rival is nobody from nowhere who wants to belong--so we're going to stick with that."

And then, what should have happened is, Rey can finish her story by being able to say, "My parents might have abandoned me, but that doesn't mean I'm worthless." And eventually Kylo Ren can say, "My family might have been powerful, but I don't have to be," and all those other things that they can bounce off of each other as great foils.

It can keep being a good story about accepting past failures and choosing to grow beyond them.

Let's just all collectively ignore Rey Skypatine because of how silly that was. I mean. If they can just ignore the setups in the previous movie, we can ignore their choices in the conclusion. Right?? Right? Tell me I'm right

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i live for modern reylo au's 🌷 florist rey and tattoo artist ben ✨

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The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.

Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.

I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).

And let my reward be a house full of people, my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.

Video source: Irena Grdinić

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You may know Sarah from her work in helping organize the Women's March in Raleigh, NC, working on various political campaigns, or from her time organizing in Wake or in Boone while at Appalachian State.

Sarah is kind and brilliant. She has worked tirelessly to advance the cause of justice while living in NC and FL. It's not something that pays well or offers benefits, unfortunately. Any amount helps, but please SHARE, Tumblr friends!

#social justice #women's march

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Look, Biden isn't my first choice, either. But it's going to be one of these two guys, and I'm not voting for the rapist.

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awake

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. 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰

[ a new artwork made for a lovely client recently featuring a star wars medieval au ]

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I 🖤 Dolly

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some of you tumblr folks have become so obsessed with denouncing “abusive relationships” in fiction that you focused too much on the “abusive” part and forgot about the “relationship” bit.

an abusive relationship is a relationship in which one of the halves uses the feelings and/or the dependency of the other half as leverage to hurt and manipulate them. the very relationship between them is weaponized against the victim, hence “i’m only hurting you out of love” or “do as i say or you don’t actually love me”.

a dynamic in which two characters openly hate each other and charge against each other on a battlefield with swords or guns because they’re on opposite sides of some conflict that’s larger than either of them cannot be considered an abusive relationship because it lacks the “relationship” part. there’s no intimacy here. and their antagonism is often not entirely personal and largely attributed to what those characters stand for in the universe of the story, rather than who they are as people. one of the greatest appeals about enemies to lovers is the irony of two people who would be perfect for each other if only the circumstances around them did not propel them to clash, and the subsequent shedding of all of their outer layers of upbringing and prejudices until they reach the revelation that deep down they’re actually not that different after all. if those characters were ever to put down their differences and get into a relationship, and still treat each other like crap while in a relationship, *then* you would be able to call them an abusive ship, but the way they’re trying to disembowel each other with swords in a duel says very little about what kind of dynamic they’d have as a couple because, at the moment, they’re not a couple (or even friends for that matter). they’re as far from a romantic couple as two people can get, and the very first step for them to become romantically involved would be getting over the very thing that’s causing them to try and disembowel each other with swords in first place. you can’t just fucking… disregard context and circumstances here and simply hold the way two characters treat each other as enemies against a hypothetical romance those characters might have upon future character developments.

this is why people don’t understand when fans of edgy enemies-to-lovers pairings express distaste for when characters in a “soft” friends-to-lovers ship commit mild faults like negging one another or doing shit behind each others’ back, when their own ships have literally tried to murder each other, but it’s actually very simple: enemities are not supposed to be functional and healthy, but friendships, like romances, are. the crap two people pull to one another as friends is a bigger red flag for a bad relationship than the crap people pull towards one another as sworn enemies. with enemies you can make a case that, in different circumstances, those people could have a healthy and functional relationship had they decided to put their differences aside and pursue a friendship/romance, but you can’t say the same for characters who are canonically friends and canonically treat each other poorly as friends.

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NEW MANIP!!!

Who are they? What are they running from? What’s the prompt?

The base is from Poldark but I had to make his body bigger to go with Ben’s (hehe) and Rey is such a good match for Demelza. The heads are obviously from Vanity Fair’s promo pics from that cursed movie but at least they gave us Ben’s majestic hair so I guess it was a good thing.

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Beautiful, but why do they all have the SAME face???

John William Waterhouse. 1896. Hylas and the Nymphs details.