#Isn't it poetic?

[stromuprisahat]

Queen Alicent was arrested on the serpentine steps as she made her way back to her chambers. Her captors wore the seahorse of House Velaryon upon their doublets, and though they slew the two men guarding her, they did no harm to the Dowager Queen herself, nor to her ladies. The Queen in Chains was chained again and taken to the dungeons, there to await the pleasure of the new king. By then the last of her sons was already dead.

Fire and Blood (George R. R. Martin)

#ASoIaF #Fire & Blood #valyrianscrolls #ch: The Dying of the Dragons: The Short Sad Reign of Aegon II #Alicent Hightower #Aegon II Targaryen #Dance of the Dragons #V #GRRM #books #quotes #anti Greens #Isn't it poetic? #She wanted to wipe out Rhaenyra's blood #now all ~her~ children are dead.

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

#warm up #writeblr. #i am not going to personally comment on the pineapple debate #some things are too big for me. #maybe we could have everything on earth choose their own names. #wouldn't that be fun #it is a creative writing exercise. okay. ily #''why only these languages?'' ..... bc i dont know every language #sorry :( #PLEASE leave me comments about what words u think are correct. i love learning them #btw! this isn't saying these are the most BEAUTIFUL words for it... just the words that are the most CORRECT #like i quite like the word ''keynote'' as mentioned. it's got a lot of fun sounds in it. #but it is not CORRECT. #''gloaming''' is interesting and fun and poetic but it is NOT correct . evening is MORE correct #but less beautiful. #does that make sense?

[decompose1]

i think there’s divinity in gross and ugly things. i think the radical love and acceptance of what is weird and nasty is angelic and i think there is something holy about indulging in the neglected/looked down on/outcast/unacceptable parts of this world. you should let yourself be weird

#rabbit.txt #none of these words strung together make any sense but im also right #this is about a lot of things #but it's also about how g-d wouldn't make the moon so strikingly beautiful if #He didn't want me to fall in love with it #isn't it amazing how living breathing emotional creatures #can form those emotional connections with something inanimate #i think it's beautiful. poetic even

[reasonsforhope]

Hey adults: Why do you like being an adult? What do you like about your life?

A couple weeks ago I told the kids at my work that "Being an adult is pretty nice, actually," and they looked shocked, laughed incredulously, and told me I was the first person they'd ever heard say that

So clearly we adults need to talk about this way more often

The past few years have been hard for a lot of people, me included. Covid sucked. I lost three relatives and three pets in one year. Right after lockdown ended, I got badly injured, and ended up housebound for six months and (much more) disabled for two years, and that sucked too.

And you know what? Literally all of that was easier and better than being a teenager.

I like being an adult. I like my life. Even when it's hard, it's mine, and I am building to the best of my ability the a life that I want to live.

I talked about a lot of why being an adult is something worth looking forward to in my last post, so right now I'll simply say this:

I love actually knowing who I am now. I love that I learned and am learning what I want and need. I love that I have independence and autonomy and don't get treated like a kid. I love the fact that I'm the one who gets to decide want I want to do and what I need. I also love that I'm learning to sew. I love that I've had pet rats, and next will have a pet cat. I love that I got top surgery. I love the way I've decorated my room. I love traveling to visit and crash and even just hang out and do work with my friends, when I can. I love that I started reading good news every day, and that I actually have hope for the future, and that I started this blog and have been able to help give so many other people hope, too.

So, here's a call to action for my fellow adults: comment or reply or tag what you like about being an adult. What you love about your life.

Let's give some kids some reasons for hope.

#hope #not news #life #life advice #growing up #teenagers #adulthood #adulting #hopepunk #hope posting #hopeposting #also feel free to put your age to help make things feel more concrete and real #and make it clear that “being an adult is good” isn't just limited to your early twenties #in fact it's often better after your early twenties #I'm around 30 personally #I hope this post sounds poetic rather than pretentious lol #that last bit in particular had me going “hmm is this too much” #but actually I think that we dismiss hope and happiness too often #hope deserves to not always have to be serious but I think hope also deserves all the seriousness and gravitas that we can give it

[louisalwayswins]

in the future, i'll tell my children that my first concert was LOUIS TOMLINSON WORLD TOUR in 2022!!! and i think that's beautiful.

#😭😭😭😭😭😭 #louis is the first concert of my life #isn't it poetic? #louis en uruguay #louis tomlinson

[spaceyaceface]

Sebastian loves like a wildfire.

It only takes a spark, and he's ignited---hungry and desperate, unwavering and uncontrollable. He doesn't care what crosses his path as he loves; he will destroy it. Approaching his flames is a risk, one that is all too worth the burns. It takes fuel to love so recklessly, and you and him will give and give and give until there is nothing left to consume.

Ominis loves like a river.

What starts as a gentle trickle turns into an unstoppable current. The flow, steady and consistent, is his quiet strength. There are times of near stillness, those moments when all seems settled, but the rapids are always waiting around the bend. He is a force---one that takes time, but will cut down mountains.

#don't mind me waxing poetic about them #my boys #ominis gaunt #sebastian sallow #ominis gaunt x reader #sebastian sallow x reader #hogwarts legacy #there isn't a moment I'm not thinking about them #sebastian sallow headcannon #ominis gaunt headcannon

[pencap]

By Sylvie (j.p.)

#poets on tumblr #spilled ink #poetry #writeblr #poems on tumblr #original poem #(help somebody please tell me what the tags are these days) #trick or treat #poetics #this is not in fact the new poem i mentioned like a week ago #i'm still sitting on that one #but this idea seized me and wouldn't let me go #i don't /love/ the execution of it but it isn't half bad #and the title says it has to go out today so #here it is!! in its probably-unfinished-and-probably-going-to-stay-that-way glory #i don't love screenshots as a format #but this is absolutely designed to be two-column poem #and as far as i know tumblr doesn't natively support that so....

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm aware many people (including myself) are uncomfortable with this framing, but I can't help but love the "sometimes, a little girl grows up to be a man, and sometimes, a little boy grows up to be a woman"

How eloquent, how beautiful is it to describe the growing-up of a trans youth? Something about it feels soft and so unabashedly human.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i never saw myself this way but i love seeing others describe themselves that way #something about it is POETIC okay #sometimes it isn't that you feel you always *were* a gender. sometimes you BECOME it... #...isn't that beautiful? isn't that amazing? #a man who wasn't always a man is not less of a man and that's what we need to remember #sometimes there's a stigma in trans communities where you're not 'supposed' to have felt like a different gender... #...but that's running off the assumption that you HAVE to be stagnant and never develop in different ways #i dunno this is a tangent i'm just being emotional about My People

[strawberrystepmom]

okay we are loving ourselves today by force & order of me so here's an exercise: please put in the tags how your fav would describe you if they were writing about you

keep in mind - this is someone who loves you. words that are NOT allowed include: boring, average, ugly or anything relating to unattractiveness. see yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you and let me know how they see you.

#i know this isn't a brand new exercise but i feel like we rly need it bc the winter blues are eating us all up lmao #please please please be as descriptive or poetic or prose filled as u need

[annabethvicit]

i’m sorry, but bi gansey is canon to me bc helen jumped to “are you sleeping with him” wayyyy too quickly for that boy to have never had a little fling

#bi gansey #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #Richard Campbell Gansey III #and this is before you LOOK at his narration #bc he waxes poetic about his friends #and not in a straight way #anyways this isn't even fanon this is canon

[booasaur]

Harlan Coben's Shelter - 1x07

#shelteredit #shelter on prime #harlan coben's shelter #shira bolitar #hannah taylor #constance zimmer #missi pyle #shelter 1x0 #shelter spoilers #hannah x shira #femslash related stuff #took a bit of poetic license with the last gif...figured we didn't need to see troy's face #but so...hmm #I'm glad shira immediately told hannah what all was bothering her #so hannah has a chance to counter #with frankly a really good argument #this isn't shira ruining the family--it's already ruined #as I was saying to someone else hannah's mistake was in the past--not this #how's shira gonna be like no you have to stay in your loveless marriage #but! I really thought this'd be a single season #that spoon pic though...surely they can't wrap up everything in one last ep? #or is it just gonna be like well yeah that happened didn't I tell you guys? #or possibly just slightly open-ended for a possible s2 if picked up

[ficsinhistory]

Okay, can we talk about how Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy are the same person with different fonts? (And how does their conflit enrich the narrative?)

What makes them different is their circumstances. And the movie explores this very well.

Gwen doesn't have a mother and, therefore, the influence of greater emotional stability while Miles has (which makes his life much easier), remembering Rio, often counterbalances Jeff's tought love.

Her captain and father pursues her in cold blood, blaming Spiden-woman for the traumatic event (Peter's death) while Miles' father forgives her before any plea for repentance (Aaron's death). Gwen's New York hates her while Miles loves him. Miles' fear when talking about being a hero is Gwen's harsh reality, in which her father doesn't seem to love her, as pointed a friking gun at her head! Gwen is alone in her civilian life (with no friends or family present) while Miles has a community.

Miles and Gwen are alike, and that's what's most devastating. Because Gwen is just Miles with no support system.

And this is what makes them have different views on ATSV despite being "equal where it counts", fueling the conflict we saw. Gwen do a terrible thing hidding the fact that Miles' dad would die. But she also doesn't have a choice.

She isn't sincere and open and hopeful because she can't afford to be like that, and Miles would also do the same in her position if the roles were reversed, because what keeps Miles from losing himself is the support system he has. This help guide him for good ways.

Because Miles is capable of being as morally gray than Gwen was. How I know that?

Because Prowler! Miles exist.

The film shows the two as the foil, leading to that explosive finale. That after all, as Gwen messed up, lied, and try stop him, Miles finds himself stuck with a bitter version of him and that himself is who can stop him for saving his father . That Miles' lack of a support system and good circumstances (already illustrated in Gwen ) is taken to an extreme in his version of Earth-42.

I like to think that what this movie and the next one say is: you do things your way and you decide how your life is going to be, but your circumstances also affect it. They do not dictate, but affect. As it is in these dark hours that you hold on to what is right, or move to make things right.

Including I think this will be a big factor that will contribute to Miles for giving Gwen.

She made a mistake and owes a lot of apologies, yes. But wouldn't Miles do the same? Wouldn't he lie, mess things up in the name of keeping his life together minimally when he had no choice? Especially having a world where, when everything came crashing down, he effectively became an unrecognizable version of himself to protect what mattered to him?

And Gwen didn't try make amends? Giving up everything you know just to make things right? Change things? Assembling a team just to find and save him? Just like Miles always tries to do right and be the best version of him?

Gwen's arc, their fight the entire movie, and the final scene on Earth-42 all convey an important truth to Miles' own arc: how hard it is to be morally good and right all the time when everything around you is falling apart.

Because everyone is subject to circumstances. And then yes, you decide how you will act.

Miles Morales is just like Gwen Stacy and just as flawed, we just did't see how much yet.

#miles morales #gwen stacy #across the spiderverse #i love this movie and its deeply complex characters #i will never shut up about them #And I love how Miles and Gwen's relationship isn't just amazing on its own #it has a narrative meaning that's enhanced by each character's personal development. #what a power couple move #and don't even get into the whole narrative of them sharing a spider sense #ugh pure poetic cinema #gwiles #ghostflower

[earolinc]

how do i adequately express my love for math for an admissions essay. "talk about a stem subject that excites you" how do i put that this is my art and the most beautiful thing in the world and fills me with such a sense of enchantment that i feel as though my breath has been taken away into less than 750 words and make it cohesive

#mathematics #math #mathematiques #mathblr #i need to get into this school what the heck #bro #this needs to be the best essay ever and has to be not too poetic or whatever but also express that it isn't really an essay as much as a #ran out of characters- love letter #AAAAAAAA #i have so much to say and cant figure out how to say it

[buttfrovski]

i need a shock collar that will zap me everytime i start to talk about how much i miss old south park

#'man cartman isn't what he used to b- OW FUCK' #WAIT OMG THIS LITERALLY HAPPENED IN OLD SOUTH PARK #THE MOVIE- WITH THE CHIP THAT SHOCKS U FOR SWEAR WORDS #poetic #south park

[beanghostprincess]

what if i just ended that zolu/sanuso one-shot about jealousy in a bittersweet angsty way instead of making it fluffy because i'm a horrible person and also i want to go to sleep

#the whole thing is just zoro and sanji trying to get luffy and usopp's attention and failing miserably #bc their neurodivergent boyfriends are studying their little cute beetles they have in a little terrarium #and it's platonic zosan solidarity and hostility #in a 'your boyfriend doesn't pay attention to you haha fucking loser' and 'yours isn't talking to you either you fucking idiot' #and then it's just a short poetic thing idk #i wanted to write a cute ending but i don't feel like it let's make them suffer #one piece #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro #monkey d luffy #usopp #sanuso #zolu

[carlyraejepsans]

that post that's like "you need to have a varied media diet or you will turn into the kind of guy who runs a su discourse blog" is so right. keeping old mutuals is crucial too, like i might be into silly kids-friendly RPG n°17 at the moment, but the "if you write this it means you condone bad things in real life!!" discourse rings pretty hollow when half my dash is still discussing cannibalism

#of course this isn't a moral obligation if certain topics disturb you do what's best for you to curate your experience yadda yadda #that goes implied #this post is prompted by my old pal aidan of the terror (2018) fame putting a post discussing the literary and poetical uses #of *necrophilia* on my dash. gothic lit fans. gotta love em #wish i could say ''give me a heads-up man'' but it's not like i was expecting to filter it before LMAOOOOO #(aforementioned pal is also the cannibalism guy. there's a very crass joke to make here about eating meat but i am not gonna say it lolol)