#Snow and Dirty Rain

[haydenbadartist]

Let me name the stars for you 🌟

When I read this poem I instantly thought of them

#ig:haydenbadartist #good omens #good omens fanart #snow and dirty rain #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce #this is angst

[hauntedbythenarrative]

I Will Tell this Story to the Sun Until You Remember that You are the Sun, Erin Slaughter//Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

#parallels #web weaving #quotes #words #poetry #happiness #gentleness #kindness #erin slaughter #richard siken #snow and dirty rain

[llovelymoonn]

richard siken crush: “litany in which certain things are crossed out” \\ josé saramago cain \\ richard snow and dirty rain \\ namwali serpell the furrows \\ ??

kofi

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[lunamonchtuna]

— Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain from Crush (via lunamonchtuna)

#dark aesthetic #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #poetry #book quotes #light academia #dark academic #quotes #lovecore #romantic academia #richard siken #snow and dirty rain

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Snow and Dirty Rain (Merlin)

Richard Silken, "Snow and Dirty Rain" // BBC Merlin

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

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and we've got a part three! with merthur this time! and significantly less angst!

I tried to make this one a bit like a duet, if you pay attention you can see that the words are closer to one of the boys vs the other, rather than spread across the pictures like I usually do.

Gaius, Hunith, and Leon will be in the next part, I promise. I've got it all sorted out.

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the first one is arthur and merlin in ealdor. I was gonna do the "there is no more rope!" scene for the literal climbing out the window, but I figured the more metaphorical rebellion against uther was better.

peep the poetry with the scene about poetry! haha

I chose the labyrinth of gedref for that catalog line because I wanted to include it, and also I found it fit because they were trying to bring back the food/harvest - like dawn to a field

also that kingdom line was too perfect to not use for Ygraine's sigil! I'm so happy I got to fit it in!

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[malaisequotes]

“Here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here’s the desire to put it inside us.”

Snow and Dirty Rain by Richard Siken

#Snow and Dirty Rain #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #Crush

[hathsinsurvivor]

“I'll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger”, snow and dirty rain by richard siken

#EVIDENCE OF A LOVE THAT TRANSCENDS HUNGER #nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannigram #hannibal lecter #will graham #murder husbands #richard siken #snow and dirty rain #hannibal 3x06 #dolce

[typewriter-worries]

We are all just trying to be holy

Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken

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[losingmyselfinsleep]

Tell me about your books, your visions made of flesh and light

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[witchesroad]

we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it. the land drowned, the sky on fire, the gold light falling backwards through the glass of every room. i’ll give you my heart to make a place for it to happen, evidence of a love that transcends hunger. is that too much to expect? that i would name the stars for you? that i would take you there? the splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube? we’ve read the back of the book, we know what’s going to happen. the fields burned, the land destroyed, the lovers left broken in the brown dirt. and then it’s gone. makes you sad. all your friends are gone. goodbye. goodbye. no more tears.

“SNOW AND DIRTY RAIN” BY RICHARD SIKEN

#quotes #poetry #richard siken #snow and dirty rain

[hauntedbythenarrative]

Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken//House of the Dragon (2022-)

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[llovelymoonn]

richard siken snow and dirty rain \\ virginia woolf mrs dalloway (via @petaltexturedskies​)

buy me a coffee

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[thesamestarlight]

#perhaps this is a poem too. #richard siken #snow and dirty rain #poetry #it’s poetry to me

[sundry-whovengerslocked]

Snow and Dirty Rain (Merlin)

Richard Silken, "Snow and Dirty Rain" // BBC Merlin

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4

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it's finally here! the fourth and final part!!!

this one was hard, I had the most trouble with the last three pictures. I really wanted to include Elena and Mithian as well as Geoffrey, but they just... didn't really fit. it was objectively awful. sorry for that. so I reached out to @shana-rosee , and they threw me a few ideas! it was their call to have Geoffrey last - and they might not have realized it, but it turned out great for the symbolism, as I'll point out below. so thank you for that! (/gen) but yeah, today it was just bugging me and I NEEDED to get it done, and I think it turned out pretty good!

so the first image is alluding to part 3, where the line "if this isn't a kingdom, i don't know what is" is assigned to Arthur. for "the hunter's heart" I had the unicorn horn, because it showed that Arthur was pure of heart. for "the hunter's mouth" I had Leon, (yay! Leon!) because he's Arthur's advisor, and speaks for him.

I was DETERMINED to get Leon, Hunith, and Gaius in this one, and I'm so glad I did.

Tristan and Isolde have their line to represent, honestly, what they did in the show - a reflection of Merlin and Arthur, and how their great love (filled with magic, secrets, and war), ends in tragedy.

Hunith and Gaius are there to represent "the space between the trees", as they are Merlin's sanctuary, his parental figures, the ones who know about his magic and love him - not in spite of, but for it. and of course I had to have Gaius casting a spell for the gold line!

for the last three, it got a little complicated, but I figured it out.

for "the words frozen," I did the moment that Arthur and Merlin became officially forever connected - when Uther assigned Merlin as Arthur's servant after he saved his life. the knife in the throne, the speechless moment that followed.

for "the creatures frozen.", I had the most difficult time with. Shana suggested the Lamia, which was a great idea, but I didn't think that it quite fit with the rest. so instead, I did Dragoon at Camlann. that lightning is the moment that even a fraction of Merlin's true power is shown. Dragoon is representative of Merlin being allowed to be his true self, and the consequences that come with it. Merlin can literally freeze creatures using his words - a la spells, or, more fitting, dragonspeak. people also freeze in terror or awe at the very mention of the name Emrys. so yeah, I think it worked out quite well!

and lastly, for "Explaining will get us nowhere." as i said, Shana suggested Geoffrey here, likely because of his love of the library. that reason was actually why I considered putting him under "the words frozen," but I realized putting him last was much better. why?

well, because Geoffrey of Monmouth was a real person. who, you ask, exactly is he? well, just "one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur." yeah, in case you didn't know, Geoffrey the record keeper in BBC Merlin was an allusion to the man who helped carry Arthur's tale throughout the years.

so, why "explaining will get us nowhere?" well, because, if you accept BBC's Merlin as the true canon, then Geoffrey recorded it wrong! lol.

(in line with this, if you haven't read it already, go read @katherynefromphilly 's We Begin Again series. it's absolutely incredible, well worth the long read, and will leave you wanting more! in a good way, I promise. in it, Merlin in the present day goes out of his way to fix everything history got wrong, and it's incredible. also I distinctly remember there being fish in little pond things indoors, which was a super cute detail.)

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so, that's the last of my Snow and Dirty Rain/Merlin series. I went a little overboard explaining things, but it was just so fun finding and linking the symbolism!! I hope you all enjoyed!

(p.s. I'm planning to make more of Snow and Dirty Rain, but with twelveclara/whouffaldi from Doctor Who. if you're interested in that or other things I make, check out my richard siken or original post tags in my blog.)

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[malaisequotes]

“And then it’s gone. Makes you sad. All your friends are gone. Goodbye Goodbye. No more tears. I would like to meet you all in Heaven. But there’s a litany of dreams that happens somewhere in the middle.”

Snow and Dirty Rain by Richard Siken

#Snow and Dirty Rain #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #Crush

[saintofthepaint]

If reading crush by richard siken and thinking about hannigram was a job I'd be working overtime

#nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannigram #richard siken #snow and dirty rain #evidence of a love that transcends hunger #bro literally wrote that and expected me not to go insane #i think about it every day