#great stories

[chromatic-lamina]

valuta

Rosi's mother gives him a coin to protect him from those who bear the Will of D. Law's mother gives him a coin to pass along the wisdom of a medical clan. Rosi's coin doesn't protect him from demons, but preserves his life in other ways. Maybe it can save the life of another boy lost in the snow hoping for a better life.

Art by @tinylongwing

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Fandom: One Piece (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante & Trafalgar D. Water Law, Donquixote Doflamingo & Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante, Sengoku The Buddha & Trafalgar D. Water Law,  Characters: Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante, Trafalgar D. Water Law, Donquixote Doflamingo, Sengoku The Buddha, Donquixote Homing, Donquixote Mother, Trafalgar D. Water Law's Mother Additional Tags: Corazine: Fragments of the Heart.

Link to the spot art (there’s one more piece) here!

#one piece #trafalgar law #donquixote rosinante #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote brother #donquixote parents #trafalgar parents #sengoku the buddha #one piece fanfic #one piece fanfiction #opfanfic #corazine #fragments of the heart #terrific art #great stories #you won't lose! #chromafics #chromafic #chromalami

[ibreathestories]

I'm only on Episode 2 of Season 1, and already really like this show!

#poldark #aidan turner #ross poldark #tv shows #great stories

[infinitysisters]

“There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.”

—Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

#great lines #great writing #herman melville #moby dick #great stories #western heritage of literature #great writers #19th century literature #wisdom

[borderlineborderline]

Gintama introduced me to a new concept I couldn't have understood in any other form than the long art form, much like Bungo Stray Dogs. It'll probably become a favorite for this. I'm nowhere near finishing Gintama so maybe this will change, maybe so much I'll learn it wasn't ever a true theme to begin with but just something I misunderstood in the first 100 episodes. I like it either way.

There's this whole theme about people, especially men, who either have to, or feel they have to, keep their emotions and genuine motivations hidden to protect other people. How sometimes we all do that, probably. And sometimes we're wrong. But sometimes you can't break a lifetime of socialization built around being The Protector and sometimes just brute forcing your way through a wall doesn't get you to the other side, it just gets you stuck somewhere in the in between. Uncomfortable for you, pressed tightly between the bricks, and uncomfortable for the other, who can't interact with you the way they'd like when you're crammed in some way you're not supposed to be.

I guess the takeaway is that not everything is meant to be said and not every wall is meant to broken. There may be work worth doing regarding openness and trust, but that work is less of a Sunday afternoon single-episode kind of thing and more of a Shonen-anime-that-goes-on-for-literal-decades-with-hundreds-of-episodes-as-you-grow-from-child-to-adult kind of thing.

(Also yes I did write this because of the episode about Kondo and Hijikata and Sougo and Sougo’s sister Mitsuba, don't @me, I'm not cry you are😭)

#gintama #hijikata toshizo #okita sougo #isao kondo #anime #gonna cry #great stories #shonen are really good sometimes #waaaaaaah

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Laurette Naomi Pizer (editor) - Great Psychological Stories - Panther - 1967

#witches #stories #occult #vintage #great stories #psychological #panther #laurette naomi pizer

[phoenixxxrizing]

#spiritual development #spirituality #spiritualpath #law of the universe #great stories #great paths #right place #failed dreams #losing yourself #finding yourself

[b0bthebuilder35]

#life #lessons #lesson #life lessons #life lesson #lessons in life #lesson in life #bad chapters #great stories #reality #wrong path #right place #failure #success #lose yourself #find yourself #losing yourself #finding yourself #real shit #true shit #testimony #my testimony #testimonial #understand #understand this #no but seriously #hear me out #I am proof #proof #i promise you

[timetravelingcourtney]

Remembering when I got up at midnight for Courtney’s release.

#American girl #courtney moore #pac man #Nintendo #girl gamers #great stories #80’s

[darkwolf76]

Merry Christmas @katiekinswrites!

#friend's oc #mcu oc #great stories

[star-shard]

Jack Black as Elvis for drunk history 😵

#elvis #give him the oscar #great stories #Youtube

[mamastumpf]

Just discovered this podcast a couple of weeks ago. So good and so glad I discovered this. Henry and Marcus are great. Ben is adorable and "fantastic". 🤗

#ben kissel #love #funny #henry zebrowski #marcus parks #last podcast network #last podcast on the left #fantastic #hail yourself #hail satan #hail gein #great stories #comedy #megustalations

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

#analysis #meta #miscellaneous #fandom #shipping #media discussion #amatonormativity #lgbtq #I feel like tagging any of the fandoms I was thinking of when writing this would be a little mean-spirited potentially #Disclaimer: no one has actually been telling me personally that I don't understand any story in particular #It's just that the way people tend to phrase their analyses feels unnecessarily targeted at the reader and that's just. not great #even if I agree with every other point they make

[gay-films-series-focus-bbb]

Film: RELEASE (2010)

Premise: A imprisoned priest falls I'm love with a prison guard but a vicious inmate sets out to sabotage it.

Short Film: A CURIOUS THING (2010)

Premise: A closeted gay man becomes friends with a straight man. The bromance blurs into moments of intimacy. But when it crosses the line into a kiss. The friends end. Jared the gay man later sees Sam the straight man with his wife and their child.

Film: ROCK HAVEN (2007)

Premise: Brady is a white bread teen living with his mother as they move to a seaside town called Rock Haven. Brady has plans to attend a Christian College and his overprotective mother who is a devout Christian tries setting him up with a girl. Brady meanwhile has become friends with Clifford from next door. His feelings soon grow as he falls in love with Clifford. Causing Brady to question his faith and religion. Can a gay man still have a relationship with Christ? A movie with a religious theme as well as a gay theme.

Film: ON THE DOWNLOW (2004)

Premise: Two gang members have fallen in love. One from a Latin gang one from a different gang. This is a good movie that depicts two men in love that can't openly express it. Angel is from the Latin Kings buy pledges support to Issac's gang Southside Chicago Two Six. Not a happy ending.

#THAT'S SO GAY (YAY) #FOUR PROFILED FILMS #GAY MOVIES WORTH A WATCH #LOW BUDGET BUT HIGH QUALITY #THESE FILM MAKE UP MY HEADER #GREAT STORIES #LGBTQIA+ #GIFS by ME

[nerdpoe]

Danny is about to be kidnapped in Gotham This is not a good time.

He's studying for the SAT, he's already been kidnapped by Vlad like, four times that week and it was a fucking Tuesday, he forgot his wallet at his new apartment, locked himself out of said new apartment (he could phase through the door but that wasn't the point), he's just been informed that the grant he applied for was denied so he needs to ask his mom and dad for college funds when he'd already told them he had it covered, and just...it was shit.

It had been shit. The entire week had been awful and annoying and he was ready to either murder everyone on the planet or go find a corner to cry in for the next three days.

So when the band of wild goons working for whatever villain of the week pulled up and tried to kidnap him, he snapped.

He used them to vent.

Shouted about how terrible his day had been, how terrible his week had been, how he'd already been kidnapped by his creepy godfather who was way too into him, how college funding was shit and the grant system was rigged, and how he'd have to call a locksmith or break down the door to his own apartment if he wanted to go to bed-all of it. He unloaded all of his frustration.

The goons actually backed off.

One of them gave him an awkward side hug and told him it'd get better.

Danny wasn't paying attention to his surrounding. He doesn't realize that the whole thing was livestreamed.

So when he gets home to his apartment later that day, his door is opened for him by the vigilante Spoiler before he can even turn intangible.

She brought over BatBurger and kidnapped Bruce Wayne, Gotham's bumbling Prince, to talk about college grants.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #steph watched the livestream and felt GREAT SYMPATHY #so she actually did trick bruce into coming with her and breaking into an apartment as bruce wayne instead of batman #told him it was an important job #he clued in that it wasn't crime related after she told him to stay put so she could get food #sure fuck it he'll give this rando kid a grant #he'll pay for the whole thing education is important #literally no one looks into the whole “i've already been kidnapped four times this week” thing #cuz everyone gets kidnapped in gotham #well almost no one looks into it #jack and maddie fenton do when they see the clip #vlad learns the hard way not to piss off the people who design weapons specifically meant for you

[dangerousstarlightcreator]

I want to read. Great stories of fantastical worlds. Of great adventure. Not of the past of our world.

MLL // graduation struggles

2018/12/31

#graduation struggles #MLL #great stories #booklovers #bookworm #history class #school #last year of school #graduation