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gizkasparadise · 3 months
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hi! came here from ur ao3. Start a War has been my favorite fanfic for roughly 2 years now and I keep re-reading the perfection that it is. truly, thank you for letting us read it for free.
I had a question however. in the scene where she Cuts and is taken and Aleks rescues her, she asks him the classic what is infinite and he's heartbroken and responds w "never us". somehow I've never understood what he meant. could you please explain?
sorry if ur over it and I'm dredging it up, it's just been a lot on my mind and I was doing the dishes and thought of it 😂 feel free to ignore, if you wish.
once again, thank u for that art you've graced us with. I love it w all my heart. hope u have a great day :)
- ec 🐣
hello!! thank you for the kind note :D it's really awesome that folks are still reading and enjoying this fic that is about to be (SOB) 10 years old!!!
so im probably going to articulate this badly, but essentially how it plays out is that during this part of the fic, alina wants to die following the assassination of the lantsovs and she's tired of being immortal/unending (hence why she let the fjerdans take her hostage/build a pyre to burn her alive). darkling doesnt have the same hangups with immortality, nor does he ever really understand alina's, but he's terrified that she was almost killed
so darkling asks: “Tell me what I need to do to make you forget. And I’ll do it.” because her hang-ups/grief is putting her in danger and he's tired and frustrated over how attached she was to her mortal life
so alina responds with baghra's often-repeated question, because alina knows he was attached at least to his mother and she is trying to get him to understand her a little better: “What is infinite, Aleksander?”
and he replies the traditional answer: “The universe and the greed of men.”
and she adds on: "And us" because she's sick of being immortal and really nihilistic about how endless her existence looks when she has so much grief
& darkling is quick to correct her: “No,” and his voice breaks with an emotion he does not understand, “Not us.”
^ this is because he's really come face-to-face with alina almost dying for the first time, and he's realizing that they're both not untouchable/he could very easily be alone again if alina decides to exit their unending, codependent existence. the "emotion he does not understand" can be interpreted however the reader wants, but i was thinking of it as him being really afraid for the first time in a long, long time
hope that answers your question!! thank you for the message again :D
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a-hazbin-reader · 1 month
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Would either of the twins eat pineapple on pizza??
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cheshiirecat182 · 9 months
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STATIC X START A WAR ALBUM REDRAW
i accidentally posted this on my music blog (it is music but this is where i post my art)
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hey. repost and drop your blues clues hot takes. START A WAR, TUMBLR, I DARE YOU.
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Making a meme out of every line in Master and Commander: #58
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rottingbibliophile · 3 months
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“Hey, Bliss. Do you want some Goldfish crackers?”
Elle Thorpe, Start A War
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nbacegay · 1 year
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Back to 1969
Back in 1969
the first pride
A riot
A uproar
A demand for change
Back in 1969
You could be criminalized
If your Gay
if your Trans
If your a Drag performer
Back in 1969
We fought so we could love
We fought so we could feel
We fought so we could entertain
Back in 1969
We moved forward
Back in 1980
We moved forward
Back in 2015
We moved forward
Here we are
Now in 2023
Despite the way we
Fought to entertain
Fought to feel
Fought to love
Now in 2023
If your
A Drag performer
Trans
Gay
You could be criminalized
Now In 2023
We are demanding to change
We will cause an uproar
We will soon riot
Now in 2023 we’re moving back to 1969
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novembersdejavu · 8 months
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deandoesthingstome · 1 year
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og-bad-dogg · 10 months
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Just Realized That Wayne Static Died In 2014
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nualbums · 2 years
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Static-X - Start A War (2005)
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adriles · 19 days
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they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes
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disconnected-dragon · 7 months
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“Could L have stopped Walter White”
“Could Benoit Blanc have stopped Kira”
Blah blah blah ENOUGH. We have to ask the real questions—
Could Saul Goodman get Light off? And barring that how much would Light’s sentence be reduced?
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coldblackandinfinite · 2 months
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fenkko · 3 months
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campus heartthrob of the akademiya senior scara and boss childe with their fan clubs
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literallyaflame · 5 months
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okay. listen. if you ever find yourself falling into a new ideological circle, pay attention. if you notice that you’re among people who define themselves as part of an “in-group” with a pre-prepared human “enemy” to constantly rail against—if everyone fantasizes about the mental state of these loathsome monsters, if they participate in witch hunts or (perhaps worse) poke bears and court harassment on purpose to comfort each other over—get the fuck out. you haven’t been enlightened to some grand conspiracy, there are no evil “enemies” or “degenerates” trying to rip apart the fabric of society, and you do not have the moral duty to “enlighten” anyone to whatever you think the “truth” is. it’s neither safe nor normal to spend hours of your day fighting with strangers on the internet
a lot of people wear this shit like a badge of honor, but it’s also not normal to hide your “in-group” status as a form of martyrdom, relishing when the “enemy” slips up around you. it’s comforting in the moment, but in the long run, you’re alienating yourself from the world outside of your bubble. the more you alienate yourself, the more vulnerable and lonely you become, and the harder it is to reject the comfort of belonging to the “in-group”
i’m writing this from the perspective of someone who grew up in a cesspool of awful, cult-like rural churches—which is its own situation—but i see similar shit happening in online communities all the time, both within and 800 miles outside of my own ideological principles. yes, every toxicass radfem i block seems to be trapped in a version of this vicious cycle, but i also see it happening in random queer circles and niche fandom communities. no one is immune, not even me. i’ve watched people fall into this shit and never make it out. be careful
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