#the worm kings lullaby

[garashir]

Richard Siken The Worm King’s Lullaby // Supernatural 7x02, 12x23, 15x18

#ohhhh feeling sick about it #like! hello???? #web weaving #sikennatural #supernatural #spn #richard siken #the worm kings lullaby #castiel #destiel #spn 7x02 #spn 12x23 #spn 15x18 #my posts

[luthienne]

jack gilbert, “islands and figs” / richard siken, “the worm king’s lullaby”

#jack gilbert #collected poems of jack gilbert #islands and figs #richard siken #war of the foxes #the worm king’s lullaby #words #poetry #typography #parallels

[molotovc]

Text Order: 𝘞𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 Emily Brontë // 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘢 Franz Kafka // 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨'𝘴 𝘓𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺 Richard Siken // 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘴 Madelline Miller

+ Doctor Who

(doctor who brainrot...head empty doctor who only...making this has killed me)

#web weaving #parallels #love #grief #doctor who #tenth doctor #twelfth doctor #rose tyler #clara oswald #wuthering heights #emily bronte #song of achilles #madelline miller #letters to milena #franz kafka #kafka #richard siken #the worm king's lullaby #words #excerpts #mine #10th doctor #12th doctor #david tennant #peter capaldi #billie piper #jenna coleman #this killed me

[go-to-the-mirror]

I bet on losing dogs I know they're losing and I'll pay for my place By the ring Where I'll be looking in their eyes when they're down I'll be there on their side I'm losing by their side

MARTIN Yeah, but if, if you're that connected, that dependent, what happens if we actually, y'know, do manage to— ARCHIVIST We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, I just need us to be moving on.

The price of a long due reckoning Laid in blood when the battle has done Old King Cole has paid the toll Of the crimes levied upon his soul The rebel blades have achieved their goal Laid in blood when the battle has done

Pip: We're doomed Flip: We're not. Pip: Are you sure?

There's been so little time to share We've always had our loads to bear I won't forget I won't leave you this time This time

MARTIN I refuse to accept that this— ARCHIVIST (Firm) Tough! The world doesn't care what you accept. It just... is! It just is.

It's getting late, Little Moon. Finish the song. It's not that late. You are my moon, Little Moon, and it's late enough. So climb down out of the tree. Is it safe? Safe enough. Are you dead as well?

MARTIN Yeah, yeah. Come on. We've got a job to do.

(“i bet on losing dogs” - mitski // “mag 181 - ignorance” // “laid in blood” - the mechanisms // “war of the foxes” - richard siken // “ragnarok v: end of the line” - the mechanisms // “mag 194 - parting” // “the worm king’s lullaby” - richard siken // “mag 181 - ignorance”)

#web weaving #web weave #doomed by the narrative #mitski #i bet on losing dogs #the magnus archives #tma #mag 181 #the mechanisms #the mechs #once upon a time in space #ouatis #war of the foxes #richard siken #tbi #the bifrost incident #the worm king's lullaby #mag 194 #landscaping your spider habitat

[balladoficarus]

*clenches fist* *throws a fit* *falls down, wailing* buck and bucky

#john egan #john bucky egan #gale cleven #gale buck cleven #masters of the air #mota #hbo war #richard siken #the worm king's lullaby #war of the foxes

[malaisequotes]

“He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his hand. He was dead anyway, a ghost. I'm surprised I saw his hand at all. All this was prepared for me. All this was set in motion a long time ago. I live in someone else's future.”

The Worm King's Lullaby by Richard Siken

#The Worm King's Lullaby #Richard Siken #Quote #Poetry #War of the Foxes

[applepi00]

Different Doors to Better Days, @feralrookie | Detail of the Woods, Richard Siken | DDTBD (again) | The Worm King’s Lullaby (1), Richard Siken

Just something I thought of while I was rereading.

#web weaving #heather fic!!! #different doors to better days #richard siken #war of the foxes #the worm king’s lullaby #detail of the woods

[quotent-potables]

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

— The Worm King’s Lullaby, from War of the Foxes, by Richard Siken

#quotes #richard siken #poetry #the worm king's lullaby #war of the foxes #life #love #loss

[vaynglories]

possibly my most embarrassingly tumblrina trait is i'm still highkey obsessed with that “we have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven” poem despite all the memeing. like yeah mister siken please tell me more about the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes not from the absence of violence but despite the abundance of it actually

#phrases that are permanently engraved on my brain tb quite h #“the worm king's lullaby” goes hard also. #wild shrieks.txt

[transfemsirius]

rest in peace remus lupin you would have loved richard siken

#look at me and tell me he wouldnt tho #the worm kings lullaby is sooo wolfstar coded its painful #remus lupin #headcanon #<- ig

[litany-writes]

tower of babel (from genesis 11:3)

#poetry #litany-writes-poetry #religious #religious poetry #back at it again babyyy #looks like this blog is gonna be oscillating between breakup poetry and unhinged ramblings about oscar piastri #which is pretty on-brand for me tbh #anywaysss love love love funky formatting! it's my jam and i've been doing it more often! #hopefully this is comprehensible #it always feels like it's 50/50 for my religious ones idk #oh and the last line is taken from richard siken's poem "the worm king's lullaby (iii) #!! #one of the poems of all time for me personally

[entangled--mechanism]

the worm king's lullaby - richard silken

1

The holes in this story are not lamps, they are not 

wheels. I walked and walked, grew a beard so I could 

drag it in the dirt, into a forest that wasn't there. I want 

to give you more but not everything. You don't need 

everything.

2

This is what they found on the dead man's desk when

the landlord let them in: twenty-eight pages, esoteric

 and unfollowable, written with perfect penmanship 

and a total disregard for any reader, as if the intended 

audience was a population not quite human. Angelic 

script, says the detective, lifting the pages, feeling their 

heft and he wonders what he means because it isn't. 

His partner nods but ignores him.

A park bench, white roses, dark coats and white roses, 

snow and repetitions of snow--it's hard to read but 

pretty much how they found him: dead on a bench in 

a black coat, the snow falling down.

Twigs and blackbirds, snow and red horses, the ghosts 

floating up, the snow falling down--the detective is 

weeping--and the black coat.

3

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. 

There is no other version of this story.

4

It's getting late, Little Moon. Finish the song. It's not that 

late. You are my moon, Little Moon, and it's late enough. 

So climb down out of the tree. Is it safe? Safe enough. Are 

you dead as well?

The night is cold, it is silver, it is a coin.

Not everyone is dead, Little Moon. But the big moon needs 

the tree. There is a ghost at the end of the song. Yes, 

there is. And you see his hand and then you see the moon. 

Am I the ghost at the end of the song? We are very close 

now, Little Moon. Thank you for shining on me.

5

He was pointing at the moon but I was looking at his 

hand. He was dead anyway, a ghost. I'm surprised I 

saw his hand at all. All this was prepared for me. All 

this was set in motion a long time ago. I live in someone 

else's future. I stayed as long as I could, he said. Now look at 

the moon.

#couldn't find the full poem anywhere so #he was pointing at the moon but i was looking at his hand... #poem #richard silken #the worm king's lullaby #moonposting

[zzbibimbap]

#frienship #friends #dark acadamia quotes #richard siken #the worm King's lullaby #jenny slate #little wierds #langston hughes

[katierosefun]

and later:

#caroline watches kdrama #salon de nabi #well! scenes that punch me in the gut or whatever #the worm king's lullaby / v3 #these scenes . . . this episode . . . MAN

[carmineskiesandspidereyes]

nobody talk to me I’m reading Richard Siken

#Poetry #gougihohghhh #tell me someone understands this please #you can’t just put Worm King’s Lullaby in front of me and expect me to be normal

[im-tempted]

oooooooh my god so random of you to ask I'd love to tell you

ok so the card itself was supposed to be part of an art thing about yami yk dying again drama drama everyone's sad that's the context

the title of the card "we say that once there were two" is a quote from the poem war of the foxes (from the book war of the foxes) by Richard Siken love the poem do read it at some point the whole book is up on genius lyrics for free

so the poem itself starts with this fox trying to eat two rabbits and they talk to each other

" Pip: We're doomed. Flip: We're not. Pip: Are you sure? Flip: Yes. Here, hide inside me.

This is the story of Pip and Flip, the bunny twins. We say that once there were two and now there is only one. "

that's the excerpt of the poem I'm specifically referencing in comparing the relationship of yami and yugi with yami literally hiding in the other for his own safety they become one to save themselves

(you could also argue that this is in reference to the puzzle the big triangle thing but that's a whole other can of worms of hiding bodies in bodies

(also it's a light monster yugi is the light one in the relationship yada yada that's just for myself mostly)

than BOTTOM TEXT BOX

in the top brackets is the kind of monster the card would be in this case

[ SOMEONE HAS TO LEAVE / FIRST ]

pre slash is the king of monster it is

it's a shorthand for knowing basically what kind of thing is going on with this card

in this case it's telling you the main crux of this quote is about loss

the second half of the / is basically what the monster does it's either normal and has no fun ability or effect and it does

in this case the / is both emphasizing the word first obviously but it's also saying it's referencing yami due to him being the first cuz the post / is a way of sorting the two (ish) kinds of monsters in this case it's sorting the two characters first (yami) second (yugi)

"this is a very old story / there is not other version of this story"

this quote is mostly referencing the tablet of memories which is a literal stone tablet made about yumis OG death so it is both a very old story (he's like 3000/5000 year sold depending on where you look) and there's also no other way this could have ended yami was always meant to die but not even in the normal way in the way that every choice he made in the show was to get him closer to finally being able to pass over to the afterlife and his death is literally carved into stone

#the second quote is from the worm kings lullaby also good #and the atk/def is just their ages which i just thought was fun #sand #adam fucking around