sebastian michaelis
est. 2014 remade 2016 ✞ ✞ ✞ which way shall i fly
Infinite wrath,
and infinite despair?
which way i fly is hell;
myself am hell;
and, in the lowest deep,
a lower deep still threatening
to devour me opens wide,
to which the hell i suffer
seems a heaven.
’ The mess that we’ll become will leave something to talk about. ’
p ! a t d starters | accepting
‘half mad with hunger’ they’ve said.
he wants to hear her scream.
long, gloved fingers grasp her wrist, thumb caressing where he feels the flutter of her pulse. lifting her hand to his lips he presses a feather-light kiss to bare skin in the mockery of something more courteous, more romantic – a gesture far less ominous.
he wants to hear her scream.
this out-of-nowhere urge is like a snake chewing on his entrails. a hot, writhing worm. irrepressible. all-consuming. the mess that we’ll become. he hums, amused, because if he says too much she’ll flee before he sinks his teeth into her flesh. and wouldn’t that be a waste?
the dark // fire // open water // deep water // being alone // crowded spaces // confined spaces // change // failure // war // loss of control // powerlessness // prison // blood // drowning // suffocation // public speaking // natural animals // the supernatural // heights // death // dying // intimacy // rejection // abandonment // loss // the unknown // the future // not being good enough // scary stories // speaking to new people // poverty // loud noises // being touched // forgetting // being forgotten
play this at my funeral so everyone knows who killed me
i know i’m Weird but one of the most painful parts of ff vii: dirge of cer.berus is WHEN VINCENT CALLS HOJO “DOC” ? LIKE HE’S PISSED OFF AND TERRIFIED AND HE’S STILL LIKE “DOC” (edit: don’t get me wrong it also makes me laugh, bye) also xyz years ago i was high on painkillers after getting my wisdom teeth removed and because vince calls hojo ‘doc’ and also switches from ‘lucrecia’ to ‘doctor crescent’ bc he’s trying to be Serious (he’s a turk...he’s not gonna just...casually fuck up) that the nibelheim crew was lowkey #nibelheim squad bc even if no one approves of hojo’s actions / of hojo as an individual he’s still wicked smart (alarmingly so) and they’re cooped up in a huge mansion up in the goddamn nibelheim mountains and [cri.sis core voice] a mako reactor usually means: nothing else out there.
plus the thought of people (shinra employees and/or nibelheim townsfolk) calling pre-seph hojo “doc” is both hilarious and terrifying.
remember when everyone’s like ‘what the actual shit’ : hojo joins the LOVELESS chat
“these examples are particularly shocking because they involve educated doctors and scientists (professions we are brought up to trust) performing unethical experiments or operations. let’s assume (generously) that these doctors were not being cruel for the sake of it -- that the scientists doing [the] experiments wanted to contribute to medical knowledge, to know, for example, how to help victims rescued after being shipwrecked in icy seas. [they] too, were presumably following their scientific impulse...”
the science of evil: on empathy and the origins of cruelty, simon baron-cohen
( a.k.a.: a gag gift from my best friend in 2011 )
note: what the hell this was supposed to be a short post / sarcastic quip what happened
“this book isn’t for people with a sensitive disposition. you can’t write about human cruelty in a cheerful way, so if you’re looking for a fun read, proceed no further. in this book i attempt to re-define “evil” in terms of empathy and look at why some people have more or less empathy than others and what happens when we lose it. distressing and even shocking as the material may be, the nature of empathy is (to me, at least) endlessly fascinating.” ( acknowledgements )
“when i was seven years old, my father told me the nazis had turned jews into lampshades. just one of those comments that you hear once, and the thought never goes away. to a child’s mind (even to an adult’s) these two types of things just don’t belong together. [i knew] our family was jewish, so this image of turning people into objects felt a bit close to home.
“i realized there was a paradox at the heart of human nature -- people could objectify others -- that my young mind was not yet ready to figure out.
“hearing about this unethical research retriggered that same question in my mind: how can humans treat other people as objects? how do humans come to switch off their natural feelings of sympathy for another human being who is suffering?
“what these scientists lost sight of, in their quest for knowledge, was the humanity of their “subjects.” it is an irony that the human sciences describe their object of study as “subjects” because this implies sensitivity to the feelings of the person being studied.
“evil is treated as incomprehensible, a topic that cannot be dealt with because the scale of the horror is so great that nothing can convey its enormity. the standard view turns out to be widely held, and indeed the concept of evil is routinely used as an explanation for such awful behaviors:
why did the murderer kill an innocent child?
because he was evil.
why did this terrorist become a suicide bomber?
because she was evil.
but when we hold up the concept of evil to examine it, it is no explanation at all. for a scientist this is, of course, wholly inadequate. what the nazis (and others like them) did was unimaginably terrible. but that doesn’t mean we should simply shut down the inquiry into how people are capable of behaving in such ways or use a nonexplanation, such as saying people are simply evil.
“as a scientist i want to understand what causes people to treat others as if they were mere objects.”
the moment i remembered that i want to set up a blog for that silver-haired bastard
let’s play does someone have a type ?
☑ ridiculous hair? (long-haired pretty boy / mystical white hair / rapunzel hair / white hair, black heart)
☑ eerie green eyes? (trope: green eyes)
☑ swings an absurdly large weapon? (trope: BFS)
☑ is said weapon absurdly powerful? (trope: up to eleven)
☑ proficiency with said weapon even during close-quarters combat? (trope: lightning bruiser)
☑ badass long coat / robe? (trope a vs. trope b)
☑ all-black wardrobe? (trope: evil wears black)
☑ abuse of super-speed? (trope: flash step)
☑ “dead from the start or very early in a work?” (trope: posthumous character)
☑ ambiguous relationship with the ‘protagonist’?
☑ does this relationship often endanger the ‘protagonist’? (trope: (platonic) yandere)
☑ ulterior motives? (trope: manipulative bastard)
YELLS I CAN’T DECIDE a: if i want to make a ff vii blog / b: vince? / c: hojo? / d: a remnant? / e: rufus?
ok but in the manga there’s a reaper who highkey suggests that seb is 500% behind kicking back and watching world war iii instead of being bored ? and ? i’m still on my ff vii kick i.e. seb kicking back and watching seph... y’know... do his Thing / he’s a demon he doesn’t strictly need the planet either, also i imagine him being Entertained by seph’s breakdown / believing jenova is his Real Mom bc seb’s mildly elitist like that i.e. ‘here’s a joke: humans and their existential crises’
❝too weird to live, too rare to die❞ sentence meme
pulled from lyrics of panic! at the disco’s album “too weird to live, too rare to die!”
‘ If you love me let me go. ‘
‘ Where will you be waking up tomorrow morning? ’
’ We’re bored with looking good. ’
’ Surrender all control to the girl that you love. ’
’ I’ve lost control and I don’t want it back. ’
’ I don’t ever wanna be your boyfriend. ’
’ Stay for as long as you have time. ’
’ Don’t let me do this to myself. ’
’ So, baby, tonight just be the death of me. ’
’ Whether near or far, I am always yours. ’