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it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010

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preach!

ohdorotheabrooke

the-lonelybarricade

Sign of the Times - Prologue

A submission for @elucienweekofficial Day 1: Mates

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All knights who attempted to pull the Master Sword from its pedestal were given the same warning.

The Sword would only select a master who was pure of heart and strong of body. If a wielder of insufficient strength attempted to draw the sword, it would drain their life force. A fool who didn't yield would be a dead one.

If you feel your strength waning, let go, the captain of the guard cautioned. Don't kill yourself trying to be a hero.

Every person who touched the sword before Lucien seemed to bow to its power, collapsing onto the pedestal like puppets whose strings had been yanked from somewhere deep below the earth.

Lucien was therefore surprised when he laid his grip on the sword and felt… nothing. There was the resistance of the stone, groaning against the blade—Cauldron, it was really wedged in there—but aside from the physical exertion of trying to pull the damn thing out, there wasn't any otherworldly sensation to hint that his palm was wrapped around anything but an ordinary hilt.

It was when Lucien felt the stone give that he started to second-guess himself. There'd been plenty of instruction about what to do if the sword rejected a knight's attempt, but no one told him what to do if it fucking worked.

No one expected he would pull the sword, least of all Lucien. It was a joke that he was even attempting, a goading from Tamlin after his own failed attempt, because wouldn't it be funny to see Eris's face if you pulled that sword instead of him?

Only there was nothing funny about the look on Eris's face.

They were all given the same warning, after all. It wasn't just that if a knight failed to pull the sword, it could kill them.

It was that if a knight succeeded in pulling the sword, it signalled the return of Calamity.

The look on Eris's face wasn't envy. Lucien would become a hero of legend and outrank his six older brothers, sure, but he was also the harbinger of the end of times.

As the Chosen Hero, the wielder of the Sword that Seals the Darkness, Lucien would be responsible for standing between Prythian and ruin. No pressure.

But even that responsibility would come second to his new, primary objective:

To live and die in the service of the Princess.

mityenka

when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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Yak near the sacred Yundrok Yumtso Lake, Tibet.

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[Image Description: a photograph of a black-furred yak grazing on a mountainside overlooking a lake. The yak’s saddle and harness are red, white, and gold; decorated with tassels, and geometric patterns. End image description.]

happyheidi

by salman toor, van gogh, cecilia rosslee, van gogh.

zyprexazydis11

inklingowl

quotespile

“Because in February the days were really getting longer and you could see it, if you really looked. You could see how at the end of each day the world seemed cracked open and the extra light made its way across the stark trees, and promised. It promised, that light, and what a thing that was.”

— Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again

avonturx

cosmictuesdays

#oh rearview we're really in it now

papayajuan2019

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

ourplague

chilewithcarnage

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

transchakotay

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

- Simone Weil

xic4-4

"Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope."

- Vincent van Gogh

elfwreck

"Each of us from the moment of his or her birth exists in an environment in which it is easy to do evil and hard to do good.... If I know somebody very well, in ten minutes, if I set my mind to it, I could perhaps say to them things so cruel, so destructive, that they would never forget them for the rest of their life. But could I in ten minutes say things so beautiful, so creative, that they would never forget them?"

- Bishop Kallistos Ware