Fluctuat nec mergitur

Andie. [Libra Sun - Taurus Asc - Taurus Moon].

[maryoliveoil]

[earhartsease]

in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"

[autie-j]

"Scrooge only changed because he saw how nobody mourned him after his death" NO NO NO NO. You don't get it! The last spirit only worked because of the spirits that came before softening him up! If the spirits had shown him dead and ungrieved only it would not work. As the night goes on amid the visits Scrooge is already visibly changing. He's different after the first spirit and even more so after the second. And it's because of how much he's already changed that the final spirit is able to succeed

[brothermouse-skeleton]

The first ghost reminded him that he had been loved once, that there was, in fact, something lovable about him, and that he was once capable of returning that love.

The second ghost showed him the crossroads he was at, people still cared about him. Bob sticks up for him when it's clear Scrooge doesn't deserve it, and Fred expresses pity for him for his loneliness. But in those moments he also sees the fruits of his actions, Mrs Cratchit's pure distain for him and Fred's party goers jumping at the chance to make fun of him.

He is shown that he could go back to the days of Fezziwig and that he could join Fred's party and still be welcomed with open arms.

But the last ghost shows him that there is a deadline to fixing his life. If he doesn't get his act together, he's going to be despised at worse and dismissed at best.

OP is absolutely right, the last ghost only worked because Scrooge was shown what he could have, what was right within his reach. He wanted that, he was changing, he was ready. The last ghost just sealed the deal by letting him know what was at stake.

[lastoneout]

If "you're going to die soon and go to hell for being a shitty, greedy person" would have worked then Marley alone would have been more than enough to change his mind, but the story makes it very clear that simply telling Scrooge he's an asshole and will be punished for his sins one day was never going to get him to really change.

[bethanydelleman]

I was just thinking about this! Because there is a story in the Bible where a rich man dies and goes to the underworld (I can't remember if it is explicitly hell), and he asks God to send him back so he can warn his brother. God says that his brother wouldn't listen and it wouldn't work. I was thinking how A Christmas Carol fit with this story.

But everyone above is right, and it does fit, because Marley isn't enough at all, he's just the proof, you needed all three ghosts to make it work. So Charles Dickens took the first suggestion (send back a sinner) and then built on it.

[ladyantiheroine]

“Batman Returns Still Has the Best Romance in a Superhero Movie” by David Crow / Batman Returns dir. Tim Burton.

[dduane]

Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do

God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.

[look-a-diversion]

can we just, collectively, for a moment, appreciate the peak self-confidence of Tam Lin in the ballad, whose reasoning for believing he was going to be sacrificed as the every-seven-year faerie tithe to hell was “I’m just so hot. So hot. Look at me, Janet. I’m so good-looking. It’s totally gonna be me”?

and he was RIGHT?

[sosuperawesome]

Leanne Hatch on Instagram

[gumy-shark]

i will defend that fictional teenage girl with my life. i literally don’t even care what she did. you would’ve done it too if you were her she’s probably handling things better than you would in her shoes

[political-us]

The moment Senator Cory Booker found out he beat the record for longest Senate speech

[nxthing-and-nxwhere]

I was a fan of The National before this album, but seeing this song live was a pivotal moment in my music going career amongst the 1000+ shows I've been to...

[normasshearer]

Joan Crawford in HUMORESQUE (1946) dir. Jean Negulesco

[thebennsofdallas]

Amen, sister.

[shaneposting]

volodymyr zelenskyy is the strongest man alive for sitting through this utter bullshit without swearing or punching the fuckers or angry crying. fuck trump and fuck everyone who did not vote for harris and fuck russia.

like i can’t even read this bit of news without feeling humiliated and i’m not even fucking there.

i am terrified that i will have to sit back and watch the loss of ukraine in front of my eyes.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

-Nathanael Vette, A Theology of Gratitude

[suncaptor]

[lilja4ever]

hes the funniest realest smartest person alive

[newskinfortheoldceremony1974]

2025

ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR

KEEP THE FAITH DO THE WORK

PASSION ABOVE ALL IS THE REMEDY AGAINST BOREDOM

EVERY DAY IS ALL THERE IS

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE

[slaygentford]

[finelythreadedsky]

Ursula K. Le Guin, "Learning Latin in Old Age" (from Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems, 2012)

[finelythreadedsky]

#who died with his work unfinished/ left it to the reader to finish and left it to le guin in georgia two thousand years later#oof the trope of ancient authors dying with unfinished work they ask someone to burn is hitting me hard#a request (possibly insincerely meant) that the reader not be allowed to take their part in creating it#a demand that authorship be the sole province of the author and not the receiver-- but a demand made knowing it will not be obeyed#a convention of unwillingness to release the work to create meanings the author did not intend

[finelythreadedsky]

+ Gonzalo García Barcha talking about his and his brother's decision to publish their father Gabriel García Márquez's last unfinished manuscript that he told them to destroy

[avellino]

Murina (2021) d. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović