Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"
just watched kill bill vol. 1 and 2 for the first time today. now all i can think about is an agathario kill bill au where agatha is beatrix and rio is elle but they're actually in love with each other. cat and mouse chase type of story. they hate each other but they also look forward to either one showing up in the most random places. knife play. blood play. bondage too. rio is sooo down bad and says some shit like "she's taking me out" and alice in disbelief will be like "with a fucking gun?!" FUCK i need it
It’s so important to me that he says “Dr. Captain Ryland Grace” when sending the Beatles back to Earth. Because the Hail Mary was made for a Captain, a Scientist, and an Engineer. And Grace only claims the Captain and Scientist parts. Because Rocky is the Engineer! Rocky is the Hail Mary’s Engineer!!!
project hail mary is like i'll make you believe that friendship will save the world. i'll make you remember that our society rests on the backs of teachers and scientists. i'll make you see that even the most cowardly can be brave. i'll make you horny for sandra huller. thank you greatest scifi film of the last 10 years
one thing that makes agatha and rio interesting to me is that their conflict isn’t really about what happened to nicky—it’s about what agatha thinks love should have meant.
rio is very clear about what she is. she calls it a job. not a curse, not a personal choice—it’s a job. people die and she’s the one who comes when they do. that’s the structure of the universe as far as she’s concerned.
and agatha knows that.
this isn’t a situation where agatha doesn’t understand the rules. rio doesn’t hide them. she doesn’t pretend she has no role in it. she tells agatha directly what she is and what that means.
but that doesn’t actually make it easier for agatha. in a lot of ways it makes it worse.
because agatha is the kind of person who believes love should override rules.
she would have broken anything for nicky. any law, any boundary, any cosmic structure that tried to take him from her. if the universe had told her “this is simply how things work,” agatha’s first instinct would have been to prove that wrong.
so when rio says being death is her job, agatha doesn’t hear inevitability.
she hears a choice.
because from agatha’s perspective love is supposed to interrupt structure. if you truly love someone, you make the exception. you refuse the rule. you tear the system apart if that’s what it takes.
and rio didn’t do that.
even if rio delayed things. even if she bent the rules further than death was ever supposed to. even if she loved agatha deeply enough to try.
from agatha’s side of it there is still one unbearable fact.
nicky died.
and rio—the person who loved her—was the one who came for him.
so the thing agatha is really confronting in that moment isn’t just grief. it’s the terrifying possibility that the way she understands love might not be universal.
because agatha knows that if the situation were reversed, she would have destroyed the rules of the universe before letting that happen.
and realizing that rio didn’t—or couldn’t—feels, to agatha, exactly the same as learning she wasn’t loved enough.
just watched kill bill vol. 1 and 2 for the first time today. now all i can think about is an agathario kill bill au where agatha is beatrix and rio is elle but they're actually in love with each other. cat and mouse chase type of story. they hate each other but they also look forward to either one showing up in the most random places. knife play. blood play. bondage too. rio is sooo down bad and says some shit like "she's taking me out" and alice in disbelief will be like "with a fucking gun?!" FUCK i need it
an agathario au where rio is a barista for a local coffee shop in westview who calls out an order for agatha (who now goes by agnes) and in doing so shatters her newly constructed persona and forces them both to face unresolved issues of a shared forgotten past
Thinking of in universe reasons for mages/witches/wizards to wear robes and pointy hats even though nobody else in their universe wears them.
They’re a kind of advertisement like old beer selling hats. This kind of outfit indicates that this person is selling some kind of magical service
They’re all in a cult that hates pants and tailored dresses
Some spells or rituals require them to get naked really fast for whatever reason
The order they’re a part of has existed since before people in the region made sewn garments and whenever talk of changing the uniform comes up there’s a riot
Everyone dresses like that to go to bed and magic users are always shut up in their houses wearing their pajamas
These assholes are constantly wearing their graduation robes to show off that they went to college
an agathario au where rio is a transcriptionist for a sex therapist. she becomes infatuated with a client, who rio only knows by voice from the voice recordings and the initials AH. the client in question (agatha) is a repressed married woman who has never had an orgasm.
and yes this is inspired from the novel big swiss! haven't finished the book yet but i can't stop thinking about this what if.
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