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This piece has always felt like such a timeless life lesson — poetic, raw, and deeply moving. It speaks to my heart in ways words can barely express, and I hope it reaches you the same way. A beautiful blend of truth, vulnerability, and love.
Richard Feynmans 1946 Love letter to his deceased wife.
At the very bottom of the letter he finished:
"Please excuse me not mailing this ~ but I don't know your new address."
~beccawise7💜🖤
people always act like I have high expectations for wanting my partner to be able to read me well enough to know when I'm shutting down or when I'm upset.... but at the same time I am always the one doing it for them..
wheres that out of context figure skating account
Let's have a real conversation before we commit for life
So the dialogue goes like this:
D: Tell me! M: If I do, there’s no turning back. You have to understand what that means. D: Ysabeau made me understand. Tell me. M: From this moment, we will always be one. Diana, I love you.
You may call me a romance killer all you want, or a cynic, or whatever. But this is NOT how this conversation should have gone.
Matthew should have declared his love first, BEFORE the act of commitment, and revealed to Diana the ramifications. What IS vampire mating? What about the craving, the sex, and consummation and the scent that comes with it? (She had to travel 400 years back to find out thanks to Philippe! No one told her. Not Ysabeau, who apparently 'made her understand', not Martha. And ESPECIALLY not Matthew!)
What about the blood rage? What about the children--do we want them, if so, what are our options, sired, witches, adopted...? What about the money? Where do we live? What about our respective academic careers? How about meeting the other parents? Why is it only important for Diana to be accepted by Ysabeau, what about Sarah and Em? How is mating different from marriage?
How do we deal with the Congregation and the Covenant issue? And other vampires, and other witches...
Oh, and also, what is wrong with saying, let's give it some time and see where it takes us? We can love each other and still decide a year later that this is not a good idea for life.
Honestly, this scene makes me sad. I know it's fiction, I know they are not human so their customs are different. But this series romanticizes a rushed union. (Seriously, taking a lifelong commitment in the driveway, couldn't they find a nicer place in that fancy chateau?) I know she is horny and he craves her, but you know... discernment... mating for life should not look like this...
shoutout to 100 nominally cisgender years of Dick Van Dyke having the best drag name in history
You’re never getting over those abandonment caused commitment issues. In Mitski’s ‘the frost’ as a parallel to Don McLeans ‘Empty chairs’
‘you’re my best friend, now i’ve got no-one to tell how i lost my best friend.’
as a parallel to
‘and i wonder if you know? That I never understood. that although you said you’d go, until you did, I never thought you would’
it’s a self fulfilling prophecy - cycle after cycle - it starts with being too committed, having your heart broken by someone who never wanted it in the first place. Until slowly your heart is too shattered to give it away anymore - hands bleeding as you attempt to arrange the fragmented piece’s back together. You don’t want someone else’s because look at the mess you’ve made of your own, you can’t do that to someone else, so you shove them away unaware that you’re shove was to hard, you’ve cause a hairline fracture.
the cycle starts again
There is a Love Called Maintenance
There is the kind of love called maintenance.
Which stores the WD-40 and knows when to use it.
Which checks the insurance, and doesn't forget the Milkman, which remembers the plant bulbs.
Which answers letters.
Which knows the way the money goes.
Which deals with dentists, and Road fund tax and meeting trains and postcards to the lonely,
which upholds the permanently rickety, elaborate structures of living, which is Atlas.
And maintenance is the sensible side of love.
Which knows what time and weather are doing.
It's my brickwork.
Insulates my faulty wiring.
Laughs at my dry rotten jokes
remembers my need for gloss and grouting.
Which keeps my suspect edifice upright in the air, as Atlas did the sky.
— Harry Baker, "There is a Love Called Maintenance" in "Unashamed" (Burning Eye Books, October 20, 2022) (via Last Tambourine)
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