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What is your quarantine book ? Mine is Stephen King’s 11/22/63 it’s so good ! I hope you’re doing fine

I hope you're doing fine, too, anon! I've read several books since this whole thing started, to be honest 😆 I just finished one two minutes ago.

I don't have a quarantine book but I definitely have a quarantine genre: books with happy endings 😊

#lovely anons #i love books #i would like to start a new one right away #but i need to write today #books are wonderful #i am grateful for every writer #fanfic or published novel #to disappear into another world for a while #is magical

I really desperately hope the His Dark Materials gets, not only the dedicated and respectful adaptation it’s more than entitled to, but the acclaim the story has always deserved.

i grew up baptized catholic, and after my father died, i was brought to lutheran churches every sunday because my mom had a lutheran friend and religion was how she coped.

religion was decidedly not how i coped.

i had never liked service. i hated sitting still and being spoken to. i didn’t understand any of it. god whom? jesus what? sacrifice why? give me a narrative that made fucking sense.

at the lutheran church, my mom made me take confirmation classes. she told me it was a “deal”: i would take the classes she wanted me to take, and in the end i could decide if i wanted to be confirmed. i went through the entire process like a patient undergoing a forced root canal.

the youth pastor told my friend’s parents to keep her away from me, because i liked anime and that was a gateway to satanism. i was in middle school at the time.

i was distracted and not compliant in the classes (because i’m ADHD and didn’t fucking care), so they thought putting me in the advanced class would “challenge” me. the only thing i remember about that was a class when the instructor was talking about god and jealousy, and i raised my hand and asked, “if god is perfect, and jealousy is a sin, how can god be perfect?”

they didn’t like me.

i never really understood the concept of atheism until college, but in high school, discovering his dark materials was like being seen for the first time. the moral of the story was, you should build your moral framework on empathy, and that’s okay. the sum of your existence is about your journey, which is unique to you, and hearing it matters to someone. heaven is knowing that your body is made of dozens of atomic particles that will break down and go on to interact with the particles that made your loved ones, and your afterlife is those particles dancing together and making more life. knowledge is the greatest human virtue and the greatest human goal.

my dad was killed in an armed robbery when i was nine. i cannot put into words the depth to which his dark materials formed my view of cosmology, the soul, and the afterlife.

(i’ve had hard conversations with my mom, where she doesn’t understand “but don’t you believe you’ll see your father again?” she’ll ask.

“I believe that the atoms that make up me will break down over time and join the atoms of what made up him”, i’ll say, “and eventually we’ll make new life and be together for as long as that life exists, and we’ll make new life after that, and that to me is eternity and reincarnation.”

she never understands.)

see, the magic of his dark materials isn’t that it’s “the atheist response to the chornicles of narnia.”

the magic is that it understands that to cope with terrible things, we need to romanticize them, and to romanticize something is to make it into a story. not in the sense of it having to be about a romantic relationship, or treating a horrible situation as ideal and romantic, but in the german sense: bildungsroman.

“in literary criticism, a bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, in which character change is important.”

“tell them stories,” lyra says, and what that means is, “tell them who you are and how you came to be, because that’s the thing that matters.”

#his dark materials #it's not about the adventure #it's not about the heroes who died along the way #it's not about your father or your mother or your sisters or your brothers #it's about you #it's about how you define yourself #''tell the stories'' lyra says #and i think of the people of color speaking of how imperialism has shaped their relationship with their culture #i think of my fellow nb and trans people telling their stories without the trappings of the gender binary #like god yes i get this series is so flawed #but when you use its core message to build a moral framework #that stories matter because that is how we relate to one another #and your life matters because it is a story #and the way to defeat death is to defeat the trauma of your story being erased #that in defeating death #what you aare doing is transcending and becoming more one with the universe #is incredibly magical in a very much non-paranormal sense #it's magical the way standing at the bow of a ship with only the water before you and feeling the very nothing of nature settle around you #is magical #(that happened to me btw)#(i had such a magical moment on a ferry over lake erie where the sky was grey and the water was grey)#(the wind on my skin was cool and i saw the grey waves below me and the grey skies above me and i felt small and PERFECT)

How is this a Triangle?

#Rayla #can do better #callum #is just too simple #claudia #is magical #and i mean that with every sense of the word #the dragon prince #is #ezran #king ezran #elf #jealousy #betty and veronica #which is which?#claudia is betty cause she's silly #rayla is veronica because she's snappy

p>Okay but like,, I really like this one? But I didn’t record it cause I thought it would not end well (I have so little faith in my art I’m sorry art) and Now I’m shaking my head and banging it on the table cause this could’ve been a really cool speedpaint someone please slap me

#john laurens #Hamilton #digital art #art #I regret my decisions #digital painting is fun #Hamilton the musical #this was supposed to be angsty #magic forest #is magical #was actually too lazy to draw the face #drawing #illustration

Humans, they thrive for magic even in the darkest days , even in the smallest things. they make foods that are just wheat, flour or grains into something magical. They make their words magical. Their thoughts.They make love magical.Tv shows. So humans have always been trying to make magic in this life for themselves.And I presume this is why people eat fast food because they dont know what steps it has taken to make and that is magical.But the real magic are the thoughts and how our brain perceives them.Thats whats magical.