#passon

[epiphaniesandpoems]

I’ve always worked so hard

Toward one single goal

But I’ve done so much

And been at it for so long

That I can’t remember

What my goal was in the first place

[tattered-butterfly-blog1]

November 14, 2018

I dreamt of you.

After months, maybe even years, of not having a single subconscious image flash through the back of my mind.

I dreamt of you again.

It was but a flicker, but I can swear it was you.

Those big brown eyes looking up at me.

I couldn't confuse those with anything in the world.

The spark they provoked soon engulfed me in flames.

And I submitted.

Almost gave up my whole soul to ashes if I had not woken up.

-@tattered-butterfly

[nat-2]

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[buffyrants]

Passion: An Analysis of the Discovery of Jenny’s Body

I just want to look at how Angelus set up that scene and the possible significance of it. First of all, he set it up as a romantic scene only to hit Giles with a corpse in the bed. Obviously Angelus was going for maximum cruelty there. He placed Giles in a position where he would feel safe, happy, in love, secure and then ensured that that soft spot is where he would stick the knife. That isn’t enough for Angelus though. He has to turn that knife too and he does this through the use of music. 

This is the second, and to me, most interesting thing that Angelus did. You see, the music he chose was from Puccini’s La Boheme. It tells the story of two lovers, Rodolfo and Mimi and it’s spot on. When Giles arrives, he’s a bit nervous, but hopeful, when the Italian lyrics play:

“Already I taste the spirit/ The heights of tenderness/Love trembles in our kiss.”

Then, Giles enters the room and his nervousness rises,  because where’s Jenny? and the lyrics echo this with an argument between the lovers who say:

“No, please!”

“You are mine!”

“Your friends are waiting.”

“You send me away already?”

The last line echoes Giles’s worries,maybe things won’t work out, but then he sees the rose and the note and just as he opens it the lyrics say, “Tell me,” and the note says “upstairs.” These lyrics are just so spot on! The timing is astounding.

The music continues as Giles looks towards the upstairs:

“Oh lovely girl!/Oh, sweet face/bathed in the soft moonlight.”

Giles walks up the stairs:

“I see you in the dream/I’d dream forever.”

Then, Giles  sees Jenny’s corpse and the bottle shatters and the music says:

“Ah, Love, you rule alone!” 

I kid you not. That’s what it says. As he stands there, once again, the music sings, “Ah, love, you rule alone.” 

The knife twists.

Here’s the thing though. This cannot have been a coincidence, because I looked up the opera that this is from, and read through the lyrics,  and all of these lyrics come from different places in the script. This means that the song was deliberately altered to fit the scenario. The writers probably did this for impact, but I think Angelus did it himself deliberately. Angelus, as we know, likes things like operas and ballets. He’s a lover of the arts and he understands Italian, it would have been nothing for him to do. Initially, given Jenny’s skill with the computer, if Giles had noticed the differences at all, he probably thought she’d been the one to alter it to better suit their story, which also highlights how, exceptionally, cruel and cunning Angelus is. He’s toying with them. Not just Giles though, because the opera he chose, is not about passions like Angelus has them. It’s about innocent first love that ends in death. Thus, he is sending a message to Buffy here as well. He’s not just taunting Giles, his end goal, is to taunt Buffy.

Giles, who is a music fan, probably recognized this. The cruel brilliance of Angelus’s choice. The implications behind it: Everything. He’s gobsmacked. Jenny’s death was awful to deal with. Finding her body was horrible, but having Angelus taunt him and his Slayer over it? It’s no wonder he cracked…

(It’s honestly worse than I initially realized…)

[jeremy-allard-photography-art]

Single arm balancing on a rock in the ocean.

[javi-ballestero]

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[tattoosideas]

→ Evgeny Kopanov

[fashionfotorecccluse]

Life is all about respect, nature, people and relations between people.

Pass it on!