#the emerald

[moonyswarmsweaters]

‘I Love You’ @rosekillermicrofic | 294 words |tw: mention of death

Barty and Evan can’t say ‘I love you’

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will give him little pokes for attention

Evan, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will cuddle him even if they fight

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will give him little gifts he made all the time

Evan, who can’t say ‘I love you’

But will do little annoying tasks for Barty that he knows he hates doing

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will send him little things titled ‘Dis us’

Evan, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will call him an Idiot all the time

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will reply ‘your idiot’ every single time

Evan, who can’t say ‘I love you’

but will slightly smile at the statement

…

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

But will do any psycho idea Evan has

Evan, who can’t say ‘I love you’

But will fight and get killed in order to protect his soulmate, Barty.

Barty, who can no longer say ‘I love you’ to Evan, in any way, shape or form.

But will put fresh flowers on his grave every single week

Barty, who can no longer say ‘I love you’ to Evan, in any way, shape or form.

But will spend his every living second, avenging Evan, torturing the man who took his love away.

Barty, who can’t say ‘I love you’

because those words are only reserved to one man.

…

Barty, who can finally say ‘I love you’

As he sees his other half waiting for him, in the gates to the afterlife

Evan, who can finally say ‘I love you’

As he waited years to see his love once again.

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

He has the bracelet still doesn’t he?😭 And now she has the ring🥺 and I HAVE FEELINGS including: terror because this CANNOT be as close as we get to matching wedding bands💔💀

[third-nature]

"Capitalism makes orphans of us all, and then tries to sell us the keys to the homeland it stole from us — to the family it stole from us, to the belonging it stole from us. Even though it itself lost those keys long ago. What will modernity not try to strip us of — what will it not try to extract?"

Joshua Schrei, "Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers"

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Green Redux (+ Blue Redux)

Mission: Impossible (s2e18, "The Emerald") / Barbara Bain as Cinnamon Carter

Appropriately for an episode about an emerald, Cinnamon wears a brilliant green dress to lure a target into a high-stakes poker game. Although this episode aired during the 1967-68 season, the dress has some interesting features that look forward to the 1970s. It is long and narrow, gathered at the neck, with double shoulder straps and a slit up the side. A long, sheer, patterned panel of cloth hangs from the back like a cape.

With the dress, she wears matching pumps and hair ribbon, but no jewelry. She starts the evening (briefly) with a diamond bracelet, but she quickly manages to lose that in the poker game--all part of the plan, of course.

[elizatungusnakur]

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized, Part 2 (Interview w/ Báyò Akómoláfé)

Listen to this episode from The Emerald on Spotify. Báyò Akómoláfé is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with. In this episode of The Emerald, Báyò joins Josh for a deep-dive discussion into how the Western psychological vision shapes modernity, and the need to expand into alternative stories of what 'being' means. Says Báyò: "Psychology is complicit in the creation of Western modernity. It is not a thing apart..."

" ‘Psychology is complicit in the creation of Western modernity. It is not a thing apart. Its disciplinarity, its history, and its legacies are tied up with the industrialization, commodification, the manufacturing, the replication and the reproduction of the human subject. How we think about what it means to be human, what it means to have agency, what it means to think, who has cognition, who doesn't have cognition — all of this is tied in with the historicity of psychology.’ 

“ Using animate tradition as a foundation, Josh and Báyò explore Norse and Polynesian trickster myths, trauma discourse and Puritanism, and pay homage to the gods of in between spaces as they explode open a vision of being, bodies, and sentience that is vast, wild, and porous. ”

[incorrectbloodyjackquotes]

Liam: We didn't do anything wrong. We didn't break any laws.

Jacky:

Liam: Oh, no, what - what did you do, Jacky?

Jacky: Nothing. It's just that laws keep changing. It's getting very challenging to keep up with them all.

[ligeiahawthorne]

˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ dream symbolism led me back to a podcast i once found deeply resonant and transcendent in a way that no other contemporary creation has, and i am grateful

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˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ so often the remedy is where we most tremble, where our eyes attempt to subvert their own vision and blur. and so, brought back to a fountain i know from which pours healing waters, i found a quiet courage and selected this from its recent episodes.

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˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ and i chose it, knowing i'd be faced with remaining receptive in uncharted territory. a leap of love, in a way.

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˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ i've not yet finished listening to it, as it's over two hours long and i'm listening while doing housework and having to take nose-blowing breaks because it is so moving in ways i can't yet articulate, but the chills i have felt and the weightlessness in the resonance of what my spirit recognizes as truth, the unburdening of my being, the softening of my guards- this episode is just as magnificent as the one i remember from the last time i needed to recenter and find strength.

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˚˖𓍢ִ໋❀ it being this beautiful, i felt the need to share: for anyone who's feeling or has felt similarly isolated, alone, overwhelmed, overburdened, over stretched, glitching out, abandoned, doomed, cursed, and longing for anything approaching a safe landing spot, a stable foundation, a supporting hand, and/or just a safe place to BE, here's this from The Emerald 🖤

⊹₊˚‧︵‿₊୨ The Emerald ୧₊︵‧˚₊⊹

Carry that Weight:

On Mythic Burdens and Cosmic Supports

https://podcastaddict.com/the-emerald/episode/210604284