#theme: humanity

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hello! may I request one based on a phrase (typically from within archeology) that goes 'the dead don't bury themselves'? thank you!

Anonymous, The Dying Cowboy/Bury Me Not

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Fernando Fueyo‘s depiction of ‘Mtoto’, a toddler who died 78,000 years ago

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

The Lovers of Valdaro

Jon Pineda, My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task

G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

Jean Anouilh, Antigone (trans. Lewis Galantiere)

Riccardo Piter, Moroni Scarneo Monument, Milan (detail)

Silas Denver Melvin, nov 4 2021

Epitaph on a grave in Uckfield, East Sussex; from Tombstone Humour (x)

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real angels come covered in human blood

hell followed with us, andrew joseph white // @/cellarscene

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Hello!

I really like your blog and metas, thank you for writing about this series!

I was reading some of your posts about the tower of conviction, and though I agree Guts' attitude towards the weak hadn't changed since the black swordsman arc, I don't think the narrative was exactly condemning the refugees either. It seemed more like the arc was portraying the tragedy of looking for a savior, which it painted as natural for humanity (like Nina needing Luca, eggman wishing to have been found by the priest, even Farnese looking up to Guts). And I think Guts tries to distance himself from this particular search for connection because it's kind of the source of his own tragedy - he lost almost everything when he started viewing Griffith more as a symbol that he had to reach than a loved one.

Anyway, that was a lot of rambling 😅 just wanted to share a different view.

Just sent an ask about the tower of conviction arc and realized what a hypocrite Guts is, given his whole thing is being torn between Casca and pursuing a divine figure haha

Thank you very much!

Yeah I don't think you're wrong, that's a solid angle to view the themes of the Conviction Arc through imo. I never actually made that connection between the Conviction Arc's take on saviours and Guts pursuing revenge, but that's intriguing. I think it makes sense as a parallel to Guts pedestalizing Casca as a representative of his past, but yeah as a parallel to wanting to defeat Griffith, it's definitely something to consider.

And yeah I don't think it was like, Miura's intention to say that the refugees are all bad people who deserve to die eg, but I do think that he uses them as an example of this particular weakness/negative of humanity in a way that I find distasteful. It's a very cynical look at humanity that ends with tens of thousands of disenfranchised people dead and very little narrative sympathy for them. I wish there was more emotional and/or moral weight given to the mass death at the very least, rather than just like, Luca clucking her tongue and musing about how they didn't act to save themselves. But yeah I don't think it invalidates the whole arc and the themes Miura explores or anything like that.

Anyway yeah thanks for the ask, these are interesting thoughts to ponder!

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For AroWriMo 2021. The theme was humanity. Human = ( X - Y ) / Z What is human? to have homo sapien DNA a bipedal primate to pass the ...

Human = ( X - Y ) / Z by charcharcharace

Summary: 

A poem about human essentialism

Word Count: 129

Category: Poetry

Theme: Humanity

Language: English

Genre: Poetry

CW: Mentions of essentialism and touches on dehumanizing ideas

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Selected excerpts of Salman Rushdie (1945-)

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hello, can i request something about city living, if you haven't already done it yet? love your webs <3

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Ed Sheeran, The City

Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things; ‘Return’

The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann

J. G. Ballard, High-Rise

Alexander McCall-Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City (via The Guardian)

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins

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the monster mash

Mahtem Shiferraw, Fuschia

Caitlyn Siehl, Start Here

Catherynne M. Valente, The Orphan’s Tales: In The Night Garden

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Ocean Vuong, A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read

Rick Yancey, The Curse of the Wendigo

Richard Siken, Black Telephone

Janice Lee, Daughter

Rainbow Rowell, Carry On

Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

Kristin Cashore, Graceling

Friedrich Nietzsche

Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean At The End of The Lane

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web weaving aboouuut... aliens?

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Megan Lindholm, A Touch of Lavender

A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend

mewithoutYou, Red Cow

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991); fifth draft of the screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn 

Bones (2005-2017), 5x11: The X in the Files

Kesha, Spaceship (Outro)

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) dir. Stephen Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison