The Liar's Grave

aesthetic blog // ruran vas

[deviika]

S.C. Stephens // Lewis Carroll // Unknown

[flowerytale]

Sharon Olds, from "His Terror"

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947.

[etteraths]

[humunanunga]

Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.

The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.

There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.

[thegoodvybe]

[jame7t]

hey wait a second. im alive & can experience things

[hapless-hollow]

“No deeper prayer exists - than the one I left upon your lips.”

— Helaena C Moon

[quotemadness]

You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.

Tracy Chevalier

[weltenwellen]

Marya Hornbacher, Waiting

[lesserkey]

The Cosmic Seed, Metatron

[kaijuno]

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[spitblossoms]

[gnossienne]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

[novelistspaceranger-deactivated]

PALADINS

PALADINS WHO KNOW THINGS AREN’T BLACK AND WHITE BUT LIVE BY THE PRINCIPLES ANYWAYS

PALADINS WHO REALIZE LAWFUL GOOD SHOULD ALWAYS PRIORITIZE GOOD OVER LAWFUL DESPITE A LAWFUL-FOCUSED SOCIETY

PALADINS WHO STRUGGLE WITH THEIR PALADINY FAITH 

PALADINS WHO HAVE BEEN BEATEN, BRUISED, AND CRUSHED REALITY DOES NOT LIKE THEIR EXISTENCE. THEN STAND UP TO KEEP GOING

PALADINS KNOWING THEIR QUEST IS IMPOSSIBLE AND PLUGGING AWAY AT IT ANYWAYS

PALADINS PAYING THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE BECAUSE IT’S WHO THEY ARE. THEY PROTECT OTHERS BEFORE THEMSELVES

PALADINS WHO ARE THREE DIMENSIONAL PEOPLE WITH FLAWS AND STRUGGLES TRYING TO LIVE UP TO AN IDEAL FAR BEYOND THEMSELVES

PALADINS, YO 

I will defend the paladin archetype until I die. 

[simplytolkien]