[zannolin]

"battle cries" | the amazing devil (insp.)

[zannolin]

susan's horn becoming this great magical thing of legend that summons, essentially, narnia's saints back to it after a thousand years is crazy for many reasons but perhaps most of all because it didn't bring some mythic higher power or legendary hero when susan blew it the first time she needed help. no. it brought her big brother.

[sapphia]

no you guys don't get it. the pevensies were always fated to die tragically early, these children whose childhoods were torn away by the brutality of world war i and then who died so early into adulthood, before they'd had a chance to live and to grow up -- in 1949, like so many who made it to early adulthood, just, only to be mowed down on the battlefields of europe. the most common age of death in wwii was 19. the siblings represent an entire generation of lost youth, and Narnia is the gift, the fantasy, the parable of heaven that told the survivors these children got to live out full lives in Narnia before perishing tragically young

susan didn’t get “kept out of narnia because she liked girly things.” she survived because she grew up

[equusandfandoms]

this is the best Narnia take I have ever seen, saw the post on instagram and came STRAIGHT here to find it

[neurodivergenttales]

The ‘you’re mature for your age’ to sleeping with a bed full of plushies in your mid twenties pipeline is real

[thoughtkick]

“People are going to disappoint you, I get that… I kind of expect that, but I dont know, what if you wake up one day and realise that you’re the disappointment.”

— Peyton Sawyer

[gonnachangethiseventually]

The writers of The Lightning Thief Musical just clearly get so much about the books. The fact that Luke and Percy's stories are paralleled to the point where Luke reprises Percy's “I want” song in the end before he runs… the fact that when Thalia turns into a tree the special effects are literally just Annabeth and Luke standing behind her with their arms outstretched to form the branches be a part of them was left with her… the fact that Sally has consistently been played by a black woman since day one… they're deep in the text and I appreciate it.

I forgot the fact that in “Bring on the Monsters” Silena and Luke sing “We'll make ‘em listen to us, we'll make ‘em listen” like BITCH!! we barely even see Silena in this musical and don't even touch that storyline and YET!!!

The fact that Luke has the very first line and introduces us to the world of gods so OF COURSE we trust him from the very beginning, the fact that the entire cast is double cast so when a hooded figure appears at Kronos' side in Percy's dream who happens to sound exactly like Luke we don't think twice about it, the creators of this musical understand the complexity of Luke's entire role in the story so well and they take full advantage of the medium they're working in to bring the audience to Luke's side without them suspecting a thing it's brilliant it's breathtaking THIS is drama

[redstonedust]

always good to have friends who are at least 5 years older than you and friends who are at least 5 years younger than you. being the youngest person you know will make you feel like an inexperienced child who knows nothing of the world. being the oldest person you know will make you feel like the joker.

[thoughtkick]

“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.”

— John C. Maxwell, Today Matters

[iverie]

and i do have hope that there’s something beautiful and unimaginable unfolding, even if i can’t see it.

[remanence-of-love]

[carys-the-ninth]

"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

[not-your-lawyer]

“Was this book bad or was I simply lacking enough life experience to appreciate the narrative when I read it” : an award-winning followup

[golden-letters]

bitch this is all you’re gonna get. this life, this face, this body. you better not ‘maybe in another universe’ your way out of everything. sit your ass down and face this. go make tea and have a picnic and read a goddamn book. kiss your loved ones, send that damn text, and hug your siblings. this is all you’re gonna get.

[oldshrewsburyian]

'You misunderstand how history works,' she said. 'History is not a series of causes and effects which may be changed like switching trains on a track. It is a narrative agreement about what has happened and what is happening.'

The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley

[tref0il]

WHEN ON PERIOD:

do not crash out

your feelings are NOT valid

do not send that text

don't kill yourself. lock in

do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed

[lenainwonderland]

- Vladimir Nabokov

[liberatingreality]

To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to themselves. They have to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

[dionysian-mystery]

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