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[todoonghwa]

Air Awakens Quotes

-Elise Kova

What did one say to a man who had lost everything but gained the world?

The senator looked Vhalla up and down for a long moment, squinting. “You’re supposed to be dead.” “I’ve been told death doesn’t suit me.”

Her options were running out. How was freedom more confining than servitude?

“Vhalla, I need her in so many ways, Mother help me,” Aldrik groaned. “I need her as my redemption, I need her kindness, I need her forgiveness, I need her smiles, I need her humanity, I need her ignorance, I need her innocence, and, yes ... Mother Sun, yes, I need her as a man.”

Love was a simple emotion, Vhalla had learned. Once one experienced it, a person understood it, and there was no doubt when one felt it. If there was no doubt, then nothing would ever serve as a substitute.

[tothisemptiness]

A side effect of the Cromer?

While researching deep into ATEEZ's lore, I encountered some points that just kept bugging me:

Why is ATEEZ at times violent, power hungry, and overcome by a certain powerful desire?

Why is the Lord of the Rings "one ring" reference relevant?

You see, these bother me a lot because the desire to rule over everyone else and accumulating so much power you can't handle doesn't fit in well with ATEEZ's intentions of an anti-authoritarian revolution at all. Also using/threatening to use too much violence for emotional reasons doesn't fit that well with the narrative. So what is going on?

Let's start with what "the Ring" is in the Lord of the Rings:

The Ring is a ring created by Sauron to rule over the bearers of all other 19 Rings of Power. In the story, wars are started for it and various people race to be its holder; for the power, to hide it or to destroy it completely. It augments its bearer's abilities but it also gradually makes them obsessed with it, to the point they become violent and lose their sanity (for example Gollum developed a dissociative identity disorder). It also allowed the bearer to move between realms (the physical and the unseen). In the movies, the Ring makes a whispering sound to symbolize the intrusive thoughts it projects on its bearer.

The ring is repeatedly and obsessively called "my precious" by Gollum. He says it in a whisper-like voice when talking to himself.

So there is a precious in ATEEZ's lore, okay. Also in the extended song "Precious" a whisper that makes someone addicted it mentioned. These go well with the effects of the One Ring. Also at the end of the "Precious" stage in concert we see Hongjoong obsessively looking for the Treasure.

On to "The Ring", which talks being overflowed by a power that ATEEZ is unable to handle, and its stage. In the VCR, we see the Cromer in the back with crescents.

The Cromer does carry resemblances to the Ring: it is an object for which people fight each other, it basically rules all the sides that want it, it allows for travel between two realms and according to THE WORLD EP. FIN : WILL diaries, it augments its holder's abilities.

Crescents are also very important to ATEEZ's worldbuilding as it is the title to two instrumentals and also shows up particularly in "Crazy Form" MV. We also don't see ATEEZ in their obsessed, power hungry, violent state often. Could this VCR mean the Cromer has this side-effect on its holders particularly during a crescent?

"The Ring" also has a theme of using this power to fight in the name of the fallen rebels as well as protecting those who live. Could the Cromer be poisoning ATEEZ to make them more focused on revenge and causing them to lead the Black Pirates recklessly and use more power and violence than necessary?

There is also another noticeable thing in the "The Ring" stage: the performance starts with Yeosang making a particular hand sign and ends with all the members doing it.

This sign is then repeated quickly by Yeosang again in the "Outlaw" (which is one of the songs mentioned above) performance.

I don't really know what the sign means, but this makes two connections between the songs now.

[lieutenantak-deactivated2025120]

wow it's finally over, i wish there will be a send-off in europe so i can make them sign it

[todoonghwa]

GOTTA WORK

[todoonghwa]

Hold on a sec!

ahhhhhh! Where are the long threads of reblogs and insanity i came to tumblr for!?

like are you all playing hooky?

[merismo]

Unidentified protist. Quite the hyper one. 

[halodite]

unrestrained summer fun

[todoonghwa]

Looks like unrestrained temper tantrum.

[todoonghwa]

[todoonghwa]

[todoonghwa]

The pain never really fades.

We just get used to it...

But not you,

How can I ever get used to you?

;

[todoonghwa]

Shatter Me

"Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch."

[todoonghwa]

Selfish in love, too selfish to love.

How could I ever think that this was anything

but selfishness.

I was selfish to crave the warmth, the feeling of belonging, a pair of arms to hide behind from my demons.

And he was selfish enough to crave the validation from it.

[paradoxical-scribbler]

11 POWER OUTAGE PROMPTS

Requested by @fantastictrashpolice

—» Please tag @paradoxical-scribbler or link this post in your work to let me know these helped you write :)

ONE

A: *on the phone* “Hey what's up! You never call so late at night.”

B: “Hey..yeah..so the power suddenly went out and its completely dark—”

A: “Don't worry. Turn on your phone's flashlight and try to find some candles. I'm heading over.”

TWO

A: *on a call* “OMG! THE LIGHTS SUDDENLY WENT OUT. IT'S SO DARK. WHAT DO I DO!?”

B: “Okay calm do—”

A: “BUT ITS ONLY MY APARTMENT! HOW CAN YOU ASK ME TO CALM DOWN!?”

B: *sighs* “Okay relax. Maybe its just a power trip due to the storm. First head to your electrical panel. It should probably be in the garage or by the entryway.”

A: “Okay, alright, I'm going there now.”

B: “Good. Now once you find it, try switching on all the MCBs one by one.”

THREE

A: *bumps into B* “Ohh sorry, its pitch black and I couldn't see you.”

B: “Its alright.”

FOUR

A: *bumps into B cuz its dark and screams like a maniac*

B: *screams back in equal terror*

A: Oh Thank heavens! It's just you.

B: Fuck you! I got scared to death.

FIVE

A: *bumps into B and snickers* “Sorry I didn't see you there.”

B: *frowns in distaste at the pun* “Shut up! And help me finding a flashlight!”

A: *starts cackling* “Right I'll look for them.”

B: *groans in annoyance*

SIX

A: *visibly sweating* “Ugh! The power has been out since last night and its so humid these days.”

B: *picks up a newspaper & starts waving it in front of A like an old, hand fan* “Better?”

A: “Yeah. A little.”

SEVEN

A: *knocks on B's apartment door*

B: *opens door, looking tired and sweaty due to the humid weather*

A: “They say power won't be back until 7. Wanna grab ice-cream and go to the pool.”

B: *suddenly perks up* “YES!”

EIGHT

A: “I swear if I see you any longer on that couch I'll kick you out of the house!”

B: “Well what do you want me to do!? The power's out and my phone's dead.”

NINE

A: *locks apartment and goes to the building's rooftop cause the power's out. Spots B standing by the railing* “Oh. I didn't think anyone would be here.”

B: *giggles at their awkwardness* “It's fine. I would prefer some company right now.”

TEN

A: *smirks evilly* “So the power's gone. Wanna go around and scare some neighbors?”

B: *smirks back* “I thought you'd never ask.”

ELEVEN

A: *lights a bunch of candles and settles down next to B*

B: *shares their blanket with A*

*both continue doing their own work in comfortable silence, waiting for the power outage to be fixed*

[todoonghwa]

continuing ahead~

A: *Lights up candles and draw pentagon in the living room, pulls out Halloween decorations* "B, you know what needs to be done right?"

B: *Smirks and starts chanting in a deep voice*

[ikarakie]

if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

[todoonghwa]

A Court Of Thorns And Roses being relatable~

Feyre: “Why can’t I look at it?”

Lucien: “Because when you look at it—when you acknowledge it—that’s when it becomes real. That’s when it can kill you.”

#me refusing to look at the ever-growing pile of assignments and textbooks

[thesefallenembers]

that moment when you realise you’re about to be older than most of the fictional characters you used to look up to when you started reading young adult books

[3-aem]

mornings

[todoonghwa]

my morning be blessed with this view even once #is it too much to ask for sir Gege?

[donna-rinascimentale]

dark academia isn’t just for the humanities: i bring you STEM academia.

observatories. stargazing. biographies of scientists. filling the board end to end with equations. hand-drawn anatomical diagrams. the hazy euphoria after finally finishing an assignment. oppenheimer & frankenstein. the uniformity of a circuit board; the chaos of a programming window. ibm’s a boy and his atom. event horizon telescope’s black hole photo. the wonder of studying anatomy and knowing that’s happening within you. sketching organic compounds that may as well be sigils. studying latin for medical terminology. doing problem sets to classical music.

[todoonghwa]

Now that is what you call Satisfactory daydreaming about greatness in mundane academia day

or night for those with their own coffee machine prototypes

can I also add ignoring your peers as you pour into your notes trying to solve an unsolvable problem at your level just for the aesthetics?