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[tonarinojojo]

Laurie: You don’t have to stay here, Jo.

Jo: Why? Should we run off and join a pirate ship?

Jo: No, Teddy - please don’t.

Laurie: It’s no use Jo, Jo we’ve got to have it out. I’ve loved you ever since I’ve known you Jo – I couldn’t help it, and I tried to show you and you wouldn't let me - which is fine but I must make you hear and give me an answer because I cannot go on like this any longer.

I gave up billiards, I gave up everything you didn’t like - I'm happy I did, it's fine and I waited and I never complained because I've-

I've figured you’d love me, Jo. And i realise I’m not half good enough and I'm not this great man-

Jo: Yes, you are, you’re a great deal too good for me, and I’m so grateful to you and I'm so proud of you. I just... I don’t see why I can’t love you as you want me to. I don't know why.

Laurie: You... can’t?

Jo: No, I can’t - I can't change how i feel and it would be a lie to say I do when I don’t. I’m so sorry, Teddy. I'm so sorry, but I just can’t help it...

Laurie: I can’t love any one else Jo, I only love you.

Jo: Teddy it would be a disaster if we married, we’d be miserable-

Laurie: It wouldn't be a disaster Jo, I would be a perfect saint!

Jo: I can’t, I can't! I’ve tried it and failed.

Laurie: Why does everyone expects it then? Why does your family and my grandpa expect it? Why are you saying this? Say yes and let’s be happy together Jo!

Jo: I can’t say “Yes” truly so I'm not going to say it at all. You’ll see that I’m right eventually, and you’ll thank me for it.

Laurie: I’d rather hang myself than realize this Jo. I would rather be dead.

Jo: Teddy don't say that.

Teddy, listen. You’ll find some lovely accomplished girl who will love you and adore you, and she's going to make a fine mistress for your fine house. But I wouldn’t.

Laurie: Yes you would Jo.

Jo: Look at me! I’m homely and I'm awkward and I'm odd-

Laurie: I love you Jo.

Jo: And you’d be ashamed of me-

Laurie: I love you Jo.

Jo: And we would quarrel – we can’t help it even now!

I’d hate elegant society and you’d hate my scribbling and we would be unhappy and wish we hadn’t done it. And everything will be horrid.

Laurie: Anything more?

Jo: No, nothing more.

Laurie: All right.

Jo: Except that... Teddy, I don’t believe I will ever marry. I’m happy as I am, and I love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up.

Laurie: I think you're wrong about that Jo.

Jo: No.

Laurie: I think you will marry Jo. I think you'll find someone and love them, you will live and die for them because that's your way and you will...and I’ll watch.

[babushkahihi]

Like "The Kiss"

[luardraws]

Scarlett Dragna 🥀

[minimushr00m]

the fact that the main criticism of If We Were Villains is the fact that the characters are one dimensional is crazy to me bc it shows that these people missed the entire point of the book. the characters are so immersed in the world of Shakespeare that they become the archetypes they acted as in the plays. they take part in the worst kind of method acting as they strive to be perfect. the whole story is centred around themes of losing yourself in an act. OFC THEY HAD NO DEPTH, THEY EACH STARTED AND ENDED THE STORY AS ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY, THE SHAKESPERIAN ARCHETYPES THEY PLAYED. SOMEONE WENT TO JAIL OVER IT AND TWO PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF IT, THE PLOT OF JULIUS CAESAR PRETTY MUCH PLAYED OUT IN THEIR FUCKED UP LITTLE ARTS COLLEGE. OFC THEY'RE ONE DIMENSIONAL MY GOD.

anyways :D

[babushkahihi]

The Fallen Angel Levi Ackerman

[gem1ny]

decided to have a lil fun and add another, humanity's strongest soldier.

same reference used

[macheesmo]

[ashykneesy]

my silly little brain wrinkles have become so consumed by the poppy war i don’t think i’ll be able to sleep

[turtlepsych0]

"don't try to speak," ... he brushed his lips against her forehead as he drove the knife deeper into her back. 😖😖

All things aside, nobody can ever make me hate Nezha.

[sweeetsh]

“He can’t be real, she thought. A boy made out of flesh and bone could not be so painfully lovely, so free of any blemish or flaw.” | “She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagined she does.”

[dr-santos]

another big parallel between rin and kitay is that they both thought they were so above sacrificing their principles for love. rin hated mai’rinnen tearza for killing herself and surrendering because she loved the red emperor. kitay desperately tried to be morally right even in the toughest circumstances and judged those who weren’t. but in the end they both betrayed their principles for each other. kitay couldn’t do the morally right thing and deprive rin of her power because he loved her too much. for someone who was so proud of his moral high ground, he was so loyal to her that he was ready to let her destroy the world. and even though she swore she would never be so weak to surrender and let her people be conquered, the mere thought of hurting kitay to reach her goal stopped her. it was her love for him that made her surrender. and they both kind of became the things they hated the most.

[polartss]

Haircut

Rin from The Poppy War by RF Kuang

[bunnyechipse]

The Poppy War artwork to cope (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

This was too many hands（−＿−；）i require rest.

[ammapola]

female rage ft. Fang Runin

The personification of female rage

[awanqi]

Artwork done for Subterranean Press's limited edition of The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang. I really enjoyed working on this one, too. I love the ocean and bodies of water and stuff like that :)

Sketches and other bonus content are available on my Patreon.

[btsunyeondan]

“In every other universe, Gwen Stacy falls for Spiderman.

and in every other universe,

it doesn’t end well.”

TIMEBOMB AND GHOSTFLOWER

[katsunaksu]

the gang's all here!!