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Frieren is a story that's epic in scope while being extremely personal. Himmel's legacy feeds right into that: Him saving the world is secondary to the plot; His legacy is that he changed Frieren's life—and in turn, she's changing others.

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In honor of the new season of Frieren being released, this Valentine’s Day I find myself thinking about a ship that never sailed.

This scene lives rent-free in my heart.

As playful as Himmel was, he was always careful with his love for Frieren. The quiet way he loved her makes my heart ache.

Because here’s the thing about Himmel, he loved Frieren loudly in action, but quietly in expectation.

He flirted, he posed, he smiled like a hero out of a storybook, but when it came to actually asking something of her, asking for forever, he never did. And I think it’s because he knew.

He knew loving an elf meant loving someone who would outlive him so completely that his entire lifespan would feel like a passing season.

And yet, he built statues of them everywhere, because he didn’t want her to be alone in the future. He knew that as aloof as she was then, one day, in her long, long life, she would look back on those memories fondly.

Or maybe, maybe he was being just a little selfish. Maybe he hoped that somewhere in the vast stretch of her lifespan, she would have a reason to remember him.

I think he was building anchors, insurances against oblivion, physical proof that he existed beside her, that they stood together, that he mattered.

Because humans die twice: once in body, and once when they’re forgotten. And himmel refused the second death.

I don’t think Himmel was unhappy. I think he was content, truly content, being in love with her, even if it was one-sided, even if it was fleeting from her perspective. But when I think about all the quiet ways he showed his love, and then this one scene, this almost showy gesture, I can’t help but feel that maybe a part of him wondered a 'what if' or 'what could have been' '?

It feels like the closest he ever came to taking a chance.

The clock tower between them in this scene symbolizes that the only thing separating them was time. Time wasn’t just passing around them. Time stood between them.

And he gets so close to taking a chance, so close to asking for something more, and then he doesn’t, because loving her meant accepting the limits of what she could give at that moment.

And watching Frieren, slowly but surely falling in love, whether she realizes it or not, only after Himmel is gone…

Not loudly, not dramatically, but slowly, retrospectively, piece by piece, as she retraces memories he treasured in real time..

He loved her in the present.

She loves him in the past.

And that is the most romantic and nauseating thing I’ve ever witnessed.

Happy valentine’s day to the ship that lost to time.

I’m going to throw up.

ianime0

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edgebug

"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."

"come again?"

"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."

"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."

a long and judgmental pause. then:

"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"

ghost-bison

I finished Derry Girls yesterday. I know the whole show's about a serious topic and all, but it's done in such a funny way that you don't expect it to go so dark at times. Which is why this show is genius. You see everything through the eyes of a bunch of naive teenagers who honestly have other things to worry about than the Troubles. They think about boys (and girls), and school and the fact that their mums are gonna kill them if they don't pass their final exams, and you get invested and forget what's happening out there. And every time an episode ends with a reminder it's brutal and random and it's so real. Because that's how it is in real life: you never expect to get a call telling you your granddad is dead. Or for your TV program to be interrupted to tell you terrorists crashed a plane into a bunch of towers and killed over 3000 people. Things like that always come unexpected and Derry Girls understood that. Beautiful show.

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allsonargent

Because being a Derry Girl, well, it's a fucking state of mind.

cafffine

woke up this morning, rolled over, and very confidently tried to blow out my alarm clock like a candle. absolutely no precedent for that.

rumplefuckingstiltzkin

Ebeneezer in 1742 wakes with a start as for some reason he has put out his guttering candle by slapping atop it with the palm of his hand. His hand is burned and his nightgown and cap are spattered with hot wax.

nessa007

"I just loved all three of them. The casts, these large ensemble casts. Just the fact that they would consider adding me to the ensemble [for The Fall of The House of Usher] was- I was flattered. I was honoured. It was something that was predestined. If they wanted me, I should do it." Mark Hamill interviewed [before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes] for The Fall of The House of Usher

pocketkris

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

pocketkris

sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil

bobdylansgayguitar

did this last night

dragonflea

Op I love you for this

toskarin

reddit, how do I make my firstborn stop playing with the fans, the ornaments, and the makeup when he is supposed to be a warlord. I fear I shall raise a poet.