pipe dream

nuni | 30s | infp probably crying over fictional characters

[weltenwellen]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

[i-cant-swim-actually]

bro what if we fit together like puzzle pieces bro what if we just lay down and like test it out bro you never know

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The House by the Sea

[nessa007]

#darcy's smiles are for lizzie and georgiana only! PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) Dir. Joe Wright

[ravenclawsandbeak]

So why didn’t I realize until now that “unguibus et rostro” doesn’t just translate literally to “claws and beak”

it’s a Latin expression about persistence and giving your all—fighting with everything you have for something you want?? idiomatically comparable to phrases like “heart and soul” and “with all one’s strength/force/might”?? these nerds and their stupid love language are gonna kill me I swear

[astudyinfreewill]

yes!! but it gets even cooler than that. i’ve talked about this a little before, way back in my addition to this post, but unguibus et rostro is an ablative of means, so it can’t translate to “claws and beak”, but rather it means “with claws and beak.” as op correctly states here, it’s an expression that indicates fighting fiercely, with all your strength and courage and determination – personally, i think the best english equivalent is “fighting tooth and nail” (after all, beak and claw kind of IS the bird version of tooth and nail).

this is significant because, while adam may simply have been describing the tattoo like the nerd he is, the expression appears once more in the book: when ronan is being unmade by the demon.

the demon is trying to unmake him, and ronan is fighting back by desperately creating, manifesting beautiful things, things he loves, things that remind him of his friends; most crucially, he manifests scraps of paper saying unguibus et rostro – the very words adam said to him earlier (the “jagged” handwriting could be ronan’s “furious” one or adam’s “erratic” one, but i tend to think it’s adam’s, since the mint leaves are a clear callback to gansey).

so as ronan fights to stay alive, he’s clinging to the memory of all the good things in his life – including the words spoken in the moment after adam kissed him, right before ronan put his fingers to his mouth as he’d been dreaming to do for months – but in a way, he is also holding those words as a reminder, remembering that adam told him to “fight tooth and nail”, fight with everything he has – and that is exactly what he’s doing.

[ravenclawsandbeak]

i had to reblog this A+ addition bc now I’m even MORE emotional over these ridiculously in love dorks

[honeytuesday]

and maybe i am a little bit in love with all of my friends. how could i not be when they place their whole heart in my hands and trust me to carry it safely home? lazy days spent in comfortable silence, tearful nights spent giving each other a reason to live. the exhilaration of learning your little quirks melting into a future where i know you better than the lines on my open palms. mutual understanding to be forever gentle with one another. inside jokes that follow me long after you've gone, reminding me to slow down and laugh a little more. your eyes are the lens through which i can see the world with love. your embrace is the shelter under which i find strength to continue on.

[quelmdn]

basking ☀️

(A small jerejean... vibrating for tsc2 coming SOON 😵‍💫)

[weltenwellen]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

[yukaruuyuh]

Pls pls pls pls NORA do this game happen soon 😭🥍

[soullesstomatoes]

jean: traumatised, in denial, trying to get through each day, terrified of his future-

jeremy: this is my cardboard dog barkbark von barkenstein

[pepeshka]

my sun

[unearthlydust]

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES THUNDERBOLTS*

[starsworth]

imagine being such a good boykisser that the boy who never wants to kiss anyone thinks he could die happy after spending his last days on earth having the privilege to kiss you and the kicker is, he means this literally bc he's certain he'll die, and then he almost does. not only that, but you're such a good boykisser that after said boy is tortured and almost killed and left extremely injured, one of his top sources of anxiety is that you might not kiss him again. genuinely no one was doing it like andrew minyard.

[renison-truther]

Imagine thinking no one cares about you or appreciates what you do and then the boy you’ve been kissing that you thought was a fever dream says thank you. he says you were amazing. and then you find out that was him saying goodbye. Andrew was so valid in choking Kevin after that.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Duck”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[flodaya]

pride & prejudice (2005) dir. joe wright