
"You are dripping on my lovely new floor," said Rafal. Rhian blinked at the black stone tiles, grimy and thick with soot.
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Coffee Or Tea And Why?
Coffee or Tea and why?
Neither. I don't like the taste of coffee, and don't want to become dependent on caffeine.
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One of your best moments? And one of your worst?
A more recent one is that I got 100% on a final exam for an English class, and my professor called my essay "astonishingly brilliant." I was ecstatic.
Unfortunately, I'm not willing to admit a worst moment though most of them revolve around phobias and my failure to suppress an emotional reaction or counteract others'.
hmm i dont know why, but i think you like psychology
True! I've referenced it several times before.
I've been reading a bit about the themes of justice and retribution in fairy tales lately, and I keep finding excerpts that sound like they were ghostwritten by Rafal, haha.
"Most parents today shield their children from the violent imagery found in Grimm’s fairy tales. But if you’ve had enough conversations with young children, you’ll find that they already think a good deal about violence and death and what it all means, so sanitizing fairy tales will not stop children from thinking what they naturally think. If children are nursed on fairy tales that have been sanitized to appease the sentiments of adults and not left alone to nurture their own spiritual development, it will damage their ability to develop a sense of justice, [...]"
"The thirst for justice is strong in children. To deny them drink is to deny them redemption. The next time my daughter pronounces a death sentence on a wicked sinner, I won’t talk her out of it. I’ll agree: they do need to die. [...]"
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“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.” ― G.K. Chesterton
"Modern crime fiction has nothing on the ingenuity, brutality and sheer bizarreness of the offenses committed in classic fairy tales. Moreover, fairy tales are ruthless. Our contemporary crime novels have the monopoly on moral ambiguity, true, but fairy tales take no prisoners and often offer no redemption. Mercy is not a hallmark of the genre and even the kindest, most benevolent maid-turned-princess isn’t afraid to take out her wicked stepmother."
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"[...] revenge tends to break out whenever legal remedies are blocked, as when the evildoer controls the legal machinery or is otherwise above the law, or when public law enforcement is very lax."
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fave dessert?
Probably gelato, specifically Venchi's gelato. It's phenomenal.
This song is very Rafal to me, like an hourglass' sands running out. It reeks of desperation. There's nice, taut tension, the implication his time is almost up. Additionally, the lyrics could reference his cremation, or compare his corpse to a sunken warship, and some parts could be read as Rafal's sudden heel-face turn to Good.