Art Imitates Life - Tumblr Posts
Inktober time
relink story squad!!!
sieg and rosetta have been my faves to play so far, i’ve been enjoying building silly stamina numbers
pretty good egg day haul
I keep coming across this stunning artwork and every time I do, I have to stop for a while. It's an incredibly emotionally loaded piece, and I can't get past Dean's hands gripping Sam for dear life. They're perfect. They're cradling, devouring. They swallow Sam up like Dean has been trying to do their whole lives. I can't look away.
It finally occurred to me today, after stumbling across it again, that it almost looks like he's breathing life into Sam. Like something awful has happened and the only way Dean can fix it is to pass his own life into Sam somehow, which he will always do, again and again, without a moment of hesitation, no matter the cost.
And then it hit me.
(The Kiss of Life, 1967. Photo by Rocco Morabito.)
This is what it reminds me of. It's the same desperation. The same surrender. The same exchange of life in a breath, a meeting of mouths, fear and need and rescue.
It's beautiful.
Hearts will dream again Lungs will breathe in Wash away the sins It's where it begins Feet won't fail you now Arms won't let you down Wash away the sins It's where it begins
I have no idea what this anime is, but the post is absolutely correct.
I say this from experience.
CAUSE EVERY TIME WE TOUCH I GET THIS FEELING
EVERY TIME WE KISS I SWEAR I COULD FLY
CAN’T U FEEL MY HEART BEAT FAST, I WANT THIS TO LAST
NEED YOU BY MY SIDE
"If you're dead at the end of the story, were you dead from the beginning?"
No. You were alive in the middle, and the things that mattered to you mattered even if they stopped mattering when you weren't there to care about them any more. That's why there are so many stories and philosophies and religions and art all obsessed with discovering the meaning of life while we're still here to discover it. The meaning in your life is whatever meaning you give to it, though, because we're all dead at the end of our story. We're all temporary, we're all staring down an ending that's already written in stone, but that doesn't mean we don't matter while we're here.
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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.
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Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”
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[ID: Tumblr user @slowwshoww writes:
suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!
Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:
« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)
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[ID: Tumblr user @orpheuslament:
i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning
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[ID: Tumblr user @faustandfurious:
the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.
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Do you still believe myths
can save you? Foolish creature
Let me be clear: every version of this story
Ends with you being slaughtered.
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Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig
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[ID: Tumblr user @sawasawako:
if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now
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This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.
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Aeschylus, The Oresteia
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
the funniest thing is chevy chase was also hated by the cast for similar reasons, to the point where joey mchale had repeatedly gotten into fisticuffs with him. the strangest thing is pierce as a character had so much space for growth in a good way but he keeps being used (and to be fair if his actor shared his views then i see why the views did not change). i wish they used another actor to play this mf so that at least we'd have gotten some character growth,,,, iirc him dying was the copout because chevy chase did something too egregious and everyone came together to say no thank you fuck off
i never really understood why pierce was there. like he was just there to be laughed at for being ignorant and creepy, then i guess he was meant to be a kind of villain. but then he supposedly redeemed himself at the end of season 2, but is still kinda just an asshole in seasons 3 and 4. it got to a point where he just wasn't funny (that point came very fast) and he just became a nuisance. to me it's a lot like how i view ren yamai in komi can't communicate, a character with no real meaning but being there for me to utterly despise and for me to hate reading any chapters that she appears in. back to pierce, why did he get so many chances for forgiveness? it started in episode 2, where he directly rejected the assignment given to him, to the point where jeff repeatedly telling him that they should be doing the assignment did nothing to sway him, then suddenly it's jeff's fault? and then that makes jeff get an F on the assignment?? and pierce is still not in the wrong??? literally made jeff fail and we still gotta forgive him. and why are we supposed to feel sorry for him in economics of marine biology? my guy you have been consistently a racist, a homophobe and all around an asshole throughout this entire show i do not feel sorry for you. when shirley said he died in basic intergluteal numismatics that was some of the biggest relief i've felt in my life istg.
Ok, yeah. Maybe the character's curl pattern is wildly different every time I draw them, but I wake up each day with my curls doing whatever they damn please, so I'm just being realistic here.
Currently in the denial stage of learning to draw curls.