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I Am the Brother of XX by Fleur Jaeggy // the sorrow festival by erin slaughter// Monster Movie by Nicola Maye Goldberg // Unicorn by Angela Carter // History of my brief body, Billy-Ray Belcourt // Lucerys Velaryon and Aemond Targaryen, House of the dragon

Diary Blog: entry 2 - Hanahaki

Hanahaki hanahaki,death of a one sided love. Where the flowers of love blooms through your lungs, the petals wet with your blood like a moonlit night. Nothing beautiful about it still it shines in pure unadulterated pain of love. Love is beautiful, love is pain, love is heartbreak, love is hanahaki. Your painful, unrequited love blossoms in the most beautiful but horrible way.

From my Pinterest to your tumblr feed…Henry Winter

Mrs. Hudson is the epitome of sassy ness ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌

absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

HOAX WALLAPAER 

Lucerys's outline in aemond's sapphire when he jumps him at storms end, like how to add little proofs of obsession, he's both the reason for the sapphire being there and complete focus of aemond 🤌

And then we found wonderland

She calms all our fears with a Cheshire cat smile. 😄

📸: Kevin Winter

Hi all, so I made a concept book art of the song "OUT OF THE WOODS" - It's called "What if out of the woods is a book"