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ALTOUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA, Julia Armfield
To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half-hidden.
To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA by Julia Armfield ★★★★★
OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA
miri + leah
our wives under the sea did a good job of using a mysterious setting to tell a deeply uncomfortable story about illness death and grief.. like all the weird body horror happening to Leah is so much of what u might encounter when caring for a sick person who is slowly diminishing but you don’t really want to acknowledge it and you just want to hang onto them but no longer feel that this person in a deteriorating body is the person you once knew & loved… like damn grieving for someone long before they are actually gone but you still have to deal with the reality of their corporeal body and trying to deny how much of a burden it is on you and forcing yourself to do everything lest it seem that you have forgotten them & no longer love them and in the process disconnecting & isolating yourself from everyone around you
haunted houses // Our wives under the sea
Black ink, white acrylic, oil (background) on paper, digital on post
this might be my favorite opening line of a book ive ever read
“Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything.”
— e. e. cummings, Spring is like a perhaps hand
they dont even know the “i can excuse racism” and guy walking in with pizza memes are from the gayest weirdest most mentally ill show of the 2000s that got cancelled twice and sent an entire streaming platform into bankruptcy
This show was so fucking unhinged it was one of the best tv shows of all time
Isn't this the show with the blindfolded air conditioning assembly? And the Room Temperature Room?
And it's SO normal
@weiwei-uplink community mention! ! ! !
I FUCKING LOVE COMMUNITY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
the room temperature room clip is what first got me to watch it
Also the source of one of Tumblr's holidays ^
#'this is the darkest timeline' entered the cultural lexicon because of Community#'i hope this doesn't awaken something in me' also from community#that gif of the devil with a chainsaw saying 'GAY MARRIAGE' also from community#MILES MORALES exists (more indirectly) because of Community (@shmreduplication)
Darkest Timeline (which IS the 'guy walking in with pizza' timeline!)
"This better not awaken anything in me"
"GAY MARRIAGE!"
Community -> Miles Morales
I’ve been listening to the people in the apartment below me have arguments for two years now and I still can’t figure out what language they’re speaking. The best I can narrow it down is like if Portuguese and Hebrew had a baby. Is that a common pidgin combination
I just listened to a clip of this and jesus christ you fucking got it. there are like 3500 people in the whole united states who speak this and two of them are in a very fraught marriage four feet below me
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also like. I love Orion as like. Person who isn’t a person. Child who was born dead. The whole section of the story where he starts straight up subjecting people to eternal torment for attacking El rings strange in contrast with everything else until you remember that his heroics were the byproduct of hunting maleficaria for mana, his actual goal. Guy who’s whole personality was built over a sinkhole that finally caved in. Lost all his morals
Ooohhh, I feel like this is a good time to use this quote from Naomi’s AMA…
“(…) Once Orion does register El, he fairly quickly realizes that she is the kind of person he wants to be. Everyone around Orion constantly is telling him he’s a hero, and meanwhile he’s mostly just doing what comes incredibly naturally to him and thinking "this is great, I get to hunt all the time, and I’m a hero! :D” and meeting El and being forced to look at the system that has made him a hero and its unfairnesses makes him start to realize that he wants to truly be a hero, that this is something that he wants to choose, the hard and moral path (…)“
And also this quote from The Golden Enclaves…
“It’s both of you,” Shanfeng said. “You, and the child Ophelia
made. The boy we heard about from our own children as they came out of the Scholomance each year of the last four. The boy who saved the lives of others, who took no payment, and paid no attention to which enclave they were from. Ophelia got—not the hero she wanted, but the hero she deserved.”
And of course this delicious nugget from The Lat Graduate:
The words are even engraved on the stairway railings and the upper molding of the library reading room, those precise words: to offer sanctuary and protection to all the wise-gifted children of the world, only absolutely nobody ever took them seriously. (…) Except, apparently, the Scholomance itself.
Orion and the Scholomance as parallels is absolute crack to me. Selfish machinations of powerful enclavers; run on the death of countless children; and told a beautiful golden lie that they believed in so hard, they built that lie into their true selves.
(With a little help from your friendly neighborhood mass-destruction witch :)