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Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino (2024)
Parthenope is not dead, Parthenope has no grave; she's been living as a beautiful young woman for five thousand years, running on hills, running on the beach.
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When Mina is doomed to turn into the very thing that harmed Jonathan, become the thing that he hates most, and yet he pledges he shall present his neck for her to drink her fill from, and share her fate in dark matrimony. When she asks him to read her the burial service because she is dead and he must bury her and he obeys and he becomes her chief mourner. When she thus gives him the freedom to let go, and he acknowledges it and says I see what you're doing but I choose to take care of you and I always be armed to protect you from monster or man. When she chooses to face her fate on her own terms by going to the Castle, separated from him. When he tells her to do as she wills, and offers her his own gun so she can have control of her destiny once she arrives to the gates of hell. When Jonathan and Mina Harker.
thinking about love as the ultimate transformative power in castlevania... richter's love giving strength to annette when she's practically dying from sekhmet's possession, juste and tera's care bringing maria back from the darkness, lisa showing dracula that he can be loved and good, alucard's love for each generation of belmont making him come back not to fight evil but simply to teach them how to fish despite knowing that he'll have to watch them die, olrox coming back to fight erzsebet out of love for mizrak, alucard saying that dracula still had goodness in him at the end precisely because his last action on earth was loving lisa's last gift to him, their son,... the only characters that are truly evil being the ones like Carmilla, the Abbott in nocturne or drolta who turn acts of devotion, love and trust into destruction and violence.... going to kill myself
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the thing that makes thomas so compelling in nosferatu 2024 is that he’s downright pathetic but he cares so much about his wife that he turns his patheticness into brave devotion. idk if that makes sense. like he’s SO pathetic but then he puts on his big boy pants and does his best because he’s so devoted to his wife that it doesn’t even matter. “excuse me but she asked for no pickles” ahh marriage. i love him so bad.
I cannot believe that we had to wait all this time to see a book-accurate version of Jonathan Harker, even if it's in a Nosferatu film... sinister era we're living in
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Ashara Dayne in His Mercy Burns
This GORGEOUS art is by the wonderful @amaati. I’ve been holding onto it for a while and am excited to share it!!
Here’s a little snippet of my latest chapter, Daenerys V.
In her dream, she found Madam Lyria, mask shedded and bloodied upon pale stone, Ashara Dayne sobbing with the blood of her womb, in a dress as beautiful as twilight.“Mama!” she called. “Muna!” But the woman ignored her, hands clasped upon her breast, nails slick with a babe’s life as crimson as the sky above the Doom.
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even though he only appears in 1 dunk and egg novella, daeron the drunken IS a genuinely interesting character to me. a lot of asoiaf is about exploring the more realistic outcomes of very traditional fantasy ideas (what if the vows the loyal knight swore required him to stand by while his king horribly abused people? what if the beloved prince eloping with a young lady caused a massive civil war? what if the warrior who overthrew the evil tyrant had absolutely no interest in the actual job of ruling?) and daeron is an exploration of what it would actually be like to have prophetic visions. would you find them fascinating and try to understand what they meant and what would happen in the future? or would they be frightening and overwhelming and not actually provide any guidance, only a horrible sense of dread that something is going to happen that you don't understand and can't prevent? would you embrace being able to know what was going to happen, or is it something you would try to forget at all costs if there's nothing you can do to change it?
bloodraven headcanons ^^
- He used to get mocked a lot as a kid for the way he looked and it was Daemon Blackfyre who encouraged him to get better at the sword and ignore the comments
- He started training with the bow and arrows because he quickly understood that he would get his ass kicked in a close combat.
- He looked up to Daemon Blackfyre way more than he would ever admit it and even after his death, he thinks of him sometimes.
- "What would Daemon have done ?"
- Daemon is Brynden's silver springs situation
- He never fully felt like a Targaryen nor a Blackwood but he got more interested in his Blackwood heritage during his late teens when he had his first visions.
- His father didn't care much about him but Daeron would always be kind and even if he would never admit it, Brynden saw him more as a father than a brother.
- Despite everything happening in King's Landing, he never forgot his sisters Gwenys and Mya and still took care of them until he was sent to the Wall. His only demand to Aegon V before he left was for him to take care of them too.
- I like to think that Brynden started having visions and dreams during his teens and knew what was going to happen with Daemon. He tried to stop it as much as he could but it didn't work and it taught him about his own abilities.
- "You'll see things you'll never be able to change."
- He hates Aegor because he's the only person in the world who has the power to make him feel small. Even when he grows up, every time he hears Aegor's name, he feels like the powerless kid he was, just as he felt powerless when Aegor took his eye. Brynden spent his whole life escaping that powerless feeling and he succeeded ; the only thing that still reminds him of the things he wants to forget is Aegor.
- Aegor getting with Shiera makes it even worse to him because Shiera's the only person he allows himself to be vulnerable with. And it also makes him mad insecure every time he remembers it.
- He can spend hours justifying the logic and inevitability of Daemon's death but every time he thinks about it, all he feels is guilt. The only thing that stops the guilt from becoming overwhelming is his conviction that he acted for the good of the realm.
- Brynden's philosophy when it comes to being Hand of the King is that he would never kill an innocent child unless that innocent child's death would benefit the realm. From the moment he kills Daemon and people see him as a monster and a kinslayer, he becomes more ruthless because he knows he'll never be able to win people's trust. He wouldn't let remorse or doubt stop him.
- He's the local Machiavellian prince basically.
- "How many eyes does lord Bloodraven have ? A thousand eyes and one."
- He finds the riddle genuinely amusing because he understands that there's a certain power in being feared.
- He's obsessed with the Blackfyres because if one of them gets the throne, Daemon would've died for nothing. Why would you have killed him just to let one of his sons have the throne years later ?
- He was a quiet kid and became a stern man. His quietness made people even more uncomfortable than his looks.
- He's an overall very sickly dude and he's always been that way : more frail than the other kids even when he got better with the sword, bow and arrows, the sunlight gives him headaches if he stays in it too long and his body is thin and more bony than muscly. Physically, he's the total opposite of Bittersteel.
- He always had a crush on Shiera but he knew that he was in love with her when he came back from the Redgrass field and she was the only one who looked at him like he still had two eyes.
- He has a very dark sense of humor that works really well on Shiera.
- Aerys was one of his first friends and he has a lot of affection for him but he loses respect for him when he sees the kind of King he is, especially after Daeron.
- His eye socket hurts him pretty much on a daily basis but at different intensities his whole life and he's a literal master at hiding his health issues. He only said it to Shiera but Aerys has known for years too.
- After naming him Hand, Maekar found himself surprised to see how fragile Brynden looked from up close. He just became so good at using the fear and hatred he causes to everyone that people are almost surprised to find that he's, in fact, just a man.
- He spent his time at the Wall coughing terribly because of the cold. The men of the Night's Watch may not have loved him but Brynden was surprised to see that at least, they respected his thoughts. His cold logic had more success with the men of the watch than with the rest of the realm.
- The first few months at the Wall were hard asf for him because he had sent most of those dudes to the Night's Watch during his time as Hand and they either hated him or feared him like crazy. Some of them still loathed him until the very end.
- At the Wall, he let Aemon deal with whatever ravens arrived from King's Landing especially, unless it was really important. He considered his duty to be only to the Night's Watch as soon as he entered it.
- He started feeling the presence of the three-eyed crow in his dreams as soon as he arrived at the Wall and that's why he would always lead the rangers beyond the Wall himself (mf still did it at 77). He wasn't sure if he was being warned or called.
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okay but thinking about today's update again
so right after Mina drank Dracula's blood, Jonathan vowed in secret that if she became a vampire, so would he
And we know he's still holding that vow because in today's update he never actually promised to kill Mina.
But then also Mina brings up that she won't just be a vampire, she'll be a vampire under Dracula's command:
At such a time I myself might be—nay! if the time ever comes, shall be—leagued with your enemy against you
Dracula terrorized Jonathan so horribly that after escaping, it still took Jonathan six weeks of being cared for in a hospital to even be able to give the nurses Mina's name and address
Jonathan isn't just vowing to become a vampire, he's vowing service to his torturer if it means staying with Mina
I need to lie down
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rewatched interstellar tonight and. humanity is saved not because we allow ourselves to be emotionally distant and rational and logical and care for the greater good, humanity is saved because of love. because one guy loved his daughter enough to communicate with her over space and time and she loved him enough to understand. the idea that there is a future humanity out there that is looking back at us and saying I love you. I love you enough to bend a dimension you do not yet understand to save you. Everything is about love.
"We've forgotten who we are... explorers, pioneers; not caretakers."
I often think of this quote when thinking about Interstellar because it sums up the movie so well, all these characters who try so hard to detach themselves into cold scientists, to stick to the facts and logic when at the end of the day, most of them act for love. Cooper is a caretaker until the end ; all he does, this whole expedition across galaxies and black holes, he does it for Murph, to protect her and to help her do what she was meant to. Amelia is on a quest to save humanity and implant a new colony that could save the specie and she takes time to build a little grave for the man she loves, decades after seeing him last. Murph realizes her dad didn't abandon her and she fulfills his wish of saving humanity. Every time something bad happens, it's born out of selfishness or a desire to be objective and ignore one's feelings. Cooper was right in a way, everyone's forgotten who they are : they were all, from the very start, caretakers. The exploration, the pioneering, it was just an expression of their love. They did their best to take care of the people they loved, father, daughter, friend and lover until the end.