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Moon Lovers 1 Year Anniversary Week August 28th: ‘When You Knew’

I was wondering which scene to use, since I couldn’t pin point in my mind at which point I knew I was trash for this show, until I remembered Aisha’s tags: #I CAN HEAR ANISAH HOWLING when she giffed this scene; and I think this was the moment for me. 

Just watching Wang So broke me completely, in this one scene you see what an outsider he is, you see how much affection he has, you see how badly he wants to be a part of it, and you see how much he knows he can’t. 

It’s a slow process even before he begins to smile - first he tries to look away and mind his own business, but he can’t help but smile at his brothers’ antics and its so sweet knowing such a simple moment caused his ‘dog wolf’ facade to break. Which then makes the moment where he and Wook meet eyes, all the more heartbreaking - as if Wook’s attention on him is a reminder that he’s not allowed to share this joy.

So yeah, this was when I knew. Happy One Year Anniversary Moon Lovers!

So pure 🤍✨️

Put variety in white. x

SOOO FREAKINGGG CUTE😩❤AHHH

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Can I get these dresses?🥲

Instagram: whenelizabethreads.

I love picnics!!❣️

My soulmate might be a picnic basket.

If you’ve ever wondered why Egyptian mummies are so rare, it’s because wealthy Europeans ate them. Between the 12th and 17th centuries, while pilfering the continent for goods, resources, artifacts, and Africans themselves, colonizers also looted and exoticized Egyptian tombs. Mummies were ground up into medicines and consumed by the elite, believed to be a remedy for various ailments and an infusion of life-energy from the spirits of the dead. When Egyptian mummies became scarce after hundreds of years of eating them, corpses from other parts of North Africa and Guanche mummies from the Canary Islands were instead exported and sold to European apothecaries. But even as they engaged in cannibalism for their own selfish indulgences, one of the primary ways that Europeans demonized Indigenous peoples was by naming them all as savages and cannibals.

Colonizers have not limited their use of racial cannibalism to the medicinal. They have also used it punitively and vindictively. During the genocidal King Leopold II’s occupation of the Congo (1885-1908), Belgians massacred more than 10 million Africans. Most were forced to work for the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company, and were severely punished if they did not meet their rubber quota. In Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris, there is a black and white photo of a Congolese man named Nsala, seated at the edge of a porch. His eyes are fixed on the severed hand and foot of his 5 year-old daughter, Boali. The Belgian militia had cut them from her body before killing her and her mother. To further exact their cruelty, they ate Nsala’s wife and child. They did this because he had failed to meet his rubber quota for the day.

The thing about white supremacy is that it does not merely subsist through the consumption of the Other; it whitewashes by de-emphasizing and lessening these misdeeds and others. History looks very different when white people are not the protagonists in its retelling. A significant instance: the accepted and well-known white feminist narrative about the Salem Witch Trials of the 1600s is that it was a hysteria driven by rampant misogyny and a pointed persecution of white women, the survival of which they harken to as evidence of their historical resilience. I prefer to think of it, more accurately, as a community of racist, religiously-intolerant enslavers and colonizers of stolen Native land cannibalizing itself—and I wish it had finished its meal instead of begetting centuries of white people who would gorge on the lives and cultures of Black and Indigenous folks.

As the Donner Party traveled across the U.S. as part of a violent westward expansion in 1847, a small group that broke off from the larger party became stranded without food in a grueling wintery hellscape. So, they conspired to murder their two Native American guides, Salvador and Luis, for food. The two men ran away, but were found a few days later and were swiftly eaten, the only members of the party to be hunted and murdered before they were cannibalized. Salvador and Luis are rarely spoken of when the story is told to relay the suffering and survival of the people who ate them. In the version of the story that tells the truth about colonialism and the violence it requires, the Donner Party are the monsters, not the damsels.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a monstrosity of boundless proportions. Its enormity altered the world in a multitude of ways and none were/are more changed by it than Africans and their descendants. Many Africans believed—or, rather, knew—that white people were cannibals and feared that they would be taken away and consumed, like the others who had disappeared and not returned once white people began to arrive on African shores. Fear of white cannibalism on the ships carrying Africans to other lands was indeed palpable, and often led to attempted mutiny and escape or suicide by jumping into the waters below.

—  Sherronda J. Brown, THE HISTORY OF CONSUMPTION AND THE CANNIBALISTIC NATURE OF WHITENESS

’夢‘ DREAMS 1990, dir. Akira Kurosawa

book quotes that make me believe in love:

*VERY SPOILERY*

~feel free to add on (:

•“Nothing existed except for that and Annabeth at his side. Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world” -Heroes of Olympus 04 - The House of Hades

•“Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her” -Heroes of Olympus 03 - The Mark of Athena

•“You said you loved the words of my heart, the shape of my soul. I remember. I remember every word you said from that day to this. I will never forget them. There are so many words I wish to say to you, and so many I wish to hear you say to me. I hope we have all our lives to say them to each other”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I know how you are with your words, and, Will—I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“His eyes were steady and blue; they were everything Will was: true and tender, sharp and witty, loving and kind. “Marry me,” he said. “Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it”. -Clockwork Princess

•“There is nothing about you that I can imagine not loving”. -Clockwork Princess

•“there will never be a time when I do not love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I do not wish you other than you are, Tessa. You are what you are, and I love you”. -Clockwork Princess

•“Tessa was lying on her side, her brown hair spread over the pillow, watching Will, whose face was bent over the pages, with a look of tenderness in her eyes, a tenderness mirrored in the softness of Will’s voice as he read. It was a tenderness so intimate and so profound that Charlotte stepped away immediately, letting the door fall noiselessly shut behind her”. -Clockwork Princess

•“I need to know you believe me when I say I love you. That is all” -Clockwork Princess

•”I love you. God, I love you. I waited so long to say it.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I am—I am catastrophically in love with you” -Clockwork Princess

•“When he saw her, he wanted to be with her; when he was with her, he ached to touch her; when he touched even her hand, he wanted to embrace her. He wanted to feel her against him the way he had in the attic. He wanted to know the taste of her skin and the smell of her hair. He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off” -Clockwork Prince

•“I have wanted to do this,” he said, “every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. But you know that. You must know. Don’t you?” -Clockwork Prince

•“You want this?” His voice was hoarse. “Yes,” she said. “Do you?” His finger traced the outline of her mouth. “For this I would have been damned forever.” “For this I would have given up everything.” -Clockwork Princess

•“I want you,” he says. He says “I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you”. -Unravel Me

•“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend,” he says. “The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body, Juliette—“ -Unravel Me

•“I want so many things,” he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time” -Unravel Me

•“I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,” he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it” -Unravel Me

•“I’m so—I’m so desperately in love with you” -Unravel Me

•“I love you, I whisper. “I love you exactly as you are”-Ignite Me

•“he kisses me, kisses me until time topples over and my head spins into oblivion. It’s a heavy, unbelievable kiss. It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. The kind that takes forever and no time at all. His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “I think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode,” and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.” -Ignite Me

•“I will be here every night,” he whispers, his words so soft, so tortured, “to keep you warm. I will kiss you until I can’t keep my eyes open” -Ignite Me

•“I want you to be happy, I tell him, my eyes searching his. “I want you to have a family. I want you to be surrounded by people who care about you, I say. You deserve that.” “I have you,” he says, resting his forehead against mine. His eyes shut. “You should have more than me.” “No,” he whispers. He shakes his head. His nose grazes mine. “Yes.”-Ignite Me

•“You are my salvation, Feyre.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“He had stayed. And fought for me. Week after week, he’d fought for me, even when I had no reaction, even when I had barely been able to speak or bring myself to care if I lived or died or ate or starved. I couldn’t leave him to his own dark thoughts, his own guilt. He’d shouldered them alone long enough” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Am I supposed to deny,” he drawled, but something sparked in those eyes, “that I find you attractive?” “You’ve never said it.” “I’ve told you many times, and quite frequently, how attractive I find you.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“Smile again,” he whispered. So I smiled at him, broad and without restraint. “You’re exquisite,” he breathed”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I did not mind stepping out of the shadows, did not mind even being in the shadows to begin with, so long as he was with me. My friend through so many dangers—who had fought for me when no one else would, even myself”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I’m thinking,” he said, following the flick of my tongue over my bottom lip, “that I look at you and feel like I’m dying. Like I can’t breathe. I’m thinking that I want you so badly I can’t concentrate half the time I’m around you, and this room is too small for me to properly bed you. Especially with the wings.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•”I couldn’t … I couldn’t stop being around you, and loving you, and wanting you. I still can’t stay away.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I felt for him.” -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“And now I want you to know, Rhysand, that I love you. I want you to know … ” His lips trembled, and I brushed away the tear that escaped down his cheek. “I want you to know,” I whispered, “that I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belongs to you”. -A Court of Mist and Fury

•“I missed you. Every second, every breath. Not just this,” he said, shifting his hips for emphasis and dragging a groan from deep in my throat, “but … talking to you. Laughing with you. I missed having you in my bed, but missed having you as my friend even more”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I’m grateful,” he said after a while, as the camp beneath us stirred in the building light. “To have you at my side. I don’t know if I ever told you that—how grateful I am to have you stand with me”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time we were allowed to have … The wait was worth it”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I believe that everything happened, exactly the way it had to … so I could find you.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“I told him how I had fallen in love with him—every glance and passed note and croak of laughter he coaxed from me. I told him of everything we’d done, and what it had meant to me, and all that I still wanted to do. All the life still left before us”. -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“And will you come with me? On this adventure—and all the rest?” Rhys leaned forward and kissed me. “Always.” -A Court of Wings and Ruin

•“She loves you—in a way I’ve never seen anybody love anyone.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I love you,” he breathed. “More than life, more than my territory, more than my crown”. -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“I lifted my eyes to his again and found stars and darkness waiting. Found home waiting. Never enough. Not to paint him, know him. Eons would never be enough for all I wanted to do, see with him. For all I wanted to love him.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“You make me so very happy. My life is happy, and I will never stop being grateful that you are in it.” I looked up to find him not at all ashamed to have tears slipping down his cheeks in public. I brushed a few away before the chill wind could freeze them, and Rhys whispered in my ear, “I will never stop being grateful to have you in my life, either, Feyre darling. And no matter what lies ahead”—a small, joyous smile at that—“we will face it together. Enjoy every moment of it together.” -A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses)

•“Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. Often. It’s disgusting, and I can’t stop”. -The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)

•“By you, I am forever undone.” -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart if you must. Just come home.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soils of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.” -The Queen of Nothing ( The Folk of the Air #3)

•“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours”. -The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

•“Because I love you!” Her mouth fell open. “I love you,” he repeated, shaking her again. “I have for years. And he hurt you and made me watch because he’s always known how I felt, too” -Assassin's Blade

•“He brushed his lips against hers. “I love you,” he breathed against her mouth. “And from today onward, I want to never be separated from you. Wherever you go, I go. Even if that means going to Hell itself, wherever you are, that’s where I want to be. Forever.” -Assassin's Blade

•“I just want to be with you, he murmured. “I don’t care where we go. That’s all I want”. -Assassin's Blade

•“He was so beautiful—so full of all the things that she wanted, all that she hoped for.” -Assassin's Blade

•“this relationship between them, this bond that was forming, so unbreakable and unyielding that it made the entire axis of her world shift toward him”. -Assassin's Blade

•“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.” -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“he was made to be worshipped”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“I have grown sick of shadows. You are more to me than all art can ever be”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself. I was only happy when I was with you. When you were away from me you were still present in my art”. -The Picture of Dorian Gray

•“He was helping. And he was willing to meet a horrible fate in order to keep her alive. He hadn’t left her alone. She hadn’t been alone.” -Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass Book 3)

•”I kept thinking about how you might never know that I missed you with only an ocean between us. But if it was death separating us … I would find you. I don’t care how many rules it would break. Even if I had to get all three keys myself and open a gate, I would find you again. Always.” -Queen of Shadows

•“And damn if it didn’t kill him, the quiet joy in her face. They had walked out of darkness and pain and despair together. They were still walking out of it. So that smile … It struck him stupid every time he saw it and realized it was for him”. -Queen of Shadows

•”You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist. Live.” He didn’t have the words. Not when what she said hit him harder and deeper than any kiss. So he climbed into bed and held her tightly all through the night”. -Queen of Shadows

•“I spent centuries wandering the world, from empires to kingdoms to wastelands, never settling, never stopping—not for one moment. I was always looking toward the horizon, always wondering what waited across the next ocean, over the next mountain. But I think … I think that whole time, all those centuries, I was just looking for you.” -Queen of Shadows

•“I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“And when Aelin laid her palm flat on him again, she said, “You are mine.” Rowan’s breathing started again, jagged and savage as the waves breaking around them. She flicked open the top button of his pants. “I’m yours,” he ground out. Another button popped free. “And you love me,” she said. Not a question. “To whatever end,” he breathed.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“He was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. Hers—he was hers, and— “You are mine,” Rowan breathed, and she felt the claiming in her bones, her soul. “I am yours,” she answered. “And you love me.” Such hope and quiet joy in his eyes, beneath all that fierceness. “To whatever end.” For too long—for too long had he been alone and wandering. No longer” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” Rowan breathed onto her skin, and flicked his tongue over the spot where his canines had scratched. “I’d walk into the burning heart of hell itself to find you”. -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“She whispered onto his mouth, “I’ll always find a way back to you.” -Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass Book 5)

•“I love you,” he whispered in Elide’s ear. “I have loved you from the moment you picked up that axe to slay the ilken.” Her tears flowed past him in the wind. “And I will be with you …” His voice broke, but he made himself say the words, the truth in his heart. “I will be with you always”. -Kingdom of Ash

•“Aelin awoke to the scent of pine and snow, and knew she was home. Not in Terrasen, not yet, but in the sense she would always be home, if Rowan was with her”. -Kingdom of Ash

•”Because he was false,’ said Damen, ‘and you are true. I have never known a truer man.’ He said, into the stillness, ‘I think if I gave you my heart, you would treat it tenderly”. -Kings Rising

•“I want you,’ said Damen, ‘I’ve wanted you for so long, I’ve never felt like this with anyone”. -Kings Rising

•“The kiss happened because they couldn’t help it, and it was so sweet and so right that Damen felt a kind of ache”. -Kings Rising

•“You were supposed to be a side effect of the drugs." “I'm not a hallucination," Neil said, nonplussed. “You are a pipe dream," Andrew said”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“He straightened and turned to find Andrew had shifted closer. There was nowhere for Neil to stand except up against Andrew, but somehow Neil didn't mind. They'd been apart for seven weeks but Neil keenly remembered why he'd stayed. He remembered this unyielding, unquestioning weight that could hold him and all of his problems up without breaking a sweat. For the first time in months he could finally breathe again. It was such a relief it was frightening; Neil hadn't meant to lean on Andrew so much”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making Andrew's pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•”Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the honesty, and the kisses. Hopefully Andrew would figure it out eventually. "You were amazing”. -All for the Game 03 - The King's Men

•“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.” -The Song of Achilles

•“Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other’s bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” -The Song of Achilles

•“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world” -The Song of Achilles

•“He is half my soul, as the poets say” -The Song of Achilles

•“This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.” -The Song of Achilles

•“In the crooks of your body I find my religion” -Sappho

•“she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out”. -Caraval

love is real. it’ll never happen to me. whatever

faceless embraces

1. alex & lutz back, 1992, ph. wolfgang tillmans 2. ph. nan goldin 3. love-In, los angeles, 1967 ph. jerry de wilde 4. joseph lorusso, “cafe lovers 4” (detail) 5. el lenguaje del limbo II by mariana restrepo 6. photographer unknown 7. lovers in a field, 2019 ph. clifford prince king 8. isle of wight festival, 1969 ph. david hurn 9. joseph lorusso, “lovers in the garden” 10. the big gamble (1961), dir. elmo williams & richard fleischer