Before The World Was Big

Please, picture me in the weeds. Before I learned civility.

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GLADIATOR (2000) dir. Ridley Scott DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

“Veil of Smoke” by Unknown Photographer ◇ Cigarette smoke caught between transparency and touch

“there is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.” ― Miyamoto Musashi

Kami Art by Gordiart

When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.

We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide

America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die

To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail

Aeron: "Men fish the sea, dig in the earth, and die. Women birth children in blood and pain, and die. Night follows day. The winds and tides remain. The islands are as our god made them."

Some scenes for the prompt "Home" for twoweeksoftheon

(The scene with Aeron hit me, when I reread. We often fault Theon for his homecoming, for failing to get to know the people and find allies first. But one of the first things he does on the Iron Islands is in fact ask for advice and information in full humility, from someone he remembers as potentially helpful. Aeron isn't.)

"You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can."

― Elena Ferrente, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

(Elena Ferrante)

Elena Ferrante

I love, love this answer so much

“I begin to feel a new tenderness toward you, very raw and unfamiliar, like what I remember of love when I was young— love that was so often foolish in its objectives but never in its choices, its intensities.”

—Louise Glück, excerpt from “Crossroads”

If Nino Sarratore has zero haters then I’m dead