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Literature & ennui

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Lavi | 22 | she/her | https://flow.page/lavanya currently obsessed with Mo Dao Zu Shi

MDZS Characters - Major Arcana

  • Lan WangJi - Judgement | Upright: reflection, reckoning, awakening
  • Wei WuXian - The Hanged Man | Upright: sacrifice, release, martyrdom
  • Lan XiChen - The Hermit | Upright: contemplation, search for truth, inner guidance | Reversed: loneliness, isolation, lost your way
  • Jiang WanYin - The ChariotUpright: direction, control, willpower | Reversed: lack of control, lack of direction, aggression
  • Jiang YanLi - The Empress | Upright: motherhood, fertility, nature
  • Nie HuaiSang - The Magician | Upright: willpower, desire, creation, manifestation | Reversed: trickery, illusions
  • Xiao XingChen & Song ZiChen - The Lovers | Upright: partnerships, duality, union | Reversed: loss of balance, one-sidedness, disharmony
  • Xue ChengMei - Temperance | Reversed: extremes, excess, lack of balance
  • Jin GuangYao - The Wheel Of Fortune | Upright: change, cycles, inevitable fate | Reversed: no control, clinging to control, bad luck
  • Jin ZiXuan - The Tower | Upright: sudden upheaval, broken pride, disaster
  • Jin GuangShan - The Devil | Upright: addiction, materialism, playfulness
  • Jin RuLan - The Sun | Upright: joy, success, celebration, positivity | Reversed: negativity, depression, sadness
  • Wen Qing - The High Priestess | Upright: intuitive, unconscious, inner voice
  • Wen QiongLin - Death | Upright: end of cycle, beginnings, change, metamorphosis | Reversed: fear of change, holding on, stagnation, decay
  • Mo XuanYu - The Moon | Upright: unconscious, illusions, intuition | Reversed: confusion, fear, misinterpretation
  • Nie MingJue - Strength | Upright: inner strength, bravery, compassion, focus | Reversed: self doubt, weakness, insecurity
  • Lan SizHui - The Star | Upright: hope, faith, rejuvenation
  • Lan JingYi - The Hierophant | Reversed: rebellion, subversiveness, new approaches
  • Lan QiRen - The Emperor | Upright: authority, structure, control, fatherhood | Reversed: tyranny, rigidity, coldness
  • A-Qing - The Fool | Upright: innocence, new beginnings, free spirit | Reversed: recklessness, taken advantage of, inconsideration
  • Luo QingYang - The World | Upright: fulfillment, harmony, completion
  • Baoshan Sanren - Justice | Upright: cause and effect, clarity, truth
I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it. He meant you’re gold when you’re a kid. Like green. When you’re a kid everything’s new. Dawn. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep it that way, it’s a good way to be. I want you to ask Dally to look at one, I don’t think he’s ever seen a sunset. There’s still lots of good in the world.

The Outsiders (1983) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

2020 gothic

- you join a zoom call. everyone’s mic is muted, but no one is talking anyway. you stare at the squares with faces in them. which is your face? you can’t be sure.

- the news is full of numbers. you try to learn what they mean, but the articles are full of jargon from fields you have no experience in, and you swear the numbers change when you blink. 

- you wake up. you sleep. you wake up. you sleep. how many days was that? you have no idea.

- you go for a walk. a shadow follows you down the street, moving when you move, stopping when you stop. always the recommended six feet away.

- every day you get several emails from corporations you’ve never heard of. each company name sounds fake, too vague, too optimistic. “Stay healthy! :)” they say. “We’re committed to keeping you safe! You must stay healthy! We love you very much! We learned everything about you so we can keep you safe! Please believe us we love you so much we’ r e  , s 0Rry:):)):))”  You try to unsubscribe, but the link just takes you to a blank black webpage. Suddenly, you can make out your reflection in the screen. What’s that over your shoulder?

- you’ve been wearing the same clothes for days, but somehow there is laundry.

2020 gothic

- you join a zoom call. everyone’s mic is muted, but no one is talking anyway. you stare at the squares with faces in them. which is your face? you can’t be sure.

- the news is full of numbers. you try to learn what they mean, but the articles are full of jargon from fields you have no experience in, and you swear the numbers change when you blink. 

- you wake up. you sleep. you wake up. you sleep. how many days was that? you have no idea.

- you go for a walk. a shadow follows you down the street, moving when you move, stopping when you stop. always the recommended six feet away.

- every day you get several emails from corporations you’ve never heard of. each company name sounds fake, too vague, too optimistic. “Stay healthy! :)” they say. “We’re committed to keeping you safe! You must stay healthy! We love you very much! We learned everything about you so we can keep you safe! Please believe us we love you so much we’ r e  , s 0Rry:):)):))”  You try to unsubscribe, but the link just takes you to a blank black webpage. Suddenly, you can make out your reflection in the screen. What’s that over your shoulder?

- you’ve been wearing the same clothes for days, but somehow there is laundry.

the untamed, 陈情令 (2019) ; wei wuxian, a loathed cultivator of dark and demonic arts, resurrects sixteen years later after his tragic death. his return to the world brings him to reunite with the people in his first life, including his soulmate, the honoured lan wangji. 

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Lan Wangji and two of the things he loves the most in the world: Wei Ying and rabbits

Happy Birthday Lan Wangji - for @mdzsnet event

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wwx hiding behind lwj in all adaptions is the cutest thing ever 😂😘❤❤

© _gichang

A letter from Achilles to Patroclus;

Patroclus,

I love you with all my heart.

And yet, as you sit on that rock overlooking the sea, you, more beautiful than any body of water, I cannot fathom why you could possibly think that you are not worthy of someone like me. The stars may call you ordinary, but I worship you as I would any of our gods. I would denounce every single one of them without hesitation in order to hold your hand or hear your voice. It is that simple. I swear it.

But, you are still blinder than a poor, lost beggar wandering the streets, because you cannot see me offering you everything. My heart, it is yours. My soul, it is yours. Whatever you ask, it is yours. Yet, you simply walk past as I reach out for you, because I am Aristos Achaion, and you are Patroclus. I may have the world at my finger tips, but I would much rather have you there. Much, much more than anything.

Because you, Patroclus, are worth far more than what I could have. So, no matter what, even as you keep traveling down that road without sight, I will keep following until the day I am killed in Troy.

Until then, our footprints will be imprinted in the earth side by side and afterwards, there will only by us.

Forever yours, 

Achilles.