darker than black

I think often about how when tempted by the ring gandalf and galadriel talk about the nebulous amorphous Great Deeds they would do while boromir talks almost exclusively about how he would save his people. like. dunno man, that’s the kind of shit that makes me want to fucking sob. boromir’s ‘corruption’ is still a desperate and all-encompassing desire to protect and defend. says a lot about a man, i think!

he comes into the story with a wish to protect his people he struggles through a wish to protect his people he dies protecting the people who are immediately next to him you can’t understand boromir at all if you don’t engage with what his view of power is and it’s a responsibility to protect the powerless the tragedy of him is imho that even such a good and honorable worldview can be twisted by the ring - tolkien-feels

The older I get and the more responsibility I have, the more I appreciate and sympathize with Boromir.

get loved loser, get absolutely fucking treasured

become ungovernable

do you think the people of Monaco breathe out a sigh of relief when Charles is gone for races because they know they have a lower chance of getting run over

That context definitely puts a new spin on the phrase, though. Like, that's not expressing a normal kind of happy. That's expressing "I'm not currently experiencing gut churning legitimate fear for my life, which is nice"