Meo

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Congrats if you survived this year because what the fuck was that

god the tragedy of being born within a culture where it's expected of a person to live a lot of very long lifes to lose your mother with whom you should've had an opportunity to spend centuries with just after you reached your own adulthood. in the beginning of your first life. with everyone around you not being able to share your pain, because they, unlike you, had an opportunity to get to know her. because the loss will never be the same. with you killing her by her own desire, in an act to be considered honorable by the religion causing her death. with not even your own mother understanding the pain of ending her life with your own hand and after everything you've done to prevent it. essek thelyss you are such an unlucky man

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

Final note: while they were dating, a favorite activity was to go to a local cafe with a balcony and throw sugar cubes into people's hats.