fate/misc.

old man yaoi.

Margareta von Österreich-Toskana - Sonnenuntergang bei Lindau im Bodensee, 21.09.1913

the south is slowly killing him

"God Knows." Original song by Aya Hirano, adapted for and performed by Wendee Lee, the VA for Haruhi Suzimiya. It's truly a masterful performance.

And here's the Japanese version.

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For context: this is written within a work regarding the siege of Beirut in 1982. “Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)?” (x)

You can prop it up as the benefits of marriage, but I think there's a much deeper discussion to be had about how we've built society around marriage as an inevitable conclusion and neglected to build support systems that function outside of romantic pairings.

It's not until Harrow the Ninth that Harrow - a narrator who spends much of the story being unwillingly bracketed into the Mithraeum's horrors of familial domesticity - offers a perspective on Abigail that doesn't focalise her primarily as a cook, wife, barren hegemonic foster mother, or unwholesome hobbyist.