#topic: humanity

Richard Siken, Piano Lesson

Louis Rhead's illustration of The Seven Ravens, from Grimm's Fairy Tales: Stories and Tales of Elves, Goblins, and Fairies

Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective

Carol Ann Duffy, Thetis

Jeannine Hall Gailey, Introduction to the Body in Fairytales

Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

Henry Justice Ford's illustration of The Enchanted Pig, from The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Ursula Vernon, Jackalope Wives

Franny Choi, Soft Science

C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

@arieefineart, forgetting those lessons (x)

Ada Limón, Before

George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

A Prince’s Thoughts || Accepting 

Anonymous asked:

💭 + What is Kumo's stance on humanity so far? Does he have a favorite thing about them?

“Humanity? Now that’s a question if I’ve ever heard one. I’m almost afraid to answer, because the humans can be quite... emotional. Some of them have proven to be rather touchy on some simply mundane subjects.  They’re all so ... strange. Humans are strange.  They’re quite odd honestly.  They’re odd and emotional and I don’t claim to understand them at all. 

While I might look similar to a human, I am what would be known in their tongue as “Humanoid” but I am not human, and really how arrogant is it to call things that look like them but are not them humanoid? I don’t call them ihminen kaltainen. I personally find the word ‘humanoid’ rather rude. I’m sure you can see what I’m getting at.  

But they aren’t all bad even if they are confusing. They’re confusing but I would never label them bad. Arrogant maybe but not bad. Humans do seem to have this unyielding sense of self imposed importance though. Somehow they seem to think the entire universe revolves around their Earth as if there couldn’t possibly be anything else out there and if someone even looks like them slightly  they must be one of them. They’re rather naïve.  

It takes all kinds I suppose... 

But I’ve met all kinds of them and I still think every one of them is strange. In their own unique way, they are all so very odd. Human culture and customs evade me. Their food though... if the humans have mastered anything it is cuisine. There is not a single thing I have been given from human cuisine that is not utterly divine in some way. If only Black Wind could take some cues...   

But I have met many humans and all of them are very different from one another. I keep saying they’re odd but I’m sure to them I am just the same. None of them have horns after all and their eyes look much more like Windarian eyes to me. Though, I don’t think they quite have Black Wind’s sight.  Cid doesn’t seem to anyway. I don’t know about these Amestrians though... they all seem to be capable of strange magic I have yet to understand.  

I can’t complain about them. The humans I mean. At this rate it almost feels as though I’m collecting them. I have gained so many companions in the passing days and nearly all of them seem to be human.  I will give them that. Even after all the disaster that’s struck them, the humans persist. They are a resilient species. I’m almost positive that if for some reason Chaos wanted to wipe them out, even then somehow they would find a way to survive. So I drop my horns to that.”