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Melida/Daan: The Legend of Ben

Ben is among the oldest of all the young at 13.

At 13 he soothes the fevers of the littlest who have never had enough strength or food or love, he holds up buildings that should collapse and kill them all (yet he does not do so with his strength for he is scrawny like them, weak like them. He doesn’t even touch the wood) finds water sources that are impossible to see, shoots steady even when his hands shake (as if guided by something, as if he is not entirely himself but something other, something more).

He calls it the force, they call it Ben.

At 13 he becomes a legend.

Legends aren’t born, but made in the desperate tunnels full of dying children. They say he appeared one day from the sky, that when his elders left, he refused to. That he was not born on the bloody battlefields of hate, but that he stayed because he saw them, felt with them, heard their song. He stayed when the Jedi left.

The children see how he balanced Cersai and Nield (love and hate, peace and war, water and fire). They see how the three click into place, Melida and Daan and Other. They wonder if maybe there was always an empty spot between them, waiting to be filled. Wonder if that is how this war started. Wonder if between every Melida and every Daan there is a space for something Other.

No one remembers how the war started, only that it did. Maybe there used to be a third faction, maybe something other (something more, something Ben) and when it died or left there was nothing left to bridge the Melida and the Daan.

Ben is sure as the earth, light as the air (only because they cannot hear him cry at night). He is a contradiction. He says strange things and does the impossible. Sometimes he glows with something else (something more).

He is remembered as the one who stayed (no one will say where he went). He is remembered as the Other between all Melida and all Daan.

There is an empty seat in every house. An empty seat in the Trivumate, waiting to be filled. Outside historians call it the Absent Third Phenomena— they are not sure why it is (they do not want to dig deeper, dig into the bloody history, tear their secrets and traditions and culture from the rotting bodies of child soldiers. they do not want to know). In Melida/Daan there is a word that is untranslatable that describes it, A’Benui. It is sacred. It is told to every child too young to remember the sewers, told by every Young that was touched by Ben (his something other).

(The Melida-Daan don’t know this, but somewhere else in the galaxy Obi-Wan Kenobi leads his second army of child soldiers and wonders if he was meant for anything else. Wonders if they see the cracks and uncertainty and self loathing; the first ones hadn’t. He wonders if they would be ashamed of him now, fighting, bleeding, warring, killing even now. Wonders if he will ever know peace or if he will always be a false legend made from blood and tears and a need to believe.)

Well I may as well start my tumblr off with a bang!

The white top and trousers has me in a chokehold.

I think about it daily.

GLEN POWELL Bustle Magazine (Dec 15, 2023)

Day thirteen of posting my photography! 📷

(I may have forgotten this afternoon)

So I went to Peak Wildlife Park the other day. I wasn’t expecting the polar bears but they were a nice surprise when we got there!

I made a little deer friend which let me stroke its head and in return it gave me a muddy hand 🥰

The polar bears! There was a mother and her two cubs, although those two year old boys were the same size as her, and are expected to double in size by the time they’re fully grown.

They were very playful and were jumping all over each other in the water and throwing their floaty toys around. Mum was out in the back hut, snuggling down in the warm bedding which I thought was very sensible on that very cold day.

The arctic foxes were super cute!!

Very fluffy and active, they were wandering all over their enclosure shouting at each other. Very pretty animals!

Just a cute couple of birds that were eagerly watching the meerkats being fed mealworms.

The meerkats!

One of the keepers was doing a keeper for the day experience with a couple of guests and were feeding them mealworms. One of the meerkats decided that the lady’s fluffy and comfy hood was the perfect lookout spot!

The lemurs! This guy’s seen some stuff… 💀

It was a walk through enclosure, so the lemurs weren’t afraid to wander around people which was nice!

Oh and as always the penguins were super photogenic!

Hope you’ve enjoyed my piccies!

Day eighteen of posting my photography 📷

Just a VERY sunny day at Yorkshire Wildlife Park on one of my uni trips! This ‘lil lemur was chilling and absorbing any and all heat early in the morning.

Day sixteen of posting my photography 📷

Just a little photo taken of the river Barle with me standing on a cute little bridge in Exmoor National Park on holiday.

Kate Carter + Tyler Owens & The Twister Gesture (Twisters 2024)

It might be the most overly dramatic truck commercial ever made.

The Daniel Day Lewis of truck month