He Said He Wasn't Feeling Anything

chrollo simps heres some required reading:

art of war by sun tzu 

wuthering heights by emily brontë

nadja by andre breton (en français)

pride and prejudice by jane austen

notes from the underground by fyodor dotoevsky 

honestly anything by dotoevsky. here’s his full works in a pdf

while we’re on russian theory: the communist manifesto by karl marx

the metamorphosis by franz kafka 

waiting for godot by samuel beckett / en attendant godot (en français)

the merchant of venice by william shakespere 

soloman’s song of songs + the gospel of judas

no exit by jean-paul satre / huis clos (en français)

a room of one’s own by virginia woolf

fideleo by beethoven / here’s the opera online

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There is this one troupe that keeps cropping up with Stanley & Xeno that I absolutely love and I'm living for it. It's that Xeno without Stanley is actually worse off whereas Stanley without Xeno is better.

They split ways after graduation and Stanley enlists. The military is harsh and stressful but not only does he survive; he thrives. In only a few years, he climbed the ranks. He commands a special unit and the whole unit puts their full faith in Stanley fucking Snyder. 

Xeno goes to school and is faced with not only immense stress and pressure to succeed, but he has to do all of it without his only support: Stanley. We can assume this based on the heavy parallels between him and Senku. Stanley is the equivalent of Senku’s full friend group since he’s the one who’s got great stamina, brute force, and talent in skill heavy tasks. Xeno finds kinship with Senku because he sees himself in the kid, except he didn’t have a mentor to guide him. Due to the heavy parallels we can also assume he had a situation like Senku where his parental figure wasn’t around much in his life. 

All that stress, a major lack of support, and finding himself trying to make up for the sudden hole left by Stanley who's shown to be a caretaker type to him? Xeno fucking cracks. He gets through school but he’s already changed. He’s got a malice that he brings with him to NASA and it only grows with the constant pressures placed on him by those who hold him back. Those cracks start to widen. His mentality falters and we see him go from the happier, innocent, science-loving doctor who started messaging with a talented boy to a man who’s ready to sell out the whole world in order to progress. 

The manga even alludes to this quick mental degeneration as the first few times he’s shown in the flashback chapter as being dressed in all white with a more relaxed demeanor.

The first panel that shows him touting the power of science is the first time in the flashback where he’s dressed in something black.

When it cuts to him giving the dictatorship speech we see him now dressed in a black coat entrenched in shadows. Even his eyebags get more and more noticeable during this change signifying the on-going stress in his life. 

What makes this the best troupe to me is that its importance hinges on one solid aspect of Stanley and Xeno’s relationship: Stanley needs Xeno. He can command his unit as needed but goes off of the orders given by Xeno. Xeno gets kidnapped? Stanley is the only one who actually cares enough to not only chase him halfway around the world but to conduct a full on operation just to save him. Even after he’s reanimated a second time, Stanley is *always* by Xeno’s side.

There’s something silently bittersweet about the whole situation. Xeno’s the only one who makes mention that *he* holds *Stanley* back and Stanley ignores it, opting instead to continue on his path. 

I can make this moment even better~

Fantasy Names

Enigma (f)

Gaia (f)

Euphemia (f)

Kalliopi (f)

Luitpold (m)

Kosma (f)

Alawis (m)

Moria (f)

Sol (f/m)

Ansgar (m)

Zoraya (f)

Raginald (m)

Adalind (f)

Ophelio (m)

Minna (f)

Atlantis (m/f)

Fridolin (m)

Sirena (f)

Mars (m)

Ryn (f/m)

Bruna (f)

Tassilo (m)

Dahlia (f)

Yami (m)

Lyra (f)

Alexios (m)

Océane (f)

Valerian (m)

Walda (f)

Erix/Eryx (m)

Lalita (f)

Aramir (m)

Isalin (f)

Odila/Otila (f)

Karan (m)

Helias (m)

Isgard (f)

Brun (m)

Valassia (f)

Aura (f)

Luitger (m)

Selie (f)

Admes (m)

Faralda (f)

Nayan (m)

Malachi (m)

Xelena (f)

Philemon (m)

Zephyr/Zephir (m)

Deva (f)

Disclaimer: You can, of course, use any name you like for any genre of story. Some of these names are from actual mythology, some of them I just liked as names in a fantasy story.

More names!

GAY POWER!

Stanley Snyder has the funniest character concept in Dr Stone:

He's a special ops soldier. He's a marine. He's a sniper. He's a pilot. He's somehow in his twenties.

He's the world's greatest marksman. He can fly a plane and shoot a machine gun at the same time. He looks like a supermodel, lipstick and mascara included.

The protagonists spent three volumes just running away from him. He turned the most overpowered character in the series into Swiss-cheese. The only way to stop him is to petrify the entire planet.

He's a queer-coded villain. It's the least problematic thing about him. He slaughtered the entire main cast. At the end of the series they give him a medal.

“I’ll never be the same” - jayvik

since tumblr does like edits i bring a new offering

oh this is also an old one

Libracollector

Libracollector is a term for anyone who hoards/collects terms like books in a private library.

Day 24 of @knightlyte coining event. Prompt: collecting

DNI: ableist, racist, bigot, truscum, transmed, TERF, anti-mogai/neopronouns/xenogender, anti-mspec gay/lesbian/etc., anti-endo, queerphobe, REG, gatekeeper, anti-decolonization, anti-abortion, prolife, anti-anti, NSFW/kink/BDSM