Jem & Tessa - For The 5th Of The Shadowhunter Ship Weeks

Merlin Challenge: Favourite Friendship (Merlin & the knights)

PARADOX

It is as right and as wrong as hurting someone who hurt you.

It is as beautiful and as hideous as a face created to hide your own.

It is as simple and as complex as admitting you were wrong.

That maybe you don't need to hold it in.

That maybe you can tell someone.

That maybe pain is something people do understand the way they understand hunger, thirst and desperation.

That what people don't understand is that other people understand pain, too.

- Elf Monarch

(Hi, I'm Indian, so I'm trilingual. I've added two soundtracks to go with the piece. One is in Hindi, and I love this song. The other is English, since I'm guessing most of the people on tumblr speak English.)

((I love both the tracks.))

one good thing about december on this hellsite is that this gif will be making its rounds again

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

reblog to save a life, i didn’t know this

CAMELOT but it’s 2020.

And the whole damn medieval knight lifestyle.

for this holiday season i’m asking for old books and a sword

I look at you and I wonder about myself. Would I knowingly give up my life for something?

You have to have a reason. Something you care about. Something that’s more important than anything.

“If there is a life after this one,“ he said, "let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.” “There will be other lives.” Jem held his hand out, and for a moment they clasped hands, as they had done during their parabatai ritual, reaching across twin rings of fire, to interlace their fingers with each other. “The world is a wheel,” he said. “When we rise or fall, we do it together.” Will tightened his grip on Jem’s hand. “Well, then,” he said, through a tight throat, “since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.” Jem smiled at him, that smile that had always, even on Will’s blackest days, eased his mind. “I think there is hope for you yet, Will Herondale.”

— Will Herondale and Jem Carstairs (Clockwork Princess)