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Thesis, antithesis, synthesis by theatredelabsurde
Fandoms: Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
05 Sep 2024
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‘Twas a demonstration, maybe, that while Gormenghast was not the world, the world still resembled Gormenghast enough for its evil to ring familiar and for its inhabitants to move in accordance with rehearsed schemes, eternal foils of one another, their life naught but the cyclical dream of a sleeping giant or the theatrical enactment of destiny itself, mocking them with the pretense of choice when, in truth, all had already been decided since they were born and casted in their roles.
[or: seven-year-old children tend to have a certain, innocent, propensity for rule-breaking. Earls and Dwellers alike]
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"À-propos: I was just thinking how much more convenient it would be if the next me could just… you know, catch the bullets."
Miranda tilted her head: "Catch the bullets?"[Or: An homage to what was lost -in flesh, steel and memories]
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- Part 1 of I believe in the great discovery
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Her mother’s dress is ornate with lace, heavy with unkept promises, and when Addison takes her father’s arm the soft rustle of cloth rings like a muffled cry.
They descend the stairs in perfect synchrony and perfect silence.
Somewhere, in the darkness that awaits for them below, a flute begins to play.[Or: a study in drowning]
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Critique of practical reason by theatredelabsurde
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
12 Jul 2023
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The cage is small and the girls are small and the room is small too, and Suguru can feel the stench of the people around him rise and wrap around his head in a suffocating grip. They smell just as bad as curses and he wonders, half-a-thought amongst a million others, if their taste would be equally revolting too.
(Exorcise. Consume.)[Or: Geto chooses his truth.)
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And given half the chance, would I take any of it back? by theatredelabsurde
Fandoms: Wolf 359 (Radio)
15 Feb 2023
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When the Christian God rose from His grave, it took Him three days.
When Miranda Pryce rose from Hers, it took Her five years, three months and two days.
As she accomplished her personal miracle without Heaven by her side, she considers it a draw.[Or: Four years after her return on Earth, Miranda Pryce makes a decision. And then another. And another.]
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- Part 3 of I believe in the great discovery
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How people come together and how they part ways. Of what they accomplish, what they don't and the ways it does or does not matter in the end.
[Series title taken from the poem "Discovery" by Wisława Szymborska]
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"There is a sort of fellow-feeling among characters in a tragedy: he who kills is as innocent as he who gets killed: it's all a matter of what part you are playing. Tragedy is restful; and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it. There isn't any hope. You're trapped. The whole sky has fallen on you, and all you can do about it is to shout"
Jean Anouilh - Antigone- Words:
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Sandra knocks on his door around midday to remind him that the staff holiday party is at five o’clock, and also that he forgot to RSVP if he was bringing a plus one?
“Hardly,” Elias snorts distractedly, squinting at the last paragraph he wrote; can they really decrease enrollment handling time by eight percent or is he being too bold? “Peter wouldn’t be seen dead at—”
He stops, brow furrowing. A wave of something close to vertigo washes over him, and he grasps the edge of his desk to ground himself.
“I…ah, no. No plus one.”
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Elias Bouchard does not remember his dreams.
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Bookmarked by theatredelabsurde
23 Jun 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
probably the most upsetting fic I’ve read in this fandom
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This place is creepy. His immediate instinct is to turn back around and leave.
And go where? Back to his empty flat? To a bar, to drink himself miserably drunk?
Jon heads deeper inside the taxidermy store. He has to walk slowly, carefully, and still almost pulls a fox to the floor when its fangs snag on his shirt. He’s carefully plucking the fabric free from the teeth when a light, airy, feminine voice says, “My, my, what do we have here?”
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- Part 1 of life is a rollercoaster
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if you were blind, you would not be guilty by CyberSearcher
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
12 Jun 2021
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They sit in the center of a circular room, in a plush-backed chair. There is no dias, no elevation and yet the distance between them and their visitors is countless and void. The glass dome above lets the Eyes peer down onto the scene below.
If either had a name, no one remembers.
A pair of gods rule their kingdom. They amuse themselves with their supplicants troubles and their enemies fears.
Bookmarked by theatredelabsurde
04 Jan 2025
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folie à deux
noun; the presence of the same or similar delusional ideas in two persons closely associated with one another(glimpses of an avoidable alternative throughout the years)
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Bookmarked by theatredelabsurde
30 Jul 2024
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Fuchsia wants what she never can have.
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Bookmarked by theatredelabsurde
07 Jul 2024