On Death - Tumblr Posts
You wandering and winsome little soul, The body's guest and its companion too, Into what places now will you depart? You pale and stiff and naked little thing, You won't make jokes the way you're wont to do. Animula vagula blandula Hospes comesque corporis Quae nunc abibis in loca? Pallidula rigida nudula Nec ut soles dabis iocos. --The dying poem of the Roman emperor Hadrian, cited in the "Vita Hadriani" of the Historia Augusta
Theodor Kittelsen - The Plague is Coming (1896)
A Song on the end of the World
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.
CZESLAW MILOSZ
this is exactly what i see when listening to this. it's like the chorus parallels what the majority see when they contrast death against life. but!! the narrator won't have an end because death can't keep him from his love, his home. like he says 'heaven and hell were words to me'. and as such, when it comes to the end of his time, it is not the end of all life, but rather an eerie life still growing green.
when my time comes around, lay me gently in the cold dark earth
no grave can hold my body down, i'll crawl home to her
—hozier // work song
this is one of those things that once you hear it, your world is just changed.
I want it back = I drag its dead weight forward
Baie | she/they | unlabled | minor
— currently listening to: 'who we are' by hozier and 'hate to be lame' by lizzy mcalpine feat. finneas
— currently reading: 'hamlet' by william shakespeare
hello :> welcome to my little blog! I mainly just reblog things that i love or that resonate with me. Otherwise i’m talking about current reads or school. i’ve kinda got my foot in the door of studyblr and bookblr.
about me: australian!! 2006. lover of love and life. infj 4w5 unlabeled and very much in love <3. chaotic good! and recently chronically ill. rediscovering and building my faith :)
academia: graduating class of '23. atar + headstartx2, [english, general math, legal studies, psychology, chemistry] I love learning languages!! currently self-teaching japanese [mother tongue is english, small talk in japanese, very minimal french and korean]
the goal: double bachelor of criminology and criminal justice + psychological science
fandoms here! they don't have huge relevance here, but i love them dearly <3
sherlock!! acd and bbc (currently consuming all other adaptations like a starving victorian child)
rwby!! yes my favourite character is qrow, moving on.
bts!! army since 2018, bias: v :)
bee and puppycat!! seriously in love
the osemanverse!! esp loveless, radio silence <3 and ofc heartstopper
arcane!! obsessed.
monster high!! grew up on gen1 :)
it's honestly kinda hard to think about these off the top of my head ngl
now books!! favourites that have stuck with me :>
the midnight library by matt haig good 4 the soul
the inheritance games by jennifer lynn barnes NEWBOOKSOON!!
i fell in love with hope by lancali
song of achilles by madeline miller no elaboration needed.
embassy row series by ally carter reread too many times
hamlet by william shakespeare
sparrow by sarah moon beautiful
⇢ i love you whoever you are, and i'm always here for you :)
thank you for reading all this <3
Source: cafekitsune
“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)
i thought you were crying wolf, but you weren't. who am i to be so sceptical of your cries? dilapidated by my hands, your life was terminated by my faithlessness in you. is forgiveness something the insentient can give? but how am i to be deserving when i heard your cries so irreverently.
Baie | she/they | unlabled | 18
– currently listening to: 'david melrose theme' by hauschka, smokey eyes by lincoln, along with elias hix, hozier, noah kahan, gang of youths – currently reading: all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr and phosphorecence by julia baird
welcome
hello :> it's general chaos around here. possibly some web weaving of my own floating about. but there's not much else to it
about me: australian!! 2006. lover of love and life. infj 4w5. very in love ᰔᩚ chaotic good! rediscovering and building my faith :) lqbtqia+
academia: graduated '23!! starting my double degree in ‘24! slowly self-teaching japanese ᰔᩚ. chaotic academia by blood
the goal: bachelor criminology and criminal justice + psychological science (and maybe cybercrime in the future?)
master list
(links are broken atm, but the tags are correct)
#poems and quotes
#ineptias loqour (my posts)
#study log
#media
#artwork
#music
#musings (a fav of mine)
#meme
#not a meme but that same category of posts
#on christianity
#letters to myself
#that one type of green
#web weaving
#anderson don’t talk out loud. you lower the iqueue of the whole street. (queue tag)
added this section with the tags i use most often so i can find posts later, everything else is just #on *thing* and frankly i can't be bothered with that.
will possibly add links to fandoms and reads... not sure yet. it would be good to have an active list of all the books i read and enjoyed enough to keep a list of…. here’s a short list of fandomesque things tho: sherlock, rwby, bts/kpop, d20, sk8 the infinity, good omens, epic the musical, lore olympus webtoon, loki series, fnaf,
books would include: archives of despair by caleb finn, hamlet, good omens, throne of glass series, embassy row series, the song of achilles by madeline miller, they both die at the end duology, the inheritance games series, shadow and bone+six of crows, everything by alice oseman
music as well perhaps? hozier, bts, ericdoa, noah kahan, glaive, cage the elephant, lizzy mcalpine, cave town, mccafferty, chase atlantic, brakence, eden, the front bottoms, (it’s all over the place… just not much country music tbh)
here’s the old intro post, haven't decided what to do with it yet
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ik this is a new account, but i’ve been here since july 2020 <3
for what i have done and failed to do i am sorry.
the undeniable truth of growing up and growing old; sometimes i forget that while we are living we are dying too. makes living more worth while yk.
oh god i’m 17. like i have been, for several months. but it just hit me.
