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Let someone love you the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali
people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
Hello! I’m rereading The Changeling and I can’t remember for the life of me what Ginny meant by ‘more like power is the weakling’s ambition’, Antonia’s pride and her own conclusions after that. Could you elaborate please?
She forces herself to tune back in to what Antonia is saying about a letter she just received from her parents. Apparently some wizards came by their bookshop to get her family to pay a “protection fee” in these unsettled times. Common enough in Diagon and Knockturn Alleys these days apparently.
Antonia scoffs. “They didn’t count on my Auntie Victoria.”
Ginny huffs. “Probably were just hoping your family would be too scared to do anything,” she says scathingly.
“Fear is the weakling’s power,” Antonia says, sash drawn dramatically across her chest.
“More like power is the weakling’s ambition,” she counters.
Antonia looks at her in surprise, delicately penciled eyebrow crawling up under her fringe.
“What?” Ginny demands, shifting uncomfortably under her gaze.
Antonia smiles then, a dazzling spread of red lips over perfectly white teeth. “So you’re learning at last.”
Ginny scowls at her, not liking to be spoken to as if an unruly child, even as she knows Antonia has a valid point. Ginny hadn’t understood when she first met Antonia, mistaking ambition for maliciousness, unconventional thought for something as simple as evil. There is no easy corollary to be found between ordinary –normal?—and good. An entire world of nuance and subtlety and extraordinary exists in the spaces between.
She can see that. She just wishes other people could too.
I assume this scene from chapter five is what you are referencing.
Ah, the great foible of Slytherin. Assuming that to be ambitious means to lusting after power. Ginny is at once acknowledging that ambition is much more complex than merely wanting to have power over other people, and also beginning to see how that thirst for power more than anything else is perhaps a sign, ultimately, of weakness. The weak hoping to not be weak, but also a weakness of ambition to see so narrowly.
Remember, this conversation around power started in the previous year in the context of Umbridge and her actions, as ultimately being about trying to have power over all decisions, over Dumbledore and his supposed 'army', and over the whole school--and what that mean and how it landed on the students in really disturbing ways. And in the scene you are talking about above, it's in the context of Harry and his narrow of view of Slytherin and her, and her anger over it. They've just had their big fight over Draco Malfoy that is really more about Ginny thinking Harry isn't capable of seeing nuance when it comes to Slytherin. That maybe all he can see is that they are all after power and therefore are all evil. That there is no difference between ambition and evil. When she knows very well that there is far more grey than that, that the grey is the entire point. Ginny, at this point, does not crave power over people. She never really does. When she does wield power over people, it is merely as a tool, not an end in and of itself. Controlling people itself is never the point. Her ambition is ultimately about being true to herself, to the knowing and accepting of her own strengths and weaknesses both. She just wishes she could be seen for them by others (Harry) too.
Craving power as an end in and of itself is both a weakness in understanding and in a weakness in ambition. True ambition would reach far beyond it.
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people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt
THE FIRES INVITATION
In hearts chamber a fire exists
It burns with such furry I can not resist.
Deep in my veins it takes such form
It’s a force of nature, a thundering storm.
It’s quite hard to describe, is it like the embers that glow?
Or like the sea tides, an unmatched flow?
Is it a foe I should learn to fear?
Or is it my blade when dangers near?
It invites me in it’s wicked dance
It asks me to join the show
Should I give it a chance ?
will I rise or burn, oh only heaven would know!
Got a lot of ambitions but at the same time too tired to try to achieve any of them lol
So, a while ago I figured out that video games can kind of answer what kind of struggles you face in your actual life.
When I realized this, I was playing Hatsune Miku and noticed I'm decent at most the hard and extreme songs, but I refuse to play them unless I can get a perfect chain on them. It's so bad, that even Cantarella's extreme and extra-extreme is unplayed despite me being able to play both of them. Like, I can learn pretty much all the songs, but if there's even one part I can't play, I won't play it at all.
That told me, just like in real life, I'm scared of failure even if I'll do 99% well on it. If it's not 100% (perfect) then I will just leave it until I rot and die.
I really hate that I'm like this.
But, on a less painful note, I also noticed that in games like The Legend of Zelda, I'm cheap as hell and will wait until the very last second before spending my rupees. Aka, in the older games, I would wait until my counter was max before buying potions or upgrades of items.
In the later games, I would avoid spending at all until I got the wallet upgrades and even then scarcely would I spend my money.
I think what that is relates more to me being perpetually broke irl. I'm scarce with my money because I know I should keep as much as I can for... whatever I may need.
Also, a not so good bonus is that I will play through most the Zelda games without potions or other healing items (like I usually play hero mode first if I can). Even in games where I have a potion in my inventory, I just won't use it when Link's health is low rip me in A Link To The Past. I think that means even irl I will destroy myself before even thinking about asking for help, which is obviously a terrible way to live :)
My shoulders feel heavy with unfulfillment
My hands have been soaked in disappointments
My feet are tied up with the weight of my expectations
My head has been forced to bow down to my failures
Yet in my eyes still lies that fire
My eyes will shine even if my face is dirty
The fire of my ambition will not be absorbed by the hell fire of the world
My shoulders feel heavy with unfulfillment
My hands have been soaked in disappointments
My feet are tied up with the weight of my expectations
My head has been forced to bow down to my failures
Yet in my eyes still lies that fire
My eyes will shine even if my face is dirty
The fire of my ambition will not be absorbed by the hell fire of the world
I’m just saying.. you could do so much better. Don’t you want that for you? What are you waiting for?
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people in fanfiction are so good at identifying v specific smells. I literally struggle to identify vanilla when I’m sniffing a candle labelled “VANILLA” how are these kids getting woodsmoke, rain, mint, and a whiff of byronic despair from a fuckin tshirt