Just ugly cried my eyes out reading fic - a MDZS Twilight retelling, of all things. I don’t like Twilight, but I adore this fic, but man that was painful.
If I didn’t know for sure that this whole series was going to have a happy ending - I don’t know if I could take reading on.
every time someone mentions the little prince I almost forget it’s a children’s book because I literally cannot get through the part about being tamed without crying
“To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…“
But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life . I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the colour of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat…” The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. “Please, tame me!” he said.”
Yeah………..
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near —
“Ah,” said the fox, “I shall cry.”
“It is your own fault,” said the little prince. “I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you…”
“Yes, that is so,” said the fox.
“But now you are going to cry!” said the little prince.
“Yes, that is so,” said the fox.
“Then it has done you no good at all!”
“It has done me good,” said the fox, “because of the color of the wheat fields.”
“Goodbye,” he said.
“Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“What is essential is invisible to the eye,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
“It is the time I have wasted for my rose–” said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.
“Men have forgotten this truth,” said the fox. “But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose …”
“I am responsible for my rose,” the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
Aaaand all of the medical procedures are done! Second (and last) tooth that needed to be removed got extracted about an hour ago. Doctor says the place where the first one got extracted is healing beautifully. I won’t have to go back until my next check-up in October.
It does leave me with a 600+ € bill that my mother offered zo pay, since I’m currently not insured, but I will have to pay her back somehow, and ugh.
The moment you realise that your latest fanart might have way too many flesh-coloured pixels for tumblr. XD
I mean it’s spicy, but - it’s not even that spicy.
Anyway, if you wanna see that Wangxian fan art that might be too flesh-coloured for tumblr’s filters, you can do so on my twitter. It’s a redraw of one of the uncensored manhua panels, but still one of the tamer ones.
