My morning started off wonderfully i was warm and cozy in bed with two part 2
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girloftheforest
My morning started off wonderfully I was warm and cozy in bed with two dogs got up to feed them made myself a sweet coffee with milk grabbed a chocolate-covered waffle And then I opened OnlyFans checked the latest fan message and was greeted by a disgusting rancid rotten pathetic sausage plastered across my screen My mood instantly tanked The brainless monkey that owns that sorry excuse of an appendage was promptly reported and blocked Also I m in total shock at how dumb my brother s dog is just absolutely stunned But I still love her anyway So I read A Terrible Vengeance by Gogol The narrative is split into two parts a realistic section and a mythological section In the realistic part the story revolves around a Cossack his wife and her father Since I can t remember their names let s call them Cossack Wife and Father Basically the Cossack and Wife are madly in love and have a little son But the Wife s father is let s just say deeply messed up he doesn t live by local laws he s cold and detached drinks something other than the usual doesn t pray and has a creepy attitude toward his daughter She constantly has nightmares about her father trying to uh strengthen their bond if you know what I mean One night the Cossack is hanging out with his buddies near an abandoned castle when he spots the Wife s father inside The man has turned into some creepy old sorcerer with a long nose casting spells and summoning his daughter s soul to threaten her The Cossack realizes that the Father is a wicked sinner and a warlock So he locks him up and decides to have him executed But the Wife takes pity on her father after he swears he ll repent and change his ways She lets him go Of course the warlock immediately kills the Cossack then the couple s son The Wife goes insane She ends up living among the Cossack s former people who mourn and take care of her One day a man visits her claiming to be a close friend of her husband and says the Cossack wanted him to marry her if anything happened to him That s when the Wife realizes it s actually her father the warlock in disguise She attacks him but he kills her too The warlock is then haunted by a vision from the Carpathian Mountains a giant rider with closed eyes with a kid on a horseback The warlock doesn t understand what it means but he feels a profound terror and tries to escape Every path however leads him back to the rider Desperate he even begs a hermit monk to pray for him but the monk s holy book begins to and he refuses The warlock kills him in rage In the end warlock s horse brings him to a giant rider who grabs him The warlock is left neither alive nor dead thrown into a pit filled with other damned souls who tear him apart From the ground with the force of a volcanic eruption rises a giant undead being that joins in the warlock s torment Now the mythological part tells a legend Ivan and Petro were great warriors best friends who shared everything Ivan once helped a king who rewarded him with vast lands and riches Ivan in turn split it all with Petro They traveled to their new lands together with Ivan carrying his little son on horseback While crossing the Carpathians Petro consumed by jealousy pushed Ivan and his son into a gorge Petro became the richest man in the land When Petro died he and Ivan stood before God God asked Ivan what punishment he thought Petro deserved Ivan furious at the betrayal that cost him his life his son s life and his lineage declared that all of Petro s descendants would be terrible sinners and after death would remain neither alive nor dead trapped in the earth The final descendant the warlock would be the worst of them all and every time he committed an evil act his ancestors would rise from their graves with great suffering wanting to revenge him Petro himself would never rise but would endlessly crawl underground his bones stretching and breaking gnawing on his own limbs from pain and hatred God approved of this punishment but told Ivan he couldn t enter heaven either Instead Ivan would remain on the mountain waiting for the warlock I found the story about the Cossack his Wife and the Father decent but nothing extraordinary It s very typical of Gogol s work drenched in an aggressive Cossack folk atmosphere that doesn t resonate much with me However I loved the scene where the Cossack his family and friends are rowing down a river and corpses rise from the banks moaning It s stifling it s stifling That was genuinely chilling As for the legend I absolutely adored it especially the image of the great undead being crawling underground with its ever-lengthening bones It gave me major Dark Souls and Elden Ring vibes as well as reminding me of my favorite fan-made Oblivion mod The Living and the Dead which I ll definitely talk about in the future