“Now, Every Time I Witness A Strong Person, I Want To Know: What Darkness Did You Conquer In Your Story?

y’all

a mutual of mine

suddenly has posts on their blog

with links to “find women to have sex with”

my mutual is NOT POSTING THESE

tumblr just got even worse

“I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.”

— Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (via compelledbybooks)

Sometimes you just feel like editing percabeth you know.

@sixofcrowsnet heist: wlw ships alina x genya

“she sighed and studied the toes of her boots. “i missed you,” she said. i was surprised at how much those words hurt. i’d missed her, too. and i’d felt like a fool for it.” 

for whatever reason, you suddenly gain godlike powers of control over the universe. what’s the first thing you do?

my personal list of greek myth retellings that are actually good and do something interesting with the myth:

The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea, Mary Renault

Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays, Christa Wolf

The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood

The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason

Here the World Entire, Anwen Kya Hayward

Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Jeanette Winterson

Achilles, Elizabeth Cook

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald

Averno, Louise Glück

Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson

Antigonick, Anne Carson

Oresteia, Robert Icke

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

Girl on an Altar, Marina Carr

Los Reyes, Julio Cortázar

Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell

O Brother Where Art Thou, Coen Brothers

honorable mention to Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia which doesn't count on a technicality

turn up the volume on your favorite song to scare the serotonin out of hiding

me, barely existing: “I’ll take another iced coffee”

“Everything you have ever felt, everything you’ve buried... Forget the bottle. Let your chaos explode.”

I’m a simple woman. I find a song I like, I listen to it for three weeks uninterrupted until I find another one.