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
the level of unimpressed morgan showed when the actual avengers showed up on her front porch is only achievable if your own dad is both the smartest person on earth but also the strongest avenger
A witch is a magic user with more focus on medicine and the body and a wizard is a magic user with more focus on like physics and academia. I don’t know what dingus made up one day that they’re just the 2 magic genders, that sounds stupid
3 hours of sleep: I’m exhausted
8 hours of sleep: I’m exhausted
16 hours of sleep: I’m exhausted
pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later
— Vengeful, Victoria Schwab
#implied autumnal sexy times
go find what a fic of ur life would be tagged as on ao3
me: [listens to a new song]
my brain, upon receiving one single hit of Döpamine™: we shall listen to only this song until we have wrung every last neurotransmitter out of it
Inktober Day 03: Path
teachers: ohh kids these days are so pretentious and overdramatic, that’s the sign of the times, yes, this generation is lost
me, lookin thru biography of any romantic poet: umm well
My love for stationery is never ending. There’s not much a new notebook and pen can’t fix.