Me, Watching Madame Tracy Tone Down Her Look And Change Her Aesthetic For Shadwell & Anathema Burning

I’m sick and tired of being called “mortal” like, you don’t know that. Neither do I. I have never died even ONCE. Nothing has been proven yet. Stop making assumptions. It’s rude.

I do in fact have that summertime sadness

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot

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

“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)

It’s ok if you’re poor because poor spelled backwards is roop and ROOP HAI TERA SONA SONA SONI TERI PAAYAL

i’m saving my brain for special occasions. if i use it every day it’ll get dirty

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

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thegreatgatsbydaily)