Pavilion Hall At The Hermitage Museum. St Petersburg, Russia.

“I’ll go where you go”

Boring

Overused

May be a lie

“it seems to me my destiny is to be a bride of adventure”

Poetic af

Soft as hell

Invites many feels

Fortune Teller reading my palm: It just says “yikes.”

me: *gets touched by random wave of sadness*

me: so, this is what poets of Romanticism felt

what if instead of saying “no mourners, no funerals” the dregs said “no tea, no shade”

from now on it’s not ‘my body’ but 'the fragile external capsule for my deepest desires and anxiety’

be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.

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

Sometimes you feel like editing percabeth 2.0

why do people always ask me about sexual fantasies but never about my other fantasies? i don’t think about dick, jonathan. i think about wearing a haute couture dress and a princess tiara and running around a stone palace with sunlight and enough mirrors around to bask in my aesthetic glory.