BEASTESS.

TELL ME HOW SHE'S UGLY. TELL ME HOW SHE'S HORROR UGLY. TELL ME HOW SHE'S MOTION SICKNESS UGLY. UNEASY UGLY. SHOULDN'T EXIST UGLY. FEAR YOUR OWN DEATH UGLY. TELL ME HOW SHE'S UNFORGIVING UGLY, BRUTAL LIKE A SWORD AND TWICE AS SHARP. UGLY SO POISONOUS YOU'RE GRATEFUL FOR IT, IF BLIND DEATH MEANS YOU DON'T HAVE TO SEE IT ANYMORE. REAL UGLY. MONSTER UGLY. MEDUSA UGLY. private & highly selective medusa from greek myth.

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idk if anyone is still active here but i uhh -- remade? like this if you’re active & i’ll follow you from my new account? ily <3 

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i know i said i’m ready to come off hiatus but idk 

writing medusa can be really hard for me bc she’s hyperfocused on anger and trauma and ugliness and monstrosity and negative things and when i write a character i have to go deep into them to really write them, u kno? 

and i’ve been making progress with recovery stuff so i’m a bit hesitant to write medusa here again bc it might retrigger stuff or something, i don’t want to have to think about trauma that deeply every day again especially when i just started to improve 

so idk i think i might wait to come back until i know how to write medusa the way she needs to be written without harming myself in the process

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can i just say tho ,, i checked back in like almost every day and i noticed a Ton of stuff u guys have been doing ,, 

@vorcotec ur headcanons are beautiful and complex as always and i Love the aides ones and the verse specific ones and they’re so gorgeous i read every one i saw on my dash u r truly amazing

and @g0dc0re ur worldbuilding my dude is STUNNING it’s so detailed and suuuuper interesting like that one about meat? and nina’s eye omg that one was incredible, i read all ur stuff too when i saw it, ur so cool im always shook that we have a ship bc nina is an eleven when it comes to characterization 

& @reignofolympus ur zeus continues to be the coolest zeus i’ve ever seen and i was so happy when i saw u were back on ur multi, i love ur demeter and ur ares and Especially ur athena i missed her A Ton 

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is it a Mood™ if i come back on women’s day 

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it's 12:05 am and I haven't been very active lately but I just showed up 2 say it's my birthday and I'm 21

miss u all and I'll be back soon I promise <3

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show me your fangs. let me be a monster with you.

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to name a body and mark its flesh with its future before it has had the chance to know and love itself,

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from “Pardon My Gender,” published in Them (via lifeinpoetry)

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BEASTESS, 2018, written & directed by megan, tells the story of a priestess who is transformed into a gorgon by the goddess she serves after she is raped in her temple by the god of the sea. she, along with her sisters, decide to enact vengeance on poseidon while attempting to heal. this is a story of recovery and anger, a story of monstrosity and who is the real monster here? rated r for violence, for teeth, for blood. 

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My house has always been a museum of rage.

Hazem Fahmy, from “In Which I Prefer to Blast Frank While the Door Is Closed,” published in Wyvern Lit (via lifeinpoetry)

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kink: the fear in a man’s eyes when he knows ur about to hurt him

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@herateleia said: slater goes on an aside abt how p*dophilic inc*st is fun for the whole family also mothers are evil so basically.... It's Not Worth It

that.............sounds like something a woman-hating pedophile would say

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@herateleia said: i wld say "as long as it's not on the level of 'the glory of hera'" but, like, im p sure that trash heap has also come up in your notes and basically.... FUCK SLATER

:o i haven’t seen that actually, i think, im looking at really niche stuff lately (the google scholar search is ‘medusa + feminism -laugh of the medusa -cixous’; i did that with the time set to everything before 1989, and i’m on page 42 of everything after 1989 rn)

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Castigated as a dreadful Medusa monster under misogyny, women are now appropriating the dynamic potential of Medusa’s terrifying gaze for themselves. 

--  gillian m. e. alban, the medusa gaze in contemporary women’s fiction: petrifying, maternal and redemptive

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Oftentimes when a woman displays any righteous defiance, protective fierceness, sharp anger, flaming fury, or steamy venting of suppressed frustration arising from oppression, she is labeled monstrous, mad, hysterical, or dangerous. 

-- margaret merisante, introduction to the medusa gaze in contemporary women’s fiction: petrifying, maternal and redemptive

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@herateleia said: ffffffffff WORST

I KNO,,,,,, 

that research feel when u find something that seems promising and u read it and it’s not even RELEVANT (or when only the summary & introduction has anything good re ur search topic)  

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i download this pdf, right, and it’s over 300 pages long (art and anger by jane marcus), and now i can’t remember where or how i found it or how i managed to get the ENTIRE THING, but it’s clearly part of the medusa research 

so anyway i’m like thirty pages in and i finally manage to find the search function, search ‘medusa’, and find out she’s only mentioned TWICE in the actual thing (three times total: once in the notes) AND IT ISN’T EVEN USEFUL 

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-- charlotte currie, transforming medusa