[frogmerthur]

─@morgwenmicrofic prompt: "i am not afraid"

St. Joan of Arc, quoted from trial transcripts by Anatole France, tr. Winifred Stevens, The Life of Joan of Arc // BBC Merlin S5E11, The Drawing of the Dark // John Everett Millais, Joan of Arc // St. Joan of Arc, quoted from trial transcripts by Frank Boott Goodrich, World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time // Bertolt Brecht, tr. Ralph Manheim, Saint Joan of the Stockyards // Joseph Fink // Florence + The Machine, Only If for a Night // Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII // Anne Llewellyn Barstow, Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman // Maxwell Anderson, Joan of Lorraine // _a.d.poetry_., Bad Dog // Carl Theodor Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) (1928) // Flannery O'Conner, A Temple of the Holy Ghost // Victor Fleming, Joan of Arc (1948) // Mika Ninagawa, Helter Skelter (2012) // Jessica Curry, The Light We Cast // personsonable // Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Joan of Arc

[official-mermaid]

People watch tragedies on purpose. People watch stories about hope on purpose. Pulling the rug on the narrative promise of your story and switching tracks isn’t clever or interesting, it’s just lying about the genre.

If Midsummer Night’s Dream ended with everyone brutally dying, I’d feel kind of betrayed. If Macbeth ended with everyone getting happily married, I’d also feel kind of betrayed.

[cookiekappa]

night court kiss

[thesistersarcheron]

Tonight I’m being kept awake by the thought of Rhys waiting until no one would see him to climb down into the Middengard Wyrm’s pit and take the bone shard that slew it as a keepsake.

It’s the only thing the human artist from his dreams (his mate, his mate, his mate) could create in that soulless, lightless pit Under the Mountain—and he wants it. Before the trials end, before she dies or disappears into the Spring Court with her one true love—he wants just a single, discarded, forgotten shard of something this fragile, mortal huntress that he now knows that he loves created.

[xoxochb]

let’s talk about “and yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. it was yours before I could admit it, and yours it shall ever remain” for a second

[nestaians]

tamlin to amarantha for feyre & feyre to tamlin for rhysand

amarnatha had killed feyre but tamlin saved rhysand

[eatsbooks]

obviously most of feyre Not Letting Herself Consider Or Think About Things is sarah janet being a lazy author but i really like it by way of her characterization. feyre ever as the survivor who simply can’t think about the bad things—not her cramping belly, not her frostbitten fingers, not the failings of her father in leaving her to provide. she must loose the arrow; she must fell the beast to provide for her own. she can’t think about good things either—not the branches reaching like fingers towards the sky, not the sparkle of the snow in the sunlight, not the slide of a brush on canvas. she must loose the arrow; she must fell the beast to provide for her own. feyre who faces every problem and every solution from there on with the narrow focus of a survivor and does not think about extraneous things—not the fate of the people of spring, not the deterioration of its borders, not the consequences to people she once called friend. she must loose the arrow; she must fell the beast to provide for her own.

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[metanarrates]

the slow casual creep of misogyny back into every point of our lives both digital and physical is making me feel fucking insane

[alexandrarosa]

Jane Austen truly is an inventor of romance but more importantly the getting together genre. She’s like: this happened, this happened and this happened… and they got together. The end. Nothing else of importance was ever said again so I shall write no dialog. They are together. Goodbye

[eddiegayass]

LUCIFER & SAYING CHLOE (season 1 & 2)

[mayahart]

—marina tsvetaeva, no one has taken anything away

[darcylightninglewis]

So tired of being careful, so tired of being still Give me something I can crush, something I can kill

[frogmerthur]

─morgana and the making of madness

Sylvia Plath, Apprehensions // Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 // Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness // Meggie Royer, The No You Never Listened To // William Shakespeare, Hamlet // Tumblr post by tragiclore and inkpressedpetals // Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head // Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh // Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace // Nathaniel Orion G. K. // B. N. Harrison, The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness // Taylor Swift, Mad Woman

[frogmerthur]

morgana // david daiches on hamlet, 1960 (source)

[frogmerthur]

trying so hard not to be ophelia you become hamlet (source)

[aemelia]

UTHER for @merlinbingo | 1. It lingers for your whole life, Katie Maria; 2. Cut, Catherine Lacey; 3. Greek mythology, source unknown; 4. East of Eden, John Steinbeck; 5. The Hours, Michael Cunningham; 6. Accountability, Beyoncé; 7. Succession, Jesse Armstrong; 8. Descended from Dreamers, Li-Young Lee; 9. Thoughts of a stray iii, @dvoyd; 10. Unknown; 11. Unknown; 12. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Matthew Quick; 13. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong; 14. Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright; 15. The Sun is also a Star, Nicola Yoon; 16. All the Red, Desdemona; 17. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block; 18. Unknown; 19. Blood Ties, Kjartan Isak; 20. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón.