are we born free?

rue // xviii what is it about death that you're afraid of?

[atrcpos-blog]

Can someone please explain what tf is happening with Steve Rogers/Marvel???

[lora-mathis]

you ask what I have done with my life. why I am 22 with so many unfinished selves. so many futures I could not commit to. but you don’t know how much of my time has been spent keeping myself alive.

I Think I’m Doing Great, Lora Mathis   (via anxieusly)

[maelinoe-deactivated20170821]

The history is all wrong. There was no apple bitten, no snake tempting, no man blaming It was just us – the wild children of Eden All honeyed skinned, and golden tongued All fault-line glances, all suffocating rectitude. I had a dream we were robbing constellations, Turning harps rotten until it shook God in to a hunger strike. It was looking through another soul Seeing all dark sides, the hidden Atrophy, seeing the dynamite in his mouth and never faltering in crashing lips. I see us as how we had been, or How we could be. How wounding. How disdainfully us. Your rib, my poniard My heart, your fruit. Loving you was the first religion Loving you was the first offering. Today we are half sick celestials. the myth of a memory Eons ago we were but humans caught In the war between God and Satan. The scriptures got it all wrong, We were as much as the world’s undoing As we were its casualties. Someday we will be more than rumor fed shadows.

Camillea // BEHIND THE SCENES WITH ADAM & EVE (Part 1)

[virulentignis]

[atrcpos-blog]

girls like her were born in a storm

lightning in their souls: virgo, scorpio, capricorn, aquarius

thunder in their hearts: aries, taurus, leo, libra

and chaos in their bones: gemini, cancer, sagittarius, pisces

[mjnyard-blog]

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

“Name one hero who was happy.“ I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back. “You can’t.”

[aegialia]

step one: start vaguely headcanonning helen of sparta/troy as not attracted to men

step two: get really, really invested in helen not being attracted to men

step three: be sad forever because she never wanted any of this, any of them, and paris was just the next man who wanted to have her, before him is was menelaus and before him were all the damned danaan kings and before them was theseus and she has never been free from men and she’s never loved any of them, the only men she loved were her brothers- castor and pollux, and then later hector, but all men want her and so all men will have her, because there’s no place in this world for a woman who doesn’t want men, especially one as beautiful as her and she curses her face more than any long suffering soldier does because it’s condemned her to be stolen and taken for as long as she’s young and lovely and it makes all the women she’d want to be sisters to (or closer than sisters) hate her in jealousy or for their dead husbands and sons and- she didn’t want this. she didn’t want this war, she didn’t want the suitors, she didn’t want her divine blood and fair cheeks, but that’s what she got and she’ll never be free or safe or in love for as long as she lives because that’s the game the gods want to play

[astoriamalfoys]

medea smiles; an empire falls what to do with a girl whose lips can burn down kingdoms? the greeks, they were terrified of pretty girls with unpretty hearts and poison in their veins take this from medea, the girl who loved and was unloved: you are made of embers so shatter castles with your spark

king unmade | m.j. | commission a poem (via chaolparrish)

[atrcpos-blog]

I STARTED A VLOG!!!!! (And it would mean the world to me if you’d reblog/watch it <333)

[eleves]

Obscur

[achills-deactivated20160908]

The Song Of Achilles, Madeline Miller

The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. A C H I L L E S, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.

[bonnibels]

That locker room might have made my father the man that he is, but it also made me the woman that I am. After that, I quit the swim club. I quit trying to fit in, trying to be one of them. I knew I never would be. But more importantly, I didn’t want to be. Their violence was petty and ignorant, but ultimately, it was true to who they were.

[atrcpos-blog]

the "totally adorable but also basically Satan" squad

Scorpio, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces, Cancer, Gemini

[melisica]

(by Eduardo Acierno)

[entertainmentweekly]

I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Mindy Kaling (via daniels-castellano)

[fagsamwinchester]

YA Lit Meme: [7/9 Quotes]

when he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him

— The Song of Achilles

[leewardcoast]