a girl with words

cassie. xxix. poetry, art, & film. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.”

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[hamletofficial]

In The Odyssey, Odysseus is extraordinary for the flexibility with which he can inhabit many different names, or no name at all. It is this quality of being multinamed and nameless that enables him to survive. By contrast, almost all the warriors of The Iliad yearn to have a name and a story that lasts forever. Their many names and titles, as sons and brothers and comrades and fathers and rulers, are essential to their identities, their connections with one another, and their fame after death. They fear, above all, being humiliated (cursed with a negative name), or forgotten and nameless. The lists and catalogs of names are essential to the poem’s own work, of memorializing and mourning the dead. Once the bodies return to dust, these syllables are all that remain.

– Emily Wilson, Translator's note for The Iliad.

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SUN AND MOON PNGS ♡

[mithrandirl]

The North Wind may have heard the horn of the son of Denethor. O Boromir! From the high walls westward I looked afar, But you came not from the empty lands where no men are.

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[qilingxiong]

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815–1910), "Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily", 1847

[derangedrhythms]

Margaret Atwood, You Are Happy; from ‘Circe / Mud Poems’

[transsexualhamlet]

I have a creeping suspicion some of you guys are not taking "idk man sometimes it depends" to heart

[yrbeecharmer]

giving myself a merit badge that says SURVIVED MARCH

[yrbeecharmer]

oh fuck. I’m so sorry. listening and learning

[ohmovie]

I knew you'd help me.

Grace & Daniel Le Domas Ready or Not (2019) dir. Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

[feytouched]

come to think of it. MRI machines have something of the faerie to them. leave all iron and ferromagnetic metals at the door if you seek forbidden knowledge within yourself

[merristueller]

Art nouveau flower shop, Brussels

[atdawn]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS The Fellowship of the Ring

[yellow-cat]

FUCK. i think i have to learn blender

[hamblimp]

the humble manual smoothie maker after they break their hands:

[yellow-cat]

every day i log in here and get beat up by genies

[yellow-cat]

HEY !!!!

[endlace]

the horse when asked what he would like for dinner

[yellow-cat]

put a bullet in me already why dont you

[yellow-cat]

hold on. everyone shut up. i need to cry about the concept of a touch-starved gun

[venerable-thief]

"history will absolve me" as the e-mail signature

[theinternetarchive]

california mountain ranges by wilson davis ellis, american c. 1940s-50s.

[platonbatonn]

love my disabled son