[electracx]

[weepingwidar]

Mia Bergeron (US-American, 1979) - Pursuit (2026)

[thelastunico]

[marwyn]

The three women—McKinley, Carter, and Lee—who have extended the tale into fantasy and science fiction have focused more than any other writers on the kinship between Beauty and the Beast. Their concept of the relationship is not so much the romantic courtship of old, as a deeper connection out of loneliness for both characters. Since the Beast is obviously an alien to society already, it is Beauty on whom they concentrate, a person who seems to have been tailored for social fitness but in fact feels alienated or isolated (although both McKinley and Lee’s sister figures are supportive and never ostracize Beauty). Lee’s Estár (like Gabrielle Villeneuve’s Beauty in the eighteenth century) is not even the merchant’s real daughter, and it is her version that most radically projects the alienation theme to a conclusion of Beauty’s permanent separation from family and Earth environment for her coupling with an untransformed alien.

Betsy Hearne, Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale

[pasdetrois]

Vivia by Tanith Lee Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

[electracx]

i know i’m getting real depressed when i start playing ambient music

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

[nobrashfestivity]

a lace artwork made by Adelaide V. Hall , a patient at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, 1917

[acid-aholic]

remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right

[penglue]

[podencos]

This Is Water, David Foster Wallace

[user7038634357]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

im not horny it’s something else entirely. really wish there was a word for it

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

i think i just want to run. Like i just want to run

[electracx]

my mom was berating me for wanting to stay in F bc of friends instead of V cause i have family here but the family is the most avoidant and emotionally distant mother ever and my psychological terrorist father.

[segamascott]

[strangewife]

shirley jackson’s the haunting of hill house illustrated by matt mahurin for centipede press

[kittyit]

internally, you must start adding “and they still can’t stop us” to the end of every dismaying statistic about rape, male violence, and woman-hating. 1 in 9 girls are sexually abused, and they still can’t stop us. a woman is killed by a partner or family member every 10 minutes, and they still can’t stop us. the global pay gap is still wide, we have not achieved gender parity in global politics, etc etc etc, and they still can’t stop us. women & girls can’t be stopped. we carve out our lives and make change. we are at war and many individual battles are lost, the suffering is enormous. but women will win the war (and are winning across the eons), because everything they’ve done so far hasn’t been able to put a dent in the collective female spirit, which is evident when you look at the curve of human history and how we never give up on improving, inventing, innovating, changing life for the better

[worldscoolest]

2000s Roberto Cavalli Class Brown Flowers & Leopard Dress