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XXV |Bee| |she/her| |writer?| welcome to my... crumbled abode?

[quotefeeling]

“I am both worse and better than you thought.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

[cherrylimeade-l3sbian]

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[isntmoney]

Helen of Troy ragebaiting Menelaus at the dinner,

and Clytemnestra waiting years to slaughter her deadbeat husband with a face identical to the woman Agamemnon used to justify his war,

and Penelope’s plan being to lock all the suitors inside and set fire to the building,

and Circe turning all the soldiers to pigs and then offering one to Odysseus as a meal,

and Athena’s constant cameos of judgement

[loftilypsychicscheme]

1998: "Save Matt Damon" 2014: "Find Matt Damon" 2015: "Rescue Matt Damon" 2026: "Let Matt Damon save himself"

[daydreamz333]

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[betterbooktitles]

[decemberwinter]

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[noxsera]

You became a memory while I was still calling you home.

[noxsera]

You don't miss people. You miss the version of yourself that only existed with them.

[remanence-of-love]

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Top ten vanity plates ever spotted….no question

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

i dunno i feel like it's more complicated than that

[paper-wounds]

[thisandthatandeverythinginbtween]

This.

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from "Gertrudes Asks for Advice" in The Complete Stories

[tourfilm]

living under a rock is so fun i love watching a movie that’s been famous for decades and being like wow this is so good.. did you guys know about this