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19 | any pronouns as long as they aren't slurs or bad words | pansexual | american studies student | mythology enthusiast | romanian born and raised | this blog has no theme and don't expect one anytime soon | te iubesc

[fatacodrului]

Tags and their meaning: (will probably add on if I think of any new tags)

Pictura - art

Humanity my love - humans and the sense of Community, generally wholesome things that make me happy or bring tears to my eyes

Romania - all things about România, my country. Art, poetry, quotes, pictures, memes

Books - all things books, recs, reviews, aesthetics

Words - quotes

Weave a web of words - web weaving

Istoria - history

Mythos - mythology and folklore

Marș Rusia - the war on ukraine and ruzzia being a bitch. translates to 'Leave Russia' with the world leave used mainly for dogs.

[fatacodrului]

My final project!!

For our final in Media Literacy, we had to educate those around us in the content of Media Literacy. And we decided to do such by using the form of poetry!! ALMA:

Mask of Freedom: Starting from the conception that mass media is free When in reality they are constantly taking from me My time is invaluable yet I involuntarily give it for free We don't realize to what degree Concealed behind a mask of freedom Sits our old frenemy, capitalism

Down in flames like Dominoes Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple Best friends and nemeses constantly in a battle Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple The Olympic Games or the Hunger Games? Will they make it out alive or go down in flames? One by one, like Dominoes

Technology addiction I wake up and check my phone Thinking I'm all alone They surround us the Big Five And we think we need them to 'survive' The success of these companies everlasting mystery The human nature so contrasting We survived without technology, now we can't without it Will it get better? Doubt it Will it get worse? I'm sure about it We need an urgent remedy to our technology addiciton Writing and reading without any restriction Any genre, romance, thriller, non-fiction, or fiction Make it mass media, but healthy Which will only make us wealthy We are in urgent need of a remedy for our technology addiction

CRISTINA:

COBALT CHILD

Sweat drips down his forehead With thoughts that were mislead Childhood for a childbed But he’s holding a tool instead

Cobalt drips down your fingers While your denial simply lingers The blue rusts to red But the blame is muddy at best

PICK UP A STONE

Pick up a stone There’s children here But why should you care, crack open a beer Do what you do, go on your phone

Pick up a stone There’s children here But don’t bother, you’ll only sneer After all, it’s not your house being blown

Pick up a stone There’s children here But you have no reason to fear Your children won’t be left alone

Pick up a stone There’s children here But those aren’t your people, that’s clear They’re animals they told you, that’s what you know

[animentality]

[feral-ballad]

Analicia Sotelo, from Virgin: Poems; “Trauma with a Second Chance at Humiliation”

[Text ID: “To admit I love you would be to admit / I love ideas more than men, / myself even less than ideas.”]

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[bebs-art-gallery]

Winter Twilight in the Rhine Valley by Ernesto Strigelly (19th century) ❅ A Winter Landscape with Wood Collectors Before a Small Village (1890) by Remigius Adrianus van Haanen ❅ Winter Landscape with Cottages (1907) by Władysław Ślewiński

[starlightshadowsworld]

To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.

And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.

Saint Porphyrius Church, built in 1150 and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.

It's not an accident.

Israel aren't simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.

Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there's.

It's easy to deny someone's existence when there's no record of them.

Which is why it's so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what's happening.

But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it's suffering.

There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.

Traditions they've carried for centuries.

So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.

Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.

[history-of-fashion]

1885 Bertha Wegmann - Portrait of the artist Marie Triepcke

(Hirschsprung Collection)

[daweyt]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘He is Ava Gardner’", published c. 2017.

[nicosraf]

Hello there! Fellow mexican here🇲🇽!

Just got done reading ABM, and I never read anything like it in my life, truly amazing book. So magnificent, I got a reading hangover from it, to the point where no book i pick up can live up to its grandeur. This is no joke. U blew my mind sir.

I was raised in a very religious family, and was always taught god was good, because he loves all of his creation and wants the best for us all. But this book showed me another side of god I never could’ve imagined. It was terrifying and heartbreaking. Some nights i cried to sleep. But the story was just too amazing, so beautifully written, I didn’t care if it was blasphemy. I was immersed. 100%

I gotta ask tho, would u consider writing a sequel to your book in the future? You left me (and im sure many others) wanting more! I was left wondering whatever became of those who were once Lucifer’s friends, and how did Michael feel about all this? A sequel where we maybe get to see satan’s corruption of man, and the downfall of the watchers. 🤔

Hi! I'm really happy you enjoyed aaaaa!! Sorry about the tears and the blasphemy but thank you for all the kind words. It means a lot to me! Especially from a fellow mexican <33 I always say the book was written for latinos in particular sksksk

Now about a sequel — I've been pretty secretive about it partly because I'm so busy but I'm feeling very nice today so yes there will definitely be more :)) I didn't name drop Azazel and Samyaza for nothing, and trust me there's a LOT more I want to say about Lucifer and Michael (and Baal >:)) and Rosier and Asmodeus and everyone else! (And Adam and Eve and Cain >:))

But! I can't say much!! I'm very excited for when yall read it though!

[fatacodrului]

my fellow romanians: what are some of the worst books/fanfics about or that mention Romania? I mean, like completely bastardize our culture and will make any good romanian want to start killing? i want to see something

[fordarkmornings]

Arthur Hacker (British, 1858-1919)

Farewell, 1913

[fatacodrului]

hi hello i’m still shaking but i need to discuss angels for man by rafael nicolas with someone i can’t do this, i never felt like this after a book what the fuck did you to me rafael 

[angelnumbers]

this was always going to happen.

matthew stover, david levithan, margarita karapanou, aeschylus, karese burrows, richard siken

[syrenbones]

written on the body, jeanette winterson

[geryone]

Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel

[dionysian-mystery]

The Castle by Franz Kafka

[dhomochevski]

white is for witching, helen oyeyemi -  the lodgers, brian o’malley - two children in a motel, ethel cain -  mysterious twins, gianni de conno - little men, louisa may alcott - dead ringers, david cronenberg