[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags the book that is physically nearest to you at this moment.

[weirwoodweb]

The whispererrrrrrr

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

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the most depressing quote from her diaries:

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”

[postarcadian]

bouncing off of @an-ruraiocht’s Iliad/Odyssey/Aeneid poll I’m curious about some other ancient Greek and Roman texts

Which of the following Greek or Roman texts would you say you are most familiar with?

The Iliad (Homer)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Aeneid (Vergil)

Antigone (Sophocles)

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Medea (Euripides)

The Bacchae (Euripides)

Another Greek tragedy (tell me in the tags!)

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

Pharsalia/Bellum Civile (Lucan)

Thebaid (Statius)

Another Greek or Roman epic poem (tell me in the tags!)

Voting ended onJul 26

[diseasedbreeze]

The Flash (1959) #156

BARRY

[vintagerobin]

[litanyofdecay]

sam winchester || jude st. francis

[determinate-negation]

freud says this and basically this is the main thing everyone needs to understand

[avocado-moon]

Is this Margaret Atwood's fault?

Hamnet, The Penelopiad and the business of feminist retellings

read this

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round Two, Bracket 1

Helen of Troy (Greek Mythology) vs. Talia Al-Ghul (DC Comics)

Helen of Troy

Talia Al-Ghul

Voting ended onJul 12

Propaganda below the cut:

Helen of Troy:

many people blame her for so much shit she was Not responsible for. the trojan war was not her fucking fault people!!! also multiple translators have made her call herself a slut or a bitch even though she never refers to herself that way in the ancient greek text :/

give my girl a fucking break!!!! please!!!

COSMIC PUNCHLINE TO EVERY JOKE IN LITERATURE ABOTU HOW WOMEN ARE EVIL. AND WHAT IS LITERATURE IF NOT ILIAD FANDOM. ALL LITERATURE

SHE MAYBE DID ALL THAT BUT I LOIVE HER ANYWAY

Talia Al-Ghul:

Consistently sidelined, drawn in a predatory way, and dismissed by the fans for being a rapist bc of one racist writing arc

Talia is the ultra competent heir apparent to a globalist death cult!!!! She’s endlessly fascinating!! Let her live!!

[pygmalisms]

URGENT CALL FOR HELP

i’ve been bed bound for over a month now, and things arent getting any better. between living and medical expenses our heads are barely above water. anything helps, lmk if v3nm0 doesnt work for u

[rsephys]

i love them… i love them… i love them

[starsapphire]

dc tumblr dashboard simulator

🌆 dickgraysonfan

i'd love to torture dick grayson

#he would look sooo good bleeding out

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Best Flashfam Member | Round 7 Match 4

Barry Allen / The Flash

Skittering Flea with 2 appearances

Voting ended onFeb 9

#VOTE FOR SKITTERING FLEA WITH 2 APPEARANCES RN OR WE ALLLLL DIE #MY GIRL BETTER WIN

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🦸‍♂️ dickgraysonsuntreatedbipolar

i wish i could crucify nightwing

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🌌 vechter

[mile long outsiders 2003 webweave]

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💽 brave-soldier

this week's issue wasn't even that misogynistic this time WE'RE SO BACK

#wednesday spoilers

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🌷 lindalaang

i just paid an etsy witch $270 to give tom king polio

#wednesday spoilers

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🔮 tim-drake-hater Follow

tim drake is gay as hell and annoying as fuck he needs to be put to death 😭😭😭

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🤖 transformers-mutual

do you guys think meteortron and chromicus ever explored one another's bodies

#theyre so t4t #meteortron #chromicus rex #transformers mega steel bot ultra knights

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#i NEED to do this to dickie g

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🔱 singular-aquaman-fan

does anyone want to talk about aquaman? 🤗

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[jeyneofpoole]

sleeper contender for the funniest mean jon moment is in the asos first assault on the wall when some dipshit wildling named BIG BOIL gets shot and jon literally takes a break in the middle of fighting for his life to think “that will stop him bitching about his boil 🙄” this is the ONLY time in ANY of the asoiaf books including the wider written universe that the word “bitching” is used. he is a wordsmithhhhh he came up with that on his ownnnnnn. rip jon snow you would have loved calling people chopped fucking fat chuds 💔

[deusben]

babe wake up...i need to tell you multiple thoughts that don't corelate at all that i had in the span of five minutes..

[fapper]

Really

[fuhosh-i]

Confessions of a People-Pleaser

On the unpleasantness of being very, very pleasant

[combeferret]

the entirety of tlwtwt is people saying “why would you show up fat and wearing jeans” and it’s fucking sending me that’s entering my vernacular immediately