Medusa Deserves Better

THE BITTER BLOOD OF MANY FOES SUSTAINS ME

[gorgonwoman]

okay so I’ve grown a little tired of this blog & I have too many followers for my own comfort (over 5k and on Instagram I’m careful to keep it at 35, to give you an idea of what I’d prefer) so I’ve remade.

I’m not going to link it bc I want to keep it separate from this blog — I want it to be more about things I’m reading and researching and maybe even posting some writing here and there. Anyway I’m planning on following some of my favorite mutuals from that account (the username begins with M and the icon is an Artemisia Gentileschi painting) but like this if you want to keep in touch and I’ll follow you from over there. Going to have a nice clean start for the new year

[gorgonwoman]

okay so I’ve grown a little tired of this blog & I have too many followers for my own comfort (over 5k and on Instagram I’m careful to keep it at 35, to give you an idea of what I’d prefer) so I’ve remade.

I’m not going to link it bc I want to keep it separate from this blog — I want it to be more about things I’m reading and researching and maybe even posting some writing here and there. Anyway I’m planning on following some of my favorite mutuals from that account (the username begins with M and the icon is an Artemisia Gentileschi painting) but like this if you want to keep in touch and I’ll follow you from over there. Going to have a nice clean start for the new year

[gorgonwoman]

okay so I’ve grown a little tired of this blog & I have too many followers for my own comfort (over 5k and on Instagram I’m careful to keep it at 35, to give you an idea of what I’d prefer) so I’ve remade.

I’m not going to link it bc I want to keep it separate from this blog — I want it to be more about things I’m reading and researching and maybe even posting some writing here and there. Anyway I’m planning on following some of my favorite mutuals from that account (the username begins with M and the icon is an Artemisia Gentileschi painting) but like this if you want to keep in touch and I’ll follow you from over there. Going to have a nice clean start for the new year

[6-limes-deactivated20240311]

— Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

[pink-bunny-fem]

Jess Zimmerman’s Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

I find that last line especially powerful:

“When you give up trying to declare yourself acceptable, there are so many new things to say.”

[heavenlyhorses]

equating womanhood to submissiveness is so laughable to me. My first moment of conceptualization of gender was seeing my mom's fury, courage, and fearlessness in protecting me. The worst thing you can do when backpacking is get between a mother bear and her cubs. There is no feminine urge to get abused or being a sweetiepie or whatever the fuck the stockholm syndrome princesses over at Tiktok are posting about

[gynoids-over-androids]

Don't hide this in the tags queen

[renaissance-art]

Donatello c. 1455-1460

Judith and Holofernes (detail)

[lobotomy-lady]

assuming I can't find success through traditional means my actual 5 year plan is to just kill a bunch of men for revenge + attention, then publish my writing from behind bars so my cult following of mentally ill women can read it

[lesbiantahani]

merry clitoris

[magnetictapedatastorage]

im like if the virgin mary said no

[lionofchaeronea]

Fragment from an Apulian red-figure volute-krater, depicting a woman's head (gorgoneion?) in relief. Artist unknown; ca. 350-320 BCE. Now in the Museum der Universität Tübingen, Germany. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

[veryradgirl]

one of the most gender non conforming things a woman can do is refuse to suffer lol

[amare-habeo]

Victor Ségoffin (French, 1867-1925) 

Judith with the head of Holofernes, 1896

White and gray turquin sculpture, metal saber. H.: 110 cm

[disgustinggf]

proud supporter of women's rights. And more importantly women's wrongs

[boyfriend-beater]

need more fictional women who are unrepentant killers liars manipulators and all around cruel people in the fantasy genre specifically .. grrm cannot be the only source of this

[kiefbowl]

I think what makes me a woman is my tenacious spirit and can do attitude!! and my vagina dentata!!!

[professorsparklepants]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from folklore, it’s that you can make people out of anything. Bread… teeth… rose petals…. turnips… peaches… corn… lettuce… other people’s bones… it’s an endless list.