tempi

22 ~ currently studying or telling poems to the moon

[shisasan]

January 10, 1912 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[lesbos-crossings]

it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”

[unhallowedawn]

[ramenrescue]

I highly enjoyed watching other people play Silent Hill f :D

[forthegothicheroine]

What I really like about The Ugly Stepsister is the way it manages to do a revisionist fairy tale from the villain's point of view without rewriting all the characters to be their opposites. Elvira gets meaner as the story goes on, at first casually and then maniacally, but I believed every step of that downward progression. Agnes/Cinderella isn't as sweet as her Disney counterpart, but she isn't unreasonable- she needs a rich husband to get her away from her stepfamily, and if she isn't all that sympathetic to her bully's unhappiness, would I have been?

There is a true fairy tale heroine, though: Alma, the other stepsister, who didn't go to the ball. She has all the fairytale protagonist characteristics- she's plucky, she has no time for her mother's mind games, she'll go to heroic lengths to save her family, and perhaps most important, she's the youngest of three sisters. And at the end, she rides off to seek her fortune, like a good fairy tale heroine- looking, in fact, a bit like the title character in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella.

Is this fair? Of course not! Alma gets to be the fairytale heroine because she doesn't care about being one, and that's not fair at all. That's the bind women are put in, where you're supposed to succeed while not putting in any visible effort (that would be vanity, after all.) But neither fairytales nor horror movies are fair.

[elli0ttt]

some daggers from pinterest 🗡️

[quasi-normalcy]

We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

[mothecho]

They should invent a way to sit hunched over doing crafts that is Good for your body

[nightmarestat]

i’ll be having a good day and then boom i remember louis has claudia’s dress and paul’s portrait hanging in the same room :(( that’s his family i’m gonna be sick :((((

[givemearmstopraywith]

there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop by vinay krishnan

[papayajuan2019]

trauma is not real i drink violently for unknowable reasons and my body shakes bc im powerful

[love-fae]

After my service job shift I always feel like I'm subhuman and that can be totally analyzed and be connected to the modern need to assert power over others.

[nerves-nebula]

horror and erotica are the same thing. flesh and meat and intensity. do you get it.

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Inside the witches house

[love-fae]

I always wonder about Camilla's life after everything ended. I don't believe she loved Henry. She was obsessed with him like anyone else. Obsessed with the idea of love. But unlike the others Henry reciprocated. She wanted to be loved; thats why she was allowing being used by all the others. Also she didn't finish her studies. Such a smart young woman abandoning everything that could provide her a future. We know that she focused on nursing her grandma but after that what happened to her? She is my favourite character and I would love to see her pov of the world before and after the death of Bunny. She would totally be the only member of the og Greek class to go past her 30's and I want to know what would that life be.

(I've written two chapters of what I think her life would be just for myself)

[love-fae]

All my homies hate sea cucumbers. This is a holothurian hate page

[vympr]

i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

[petrichara]

‘There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.’

-Anne Carson, ‘Grief Lessons: Four Plays By Euripides’

[sarahreesbrennan]

Stories are full of impossibilities to teach us to bear the unbearable.