a heart of gold

daggers for teeth Kait | 28 | she/her

[ostarra]

“She looked through the window and saw her life unfold like a painting. And she was safe. And it was good.”

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THIS FILE WAS LAST UPDATED: 6/1/21

Kait

28 (February Aquarius (•̀ᴗ•́)و)

She/Hers (preferred), They/Them (perfectly acceptable)

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@inthorantine (main, multi fandom, original works will be located here)

@kkamajitheboilerman (cottagecore blog, no/minimal tag system just living my dream in the reblogs)

@kaitsawamura (anime blog, original works will be located here)

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listening

Woodland EP by The Paper Kites

With Eyes Wide Open by Cathartic Fall

Somewhere In Between by Arthur Wilhelmsson

Acting My Age with Rohini Elyse

reading

The Vacationers by Emma Straub (32%)

watching

Shadow and Bone: Season 1, Episode 4 (Netflix)

Ragnarok: Season 2, Episode 1 (TBW) (Netflix)

[constanzarte]

Paul Swan, Water nymph, 1907

[tendermimi]

— Ocean Vuong, Because It’s Summer

[1five1two]

'The Moon and a Shimmering Aurora'. John Williams Allison. 1866-1934.

[piroshky]

Life in the Boreal Forest, illustrated by Gennady Spirin, 2009.

[cultof-aphrodite]

Historical Women Moodboard: Circe the Sorceress, daughter of Helios the Sun God 🌿

[metamorphesque]

… I stepped into those woods and my life began.

1. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | 2. John William Waterhouse | 3. Franz Kafka | 4. Grigoriy Myasoyedov | 5. Mary Oliver | 6. John William Waterhouse | 7. Madeline Miller | 8. Aron Wiesenfeld | 9. Anna Akhmatova | 10. Friedrich Heyser | 11. Mary Oliver

[sparrowlucero]

The Slaying of the Terrible Sea-Dragon

[buffonia]

There was nowhere for Neil to stand except up against Andrew, but somehow Neil didn’t mind.

[thrillerdesalvo]

With his friendly, gentle, and wise nature, Baldr was considered among the best of the gods. When he began dreaming about his death, Frigg extracted an oath from every creature, object, and force in nature to never harm her son. However, she overlooked the mistletoe due to its youth and small size. Using this to his advantage, Loki created a dart from the plant and manipulated Baldr’s blind twin brother, Hod, into killing Baldr. When the new world arises from the aftermath of Ragnarok, Baldr will be reborn.

[queensinchains]

for @hugoevelyns, who deserves the best of everything.

margaret, the eldest of the four, was sixteen, and very pretty, being plump and fair, with large eyes, plenty of soft brown hair, a sweet mouth, and white hands, of which she was rather vain.

happy birthday, love!

[lanzhans]

@storyseekers event 18: 2021 debut — honey girl by morgan rogers

“sometimes i wish,“ she starts, staring blankly out at the road in front of them, "i didn’t have to have everything figured out. i wish i could turn off the part of my brain that needs perfectly executed plans, you know?”

[aqua-regia009]

by Rovina Cai Illustrations for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

[facinaoris]

Maison Margiela Fall 2021 Couture 

[kaitkent]

kait reads...

the vacationers by emma straub

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synopsis: “For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: Over the course of the vacation, secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated. This is a story of the sides of ourselves that we choose to show and those we try to conceal, of the ways we tear each other down and build each other up again, and the bonds that ultimately hold us together. With wry humor and tremendous heart, Emma Straub delivers a richly satisfying tale of a family in the midst of a maelstrom of change, emerging irrevocably altered yet whole.” [copied from goodreads]

pages: 292

isbn: 9781594633881

; my thoughts

rating: 3/5

This book struck me as the kind of novel you would pick up in an airport to occupy your time.

It’s easy to read and reasonably enjoyable. A perfect volume for summer beach days.

I did find that by the end of the book, it did seem as if conflict was resolved more by the author saying “Poof! Everything is all good now because it’s the end.” rather than the problems our characters face actually being worked on.

There didn’t seem to be an obvious progression from Point A to Point B in terms of conflict resolution.

Would I recommend it? Sure! Easy to read, set in Mallorca on stunning clear-water beaches? What more could you ask for?!

; upcoming

Season of Ponies by Zilpha Keately-Snyder | annual reread, children’s book, probably in my top five books ever.

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman | first read, I’ve heard a lot about it, would rather support the author than the movie after all the weird stuff circulating about Arnie Hammer.

[duotheism]

i made a quiz! answer these questions about love and i’ll tell you how your universe was created, according to different religious cosmologies.

[ostarra]

SERPENT

The concept of the Rainbow Serpent varies between Indigenous Australian peoples. Generally, it is associated with water, and is understood as creating the topography of the land with its body, snaking and diving through the landscape. Your love language is touch. Your presence would be powerful, if it weren't so fleeting. You cannot dance forever on the surface of tenderness. Dive deeper.

[rietvelds]

@fandomaestheticnet: pride month  »  canon lgbt+ characters: aled last, radio silence

i wonder sometimes whether you’ve exploded already, like a star, and what i’m seeing you is three million years into the past, and you’re not here anymore. how can we be together here, now, when you are so far away. when you are so far ago? i’m shouting so loudly, but you never turn around to see me. perhaps it is i who have already exploded. either way, we are going to bring beautiful things into the universe.