Seeking Athena

I'm a writer, a poet, an occasional painter/artist. This is where I get to share my creations. I'm just looking for the goddess within.

[gallifreyanwriter]

Hey, you know that one character? The one played by the tall, long-haired actor? The one who was pre-law in 2005, and well on his way to going to law school and getting a degree until an unexpected family issue reared its head, and he dropped out and chose a different career path? Y’know, he’s got that complicated relationship with his father, a parent-child relationship with his only sibling, and has some strange, destructive abilities that tie in with multiple traumatic experiences with fire?

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

op is right and the timelines do match up. what if they were in the same classes

[powersandplanetaries]

Do you think their classmates were ever like “Sam Winchester… is he the one who dropped out to get custody of his little sister with the YouTube channel?” “No, he was the one who ended up faking his death and becoming a multi-state serial killer with his brother.” “He WHAT?”

[logo-comics]

Everyone would have guessed it to be the other way around.

[friendly-neighborhood-disaster]

Spencer could have prevented the apocalypse, but Sam definitely could not have raised Carly

[cinnamon-ginger]

This is the only take that matters

[seeking-athena]

When I was 17 I decided I wanted to be thin

I started counting calories, until they started counting me

How many celery sticks will keep me full today?

Ward off the pangs of hunger, the emptiness inside

Drink more water, it'll make me feel full again

Feast on the praise I'm receiving, because suddenly people see me

When I got a little older, I learned to eat again

I relished in it, savored food like I savored life

But everytime I woke up hating myself,

I starved myself

If I couldn't love myself, I'd love the gnawing hunger in my stomach

Embrace the feeling of my stomach eating me alive

Feed the voice in my head that said I didn't deserve to have the things I loved

In 2007, my life burned down

In my grief, I couldn't eat for months

The only food consumed was forced down

I thought about letting myself starve

I ate my pain until I couldn't stand the taste of it

Now I take sunshine in a pill

I'm finally able to fully embrace life with all the energy I've never had before

But food has once again become an enemy

The desire has gone, replaced with repulsion

Food rots in my mouth, bile rises, the body rejects

Hunger gnaws at my inside, eating me alive

All I hear in my head is the doctor telling me that I could stand to skip a few meals, so I'll keep doing that until it shows.

[vardaelcntari]

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938                                              20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

[correspondingnerd]

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

[geekandmisandry]

W.h.a.t.

[bramblepatch]

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”

[steakplissken]

Nazis: Are you Aryan?

Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?

[liarsblade]

*touching his extremely defined six pack* who did this to you.....

[invisiblefoxfire]

*gently lifting a cup of water to his lips* it's going to be okay. *choking back tears* just a few more sips and then we'll get you a sandwich...

[cloverandcrossbones]

Reblog to give a glass of water to every dehydrated actor with shrink wrapped abs whose life was endangered for a shirtless scene

[mighty-meh]

Yeah, for thoses who don't know, Aurora Perrineau who play Eurydice in Kaos, is the daughter of Harold Perrineau, who play Mercutio in THAT Romeo+Juliet adaptation (you know the one)

[roach-works]

can you fuckin imagine you get hired for a creative job and they say 'you're gorgeous and we want you to look as beautiful and free as this haunting vision we once adored when we were young' and you look at the kiss-stained inspo board and there's your slutty dad

[em-bitterred]

Keep your priorities straight: post fic.

[kosmogrl]

[myothertardisisonthemun]

[cath-lic]

images that WILL go triple platinum if i have my way

[the-bar-sinister]

reasons to write fanfiction (I'll start):

share a cool scene that popped into your head

evoke a particular emotion the canon makes you feel

song made you think of a character or idea from canon

make people feel the same way about a character you do

make dolls kiss for fun

explore ideas the canon hints at but doesn't do anything with

traumatize characters and make them suffer

coddle characters and let them rest

had an insane idea for a crack ship and now everyone needs to know

the author of the canon was wrong and must be fixed

use familiar characters to explore your own ideas and plotlines

canon is too short and you need to wallow in the universe of the story

[sighinastorm]

I wish to hurt the audience.

[strle]

[seeking-athena]

Thankfully no.

[lilyemrys]

“no i will not elaborate” is such a fun line, but unfortunately i have adhd and am incapable of shutting up. yes i will elaborate

[lectorel]

Yes, I will elaborate and that is a threat.

[writingfeedsthedarkestones]

I will elaborate but it won’t make anything clearer

[the-orangeauthor]

Yes I will elaborate but I’ll forget my original point after 30 seconds

[razmerry]

[charbroiledchicken-deactivated2]

reblog if you're a writer but would rather drink straight cyanide than show any of your family members your work

[the-bar-sinister]

"Only" 800 kudos. My friend, no shade, I am living in a world where a successful fic has 100 kudos or so.

It's always so funny to see how this varies from fandom to fandom!

[seeking-athena]

Thank you for this reminder. I have 2 fics out there. One from 2013 with 42 kudos & one from this year with 50. I'm just thrilled people have read them.

[edwardcreel]

reblog if you believe fanfics are as valid as books that were published and sold by authors who write as their main careers. I'm trying to prove a point

[seeking-athena]

He dresses slowly as she wraps the bedsheet around her body, watching him from the bed. He’s on his way back to his life, leaving her to smolder in this lonely apartment until he can return. She’s begged him to stay with her before. He only stays away longer. He knows she’ll never leave, he never intends on staying.

[thealfaguy]

[reasoncourt]

no but actually. so many people revealed who they are during the trial and they’re going to blame it on misinformation but i could be sitting in plato’s fucking cave and I still wouldn’t be doing a tik tok dance to someone’s SA testimony. like that’s not misinformation that’s just being rotten to your core