are you a dementor? bc you take my breath away

{formerly thetransremuslupinclub} monty / slytherin / aus / i like harry potter, star wars n tolkien, among other things

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[fuckwhoyoucamewith]

it’s never too late to start again. 5pm on a thursday can be your new monday. you don’t have to wait until the new year to better yourself. time is an illusion, don’t forget that. just because you woke up at 1pm, it doesn’t mean you messed your whole day up and that you can’t turn the mood around. it’s never too late to start again!!!!!

[finelythreadedsky]

the myth of persephone is about the trauma of the separation of mothers and daughters by marriage and this is the hill i will die on

[finelythreadedsky]

To be clear I’m not against retellings that reinterpret the relationship between Hades and Persephone and present it as consensual and healthy– I do think there’s something incredibly powerful about looking at a story that’s been passed down to us through millennia about a girl being kidnapped and raped and saying “no. No, that’s not the kind of story I want to hear, that’s not the kind of story I want to tell, and that’s certainly not the kind of story I want my daughters to grow up on.” (Although I think it’s disappointing that these are now the only sorts of Persephone retellings we get, and at this point it’s really not a particularly revolutionary take, given how often it’s been done.)

But I also think we do a great disservice to the women of the ancient world by not remembering how this story, in that form, mirrored their very real pain. I’ve been thinking recently about how we can tell that women participated in the formation of their culture’s folklore because women’s trauma is embedded in it. (In Greek terms, the stories of Leto and Alcmene very clearly come out of women’s traumatic experiences with childbirth, and there are elements of women’s traumatic experiences of sexual assault embedded in, for example, the stories of Daphne or Callisto or Artemis and Actaeon) And the story of Persephone comes out of women’s experiences of being permanently separated from their mothers and daughters at marriage. (See also this post from @gardenvarietycrime.​)

For an ancient woman sending her daughter off to be married, knowing that she will see her only rarely and that the odds of death in childbirth were high, Persephone meant something. For an ancient girl leaving her mother and her entire world for a man she may never have met knowing the same, Persephone meant something. I do think a lot of the conflation of death and marriage in the ancient world comes out of this: that a girl is dead to her mother and her family whether she leaves them to go to a husband’s house or the house of Hades. Maybe it’s a consolation to know that someone else has done this before you, to know that a goddess once lost her daughter and a goddess once lost her mother the same way you are losing yours. And that they survived it.

Essentially I think we need to remember that this myth (like all myths and all folklore) is not necessarily entirely the product of men, that women’s voices and women’s trauma remain embedded in it despite all of our written sources being men’s tellings of the story. And when we retell it we risk losing those voices if we are not careful and if we dismiss the myth as it survives today as solely men’s version of the story.

[finelythreadedsky]

#it’s why demeter pauses in her grief to nurse demophon!#and tries to make him immortal!#because a male child won’t be taken away in the same way! (@thegodawfulgatsby)

good addition

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19 PowerPoint Presentations That Should Be In Every School Curriculum Ever

[lucithademon]

He said white ppl are a plague 😹😹

[nutheadgee-deactivated20190314]

White people in the notes so mad I’m living

[sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes]

Tbh I’m not even mad.

[emperorhaz]

interview: how would you hit on a girl?

harry: what’s the context? where are we?

interviewer: at a bar.

harry: where in the bar? are we in america?

interview: sure

harry: oh, well i can’t go into bars in america so.

[aboutreciprocation]

…holy shit

[iamtheaardvark]

None of the characters ever figure this out because they stop taking math at age 11

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

That time of night as an adult where you’re desperately tired and want to sleep but you also don’t want to give up the day yet bc there’s stuff you wanna do. I’m calling it the toddler hour

[knitbelove]

This post came into my bedroom and punched me in the face

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Next time I try to get into Norway or go to Svalbard they’re gonna stop me at customs and silently place this tweet printed out on paper down in front of me and I’ll say understandable thank you and immediately get back on a returning flight

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Svalbard literally does not have immigration or customs officers... you can literally just show up and they won’t stop you... please, OP... eat the seeds

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

They read my Twitter and they will stop me

[gnarlygnat]

why the fuck did a 10 year old run a snack stand on Hannah Montana

[twentyoneamigos-deactivated2020]

child labor rights don’t exist in the hannah montana cinematic universe

[0325-4419]

Me, writing an essay for school in the middle of the night: It’s what Alexander Hamilton would have wanted

[itscalledfashionlookitup]

*flirting* so what fruit do you have in your town

[normal-horoscopes]

“VIOLENCE FOR VIOLENCE IS THE RULE OF BEASTS” SAYS THE MAN WHO SPENT THEIR DAYS INFLICTING VIOLENCE UPON THE INNOCENT AND NOW FEARS THEIR RIGHTFUL RETRIBUTION

“AN EYE FOR AN EYE LEAVES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND” SAYS THE MAN WITH BOTH EYES INTACT

HOW QUICKLY THE HAWK BECOMES A DOVE WHEN FACED WITH THE BARREL OF A GUN

[normal-horoscopes]

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT THIS POST IS ABOUT TERFS

[thespecsappeal]

Forget pulling all-nighters and chugging coffee until it’s practically coursing through your veins. You know what gets me hyped up? Earl Grey tea on slow sunny mornings after a good night’s sleep. Submitting an assignment early, knowing you’ve completed it to the best of your ability. Reading for pleasure. That feeling of limbless relaxation after a good workout. Unearthing all your buried interests and falling in love with them over and over again.

Repeat after me: success is not suffering. Success is nOT-