eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me;

em | 23 | she/they | tired aspiring classicist, tired all around

[sweetbitterpdf]

hey besties and beloveds i made a new tumblr and am gonna be switching my #posting to over there (cause i want irl friends to be able to follow me on here without seeing all of my sk*m fr*nce brainrot over the past few years) so if u want to keep following the shenanigans follow me @ attic-hag !!

[antidisneyinc]

when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit

[mohansabbot]

Heartstopper + text posts

[frenchsiren]

[Text description:

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

END]

Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”

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[ID: Tumblr user @slowwshoww writes:

suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!

Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:

« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)

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[ID: Tumblr user @orpheuslament:

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

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[ID: Tumblr user @faustandfurious:

the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.

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[Text description:

Do you still believe myths

can save you? Foolish creature

Let me be clear: every version of this story

Ends with you being slaughtered.

END]

Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

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[ID: Tumblr user @sawasawako:

if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now

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[Text description:

This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.

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Aeschylus, The Oresteia

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[Text description:

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

END]

John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

[beardedmrbean]

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[cohendyke]

the line “your worst sin is that you’ve betrayed and destroyed yourself for nothing” is so raw you’d think it’s from a destiel fanfic or even hetalia but it’s actually from dostoyevskys crime and punishment

[exitwound]

electric stoves aren’t real btw they’re placebo stoves. your food cooks because of the placebo effect

[transarsonist]

yeah no its just a bunch of LEDs that turn red, it only boils water because you expect the water to boil

[tr0bed]

[sweetbitterpdf]

applying for a job that just might be the biggest leap of faith yet.... screaming crying etc.

[wizard-email]

unregulated use of girlpower. thousands dead millions unemployed

[lizard--email]

[grovervnderwoodposts]

CHARLIE SPRING + 💋💋💋 bonus nick:

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

[thoodleoo]

*taking a selfie as the furies haunt and torment me* me and the girlies!!!!

[ovid]

naughty little poet on the loose ;)

[ovid]

no, really, we’ve been trying to catch him since yesterday night. he is an urban-only poet and he is not able to survive outside his literary circle, so it’s vital we bring him back as soon as possible. if you see a really intense twenty-something emaciated poet roaming around looking miserable or angry and/or possibly horny please contact us at [email protected]. thank you for your help.

[deaddolin]

remember when you were like. 12. and you saw high schoolers and you were like. wow thosr are just full ass adults. and now you're like 25 and you see high schoolers and youre like wow. youre literally a baby

[wyatt-hayes]

when i say i am a "woman" I mean "whatever the fuck florence welch is talking about in her songs"

[lakevida]

my cat is meowing thru the window at the middle aged men working on the roof rn and they're meowing back at her

[lakevida]

she's obsessed w these guys i should have put her through trade school