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[charleslecunt]

“For us, everything was a performance.” A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. “Everything poetic.”

[carysfebruary]

but that is how a tragedy like ours or king lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

for @grayconan <3

@fictionnet event 6: pride.

[cinematicallypainted]

meredith dardenne + nothing new

and will you still want me, when i’m nothing new?

[midnighttaylors]

books read 2021 — if we were villains by m.l. rio

you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough

[wylanvaneckz]

❝ that is how a t r a g e d y like ours or king lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute. ❞

— [ if we were v i l l a i n s ; m.l. rio ]

[fairydeclan]

RICHARD STIRLING | THE TYRANT

“He played warlords and despots and anyone else the audience needed to be inspired by or afraid of.”

[persephone-in-spring]

"I, on the other hand, was average in every imaginable way: not especially handsome, not especially talented, not especially good at anything but just good enough at everything that I could pick up whatever slack the others left."

[itsjustalark]

@booksociety 's All By Myself Event: If We Were Villains

"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. With us it ambled, trotted, and galloped all through October. (It never stood still until the morning of November the twenty-second, and it seems, to me at least, that it hasn’t really moved since then.)"