Maddie I loved loved loved your ebook so much!!! If you don't mind, could you tell us a little about your thought process going into this project/why you chose this theme, etc? I can't wait to see any other collections you put out in the future!!
hello! this message is so lovely i’ve been sitting on it for three days, trying to make sure my answer will do it justice
the theme was borne from my being a taurus and joking around with stefan @teamcaptains that i was to be a sacrificial bull and then i was like... hang on a second, that’s pretty good. i’m pretty inspired by what i study or what i read, and studying classics, it’s impossible to miss the prominence of the bull in mythology and classical society. like it’s fascinating that the minoan people used to compete in a ritualistic bull-jumping and how thousands of years have passed and bull-fighting still occurs in contemporary society.
so then i did a lot of research and basically drew inspiration from examples in history and mythology i came across. the ‘UNWRITTEN MYTHOLOGY’ poems are the most obvious references, with pt 1 being about io and zeus’ coupling, and pt 2 being about ariadne, and the connection between girls and bulls w/ a sort of examination of gender at the same time. each poem corresponds to something specific but always always always focuses on the bull.