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youre not allowed to kill yourself yet because it's a saturday and the air is warm with spring. Sorry

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exploring museums, old bookshops and libraries together type of love

#I’ve been away from museums too long and it’s starting to show

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Instagram credit: abookandadream

#I need to get back to museums. I need it. #I need it like water #like air #I will truly die without it #I can feel myself atrophying in this retail job #if my life doesn’t start looking closer to how I need it to I’ll lose my fucking mind #fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this #I am drowning

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ALFRED STEVENS “Marine” Oil on panel 11 x 18 cm.

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SPOILERS — IF YOU HAVEN’T READ ALL OF ACOTAR AND CC DO NOT READ — SPOILERS

Okay so did anyone else see Elaine by Edward Rosenthal and do a deep dive into who Elaine was in the Arthurian legends to gain insight into SJM’s plan for Elaine in acotar? Just me?

So thoughts:

So I totally accept the headcannon that the reason the cauldron loved Elaine so much is because Elaine was pregnant when she went it. It makes sense. SJM goes out of her way to highlight that Elaine is, in part, so distraught about loosing her fiancé because they had slept together. Which is slightly out of character for sweet naive innocent Elaine. But if the cauldron took her baby it tracks why Elaine is so depressed she’s near catatonic for months, and because of her character is so reserved it tracks that she may be reticent to discuss it. Which is truly tragic for Elaine.

Now. The Arthurian Elaine is in love with Lancelot and eventually spurned for Guinevere. She dies of a broken heart. If you imagine Lancelots despair when he reads her unsent love letter and realizes she loves him so much more than Guin ever could it becomes this tragic story.

Consider, if you will, a parallel where Elaine, who is torn between her mate Lucien and good kind perfect sweet Azriel, chooses Az over Luci. Now what if Lucian dies (or if Elaine rejects the mating bond permanently), Azriel’s own mating bond snaps into place with someone else (maybe a CC character? It’s no accident that Az is the one to find Bryce js) and Elaine is left in despair that she chose wrong. Maybe like the legends Guinevere (Re: our fave red haired Valkyrie) gets the guy once more.

Idk maybe it’s too cruel of SJM to leave sweet Elaine to have that kind of ending, but like, what if?

#SJM #Elaine #acotar #books #book tok #booktok books #headcannon #SJM headcannon #SJM acotar #Elaine acotar #azriel #Lucien #mates #fated mates #Edward Rosenthal #realism #romanticism #romantic symbolism #pre raphaelite #Arthur #arthurian mythology #arthurian legend #guinevere #gwynevere #thoughts #and also musings

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#I work in a fucking antique mall #every second of every shift I am imagining what items I want in my home #my cute cottage-y European farmhouse functional academic maximalism house #fuck me that’s accurate #Leo sun #btw #costar #horoscope

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Daily News, New York, New York, June 14, 1931

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by Emma

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saw an ant on the bus today, what a horrible fate. moved an unfathomable distance from everything you've ever known because of forces you could never possibly understand. no matter how long you follow the pheromone trail you laid you'll never find your way home.

#I’m crying

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💌 Details of the painting of Poland’s first female monarch, Jadwiga of Anjou (1384–1399), by Italian-Polish painter, Marcello Bacciarelli, circa 1768–1771.

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SEPTEMBER

song of the simple truth: the complete poems - julia de burgos / a september day - george henry / excerpt from a letter to aurelia plath - sylvia plath / french autumn - artem tolstukhin / earthquake weather - janice gould / blue shutters - kim english / a girl ago - lucie brock-broido / little women (2019) dir. greta gerwig / september garden party - jane kenyon / constanze saemann and charlotte foubert photographed by ryan brabazon / september 1st - dante émile

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i just feel like i deserve $10,000,000,000

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“In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf

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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”

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“how could you be so stupid” well you know what. its really not that hard

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getting that august feeling (things that have ended endlessly are ending again)

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Oscar Wilde, De Profundis // @i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage