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“apologist.” “critical.” y’all are doing too much. when my favorite characters do evil reprehensible shit I simply don’t fucking care cause it’s not real

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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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something holy inside you wants to get out but you can’t let it

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Riyoko Ikeda, Orpheus no Mado.

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T. Kingfisher's romantic subplot dynamics are almost always "middle aged practical woman with a major failed relationship in her past meets buff polite guilt-riddled hunk of a man", and ya know what I respect that

#I have borrowed this conceit lightly for effloresce and I LOVE it

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the thing about el higgins is that terry pratchett would have loved her.

I’ve never encountered a character or a series that I could call a spiritual successor to tiffany aching but el is perhaps the closest possible thing. the way that tiffany’s righteous anger is her magic, born from a sense of deeply rooted love and identity with her home and blossoms into a tempered, powerful ability to see what is in front of her. the way el rages against the systems of oppression she can see and how she follows that rage to the very core and from that core she dismantle those systems. how in both doing the right thing is a choice, always a choice, and one that requires choosing again and again and again. “this far and no further.” “you’re already dead but stay anyway.”

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'waterman (brooch),' 1991 by gijs bakker in multiple exposures: jewelry + photography - ursula ilse-neuman (2014)

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Medusa and the blind woman in love

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hey friends let’s talk about ronan lynch

what’s everyone’s favorite (not sad) ronan moment

I’ll go first: cow balloon debacle

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Sometimes fiction doesn’t have a moral to the story. Sometimes fiction points at something and goes “Ever thought about THAT???” And you look at what it’s pointing at for a bit.

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if you didnt want me to empathize/ask questions about your fictional monster why did you make it born into circumstances outside of its control that make everyone believe it is intrinsically evil. you expect me to buy that something is born into evil regardless of its choices or actions and its not those that describe it/made it that way r who i should be questioning??

#rattles to the rhythym of haunted holy and divine

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I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

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When I’m reading smut and the author breaks the flow of the story so that the characters can tell us that they have enthusiastic consent it feels exactly like when Dora the Explorer looks directly into the camera and says ‘Seat belts so we can be safe!’ anytime she gets into a motorized vehicle.

#also just. I'm sorry babes but are there people out there who don't think adults regularly have sex after one wine? #get this puriteen trend out of my smut sweet jesus

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happy ‘is that all? that’s all there is’ eve to everyone who celebrates

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Waking up with a migraine always feels like such a betrayal. Sleep is supposed to fix me. Not make things worse.