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You used to be shy, now you're a whore

Character development

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I feel safe when I’m around you

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let’s just take a couch nap, share a blanket, and feel safe together

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concept: you, napping next to me while i study. i pause to stroke your hair and you murmur in your sleep. you snore softly and i fall for you all over again.

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you fall in love with the little things about someone, like the sound of their laughter and the way their smile forms.

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my favourite thing about the story of hades and persephone is that the story grew up with us.

i think most of us, when we were young girls ourselves, heard that first, most tragic version of the story: persephone, the innocent child of spring, who wandered into a dark, terrible place, and ate of a cursed garden. hades, meanwhile, was cast as a shadowy, grasping seducer, looming from the darkness: here he stood, the god of riches, of gemstones and bones, of cold, dead things, who wanted to snatch a little bit of sunlight for himself.

and then came the second version of the story, when we were older, not so much a change in narrative as it was of perspective: we heard about zeus raping leta, we read the way medusa was cursed for being raped by poseidon, we read about athena’s jealousy when she was outwoven by arachne, about hera tossing little hephaestus down a cliff because he wasn’t as beautiful as a god ought to be.

once more, we considered hades: the youngest of the trinity, free of spite and hatred and fits of rage, running an empire greater than his brothers’ together, with little ego and quiet efficiency. a god who only took one wife, only loved once, and then too: wholly, completely.

like something not out of a horror movie, but perhaps, indeed, a fairytale.

then the third turn, when we had grown older, acquired a veneer of cynicism, suffered boys who never grew to men, when we realized that the only way our sexuality would not be annexed was if we conquered it ourselves.

then came kore, the woman of spring, who found in hades a quiet, dark refuge, away from demeter’s wrath and hungry possession, away from the squabbles of those tiresome, reckless gods. the girl who fell in love with darkness. the goddess whose spirit was of renewal and rebirth, and still flourished in the heart of the underworld, the duality of her nature only serving to highlight her strength.

hades remained as he ever was, unchanging, like death itself. but persephone grew, acquired facets and beauty in her change, spring given form in metaphor and mythology.

hades and persephone grew with us. that’s why they’re powerful. that’s why they’re loved.

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My unsuspecting followers:

Me, about to go on a serious reblogging spree:

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finally. the little dude

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Let’s hope we all see clearly in 2020!

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would anyone have any interest in a group chat for post-college studyblrs/does one exist already?? i’m JD class of ‘23 or ‘24 (we’ll see) and I’d love to connect w/ folks who are any of the following:

- out of undergrad

- in their twenties

- on a non-traditional path age-wise

- work full-time

- do MOOCs/edX/coursera/self-study

- grad school or grad school hopeful

- blog about accessiblity/race issues in academia

- blog about mental health recovery/studying while mentally ill (i’m 4 years into treatment/recovery and newly diagnosed with ADHD, and would love to connect w/ recovery-positive folks)

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recent posts from my ig

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14.11.19 // getting ready to spend all day on campus - who can relate?

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things to fill your heart with

little flowers

mediterranean winds

coffee from foreign places

rain storms in italy

archaic languages

quiet pondwater

architecture and marble

grand cathedrals

bamboo forests

statues in the louvre

climbing fruit trees

parisian metro stations

tiny hummingbirds

thunderstorms

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anyone that wants to join me stressing out about life and stuff??