#im not romanticizing it

[jasperphoenixx]

my heart breaks a little every time I see photos of old Greek temples. My mind wanders to what it's like to have a community that follows the same religion as you, & what it would've been like to be able to worship there

[aqua-regia009]

Monastery Garden in Snow, c.1829 - oil on canvas ― Karl Friedrich Lessing (German, 1808-1880)

[hamoodmood]

Give me back my love

[rollercoasterwords]

i hate u female rage i hate u divine feminine i hate u female gaze i hate u feminine energy i hate u gender essentialism poorly repackaged as progressive or revolutionary or in any way subversive....

[fairydrowning]

Heart-shaped lockets/pendants<33

[napping-sapphic]

Take my hand and i’ll show you something amazing (the amazing thing is that we are now holding hands🥰)

[rvieskie]

girls just wanna have fun an academic year with a ridiculously small class that might be considered essentially a cult in a field that’s tragically pretentious and consists of only the best of the best - the elite in their particular field where everyone is hot, evil and gay, everyone fucks everyone but they all hate eachother and hurt eachother yet are bound together with this inexplicable need and entanglement up in eachother, someone prophecized to die, power and knowledge driving each of them to a state of madness, found family in a sense but the family is fucked up and the chemistry and connection between all of them is so bright that it might burn all of them alive and they’d be happy to burn because this was the precipice they were reaching for anyways, so much power and so much obsession and so much passion and mania with the academia and even more so eachother and they fuck eachother up and fix eachother all at once and ohmygod GIVE ME IT

[newm8n]

˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ downtown girl moodboard

[snowberry-pie]

new survey time. what Main Thing did you project onto your ocs. lay your heart out on the table in front of me i wanna see

[threadsoflacee]

post fall will graham sexual liberation but he doesnt learn he likes to be tied up or degraded or anything like that. its learning how he fucking loves to have a big house with a pool. its the luxury of waking up at lunch because hes so rich and also so searched by the fbi he doesnt get a job. its hannibal cooking him his favourite foods everyday without fail and gaining so much weight he has stretch marks. its tanning everyday during the cuba summer in their garden and not getting annoying tan lines bc he doesnt even care if hannibal sees his booty butt. its learning how to smile and trust again !!!!!!! having no responsibilities !!!!!!!! its the thrill of finally putting himself first !!!!! its the love inside himself that outspreads and warms up everything around him!!!!! the way he would be so cared for. the way there would not need be any space for remorse or discomfort or pain. the way he would be so glad to have survived all this terror to rebirth with hannibal. his kinks are self love and the will to live

[tomieexoxo]

This is how I'm spending the next semester

[fg083nrt]

akatsuki tarot official merch has been dwelling in (the hermit tower of) my mind.

[burningvelvet]

moby dick summarized without going into any of its loftier themes:

act one: adventure story ft. unexpected queer romance between a quiet teacher and a tattooed butch cannibal via the "only one bed" trope. one quoted sentence to summarize: "better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian."

act two: national geographic textbook on the history and biology of whales and all associated subjects, incoherent rambling, in-depth studies of background characters we never see before or after, procrastinating the ending. one quoted sentence to summarize: "nor have i been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed."

act three: greek tragedy ft. queerplatonic romance between a doomed madman and his voice of reason henchman who literally offers to ride off into the sunset with him but who he ultimately betrays for a whale. one quoted sentence to summarize: "here’s food for thought, had ahab time to think; but ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels; that’s tingling enough for mortal man! to think’s audacity."

[thedickgraysons]

i dont have all of the words for it right now but there's something so gross about the way sjm chose to handle tamlin's trauma and his responses to being triggered post acotar. and it's not the fact that she writes it at all, but the way the narrative beats you over the head with the fact that tamlin was Wrong for being harassed by amarantha and not giving her what she wanted, Wrong for being affected by it, and then he was Wrong for not pushing feyre's clear boundaries (her insistence to not speak about what happen UTM) when that is a trigger for the both of them.

tamlin's not sleeping in the bed as a beast as he is also incredibly traumatized after being utm, its framed as him being possessive. he doesn't insist feyre keep her powers secret and not come with him to hunt beasts because he had just watched her die, its because he's controlling. there's no addressing of how feyre was using him sexually as much as he was indulging in her, because the fact of the matter is they were on a path of mutual self-destruction.

then there is his and nesta's fandom and canon vilification and over-criticism because their responses to their trauma are "ugly." the lack of empathy their characters in particular draw. the narrative (rhysand's) insistence that nesta needs to get on her knees and spend the foreseeable future Atoning while tamlin can never make up for his actions.

the justification of the ic forcing themselves onto nesta. the fandom insistence that its rehab when they need to assert control over her, but she can leave at any time when someone points out that rehab centers dont let the therapists sleep with their patients. the gross fandom theory about amarantha being tamlin's mate and how he went "crazy" after the mountain because of it.

all of it reeks of both the 'perfect victim' theory and victim blaming

[fairydrowning]

in order to live a happy life, you must romanticize everything (and see a good therapist).

[gwyns]

WAIT imagine gwyn and azriel traveling for a mission or something and they're in the mountains and it's way colder than usual and while they're both bundled up, gwyn still gets a chill. az notices, then unclasps his own cloak and wraps it gently around her shoulders and on top of her own... paralleling their first meeting, and giving gwyn a better memory of his kind gesture to replace the old one with