#to weave a web of magic

[n-jostcn]

the song of achilles — madeline miller

night shift — stephen king

euripedes — anne carson

circe — madeline miller

a conjuring of light — v.e. schwab

west wind — mary oliver

the song of achilles — madeline miller

the fragile threads of power — v.e. schwab

[jazzymini]

🕷️ 🕸️ 💧

[typewriter-worries]

the sun loved her so much; it kissed her more than the rest of us

@luxus-aeterna | fka twigs by mattew stone | pyrson_of_interest by a.j. hamilton | unknown | megan thee stallion edit by @/benjamellys on twitter | pearl, kirsi mutshipule | jacqcosmos by a.j. hamilton | jacqcosmos by a.j. hamilton | sza by cara stricker

[unknowablecore]

greywaren / opal / cdth / cdth / cdth / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren /greywaren

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

Nearing the Flame

BBC Merlin, The Beginning of the End (1x08) /// Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier /// BBC Merlin, The Nightmare Begins (2x03) /// what if magic chooses you? by InkpotSprite /// The Nightmare Begins (2x03) /// Leah by Seeing Double /// The Nightmare Begins (2x03) /// Would That I by Hozier /// BBC Merlin, Lancelot du Lac (4x09) /// what if magic chooses you? /// Arsonist's Lullabye /// BBC Merlin, The Diamond of the Day: Part 1 (5x12) /// what if magic chooses you?

[lunarhode]

black women are so beautiful colors look like flavours on them

[leonardcohenofficial]

yeah dale cooper and rust cohle are actually two sides of the same coin send post

[leporellian]

sarastro and the queen of the night

(@/qrgirl (deactivated)/jean starobinski/unknown production of the magic flute/leviathan and behemoth by william blake/wikipedia/mirror traps by hera lindsay bird/hanif abdurraqib/fontaine au lion/wikipedia/metropolitan opera/david hockney set designs for the magic flute/utah opera/the butterfly’s burden by mahmoud darwish/on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong/"old friends" by ylvis/the nebra disk/elektra by sophocles/google search results/the eclipse by alma thomas/wikipedia/detail from maurice sendak’s set designs for the magic flute/ @/qochita-remade)

[alasforher]

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for. I just want someone to love me. I want to be seen.

PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998 | Dir. Griffin Dunne)

[kimocus]

[ Caroline Walker-Bynum || Dungeon Meshi || Dracula || Ana Mendieta || Sister-book of Adelhausen (ca. 1318) || Robert Wun || Anne Carson (1986) || St. Caterina who drinks from the blood of Christ (1594) || Carolyn Walker-Bynum || Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) ]

[alas-pooryorick]

On the perils of being clever

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery

Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne

The Bacchae, Euripides

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde

Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett

Fight Club, dir. David Fincher

Free, Florence + The Machine

Fight Club, dir. David Fincher

I Know It‘s Over, The Smiths

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie

[abnormalpsychology]

why do we create and why should create that silly thing? bc you gotta :) bc it will matter to someone :) <3

“Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative”, Ethan Hawke | Richard Siken | “Longing” by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1899) | Smiley Blanton, from The Healing Power of Poetry (found in “Mary Oliver Saved My Life” by Greg Cook) | Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger | The Sugar Shack by Ernie Barnes (1976) | the Gospel of Thomas | “Reading books is not just a pleasure: it helps our minds to heal” by Peter Leyland | The Immersive Van Gogh experience, photographed by Ben Davis | Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert

[tsnbrainrot]

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) // In the Good Old Summertime (1949) // You've Got Mail (1998) // She Loves Me (2016)

+ Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo trans. E.P Dowdall (1937)

[verdemint]

tell me u see the vision!

academy boys as W.I.T.C.H.

[cosmiclove-heavenstruck]

still wants to politely & properly warn you -- this is armaggedon

the witch doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace // history of man by maisie peters // helen of troy by evelyn de morgan // maisie via instagram // elena di troia by gaston bussière // the mermaid's voice returns in this one by amanda lovelace // coming of age by maisie peters // maisie via apple music // the witch doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace // there it goes by maisie peters // the mermaid's voice returns in this one by amanda lovelace // coming of age by maisie peters // the witch doesn't burn in this one by amanda lovelace // history of man by maisie peters // she must be mad by charly cox // not another rockstar by maisie peters // therapy by maisie petera

[wallbeatjournal]

if you had to base a new riverdale season off three movies, which would you choose and why? they could be tonal choices or you can pluck entire elements of the movies and work them in.

ok i broke the rules bc i didn't stick to movies, i went novels and pop culture with it too. and i also kind of embroidered a few references together around each main riff in a way that i think COULD be riverdalian, but these are my 3 selections:

jt leroy (2018). trashy iffy-hot-take kristen stewart/laura dern movie about a very 2000s literary scandal/internet drama run Too Far into irl drama that i think riverdale would know better what to do with. two ideas (this is a jughead plot btw):

put jughead in the dissociated trauma-projecting controlling persona-having laura albert/jt leroy role and rope veronica and reggie and their monetary-business motivations into the scam angle. monica posh savannah knoop stuff and rattling veronica and jughead around in a jar together intensely in a campy way

or step lightly outside the bounds of this script into the real livejournal and myspace based drama of it all and jughead's sometimes-characterization as a guy who needs help unpacking metaphor even though he's swimming in it. make him into one of the many emo band boys (ryan ross?? ryan ross????) who related so so so so sosososo much to the writing of jeremiah terminator and then had a whole crisis when j.t. was unmasked as a middle-aged woman with a metaphorical literary persona.

permissible bonus web-weaves: james frey a million little pieces and oprah, augusten burroughs and running with scissors. we're doing the 2000s obsession with author authenticity is-this-really-autobiographical-if-it's-not-literally-true-or-are-you-shaming-your-family-for-NOTHING questions and scandals. but we're especially doing the emo community freaking the fuck out about blorbo from their novels doing a catfish online to extend the persona just that much further.

the avril lavigne replacement conspiracy theory (linking the wiki even though what i'm REALLY thinking of here is this moving pandemic essay alexander chee my beloved posted that i can't locate now, riffing on themes of feeling like a ghost inhabiting your own life after a major trauma). they can work in some other famous body double / replacement and assassination conspiracies (paul is dead, jfk) too but avril is the main reference and this is a betty plot.

pull in some actual alexander chee images and motifs too maybe, his novels about csa grooming trauma and having complicated feelings about your intimate abusers via like grandiose opera/paris siege metaphors (the queen of the night) and fox demons (edinburgh) betty would eat, i fear, even if they're a step off her normal serial killer media mix. dark betty has the range <3

stephen king's the long walk / suzanne collins' the hunger games / battle royale / state-sponsored brutal murderous game show authority abuse dystopia media homage in general!! especially when it's homoerotic and full of ptsd and institutional abuse, because clearly this is a plot primarily for archie and the lads. imo the long walk ("how bad do you have to hate yourself to join the military" but it's game show horror) and the hunger games ("child stardom is traumatic institutional abuse especially in the era of social media and society simply pretends not to see it" but make it a ya game show adventure) should be the main references, but we could work the academic/art-competition angle of battle royale for kevin. as a treat. ok yeah and maybe work in that arnold schwarzenneger movie the running man too while we're here picking up interwoven motifs at the store. why not!