#women and other monsters: building a new mythology

[berattelse]

Most cultures have a female monster who preys on pregnant women, fetuses, newborns, and children. It's a near-universal nightmare: the creature who rips babies from the womb or steals them from the cradle. her name is Abyzou, Penanggalan, Lamashtu, La Llorona. Her purpose is sometimes to scare children into compliance, but it's often to scare women into compliance as well. Only monsters stand in the way of the natural order: women as incubators, as conduits for birth. In ancient Greece, the baby stealer's name was Lamia. The myths agree on her name, and her role as a murderer of children, and that's about it. Her backstory and her appearance vary almost psychedelically from story to story. In some, she is a sea monster; her name is the ancient Greek for a rogue shark. In others, she is half-woman, half-snake -- or, as in Keats's poem "Lamia," a multicolored snake with a woman's mouth. In some, she is even plural: the Lamiae, a swarm of vampiric demons. She also appears in a seventeenth-century bestiary with a woman's face and breasts, a four-legged body, front paws, back hooves, scales, and a penis and testicles. Unlike so many of her sister monsters -- snake-haired Medusa, lion-bodied Sphinx -- the important feature of Lamia is not what she looks like, but what she does. The fear of the monstrous mother can have many faces, many forms.

Zimmerman, Jess. Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology. Beacon Press, 2021.

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Author: Jess Zimmerman

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: nonfiction, feminism, mythology, history, memoir

Blurb: The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds - who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough - aren’t just outside the norm...they’re unnatural, monstrous. But maybe the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of eleven female monsters - including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx - Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women and others to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity...but monsters also get to do what other female characters - damsels, love interests, and even most heroines - do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance got us - harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators - women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.

[readtilyoudie]

My desire became a leash to choke me with.

What this does to you, over time, is to slowly peel away your ability to express or even acknowledge that appetite. It’s a cruelly inverted kind of sexual trauma, one that casts you as the offender, the architect of your own pain for wanting too much. Instead of the imposition of someone else’s attention, what you fear is what bubbles up from your own core. The whirlpool. The vortex.

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

[elceetheporcupine]

ya carrd reads "I have a variety of different story ideas, mostly sci-fi and urban fantasy" and that's how y'got me curious, what's cookin' up in ur noggin? what original stories can u share with us? concepts, first drafts, whatever, i'll chew on all <3

So because tumblr mobile is a sluggish nightmare, it refused to publish my first ask and wound up deleting it. It was a long-ass answer too. Bare with me as I describe my stories again.

Insular Beauty- An alternate Earth where anthros evolved instead of humans, in a phenomenon known as the Singularity, a tech "revolution" is spun by the media as a Second Singularity. A lonely porcupine named L.C. "Elcee" Rod is skeptical due to years of predator/prey class division and unreliable machines. When she gets the chance to install an erratic "A.I.", she and some new friends may find that the Second Singularity is not what it seems, even as they try to go on with their lives.

The Wild Cat- A mysterious event wipes out humanity and leaves mutant animals to take their place. In the rebuilt cities based on retrograde technology, criminal gangs rule the streets. The Wild Cats' muscle, Elektra Riptide the bobcat, is a violent nihilist that longs for something better. With the government threatening a total crackdown, activist Comet Lightfoot the hare resists oppression and seeks to rehabilitate the criminal element, sending him on Elektra's path. With his help, Elektra should rediscover another purpose in life other than animalistic violence, especially when the truth about the event starts coming to light.

The Timekeepers- Humans and supernatural creatures live in symbiosis, changing as human civilization does. The Timekeepers are heavenly warriors based on the western and eastern Zodiacs, defending humanity from mythological monsters born from their own fear. Rita C. Pollux, however, has grown jaded over mankind's flaws, self-destructive tendencies, and superstitious behavior that help ensure the monsters' existence. As she continues her duties and evaluates how much she and her friends changed, she wonders if there's still a place for fantasy born from the human mind, without the dangers of superstition to guide them morally and logically.

Magnum Opus- Two artists who've lost their inspiration wake up one day to find they've taken on physical traits from their own works- moth antennae and frog feet respectively. The two women are directed to a place called the Palace, where artists going through the same crisis and becoming their own works go to regain their creative spark and produce a masterpiece that will restore their human bodies. However, the duo feel out of their league when they find themselves surrounded by big-shot contemporary artists and performers, since they're a photographer and cartoonist respectively. They must try to find a spark to build their own personal masterpiece without the feelings of insecurity from their peers.

[glamourzombie]

Seasonal reading!

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology, by Jess Zimmerman

The Evil Eye: The History, Mystery and Magic of the Quiet Curse, by Antonio Pagliarulo

Subtle Energy Techniques, by Cindy Dale

Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction, by John Polkinghorne

Psychich Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation, by Mat Auryn (currently reading)

A Walk through the Forest of Souls: a Tarot Journey to Spiritual Awakening, by Rachel Pollack (TBR)

[lokiinmediasideblog]

What Norse myth books have you read already? I need new recs x

I don't think any of these are particularly new. Trying to make a list of all I've read. And granted, my attention span has gotten worse over the years.

The first book featuring the norse pantheon in any form I read was Neil Gaiman's "American Gods".

There's Diana Wynne Jones' "Eight Days of Luke" which served as inspiration for "American Gods", according to Neil Gaiman. Children's book.

There's also "Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman and his "Norse Mythology" retelling. Children's book.

I LOVED Louie Stowell's Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good, if you have children or trouble getting through books, get this! It's hilarious and smart. I enjoyed it as an adult. Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Norse mythology.

I enjoyed the first two books by Joanne Harris as a teen, "Runemarks" and "Runelight." The first two (esp. the first) are fun and I love the Bart Simpson-esque portrayal of Loki. Unfortunately, the quality of later books focusing on Loki is terrible.

I unfortunately read Joanne Harris' "The Testament of Loki", first chapter is interesting, but he's unwillingly sharing a body with an annoying teen girl, and the way Harris deals with eating disorders is really bad. It's awful. Don't recommend.

I think Lyra Wolf's The Nine Worlds rising series are an easy read. I think she has a great comedic voice and the books are worth reading just for that, and I like the toxic Odin/Loki relationship. I do have complaints about them, such as the anachronistic language (e.g. Loki knowing what a Chihuahua is), and that Sigyn doesn't have flaws other than caring too much for her no-good brother. She also has the women are either saints or evil witches dichotomy going on in terms of portrayals of goddesses. I think the stakes are good in these books so that you keep reading them.

I enjoyed Cat Rector's "The Goddess of Nothing at All" A LOT. While it doesn't have my ideal morally gray portrayal of Sigyn yet, it did make Sigyn more complex than others have. I also like this book mainly because I am a sadist and I love whump and there's a lot of suffering on it. It's so sad you won't be laughing at the myth!Loki memes. I would avoid this book if you don't like whump. I do have criticisms about it, such as her Loki was a bit too nice for my taste and could have been worse (making him justified for cutting Sif's hair feels forced; he can still be a loveable and tragic asshole, you know?). But my tragedy-loving self loves this!

I was looking forward to Genevieve Gornichec's "The Witch's Heart", it has a cute start of Loki giving Angrboda her burnt heart, but she criminally made Angrboda and Loki boring as fuck. Angrboda conveniently doesn't remember anything and just fumbles her way inside a cave for a large portion of the book. And she is the POV we're following. WE ARE STUCK IN A CAVE SHE WON'T LEAVE. Loki's portrayal in this is one of the most cisheteronormative I've seen yet, and it's surprising the author managed this in a story where Loki is impregnated by a horse and wears a dress (he impatiently yanks off because he felt emasculated). The author thinks having a lean build and no beard=queer. Loki only shows interest in women and feels emasculated while wearing a dress. I also happen to hate Skadi and her weird castration fetish in this book. Bitch wouldn't shut up about it. The good thing about this book is that there's no anachronisms, and I liked Hel's portrayal.

So confession, I had Kindle Unlimited trial briefly, and I read a bunch of Loki books, such as Lyra Wolf's.

I think(?) I read A.B. Frost's "Father of Monsters". It was quite short, but has nice illustrations, and Loki's endearing, even if a little shit. That both takes one for the team and also endangers the team.

I read (partially) some book about Loki escaping his punishment early and rejoining the Aesir, but it was criminally boring (it never described how Loki got out of situations and the prose was incredibly VAGUE) and seemed geared towards Norse pagans(Which I AM NOT). Had a spiritual conflict-avoiding vibe. It was called "Loki" but forgot the author's name and I accessed for free by Kindle Unlimited. I also didn't like that it referred to cops as "Tyr's warriors". FUCK COPS.

I have not finished reading Mike Vasich's "Loki". I think the man thinks MCU Loki is accurate to Norse mythology, because that's the only Loki I could picture (and he was adopted by Odin). And man spent way too long describing sensing "power levels" that I ended up getting bored and stopped reading. I've also seen some amusing excerpt from another of his books I have not read. But, if you're an author, don't spend a lot of time describing power levels, FFS! You'll bore the fuck out of your readers.

[about-faces]

Hi! so I'm VERY new to the dc/batfandom, but already extremely here for the Two-Face side of things (no pun intended). I was scrolling posts on how underutilized Gilda Gold/Dent is as a character, and something in my Terminal Mythology Brainrot started ticking when I saw the names "Gold" and "Holiday Killer" next to each other. I did some digging, and found that indeed, Grendel (the creature, not the Dark Horse Comics character) and more importantly Grendel's Mother have NOT been used to their full potential in the dcu. I think that a take on Gilda inspired by Grendel's Mother/by female midwinter/festival monsters in general has immense potential- either as an actual nonhuman lineage, or (imho the better option) as part of the same fixation on mythology that comes out in her calling Harvey "Apollo" in the comics. Also as a multimedia sculptor myself, I can say that most of us would be THRILLED to build a battle-wearable ogress cosplay and Commit Murder Arson Against Major Holidays in it. idk. women in S.T.E.A.M. (Sculpture, Terrorism, Evil, Arson, Mythology)

While I am personally deeply disinterested in takes on Gilda which cast her as a killer/villain, much less a monstrous figure (for reasons which I've gone into rather extensively, wherein I attempt to explain why I think her pre-Holiday depictions are so important and under-appreciated), I must admit that I am genuinely intrigued by the sheer scope of your vision. Utilizing Beowulf is a truly intriguing proposition, something that no writer would ever think to incorporate with someone like Gilda. While I wouldn't normally be on board with Gilda being in the role of Grendel's mom, this is such a novel concept that I'd let you cook. It's certainly more interesting than how she's usually allowed to be in canon, even if it's not what I specifically want.

Also, I've been lamenting a lot about how characters like Gilda (normal-ass civilian type supporting characters) keep getting sucked into the superhero bullshit, getting their own powers and costumes and such. But having Gilda do it in a way that incorporates her sculpture prowess? Again, not what I'd ultimately wanna see, but your ideas intrigue me nonetheless.

[luxe-pauvre]

OCTOBER 2022

Read:

How Sofia Coppola made Marie Antoinette

Almost everything you think you know about diets is wrong - here’s why

The Anxiety of Influencers

Welcome to hell, Elon

Stop Saying You “Could Never Do Science”

One Part of Your Life You Shouldn’t Optimize

Scientific slowdown is not inevitable

Mapping the brain to understand the mind

Meditation is like mountaineering: approach it with care

Why philosophy needs myth

on and off

Into the Fairy Castle: The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism

It’s Not All In Your Head

Are men animals?

The beautiful experiment

Medicine’s Wellness Conundrum

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan

Livewired by David Eagleman

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

The Harpy by Megan Hunter

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchauspé

Watched:

2 Years Of Writing A Book In 30 Minutes*

Antonio Damasio meets Noga Arikha

Digital Women: Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina, and Her

Blonde**

Last Night in Soho

This England

Listened To:

Henry Marsh on brain surgery

Temptation by Heaven 17

Renaissance by Beyonce (again, again)

Went To:

The Art of Movement, Van Cleef & Arpels @ The Design Museum

Fashion Museum Bath

Sam Smith @ The Royal Albert Hall

Food for Life – The New Science of Eating Well with Prof. Tim Spector

[marc-anthony-macon]

"The Day Will Come"

“The harpy wants to win, which means a man must lose. She wants justice, which means a man must be punished. She wants space that could be taken by a man. Are we really willing to make that sacrifice? What makes a woman's ambition predatory, we are told, is that it overflows its natural bounds. It treads on the lands that men have marked as theirs.” ― Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Stickers and sharpie on found paper 8"x11" Marc-Anthony Macon, 2024

[honeyssweetened]

Sometimes I think about how difficult it is to find a potentially romantic companion in this day and age, at my age, with all the financial, economical, health, and capitalist strain and drain

I think about how the last time I clicked with a guy was back in college, kindhearted Kodi. Every day was delicious tension, the "will they, won't they" that permeated the art class room but which we were both oblivious to until a fellow classmate pointed it out. We always talked for hours about things that had depth: history cultures, film analysis, mythology, human history and biology. Sometimes I miss him.

Before him was Hayden, the flirt. Politics history was his thing but not mine, but we met where history and the fun of conspiracy theories collided. He was fun and watching documentaries with him was just as fun as regular movies. Traveling and experiencing new things, and trying new things, brought us joy. I haven't spoken to him in years but I hope he's doing well and is still a good person.

There were others, too. There are those whose names I remember (Brandon, Trevor) and those whom I don't (the boy whom I met at a house party and had a week-long fling with before he left the country).

Why is it so hard to find someone you can click with? Most guys I meet today are bland, porn brained, a bum, and/or have no substance. I go to cocktail bars and they're either extremely boring guys in tech with oversized egos and are obnoxious. Finding a single, sane, childless man at an art event is like a unicorn so I don't even try anymore. I go to historic locations or seaside places and they're all either superficial or immature, still clinging to childish thinking and teenage translations of relationships.

Almost always, always he opens his mouth and ruins it for himself by saying something misogynistic, racist, fetishing Black women, turns out to be religious, or that he views women and women's choices as something for solely men to dictate.

I don't want to be with someone who sees me as lesser, who siphons my joy and makes me feel confined. I want someone who I can learn with and who enjoys knowledge too. I want someone to build an enjoyable and fun life with, someone who's trustworthy, and not someone I'll be fearing in the back of my mind that he'll rape and/or murder me one day. I want to be with a person and someone who sees me as a person too, not a closeted monster nor a man child.

But more so, why is all this seems to be easier said than done?

[andhumanslovedstories]

On Cracked Spines over the last couple months, Amelia and I have been working our way around the Trojan War and Margaret Miller (with a few other authors thrown in to flesh it out). We read Circe first because that's one of my favorite books, one that I've found deeply meaningful every time I've reread it and one I wanted to share with Amelia. Then we read the actual text of The Odyssey as translated by Emily Wilson, which I really enjoyed! After we were done with Telemachus' part! Sorry, baby, you're boring as fuck!!

Then we read The Song of Achilles, Madeleine Miller's first book, a novel I'd been planning on reading for nearly a decade now, and you know what? Makes me all the more impressed with Circe. Like Circe is a book that fundamentally changed me and my taste and is so impactful on me, and The Song of Achilles.......sucks? Sorta sucks?? For this episode I also read Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls which tells the story of The Iliad from the point of view of Briseis, an enslaved woman Achilles has taken as a war prize. Go read Pat Barker's story instead. It's darker and bleaker (which, this is a war story, why shouldn't it be?) with women who have inner lives and conflicts that actually matter.

(It's almost baffling to me how much I actually disliked TSoA's second half. It is genuinely admirable how much better I think Circe handles basically every aspect of its writing. I'm excited to read Miller's next novel and see if she pushes herself further.)

Episode on Circe by Madeleine Miller and Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman 

Episode on The Odyssey

Episode on The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller

[berattelse]

[...] The qualities we hail as heroic in Western culture -- courage and fortitude, selflessness and nobility, steadiness of mind and will -- are not unique to men. Arguably, they're not even characteristic. But in the male-dominated myth, folklore, and literature that defines our culture, they've been annexed as "masculine" traits. We're still struggling to create or consume stories about valorous women, unless they also display the "feminine" virtues: passive sex appeal and fragility that requires rescue. In a hero, these are flaws. Thus, any heroine who tries to embody both contains the seeds of her own undoing. The female hero can hoist up the shackles of femininity and take them with her on adventures, but that's not the same as breaking free. [...] In college, I was a particular fan of Edmund Spenser's "martial maid" Britomart, who gets to wear armor and carry a spear and go on quests and even rescue maidens -- but eventually, even Britomart gallops back to her role as a princess, a wife, and the mother of a race of noble Britons. Her whole mission, in general, has been to find the man she glimpsed in a magic mirror and fell in love with. The rescuing damsels part was just a side quest. [...] And if the heroine truly slips the constraints that her femininity is supposed to place on her, the very heroic virtues she embodies often mutate into monstrosity. In the Old English epic poem Beowulf, the eponymous male hero is described as an aglæca, a word for which we do not know the exact meaning but which is usually translated as something like "hero" or "warrior". Beowulf's antagonist, the monster Grendel, also gets described as an aglæca, which in his case is usually glossed as "demon" or "monster" or something similar. What the two have in common is the sense of being awe-inspiring or formidible, so that's probably more or less what aglæca means. But the word has a feminine form, aglæcwif, and the ancient text contains an aglæcwif too: Grendel's mother. There is no abiguity to this word, not in the way it's come down to us; aglæcwif is translated as "monster-woman," "troll-lady," "wretch," or "hag." In other contexts, "wif" (which is also attached to other descriptors of Grendel's mother) specifically denotes a human woman, and yet -- like it's not indignity enough that she's always called "Grendel's mother," as if the bards were Grendel's schoolmates who didn't realize mothers had names -- the aglæcwif is assumed to be subhuman and bestial. She's just as much an aglæca as Beowulf, and just as much a wif as the other human women to which that refers, but the combination inspires not awe but horror. The monstrousness of Grendel's mother, the factor that makes her a hag or a troll or a wretch, comes from her stepping outside the slim strictures of womanhood into the realm of aglæca, of formidability and awe. In another world, she would have been a hero.

Zimmerman, Jess. Introduction to Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology. Beacon Press, 2021.

[life-of-the-other-woman]

"What was it like for the sirens on their lonely rock, watching everyone who tried to love them drown?"

Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

[readtilyoudie]

Being a teenage girl is dramatic in part because it’s your first, chilliest dunking in the certain knowledge that your body is your worth. I’d been a chubby kid, and so the idea that my body was a source of shame wasn’t new to me, but previously I’d only been a disappointment to my family. Now, I was understanding that an unbeautiful woman is an unfulfilled promise to the world.

I realize now that some of this is illusion—that those promises were made on my behalf, without my input, by people who didn’t have my best interests at heart.

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman

[ofsundropsx]

𝚃𝙰𝚂𝙺 𝟸𝟻; 𝙽𝙴𝚇𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝙽.

             juliet fitzherbert.

like her mother before her juliet’s as golden as the hair atop her head but don’t let her sweet demeanor fool you. she’s eugene’s daughter and has ben teague as an older brother which means she can certainly handle her own and isn’t afraid to use a frying pan if need be. juliet often doubts herself when it comes to being a princess. she wants to be great but sometimes she feels her best intentions cause more bad than good. perhaps it’s because compared to her brother’s power ( the future king flynnie ) she feels like a monster. she’s feels she’s more of a danger with a lack of understanding of her powers. there’s this lingering darkness within and she doesn’t know how to deal with it. the moon eventually eclipses the sun and juliet is wondering when that moment will come for her.

INSPIRED  BY  :   juliet capulet ( romeo & juliet ) , amy march (  little women  ) , kimberly hart (  mighty morphin power rangers  )  , fearless by taylor swift ( taylor’s version ) ,  marianne dashwood (  sense & sensibility  )  ,  daphne bridgerton ( bridgerton ) , persephone ( greek mythology ) , betty by taylor swift

𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙰𝙻

BIRTH NAME. juliet cassandra fitzherbert NICKNAMES.  jules, julie DATE OF BIRTH.   february 3 AGE.    twenty-two GENDER.   cis female. PRONOUNS.  she/her. SPECIES.   human POWERS.   decay and destruction gifted ( more liked cursed ) from the moonstone SEXUALITY.  pansexual. PLACE OF BIRTH.    corona, germany. CURRENT RESIDENCE.   elias, california. OCCUPATION.    princess of corona, ballerina, college student.

𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴

HEIGHT. 5'3" BUILD. athletic yet soft HAIR COLOUR/STYLE. blonde //  ( X ) EYE COLOUR. brown. PIERCINGS.  ears. TATTOOS. a minimalist moon tattoo that matches flynn’s NOTABLE MARKINGS.  freckles. GLASSES/CONTACTS ?  she wears glasses when reading FACECLAIM.  olivia holt. VOICECLAIM. olivia holt. ( X )

𝙷𝙴𝙰𝙻𝚃𝙷

PHYSICAL AILMENTS.   none. ALLERGIES.   hazelnuts. SLEEPING HABITS. a little night owl she is i fear BODY TEMPERATURE.  on the cooler side DOMINANT HAND.    right. DRUGS / SMOKE / ALCOHOL ? no / no / no

𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚈

TROPES.   dark secret, friend to all living things, girly bruiser, hair of gold heart of gold, plucky girl POSITIVE TRAITS. effervescent, compassionate, creative, NEGATIVE TRAITS.  stubborn, anxious, scared USUAL MOOD.  content. LIKES. FROGS !! picnics in the woods, dancing for hours on end, classic paintings, the feeling of the sun on your skin, moonlit walks, being in the company of her father DISLIKES.  her powers, when her brothers are overprotective of her, being told what to do, being thought of as naive or weak, breaking in new ballet slippers BAD HABITS.  she’s a little snarky sometimes. she is a fitzherbert.

𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙿𝚂

MOTHER.    reagan cymbeline. FATHER.      eugene fitzherbert. SIBLINGS.   benjamin teague & flynn fitzherbert. PETS.   a gecko named venus. BIRTH ORDER.   youngest of three. SIGNIFICANT OTHER.  bryson utonium. CLOSEST FRIENDS. diana hamato, bria utonium, kieran adrastus, rosalie charmont.

𝚃𝙴𝚂𝚃𝚂

ZODIAC SIGN. aquarius. MBTI. infp. TEMPERAMENT.   sanguine. HOGWARTS HOUSE.    hufflepuff. MORAL ALIGNMENT.  neutral good.

𝚂𝙺𝙸𝙻𝙻𝚂 & 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝚂

LANGUAGES SPOKEN.   english, german & french DRIVE ?       yes. JUMP START A CAR ?       yes, ben taught her. CHANGE A FLAT TIRE ?        yes. RIDE A BICYCLE ?       yes. SWIM ?      yes. PLAY AN INSTRUMENT ?      yes, a few. PLAY CHESS ?      yes. BRAID HAIR ?     yes, have u seen her mother’s hair when she was her age ?? TIE A TIE ?          yes. PICK A LOCK ?          ya .. ben taught her this too. SEW ?       yes.

COMPASSION.          10/10.

EMPATHY.         10/10.

CREATIVITY.          10/10.

MENTAL FLEXIBILITY.          9/10.

PASSION.         10/10.

LUCK.         8/10.

MOTIVATION.  9/10.

EDUCATION.          10/10.

INTELLIGENCE.          9/10.

CHARISMA.       10/10.

REFLEXES.          6/10.

WILLPOWER.          8/10.

STAMINA.          7/10.

PHYSICAL STRENGTH.          6/10.

BATTLE SKILL.          6/10.

INITIATIVE.     8/10.

RESTRAINT.         8/10.

STRATEGY.       9/10.

TEAM WORK.         9/10.

(  PINTEREST, HER TAG, playlist. )

[roseeberries]

Jess Zimmerman, Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology.