thaliasthunder:

currently trembling in the dark crying in my room vomiting on the floor screaming into the void wishing i was dead and 3ft under the ground

little-big-boo-and-a-rat:

Reading Circe after The song of Achilles is so satisfying and relieving because Odysseus says that he saw Achilles and Patroclus together in the Underworld anyways I’m not crying

mooncrvmbs:

i don’t rate books based on character development and plot holes. if it made me bawl my eyes out and search up its fanarts at 3 am it’s a 5/5

fairydrowning:

-Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

the-overanalyst:

i’ve come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn’t turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it’s snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

belovedeadpoets:

do you call it ‘soulmate’ or 'I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.’

nsomniacsdream:

bodhisattvawithoutorgans:

“your teens are about” “your 20s are about” there’s no schedule babes

Your 30s are about being older than your 20s but not in your 40s yet.

unstablecryptid:

Thinking about them again

vellichnora:

On grief and loss

1. Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior/ 2. Andrew Garfield interview/ 3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix/ 4. Jamie Anderson/ 5. Fleabag/ 6. Anne Carson, Glass, irony and god / 7. Brokeback Mountain/ 8. Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere/ 9. John Banville, The Sea/ 10. Wandavision

jumping-jackalope:

the thing about brokeback mountain is that Ennis wanted to survive but Jack wanted to live. and can you blame them? you can’t blame either of them

imposterogers:

sometimes I think about how heath ledger refused to attend the 2007 oscars because they asked him to make a brokeback mountain joke and he refused because ‘it’s not a joke to me — I don’t want to make any jokes about it.’

memedreamm:

i don’t care about straight actors playing queer people in media all i care about is if theyre going to put their whole pussy into it. tom hardy of course ive had gay sex im an actor. keanu reeves and river phoenix going to gay clubs in seattle and making out in public. heath ledger almost breaking jake gyllenhal’s nose because he kissed him too hard. when will actors do this again. 

oatm3al-c00kies:

just realising that joel had to have heard ellie’s screams from out on the street and that’s probably why he was so close to the building when she came out and how he caught her so quick oh my god can you imagine what was going through his head