Someday, i'll roll my eyes hard enough, they'll get stuck.
Patroclus had a feet kink.
How do i know? Have you seen the number of times he mentioned the way Achilles' feet kicked up the sand?
“Family don’t end with blood.”
— Bobby Singer
l am hungry I have been hungry I was born hungry What do I need?
Mitski
Will Graham telling everyone to keep thier distance from Hannibal, and then proceed to get closer to him is so me...
it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.
Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
“the ending is always the same”
war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology
Anne Carson, from Red Doc>
Getting a bronchitis at this time of the year makes me feel like a character in a Russian novel, going through fever and hallucinations while breaking in cold sweat.
“It’s the things we love most, that destroy us.”
— Suzanne Collins