Emily Dickinson

“your poems are too powerful. they’re like snakes. they slither into me, and they coil around my heart, and they squeeze me until I can’t breathe. they are glittering and venomous, and they bite. I got scared, emily. of you, of the way that you grip me, of the way that you poison me.”

sometimes i think about sue saying this to emily and then i have to take a minute to breathe again.

WERE ANY OF YOU GOING TO TELL ME THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PHYSICAL REACTION TO HOT PEOPLE??? LIKE HEARTRATE RISES AND ALL THAT. THAT’S REAL??

The reason that each of the Roys are so easily manipulated by Logan begins and ends with the fact that he will always know each of them more than they’re known by anyone else—because they don’t know how to let themselves be known or understood by anyone else, not even each other, not even their partners or lifelong friends, (he’s made sure of that.) and THAT is why he’s always able to say the cruelest possible thing, cut them where it’ll hurt the most, or manipulate them most effectively. Because in order to betray someone fully, in order to hate them properly, you have to really know them. And even when he’s hurting them, all they can see is love. All they can feel is known, understood, and they’ll spend the rest of their lives chasing that feeling that only their father can provide, begging for scraps and doing whatever it takes to get them.

Gillian Anderson as Detective Inspector Stella Gibson The Fall (2013 -2016) @pscentral event 12: take two (women + favourite characters/performers)

i love tumblr because youll experience the most intense insane emotions within an hour and feel so alienated from everyone else but then youll come here and see some girl posting about the exact same thing. and the world feels okay again

I will say I am so fucking glad we get to finally see some of shiv's rage this season. it's been blubbering under the surface for the entirety of the show and it's finally coming out, slowly, in small increments but it is. but it's still really fucked up how even now, even after everything that's happened, everything that's been done to her, there isn't really a response there from other people, mostly. when she loses her shit at tom on the phone this episode because he FUCKED HER OVER, he doesn't even acknowledge it, it's just 'I don't know what you mean, I don't know maybe Sara made a mistake. I want this to be amicable' literally gaslighting her and making seem as if she's the crazy one for freaking out after he did this to her. same goes for her outburst at the karaoke bar. no one really knows how to respond and she's just left with this ever-simmering rage, that, if she lets it out, proves to everyone around her that she's just the hysterical woman. and if she doesn't it just eats her alive without anyone even taking fucking notice

i will sign any and every petition to save this show. i will ask any and every streaming service to save this show. to save the crows. they are just so special and important to so many people out there, I refuse to let them take this away from us. I will not get tired of advocating for this show.

because that's what we do, we never stop fighting.

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

Dreams like stars in the night

Poem for Sekhmet

Nourish my soul, nourish the rage, nourish the heartbeat inside of its cage: Bringer of Heat, Lady of Flame, Mother, I've hidden within me a shame. Choked down my anger, cut down my claws, Ignoring a longing that burns my lungs raw, Help me see red, help me see rage Help me break open and out of this cage. Carnelian carnivore, Lady of Light, Instruct me in carnage. Teach me to fight. Let me make true all the thoughts in my mind, in ways that are safe, and help others be kind. Help me make action of heat in my chest, Lady of Power, Dua Sekhmet!