Him.🥺💙

It might seem like the hardest thing in the world until you do it, then you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner.

Do the hard thing today.

aegon ii targaryen & aemond targaryen

The Elektra Complex by @filmnoirsbian // house of the dragon 1.06 // chapter 40 of “crimson rivers” by @mayzarbewithyou // house of the dragon 1.07 // killing flies by michael dickman // house of the dragon 1.09 // burial at thebes 'antigone'

alicent hightower & rhaenyra targaryen

sylvia plath / lidia yuknavitch / u.k / sarah ruhl / f. scott fitzgerald / steven espada dawson

One thing I've been contemplating and I think is a big difficulty for a modernization of Persuasion, is how do you trap Anne? Because the way that women in the gentry were basically trapped at home until they married is very hard to translate to today. The narrator explicitly points out that Anne doesn't recover from Wentworth because she's so isolated and has no ability to meet new people. Modern Anne can get out of dodge; Modern Anne can get a job and an education.

A solution that occurred to me was to give Anne a grandparent with Alzheimer's who needs nearly 24/7 care. Sir Walter, with the spending priorities that he has, thinks it's proper for Anne to care for them even though they could afford a nurse. Anne is so worried that there will be gaps in care if she leaves that she commits to staying. Perhaps this grandparent dies around Wentworth's return and Anne is free but is anticipating trouble rejoining the workforce after so many years away so she's still living at home.

It would certainly fit with the way Anne has been doing unvalued labour for her family this whole time.

This really does sum up every damn thing that my family members have done and continue to do so and claim they are absolutely right and need to be respected cause they are older. It's amazing (being sarcastic) how they completely depend on me physically and financially but have the nerve to spew all sorts of nasty nonsense, and yet I sit here and take it. What in the world is wrong with me! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

glass, irony and good, anne carson // margaret atwood // enough, suzanne buffam // linnea paskow // in conversation: kathleen turner, david marchese // haunted womanhood, heather havrilesky // where to begin, sue zhao // the stream of life, clarice lisepector

Kugisaki Nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen

Hi!! Wondering if you have any recs for poetry about siblings? Have an awesome day <33

Thank you, sweetheart, you too! 🌼

poetry recommendations

In Praise of My Sister by Wisława Szymborska

My Brother at 3 A.M. by Natalie Diaz

The Hinge by Cynthia Cruz

The Sister Karamazov by Katie Hartsock

Elegy for My Sister by Sherod Santos

Green, Green is My Sister’s House by Mary Oliver

After My Brother’s Death, I Reflect on the Iliad by Elisa Gonzalez

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[text ID: I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.]

the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance