arm yourself; my heart

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

the poem literally starts with "so this guy we are going to talk about is Not a good person and he brought unimaginable suffering to countless people in a meaningless war" and the people are surprised when the suffering he brought IN A WAR includes rape. because women famously aren't raped in war. i am sorry, i love achilles, he is one of the most interesting characters of ancient literature to me, but it is a very important part of the narrative that he is cruel, ego-driven, rageful and violent, and it's THE THING that makes iliad interesting. like genuinely, if you're not interested in ancient reflections on what the realities of warfare are, what are you even reading it for

Quick someone write a feminist retelling of the illiad featuring no women at all within the story

@effyrosemary Eva pls can we go to there 🥹

No matter how insane Rowan and Quinn were on Blackwood Farm, they should’ve been even crazier. Idc, they should’ve kissed. She should’ve blown him and afterwards cradled him like a baby. And as she’s playing with his hair, she should tell him that if he touches Mona again, she will kill him.

whenever theres a woman im like YAY. whenever theres not a woman im like meh. i’ve seen better

When Anne Rice said “I do have fantasies about going around in a black limousine and killing every visible pimp I can find. You know, inviting them into the limo, spreading the whole thing with plastic so they don’t bleed and shooting them. Anybody who’s been brutal to women and made them prostitutes and hurt them and killed them. I have many fantasies of doing that, but I will never do it..I don’t think” I felt that