il était une fois.

leslie feinberg

buy me a coffee

Emil Lauffer (1837-1909), Kriemhild’s Accusation (Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hager of murdering her husband Siegfried), 1879, oil on canvas, 191 x 300 cm. National Gallery Prague

— Olivia Gatwood, from “The Lover as a Cult,” Life of the Party

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

Mark Doty, "The Death of Antinoüs"

A Knight and His Lady by Andy Thomas

[text ID: “This is me”, he whispers and I can feel the breath of his fist on my virgin cheekbone. / “This is me”, his voice is clearer, “do you take me as I am?” / But all I can think of is how my mother invented helplessness to raise my father up. / I refuse to build a throne on my head for another man.]

[text id: the world is happening in a room that i can't enter, life is happening in a gathering i am not invited to. / being unwanted is a language i am fluent in.]

xenotransplantation, sam sax

Antigonick by Anne Carson / I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson / Electra by Sophokles / Erica E. Goode

— Dorothy Bussy (neé Strachey), from Olivia.

Dinosaur, Richard Siken

Anne Carson Decreation

ARSEMA THOMAS as LADY AGATHA DANBURY QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY — 1x05: “Gardens in Bloom” (2023)

Instead of "Mom," it says, "Me."

Above Ground, Clint Smith