* a light in the dark.

hello!  my name is akira.  if you could be so kind as to give this post a  ♡  or  ⟳  if you would be interested in interacting with an  original  character  with  multiple  lore  influences,  and being loosely based around  christian  myth.  thank you! 

eleanor  is  deeply  troubled.    they  have  intrusive  thoughts  more  often  than  they’re  willing  to  admit    -    but  like  everything,   like  pain  itself    -    they  just  swallow  it  down.    you  would  think  that  a  behaviour  like  this  would  lead  to  eleanor  becoming  numb  to  everything.    but  that’s  not  the  case.    eleanor  has  kept  their  feelings  intact  throughout  all  of  the  years  lucifer  has  tried  to  strip  them  away  from  them.    but  this  doesn’t  mean  that  they  are  without  the  unapologetic  cold-heartedness  at  times.  

Elisabeth Hewer, from Finding Ariadne in “Wishing For Birds” (via dearestdeads)

Osip Mandelstam, from “How the splendour of these veils” (tr. by James Greene)

Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Maidens (tr. Seth G. Benardete)

Lauren Milici, from “Crawl,” published in Wyvern Lit   (via 89words)

Emil Cioran, excerpt from Tears and Saints (via virgin-martyr)

Sarah Kane, from The Complete Plays: “4.48 Psychosis” (via 89words)

Nikita Gill, from Modern Apollo And Artemis in “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths And Monsters” (via 89words)

Seras! You can stop now, that’s enough! Enough…please…stop…

elle just really said >:( huh 

Hélène Cixous (via smakkabagms)

courtney marie, from “Don’t Get Your Hopes Up,” published in Nat. Brut (via lifeinpoetry)

Adira Bennett, excerpt from poem BITCH (the Love Song)

Unknown (via quotemadness)

Yvor Winters, from Collected Poems; “Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight,” (via violentwavesofemotion)