What is a monster but a creature of agency?

And then its draft horse friend shows up and stomps the wolf to death with its hooves.

phone in bed can range from comforting to mundane but phone in parked car will have you feeling like you've never done anything right in your entire life

"if you're in the midst of psychosis then you HAVE TO--" stop. hold on. I'm taking your hand gently here. Now I'm leading you by the hand to this cliff overlooking a beautiful valley. See how the wind brushes the branches of the trees like a lover's caress? See how the birds make shapes with each other? How do they know how to do that? See how every little bug and squirrel, every mouse and deer and wolf and bear and frog make up something greater than themselves that is, itself somehow alive, perhaps even awake, capable of perceiving itself? Now I'm pushing you over the cliff. Fuck you cunt

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Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

i think every publisher should have to institute a ban on books that fail what i’m calling the “little life” and “what else?” tests

#it might have been loise gück who my professor was quoting when he said 'just because its true doesnt mean its a good poem'

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

How do you know you're not Asexual? Maybe you just haven't met the right nobody.

Odysseus walks up, wags his eyebrows at you, then proceeds to infodump about his beloved wife and how he can't wait to get home again.

this is the first time in my life i thought oh i hope there’s music