the mermaids & the wolves

You’ve been mentored.

in the hallway, i walk backwards ahead of them. what a perfect photo this would be: all in identical robes, their strides are equal to where no one falls ahead or behind.

Hear me. And see what you’ve done to us.

Every child meets our eyes, smiling as though they’ve obtained knowledge and secrets of the world. Each individually unique. Each with a mind of their own. Each proud and in love with who they are. I expected no less.

We draw our gazes to our children.  Fire and water upon them.

happy birthday, winona meadows march 24th

･*✿ happy birthday winona (24th march) ✿*･

Ben wants to be heard. We hear him and listen to him every day. He may believe tonight we’ve shot down his ideas, but I’m not drowning each one. I’m challenging them, and he has every right to stand by his convictions. However outlandish and fantastical they may be.

You know, like a fairy.

“It’s not that,” Akara says. “Well… it kind of is, but Jack and I have this thing that day.” Sulli nods slowly. “Like a production-security thing?”

Heroines from the twenty-first century literature.

“I have been criticized a lot for not looking perfect in every photograph. I’m not embarrassed about it. I’m proud of it. If I took perfect pictures all the time, the people standing in the room with me, or on the carpet, would think, ‘What an actress! What a faker!'”