if i were writing a feminist myth retelling centered around a female character mostly overlooked and denied interiority in the ancient texts that mention her, i would simply not throw helen under the bus to do so
rip to margaret atwood and madeline miller but i’m different
❌❌❌ NO MORE NETFLIX ❌❌❌ SOCIETY HAS PROGRESSED PAST THE NEED FOR NETFLIX ❌❌❌❌
Gabriela Mistral, The Parrot
“Sometimes in later summer I won’t touch anything, not the flowers, not the blackberries brimming in the thickets; I won’t drink from the pond; I won’t name the birds of the trees; I won’t whisper my own name. One morning, the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident, and didn’t see me—and I thought: so this is the world. I’m not in it. It is beautiful.”
— Mary Oliver, from October
who’s your favorite poet? edgar allen poe? yikes. why isn’t it someone actually important like flo milli
rb with your absolute NO skip albums i need recommendations or just wanna hear y’alls faves