Aerith & The Turks

Y’all can pry alterous attraction from my cold dead hands.

It’s such an important concept. As a community we cannot let it die.

Reading Vlog #1 - Holy Shit...

I’m reading a novel that was written in 1915 and has a whole paragraph just casually discussing sexism, objectification, asexuality and the impermanence of love. I don’t care if the characters are supposedly ‘despicable’, Ford Madox Ford was onto something.

‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford, on page 84 of 179.

Discovering that you’re 10 days behind the Discovery of Witches RTR.

Me: I can fix this.

“I’ll take my leave of you, Kassandra.”

It would’ve been a lie to say that those words didn’t cause her shoulders to drop.

Kassandra had gotten used to Brasidas’ presence during their days in Arkadia that she’d almost forgot he wouldn’t be accompanying her to Boeotia, returning to Sparta along with her mother instead. She watched as he did a small bow as a parting gesture, like the gentleman he ever was, and tried not to let her disappointment show.

But then Brasidas glanced up at her—those soft, gentle honey eyes she would never have expected to find in a battle-hardened Spartan man before—sending her a certain look. And just like that, she understood the unspoken words behind them, and found herself returning his smile with one of her own.

I’ll be waiting for you back at home.

Because Brasidas bowing to Kassandra before they part ways in Arkadia always makes me soft.

You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnessed for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (via relatablepoetryandquotes)

Literally no one:

Not a single soul:

Male authors:

I got stung twice by the same wasp today, because the class I was observing for training danced on its field for an hour.

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“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”

- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford