I feel safe when I’m around you

let’s just take a couch nap, share a blanket, and feel safe together

concept: you, napping next to me while i study. i pause to stroke your hair and you murmur in your sleep. you snore softly and i fall for you all over again.

you fall in love with the little things about someone, like the sound of their laughter and the way their smile forms.

my favourite thing about the story of hades and persephone is that the story grew up with us.

i think most of us, when we were young girls ourselves, heard that first, most tragic version of the story: persephone, the innocent child of spring, who wandered into a dark, terrible place, and ate of a cursed garden. hades, meanwhile, was cast as a shadowy, grasping seducer, looming from the darkness: here he stood, the god of riches, of gemstones and bones, of cold, dead things, who wanted to snatch a little bit of sunlight for himself.

and then came the second version of the story, when we were older, not so much a change in narrative as it was of perspective: we heard about zeus raping leta, we read the way medusa was cursed for being raped by poseidon, we read about athena’s jealousy when she was outwoven by arachne, about hera tossing little hephaestus down a cliff because he wasn’t as beautiful as a god ought to be.

once more, we considered hades: the youngest of the trinity, free of spite and hatred and fits of rage, running an empire greater than his brothers’ together, with little ego and quiet efficiency. a god who only took one wife, only loved once, and then too: wholly, completely.

like something not out of a horror movie, but perhaps, indeed, a fairytale.

then the third turn, when we had grown older, acquired a veneer of cynicism, suffered boys who never grew to men, when we realized that the only way our sexuality would not be annexed was if we conquered it ourselves.

then came kore, the woman of spring, who found in hades a quiet, dark refuge, away from demeter’s wrath and hungry possession, away from the squabbles of those tiresome, reckless gods. the girl who fell in love with darkness. the goddess whose spirit was of renewal and rebirth, and still flourished in the heart of the underworld, the duality of her nature only serving to highlight her strength.

hades remained as he ever was, unchanging, like death itself. but persephone grew, acquired facets and beauty in her change, spring given form in metaphor and mythology.

hades and persephone grew with us. that’s why they’re powerful. that’s why they’re loved.

My unsuspecting followers:

Me, about to go on a serious reblogging spree:

finally. the little dude

Let’s hope we all see clearly in 2020!

Wealth, followers, and popularity. These are things a leo should want, right?

well i mean ill gladly take wealth if that’s what the universe decides—

would anyone have any interest in a group chat for post-college studyblrs/does one exist already?? i’m JD class of ‘23 or ‘24 (we’ll see) and I’d love to connect w/ folks who are any of the following:

- out of undergrad

- in their twenties

- on a non-traditional path age-wise

- work full-time

- do MOOCs/edX/coursera/self-study

- grad school or grad school hopeful

- blog about accessiblity/race issues in academia

- blog about mental health recovery/studying while mentally ill (i’m 4 years into treatment/recovery and newly diagnosed with ADHD, and would love to connect w/ recovery-positive folks)

hello my new pals! thanks so much for all your interest!! i’m staying late in the library tonight to get some work done for my contract law edX course, but I’ll get this group started once I get home (~2am EST) (don’t worry I sleep a lot I just work evenings and I’m a night owl!) (no really I love to sleep)

ENORMOUS THANKS TO @studyblr for helping get us all connected!!

I’d love suggestions for:

1) a descriptive name for our new groupchat

2) a tag we can post under that can help us find each other’s content!

thanks again for your interest, everyone! I’m psyched to add you all and start motivating/mentoring/supporting each other! It isn’t too late to join, just like/reblog/comment/direct message/road flare/semaphore/aol instant message/message in a bottle in my direction!

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14.11.19 // getting ready to spend all day on campus - who can relate?

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anyone that wants to join me stressing out about life and stuff??