"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

My grandmother talks about how growing up in Belfast, Ireland, British soldiers would raid the local Irish people's houses, steal from them, smash up their homes or burn them out, beat up or kill or imprison the men, rape the women, and then justify their actions by saying the local people were harbouring IRA terrorists and illegal weapons stores even though they weren't. Any time the British committed an act of violence against the Irish it was the same excuse.

And every time Israel blows up a school, hospital, refugee camp killing hundreds of civilians in the process and justifies it by saying they were harbouring Hamas it makes me think of that. Colonialism never changes.

Coming on Tumblr to distract myself while AO3 is down only for my dashboard to be full of people talking about AO3

You're Losing Me & lyric parallels

anyone think about how Kagome's classmates probably, and with good reason, believe that she died after high school. like the girl was out sick almost constantly for a year in middle school, seemed to get better, and then just disappeared right after graduation. they all 100% think she was terminally ill and just hid it really well. people she hardly knew probably wrote social media posts like

"we were so close, I can't believe she's gone. she was so brave right up until the end. fly high baby girl 👼😔🕊️ rip kagome higurashi"

Maybe the real Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) was the friends we made along the way

TAYLOR’S VERSION

SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR’S VERSION)

"oh my god you know this one" baby girl i could recite your discography backwards and forwards in my sleep what are you talking about

"Quivering" is my least-favourite word in the english language. Nothing and nobody should be quivering. If you're quivering right now, stop that shit immediately. Tremble or shake if you must but the quivering has to stop.