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Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.

Chase Berggrun, "Addressable Thou", pub. The Brooklyn Rail [ID'd]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (trans. Jamey Gambrell)

Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night  (via weltenwellen)

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping (via luthienne)

it’s because you’re always in that damn narrative

girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward

doomed by the narrative? couldn't be me, i doomed the narrative myself

Beating the System - Jill Mulleady, 2015.

Uruguayan , b. 1980 -

Oil on canvas, 105 x 91 cm.

summer and green ! Mark Tennant / Pascal Campin / Pascal Campin / Oamul

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

the whole series is good like it is set up PERFECTLY but last olympian really GOES OFF

what do you MEAN an unwilling hero who never wanted ANY of this in the first place was thrown into the middle of a war at the age of twelve and then stepped up to claim a prophecy to protect a younger child from having to do it . what do you MEAN the antagonist explicitly stated he turned away from the gods after a failed quest his dad sent him on made him bitter because “where’s the glory in repeating what other people have done?” what the HELL do you MEAN luke and percy two INCREDIBLY SIMILAR people spend all four books hating each other’s guts and mutually taunting each other while the whole time annabeth INSISTS luke has merely been led astray. are you telling me the entire series is about choosing to reject the deadly pride of heroes???? not trying to FIGHT FATE and SEEK GLORY which has always gotten heroes killed but just trying to DO THE RIGHT THING? and you’re telling me sally jackson who said ‘if my life is going to mean anything i have to live it myself’ and rejected poseidon’s offer to make her immortal named the hero of this story PERSEUS in hopes that he would have a happy ending and she raised him with these values. what the FUCK DO YOU MEAN last olympian completely subverts the idea of the chosen one by making the prophecy culminate in doing nothing what the FUCK do you mean hestia said “not all powers are spectacular the hardest one to master is the power of yielding” and “You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn” and what percy has to LEARN is SYMPATHY FOR LUKE, showing how this entire cycle began because the gods expect their children to be heroes and use them as bargaining chips or errand boys or for bragging rights without showing a SHRED of affection or appreciation and it culminated in REJECTING THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF TRADITIONAL GREEK HEROISM: IMMORTALITY AND GODHOOD ? no wonder we’re all still here wtf