GET WEIRD!

An explanation.

“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing machine If you have a secret, a dark past, a scheme, If you kidnap maidens or dabble in dreams Come stand by me. If you have been broken, stand up. If you have been broken, abandoned, alone If you have been starving, a creature of bone If you live in a tower, a dungeon, a throne If you weep for wanting, to be held, to be known, Come stand by me. If you are a savage, stand up. If you are a witch, a dark queen, a black knight, If you are a mummer, a pixie, a sprite, If you are a pirate, a tomcat, a wright, If you swear by the moon and you fight the hard fight, Come stand by me. If you are a devil, stand up. If you are a villain, a madman, a beast, If you are a strowler, a prowler, a priest, If you are a dragon come sit at our feast, For we all have stripes, and we all have horns, We all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns And here in the dark is where new worlds are born. Come stand by me.”

— A Monstrous Manifesto, by Catherynne M. Valente (via missivesfromghosts)

“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other.”

— Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via littledemonsinmyhead)

“I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”

— Gillian Flynn, from Dark Places (via lifeinpoetry)

“Oh, monsters are scared. That’s why they’re monsters.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via broomstixs)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

for the girls the fairytales abandoned

“I’d show my teeth and tell you I was just hungry for the truth. And I was hungry for the truth. I just couldn’t keep it down.”

— Lord of the Butterflies, ‘Bad at Love’ by Andrea Gibson (via amouthfulloflove)

PRAYER FOR WEREWOLVES from We are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt

“Sometimes clouds have two sides, a dark and light, and a silver lining in between. It’s like a silver sandwich! So when life seems hard, just take a bite out of the silver sandwich.”

— Prince Zuko, Avatar: The Last Airbender (via xydrealb)

“And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.”

— Shanti (via travel-as-a-happy-hippie)

This is good advice.

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”

— D.H. Lawrence (via currentsinbiology)