Lovely war by Julie Berry

Fairy Queen costume, Iolanthe, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1977. Designed by Bruno Santini

Persephone was the mistress of the Furies–underworld daimones who punished the crimes of filial betrayal, impiety and murder. She despatched them when curses were invoked in her name.

- Homer, Iliad

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via sylviaplathquotes)

Poemas no recogidos en libros (1962-1972 ) - Alejandra Pizarnik

worldbuilding: problems

there’s no place where everything runs smoothly. every country has it’s problems. that might be poverty, weak government, fake news, gun violence, or abuse of magical abilities. it could really be anything. so what’s wrong with your world?

what could go wrong:

poverty

corrupt government (a few infiltrations? biased officials? a dictator?)

discrimination/persecution of any kind (sexism, racism, religion, anything that makes someone unique)

violence (gangs, guns, magic, sexual assault)

failing economy

counterfeits (money, expensive products, anything)

drugs (fake drugs, very real and dangerous drugs)

weak government (ie. the government isn’t necessarily corrupt, but no one listens to them and they have no real power at all so everyone just runs amok)

environmental crisis

relations with other countries/regions

war

fake news (can be something smaller like what goes around on the internet today, or something as horrible as the propaganda the axis powers fed their people about the allied powers)

scarcity

terrorist groups

stereotypes (remember, even seemingly positive stereotypes can be damaging)

manipulation/using people

there’s a whole lot more, get creative! as saddening as this will be, scrolling through news articles will give you some good inspiration because our world is pretty messed up

how to choose which problems to include

what is your world like? as obvious as this probably sounds, your world’s problems are directly related to the things in your world. choose pretty much any element of your world, however small it may seem, and there can be made a problem out of it.

in a world of magic:

magic can be abused

magic can be faked (ie. in harry potter, around exam season, students sell items that “enhance your brain” or whatever when it’s really pixie poop, i’m not even kidding)

discrimination between magical and non magical people (muggleborns vs. purebloods)

people rely too much on magic and become weak (a great example of this is the Renegades series, where the non prodigies depend on the prodigies way too much)

non magic people using magical people (or magical people using other magicals, ex. grindelwald/percival graves using creedence to find the obscurial)

really, the problems for a magical world are endless - you can use regular real-life problems with a twist. the magical government lies to the public, buying out the main news source? people of pure magical lineage are somehow better than those related to non magical people? harry potter is a fantastic example of magical worldbuilding, steal stuff from jkr (but don’t make gay characters who are never actually gay)

in a world of science:

i’m a big fantasy nerd, much less sci-fi, so i don’t really have any good examples from books/movies, but here are some ideas anyway

the people who live on a different planet are starting to run out of resources and take over the earth (literally the plot of the Lunar Chronicles series)

the government is testing out new sciencey techy stuff and they accidentally make superhuman demon things (Incredibles, but they’re nice guys, not demon things, except maybe jack jack but he’s a cutie don’t hurt him)

terrorist groups steal a smart guy to make weapons for them (Iron Man)

the world is dying 

two + planets are fighting over something

technology/inventions/whatever can be abused

wow these are terrible i’m sorry i need to read more sci-fi

again, you can take regular real world problems and put a sciencey twist on them; a gang that kills people with laserbeam contact lenses, a new invention that uses a very rare element that’s important to the ecosystem and is starting to destroy the planet, the little robots we send to mars become self aware and build a colony of robots. go off sis

Kingdom of Ash thought/final stand

I finished a few minutes ago and I am just so satisfied and happy with this last book. It’s a beautiful ending to this story and world. I was in tears for the last half of it and my cheeks are still salty. So many truly soul-crushing and heartwarming scenes and sentences or even words and I’ll never be able to name them all in this book and this series in general.  I will forever treasure this series as one that iginited that flame in me to start reading again despite the things I came to not really love anymore and seek to read. It’s still the Harry Potter of my early 20s and I’ll keep rereading scenes and parts from it as I so often do since the begining of this journey.  *my last stand on this series in this fandom and farwell of sorts. 

Leaving SJMaas fandom for good. Thank you to everyone here, it's been amazing while it lasted. I've just been over it for quite some time. I might pop up just for Kingdom of Ash again to conclude this all. ✌

Btw, I unfollowed everyone, just to clear my page.

Look how damn fine he was. I forgot I had a huge boner for him in 2000s.

elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH

This fucking site: hey net neutrality is about to die :((( please help us :(((( boost and rb everything you see even if you’re not American :((((((((( we’ll have no wifi :(((((( we need you!!!! :((((

Non-Americans: okay

Non-Americans: hey greece is basically on fire, 150 people are wounded, 53 are killed and our nature is being destroyed. we’re suspecting arson. can you please reblog some posts and help spread awareness?

This fucking site:

Please pray for us here in Greece.

Three different places near Athens were destroyed by massive forest fires.

• 180+ people are severely injured and burnt.

• 50 people and counting were found dead on the streets, in their cars or houses, including families that were found hugging each other.

• 100+ are missing.

This is a national tragedy. So many were lost because of ARROGANT PEOPLE.

Spreading awareness. There’s no need for such things to happen, so many lives were destroyed for no reason.

I normally don’t adress such happenings, but what happened in the outskirts of Athens is beyond sickening. It has been happening for years every summer, and in other countries as well. But this time it grew so out of hand that innocent people lost homes, loved ones and were burned alive by the hellfire that arose because people want nothing but power and money. Normally, I wouldn’t be so sensitive about such a tragedy, but this happened in my country, this happened in calm and quiet places where innocent people went on their daily lives and some for their holidays. This is just beyond sickening. Last night I saw a photo of a firefighter holding a dead child in his arms. Some people managed to get away, but the others were surrounded and could do nothing but wait for the fire to cook them alive. Just imagining their fear, how much pain they had to go through… It’s honestly unbearable. So many are dead, and even more injured and/or in critical conditions. A tragedy such as this could have happened near wear I live, as well. So basically all I have gathered is that humanity doesn’t exist, it never did in the first place all those years ago. Live life at its fullest because you never know what might happen. Try and make yourself happy because you never know what could happen to you. I hope everybody here and in other countries stays safe and that no one has to bear this again, and I mean this. It’s one thing to see it about another country on the internet, and it’s another thing to have it happen in your own, when you know this could have occurred to you and your family. The powerful doesn’t care about the innocent, and the innocent are always the ones to have to withstand every selfish action of the powerful. That’s how it always was. I hope you, brothers and sisters, are safe wherever you live and come from because no one in this world deserves such a horrible fate. And please, do not take this lightly. Just because Greece is not a big country does not mean that this is not a national tragedy and that innocent people suffered for nothing.

Hey! Please take a moment to spread awareness about the Greece Wildfires around! If you see any posts about it and how to help, reblog them! I don’t care if it’s not your blogs theme, people are dying and need help!

If you can donate to anything at the moment, let it be to Greece! I will be when I get paid! My thoughts are with you Greece!

Yaaay!! 🙋🙋

HOLY SHIT WHAT IF THE BACK COVER IS OF HER NEW SCARS ?