#but pygmalion+galatea was the most uncomfortable of all the grecian myths for me; mostly bc its always cast as a love story. | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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"After, in the torchlight, he wondered at the marks on me, the red around my neck, and the purple on my arms and chest where he had gripped me. He rubbed at them, as though they were stains, not bruises. 'The color is perfect,' he said, 'look.' And he held up the mirror so I could see. 'You make the rarest canvas, love.'"

x. "Galatea", Madeline Miller

#Galatea #Madeline Miller #📚#so ive been mostly rereading comfort books as of late for a large variety of reasons lol #&this is the first new fiction ive read in a sec&it was heartbreaking lmao riiiiight back to the melancholy.#this story was beautiful. it involved rather intense domestic abuse-- despite the quote the most intense of this #was most def the emotional abuse described throughout-- so i wouldnt like. rec it randomly lmao.#but pygmalion+galatea was the most uncomfortable of all the grecian myths for me; mostly bc its always cast as a love story.#&its not that i wouldnt consider it a love story its more that i feel it should be extremely obvious why the story is not a healthy #depiction of love-- if love is the word youd use which i wouldnt. id think more lust lmao.#so like on the one hand the idea of being made as the ideal of loving perfection by someone then brought to life w a sole+clear purpose #makes me Feel lmao. but not like. the healthy part of me lmao.#so anyway it was... not nice but good seeing the myth reframed to highlight the fact that a man who hated women so much carved one #that wouldnt speak or behave in any way that irritated him then pined for her to have a heartbeat so fervently that she was brought to life #probably wouldnt have actually treated her well once she was able to speak&think lmao.

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