When frankenstein's creature said accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? And when Judas said why didn't you make me good enough so that you could've loved me? And when wych elm said why did you do this to me? I was your baby. You made me. But then sophokles said, i am the shape you made me, filth teaches filth.

Two versions

OK OK OK my insane prediction for season 2 of interview with the vampire is Louis doesn't know that Armand was connected to Claudia's death (which if I remember correctly - yeah he basically killed her in the books, or at least set it into motion) but he's going to find out in season 2. Also I am still holding out hope for Lestat being at the theatre des vampires when she dies and referring to her as his daughter for the first and last time in decades, and Claudia calling out for both her dads as she dies

november 8th, 2021

(you made things no one else could, and it's not fair i'm still scared to create)

i remember when you took away all the papers and sketchbooks from my school bag. you took all my pens too, only leaving the blue ink pen i would eventually break because i pressed the tip too hard into the paper. in the presence of her mother her daughter can never love things quietly, it's always about consuming it entirely or killing it trying. the things you create are all the proof she needs to know that you are mocking her, that your will to create must be killed, smothered under a pillow, shot in the stomach.

art now feels like a crime, something for which they'll come to take me away any day now.

any day now, i'll put pen to thought. i'll create. and it will kill me, but i'll die with a poem on my lips. maybe that will make it all worth it.

they are my favourite brutuses of all time which is crazy because one of them is a serial killer that eats ppl and one is a political advisor 😭

Succession S2E10 "This is not for tears" Interview With The Vampire S1E7 "The Thing Lay Still"

in the end… all girls are like the rose bride

"i thought i was better than my father, but his ghost still shaped me."

... like OH! sickening thing to say.

[ID: 8 quotes and 2 pieces of art. The quotes read as follows, 1: “‘You’re all I’ve got now,’ he added, ‘Let’s be off. I’ve come to you. We’re cursed together, so let’s take the road together!’ / His eyes were glittering. ‘Like a man insane!’ Sonya thought, in her turn.” 2: “Orestes- Our cause is lost. / Pylades- Then I’m lost too. Friends share such things.” 3: “Why do you wave me off? You fear to pollute me? I don’t care about that. I’ll share your bad luck, I shared your good luck once.” 4: “‘I mean, look: there you go crying and putting your arms round me again - well, why are you doing that? Because I couldn’t hold out on my own and went running off to someone else in order to unburden myself: ‘You suffer too, and then I’ll feel better!’ And you can love a villain like that?’ / ‘But you are suffering, aren’t you?’ Sonya cried.” 5: “Orestes- O my poor man! My troubles are really your troubles, it seems. / Pylades- But I’m no Menelaos. I can bear this.” 6: “Orestes- Oh girl. How I pity the dark life you live. / Elektra- No one else has ever pitied me, you know. / Orestes- No one has ever been part of you grief.” 7: “Theseus- Why does he hide his head in his robe? / Amphitryon- Shame before you eyes. Shame before your kinship. Shame for the blood of his sons. / Theseus- But if I came to share his grief? Uncover him.” 8: “‘You’re a strange one, Sonya,’ he said. ‘You out your arms round me and kiss me after I’ve told you a thing like that. You don’t know what you’re about.’ / ‘There’s no one, no one in the world more unhappy than you are now,’ she exclaimed in a kind of frenzy, oblivious.” The pieces of art are as follows, 1: A painting of two vague, human figures, done in cool colors. They are embracing. 2: 3 human figures in a misty, expressive scene. They are closeby each other, perhaps walking together. End ID.]

“We’re Cursed Together” | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky | An Oresteia - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) | Massage - Elizabeth Glaessner | Medicine - Mary Herbert

charles dickens/great expectations//gillian flynn/sharp objects // sophokles/elektra//warsan shire

GAITE JANSEN as TATIANA PETROVNA peaky blinders, 3x05

hello! i saw that your barty's knuckle tattoos spell anti n gone. i have to ask, are you referring to the daughter of oedipus, antigone or does it have some other meaning? also! if you are, may i ask why?

yeah i meant antigone! i see barty in her very much, at the very least as the patron saint of doomed characters. especially ones doomed by familial cycles… “we begin in the dark / and birth is the death of us” and all that.

considering crouch sr as the head of magical law enforcement & barty’s trial, i love the passage where antigone rails about the inadequacy of manmade justice and the chorus responds with “raw as her father isn’t she?”

Fj

april 27th, 00:15

Me, getting a notification from ao3 about my fav fic being updated while I'm unpacking my lunch: Filth first, then food.

(Btw if you haven't read The Island by triedunture - do yourself a favor and DO IT NOW)