just finished the woman in me by britney spears, and i am in awe of her strength and perseverance through all of this. the book is so straightforward & honest, and i got teary eyed in times where she described her darkest moments. i’m a britney stan now & forever

tasmyn muir: you should hate ianthe

me: i need her

Leigh Bardugo could write 13 books with the Crows as the main characters doing absolutely NOTHING with no real plot other than them hanging out and bickering with each other–and i would buy and rate 5 stars every single one of them.

cassie tries to talk cissie into being a hero again attempt #596

a 12-year-old cassie, reading percy jackson for the first time: it’s just like my life

it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.

yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.

it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.

how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.

chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?

how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.

"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.

i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.

An old Daenerys sketch as well

I promise I’m cooking comprehensible ASOIAF art 🙏 please accept these humble old doodles for now

it’s britney, bitch🫧🍭

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

— From “Carry On”, chapter 16 by Rainbow Rowell.

female character: *is rude or evil or commits heinous deeds*

me, with stars in my eyes:

Idk why you’re so fixated in the fact that the show refuses to allow Rhaenyra to have flaws or be complicit in the war (which is true) but then you’re incapable of admitting that the same is true for Alicent (the whole misunderstood prophecy fiasco), but whatever.

well yes to an extent alicent is not planning and plotting like she was in the book. i also wish she was less passive and the misunderstood prophecy thing was a miss for me. but I think they still did make her a more flawed and fleshed out character than Rhaenyra. On the show Alicent is this anxious miserable tradcath hypocrite of a person who can only conceive of power as guiding the men in her life to make good decisions for her. these are flaws. But we know what drives her, and her beliefs about power and why she thinks she needs it better than we do Rhaenyra. who is divinely ordained by the white hart and wants to be queen because her father said so and because she is going to save the world and has no real character flaws.

I think both of them get watered down by the show in order to make them more sympathetic, but they definitely do Rhaenyra worse on this front. It is going to feel pretty terrible and hollow if they follow the trajectory of the book with her show characterization and just turn it into a narrative of this perfect feminist woman losing literally everything because of misogyny and then dying miserably instead of a broader condemnation of monarchy and war that I think it’s supposed to be. like who wants that

the sacred texts

siren

according to my women's study class reading, using "women" as a category to describe women is problematic because women might have different experiences with imperialism and socioeconomic class

Like. Yeah sure we don't have completely universal experiences as far as that goes, but that doesn't mean I don't have anything in common with women across the world. That we're not all oppressed under the patriarchy. That we don't have common ground in being women.

pearl woman ☕️ 🤎