opheliaswife

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This summer will be about reading 7298 books, working out, making memories dipped in honey, traveling, soaking in sunshine, drinking 3 liters of water a day, aggressively practicing hobbies, learning multiple languages, volunteering towards causes that I identify with, staying out the loop, reconnecting with family, and unlearning internalized shame

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows”

I’m fine

babygirl i sit hunched in ways you’d never fuckin believe

girlie that's not a random headache u are dehydrated malnourished over caffeinated over stressed and sleep deprived

beautiful caffeine on an empty stomach I'm going to live forever

i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing

something very sensual about reading an ancient text that only survives through one manuscript. like we only have this one text because someone centuries ago copied it down for us, whether by choice or by commission. it's like reaching into the past and touching that person's hand or maybe kissing them on the mouth. with tongue.

you're not ascending to godhood you're just dehydrated

*covered in blood & in visible distress* i just need to write a list

i've come to realize there are only two kinds of tragedies: preventable and inevitable. preventable tragedies are the kind where everything could have maybe worked out if only. if only romeo had gotten the second letter. if only juliet had woken up earlier. if only creon had changed his mind about antigone sooner. if only orpheus hadn't turned around.

inevitable tragedies are the kind where everything was always going to end terribly. of course macbeth gets deposed, he murdered his way to the throne. of course oedipus goes mad, he married his own mother. of course achilles dies in the war, he had to fulfill the prophecy in order to avenge his lover.

both kinds have their merits. the first is more emotionally impactful, letting the audience cling to hope until the very end, when it's snatched away all at once leaving nothing but a void. the second is more thematically resonant, tracking an inherent fatal flaw in its hero to a natural and understandable conclusion, making it abundantly clear why everything has to happen the way it does.

the sluttiest thing a man can do is be good at performing shakespeare

maybe i'm just a grumpy english major but i feel like a lot of the "lol people think shakespeare is pretentious but actually his plays are just dick jokes and swordfighting" posting can verge into "lol what if the curtains are just blue" territory. yes shakespeare plays are full of those things AND they are also profound and complex and thematically rich. people spend their careers analyzing them for a reason, actually. it's not just dick jokes all the way down. and sometimes people spend their careers analyzing the dick jokes. stop trying to pick one side of the dichotomy between high and low culture. it's both. it can be both.

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human” - David Bowie

The psychiatrist diagnosed me with divine madness

my beautiful wife ibuprofen

Bitches be broke and then spend what littles left of their money on espressos and books in their favourite cafés and buy a pain au chocolat instead of just packing a lunch from home everyday… it’s me, I’m bitches.

first thing id do as a skeleton is drink red wine from a goblet and have it spill out everywhere . second thing id do is play my ribs like a xylophone

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

Sylvia Plath boy🤝Franz Kafka girl

Raskolnikov and Razumikhin walked, so that the black cat and golden retriever dynamic could run.

in my henry winter era (i have a headache and feel like committing atrocities)

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” - Dostoevsky

main character energy, but from a dostoevsky novel.

There is something about classic literature that hits different - which is not to say that modern literature lacks depth - there is just something so incredible about reading something and knowing that these same words were consumed by people decades, centuries before you took your first breath. And they loved and felt the stories the way you do& despite all the time separating you you’re still connected…

someone roadtrip w me and hit up museums and or historical sites