The main thing that I recall from high school English is that, after you reach a certain age, the curriculum decides that books with happy endings and likable characters are stupid and babyish and that you’re only allowed dysfunction, oppression, and misery in your literature from now on.
If you somehow avoided depression so far, the school will provide you with some.
which is why yall should read medieval bible fanfic tbh
Lamia and The Soldier, John William Waterhouse (1905)
I love, love Lamia And The Soldier because it’s been, for a long time, one of my favourite picture of romantic love, wrapped in the hybrid fantasy of greek mythology and medieval influences that makes symbolism to me so exquisite; until I became curious about Lamia herself. In fact, Lamia was a child-and-men-eating, demon-fuelled seductress; her true nature is symbolised by the draped snake-skin around her arm and waist. I fell in the trap head-first. The picture is inspired by Keats’ Lamia, “about a bridegroom who discovers on his wedding night that his bride is a monstrous half-serpent who preys on young men.” A second version of the painting shows Lamia after the deed, and the calm savagery of her newly-shed submission is extraordinary.
do you ever tire of how, like, dramatic anxiety is?? it’s like. bitch. bitch. it’s not that serious. we’ll live. it’ll probably be a pain in the ass, but we’ll live. so stop making me feel like i’m actively dying.
Today a man came in to buy collars for his 10 cats, and when I asked what kind of cats he had, he replied very seriously ‘They’re all supermodels.’
I just cannot stop thinking about this man. Like, he was a reasonably attractive middle-aged guy in a clearly nice but dishevelled suit? And he just seemed to think that this was an entirely normal request? And he clearly cared about his cats after our (very) long conversation, he kept talking about how the council was doing nothing to stop some people in the neighbourhood trapping cats for dog bait and he was really mad about this and he needed to protect his cats, but again, I stress, this guy genuinely did not seem to think that anyone would find the number of TEN CATS a large number of cats. He was just like, super casual at the end, ‘oh yes, also, I will need ten, one for each of my ten cats’. And I was like, ‘that’s a lot of cats!’ and he just did not seem to think it was a lot of cats? Also he had like hundreds of dollars in cash, and was clearly happy to just drop a bunch of money on stuff for his ten cats. I want him to come back. I’m burning with curiousity. I may be in love.
so I just had a thought “would my cats enjoy being a ball pit lol” so I was looking up videos of cats in ball pits and I found one posted by PETA, and to no one’s surprise there’s a smug vegan in the comments
and I am SO TEMPTED to reply “you don’t think this cat looks delicious?????”
