rakasha | Jul. 27th, 2019

Jul. 27th, 2019

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vlanderzine:

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animechibileak123:

You also have these baby teenage mutant ninja turtles to protect you.

This is actually such a good tactic for people with serious anxiety problems. Thank you. Really. Omg.

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softazelma:

Margaret Atwood: femininity is a performance art course you will never graduate from and man is your audience

me: holy shit

the small but growing Mitski on my shoulder: femininity might be a performance art we will never be free of, but because you are aware of this, sometimes you will seek to perform only for yourself and no one else, and by that, we are starting to break free

me, sobbing: thank you, Mitski of my consciousness
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“…she felt so old, so awfully old and worn, and so young all at once, raw as a wound.”

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Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless (via luthienne)

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achilleius:

deathless by catherynne m. valente.

charlottedabookworm …this is Cor and Ardyn.
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inaestra:

moodboards: books/movies I love (4/?)

“The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.”

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente.
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“Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.”

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Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
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“Why should I not want something better? Doesn’t everyone? Don’t you? A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or not to know how men breathe until they stop doing it. Well, I do not want to be beautiful, or a woman, or anything. I want to know how men breathe.”

- Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless
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“No. I do care. I will get what I desire by all the tricks I know.”

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Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
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charlottedabookworm Ardyn.
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“It’s not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It’s like being alive, only colder. Things taste less. They feel less. You forget, little by little, who you were. There isn’t much love, but there is a lot of vodka, and reminiscing.”

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Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
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charlottedabookworm Again, Ardyn.
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Someone’s trying to follow me and my mom home, Jesus Christ this is terrifying

Ok, just pulled into a fire station.

Word of advice, if someone tries to flag you down on a highway, pointing to the back of your car, there isn’t anything wrong. They want to kill you. Never stop for them.

They may try to pin you in a lane on the highway. They won’t let you get ahead of them, they will try to prevent you from getting behind them. Fuck traffic laws. Gun it, throw on your brakes, honk your horn and do not stop. get away from them at all costs. Don’t go home, go to the police or go to a fire station. Explain what happened and have them look over ur car.

Reblog this around. Seems like common sense, but also not something that can happen to everyone.

I was on the I-5 in Washington State. The van was white, with blacked out windows. There was graffiti or something on the right side of the van, but I was too scared to read it.

Everyone please be safe, if you are in the Puyallup or Tacoma area, please be even more careful.
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“A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.”

- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, Catherynne M. Valente (via heretherebebooks)
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harrypotterhousequotes:

SLYTHERIN: “Though you might be prejudiced against the dark, you ought to remember that that’s where the stars live, and the moon and raccoons and owls and fireflies and mushrooms and cats and enchantments and a rather lot of good, necessary things. Thieving, too, and conspiracies, sneaking, secrets, and desire so strong you might faint dead away with the punch of it.” -Catherynne M. Valente (Iago: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There)

charlottedabookworm

Nyx?
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oylmpians:

moodboard: Tsaritsa of Salt

↳“In those days the Tsaritsa of Salt called herself neutral. She would not take part. She worried and wept over the cities of the human world, where she made her home and took in morality plays and entertained pigeons in her pale parlor. But even there the Country of Death showed through in patches: Men and women would fall dead in the streets, having sunk their foot, all unknowing, into that invisible and depthless world. The Tsaritsa of Salt defended the cities as best she could, laying the endless salt of her body over the snowy holes where Death bled through. Each time she saw an old grandmother tottering, her eyes rolling back in her head, the Tsaritsa of Salt threw herself toward the babushka to catch her, give her salted bread, and set her aright. Soon the Tsar of Death hated her more even than the Tsar of Life and sent his chief boyars, all of who had mouths like crocodiles and wings hung with jangling knives, to cut her to pieces and scatter the pieces throughout Russia, so that she would never repair.”

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tartts:

―Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

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…I’m getting Aris feelings from this.
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formertox:

feel the rain on your skin

no one else can feel it for you
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