Fitzcrozier - Sin Eater

who am i?

miles to go, kait kerrigan and bree lowdermilk / practice and science of drawing, harold speed / tumblr user @/avainblue / the sympathizer, viet thanh nguyen / come on in!, charles bukowski / this night has opened my eyes, the smiths

The fact that I’ll never be the same person again after reading this series 🥲

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

[text ID: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]

The Story of a New Name, Elena Ferrante / Gaia Girace as Raffaella Cerullo in L'amica Geniale / Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch / Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with me, David Lynch

“Veil of Smoke” by Unknown Photographer ◇ Cigarette smoke caught between transparency and touch

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.

IN DEFENSE OF OBARA SAND

Born A Crime (?), Trevor Noah // Portrait of a Bedouin girl, Leopold Carl Müller // A Feast for Crows, Chapter 2, The Captain Of Guards.

lyanna stark || elia martell || sansa stark || arya stark || alicent hightower || jaehaera targaryen || cersei lannister || myrcella baratheon || joanna lannister || aemma arryn || catelyn stark || sansa stark (2) || margaery tyrell || rhaena targaryen, daughter of aenys i || arianne martell || aerea targaryen || obara sand

no one has ever described girlhood like elena ferrante. the expectations. the inherent dissatisfaction, with your body, with who you are, or rather who you’re becoming. the competition. being the centre of your universe, viewing everyone pretty much exclusively in relation to yourself. learning not to. beautiful and in sparkling prose and not overly romanticised. i am so emo abt my brilliant friend rn. Elena Ferrante the woman you are.

Florence, Italy 1850/90

Catania and Mount Etna at dusk, as seen from the dome of the Abbey of Saint Agatha. / Feb 2024