quotemadness:

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

(Source: quotemadness.com, via calebino-deactivated20210322)

thoodleoo:

• ἀστέρων πάντων ὀ κάλλιστος (of all the stars, the fairest)
  
• πόλυ πάκτιδος ἀδυμελεστέρα, χρύσω χρυσοτέρα (far sweeter-sounding than the lyre, far more golden than gold)
  
• τὰν ἰόκολπον (violet-tressed, one with violets in her lap)
  
• ὦ κάλα, ὦ χαρίεσσα κόρα (o beautiful, graceful girl)
  
• ἦρος ἄγγελος ἰμερόφωνος ἀήδων (nightingale, sweet-voiced messenger of spring)
  

(via xenaandgabby)

boatiechat:

frislander:

moghedien:

Apollo: Sister, what are you the goddess of?

Artemis: *lounging by a spring on piles of deerskin surrounded by three dozen naked girls with a dead pan expression* Virginity.

“Heracles, they’re lesbians”.

Note that the concept of “virginity” in Ancient times merely meant “unmarried”, and had nothing to do with sexual activity. Some priestesses were “virgins” because they chose (or were committed to) a life of worship, but it was merely a question of social status, not of personal choice or practice. Of course, one can suppose that this lifestyle would be rather attractive for lesbians.

So when Artemis is said to be the Goddess of Virgins, it is meant to be understood as “Goddess of Unmarried Women”, or, quite possibly literally, of lesbians. 

(It’s only Christianity that reframed the concept of virginity to mean “never had sex”. Many ancient religions has “Virgin goddesses”, which symbolized feminine power, and in this case too it meant “untied to a man”, or “whole for herself”)

(via wolfnight2012)

chancellor-valdez:

She’s bi. She’s overly sensitive. She’s a big dummy. She can’t drive. She’s me!

(via skiptownlikea)