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perfer et obdura;
dolor hic tibi proderit olim.

aisha	performances (concerts i've been to - not a lot)
encre	to do (fall 2024)
s.	music (top twenty-five songs on spotify: 2024)
louise	television (2024)
laoise	fiction (rooms)

It's every girl's dream to discover she's extraordinary, except when it isn't. Margarette Anne Maynard, as many a well-born lady, had absolutely no designs on greatness or adventure. She intended to finish her schooling, get married, and spend the rest of her days shamelessly criticizing her husband along with all the other lady's of the court whilst she awaited the summer season and with it her annual trips to Paris. Very few people inherit the lives they expect in their youth though, and in this (as in most other respects) Ms. Maynard was completely unexceptional.
Her chest heaved and plunged as air rushed to her burning lungs. She’d never run so far in her life, but then again, she’d never had to. Alicia’s head spun as she tried to still her ragged breaths. Her legs fell from beneath her as she crumpled onto the cold, marble floor.

mar 10 2011 ∞
feb 11 2015 +

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apr 12 2011 ∞
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apr 14 2011 ∞
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mar 7 2011 ∞
mar 25 2011 +

proper name ⇨ common name

jan 24 2014 ∞
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apr 12 2012 ∞
apr 14 2012 +

"and plunging down forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown." - w.b.yeats

part one: where the fairies often roam

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jan 25 2014 +

banshee | a female wraith whose keening foretells the pending death of a person in the household, tied to a person or family similar to an attendant fairy. she doesn't cause a person's death though. the banshee is seen as a young, fair woman, having long, unbound hair, and dressed in white, though, sometimes she is seen dressed in a gray cloak over a green dress. because of continuous weeping, her eyes are always red.
bean nighe | a relation of the banshee, the bean nighe is the spirit of a woman who died in childbirth, condemned to wash blood the shrouds of the soon-to-be-dead until the time at which these creatures would have died of old age themselves. the spirit has one nostril, one long fang, sagging breasts, and webbed feet. if you’re brave enough to steal a suck off her breast, you can claim status as her foster child, an...

mar 28 2011 ∞
oct 16 2012 +

alice's adventures in wonderland by lewis carroll:
- alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures of conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
the bell jar by silvia plath:
- it was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in new york. I'm stupid about executions. the idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers-- goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut smelling mouth of every subw...

oct 25 2012 ∞
jan 23 2014 +