"IT'S ADAM AND EVE, NOT FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE!"
Wisdom from cartoons: [Labels not make you happy...You must love you.] [Bittersweet and strange, finding you can change, learning you were wrong.] [If I want to change the reflection I see in the mirror each morn; You mean that it's just my election, to vote for a chance to be reborn!]
and yet through all this interest in the myth people still have not rediscovered mary shelley’s Proserpine
like okay. it’s 1820. you’re the daughter of the woman who wrote a vindication on the rights of woman and also you’re an angsty romantic author yourself. by this point you’ve lost several children. the homeric hymn to demeter had been rediscovered in 1777 and translated into English and has revived interest in the myth of persephone.
so naturally you write a play in verse about the myth that completely centers on the mother’s plight in the myth, lamenting her and her daughter’s lot in life at the mercy of the (unfaithful and cruel) men controlling you both and separating you forever. it’s a true lament from the heart about mothers losing their children (to death or male cruelty or both) written at the dawn of feminism and the height of romantic poetry.
Honestly I think the fact that people tell me and my best friend that we act like a couple isn’t reflective of what our relationship is like or how we show affection. I think it just shows just how narrow their view is on love. If they really can’t imagine two people being genuinely close friends with no feelings of romance whatsoever then they gotta have some kind of brainworm. We’re not secretly in love. We’re just capable of showing affection and letting eachother know we care about eachother without coating it in irony
