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Imagine this:
Instead of waiting in her tower, Rapunzel slices off her long, golden hair with a carving knife, and then uses it to climb down to freedom.
Just as she’s about to take the poison apple, Snow White sees the familiar wicked glow in the old lady’s eyes, and slashes the evil queen’s throat with a pair of sewing scissors.
Cinderella refuses everything but the glass slippers from her fairy godmother, crushes her stepmother’s windpipe under her heel, and the Prince falls madly in love with the mysterious girl who dons rags and blood-stained slippers.

Imagine this:
Persephone goes adventuring with weapons hidden under her dress.
Persephone climbs into the gaping chasm.
Or, Persephone uses her hands to carve a hole down to hell.
In none of these versions is Persephone’s body violated unless she asks Hades to hold her down with his horse-whips.
Not once does she hold out on eating the pomegranate, instead biting into it eagerly and relishing the juice running down her chin, staining it red.
In some of the stories, Hades never appears and Persephone rules the underworld with a crown of her own making.
In all of them, it is widely known that the name Persephone means Bringer of Destruction.

Imagine this:
Red Riding Hood marches from her grandmother’s house with a bloody wolf pelt.
Medusa rights the wrongs that have been done to her.
Eurydice breaks every muscle in her arms climbing out of the land of the dead.

Imagine this:
Girls are allowed to think dark thoughts, and be dark things.

Imagine this:
Instead of the dragon, it’s the princess with claws and fiery breath
who smashes her way from the confines of her castle
and swallows men whole.

‘Reinventing Rescuing,’ theappleppielifestyle. (via justawordshaker)

Give me all of them. 

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Cat’s LGBTQIA Positive Book Rec Masterpost

michaelgayland:

Hey, guys, Alena schrodingers-gay-cousin (who is way more rad than me and should be adored) requested my reccomendations of good books with good non-cishet characters, and I figured it may well be nice to share the list with everyone else, too. 

So, what FULLY is this? It’s a masterlists of books at a) I like and think are good and b) have an important, named, plot-relevent LGBTQIA character that is treated respectfully. A lot of people really look for representation, so here I will list out some of my favorites that fit the bill. Yes, there are more LGBT  books out there, but either I think they’re shitty as books, as representation, or I haven’t read them and have no idea if they’re good or not.

Here are my book recs, in no real order

  1. Will Grayson, will grayson - John Green & David Levithan (one of the two narrators is gay, features a school GSA)

  2. Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe - Benjamin Alire Saenz (main characters are two Mexican-American boys who fall in love. TW mentions of violent homophobia)

  3. The Secret History - Donna Tartt (features one main gay character, one non-labeled but likely bisexual character)

  4. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (Patrick, Charlie’s close friend, and Brad, football star, are gay. TW homophobia, violence, drug use, mentions of child abuse)

  5. The song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller (male/male love affair)

  6. Luna - Julie Anne Peters (about a transgender teenager!!)

  7. Boy Meets Boy - David Levithan (Boy/Boy romance. duh)

  8. The Secret history - Donna Tartt (one of the main characters is gay. TW homophobia, alcoholism, mentions of incest & rape, murder)

  9. Tipping the Vevlet - Sarah Waters (Lesbian Victorian period piece!)

  10. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice (main characters are two men in a romantic/sexual relationship)

  11. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice (main character is pretty bisexual. His mother is implied to be non-binary)

  12. Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice (same aforementioned bisexual narrator) 

  13. Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice* (bisexual narrator)

  14. Memnoch The Devil - Anne Rice (narrator is bisexual)

  15. The Vampire Armand - Anne Rice* (narrator has many sexual relations with other men. TW pedophilia mental illness and violence)

  16. Merrick - Anne Rice (arguable homosexual male narrator; does sleep with a woman at one point, but also has many relationships with men.)

  17. Blood & Gold - Anne Rice (Bisexual main character, has varying relationships, some of them even a bit queerplatonic. tw violence, pedophilia, death)

  18. Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice (bisexual narrator, intersex character)

  19. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare (Gay male character, bisexual male character of color)

  20. City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare (aforementioned two begin a relationship)

  21. City of Glass - Cassandra Clare (more explicit screentime for the boy/boy relationship)

  22. City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare (bisexuality of bisexual character explored)

  23. City of Lost Souls - Cassandra Clare (lesbian character of color and her bisexual girlfriend are introduced. boy/boy couple continue)

  24. City of Heavenly Fire - Cassandra Clare (Gay & bi men are very, very major characters and have been for a while, girl/girl relationship continues)

  25. The Bane Chronicles - Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan & Maureen Johnson (stories centuring on an immortal bisexual man of color. Individually available on Kindle, book available in November)

  26. A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libby Bray (major lesbian character—calls herself “sapphist” due to period piece)
  27. Rebel Angels - Libba Bray (lesbian character)
  28. The Sweet Far thing - Libba Bray (lesbian character
  29. What They Always Tell us - Martin Wilson

  30. The Demon’s Lexicon - Sarah Rees Brennan (major gay character in main 5)

  31. The Demon’s Covenant - Sarah Rees Brennan  (another major gay character introduced)

  32. The Demon’s Surrender - Sarah Rees Brennan (same.)

  33. Unspoken - Sarah Rees Brennan (contains a girl/girl relationship!)

  34. Untold - Sarah Rees Brennan (same as above)

  35. The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater (representation in this is debateable and not great, but included because it kindasorta counts. Barely explicit gay boy.)

  36. The Coldest Girl In Coldtown - Holly Black (major bisexual character, recurring tans woman character)

  37. Tithe - Holly Black (recurring gay character)

  38. Ironside - Holly Black (gay relationship)

  39. Affinity - Sarah Waters (lesbian magic-inclusive period piece)

  40. Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (lesbian vampires)

  41. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (relationship between two women, written by a bisexual woman)

  42. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (gay character, written by a gay man)

  43. Crush - Richard Siken (poetry collection by a gay poet—frequently appears)

  44. Scott Pilgrim Versus the World - Bryan Scott O’Malley. Graphic novel. (major gay character with several relationships, a few bisexual characters)
crimical: “ • duolingo // learn languages for free • rhymezone // type in a word and find words that rhyme • onelook // reverse dictionary • hemingwayapp // check your essay for readability • thesaurus // find synonyms, antonyms and more •...

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backonpointe: “ postgraduatepurgatory: “ Essential Productivity Apps for any student: • Caffeine- Prevents your screen from going into sleep mode. Great if you’re writing notes on an article and the screen keeps dimming, whilst you hope that if you...

backonpointe:

postgraduatepurgatory:

Essential Productivity Apps for any student:

  1. Caffeine-  Prevents your screen from going into sleep mode. Great if you’re writing notes on an article and the screen keeps dimming, whilst you hope that if you stare long enough, the phrase “homologous ways to a view of hegemony” will start to make sense.
  2. Flux- If you find that you can’t sleep for ages after studying late at night, then this app is a total game changer. It basically turns the light on the screen red, because science people say that blue light keeps you awake and red light doesn’t. (*Full Disclosure* I’m not a scientist)
  3. Focusbar- The annoying voice of your mother nagging you to finish your homework…in app form. You can set the annoying level (I have it set on “wildly annoying”) and a bar will appear in the corner every few seconds to remind you that you’re supposed to be doing something else besides looking at cat photos. 
  4. Microsoft Office- self explanatory, so I’ve linked to an article about life hacks for Microsoft Office instead. Because I’m just that awesome. 
  5. Nag- Does your 5 minute study break keep turning into an hour on Youtube? Then you need Nag in your life. It’s basically an alarm/timer. But an extremely loud and annoying alarm/timer that’s very difficult to ignore. The bells genuinely sound more judgemental the longer you ignore it.  
  6. Self Control-  Also known as Cold Turkey for Microsoft users. If you absolutely cannot be trusted with an internet connection, then you need Self Control in your life. You add a list of websites to the “blacklist”and then set how long you want the app to work for, and for that duration of time you wont be able to access those website. Seriously, not even rebooting your computer or uninstalling the app will let you access the blacklist until your time is up. Tough love at its finest.
  7. Zotero-  The new love of my life. Zotero allows you to manage all your citations and sources in one easy place. It’s an absolute life saver- no joke. There’s an in-word add in, so it will write your bibliography and citations for you in any format you want. There’s a chrome/firefox add in and a mobile app, so you don’t even have to type the citation into Zotero. Just press the button it does all the hard work for you. It even updates itself online, so you can still access your bibliography if your computer crashes. I <3 Zotero 5eva. 

I used Flux on my old laptop, and it’s awesome.

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from one insomniac to the next

this shit will put you out

there’s a whole line of these drinks pertaining to different things

apparently they’re all psychological except this one

but everyone I’ve talked to said this is the only one that actually works

the first time I only drank to where my index finger is in the picture, but I was out like a light in about 45 minutes

really helpful if you’re trying to fix your sleeping pattern for school

There’s one called Neuro Bliss and its literally what every pmsing girl needs. It’s happiness in a bottle.


I can testify that this shit is literally the fucking best okay. The neuro energy is like an energy drink but lighter and it makes you feel awake without it tasting like death. There’s a neuro focus as well and it makes it easier to concentrate on everything while still being delicious. There’s a whole huge line of them and they’re all different flavors and some are carbonated and some are not.

I see these at the grocery store sometimes.

Maybe I’ll pick one up next time I see it.

ATTENTION ATTENTION


The Neuro line of drinks WORK 100% as a nightly buyer of Neuro Sleep i can fully attest to it’s effects as a very applicable sleep aid.

Neuro Trim is also good for having a full feeling, to keep you from eating too much.

IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY SLEEPING, BUY NEURO SLEEP IT WILL HELP YOU

SIGNAL BOOSTING THIS BECAUSE I TOO LOVE THE NEURO LINE.

Story time: My sleep schedule got fucked up because I worked at a movie theatre, which would mean late nights, getting off work at like 2, 3, or 4 in the morning. It would get cray. So when I needed sleep, but my body wasn’t giving me that satisfaction, I grabbed a NeuroSleep and THIS SHIT WORKS. I’ve never finished a bottle before falling asleep. Best part: Not habit forming and it’s cheap. What makes it work? It has melatonin in it.

as far as i can tell they are vegan too, yay :)

WHY ISNT THIS IN ENGLAND

As someone who gets maybe an hour or two of sleep a day, I am very glad I found this!

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