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Despite the heavy rain in Grand Rapids, I took myself out and about and finally made it to where @hellenhighwater’s breathtaking and deeply moving work for ArtPrize, “Old Stories”, was being displayed.

It was thrilling to see all of this in person after watching their progression on @hellenhighwater’s tumblr. I kept wanting to grab others and go “Make sure to follow their tumblr! It’s a treasure trove!”

The pieces that moved me the most are incontestably the ones featuring the Minotaur - after Medusa, his story is the most tragic of the Greek Myths to me and these pieces made me ache for him even more. I fell in love with these statues through watching the progression of their creation, but seeing them in person? All I could think of is how badly he deserved to be rescued, saved from his imprisonment, his loneliness. It hit me like a gut punch.

Which is why I loved the third and final piece for his story so much. The original ending will always be told, but on the other end of the labyrinth, there’s a more hopeful, gentler ending where the walls crack and crumble, and Asterion steps out and away from his prison, gets to see the stars and feel the sun…

The piece I didn’t expect to move me so deeply was Narcissus.

As it says on the artist’s statement for the piece, in a mythos full of capricious gods, ravaging heroes, and half-human monsters, Narcissus’ only crime was being beautiful and solitary. How many girls have had to deal with the same persistence and accusations of coldness? Can’t he have the same protectiveness we give them? I never would have thought such things, but this work opened my mind. Thank you for that, @hellenhighwater.

Please, if you’re able to do so, come to Grand Rapids and see all of the works in person, especially @hellenhighwater’s! And vote for them!!!

Now, I’m off to write that story about Ariadne and Asterion being siblings that I always wanted to get around to…

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HEARTSTOPPER (2022-) | S03E06 'Body'

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Gay people will be like “this is my comfort show!” And then show you the most emotionally devastating, stress-inducing, tragic piece of media you have ever witnessed

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Happy 8 years of Heartstopper ❤️ 8 years ago today I posted the first few pages of the Heartstopper webcomic 🍂

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HEARTSTOPPER 1.05 | 2.08 | 3.04

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unknown//janet finch/white oleander//holyaches//unknown//sylvia plath/the bell jar// sue zhao//carol rifka brunt/tell the wolves i’m home//suzanne rivecca/death is not an option//ineloquent-creature

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Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

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babe i really can't talk right now i'm in the middle of pacing around the house while listening to music

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the bond between a girl and her room is stronger than the gravitational force of the earth

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#Nicola Understood The Assignment

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ANOK YAI at the 2024 Met Gala (May 6, 2024)

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Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson) Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

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he's just so BODY LANGUAGE and FACIAL EXPRESSIONS... he is so alive and so animated! few understand this

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sit down, we’re watching houses head wilson’s heart

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

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DEAD POETS SOCIETY 1989, dir. Peter Weir

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