Persephone leans into Hades and kisses him
✨ @booksociety’s outcast event: shadow of the fox by julie kagawa
“Are you going to make a wish to the kami? Maybe pray for our mission to go well?” He shook his head. “The kami wouldn’t listen to someone like me.” “Why?” “Because calling on the gods requires purity of heart as well as body,” Tatsumi replied. His gaze shifted to his open palm, and a shadow went through his eyes. “Even if I cleansed myself a thousand times, my soul is tainted beyond forgiveness. The kami want nothing to do with me.” “Oh.” I thought about that a moment; it sounded so sad, to be ignored by the gods. “Tell me, then,” I offered. He blinked and looked at me, seeming confused. I met his gaze and smiled. “Your wish, Tatsumi. If you could pray for anything, right now, what would it be? I’ll ask the kami for you.” “Yumeko...” His eyes softened. For a heartbeat, I could see past the cold and shadows and blank mirror gaze, and the vulnerability there made my stomach clench.
✨ @booksociety’s hogwarts houses reads event: slytherin » the secret history by donna tartt
It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from the world, that no-one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow old, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us. Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think?
“Aren’t you afraid of my darkness, my dear?” Hades asked with mischief in his eyes. She is a beauty. Yes, a marble nymph; angelic eyes, unearthly lips… and yet, there was a darkness lurking in her beauty. “No,” Persephone replied, “you haven’t even seen mine yet.”
👑 through a glass, darkly 🌙 OTPs + random AUs ♡ HADES & PERSEPHONE
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WHEN YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER, WHAT DO YOU LIVE FOR?
“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, he was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him — and I didn’t know how potent that part might be — that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”
👑 through a glass, darkly 🌙 OTPs + random AUs ♡ TWILIGHT
BEAUTY IS TERROR. WHATEVER WE CALL BEAUTIFUL WE QUIVER BEFORE IT.
“Death is the mother of beauty,” she declared, the light from the window streaming behind her in an aureole of burnished gold. Her clear, fine features illuminated until it was a shock to look at her; impish delight gleaming in the radiant green of her eye.
“And what is beauty?”
“Terror.”
“And if beauty is terror,” he said, white fangs as sharp as his smile, a nameless intimation lurking in a corner of his mouth, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live.”
“To live forever.”
👑 through a glass, darkly 🌙 OTPs + random AUs ♡ DARK ACADEMIA + VAMPIRES
👑 the wolves will come again 🐺 asoiaf + random AUs ♡ MODERN CORPORATE WORLD Sansa Stark as CEO of Stark Enterprises
Love was a surer route to the people’s loyalty than fear. If I am ever a queen, I’ll make them l o v e me.
Stone and Snow that was all that was left of Winterfell. Just like she and Jon.
@buggiebreak | day five: unseen powers and serendipity
“I didn’t fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway. And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
@buggiebreak | day five: spring fever and tropical paradise
“I need this weekend to be an escape.”
@buggiebreak | day two: flowers and festivals: hanahaki disease
Day after meeting Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper starts coughing up crimson-red rose petals. From deep within they rise, seeds and roots and stems, feasting on flesh. Blooming into exquisite prismatic blossoms, a sign of death.
Pantone Palette Character Traits + Jughead Jones and Betty Cooper
Like Romeo and Juliet, but we live happily ever after instead.
which greek goddess are you? challenge → ATHENA, the virgin goddess of wisdom, intelligence, justice, and battle strategy; known as a warrior goddess and patron of science and learning.