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Not great at poetry or photography (or writing legibly) so have a little rough draft of both.

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I feel like for as much as Assassin’s Creed supposedly caters to a male audience, the devs really have the heterosexual female gaze down to a T. I mean, come on:

We’ve got the softest man in the American Revolution Ratonhake:ton Connor Kenway

Pretty boy extraordinaire Arno Dorian

Bisexual jackass with a heart of gold Jacob Frye

Jayadeep “Your Daughter Calls Me Daddy Too” Mir

The absolute gall of this man Bayek of Siwa

And of course loveable idiot bisexual Alexios

Bonus: James Kidd, who for our purposes I am counting because hot damn if I didn’t fall head over heels in love

Like IMAGINE thinking this series is supposed to be for cishet gamer dudes. The men in these games drink so much respect women juice and honestly hell yeah Ubisoft, keep making shitty games as long as your characters stay this pretty.

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“I think about dying, but I don’t want to die. Not even close. In fact, my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here, in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.”

— Matty Healy

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idk man i cant see a couple weeks into the future. i dont h

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Holy fuck hold on this terf anon just gave the best typo I’ve ever seen

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Man grows a few extra legs and a shell overnight – worries about being late to work the next morning

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an important thing about the metamorphosis is that gregor is still fully conscious, mentally very human, and capable of speech at the beginning of the story. it is only after he is treated exclusively as an insect, as something to hide, as a tragedy that destroyed gregor samsa rather than being the same, living, person, and accepts all of this, that he loses the last vestiges of his personhood.

could he have continued to live if he was allowed the privilege of being seen as human despite his superficial appearance and utility to capital? should he have been treated with respect despite his permament disfigurement and inability to work? the answer is yes. but rarely are the real people who undergo such a debilitating change, the human beings who are locked away and starved and dehumanized by the family and society who are supposed to care for them, shown such decency. franz kafka certainly was not.

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I comissioned the amazing @wormchildart for this picture, and look at what an amazing job he did! He put so much passion into this very obscure portrait for me. 20/10 would recommend.

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God i wish all real life billionaires were more like tony stark 😩

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you have to admit he was consistent 

(another Catch 22 meme)

@john-yossarians @the-classics-are-lit @captainoftherose @flowersforzoe11

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Protect weird girls. Ya know…. the ones that used to make up intricate games on the playground about ghosts and saving the world. The ones that used to have a whole BOX of fucking rolly pollies and worms. Those girls that used to have mason jars FULL of fucking god knows WHAT on their mother’s back porch. Protect… girls. Girls that daydream too much. Girls that could go out to Walmart dressed in cow girl boots, and a faux fur coat. Girls that invent whole other worlds in their heads. Girls that love too much. Girls that don’t love quite enough. Girls that don’t look, or sound the way society expects them to. Loud girls. Quiet girls. Angry girls. Sad girls. Support girls being themselves, and being unapologetic about it. The ones that get labeled “weird” for simply existing and being brave enough to not dim themselves down, just because society tells them, too. The girls that never lost their magic once they grew up. Support weird girls. 

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Today, on my birthday and the anniversary of the legalization of same-sex marriage in the US, I just want to remind people that Pride is not about buying from corporations that have monetized our symbols and slogans. Pride is about recognizing the millions of queer individuals whose identities have been censored for an intolerant society, who have been imprisoned, who have been tortured, and who have been killed. Pride is about finally celebrating these men, women, and non-binary folks for who and what they are, and for mourning their loss. Pride is about realizing that LGBTQ children and adults still suffer today, and for being grateful that suffering has lessened in certain parts of the world, but that the fight is not over. Don't give your money to a corporation that adopts a rainbow for a month. They didn't fight for us.

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Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia

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Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence

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Someone stole his slippers