Option 1: beautiful campus, dark academia vibes, drivable (ish) from where I live, amazing writing/english program, more prestigious, probably has more rich snobby prep school kids, very isolated (5 miles from nearest town)
Option 2: walkable to a really nice downtown, nicer weather, kids feel more *me* (outdoorsy, adventurous, friendly, artsy), basically impossible to get to (six hour flight to the other side of the country, then a five hour drive from the airport)
Both small liberal arts schools, both have a similar amount of money, both would cost a similar amount of money to go to
btw Dream Girl Evil by Florence + the Machine was written about lily evans
the way snape treated her like a perfect fantasy ādream girlā that he could project onto but the second she did something he didnāt like and shattered the illusion by being an actual multilayered human being he became enraged and turned on her
and the way the fandom does the same exact bullshit, treating her like a perfect saint mother and wife instead of an actual realistic human being with flaws and complexities, and then the second she doesnāt serve a manās story (cough cough jegulus shippers cough cough) they turn her into a villain or toss her aside completely
my 79 year old english teacher just came out to me as bisexual and i am so aghast i canāt tell anyone bc i donāt wanna out him but i NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS
i was talking about dead poets society and walt whitman and then he just says āyou know i had a gay lover when i was younger and we drove across europe together on the back of a motorcycleā EXCUSE ME??????????
I think Duncan did rape (or at least violate) Veronica, but not for the reason most people think.
They were both drugged, so the consent on both sides was dubious at best, but thatās not the biggest problem for me. The thing I keep coming back to (that nobody else ever seems to talk about!) is the fact that he knew (or thought he knew) that they were related, and didnāt tell her. She may have consented to sex, but she definitely did not consent to incest, which would make that rape by deception (or at least attempted rape by deception since they werenāt actually related, but he thought they were at the time.) The whole situation is complicated and confusing but the fact that he believed they were related and had sex with her anyway, and kept that information from her while they were having sex is definitely a violation of some kind. (Plus, yeah, I think Veronica was way more drugged up than he was at the time considering he actually remembers that night while she canāt remember anything at all, and at some point earlier in the night she had been so drugged up that she was completely unconscious when Cassidy raped her)
If Remus Lupin was still alive his favorite book would 100% be Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk and if you disagree youāre wrong
Currently listening to Hozier in my dorm room and trying to pretend Iām a character in a dark academia book so I actually have motivation to do my homework
I canāt put my Spotify on shuffle bc it be going from F.W. Murnauās 1922 classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror immediately into the absolute banger that is Family Affair by Mary J. Blige and I just canāt handle that amount of whiplash I already have severe neck pain from my average 9 hours of daily screen time and complete inability to do my homework sitting at a desk like a normal human being
Touching grass isnāt enough I need to lay on a bed of moss until I decompose into dirt and plants grow from my rotting body and I become one with the forest floor as I am consumed entirely by the earth