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Unpopular opinion: Being intelligent isn’t an excuse for being unkind.

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trying to keep my tote bag on my shoulder while wearing a winter coat…I understand Sisyphus

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it’s a cautionary tale TO YOU. if i did those things it would have turned out fine

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“Who's the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who's horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”

― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

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People learning multiple languages will be like “I’m sorry I’m not fluent I’ve been learning this for months but my level is that of a six year old”

My brother in Christ how long do you think it took the six year old

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want a shirt that says YOU SHOULD FEEL VISCERALLY VIOLATED BY THE UNSTOPPABLE CORPORATE ENCROACHMENTS ON YOUR ATTENTION SPAN, BY THE FACT THAT YOU STARTLE LIKE A TRAINED ANIMAL AT EVERY NOTIFICATION, BOTH OVERSTIMULATED AND BORED, LETHARGIC AND JUMPY, WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIT OF VALIDATION WITH THE SAME SICKLY EXCITEMENT AND FEAR AS A GAMBLER AT THE TABLE

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walks out of a closet covered in blood with a goofy lovestruck smile on my face

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"I was shaped, to be a means to an end. In my fury, I will be the end of all means." - me, just now

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" 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 " - 𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑖

Dark Academia // Hijabi Dark Academia (ii)

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It’s so fucked up how ur born and ur life is immediately woven into thousands of years of history that came before you against ur will and there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it

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and they say classics aren't relatable

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oh to wear dark turtlenecks and oversized blazers, consume unhealthy amounts of coffee, study during rainy nights whilst the moon stares at you, go to long lost ruins of old castles with your friends and make poetry about your secret lover

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illegible handwriting, coffee rings on notebooks, putting gloves on only to take them off again, dark lipstick, maurice (1987), walking to class when it’s not raining enough for an umbrella but just enough to fog up your glasses, stone buildings, leaves that aren’t quite crunchy, deadlines, pen smudges, leaving class only to find out its dark outside, cinnamon, cold noses, swaying trees, half moons, cuffed sleeves, silence 

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Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon

In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.

It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.

Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.

Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.

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The sexual tension between you and the only other teenager at the fabric store

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My style? Women's college student in the 1940s, seducing my classmates into passionate affairs and together radically redefining what love means for ourselves, in open defiance of what we were so strictly raised to expect from life. Or um like vintage I guess haha

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romanticize un-illuminated brown and black eyes. romanticize the way dark eyes look without being blinded by flash. romanticize brown eyes that don’t have streaks of gold and yellow. romanticize black eyes that are so raven it’s hard to distinguish where the iris is. the depth of your dark eyes is enchanting. brown and black eyes draw you in, wrap you up, and leave you wanting more. fall in love with them.