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THISSS OH MY GOD

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Just finished reading Legendborn and oml I loved it but the cheat sheet I had to make to figure out who the fuck is a vassal and wtf a page was is embarrassing

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breaking news: prince philip, the dad from the royal family, is a nasty little thottie. and he just died from making it clap on instagram

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I’ll be totally honest I completely forgot I had this account. I’m not even sure I’ve uploaded second year at all.

I’m going to try and post more again but I’m making no promises I have a difficult relationship with commitment.

Any good studyblr tags to boost motivation?

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Neutrals

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✨Collars✨

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from Love Poems of Elizabeth Sargent (1966)

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Amour from Armide, Opera Atelier .

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‘’So sad, so strange, the days that are no more.’’

— letters written c. September 1847

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not so gentle reminder that academia belongs to the queer, the weary, the women, the people of color, the poor, the ill just as much as it does the rich, the white, the privileged. if your academia isn't accessible, i don't want it.

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Paul Fryer, Morningstar, 2008, installation at old Holy Trinity Church Marylebone, Westminster, London.

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Ophelia from ‘The Illustrated Library Shakespeare ’ illustration by Sir John Gilbert, 1890

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do you read letters? do you have any favourite collections or letter-writers? I want to start but I’m not sure where!!

i do! here are some all time favs: 

letters to milena, franz kafka 

the collected letters of vita sackville-west & virginia woolf

the letters of sylvia plath

letters to a young poet, rainer maria rilke

a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton

waiting for god, simone weil

letters of mary shelley

selected letters of charlotte brontë

💛

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Sunday 25th October 2020

Hah remember at the start of this month and I said I was going to be active and productive?

This obviously went down the drain.

A mixture of family problems, horrendous mental health and second year hitting me like a truck this October has been a struggle in every sense of the word.

But tomorrow’s a new week and we’re gonna try again. Stay positive my loves x

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I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.

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Classic Horror Novels That Are NOT Frankenstein Or Dracula

The Vampyre by John William Polidori

Carmilla by J. Sharidon le Fanu

The Flowers Of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer by Patrick Suskind & translated by John E. Woods

The Strange Case Of Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde by John Louis Stevenson

Complete Stories & Poems by Edgar Allen Poe

The Picture Of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wild

The Turn Of The Screw by Henry James

The Island Of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Hounds Of Baskerville by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan le Fanu

Melmoth The Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins

*Note these are all novels published BEFORE the 1900s -- I've got a whole other list of those. If you're interested, hmu.