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I will literally never believe your 20s are meant to be the prime of your life. The years immediately following your adolescence? When you’re entrenched in the battlefields of un/learning, healing, and growing? Yeah right

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‘Race and racism is a reality that so many of us grow up learning to just deal with. But if we ever hope to move past it, it can’t just be on people of color to deal with it. It’s up to all of us – Black, white, everyone – no matter how well-meaning we think we might be, to do the honest, uncomfortable work of rooting it out. It starts with self-examination and listening to those whose lives are different from our own. It ends with justice, compassion, and empathy that manifests in our lives and on our streets.’ — Michelle Obama

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there’s such an unhealthy stigma, especially in academic communities, surrounding taking time off or dropping out. putting education above your health and well-being isn’t okay and should not be the standard. obviously there are positives to school/college/uni, but the environment created by the education system can be so horrifically damaging in so many ways, and demonising stepping away from or leaving it only makes it worse. as much as education is important, your health and well-being are infinitely more so. 

it is okay to take breaks. it’s okay to take a year off. it’s okay to leave if that’s what you need to do. dropping out does not make you stupid, nor does it make you a failure. take care of yourself first and foremost. traditional education is not the only way to learn.

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Book Cover from “Ghost Stories and Other Horrid Tales" - Selected & illustrated by Charles W. Stewart 

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The old library, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

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Women in Horror month

Winona Ryder as Mina Murray / Elisabeta in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, Francis Ford Coppola)

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some of you are about to be really mad at me for saying this but dark academia is rooted in rich people culture so in order to balance the fact that you're praising it online, you have to be actively anti-millionaire and violently eat the rich

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“You don’t believe in anything.”

“I believe in you.”

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Keanu Reeves as Mercutio in an 80′s production of Romeo & Juliet in Toronto.

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I love those autumn mornings when you can smell the air and it’s a little bit cold but not too cold and there are leaves everywhere

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the picture of dorian gray // oscar wilde

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I am large, I contain multitudes...of unread books

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Back on tumblr, trying to find joy🤷🏻