literarycottage

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OKAY. THE GONCHAROV GIRLIES CONVINCED ME. I'M DOING WHALE WEEKLY AND I'M BACK ON THIS GODDAMNED WEBSITE.

#whale weekly #goncharov

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reading is like being in the shower. don’t wanna start and dont wanna stop

#text post #relatable

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“i want a love that falls as fast as a body from a balcony and i want a kiss like my heart is hitting the ground” mitski what the fuck is this. what were you even thinking of when you wrote this. mitski come back here. MITSKI????

#mitski #quotes

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et tu bestie?

#why do u love this so much #text post #fun and games

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when i was a kid, my little roman history obsessed ass used to send all my friends memes to celebrate the ides of march... i miss those days

#ides of march #text post #me

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don't be shy, anon, drop me a long love letter filled with flowery language & detailed metaphors that i keep in a sealed wooden box with pressed flowers.

#text post #relatable

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Mahmoud Darwish

#dark academia #quotes #mahmoud darwish

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postcards from 1914 and 1960

#dark academia #photo

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Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1955–1966”

#dark academia #quotes #anaïs nin

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—  Hilda Doolittle, from Winter Love

#quotes #dark academia #hilda doolittle

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not 2 be corny but. sometimes i think my purpose on this earth is to love people, make them laugh, be kind and share joy. that feels like enough to me sometimes

#text post #suggestions

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Video essays by poc:

India and its UNFAIR beauty standards

Everything culturally wrong with Mulan 2020

The Wind can GTFO (a Gone with the Wind breakdown)

Memento-- telling a story in reverse

That mysterious "S" thing we used to draw

Indiana Jones -- a primer on racist film tropes

Reality show secrets: was MTV'S "my super sweet 16 100% real?

Why Aquaman Sucks (the commodification of the polynesian body)

"Black sounding" names and their surprising history

Let's revisit the fashion in the Aladdin remake

Train to Busan: how to kill a character

#video essays #learn something #check out later

[literarycottage]

You'll never run out of new books to get lost in, new music to love, new movies and shows to become a die hard fan of, new things to be passionate about, new skills to learn, new hobbies to enjoy, new people to love and connect with. So much good is waiting for you.

#text post #suggestions

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the sheer audacity of hozier to have said: “if i was a blackthorn tree, i’d wanna be felled by you, held by you. fuel the pyre of your enemies” and expected me to be OKAY.

#quotes #hozier #dark academia

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I find it so weird that people can spend ALL DAY without going into their bed at some point. Like, i am always in my bed. I hang here. I eat here. I watch TV here. I nap here. But there are some people who just like… don’t hang in their beds??? Thats so alien to me haha

#text post #relatable

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“Am I the serpent-headed girl? Or her endless reflection? Or the winged mare burst                   forth from her blood? Child of slaughter. Wound from the mouth of a wound.” 

Medusa with the Head of Perseus, torrin a. greathouse

#torrin a. greathouse #quotes #dark academia

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Sarah Kane, Psychosis 4.48

#quotes #sarah kane #dark academia