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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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You’re in his DMs, I’m in his moving castle victimizing his fire demon and apprentice with my cleaning skills. We are not the same.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS SUCH AN AMAZING CAUSE!!!!!!!!!!

HELP ME SAVE THE GREAT BARRIER REEF TURTLES

The Cairns Rehabilitation Centre  is a non-profit organization which allows donations and volunteers to come and help with the treasured sea turtles. The program runs all year long and lets the volunteers for a minimum of one week, with no duration limitations that I can see. My goal—my ambition—my dream is to go there and help, for as long as possible, to preserve the fragile equilibrium of marine ecosystems and to save lives. 

Will you help me volunteer by donating?

Sea turtles are key elements of marine and beach ecosystems, which would be weakened beyond recognition if they ever became extinct. They are precious, more precious than we tend to believe. Yet unaided, stuck or stuffed with plastic, floating cruelly to starvation mere kilometers away from where we live, in waters teeming with predators, they will eventually perish out there all alone in the sea, if we do not help them.

I am but a twenty year old Canadian woman trying to make the world a better place and to prove, against all odds, that some people are still trying to beat the horrors of a system we took no part in installing- yet contribute, against our will perhaps, everyday, to maintaining. Will you help me?

Donate now! Every penny counts… 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-great-barrier-reef-turtles?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

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“dodie”

Will definitely be trying this...

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sometimes, you just can't have what you want, but it doesn't mean that you can never have it. everything takes place at the right time.

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It’s Friday morning and I’m at school for a few more hours before I get to cozy up with my pup and a whole weekend of this ♡

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12.01.19 - saturday morning, chai tea and the spanish civil war🌤

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“Life is confusing, like one day you’re the happiest person alive and tomorrow you hate everyone and everything for no logical reason”

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schools begun, lets celebrate the knowledge that comes with it. 

{dark academia women}

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no Pavlov was the scientist. The dog is Pavlov's Monster

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psychic: *reads my mind* my mind:

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Sunrise

#Ugh #my goal

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Sunrise

#Ugh #my goal

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i miss this blog so much, but i often feel when i post i am speaking into the void.

hello? who is out there? who from (what i like to call) the golden age of booklr is still alive and kicking?

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today i’ll be spending my bank holiday writing my analysis, which is due for tomorrow!

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Writing an essay on a still undecided topic centring around 19th century Ottoman Empire is a fun challenge because I know next to nothing about that area of history and I need to do a lot more reading than I would if I was reading about European history, because I have been learning about that my whole life whereas this is a completely new territory.