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Mall Masquerade • they, 其, es, iel, они, • probably not NT • genderQUEER• non-medical system • bodily minor • Countryhumans (post-dynastic Chinese history)
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laloslayamanca

we need to start being annoying the same way blue eyed people have been annoying for years. my eyes are coffee brown with a hint of olive and earthy soil, but on rainy days they become, like, more wood brown? you know like king arthur's table i guess? if you look at them in the sunlight they become almost golden though so it's really hard to pin them down haha. yeah no it's crazy i was just born like this i guess

#yeah they're like charcoal ink but if the lighting is good they turn into a sort of mahogony color#and sometimes they're like chocolate donuts but other times they're more like old wooden wagon wheels ykyk
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worth-beyond-a-number-scale

Fat people, you are allowed to be lovingly touched. You're allowed to be pleasured, to be focused on. You're allowed to do any position you enjoy. You're allowed to have the lights on and your body seen by your partner(s). You're allowed to be cuddled and kissed. You're allowed to be in public with your partner(s) and hold hands. You deserve love and affection no matter your weight.

#tw sex mention
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somevirtualnolife

the kicker is he was being asked if his work was coming from the approach of man vs. nature aka “THE ENVIRONMENT STRIKES BACK” but no. his literal words were along the lines of “sharks are not very scary if you are never in the water so i had to make them scarier, and now they have legs.”

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cookingwithroxy

Junji Ito has the best fucking take on horror, which is ‘wouldn’t that be weird’ and then he draws it into the most terrifying thing possible.

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the-uncalm-nipples

One of his strangest stories is about a cursed type of honey that, when ingested, is guaranteed to be the best thing you’ve ever tasted. But, if you consume it, you have a 25% of being flattened like a pancake by a giant tree demon. Characters eat it, get addicted, and that addiction forces them to risk it over and over again until they eventually get turned into a gory puddle by this ghost tree thing. 

It’s a weird story, but the funny part is that Ito wrote it because he thought it would suck to be a mosquito.

#tw swearing
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batmanisagatewaydrug

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

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salvadorbonaparte

Funniest thing about living in Germany is that occasionally you're like I should go to the park oh wait nvm it's closed off today because of the bomb squad.

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salvadorbonaparte

My biggest flex is that I've never been evacuated even though they keep finding bombs in my neighbourhood because the evacuation radius always ends a couple houses from us

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salvadorbonaparte

Just heard a loud noise and felt the house shake for a second so I guess they're finished with the thing

#“ww2 era bomb detonated in Berlin subway station”#me @ all my friends: average day in Europe#tw bomb mention
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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  • Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
  • Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

  • Bunny by Mona Awad
  • The Idiot by Elif Batuman
  • These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
  • White Ivy by Susie Yang
  • The Cloisters by Katy Hays
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
  • Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

  • In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
  • The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
  • Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
  • Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
  • Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
  • They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
  • The It Girl by Ruth Ware
  • Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

  • Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
  • The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
  • Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
  • A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
  • The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
  • Vicious by V.E. Schwab
  • A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
  • The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

  • Gothikana by RuNyx
  • Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

  • Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
  • A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
  • Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
  • The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
  • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
  • Crave by Tracy Wolff
  • Wilder Girls by Rory Power
  • The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

  • My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
  • Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
  • Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip