a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs

back on tumblr after ??? years and i offer you french lads

I'm curious, fellow writers, what's your writing setting? like, google docs or word? white page or coloured background? notes app? Times New Roman or Arial?

(mine is open office, black background, no margins, zoomed at 165% exactly, arial 12, though i've been experimenting with comic sans lately for ~scientific~ reasons)

Mary Oliver “Wild Geese” Bumper Sticker // CortHartle

today I saw someone call the great gatsby dark academia

Op why would you leave this in the tags

Hey man, whatever lorems your ipsum

You get me.

I think it's great that people are appreciating deconstructions of the dark academia trope through books like Babel (R.F. Kuang), but it's quite strange to me that somehow The Secret History always comes up in conversations criticising the elitism of dark academia, alongside mediocre books like If We Were Villains and Grimrose Girls. TSH is a deconstruction too! Babel is a post-colonial response to DA, TSH is a satirical response. The book was written by Donna Tartt as a sort of revenge tragedy fantasy based on her lived experience at Bennington College in the 1980s, and the way- like Richard- she was considered an outsider by the haughty academics of her campus. Just because the book has beautiful prose and a somewhat insufferable fandom doesn't mean that it is a love letter to celebrating ivory tower elitism in academia! You're meant to read the story as a statutory warning! Donna Tartt is not writing to market her book as "dark academia aesthetic" That was an unfortunate byproduct of social media. TSH is a satire and it makes fun of self righteous academics who are distanced from their privilege. Please stop comparing this book to its hundred ripoffs by YA authors.

[grabs your shirt] listen. listen to me. the practical is holy. the everyday is sacred. the simple act of surviving is divine. do you get it? sanctity begins at home, in the hands that build and the lives we live and the deaths we die and the worms that eat our bodies. if making something by hand is not worthy of veneration then nothing is.

so many songs to listen to. so many books to read. so many things to watch. so much stuff to write. i think i will sit here and decompose

veganism has absolutely nothing to do with the land back movement. i hate to break this to y'all, but if you believe in moral veganism and believe nobody should use animal products, you are not fighting for native sovereignty. hunting and animal product usage is integral to the way of life of thousands of tribes and when we get our land back we will be continuing those practices.

capitalism and colonialism are the threats against land back, not animal agriculture, and dismantling that colonialism includes getting rid of colonial plant agriculture too. your dietary choice to not use animal products does not inherently make you supportive of land back and if you think it does then you do not have the full picture. colonial plant ag is no different from colonial animal ag in the way it damages our tribal land and sovereignty and animal products are important to that sovereignty. without that, we're just doing the same shit under different management.

I just remembered that when I was like 6 I had a dream where I heard a very tiny “hello!” and I looked and it was this tiny white puffball and it looked like this

that was god

calamity really was the full brennan lee mulligan special. you had divorced people. you had complex family dynamics. you had anti-establishment sentiments. you had wizard and elf slander. you had hardcore player vs dm heckling. you had almonds

We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?

keep it quiet you guys, he’s sleeping

they look cute hope nothing bad happens to them

(guy who hasnt eaten today voice) no no im fine its just yknow the horrors. yeah theyre unending again

He was a king

Strawberry Hill House—a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London 1749

came across this sentence today and now i know what he meant

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