1. stop scrolling through tumblr
2. turn on your laptop
3. open a google doc
4. fucking write

Rachel Forrest // Unknown // S. C. Lourie

Finja Brandenburg // unknown

Jane Austen // Bao Phi

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

• Ablaze: Very brightly coloured or lighted.
• Aesthetic: Pleasing in appearance.
• Ageless: Timeless, eternal.
• Angelic: Beautiful and pure.
• Astrophysical: Related to space.
• Brilliant: Glittering, very bright.
• Celestial:  Belonging or relating to heaven.
• Ethereal: Unworldly, heavenly.
• Evanescent: Ephemeral and transitory.
• Glisten: Sparkling.
• Gloomy:  Dismally and depressingly dark
• Heavenly: Beatific, delightful. 
• Lifeless: Inanimate.
• Luminous: Clear, enlightening.
• Lonely: Solitary.
• Mysterious: Mystical, deep and obscur.
• Ominous: Sinister and menacing.
• Otherworldly: Unearthly.

• Absent: preoccupied 
• Agonized: as if in pain or tormented
• Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desire
• Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interest
• Beatific: blissful
• Black: angry or sad, or hostile
• Bleak: hopeless
• Blinking: surprise, or lack of concern
• Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferent
• Brooding: anxious and gloomy
• Bug eyed: frightened or surprised
• Chagrined: humiliated or disappointed
• Cheeky: cocky, insolent
• Cheerless: sad
• Choleric: hot-tempered, irate
• Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelings
• Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humor
• Despondent: depressed or discouraged
• Doleful: sad or afflicted
• Dour: stern or obstinate
• Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizing
• Ecstatic: delighted or entranced
• Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptible
• Fixed: concentrated or immobile
• Gazing: staring intently
• Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasive
• Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
• Grim: fatalistic or pessimistic
• Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadness
• Haunted: frightened, worried, or guilty
• Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimism
• Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistant
• Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuit
• Jeering: insulting or mocking
• Languid: lazy or weak
• Leering: sexually suggestive
• Mild: easygoing
• Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playful
• Pained: affected with discomfort or pain
• Peering: with curiosity or suspicion
• Peeved: annoyed
• Pleading: seeking apology or assistance
• Quizzical: questioning or confused
• Radiant: bright, happy
• Sanguine: bloodthirsty, confident
• Sardonic: mocking
• Sour: unpleasant
• Sullen: resentful
• Vacant: blank or stupid looking
• Wan: pale, sickly
• Wary: cautious or cunning
• Wide eyed: frightened or surprised
• Withering: devastating
• Wrathful: indignant or vengeful
• Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling