i like to go in the bathroom and splash water on my face and pretend im a male protagonist under a lot of stress
the masculine urge to stare at your own wet face in the mirror, haunted
POV: You spend the summer at Francis Abernathy's country house with Henry, Charles, Camilla, Richard, Bunny and Francis
“““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.””
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— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.
the only reason spike seems ‘good’ at reading buffy is not necessarially because he’s trying hard or a very wise advice-giver or whatever (he’s an idiot) but because they happen to be fairly similar people, emotionally speaking. so he will just be going on and on in his regular self-centered sort of way and that will be insightful for her. but crucially she’s more observant than him and knows that he’s not trying to give her advice, and she hates being aware that she can relate that much to whatever bullshit it is he’s going on about now
dissertation proposal: sent out
three papers worth 100% of my grade and three thousand words each: to be thought of at a later date
How long do you expect this human civilization to survive with this limited number of art galleries, museums, suburbs, lakesides, forest cottages, meadows, love lakes, libraries, hidden passages, mysterious castles and secret gardens?
Sadia Hakim
