"Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to him." - Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids
jimin saying the song "nothing" by bruno major goes well with him, him saying that to him, soulmate is a relationship of wanting nothing, and then calling tae his soulmate
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.
evildorito
“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”
“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”
Things I didn’t know
“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”
jawnwats
You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.
Reblog to save a life
daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy
One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it's just well known or perhaps because it's been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.
TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.
"Young men will adopt his gait. Young girls will wear white dresses and mourn his curls. He will be condemned and adored. His excesses damned or romanticized. In the end, truth will be found in his work, the corporeal body of the artist. It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to him." - Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe, Just Kids
Like Crazy -> Set Me Free Pt.2
On Loneliness & Identity: Sylvia Plath / 'FACE' Mood Photo / Heather Havrilesky / Like Crazy MV Photo Sketch / Olivia Laing / Like Crazy MV / Jenny Slate / Like Crazy MV / Adil Arif / Jimin - Like Crazy / Overdose-8 / Fernando Pessoa / Robert Mapplethorpe / Rainer Maria Rilke / Set Me Free Pt.2 MV / Cameron Awkward-Rich / Robert Mapplethorpe / Jimin Invisible Face Ver. / Jimin - Set Me Free Pt.2 / Set Me Free Pt.2 MV Photo Sketch / BTS - Idol
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
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there are real actual people in real life that spend thousands of dollars on TRENDY CLOTHES every few months? O_O
no, don't worry, that doesn't happen in the real world, go back to sleep
swaglet2-deactivated20230103
ok♡
literally nothing funnier than a newly born aquatic mammal realizing they've been cursed to live in water
oh. i just found out that the writer of the vincent van gogh doctor who episode wrote it as a tribute to his sister.
Richard Curtis wrote, "So – here’s the thing – the key reason I wrote this episode – was out of love for my sister Bindy. She was a gorgeous and brilliant person, 2 years older than me. She loved Vincent Van Gogh and life. She couldn’t have been more full of generosity and joy.
But half way through her life she was hit by depression and intermittently it hurt her for the rest of her life. And a few years before this show, like Vincent, she took her own life.
And in the key scene of the episode - when they bring Vincent to the future... that was me trying to show Bin how glorious she had been in our lives - and how nothing could change that.
And then also to deal with the fact that mental health issues are hard - and the capacity for joy, as I know Bindy did know how much she was loved, is intertwined with the immense difficulty of the illness sometimes...
So taking her own life wasn’t a failure by her, or a rejection of all of us. It was, as they say on Love island, what it was."
austimpowerz
every day i get top surgery and every night they grow back again
austimpowerz
😭😭😭
