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cryptomnesia
“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
— Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years (via crowsummer)
i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.
ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad
bi women who lean more towards men r literally so strong this isn't even a joke the biphobia they face for literally no reason is fucking crazy
so many people in the comments completely missing the point.... “plus they have to deal with MEN disgusting men are so gross!!” like bro that’s an example of the biphobia we’re referring to!!!!!
The other best scene in The Lord of the Rings is when Saruman reveals to Gandalf that
1.) he’s evil now 2.) he’s taking him prisoner 3.) that he had reinvented himself and, rather than simple white, was now wearing an iridescent holographic technicolor pastel rave coat of all the colors of the rainbow
which is, coincidentally, the only correct way to come out to your family
“for Vera”
Vladimir Nabokov used to draw butterflies for his wife and love of a lifetime, Véra Slonim.
letter opener made by U.S. silver manufacturer Dominick & Haff, New York, circa 1900. @NouveauDeco
This 1907 version of a state-of-the-art bathroom gleams with nickel-plated fittings, original porcelain-finish cast-iron fixtures, and practical built-in storage.
The Bungalow: America’s Arts & Crafts Home, 1994