Arsenic Spiced Tea

Rae James They/Them

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[the-evil-clergyman]

Full often hath she gossp’d by my side, from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Heath Robinson (1914)

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“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”

— Richard Wright, Black Boy

[amicus-noctis]

“I am free and that is why I am lost.” ― Franz Kafka

Painting: "The Chasseur in the Forest" by Casper David Friedrich

[the-evil-clergyman]

Vision by Carolus-Duran (1883)

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📚📖📗TBR 📗📖📚

Posting my current reading TBR for the end of year and new year! A lot of these have been recommended to me so I would absolutely love more recommendations!! Come back to see thoughts on each one as I go hahaha

Writing is going slowly but surely and I’m so excited to get to plot points I’ve planned out!!

[ad-wills]

don't leave me!

[wings-and-beskar]

You wouldn’t believe the brilliant lines of dialogue I’ve forgotten 🥲👌

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[quotespile]

“It is too depressing, too soul-crushingly sad, to reminisce. The past is a black hole, cut into the present day like a wound, and if you come too close, you can get sucked in. You have to keep moving.”

— Ling Ma, Severance

[monstersovka]

✶ stars ✶

[charnel-grounds]

Roger Zimmerman - Nightmare Season, 1982

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Fritz Schwimbeck - Werden-Vergehen: Tod im All, 1913

[dialnfornoir]

Nosferatu (1922)

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[arsenicspicedtea]

The current (working) first sentence of my book:

Have you even noticed the significance of Wednesdays?

When I was in the first grade I wrote that when I grew up I wanted to be a writer.

When I was in year 6 my teachers signed my graduation bear hoping to see my work.

In year 7 with every book I read I knew I wanted to create that experience for someone else some day.

When I graduated high school my principal said can't wait to see your work.

I finished uni, with ideas I wanted to make happen, and now after so much time working on small things, my book is a WIP on its way.

Yes I still have the piece from first grade

Also I totally meant to post earlier, but I spent most of my day watching AHS and forgot 😅😂

📸: thephotostudioaustralia

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Death of the Nymph Hesperia by Jules-Élie Delaunay (1859)

[arsenicspicedtea]

Did I wake my family up early to go to a mountain market

Yes

Yes I did