Evelyn Ashford

Call me Evelyn. I'm a writer, lover of all things literature, and aspiring bluebird. You can read my works on Wattpad, if you like: https://www.wattpad.com/user/EvelynAshford

[jamietukpahwriting]

The essence of true love is a mutual recognition — two individuals seeing each other as they really are.

—All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

[ur-daily-inspiration]

[archivedbyebye]

Oh your girlfriend? yeah sorry she made one mistake and now the fandom hates her. yeah they're calling her a terrible character. oh definitely, they miss the entire point of her character arc, they really don't understand how it works in the story. yeah if she was a male character her flaws would be chalked up to moral complexity, no sorry, they're writing essays about how she should be held more accountable for her actions even though she was just doing what she thought was best for the people she loved and-

[thoughtkick]

“Just because you can feel another person’s emotions doesn’t make you responsible for them.”

— Sarah Brooke

[metamorphesque]

— Sylvia Plath, "The Bell Jar"

[toastbutteregg]

THIS IS ME

[remanence-of-love]

[happyheidi]

𝗇𝗂𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖺𝗇 𝖽𝗐𝖺𝗋𝖿 𝗀𝗈𝖺𝗍 <3

~ 𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖡𝗂𝗀𝖶𝖱𝖺𝗇𝖼𝗁𝟣𝟤

[angry-comics]

story about a lake i did recently. text formatting is based on the CBC’s closed captioning style guide.

[angry-comics]

whoa this got reblogged a bit while i was gone

[atlas-the-worldbuilder]

What kinds of places would it be unusual to find a lake?

I think it would be most unusual to see a lake inside a library.

[numberonemakeravenue]

How to handl stress?

[rhizomatic-academic]

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

- Plato

[en-cima]

notice how “girls mature faster” is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.

[razanalakl]

[scoobeedoo]

Some rain and some read

[glazedeye-s]

there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

there is a rapture on the lonely shore,

there is society where none intrudes,

by the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

i love not Man the less, but Nature more.

— childe harold's pilgrimage, lord byron.

[socialworker-rebecca]

[hiboulette]

Misty Mornings in Oxfordshire—November 2015