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[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen miniature-sized, vintage paperback classics by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, Somerset Maugham, Emily Bronte, and others. Won’t this little collection lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on July 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[melisica]

[thealogie]

white actors: dropped out of school to pursue acting, told a joke once, got discovered  and starred in a blockbuster actors of colour: attended tisch julliard rada, studied acting for years, did othello, joined a theatre “for people of their ethnicity”, did hamlet, auditioned for everything, did macbeth, won prestigious theatre award that no one cares about, got their big break delivering one line in a blockbuster

[h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y]

[rosewater1997]

I hate the trope in media of a Broken Man fixed by the healing touch of a selfless and loving woman like fix yourself you fucking lazy ass stupid head

[huariqueje]

Le Long de l'Orne peint depuis le cours Caffarelli, effet de lune*   -  Stanislas Lepine 

French, 1835-1892

Oil on canvas 9 x 13 in.

* The Long Orne painted since Caffarelli course, moon effect 

[travelingcolors-deactivated2020]

Kiso Valley | Japan (by Oscar Tarneberg)

[venln]

Horned Serpent headcanons

-Horned Serpent students being “scholars” in the way that anything they want to learn, they will learn, and they will be able to do it well.

-Horned Serpent students being many different kinds of “scholars”. Like some of them are super artistic and others love language and some want to travel and learn about other counties and they’re all just so many different kinds of “scholars”. Not all of them are “pulling all nighters in the library” kind of scholars.

-Horned Serpent students having things that represent different skills just laying all over their common room. Like in the corner is this lovely sparkling plant that one girl is caring for. In the next is a huge pile of books that they all love reading. There’s pencils and pens laying around everywhere. A corner full of art supplies. The ceiling is painted to look like the sky, with constellations mapped out. At night, the stars on the ceiling shine with the moon. In the morning, the moon turns golden and the stars fade back into regular paintings.

- first years being sorted into Horned Serpent and being bummed because they aren’t “smart enough” to be in the house that favors scholars but when they get there, they discover that it isn’t their school smarts that they were picked for. It was for their love of learning things. Their need to learn and grow. Their beautiful mind and deep thoughts. Their interests which they strive to be good at and enjoy. It wasn’t for their ability to pass tests and get straight A’s, it was for their mind itself.

- Horned Serpent students actually going the hardest at sports even though everyone thought it would be Wampus to do that. (Especially the students who love sport tactics and such. They loveeeee watching that)

-Horned Serpent art students and the clothing design students getting together one Halloween and making a hugeeeeeee Horned Serpent costume with a glowing gem. They fit as many HS students into it as possible, and obviously they win best costume in the contest later that day.

- HS students do love the library. Some of the more…..prankerish HS students just loveeeee to put spells on books so that the next person who opens it is bombarded by the HS symbol in confetti form.

- HS students are amazingly prideful of their house. Every year, on the anniversary of Isolts death, they all gather outside by her statue and raise their wands in memoriam. During this, the gem of the HS statue inside the school starts to glow. No HS student has ever seen that though, as they are all outside with Isolts statue when it’s happening.

[rjkoehler]

Sunset fire in the sky about the Hangang River.

[moonflock]

all the days are dead too soon. today i wore a sign around my neck: KILL WHAT YOU CANNOT SAVE. today my brother renamed every bone in his body: bestiary, wire doll, soldier’s boot. my skin in the sun will always sour, a fact i try to keep to myself. what’s that smell? my sister asks, but we ignore her. i tell her it’s today, dying too soon. my favorite book when i was little was Black Beauty. i cried over that horse, then wrote my first poem. people always ask me why all my poems are about captivity and i say i have dreams where all my bones are jarred out of their mouths. i tell them the first Chinese woman in america was kept inside a box. what a dream, they say. some of my friends own horses named after their fathers: washington, irving, samuel. in another dream i am riding their horse inside a box and the horse is sweating blood like in a Chinese myth, myths where i am tall as a tree and i have a flower instead of a tongue. i am riding the horse to a planet we named from a distance, a planet rising like a belly sincere with breath. but then the horse gets tired and falls. i am so tired. i am so tired. i am so tired, it is saying. the horse tells me to KILL WHAT YOU CANNOT SAVE, then lies down at my feet. i know what my friends choose to save. i know what kind of flesh can be loved and what kind of flesh can be weighed. it is so easy to cry over horses, gentle beasts. my hunger is a scream in a stranger’s mouth. my name is roadkill on tar, burning like an omen. every day my aunt asks, don’t you want to be a mother? i tell her i’m just trying not to be a moth, attracted to the things that burn me. i tell her i just want a fake lawn, something too beautiful to be real.

i am so tired, kristin chang

(aka this poem is too long…….also i thought i was clever bc of the mother/moth wordplay and wow i need to sleep)

[herman-the-vermin-deactivated20]

I can’t believe we live in a world where the idea of helping people fleeing from war and famine is a controversial issue.

[urbanoutfitters]

[austenchanted]

best of joe wright’s 2005 p&p commentary track

[20aliens-deactivated20200625]

[potatounit]

Yosemite during a rainstorm..2016

[chibipika]

Every time a post on queerplatonic relationships makes its way around tumblr, the comments are inevitably filled with a flood of “IT’S CALLED FRIENDSHIP” or “WHY DO YOU NEED A WORD FOR THIS.”

Do you honestly think society regards friendship as an acceptable substitute for romance and marriage?  The thing is, most aros would LOVE if it could just be called friendship.

Because that would mean a world where:

Friendships are considered equal to or sometimes *SHOCK HORROR* more important than romantic relationships.  This is not an exceptional occurrence.

Romantic partners know that they might not be their datemate’s Most Important Person and are not bothered by this.

People commonly plan major life events around their friends up to and including housing, finances, employment, ect.

It is common for people to be in their 30s, 40s, 50s, hell even old age having lived with friends that entire time and no one has ever asked them why they’re not married.

It is common for people to have a committed lifelong partnership with their friend and no one bats an eye.

Having a life friend is considered something that can be regarded as equally close to marriage.  It is also taken just as seriously.

Until the day that those are true, friendship is unfortunately not an accurate word to convey the types of relationships we’re talking about. 

[chrisgiuliano]