A Series of Unfortunate Events

23 Writer, Afro Dark Academia aesthetic 🌺Academia Mood Board Requests Open🌺

[notasnormalasicouldbe]

Creativity flagging-need inspiration!!

I’ve been feeling pretty uninspired lately and I wanna start getting back into more creative pursuits! So I wanna start making aesthetic mood boards again! If you want you can hit up my inbox with an idea and I’ll do my best to make one for you!

[publiclyprismatic]

brotherhood in brown

Image descriptions and sources coming soon!

- Mod Reaux

[liones-s]

Bonang Matheba & Nandi Madida for South African designer Orapeleng Module

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[theacademiccottage]

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

- Jess C. Scott, The Intern

[notasnormalasicouldbe]

Ebonics/AAVE is truly an undervalued language, the idioms, patois and social dialects are so deep and historical but also creative and incredibly adaptable! Code Switching back and forth between Standard English and AAVE in the middle of my predominantly white English classroom and watching white students get whiplash from how sudden the changes are is exhilarating. Meeting with a group of my fellow students of color in between our classes and immediately dripping back into comfortable AAVE from the rigidity of Standard English is so refreshing and relaxing. 

[notasnormalasicouldbe]

A Telescope is a Time Machine

If you ever want to time travel, simply look up at the stars. The stars are so astronomically far away from us, it takes millions of years for their light to reach our eyes. So, we see the Andromeda Galaxy not as it is now, but as it was ~ 2.5 million years ago. The entire galaxy could have disappeared while the ancients were studying it and we would have no idea.

That’s mind-blowing.

[loveletter2you]

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

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[blumenundpoesie]

“ I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death”

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[chaandajaan-moved]

A modern male dark academia look book 📖

[blackfictional]

black magical girl aesthetics: gold x apothecary

[macrolit]

“She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.”

— Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

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[staff]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her entire life fighting for justice for women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community, those with disabilities, and those who suffered religious persecution. Her life’s work was dedicated to helping those who need it most. 

There are many people on Tumblr expressing their grief, fear, sadness, anger, and pain tonight as we all process her death. Feel whatever you need to feel right now. Let it out. It is healthy. Reach out for a little help if you need it. That’s healthy, too. 

And then, when you’re ready, consider making a plan to honor the woman who fought for all of us with civic action. If you have spare time, consider using it to phone bank or text bank for an official who could use the volunteers. If you have spare cash, find a legal aid or bail fund to assist someone who needs it more. If you have the opportunity to help out anyone, seize it. If you’re eligible to vote, please vote. People like RBG are why you have the right to do so. 

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Alexis Sundman by Ina Lekiewiczi for Harper’s Bazaar UK Magazine - October 2020