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hp houses as text posts
slytherin: no mom I don’t want a boyfriend I want a kingdom (x)
ravenclaw: Remember when Netflix and Tumblr didn’t exist and you read like 10 books a week? Good times. (x)
gryffindor: i’m really glad “fight me” has replaced “sue me” in the common vernacular because i don’t have any money but i do have Fists and am always angry (x)
hufflepuff: what do u mean we’re not friends, we follow each other (x)
I legit served a man at my last job who was fully covered in nazi symbols and shit. He was a proud actual real life nazi getting icecream in a family theme park and when he left I voiced my disgust to my coworkers on how security even let him in the gate wearing all of that. And you know what that bitch said? “Well some people are offended by your rainbow flag and you are allowed to wear it so he can too”. It’s not the fucking same. Don’t fucking compare the two
Nazis’ entire mission is to exterminate anyone who’s not exactly like them. It’s in no way comparable to “some people are offended”.
me: “I’d like to visibly exist without fear”
them: “I want to literally kill these people so that they stop existing”
centrists: “I don’t see the difference”
Oh wow I guess my addition to this post got spread a lot. I just wanted to add in another piece of important information. I live in Orlando. The location of the Pulse night club shooting. I was wearing a rainbow pin on my uniform because 49 people in my community died in a hate crime. I will never forgive anyone who tells me that my rainbow pins are the same as a swastika
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (via books-n-quotes)
I’m not just falling in love with you. I’m falling into you. You’re an ocean, and I’m falling in, drowning in the depths of who you are. Like you said, it’s scary in a way, but it’s also the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced. You are the most amazing thing I’ve ever experienced.
Jasinda Wilder, Falling Into You (via books-n-quotes)
For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of — to think; well not even to think. To be silent, to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.
Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse (via luthienne)
“She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!” — Virginia Woolf, from “To The Lighthouse,”
Photography by Lennart Pagel
i just read a washington post article on romcoms aging poorly due to the pushiness (and oft-stalkery conduct) of the male characters therein, and it got me thinking about pride and prejudice, and specifically darcy saying, “one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.”
because, like, that’s the seldom-portrayed romantic dream in the patriarchal hellscape that is our world, isn’t it?
a dude being willing to say, “i understand if you don’t feel the same way about me, and i’ll leave you alone forever about this if my attention is unwanted.”
so simple, yet so wonderful in its basic human decency
Darcy also brings up his proposal a second time after being rejected only after some significant time has passed and Elizabeth’s behavior toward him has changed. She also makes the first overture in that conversation, indicating to him it may be safe to revisit the subject.
By the end of the book, Darcy has taken Elizabeth’s criticisms wholly on board, and he’s gone from “you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you” to “one word on this subject will silence me forever.” He’s even regretful that she knows what he did to help her family, what he did out of love for her.
The first proposal is a train wreck. It’s all about how he loves her but doesn’t respect her. The second must be agony for him. He’s still just as much in love as ever, but he respects her enough that he doesn’t want her to act out of gratitude. He loves her enough to respect her when she says no.
Somewhere there’s a post about how men think they’re Mr. Darcy when they’re actually Mr. Collins, who thinks it’s adorable when women say no. Silly females, trying to entice men by playing hard to get! Someone could probably write a whole dissertation on how men in Austen’s novels react to the word no.
Someone probably did. *g*
His first proposal is all about him too. It’s I-I-I all over. It’s about him struggling with his feelings. He hasn’t considered her feelings really at all. The change from that to the end of the book is remarkable.
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.
“I used to call people, then I got into e-mailing, then texting, and now I just ignore everyone.”
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Unknown, The New Yorker (via wordsnquotes)
This from a 2015 cartoon, by Alex Gregory.
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