Ayomide

🕰️🕯️🪶🏛️🦇 24 | queer | infj | US 📍 I blame Shakespeare for all of it. [ all photos belong to me ]

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Things for POC to remember:

You’re not ugly, you just grew up surrounded by beauty standards created by white European people.

Your ethnic nose is beautiful.

Don’t let them invalidate your struggles.

Your life matters and always will.

Do not degrade and belittle yourself for white entertainment. Do not humor them. They’ll start thinking it’s okay for them to do it to you. You are not their laughingstock.

Be proud of who you are. Don’t let anyone make you feel embarrassed of where you come from.

DO NOT AND I MEAN DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH FLUENTLY. Be proud that you’re able to speak more than just your native language, even if it’s only a little bit.

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Spooky season never ends. Not really, anyways.

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[shakespearesdaughters]

[deadpoet-skull]

" It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. "

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

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🎧📖🤎✒️👜

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go read a book.

[joytri]

just had a mental breakdown and I don't even know why

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“To be, or not to be--that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--

No more-and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep--To sleep-perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause.”

— Hamlet, William Shakespeare 🗡️

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“Your room is a reflection of your mind”

Chaos, heartbreak, and literature haunt my restless mind…

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I wish nothing but the worst for how Doctor Victor Frankenstein treated Creature (who we call Frankenstein today). Creature deserved so much better.

Victor Frankenstein couldn’t even bother to give his creation a name.

If he isn’t the embodiment of a dead beat father then I don’t know who is. 

[bbiancaaa]

when you read Homer, Dante, Dostoyevsky etc and want to be a classicist but the boy you like can’t even spell correctly

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Taryn deserves nothing but the worst. Jude loved her sister and all she got in return is a knife to the back by her own twin.

Taryn can rot for all I care.

[lalasforest-deactivated20260128]

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“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race… poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

— Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams 🕊️

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Poetry 101: The Best Poems To Start Your Journey Into The Land Of Verse

Ozymandias by Percy Shelley

Alone by Edgar Allan Poe

If by Rudyard Kipling

The Lady Of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson

O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

The Tyger by William Blake

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Porphyrias' Lover by Robert Browning

[joytri]

the aproaching of winter

[qiornono]

how quickly he fell, how soon it was over