evie

she/her ✧ 24 ✧ writer ✧ romantic (derogatory) ao3! this is my little collage of things I love I try to tag all reblogs my personal tag/anything I write is #evie’s jeevies

[writtenbyevie]

2014: Get Over Your Fear of Heights

by @drawnbymabel for @evelyncwrites

*banging pots and pans* LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL ART!!!! LOOOOOOK 💖

I commissioned the absolutely delightful @drawnbymabel to draw this scene from my fic Last One to Midnight Loses!

She is absolutely wonderful to work with. I cannot recommend her enough. I mean just look at this!! Look at it!! She even threw in a bonus thank you sketch from the final scene 🥹

2015: Sing in Public // 2013: Ask Out Hottest Person In School

I’m not crying you are :’’)

(also yes that is some sunaosa in the background 🥰)

If you’d like to support Mabel or read my fic links are above and below!!

Support the Artist: @drawnbymabel (also @/drawnbymabel on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok)

Read the Fic: Last One to Midnight Loses!

Support the writer: @evelyncwrites​ on tumblr @/evelynwrites on ao3

[marysmirages]

Come back alive, Patroclus (Ink/watercolor version) 2023

[sugarmint-dreams]

barbie swan lake ˖⁺‧₊˚

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my shop | mobile wallpapers

[regentsbuttress]

“Name one hero who was happy”

- The song of Achillies, Madeline Millar

[thebellekeys]

The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever

The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.

Dark Academia staples:

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum

Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko

Dark academia litfic or contemporary:

Bunny by Mona Awad

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever

White Ivy by Susie Yang

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates

Attribution by Linda Moore

Dark academia thrillers or horror:

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:

Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Vicious by V.E. Schwab

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

The Betrayals by Bridget Collins

Dark academia romance:

Gothikana by RuNyx

Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake

Dark academia YA or MG:

Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Crave by Tracy Wolff

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Dark academia miscellaneous:

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip

[writtenbyevie]

broke: see the table down below for an additional breakdown.

woke: look under your desk for the teenage girl in her 20s losing her mind

[raining-stars-somewhere-else-de]

love writing. writing is awesome. it’s a shame that it involves writing though

[stuckinapril]

lol i hate today’s era of absolutely zero nuance takes. a friend didn’t behave exactly as you’d wanted them to? cut them off. a guy didn’t text you back instantly bc he has his own life? he’s just giving you breadcrumbs. doing something makes you uncomfortable? don’t do it anymore. someone isn’t instantly available for you? disinterest. just absolutist statements that often don’t apply to the multilayer situations of everyday life. like. stop. literally just stop it

[tolerateit]

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[marysmirages]

Black Sun (watercolor version) 2023

[magic-coffee]

I'm like a girl who wants to read more books but doesn't

[burningthetree]

when you get an idea for a novel but it's for a sci-fi novel and you never read sci-fi because you dislike the genre but you love your idea so you start drafting an outline and then you realise that not only is it for a genre you've read NOTHING for because you don't even like it but it's also way out of your league because you do not possess the skills to write something with scientific (under)tones (not even CLOSE)

[writtenbyevie]

i may be an adult, but i’m not a grown up. hope this helps!

[writtenbyevie]

shout out to the person on hinge who tried to rizz me up by diagnosing me with autism

you’re going places. not anywhere near me. but places

[salad-storm]

Thanks for the tag @wormcoded <3

Do this quiz and this picrew

Tagging @burningthetree @homosubtext @jupitertherevolution @astralalmighty and everyone else who wants to do it :)

[burningthetree]

Storm your lil picrew is so cute! And the quiz is right, you ARE a lovable puppy!! Thanks for the tag <3

Tagging @rosesakura @mrs-nubenueve @writtenbyevie and everyone else who would like to join!

[writtenbyevie]

oh my god you’re so right jules, @salad-storm storm IS green coded

and jules, as your biggest fan, i think you deserve all fanfiction in the world written for you 💖

I tag anyone who’d like to play with a special no pressure tag for @monstrsball @eurydicees @i-am-suffer @kimbapisnotsushi

[kiramartinauthor]

WHY YOU SHOULD WRITE HORRIBLY:

1. You’ll never write anything if you don’t

[spacelazarwolf]

Is it cringe to be into trans men but not cis men? I’m a transfem and I don’t know if this is fetishistic but I’m just always feeling unsafe around cis men in a way trans men never made me feel. I feel guilty about it and don’t know how to explain it outside of that.

nah i think it’s valid. there are gonna be some ppl who will be weird abt it bc they’re obsessed with insisting that trans men are indistinguishable from cis men but that’s just simply not true. we’re different from cis men, so dating us will be a different experience, and that’s okay. it’s okay to want that different experience, especially as a fellow trans person. as long as you just treat them like a human being and don’t make weird comments about their genitals, which i’m sure won’t be a problem, then you’re all good. live ur t4t dreams.

[spacelazarwolf]

and like. i kinda have weird feelings abt fetishization bc like ok.

i hooked up with a queer person who used all the right language and did all the right things, but then they told me they only date ppl who were afab, regardless of gender. they’ll fuck ppl who were amab but they won’t date them, only afab ppl. the further we got into the convo, it became clear that the reason they only wanted to date ppl who were afab is bc we are more likely to have been socialized to take on the brunt of the domestic and emotional labor in relationships. that hookup ended up lasting over an hour bc they kept interrupting sex to complain about their ex wife. by the end i was practically shoving them out the door because i was so uncomfortable.

the guy i’m hooking up with right now is very cis and found me through the ftm tag on grindr, so he was specifically looking for trans guys. he told me he’s into trans guys because he likes sleeping with masculine people, mostly men, but he also likes the way vaginas feel. could that be seen as fetishistic? sure. does it feel that way to me when we have sex? nope. he uses gender affirming language without even being asked, he tells me he’s super into my body and gets excited when he notices that i’ve grown more hair or had a t dick growth spurt. he likes my body because it’s trans, and i’m perfectly okay with that.

i felt so much more fetishized by the queer person who was actively seeking out afab ppl to take advantage of essentially patriarchal trauma than i ever have by the guy who just likes trans pussy. so i feel like we just really need to have a conversation about what it actually means to fetishize someone because it very much feels like it’s just become “thinks trans ppl are hot” and i hate that literally other trans ppl are scared of finding other trans ppl hot for fear of fetishizing. trans ppl are fucking hot! our trans bodies are hot! it’s okay to be sexually attracted to trans bodies!

[hazel2468]

THIS. This this this, a thousand times this.

I personally think that a lot of people have decided that "being attractive to something non-normative" = "fetishizing" which... Is just blatantly not true. But it's how you end up with people who think that someone who is explicitly (and perhaps only) attracted to trans/genderqueer bodies is an evil fetishizer instead of, you know. Someone who likes that kind of body. Same vein of thinking as people who think that those who are attracted to fat people are all chubby chasers with a fat/feeding fetish instead of just people who find fat bodies attractive.

Like imo? There is no fucking difference between saying "Oh yeah, I really like guy pussy" and "I really like big dick and muscles." It's just what you like, and I hate that when someone expresses that they like something that is seen as "not normal"- not a straight, cis, white, abled, thin body, people act like it's a fetish or it's objectifying. Because what that says, at least to me as a fat genderqueer transmasc, is that being attracted to me as I am is inherently not normal and not good. And that is a fucking SHITTY message to send.

The problem with trans chasers and chubby chasers and "fetishizers" (and honestly, people really need to like, read up on what a fetish is because I'm sick of seeing it used as some bad thing all the time, it's not) is that they treat people as not whole people. Whether, as in the example above, they take advantage of actual or perceived trauma and behavior associated with one's assigned gender, or as a personal example, they're only interested in sleeping with you because they've "never fucked a fat chick and hear that you girls give awesome head". People who do that shit see the people they go after as experiences or novelties, or as something exotic. A sex object that they can use.

Whereas someone who is just into trans bodies, fat bodies... They just like those bodies. And they will treat you as a whole person. You're not a sexual toy to them- you're a person that they think is hot, that they want to sleep with. They care about you and your body and what you need. Again, it's no different than someone who dates people with brown eyes or cool dyed hair because they find those things attractive. It's just "this is what I look for physically in a partner".

[teratocybernetics]

'#i genuinely really like this post#because it is always difficult for me to acknowledge that i do have preferences due to this sort of thing#are they strong ones? no. but just the fact that they exist doesn't meant that i'm fetishizing something!!#however my brain and american purity culture are both mean' will smith gesturing meme goes here