Let’s Bring Back Romanticism I’m Tired Of Trying To Be Rational, We’re All Dumb And We All Want

Richard Siken continues to kill it on twitter. He just explained why his poetry is so popular in tumblr graphics - "you can take any of my quotes and apply them to any fandom or picture and they will work because they are sad and mopey and full of longing" and then proceeded to demonstrate this. With cat pictures. With lines of his poetry slightly altered to be lol cat speak.

(from his twitter thread here)

People are doing their own versions in response and he is complimenting them.

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

my 2021 reading list so far:

(i want to get it to at least 20 so if anyone has any recommendations i would greatly appreciate it :))

lolita

the little friend

dracula

the virgin suicides

a clockwork orange

homesick for another world

in a dark dark world

emma

you will get through this night

leonardo da vinci, issacson

american utopia

the complete poems of sappho

the wasteland and other poems

HELLO ARE YOU A MARRIED COUPLE

Trim. The investigator, 2019 - Todd Fuller.

make your lives extraordinary

Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):

The lives of great classical composers.

Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy and attitudes towards women, homosexuality etc.

Poisons.

The tea trade, and how it became so important to British culture.

18th century fashion and the production of clothing.

How corsets aren't the terrible patriarchal torture devices everyone thinks they are.

The use of recreational drugs in the late 19th century.

The French revolution.

Methods of forensic investigation at crime scenes.

Controversy in psychological studies.

Matriarchal societies.

How nostalgia influences fashion, media, and literature.

The nature versus nurture argument.

The history of trains and railroads.

Symbolism in art.

Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)

oh to have the cute literary student fall in love with you as you lock eyes through the bookshelves in the abandoned part of the library where only few come

my fluffy boy Hamish enjoying the sun n_n

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