Hi,

Art around Capitol Hill (CHAZ) in Seattle ❤️✊🏼

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so to any of my dyslexic followers, i learned something new today that was actually really helpful that i didn’t know before so i’d thought i’d share it to help out anyone who needs it.

personally, reading white text on a black page is best for me but it may be different for others!!

love you all <3

a compulsive obsession with cleanliness is beaten into us from birth, don’t curse, don’t scream, that’s dirty, don’t wear that, don’t touch that, that’s dirty, have sex, don’t have sex, that’s dirty, you made a mess, clean it up, your brother made a mess, your father made a mess, clean it up, pills instead of a gun, blood’s dirty, don’t play in a dress, you’ll get it dirty, open the windows and boil water with cinnamon and vanilla when da smokes, it’s dirty, older brother not learning he smokes til five years later, he can’t know, that’s dirty, don’t want things, don’t need things, desire can’t be pure, not yours, are you a virgin? have someone else’s hands taken that cleanliness? would that be so bad? of course it would, doesn’t he know there’s no cleanliness left in me to take? he doesn’t care, he’ll take my filth if it’s all i have, as long as he’s taking, as long as it’s all i have left, don’t love her, don’t touch her, that’s dirty, ive cleaned this kitchen ten times, it’s still dirty, da spilled his drink clean it up, he can’t know how bad he’s getting, this house must be clean, clean of him, clean of sin, clean of evidence at least, i’m not clean anymore but i try to be, i have to try, i can’t be dirty, and now it’s not about staying clean but only appearing to be, plato said there’s a class of woman who are receptacles for filth, a sewage system of women at the bottom, and i’m part of that, it feels like it, and now i’m a hopeless cause, i’m tainted, i’m dirty, and i can’t let it spread, what’s around me must stay clean, i can’t infect the world around me, i have to hold the filth inside and keep the world safe, but every woman is this way so what world is there to care for, because no one cares, no one sees, but they don’t want it dirty either, do they.

for as much as studyblr may have its faults, it’s a pretty sizable online space that tells young girls that the absolute coolest thing you can do is be smart and work hard and believe in yourself and i think that’s pretty great

mel·io·rism

/ˈmēlyəˌrizəm/

noun the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.

dark academic YA books, for the reader who doesn’t enjoy the old classics:

the raven cycle — maggie stiefvater

welsh kings, magic forests, obsessive research, private schools.

wilder girls — rory power

lord of the flies retelling, all-girls boarding school, remote island.

six of crows — leigh bardugo

murder, crime, heists, magic.

truly devious — maureen johnson

murder mystery, eccentric students, elite boarding school, 1900s

the night circus — erin morgenstern

magical circus, mysterious psychics, mind games, star crossed love.

the diviners — libba bray

1920s new york city, wlw + mlm rep, ace rep, occult magic, mysterious museums

vicious — v.e. schwab

an experiment gone wrong, blackout poetry, rivals, strange powers

the cruel prince — holly black

FAERIES, enemies to lovers, political power struggles, another magic forest

station eleven — emily st. john mandel

shakespeare, thespians, post-apocalyptic wasteland

serpent & dove — shelby mahurin

witches, french backdrop, 1880s, enemies to lovers, WITCHES

feel free to add on!

the song take me to church does not hold back at all no matter how long it has been since you’ve last listened to it it’s still like i will now cause your flesh to melt off your body 

do not want to articulate anything!! want only to walk barefoot in a sunlit courtyard with an overripe nectarine in one hand and a deeply battered paperback in the other !

Fuck study aesthetic classism

Fuck I'm so inspired by Grey Academia because I'm pretty salty!! So let's break shit down!

- Favorite stationery can be that pen you found on the ground that works pretty damn well

- Bullet journal with spreads every now and then, mostly handy notetaking paper. Pretty lettering right alongside scratched out modules started in ink. Bujo can mean a dotted notebook, or a piece of blank paper, or the next page in your class notes

- Your desk decor includes unwashed mugs and your electric bill

- You've needed to buy batteries for your fairy lights since you bought them

- Library books. Rented textbooks. Reserve textbooks. Pirated textbooks. Photos of the problem set on your phone.

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie