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Oh, look, it’s Henry Winter.

You can't just claim you're ravenclaw without the experience of waking up at 4am in the morning in cold sweat and deciding to binge all HP books and movies to write an article on how the HP movies suck

Mother Gothel had no right to be that hot

And neither did Flynn

People wearing plain t-shirts to special occasions is my kink

Do you remember that time when you could just...

touch your face in public and not fear death?

Yeah me neither

During these tough times reading books doesn't feel productive anymore bc that's basically all I do

Beastars is just sexy zootopia right?

hi! just saw in the daniel sloss tag that you watched x! what an amazing show! i haven't been around this site for a while, but i'm translating the special into spanish and there's a joke that i can't grasp, could you help me? it's the bit that says "you go italian and then you appreciate". if you could help me with that, i'd appreciate it (no pun intended) a lot! thanks in advance!

I think it's been about 5 months since this ask was sent but I literally just discovered something in my inbox, so sorry!

If you still need it, I think "go Italian" has to do with the finger purse they do. This gesture also happens to be how you insert a menstrual cup. Hope that helped

Donna Tartt really just left her only female character (okay there's Judy but Judy's just background noise) underdeveloped and gave the gay character the most miserable ending and we're all okay with it? How come?

I spat out my drink when I read the Richard one 

TSH characters as The Onion headlines:

BUNNY:

RICHARD:

CAMILLA:

CHARLES:

FRANCIS:

HENRY:

When Mitski said "I just need someone to kiss give me one good movie kiss and I'll be alright"

That hit me right in the stomach

Am I the only one that kinda hoped that Richard would realise he was in love with Francis and they would come together at the end? I know that was very unlikely, but his 'love' for Camilla always seemed so superficial, and i liked Francis a whole lot better than her, tbh. Anyway, poor Francis

Oh, Francis, my precious baby, you deserved better

Francis Abernathy really had to hit on every single guy in his clique only to hook up with Charles high on weed during his friends funeral whom he had killed.

Really Francis there are plenty of good guys you could fuck

Watching How To Get Away With Murder and reading The Secret History at the same time is such a surreal experience. I've already started to get the characters from the book confused with the characters from the show

With each other? Who with who? Henry??

Henry: Francis, Charles, Camilla, and I performed a bacchanal in the woods and saw Dionysus himself.

Richard:

Richard Papen is so stupid

His shady friends were like “Hey let’s go for a ride in the night” after they had confided in him that they’d MURDERED someone and didn’t plan on going to jail for it and he was one of the two people that knew about it and Richard was like “yeah sure why not what can POSSIBLY go wrong”

Richard Papen in The Secret History be like: is Henry gay? Is Julian gay? Is Francis gay? Am I gay?

I'm doing a project on Salem Witch Trials and this is very helpful! Thank you for citing sources

SALEM WITCH TRIALS

ALRIGHT SO ONE OF MY SPEECHES FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING ACTUALLY COVERED THE POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL. We’ll start with those facts! It was written in the form of the speech where I had to verbally site everything. I rewrote most of it so there are missing page numbers.

-Laura

POSSIBLE CAUSES OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS

Cause I:The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by ergot poisoning.

During the Salem Witch Trials, the girls who started the event claimed to see apparitions, experience pricking sensations and seizures, and paralysis.

Josh Clark in his article, “Were the American colonists drugged during the Salem witchcraft trial?”, discusses a type of ergot poisoning, “Convulsive ergotism attacks the central nervous system, causing mania, psychosis, hallucinations, paralysis and prickling sensations. It was these symptoms that [are reminiscent] of those exhibited by Elizabeth Parris – especially the mania.”

As you can see in the diagram below, ergot is the black part of the piece of wheat. Josh Clark goes on to say that “the [ergot] contains isoergine – the main ingredient in the drug LSD.”

Cause II: The possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by boredom.

Life in Salem 1692 was very different. The Puritan life was a strict one and children were expected to behave as adults. Boys also had more freedom outside of the home than girls did.

Rosalyn Schanzer in her book, Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem, describes how the girls would have been spending their harsh winter. The girls might have spent the unusually harsh winter knitting socks, boiling laundry, sweeping ashes off the floor, ladling porridge, making pies or puddings, making yarn, mending clothing and upholstery, and of course, there would always be time for reading the bible and saying prayers.

The strict lifestyle did not allow the girls to express themselves. Perhaps, it is not unreasonable to think they might have enjoyed the attention they gained from being inflicted. 

Discovery Education’s Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria discusses the possibility of the accusations being an outlet for attention, “It is no wonder that the young girls were… captivated by Tituba’s magical stories and fortune-telling games… activities [that] were strictly forbidden…fear and guilt… may have been one reason for their hysterical behavior. And at a time when young girls were forbidden to act out or express themselves, it is easy to see why they were so enraptured by the attention they received when they became ‘bewitched.’”

Cause III:  The Possibility of the Salem Witch Trials being caused by Religious Hysteria. 

The town of Salem was a struggling one. A good portion of the town were farmers and there was much of the dark wilderness or the great unknown to fear. It would be as if your hometown or a portion of it was suddenly cut off from contact to the outside world. Sermons of brimstone and fire certainly did not help either.

In her New Yorker article, “The Witches of Salem”, Stacy Schiff describes the danger Massachusetts had experienced around the time of the Witch trials, “[In 1676] King Philip’s War… [had] obliterated a third of New England’s towns, pulverized its economy, and claimed ten per cent of the adult male population. Every Bay Colony resident lost a friend or a relative; all knew of a dismemberment or an abduction. By 1692, another Indian war had begun to take shape… The frontier had recently moved to within fifty miles of Salem.”

With a harsh winter and the threat of danger near, it is easy to see why the town might have been paralyzed with fear and sought religious explanation to their problems.

Works Cited

Blumberg, Jess. “A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials.” Smithsonian        Magazine. Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2007. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Clark, Josh. “Were the American Colonists Drugged during the Salem Witchcraft Trial?” HowStuffWorks. InfoSpace Holdings LLC, 18 Jan. 2008. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

“Salem Witch Trials: The World Behind The Hysteria." Salem Witch Trials - Learning Adventures. Discovery Education, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2016.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2011. Print

Schiff, Stacy. "The Witches of Salem." The New Yorker. Condé Nast, 31 Aug. 2015. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.

Have you ever gotten over a crush in one day? It has happened to me recently. I liked this girl sooo much, dreamt about dating her. When we were out in the city and she would touch my knee or put her head on my shoulder, I felt this physical need to touch her and kiss her... But she's straight, and although I want her not to be, she doesn't have feelings for me. She likes me as a friend quite a lot, and a lot of the stuff she's said and done can fool a desperate queer girl like me, but..

And when I finally accepted that I just felt... That I don't have a crush on her anymore. Like, I completely lost that feeling and I can just enjoy her company and be myself around her without losing my head.

P. S. NOW I WORRY THAT MAYBE I JUST MADE EVERYTHING UP AND I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A CRUSH ON HER i hate myself.

When people talk about dark academia movies they always mention Kill Your Darlings or The Dead Poets Society - i. e. films about men asserting themselves through art and homoerotic subtext between friends.

But I never hear about Mona Lisa Smile. It is a movie that just exudes da vibes + it has complex female characters in an academic setting + and it discusses the inherent mysoginy of the time.

Really, it is a wonderful movie and you're all sleeping on it

“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”

— Yoojin Grace Wuertz, “Mother Tongue”

Entering your Productive™ phase for exactly 24 minutes a day, if you miss it, you're screwed

Adding 3848037 new books to your list, never finishing any

Getting interested in something and then dropping it 2 hours later

Trying to organize a study group with your friends but your meetings turn into heated discussions about the futility of getting a degree

Putting off your hw to the next morning on the condition that you wake up earlier - you never do

Modern chaotic academia things:

(think dark academia minus the grace)

Coffee and cigarettes for breakfast

That hazy, grey sky, empty city feeling you only get when you're unwilling awake at 5:30 am

Being pulled aside by your teacher cos the last paper assignment you handed in smelt of weed

TEA AND COFFEE STAINS EVERYWHERE

Hurriedly doing your homework/coursework that's due in 30 minutes on the train to school

Experimenting with strange sleep patterns to see if it helps you study

Spending more time taking dark academia aesthetic photos than actually working on said academia

It is impossible to work without a podcast or lofi hip hop in the background

Or without listening to the accompaniment music to your favourite musical theatre songs

Buying and stockpiling ultra sour/spicy food to keep you awake

Being able to locate your nearest bizzaar shop with frightening accuracy and making after-school trips there

Believing more in your good luck charms and crystals than your actual ability for exams

W H I S K E Y

Memorising strange Latin phrases solely because they sound thought provoking when translated

Hyperfocusing on work at 1 am

Commuting around the city with either electronic or rock music BLARING in your headphones but listening to quiet podcasts when you're alone in your room

Blowing off your studies to go out with friends but taking a book because you feel guilty

An OBSESSION with succulents

Please stop buying succulents

Trying to rock the 'office chic blouse/dress shirt with black tie' look but it ends up looking so crumpled you ressemble an actual office worker at the end of their shift

Changing the settings on your phone to try and immerse yourself in your new language, failing spectacularly and having no idea how to change it back

The above but when your keyboard settings start glitching and your texts are punctuated by nonsense from another languらたの、

Every book you own has creased pages, most of which are your doing

Going on midnight walks to clear your mind but you're instead worried you're gonna get stabbed on said walk

Memeing with teachers to the point your relationship with them feels awkward and skewed

You are the mother of at least 50 smaller school children and you know about all their problems

And my favourite:

Procrastinating by learning how to elegantly draw a curve in calculus instead of doing your calculus homework

Feel free to continue the list - I'll come back and add more if I think of any new ones.

If AM by Arctic Monkeys is the soundtrack to your crush, you know you're in deep you've dreamt about them nearly every night this week

Light academia be like

Me entering the classroom having listened to War and Peace for 7 hours straight running on 4 hours of sleep, coffee and anxiety

I know dark academia, cottagecore and whatnot are very appealing aesthetics, but what if I'm too disorganized, poor and sleep-deprived to maintain them? Can we just create "shithole aesthetic" or something like that?

I relate to this so hard it hurts

The feeling of having a crush, even if I know it can't be returned, is something special indeed. I'll hold onto these feelings for just a bit longer, even if it means my heart is pricked with thorns.

Sitting in front of my crush in a coffeeshop on a cold February evening while she was reading dressed in a long dusty pink dress is the epitome of desperate attraction I've felt so far

This is me during 89% of the school year which is so sad and terrifying but at the same time I made it into an aesthetic so here's that

fuck dark academia

give me i’m fucking trying academia

- walking in to class 15 minutes late in a hoodie and sleep filled eyes but at least you’re there

- half a page of notes sprinkled with teardrops because your brain cannot function no matter how hard you try

- the little smile teacher’s give you when the notice you made it to class !

- high fiving your friends as you tell them you actually went to all your classes this week

- turning in an assignment a week late but feeling proud because at least this one got turned in!

- waking up an hour after you were supposed to be in and laying in bed staring at the ceiling for an hour 

- making yourself get out of bed anyways, getting something to eat and some tea before emailing you teacher and figuring out what you missed.

- endless to do lists of everything you need to make up

- scrolling through the studyblr tag for hours in an attempt to motivate yourself

- laying face down on the floor when the pile of assignments gets too overwhelming 

- shutting your laptop/books and crawling into a friends arms because it’s okay to take a break, it’s okay to get comfort

- the fireworks you feel inside when you see you managed to bring your grade up and pass despite everything

- you may not have gotten the highest score or turned in your best work

- but you are trying 

- and that’s all that matters.