yeah, yeah, i know, academia is an evil bourgeois lair of useless elitist white cishet men writing self-congratulatory articles about nothing and groping their brilliant female students’ arses and so on and so forth, but occasionally, it is prudent to let some of those useless academics - plenty of whom are women and/or poc and/or lgbt nowadays, how shocking, and who’ve spent their lives learning EVERYTHING about a certain subject - explain a text or a concept to you, so that you don’t run around after with a wildly inaccurate understanding of smth like what ‘social construct’ means, or what Nietzsche was all about, or what Freud actually wrote or did or said, or inventing already invented strains of feminism, etc etc etc
oh, and while i’m at it - this whole “academia is useless” is a belief that the far-right ideology has been extremely fond of all throughout the last century or so. just saying.
when you write a sentence in your lit paper that is so pretentious that you’re not even sure what it means, but leave it in anyways
Probably the best ever response to the “How/Why did you become a writer?” question.
LORD HELP ME
DISASTER GRANDPA ALL THE WAY
🔥 conservative disaster grandpa 🔥 or 🌊 naive privilege teen 🌊
adwoa @ simone rocha fw17
Her face shone with so much intelligence that I found myself looking excitedly at her for several minutes. Something moved me when I looked at her.
Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries Of Franz Kafka: 1910 - 1923 (via dansmavenue)
I want to adopt Kiko
favourite characters (4/?) kiko himura (starfish)
I draw a girl without a face, drawing somebody else’s face onto her own reflection. I draw a girl with arms that reach up to the clouds, but all the clouds avoid her because she’s made of night and not day.
From Wikipedia:
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the 2000s.
The worship of Santa Muerte is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is increasingly firmly entrenched in Mexican culture.
Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico, since many are considered to be outcast from society. Many LGBT people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.
Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico. The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.
Man how did I not know about this magical gay skeleton queen until today?
THIS. MOVIE. IS. THE. BEST.
props to any of my followers that know this movie bc it’s my forever fave