“We Can’t Return To Normal, Because The Normal That We Had Was Precisely The Problem.”

How to survive paper deadlines, Ghibli-style.

types of people: hogwarts houses

hufflepuff: terracotta pots, wooden stepladders and shelves, stacks of cards from friends, sunlight filtering through vines and glass, spooning honey into warm milk, big straw hats with satin ribbons, honeycomb-printed walls

ravenclaw: stars in a watercolour sky, brass knockers on old oak doors, purple mist covering the world, stained glass fragments, biscuits on an old porcelain plate, capturing memories in a copper jar, fireflies in a dark field

slytherin: ice on a green lake, heavy curtains, exhaling translucent clouds into cool air, tall ferns in a wintry plain, considering the future at night, peppermint plants, shaking and rolling dice, carpets of emerald moss

gryffindor: velvet banners, spinning golden coins, carving initials into dark oak tables, freshly baked pastry and tart fruit, wind whipping limestone cliffs, meeting at midnight, candles burning through the night, baskets of picked cherries

Some of My Favorite Ravenclaw Quotes:

Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure. (Obviously…)

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

I’m not crazy, my reality is just different then yours.

When in doubt, go to the library.

The mind is it’s own palace, and in itself it can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

To be insane is to be sane with just a little more knowledge of what’s going on.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

I think, therefore, I am dangerous.

Never be so focused on what your looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

The thing about Jinho is you know how good his voice is, but it still blows you away everytime you hear him sing.

» John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)

Ophelia

Isabella

A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew’s Day

Mariana

Christ in the House of His Parents

The Black Brunswicker

the iliad + the odyssey = the idiocy 

types of study breaks for every situation

if you realize you’ve been studying for hours: grab a snack to refuel your body and watch a sitcom to refuel your brain. then back to the books.

if you’re feeling stressed out: take some deep breaths, text your friends, maybe stare at a wall for a few minutes. gather yourself.

if you can’t seem to focus: get moving and get outside. take out the garbage, check your mail box, maybe walk your dog. just get moving and get fresh air. it’ll help bring you back.

if there’s something else going on in your life and you can’t get it off your mind: write down what’s going through your head, sort of like a diary entry. it’ll help you work things out.

if you’re just mentally and physically exhausted: set a timer for 25-30 minutes and take a nap. any longer and you’ll hit REM and you’ll wake up feeling just as tired. once you wake up, get some caffeine in you.

if the material is boring as hell: find another way to study. see if there’s a crash course video online about it or draw out what you’re trying to learn in diagrams and pictures to make it fun.

if people around you won’t shut up: listen to some music. soundtrack and classical music is always good because they won’t absorb you as much as music with lyrics. white noise (like ocean waves, rain sounds, etc.) also works.

if you only half understand a concept: call/message a friend who’s not in the class and try to teach the material to them. this will help you mentally work through the material and will help you remember it as well.

What’s REALLY inside the Ravenclaw Common Room

A/N: Not a request, but I thought we all need a pick-me-up today. Enjoy everyone, and feel free to request anything you’d like to see me write about ~

Seriously, do you realize how aesthetically pleasing the common room is?

I mean, like the blues and bronze made you feel like freakin’ royalty once you walk in

the most musical of the the common rooms - there’s soft sound of choir singing because of the magic, and the blue hues really calms you down REAL fast

I am 100% SURE that there’s AROMATHERAPY going on inside the common room:

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