“Who Has Not Asked Himself At Some Time Or Other: Am I A Monster Or Is This What It Means To Be A Person?”

illegible handwriting, coffee rings on notebooks, putting gloves on only to take them off again, dark lipstick, maurice (1987), walking to class when it’s not raining enough for an umbrella but just enough to fog up your glasses, stone buildings, leaves that aren’t quite crunchy, deadlines, pen smudges, leaving class only to find out its dark outside, cinnamon, cold noses, swaying trees, half moons, cuffed sleeves, silence 

tag yourself: school subjects

english: cozy borrowed hoodies, rustling papers, “i can’t read”, thermos filled with tea, illegible notes in the margins, sleeping with shakespeare covering your face, daily journaling, doodling through lectures

math: shaky hands during tests, the familiar feel of a calculator in your palm, dead silence when you work, flipping through the textbook, easing through problem sets, swapping pens for pencils, wistfully looks out the window

history: summaries of bills and acts on chart paper, the scratch of sharpies, eternal group projects, granola bars hidden under desks, hand cramps from writing, squinting at the board, being told off for talking to your friends

art: paint stained jeans, braiding your friends’ hair, lightning-quick gesture drawings, rivers of sunlight in the classroom, headphones in, snacks strewn around you, snapping charcoal (accidentally!!), wet clay on your fingers

foreign languages: hours of conjugating charts, subtitled films, loopy gel pens, mumbled presentations, repeated listening exercises, forgetting vocabulary immediately, the sound of someone writing with chalk, late breakfasts

gym/health: rewatching mean girls for the 100th time, iced coffee, morning runs under the gentle sun, oversized t-shirts, squeaky floors under sneakers, gossip on the bleachers, avoiding the school pool, rolling up your shorts

science: high ponytails, rapid memorization that fades after the test, frowning while you work, old classroom TVs with dated science programs, whispers and giggles between powerpoint slides, searching for not-gross lab goggles (and not finding them)

Quarantine Academia:

staying up until sunrise reading classic literature

learning latin on duolingo

practicing art and anatomy

stargazing in your backgarden or through a window

discovering forgotton classical music online

running out of hobbies to try

attempting to knit or sew something

taste testing all the teas you ahve in your cupboard

rearranging your bookshelves

making elegant extravagant facial coverings/masks to wear outside that go with all ur outfits (while still keeping its purpose)

buying floral and sweet smelling hand creams and sanatizers

making lists of all the books youre going to get when libraries open again

rolling your eyes at anti-maskers

learning about random historical figures online

researching haunted places

staying safe!!

You are all of the things you love. You are the cluttered bookshelf that is piled high with worn, tired books. You are that delicate tea-cup that you have to clean by hand when everything else goes in the dishwasher. You are the moon and the sun. You are the flowers speckled with rain. You are the Earth and the people that live on it, with hearts of gold and diamonds in their eyes. You are the things that make you happy, that make you smile, those moments where time stops and you are left alone in space. You are all of the things you love, and if that's so, it means you love yourself, because you are yourself.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

- Mark Twain

[Playing Scrabble]

Zeus: I will put my "A" down to make "A".

Dionysus: I will add to your "A" to make "AT".

Demeter: I will add onto your "AT" to make "RAT".

Athena: And I will add on to your "RAT" to make "BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC".

Zeus: *flips table*

The Houses in Autumn

Ravenclaw: listening to the rain, cozying up in a warm blanket, visiting a farmer’s market, walking under colorful trees

Slytherin: wearing cozy sweaters, listening to leaves crunch as you walk, staring a bonfire, cooking a warm meal

Hufflepuff: lighting candles, staying in bed and reading, baking apple pie, decorating the house in fall colors

Gryffindor: curling up by the fire, drinking hot cider, jumping in leaves, walking under the moonlight

raskolnikov be like “I know a spot” then takes you to the bureau and tells you he’s a murderer

i aspire to be as petty as shigaraki.