Happy St. Swithins Day/‘One Day’ Day everyone! If it’s raining make sure to get a raincoat and umbrella cause you’ll be stuck with it for the rest of the summer, and if you’re secretly in love with your best friend make sure you tell them and never take a day with them for granted because they might get hit by a bus in the rain while trying to ride their bike home and then you would’ve wasted years of your life not being with them.
"I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’
I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gapèd wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing."
- John Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (excerpt)
as i was reading the 1818 annotated text of mary shelley’s frankenstein, i noticed that one of my favorite lines, “Clerval was a being formed in the very poetry of nature”, had an annotation by Shelley connecting it to The Story Of Rimini by Leigh Hunt.
i obviously checked it out, and found out that that line was describing PAOLO from dante’s inferno… as in paolo and francesca… THE star-crossed lovers… francesca was in an arranged marriage (familiar?) and sinned by falling in love with paolo… and theyre together in hell and regret nothing…
i’m actually weeping over this being a canon parallel. go stream francesca by hozier one billion times
I clocked Benedict Bridgerton the moment I saw him years ago because it takes a loser bisexual to recognize a loser bisexual
Read this really fun article for my course last sem about mary shelley appropriating william godwin's opponents to diss her dad. Ngl she is giving me some real good ideas as to how to bad mouth my father.
Why tf is stranger things trending. Istg people have such short term memory that they would literally let anything slide!!! EVEN A FUCKING GENOCIDE. LIKE COME THE FUCK ON. Fucking hypocrites. I hope the show absolutely flops
Idk if I got a crush on this boy or if I am, again, just really jealous.
had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”
Jane Austen // Nizar Qabbani
You know the feeling when you are bi so you don't know if it's a crush or you are just jealous.