My Favourite Chaotic Academia Things~

Marauders fanfic authors be like: “it’ll have a happy ending, I promise!”

Also Marauders fanfic authors: *kills off half the characters*

“Sometimes you have to accept the fact that there are things that will never go back to how they used to be.”

— Unknown

fuck it’s august??? what’s next? 2022???? can’t do this anymore

Teach boys about periods

My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.

When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).

I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.

My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.

My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.

When we made s'mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.

Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.

Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.

The poets reciting Thoreau and Whitman to the god of the cave

Personally, I'd beware the Ides of March if I were Julius, but you do you

Oscar Wilde. That's all.

Professor: *puts an Oscar Wilde quote on the board and asks us to say whether or not we agree with it and why*

Me, choking back tears at having to say this: I...agree with Oscar Wilde

me: *puts effort into my appearance before i go out anywhere* *checks myself out in any reflective surface i encounter* *observes myself in the mirror from the perspective of a stranger*

the unavoidable presence of margaret atwood that resides permanently in my consciousness:

every.single.family.dinner :)

at family dinners

me: talk less, smile more

me: don’t let them know what you’re against or what you’re for