O To Receive An Anonymous Love Letter On Perfumed Paper, Filled With Romantic Declarations And Scraps

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), Frankenstein, manuscript, MS. Abinger c.56, fols. 20v – 21r, 1816 – 1817. The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

I'm fine. :’(

No one loves the light like the blind man

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anerican choese

honestly the fact that I wrote so much about Mary Shelley in my English mock that I got an 8 despite not even finishing my article just sums me up

Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.

Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)

mum

i missed this feeling... ur favorite band putting out a new song and listening to it all day... softly singing shiver while making tea in the evening... remember Pete saying we've always believed in quite an old fashioned way, in songs

The fall of the house of usher (Edgar Allen Poe)

This is for sure my favourite quote from my favourite Poe story, it always sends shivers down my spine.

Made by me <3

Real talk, as a teacher in England I can confirm that the British government does everything and anything to avoid teaching the true extent of colonial history to English kids. 

You ask a modern English teenager about Northern Ireland and they probably can’t tell you about fucking anything currently going on there bar ‘I think we weren’t nice to them’, and that’s the country next fucking door so you know they don’t know shit about India or the Middle East.

The English government PURPOSEFULLY does not teach English children the real in’s and out’s of the British Empire despite a recent call to ‘widen the breadth of our curriculum’ because then where would our football hooligans who defend statues come from? 

Have a good conversation with any bald headed English bloke wearing an England football shirt with an EDL tattoo and test his knowledge of the Empire he loves so much. 100 quid he knows fuck all beyond ‘we civilized those people!’

And this is why no one fucking likes us, because there’s no active effort to teach our younger generations why we were wrong or how to make things better, but there’s a clear educational agenda to shield young English children from any extensive criticism of England.

- Euyridice

Flowers.

By me <3

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, November 19, 1954