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🗝️𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞 🗝️𝐏𝐡𝐃: 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 🗝️𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 Dark Aesthetic, She/Her, views my own

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I’m going self employed as a freelance academic while I apply to university jobs and no one warned me that being freelance means having to make up your job every single day.

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Rest in Peace, David Lynch 🖤 I keep thinking about an interview I saw with him, where the interviewer asked him to explain something and Lynch refused. “The film is talking,” he replied. And I love that. It’s so rare now, to let art speak for itself. He will be missed.

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Myers-Briggs is boring, tell me what form your dæmon takes instead.

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Relentlessly offended that Cocteau Twins are considered “Shoegaze.” If ‘Treasure’ doesn’t make you stare into the deepening twilight with wonder and wordless yearning, then you aren’t listening right.

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If the outfit you’re wearing when you die is your forever ghost outfit, and your phone is in your pocket, will you still be able to access the internet from beyond the grave?

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Has anyone checked if the books in the Beauty and the Beast library were sentient, too?

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‘You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.’ - Mary Oliver, Wild Geese (excerpt).

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Remember: our self worth isn’t defined by our accomplishments. Our worth is defined by how many souls we can harvest for the Dark Ones before dawn and we are under numbers so I am begging you, please, wipe your mouth and get up. The tithe is due and they’re coming. Please, get up get UP get -

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Can you name the phases of the menstrual cycle? That’s right! They are: follicular (ovarian follicles develop), ovulation (when the egg is released), luteal (the uterus lining thickens) and lycanthropy (when we turn into wolves and bay for blood).

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When the fabric of reality tears, don’t just throw it away! Try restoring it with a cute little appliqué, or up-cycling it into pretty handkerchiefs. Make do with the horrors and mend!

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This lighthouse Air BnB would be so cute if it wasn’t for that GodDaMn FcukInG SEAGULL - !

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A VICTORIAN MERMAN Objects like this were often made from the torsos of monkeys and the tails of fish. They were displayed by showmen like P. T Barnum to audiences who believed they were real. This particular one is on display at the Horniman Museum, London. #skystorians #histmed #histsci

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Going to university is great, but no one warns you about how stressful it can be to accidentally kill an acquaintance while performing an arcane Greek ritual, then begin questioning the moral underpinnings of society while having to complete your set reading. And then there are the EXAMS.

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With Dr. Mehmet Oz pegged to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, it's a good time to remind people that he once said this 👇 As a medical historian, I can say that this is quite literally medieval.

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Sorry chat, but I am not managing to exist sanely under these conditions of absolute reality.

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A nature walk is great for your mental health, until you wander off the path and witness the Forbidden Rite in the shadows beneath the trees, and your mind never recovers from what it has witnessed.

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The first known use of singular “they” is so old that not only does it pre-date singular “you,” it wasn’t even spelled with a “th” When William and the Werewolf, in 1375 CE, used singular “they,” it was spelled with a Thorn

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What can I do with my doctorate in Gothic literature? I can: 🗝️ Lecture 🗝️ Research 🗝️ Summon demons 🗝️ Teach There are many options open to you with a PhD!

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Nineteenth-century depictions of medieval femmes fatale often depicted them with books. Because nothing scared the Victorian boys more than a woman with notions.

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Once again I bought Legend on DVD and once again I was DECEIVED.

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The moon is glorious tonight (the photograph is not).

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The burden of being witty in my first post is too much. Please enjoy this (filter free) photo I took - while running for a bus - of my local graveyard instead.