Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

… I could have been anyone’s ghost, but I wanted to be yours. I had to be yours.

— Caitlyn Siehl, from “Haunting,” What We Buried

>A sheep died in a bog. The top of the sheep’s back was not submerged and rotted away. The submerged parts remained perfectly preserved.

Remus falls asleep on the couch with a book on his chest, basking in the warm glow of the fire in the common room. Sirius carefully pries the novel from his fingers and drapes a blanket over Remus’ body. Sometime during fifth year, Sirius finds Remus snoring, the book cracked open on the floor to a page filled with slanted, curly letters. He glances at the journal for only a moment, not wanting to snoop, but catches his name written beside Remus’ a hundred times over, decorated with stars and hearts. Closing the book, Sirius pulls the blanket over Remus’ shoulders and presses a ghosting kiss on his forehead. He can’t help but smile as he watches the golden light dance over Remus’ skin, his heart burning with wild hope.

øjeRum, Silent Figure With Landscape {The Treehouse}

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

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Holy fuck. @lastsonlost

What a fucking monster.

Oh my God, what the fuck

This is fucking disgusting.

Imagine the roles reversed

“I drugged her drink and raped her as much as a could, and left when she woke up. She got pregnant, and she wanted to do the right thing and settle down with me to raise the kid”

Suddenly it would have 50k notes

O…..Kay! I hope one day your husband realises the truth and finds out what an absolutely disgusting piece of shit you are!

This is honestly terrifying and I pray I never encounter a woman like this

What. In the actual. Fucking. Fuck.

“It got me the results I needed”?!!!!

Are you fucking insane?! 🤯

She’s a rapist and apparently proud of it.

This is the kinda shit I’m talking about when I say our SOCIETY AS A WHOLE — men AND women AND every other gender — is responsible for understanding and promoting consent.

Yes there’s an obvious consent violation because he was drugged, but even how she talks about him — “it brought out the best in him.” Imagine a man saying that raping his partner while she was drugged brought out the best in her.

This is not okay.

It boils my blood that men getting raped isn’t taken as seriously as women getting raped (which still isn’t all that seriously, but still more than men)

😡😡😡😡

Yeah see. This is where the new wave femenist would not defend the man and there will be some in that group who will say he was put in his place. Real femenism would call for equality. She should be punished the same as a man would be. Rape is fucking rape! No matter the sex (what’s between your legs).

As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

AFRICAN & BLACK PHILOSOPHY: Getting Started

Hello everyone! As many of us who study philosophy in some form are likely aware, people of color, especially black philosophers, are radically underrepresented in the field (composing only 1.32% of all philosophers in the US). In order to combat such marginalization, and in attempt to help amplify black voices within the field of philosophy, I have complied a series of links & information here for learning more about African/black philosophy, especially within the US. Please feel free to add to this post if you feel that anything is missing, esp if ur a black person!

Overview:

According to Wikipedia.org: “African philosophy is the philosophical discourse produced by indigenous Africans and their descendants, including African Americans. African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. One particular subject that many African philosophers have written about is that on the subject of freedom and what it means to be free or to experience wholeness.”

Articles to start with: 

And some introductory texts:

Key essays:

Important contemporary black philosophers:

Online podcasts, blogs, & videos:

Other links & resources:

If you feel like you’ve seen this alread, that’s normal. This list of recommendation has been previously posted on my first account @praestantias which has been deleted for some reasons. So here I am, reposting it. 

Hating how elitist and eurocentric the dark academia community became, I would truly appreciate that you leave some recommendation of book written by people of color, for I noticed that I am guilty of the eurocentric part, but I am really want to educate myself and read more non-white books. 

Thank you for your suggestions!

Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

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Last updated: March 1, 2017

Intentional misspellings and unusual handling of words is one of my favorite “minor” memes tbh I love it so much. Here are some of my all time favorites:

▪ Replacing “ck” with “cc” (ie. succ, thicc)

▪ Replacing “t” with “d” and vice-versa (ie. gotdamn,shid,blocket)

▪ Just… every kind of weird variation you can do with the word “fuck” (ie. fuckening, fucky)

▪ Weird jumbling of curse words that somewhat resemble something coherent (ie. mother fuck of a shit, shut the hell your mouth)

▪ Replacing a vowel in a word with another (ie. borger)

why have you analysed this

I don’t really remember the exact mindset I was in when I wrote this but it was probably something like “ohhhmmff english lamguage cool”

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📚Witchy Books 📚

Good day, lil’ Witches and Warlocks! With this little list I would like to share with you some PDF books I have been using. I hope it will be useful for someone. 

The Common Book of Witchcraft and Wicca by The Ancestors

A Wiccan Bible by A. J. Drew

A Witch’s Notebook by Silver Ravenwolf 

A Witch’s Bible : The complete witches’ handbook by Janet and Stewart Farrar

Beginner Guide to the Basics of Witchcraft by Ashe. G.

Celtic Magic by D.J. Conway

Charms, Spells and Herbs by Esteban Portela

The Encyclopedia of Witches, Witchcraft &Wicca  by Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch by Rachel Patterson

Wicca: A guide for the solitary practitioner  by Scott Cunningham

The Green Witch by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak

The Way of the Green Witch by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Way of the Hedge Witch  by  Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The Witch’s Book of Self-Care by Arin Murphy-Hiscock

Th Spiral Dance by Starhawk

Wicca Book of Spells and Witchcraft for Beginners by Arin Chamberlains

Wicca for Beginners by Lisa Chamberlain

Wicca for One: The path of Solitary Witchcraft by Raymond Buckland

Witchcraft Step by Step 

Witchcraft Today  by Gerald B. Gardner

Free MCAT Study Materials!

Here’s master post of some great MCAT study materials and resources. Click on the bold titles to open links to folders containing the files listed below. Good luck!!!

2015 KAPLAN MCAT REVIEW BOOKS (pdf links listed below)

BIOLOGY

BIOCHEMISTRY

GENERAL CHEMISTRY

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

PHYSICS

PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY

SCIENCE

MCAT PRACTICE TESTS / QUESTIONS

OTHER MCAT STUDY MATERIALS

Examkrackers Complete MCAT Study Set (2007)

These materials will help build your knowledge and test taking skills, they may not fit the current MCAT exam criteria but it will definitely build your knowledge of the subjects being tested.