Happy birthday Shakespeare. Thanks for your brilliant plays, massive contribution to the English language, and your bisexual sonnets which have been annoying homophobes for centuries.

aristotle can write as many books about greek tragedy as he wants but none of it will convince me that catharsis is anything more than a bunch of ancient greeks in a theater going “big fuckin mood” while they watch oedipus stab his eyes out

lit meme: [1/7] otps ↳ Anne Elliot and Fredrick Wentworth 

inspo credit - @altraviolence

endless list of favorite book series: [8/?] → the heroes of olympus series 

Tetsushi Tsuruki

I’m so deep in academia that I’m pretty sure I think in 12 point Times New Roman font. 

The moreness of him was beginning to show. The way ruins were excavated by an archaeologist. Brushstroke by brushstroke. Bit by bit. - Wolf by Wolf

jay gatsby’s car was a real hit with the ladies

i know literally nothing about great gatsby but i know tumblr and with that knowledge i am 500% sure that jay gatsby hits some motherfucker with his car

Tumblr: gateway to great literature.

MOVIE POSTERS: the raven cycle (part 2/2)

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Sylvia Plath (via macrolit)

Me reading academic papers: incoherent nonsense. Bullshit. I could write better than this in my sleep

Me writing academic papers: this sentence is 206 words long and contains 19 commas & a semicolon, fuck you

And people wonder why I love what I study

Well, we’ve managed to get ourselves locked into the most secure prison in the world. We’re either geniuses or the dumbest sons of bitches to ever breathe air.