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rosewater1997: me drinking green tea: this is gonna fix Everything

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:08:42 -0400

rosewater1997:

me drinking green tea: this is gonna fix Everything

nesgadol: reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:06:54 -0400

nesgadol:

reblog if ur mom is smart and beautiful

warmhealer:This café is so calm and light

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:51:46 -0400

warmhealer:

This café is so calm and light

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Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:51:16 -0400

ameliasscanwells: oldshrewsburyian: theodoradove: riverselkie: i feel like there’s this huge...

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:38:54 -0400

ameliasscanwells:

oldshrewsburyian:

theodoradove:

riverselkie:

i feel like there’s this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing

I raided my bookshelves and came up with these:

The Chinese Garden (1962) by Rosemary Manning

“In a girls’ boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the ‘Chinese garden,’ Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel’s intellectual growth.”

Miss Pym Disposes (1948) by Josephine Tey

“Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year’s term is nearly over, and Miss Pym–inquisitive and observant–detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym’s cover-up of one crime precipitates another–a fatal ‘accident’ that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.”

Olivia (1949) by Olivia (aka Dorothy Strachey)

“Olivia is sixteen years old when she goes to Les Avons, a finishing school near Paris, run by two Mademoiselles. It is a place of few rules, of laughter and lively conversation–a welcome surprise for a reserved young English girl. But the gaiety and freedom of Les Avons is only surface deep and emotional liaisons and jealousies form the hidden curriculum. Very quickly Olivia too is caught up in its spell, overwhelmed by her increasing infatuation with Mademoiselle Julie. Here she describes the powerful allegiances and repressed desires which smoulder at this secluded school, and the intensity and desperation of adolescent love.”

Regiment of Women (1917) by Clemence Dane

“In a small English town, just before the Great War, battle rages over Alwynne Durand, an appealing but dangerously inexperienced young teacher. Two women struggle to win her love and loyalty: Elsbeth, her fiercely protective aunt, and the formidable Clare Hartill. A brilliantly charismatic teacher, feverishly adored, Clare’s power is great–her abuse of it greater. Greedy for love, but incapable of returning it, she compulsively destroys the affections of those she most needs.”

The Small Room (1961) by May Sarton

“Anxiously embarking on her first teaching job, Lucy Winter arrives at a New England women’s college and shortly finds herself in the thick of a crisis: she has discovered a dishonest act committed by a brilliant student who is the protegée of a powerful faculty member. How the central characters–students and teachers–react to the crisis, and what effect the scandal has on their personal and professional lives, are the central motifs of May Sarton’s sensitive, probing novel.”

Frost in May (1933) by Antonia White

“The Convent of the Five Wounds, where Nanda Grey is sent when she is nine, is on the edge of London–but in 1908 it is a world unto itself. For the young girls receiving a Catholic education behind its walls, religion is a nationality, conformity an entire way of life. In this intense, troubled atmosphere, passionate friendships are the only deviation. Nanda is thirteen, a normal, quick-witted, spirited girl, when, catastrophically, she breaks the rules and pays too large a price for her transgression.”

The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson (aka Ethel Richardson)

“Henry Handel Richardson’s novel is a coming-of-age story, set in turn-of-the-century Melbourne. When clever and imaginative Laura Rambotham leaves her home to attend a prestigious ladies’ college, she finds herself compromising her ideals in an effort to fit in. The Getting of Wisdom is a portrait of an artistic and unwieldy soul chafing against stuffy ordinariness, told with great empathy and passion.”

These recs are so relevant to my interests that I am 1) intensely grateful 2) astonished that I have not read them before, with the exception of Miss Pym Disposes.

Recent works I’ve read that fit this bill are:

Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages

Nayana Currimbhoy, Miss Timmins’ School for Girls

Elizabeth Hand’s Waking The Moon also has elements of this - the book is split in half between two time periods, and the first one is set at an arts college in the sixties.

purplebuddhaproject: “Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily...

Sat, 16 Jun 2018 09:38:00 -0400

purplebuddhaproject:

“Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.”

— Khalil Gibran (via purplebuddhaquotes)

kassareo:happy birthday, BTS! 13.06.2013 - ∞

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:51:57 -0400

kassareo:

happy birthday, BTS!
13.06.2013 - ∞

ensyme: me after a quiet day in: Time for a quiet night in

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:19:18 -0400

ensyme:

me after a quiet day in: Time for a quiet night in

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Sat, 09 Jun 2018 22:05:28 -0400

doona-baes: so precious

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:18:31 -0400

doona-baes:

so precious

amidstsilence: Pastel Daydreams Store | Instagram

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:16:42 -0400

amidstsilence:

Pastel Daydreams

Store | Instagram

c-offeeandcocoa: moodboards | cities | F L O R E N C E,...

Wed, 23 May 2018 20:10:09 -0400

c-offeeandcocoa:

moodboards | cities | F L O R E N C E, Italy

“To see the sun sink down, drowned on his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature.” - Mark Twain

+ requested by @bonaca

retroactivebakeries: why haven’t I been burnt at the stake yet

Wed, 23 May 2018 20:09:14 -0400

retroactivebakeries:

why haven’t I been burnt at the stake yet

hannybstudies: “They didn’t teach you in school to leave your work and go to the window five...

Wed, 23 May 2018 20:08:01 -0400

hannybstudies:

“They didn’t teach you in school to leave your work and go to the window five minutes to let the sun warm your soft skin; they didn’t teach you to pause. They taught you to bottle up your emotions, they didn’t teach you to go to your friend and talk five minutes when you felt sad, so your cotton heart could light up again and go back to your work free of mental burdens. They didn’t teach you to go to an open window and listen to five minutes the musicality of birds or the hysterical screams of playing kids, or watch the trees wave at you so you could feel connected to a wider realm where your energy was welcome. And now you feel guilty when you can’t immediately achieve your work because you couldn’t see that the powerful wind often stops as well before it starts again, you don’t know how to recharge your batteries merely by feeling the sun biting your skin, you lost touch with the pacifying noises of the whole world keeping its activities while you spend your time worrying that you might fail. You are not broken; you are mistaken, and you must start again to allow yourself to give to your natural needs and rhythms an unshakable voice. You must care enough about it: it comes first and anything else follows. We are sentient beings.”

— Anonymous (via detailedart)

wannabescholar: This is great

Tue, 22 May 2018 20:42:13 -0400

wannabescholar:

This is great

bopeep: i love girls who are "high maintenance" like yes please continue to have...

Mon, 21 May 2018 14:34:55 -0400

bopeep:

i love girls who are "high maintenance" like yes please continue to have standards for how you treat urself and expect to be treated

study-boba: 3.15.18 // current books on my to read list -...

Mon, 21 May 2018 12:12:48 -0400

study-boba:

3.15.18 // current books on my to read list - Thoreau, Voltaire, and Camus! Waiting for a study break to get started ✨

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mienar:to the last stop

Mon, 21 May 2018 12:06:02 -0400

mienar:

to the last stop

vampireapologist: learning to let go and learning to relax means just freaking sticking those...

Thu, 17 May 2018 11:32:25 -0400

vampireapologist:

learning to let go and learning to relax means just freaking sticking those stickers on something. stop worrying if it’s the right place. burn that nice candle you’ve had for a year. it doesn’t need a special occasion. I’m gonna use those fancy soaps I’ve been collecting in a drawer even though they look so pretty and it means I’ll use them up. everything is temporary so just enjoy the littlest pleasures you can possibly have we all need to just let go and enjoy things while they last. the sticker’s gonna look fine on your water bottle I promise

uumans: claryfightwood: no offence but let yourself be ugly!! you don’t have to fix your hair if...

Sun, 13 May 2018 16:41:57 -0400

uumans:

claryfightwood:

no offence but let yourself be ugly!! you don’t have to fix your hair if you’re not going anywhere you don’t have to cover up ur spots or change out of your lounge pants to go buy milk like damn we really gotta let ourselves be comfortable without constantly apologising for just looking normal and it’s hard but i think we need to practice looking in the mirror and saying i look ugly af today and that’s okay!! tru self care is letting urself be ugly tbh

I love this version of self-love because it’s much more feasible for people who are self-conscious. Like it takes years of powerful reconditioning to convince yourself that your flaws, like stretch marks or acne or cellulitis, are attractive. It’s basically impossible for most people.

But learning to say “so what, I’m ugly, there’s more to life” not only overwrites this narrative that we have to feel attractive in some way (which is bs) but also reroutes your actual attention to just, living, instead of examining, evaluating, and judging your appearance