I was on a walk when I saw Death at a street corner. I didn’t like him so I just power-walked right past him. He got flustered and hurried after me while trying to talk to me, but I kept ignoring him.
“I started sleeping more than usual. I guess I’m just in love with a thought, that only my dreams allow me to have.”
-via nemoday
My dream is to marry a man who treats me like a man would treat his wife in the 50s. Like his. Like I belong to him. And I want to be that stay-at-home wife who cooks meals and cleans the house and wears dresses every day. I want him to take me dancing. Not to some club but to somewhere nice. I want him to get angry when he thinks I’m flirting with someone else or that someone is flirting with me. I want him to be commanding and let me know who’s boss. I want him to show me off to all his buddies cause he wants to make them jealous. I want a man who’s proud to be my man and loves his little wife
“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” -Alexander McCall Smith
Instead of doing literally anything else that may be considered “productive” I went ahead and made this.
I present to you my list of Classic Lit Authors Sorted into Hogwarts Houses:
William Shakespeare - Ravenclaw
Emily Dickinson - Hufflepuff
H. P. Lovecraft - Ravenclaw
Leo Tolstoy - Gryffindor
Edgar Allan Poe - Ravenclaw
Oscar Wilde - Slytherin
Robert Ervin Howard - Gryffindor
Jane Austen - Ravenclaw
Mark Twain - Slytherin
Ernest Hemingway - Gryffindor
Aldous Huxley - Slytherin
Sylvia Plath - Ravenclaw
Ray Bradbury - Ravenclaw
William Blake - Slytherin
James Joyce - Slytherin
William Wordsworth - Hufflepuff
Lewis Carroll - Ravenclaw
Walt Whitman - Slytherin
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ravenclaw
T. S. Eliot - Ravenclaw
Victor Hugo - Gryffindor
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Gryffindor
George Orwell - Slytherin
Virginia Woolf - Ravenclaw
J. R. R. Tolkien - Ravenclaw
Toni Morrison - Gryffindor
Mary Shelley - Ravenclaw
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ravenclaw
Charles Dickens - Gryffindor
Charlotte Brontë - Gryffindor
Emily Brontë - Slytherin
Anne Brontë - Hufflepuff
George Eliot - Gryffindor
Louisa May Alcott - Gryffindor
Joseph Conrad - Slytherin
Jack London - Gryffindor
Henry James - Ravenclaw
Bram Stoker - Slytherin
Franz Kafka - Slytherin
E. M. Forster - Hufflepuff
Ayn Rand - Slytherin
Joseph Heller - Slytherin
Harper Lee - Hufflepuff
J. D. Salinger - Slytherin
Arthur Conan Doyle - Ravenclaw
Agatha Christie - Slytherin
Roald Dahl - Ravenclaw
Frank Herbert - Slytherin
Octavia E. Butler - Ravenclaw
Vladimir Nabokov - Slytherin
This is obviously not a complete list (there are 50 here) and there will be a follow-up with more in the future! I am very sure about some of these (anyone who has ever met me or looked at my blog knows how hard it was to restrain myself from putting Oscar Wilde first) but I’d love to hear other people’s opinions if anyone has some!
Special thanks to @amapofyourstars for helping me sort these people even though she had little to no interest in any of their lives.
mood
valentines day is coming up,, if you ever wanted to gift me a sword with an engraved romantic message,,, now is the time
Some girls say they don’t need a man. Some girls say men and women should be treated equally. A lot of girls don’t think boys should be protective or get jealous. Not me. I can’t go a day without asking my dad, brothers, or guy friends to help me. I definitely need a man. I don’t really feel the need for men and women to be treated equally. I want a relationship where I am my man’s little woman straight out of the 50s. And I daydream all the time about a man who will beat up anyone who he feels is hurting me or hitting on me without a second thought. I want a man who will fight other guys for me. And win. I’m looking for a man. Not a boy.
And in our eyes the same sadness, like a night landscape.
Marguerite Duras, from Blue Eyes, Black Hair (pub. November 1986)