You Know What My Perfect Gift Would Be? An Annotated Copy Of Your Favourite Book. I Don’t Just Mean

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Elizabeth Holland (early November 1865)

Starting a new book because being in the middle of four books simply isn't enough for me.

dark and gloomy clouds, the quiet before storm, smell of the air right before the first drops fall, open window, cozy unmade bed with bedsheets smelling of cuddles and warmth, soft whispers of ‘i love yous’ and kisses lost in your hair

@quidditchleaguenet february challenge: favorite locations - ravenclaw team - ravenclaw common room 

i imagine the ravenclaw common room to be the most open of all the common rooms.

what i mean by open is that the ceiling of the tower is full of windows. so during the day, all the natural light comes in, and during the night, you can easily look up and see all the stars.

there is a lot of stargazing every night, and a lot of the ravenclaw students will fall asleep together out in the main area with books in their lap and quills in their hands. 

there is also constant music playing in the background. depending on who settled in the common room first that day, that’s what determines the genre.

some days it is classical, some days it is muggle alternative, and some days it is even rap. 

ravenclaws welcome all different preferences, and there are rarely any arguments regarding the music playing. as long as it is quiet enough in the background for people to study, read, or socialize. 

ravenclaws also do not fear students from other houses finding a way into their common room and solving a riddle, because if they are smart or creative enough to figure it out, they consider that person one of them. 

they welcome all chances for growth and intellectual discussion, and they don’t care who it is. they love to broaden their perspectives. so occasionally throughout the day, some gryffindors, hufflepuffs, or slytherins will pop in and spice things up and to see their friends. they just have to solve the riddle themselves first.

I also see all the wood in the common room being white, which makes it even brighter. 

there would also be dark blue tapestries with bronze and silver constellations etched onto them. 

they would have their own personal library in there organized by genre, and they would have an art center where students could set up canvases and paint/draw. 

in the library, students could trade and swap out books with each other at any time, and in the art area, it was even encouraged that students could paint on the walls there until inspiration came to them.

basically, the ravenclaw common room is a place where ravenclaws are free to completely be themselves. all their eccentricities are accepted, and there is a place in the common room to support all interests.

“We can’t return to normal, because the normal that we had was precisely the problem.”

See in Hong Kong

SO offensive I can't go to sleep and wake up fluent in Latin. Rude.

The biggest lie I keep telling myself is that I can listen to Shine just once without having to replay it for the next hour

the iliad + the odyssey = the idiocy 

DRAMATIC?? WHO, ME???

says Raskolnikov as he murders two women, teases the investigators to death and then smashes his confession in their faces like some belle dame throws away her glove so her idiotic worshippers can kill each other for it