I Never Left My Emo Phase It Just Matured Into Dark Academia Like A Fine Wine

If there's one piece of advice I can give to long distance couples, it's call. Every. Single. Day. If you can facetime/video chat, that's even better. Show up for your partner at the end of every day, be there for them, ask them about their day, laugh and cry together. Just because you're far away from each other, doesn't mean you have to be apart.

“By the time that wretched summer term ended, the only person Remus despised more than Sirius was himself, for continuing to love him just the same.” - All the Young Dudes

I should be a nineteenth century detective, side by side with my charming enemy, solving crime and bickering. But also falling madly in love and becoming who I've always dreamed of being

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current favourite words part I (part II):

• esoteric: likely to be understood or enjoyed by only a few people with a special knowledge or interest

• hubris (greek tragedy): excessive pride towards or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis

• trepidation: great worry or fear about something unpleasant that may happen

• hedonistic: based on the belief that pleasure is the most important thing in life

• decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury

• writhe: respond with great emotional or physical discomfort to (a violent or unpleasant feeling or thought)

• acerbic: (of a person or what they say) critical in a direct and rather cruel way

• sanguine: blood red

When Evelyn Waugh wrote "sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all" and I felt that in my bones.

“I kissed thee ere I killed thee, no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.” 

– 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑜, 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒