Do You Ever Think About How Many Of The Items Now Considered Priceless Artifacts Were Once Commonplace

how to participate in romantic academia

visit the beach, strolling along the sand with a battered paperback in your hands

like a page in your scrapbook with ribbons, beautiful calligraphy and moments that make you smile

write poetry about somebody you've never met before

learn how to perfectly make your favourite drink, practise until you couldn't possibly make it better

write as many letters as you can - to your past self, future self, future friends or lovers - whoever you like

learn phrases that you think are beautiful in another language, even if you don't learn the whole language

overanalyse every book you read, or, only read it once! allow it to hold on to your heart rather than your head

make art with no thought to it, bold strokes, soft pencil marks, whatever speaks to you

dance around your room alone to slow songs and realise you are truly lovely, my dear

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

Jane Austen’s handwritten manuscript of Persuasion

I want the cliche kisses in photo booths. And the candid photos of me when I’m not looking. I want the week long road trips with the windows down and my feet up on the dash. I want hands clenched tight when we’re intimate. I want shared showers the morning after. I want breakfast in nothing but oversized t-shirts. I want tv show marathons with extra buttery popcorn and makeout breaks during commercials. I want “I love you"s and “you’re beautiful"s and my name blended in curse words while you moan. I want time and promise and happiness and intimacy.

what emotion do you write from

homosexuality

The beauty of Over the Garden Wall. 2014, Patrick Mchale.

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche