see if they pokemon cards.

and red bull.

so you're really just a vampire. Can't have high amounts of vitamin d.

I knew it.

but cheese makes serotonin

It's a reimagining of Achilles and Patroclus as a romance! The author also wrote one about Circe that's really good

- current reads: a taste of gold and silver and song of achilles

favorite reads: the abhorsen series by garth nix and anything by tamora pierce in her tortall universe

I legit keep going back and forth between shaving my head again or letting my hair grow out more

Yeah that tracks for you

Thank you for reading this far.

I'm emotional and tired.

Why is this such a big deal to me personally?

Because I'm Romani. I didn't know until I was 29 because it was something my family had hidden. It's still not discussed within my family due to shame and fear.

That abuse led him to be cruel, abusive, and obsessive.

He was the SECOND Romani representation I came across. SECOND.

And my last point.

Heathcliff is Romani. It's explicitly mentioned within the first five pages that he is Romani.

His character development hinges on his race as it what lead him to be so abused and racially othered as a child. That abuse and separation is what led him to be the man he is.

Her works consistently get misinterpreted as "dark romance" when they're not. Her novels are tragedies. They're horrors about womanhood in that era.

I've been reading Bronte's work since middle school because I was homebound with illness and had nothing better to do but read. It's one of the reasons one of my areas of speciality in my English Major was Victorian Literature (other one was Shakespearean Lit)