bizarrolord:

archerofmagnusheart:

queerpyracy:

what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against

for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter

Huck Finn

Everything by Ernest Hemingway. Back when I was in high school I was confused as hell how anyone could find all that crazy symbolism in that goddamn beige-as-wallpaper-paste prose.

The Scarlet Letter and Great Expectations

nintendocafe:

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