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Favorite Reads of 2017: The year has come to an end and so it’s time to present you my favorite reads. At the beginning of the year, I choose to not participate in the reading challenge because it had all become about quantity. If you’d like to see the full 2017 reading list, click here.

“A writer lives within two worlds: the one around them, and the one within them.”

— (via darkness–and–light)

Tag yourself as the dark side of the Marauders

(Warning this is kinda sad)

James Potter: ‘Be My Mistake’ by The 1975

Heart ache and heart break, constant yearning for more, rain racing on window panes, losing those you love, fogged glasses from a cup of coffee, thunderstorms that shake your soul, loneliness and isolation. 

Sirius Black: ‘Come Undone’ by Adam Barnes

A jigsaw piece that doesn’t fit, clouds covering constellations, the ache in your heart, not being able to prove yourself, wind whistling through the trees, doing what is right and yet feeling as though it’s wrong, never being approved. 

Remus Lupin: ‘This Is Home’ by Cavetown

Dreading an event, anxiety and butterflies that feel like eagles, full moons, hating the way you look in the mirror, fog blocking out the hope, the fear of never being loved, walking through the stars at night, cameras that have run out of film. 

Peter Pettigrew: ‘6/10′ by Dodie

Always being the one left out, damp sticks stopping a fire igniting, always last, hunting for approval like a lion hunts for prey, the feeling of lacking something special, dancing on your own, being talked over, broken vinyls. 

the thing i love the most about amy santiago—and there’s a lot—is that the she doesn’t care about being mysterious or cool or any of that crap.

like, there’s a lot of superheroes and doctor whos and sherlocks running around on tv these days, and with all of them, it’s like, you have these moments where you find out that the main dudes are just. Inexplicably Good At Everything.

they can take down a bad guy, bake a perfect soufflé, field strip any firearm in under 30 seconds, and dance an award-winning rumba, and it’s fucking intimidating. it’s like the show runners want to drill the idea into your head that They Are Cool and Better Than You, like, yes fine I get it, you know?

but it’s not like that with amy.

amy doesn’t care about being ‘cool,’ so you don’t have to either.

she knows how to lip read? she probably took a course. she can take down a runner in a dress and high heels? she never missed a self defense class. she can fold a perfect table napkin? she watched a DIY video. she knows about wedding insurance? she made a whole. freaking. binder.

and if you want to be like amy? you CAN.

you absolutely can, and it’ll actually make amy so much more amazing, because then you know how much hard work it took for her to be that good in the first place.

and if she knew you wanted to be like her? amy would definitely cry and then she’d help, and that’s why i think she’s wonderful thanks for coming to my TED talk.

After hard times...

I have been through so many bad moments those last months... Horrible moments.

And now, that those bad things are gone, i am just wondering....

How did i do to stay myself ?