flames. on the side of my face

whenever you take too much time to write something know it is because stephen king has been stealing your life force

I need to see the grade, and notes his professor made in red pen, explaining what socialisation means, and why he’s getting an F

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

the women who came before you felt the same injustice boiling in their blood, and they would want you to be brave

I feel like he’s getting the “well he was/is mentally ill and only harmed a Black woman so we who weren’t harmed forgive him” treatment a la Chr*s Brown