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Do you know which Shakespeare play this line is from?

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Coffee?

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Copperplate Calligraphy

In the journey of becoming dark academia--Mr. Darcy --18th century aesthetic trash, I have decided to learn copperplate and or English round hand. I’m not sure if these are umbrella terms but I do plan on doing more research. Does anyone here write in this style or know of blogs that do? 

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a little less lonely with euripides. 

bonus under the cut

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All the cute nicknames Victor Frankenstein called his son throughout the book:

catastrophe 

miserable monster

demoniacal corpse to which I have so miserably given life

an ugly mummy

a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived,

the filthy daemon to whom I have given life

no human

the wretch whom I had created

sight tremendous and abhorred

unearthly ugly being

too horrible for human eyes

miserable head

vile insect

abhorred monster

wretched devil

you, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world

too horrible for human eyes to behold

the filthy mass that moved and talked

wretch whom I dreaded

villain

monster of my creation

fiend

figure most hideous and abhorred

+ bonus - all the cute ways captain Robert Walton described Victor’s son on 1 page:

a form which I cannot find words to describe

never did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness

tremendous being

scary and unearthly in his ugliness

Tag yourself I’m “the filthy mass that moved and talked” 

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

— Charles Dickens

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so, its about time i get my own friendgroup of obsessive, academic, generally like minded people and we all end up falling in love with each other in various semi-tragic combinations, and maybe someone ends up dead but its ok it was for the aesthetic

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copying out some old book notes into my commonplace book with my fountain pen!

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Today’s mood

The odyssey laying heavily annotated on my wooden desk with a burnt yellow mug of black coffee and a long haired blond cat threatening your existence as he chews on a piece of plastic and runs off with the device of his and my ruin.

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Ophelia - John William Waterhouse

》Honey I love you, that's all she wrote

Oh, Ophelia, you've been on my mind girl like a drug

Oh, Ophelia, heaven help a fool who falls in love

Oh, Ophelia, you've been on my mind girl since the flood

Oh, Ophelia, heaven help a fool who falls in love《

Ophelia, The Lumineers

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some of these are pretty broad topics so I’ll expand on some things.

in the lives of great classical composers it would be interesting to cross reference what they had in common. Did they go to school for music composition? where they born to an affluent family? What did they consider to be great inspirations? Who did they look up to?

And for symbolism in art I’d recommend looking into Kant and his whole conspiracy against the academy and how they baked cookie cutter artists. 

Eugene Delacroix also made some strides into the exploitation of POC art. He mentions exoticism and how problematic the romanticism of cultures were. --there was art made of drunk people in the streets and the suicide of a king who killed all of his exotic slaves-- 

Darkly academic research ideas for your time indoors (because you're not a heathen):

The lives of great classical composers.

Ancient Egypt's social hierarchy and attitudes towards women, homosexuality etc.

Poisons.

The tea trade, and how it became so important to British culture.

18th century fashion and the production of clothing.

How corsets aren't the terrible patriarchal torture devices everyone thinks they are.

The use of recreational drugs in the late 19th century.

The French revolution.

Methods of forensic investigation at crime scenes.

Controversy in psychological studies.

Matriarchal societies.

How nostalgia influences fashion, media, and literature.

The nature versus nurture argument.

The history of trains and railroads.

Symbolism in art.

Just a few research rabbit holes to throw yourself into if you're bored. :)

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Might fuck around and annotate some classical literature with notes just a little too cryptic and a tad personal, only to donate it to a used book store in the hopes of someone picking it up and slowly falling in love with me through my writing, left to wonder who was the stranger who poured their heart into this writing.

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Paintings Of Lucrezia Borgia Frank Cadogan Cowper (English, 1877-1958)

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Book + drink + learning = spectacular joy

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Selected poems by Emily Dickinson

Poem 84

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde (via trzykabanosy)

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…maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos…

Florence Welch