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The Secret of Kells (2009)

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The Waterfall Fairy from THE ENCHANTED FOREST (1921), illustrated by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

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study something that makes you happy. i changed majors in my third year of university. i used to have to force myself to classes. i skipped homework. i got average grades. now i get to class early and laugh with my classmates and professors. i stay up late to research more about things we went over in class. my friends can see a change in me since i changed majors. they sit and listen while i tell them all about what i’m learning. seriously, the best advice i can give to any student is to study something that gives you the desire to learn.

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Statue of Apollo covered in tulle netting

A copy of the Greek bronze original by Leochares (330 BCE)

Blanton Museum of Art

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ANCIENT HISTORY STUDENT MOODBOARD

“ So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. ” | Tacitus, Ann. III. 19. 2.

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ATTENTION: 2020 Witch Challenge??

I’m considering running a year-long witchcraft research challenge, but first I’d like to know who’s interested. It’d work like this:

Each month is assigned a topic. Before the month starts, I’ll release information about that months challenge. It’ll involve one task or assignment to complete each week (4 per month) at any time of your choosing. Most of these assignments will involve you posting your findings or final product under the challenge’s hashtag. The idea is that you can then go and read everyone else’s work and learn more that way (e.g. an assignment could be to research and post the properties of a herb of your choosing; you can then read everyone else’s posts to learn more without having to research thirty herbs on your own). I’ll be doing the challenge along with everyone else: the topics will be areas I know enough about to be able to guide the process, but I’ll be learning along with you.

I hope to structure this challenge so that it’s beneficial for all witches, regardless of their skill level. If you’re an expert on a months particular topic, you can drop out of the challenge until the next month. If you’re busy the first month, you can drop in on the second month, or catch up on missed tasks in your spare time. This challenge will be largely theory based, with a few practical components. I’m creating this because I’ve noticed that most of the witchcraft resources available on Tumblr are practical (spells, instructionals, etc.), and there is little attention paid to the why and how of witchcraft. If you don’t know why the spell you’re doing works the way it does, or how the various components affect it, then your craft is inevitably going to be less effective than it could be.

The topics I’m thinking are:

JAN: History of Witchcraft (covering both ancient and modern aspects)

FEB: Elemental Studies

MAR: The Wheel of the Year

APR: Meditation & Mind Skills (shielding, visualisation, etc.)

MAY: Divination

JUN: Astrology

JUL: Spellcraft

AUG: Green Witchcraft

SEP: Religions (a look at the other spiritual practices of the world to better understand our own)

OCT: Mythology

NOV: Locational Studies (how time, place and location affect magick)

DEC: Ritual Magick

I’d appreciate people reblogging (to spread the word) with suggestions and expressions of interest.

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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Hallucinations Cake Batter

Catastrophize Benedictine

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get ready for green academia. its just slytherinism

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tag yourself: weather

Sun-Shower: head held high, so deeply yourself, quick to smile, always offers to help out even when they’re bogged down as it is, wrinkled noses, coolest hair, playful teasing, big goals, float-y flow-y skirts, doing things your own way, brightly and decisively moves ever forward.

Thunder: booming laugh, best intentions, eye-rolling jokes, you always tells your friends you love them (they already know but love that you say it), hard worker, dark blue nail polish chipped at the tips, honest to a fault, you don’t realize you’re stressed until it’s Too Much, not-so-secret romantic, forehead kisses and sweet smelling perfume.

Mist: introspective (and existential), wry smiles and sarcastic jokes, soft blankets wrapped around shoulders, warm spiced tea, black cats, wants to be seen and understood but isn’t always willing to be vulnerable, biting your lip, cares so much it’s nearly unbearable, most beautiful smile, can always make people laugh, you are loved more than you know.

Clouds On The Mountains: artfully independent, self-critical, soul-searching (but still warm) eyes, you give the best (most needed) hugs, always smells good, comfy sweaters, won’t let yourself fall apart until you’re ready to pick yourself back up, softly and gracefully crossing dangerous terrain.

Snowstorm: spontaneous, always running late, happy-go-lucky, gives whoever you’re listening to your full attention (no matter who they are), outlandish (but useful) ideas, oddly gentle smirks, doesn’t often feel truly connected to people—despite making others feel so heard.

Zephyr: softest laugh but so genuine, brown Chelsea boots, kisses on the cheek, playful despite being a bit reserved, a lil stubborn but you’re a good listener, red pea coats and gray accents, the smell of the ocean, hopeful and determined.

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I love all the Dark Academia posts but I haven’t seen any about Dark Science, SO, je présente, dans l'ordre chronologique :

Archimedes (murdered):

Hypatia (murdered):

Galileo (persecuted):

Ada Lovelace (uterine cancer):

Marie Curie (radiation poisoning):

Alan Turing (the cause disputed; the tragedy unequivocal):

If their brilliant, tragic lives aren’t 100% Dark Academia I don’t know what is.

NB My idol Hypatia was Greek (anyone arguing her birthplace will get a lecture on ancient and classical history) so I doubt she had white skin and long, golden tresses but that was the only painting showing her tragedy without making her look pathetic; I was going to show the inquisition of Galileo but god would you look at the suffering in that Rubens painting!; lastly, very many photos of Turing are rather dull for such a great figure so here’s one that show’s the brilliant, mischievous and dapper genius who is my personal GOD of mathematics and computing.

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The Secret Reading List: Books mentioned in The Secret History

If you want to be as erudite and elite as the Classics Clique, you’d better add these books to your reading pile…

Specific prose/poetry/plays mentioned:

Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, Epigraph Republic, Book II by Plato, Epigraph Tom Swift by Victor Appleton, 6 Paradise Lost by John Milton, 8, 91 Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, 33 The New Testament, 36 Agamemnon by Aeschylus, 40 Oresteia by Aeschylus, 40 Inferno by Dante, 41, 115 Poetics by Aristotle, 41 The Iliad by Homer, 41, 627 The Bacchae by Euripides, 42, 204 Parmenides by Plato, 67 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, 85 Rover Boys by Edward Stratemeyer, 85 Journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant, 85 The Club History of London by ?, 85 The Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert, 85 Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope, 85 Marino Faliero by Lord Byron, 85 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, 89 Sherlock Homes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 92, 622 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 94 Mémoires by Duc de Saint-Simon, 103 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 110 Othello by Shakespeare, 115 The World Book Encyclopedia, 117 Men of Thought and Deed by E. Tipton Chatsford Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J. M. Barrie, 180 The Divine Comedy by Dante, 184 Superman Comics, 417 The Upanishads, 441, 466 Perry Mason Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner, 442 With Rue my Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman, 466 Lycidas by John Milton, 466 The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 466 In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, 466 Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, 481 Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 554 The Malcontent by John Marston, 615 The White Devil by John Webster, 615 The Broken Heart by John Ford, epilogue epigraph, 615 Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, 616 The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, 616 Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, 619

Authors mentioned:

J.R.R. Tolkien, 6 Ezra Pound, 16 T.S. Eliot, 16 Alfred Douglas, 18 Robert de Montesquiou, 18 Plato, 22, 36 Homer, 23, 36, 49, 509 Dante, 33 Virgil, 33 Plotinus, 37 Marie Corelli, 85 Shakespeare, 91, 615 Alexander Pope, 103 John Donne, 117 Rupert Brooke, 120 Edgar Allen Poe, 132, 200 Hegel, 139 Raymond Chandler, 153 Gregory of Tours, 481 Thomas Aquinas, 509 P.G. Wodehouse, 538 George Orwell, 576-7 Harold Acton, 577 Salman Rushdie, 582 Agatha Christie, 587 Proust, 612 John Webster, 615 Thomas Middleton, 615 Cyril Tourneur, 615 John Ford, 615 Christopher Marlowe, 615 Walter Raleigh, 615 Thomas Nashe, 615

NB: page numbers correspond to the Popular Penguin Edition.

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falling in love with life again, DA edition

discovering comfort in the grey skies and storm clouds; your morbid sense for beauty fulfilled with the acceptance of where you stand now from where you’ve came.

the sensation of the crackle on your favourite classical record drifting in the air, and you, unafraid, waltz with yourself and the shadows on the walls.

the gothic magic of smiling at the ancient faces and names in your coursework, as you breathe a sense of life into the souls that laid dormant for centuries, waiting for you to open to their page. 

slipping into the tweed jacket you had saved for autumn, as you excitedly walk to the class that you waited in anticipation for all summer, as the calm found as the late autumn wind nestles against your neck.

reciting medieval love sonnets to yourself and digging your hands into the library book sales, as you let your hair down in the eerie mist in the walk home. 

the sacred quiet as you sip on the tea you brewed for yourself in the early hours of the morning, before the sun rises as you are left alone with your favourite author. the sky is lavender and time is nothing more but the steam of your tea gently floating around your lips. 

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Dark Academia // Rainy days at the library

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