#can I call this dark academia?

[yourbespokeartisanalapocalypse]

I got the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for Christmas and honestly it's such a gorgeous book I can't resist sharing some of my favourite new words...

[protagonist-art]

"Uh- I'm Arnold. Bennett. It's profoundly difficult to get your lifes works and studies accepted if your name isn't... yes, oh! Are you a fan of moths, sir?"

NEW RDR2 OC!! a reclusive, clumsy entomologist and bug collector; cooped up in his study of uniformed clutter

[gene-forrester]

"But you don't have to worry. He's at peace now."

Like Minds (2006) dir. Gregory J. Read

[x3nshit]

i don’t think true love is about whether or not it lasts forever, but more about how good it is in the present. We can never predict how circumstances are gonna change, but as long as we enjoy it in the now, it will always be true love

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

[solar-halos]

for this mood board monday, i present yet another ficboard. the board in question is of franka by @ongreenergrasses

[unluckylibrary]

After Sappho - Selby Wynn Schwartz (photo by me) / Romaine Brooks - Uma, Lady Troubridge (1924) / Eileen Gray - Sirène Chair / Sappho - Fragment 56 (trans. Anne Carson)

Uncommon light academia book recommendation: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

Told through a series of interweaving vignettes, After Sappho tells the tale of real life feminists who were inspired by the poetry of Sappho

Long listed for the Booker Prize, this book is a piece of modern literature. Almost without plot, it ebbs and flows. Academia and arts, from dance and film to painting and furniture design, are celebrated, along with women who excelled at their crafts. After Sappho feels like an inspiration, as if it encourages the reader to pave their own way in the world, be that through literature or visual arts.

[xx-justsomeguy-xx]

going on pinterest to try and figure out what clothes i wanna draw jeremiah in -> seeing cute outfits and imagining him wearing them -> getting flustered and needing a minute

[lux--nova]

I encountered the funniest phrase I've ever read in a scholarly article yesterday and I had to share it with yall. I will now quote scholarly sources when assessing whether something is tiny, teeny, or teeny-weeny, thank you.

[housefinches]

searching jstor is really just about the friends you make along the way <3

[quokkabum]

“‘They say people are all the same. But the truth is we’re all from different planets. No wonder we can’t understand each other…Isn’t it easier to think of it that way?’

‘But they must exist somewhere in the world. Someone from the same planet. I’ll meet them someday, right?’”

[yizhenslawyer]

okay hear me out. poet!regulus and poem obsessed!james. regulus writes under the pseudonym "inferius" (which he later explains by saying that he felt dead inside and the people around him never noticed that and made a puppet out of him after his "death") and james doesn't find out who he really is just after they start seeing each other. someone please write this or i will and completely butcher this concept

[heartofstanding]

nothing will ever be as funny to me as seeing a post tagged dark academia with a moody, atmospheric photo of... the canterbury tales. specifically, the edition with the wife of bath on the cover. an icon, sure, but not particularly of the dark academia variety. but i'm sure that immortal line, "tee hee quod she", is sure to become one of the top three quotes used in dark academia edits.

[thoughts-reasons]

Twitter

[patronsaintofdelusion]

day in the life

~all photos taken by yours truly~

[transporttoanotherplace]

I finished The Book Thief and I'm not going to be okay for like the next week or so. I'm just going to curl up in my bed and not leave it ever because I need so much time to recover from this.