#dark aestheticism

[romanticfatale]

by Jenny Holzer, 2012.

[dark-longings]

Dante's Inferno, 1967. Ken Russell.

[verademialove]

“I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”

Before Sunset (2004)

[chloepiphany]

[The Picture of Gray by Oscar Wilde / Rêverie dans l'atelier by Émile-Louis Foubert]

[artemis-de-la-lune]

ttpd ft. dps i.e., knox and todd was not on my 2024 bingo card but it wasn't surprising either ahsjskldld max exciteeee

[dallasdoesntexist]

there’s something so beautifully ironic about reading literature about the follies of those who live lives of aestheticism, and then committing your life to that very same idea.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all /

                Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

[yourfavanxioussunshine]

life goal : to get approval from Oscar Wilde's ghost

[legendarycollectiveflower]

Meanwhile Oscar Wilde: *proud dad*

[devilsskettle]

the fact that i have seen multiple posts in a row on my dash that are like “women also can be interested in the roman empire” ….. absolutely ridiculous world that we live in

[beljar]

a sleeping female figure, curled up under a cascade of orange drapery - a figural representation of the unconscious mind.

Flaming June 1895, painting by Frederic Leighton

[rodjanikov]

There are the dark academia girlies who just do it for the aesthetic, and then there are the dark academia girlies who are clinically insane

You are not doing dark academia correctly if you don't belong to the second group

[romanticfatale]

Ann Demeulemeester | Fall 2010 Menswear Photos by Andrew Thomas

[verademialove]

There is so much stubbornness, so much rage, and so much ruthlessness filled in me, yet it amazes me how easily I kneel before the people I love.

[dandifiedstupefied]

all dandy aesthetes are immediately sortable into either 'messy bitch who lives for drama' or 'messy bitch responsible for the drama'

[artemis-de-la-lune]

and i can go anywhere i want anywhere i want, just not home

if you knew where i was walking to a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there

little did you know your home's really only a town you're just a guest in

taylor swift parallels: my tears ricochet, folklore / dear reader, midnights / florida!!!, the tortured poets department

[wrecked-minded]