#light academia aesthetic

[shakespearesdaughters]

[academia-lucifer]

@academia-lucifer

[gardenofafterthoughts]

14/04/24

"[...] to dream has been the business of my life."

- Edgar Allan Poe; Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, "The Visionary"

[archaic-stranger]

the latin students

sheets of parchment grown brittle with age

practicing verb conjugations until you know them by heart

the faint, dusty smell of an old church

reading of long-ago battles, preserved in history

tracing the outlines of the roman empire on a map

learning the story of romulus and remus

dried fruit and a goblet of wine

the cramped, elaborate letters of a medieval manuscript

the tragedy of pompeii, brought to life in museum displays and historical accounts

walking through ruins, spaces treasured over the centuries

perfecting your grammar, seeing how all the different pieces fit together

latin phrases scribbled in the margins of all your notebooks

bringing new life to a dead language

a calligraphy pen sliding gracefully across the page

reading of new archaeological discoveries

mosaics and frescoes still vibrant after hundreds of years underground

noun declensions running through your head

elegant statues, still beautiful after millenia

getting a window not only into antiquity, but into hundreds of years of european history

celebrating the ides of march with your friends

[canihaveyouback]

In the silence of love's absence, echoes of loneliness resound

[secrets-i-whisper-to-the-moon]

[wedarkacademia]

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[dark-romantics]

~ Augusto Cury

[chillpotato]

Mieko Kawakami, from 'Heaven'

[rainreads]

"Tired" by Langston Hughes.

[happyheidi]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. April will bring blessings.

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[shakespearesdaughters]

~Source Pinterest~

[blumenundpoesie]

in dedication to summer rain and the smell of petrichor

[gardenofafterthoughts]

14/04/24

"The flowers have come, and are adorable, dusky, tortured passionate like you -"

- Virginia Woolf; from a letter to Vita Sackville-West

[pixieverse-icedtea]

do you want to be a bookstore owner, cafe owner or a flower shop owner

[secrets-i-whisper-to-the-moon]

Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice