#dark academia
i don’t smoke in a ruin-your-lungs kind of way but in a 70s marauders, dead poets society boys, Henry Winter, flamboyant aristocrat kind of way.
my entire life is torn between wanting to date the extroverted, snarky, sexy badass and wanting to be the extroverted snarky, sexy badass.
dark academia foods;
- bowls of berries
-buttered toast
-roast lamb
-mapo tofu
-parsnips
-scones with cream and jam
-shakshouka
-ratatouille
-roti
-figs
-Lewis Carroll
where is my Jess Mariano?
but sir, those are my emotional support dead wizards from the 70s
Bookshopping <33
idk who needs to hear this today, but…you don’t have to go to university/college. you don’t have to attend higher education. it’s a privilege to be able to do so, thus not everybody can, but even if you have such a privilege, it’s not necessary. education does not equal knowledge or intellect.
ever since i was young (like eight years old) my family would say that if i went to university, i would have better job prospects, and i always went along with it, and it was not until recently that i realised how distorted our view of higher education has become. i do still want to attend university, but for a completely different reason: the endless pursuit of knowledge. i want to go to university because i am utterly confounded and in complete adoration of literature, thus i would like to attend higher education to better understand such a topic. but this isn’t the case for everybody. higher education can be damning to the mental health, can be overly expensive and thus financially damning, can be too stressful, and is most definitely portrayed as a necessity.
the dark academia community is so, so, so guilty of portraying higher education as something everybody has to do!! this is rooted in people saying that they are better than others who chose not to go to university/college. it’s not a human necessity and if you want to go, that’s great! but if you don’t, that’s great too!
you should attend university/college because you want to, not because you feel like you have to.
when they might be giants said “everybody wants a rock” god weren’t they so right
hands.
/ michaelangelo / carvaggio / da vinci / cara thayer & louie van patten /
in a perfect world, i’m slow dancing to two ghosts by harry styles in the rain, in the garden of the cottage me and the guy of my dreams share.
honestly, the fact that i don’t live in a cottage in a riverside town, where everybody knows everybody, working in a bookshop by day and aspiring to be a writer and poet by night with the guy of my dreams, who works at the local bakery and fully supports me and reads everything i write without judgement, with our cat and dog who think they’re siblings by birth (named artemis and apollo respectively) is downright homophobic and i won’t stand for this!!!!
image of richard papen after murdering bunny corcoran (1992) (colourised)
my therapist: so can you tell me why you have cut yourself off from everybody?
me, nodding: the mortifying ordeal of being known
my therapist: no-
gonna go pick a fight with an mlm,,,what’re they gonna do??? be in a car with a beautiful boy?? and he won’t tell them he loves them but he loves them??? and they feel like they’ve done something wrong??? like robbed a liquor store?? or swallowed pills?? or shovelled themselves a grave in the dirt??????
i feel bad for all of the people who followed me for dark academia content because i went through some kind of reverse redemption arc in quarantine and now……..i don’t even know anymore……….
we’re 8 months into 2020 and. i want to dress like a pirate
or did the gods just curse me with low self-esteem because otherwise i would be too powerful?
i want to feel like how the oh hello’s make me feel but on a daily basis.
what is life if not an amalgamation of homoeroticism, the arts, unsolved mysteries, and the never-ending desire to occasionally stop existing?
