#the secret history

times of my life i associate with tsh moments

- september 2020 (the first time i read tsh)

the time richard spent in plano before moving to hampden; hot, dry, waiting for something you crave, utterly alone and fed up

- winter 2021

the winter richard spent alone in the hippie’s warehouse, freezing to death, alone and sinking slowly into the dark

dead poets society academia

ever look at a piece of art and think of how a simple picture, painting, music, or book transcend time. For it to live through generations of generations, era after era, and yet, here it stays, alive and beating. as it captured the hearts of many before, now it beguiles us with the same intensity, even bringing us to tears, knowing that behind each stroke, note, and word is another person’s soul laid bare. gazing in the depths of the Art, we reconcile with the ghost of its creator, drifting and immortal. in a simple glimpse, we became a part of the undying

I am drunk with sleep. I know nothing but the lull of sweet slumber in my mind. I want to be truly awake, feel the pleasure of romance, of poetry idealized in the image of two hands intertwined. The silhouette of shadows coming as one. When will i experience the spark, catch fire and burn with small confessions everyday, as another candle ignites and eases itself in my wandering heart

Henry, Camilla & Charles

I keep my entire life in a set of Moleskine notebooks. I browsed some old ones today and found this dark academia picture in my first notebook from a few years back.

rainy-academia:

G I V E A W A Y - World Poetry Day 2020

I’m giving away this copy of some of Thomas Hardy’s poems from my personal collection. Thomas Hardy was the author that got me interested in literature so it seemed like a natural choice.

Rules:

1.Follow my blog@rainy-academia

2.Reblog this post. If you’re reblogging this on a secondary blog, make sure to tag your main blog so I can verify that you follow me.

The giveaway ends on World Poetry Day (March 21) at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time). The winner will be drawn randomly and I will contact you within a few days.

I will ship internationally.

Only 3 days left to enter the giveaway!

Enter the contest for the chance to win this book.

“What hath night to do with sleep?”

— John Milton, Paradise Lost

juneacademia:

all bitches want is to be yearned for.

it’s me, i’m bitches.

what is a fatal flaw if not a morbid longing for the picturesque?

juneacademia:

I just want to wander a thorn-covered castle by candlelight, write you love letters as a storm thunders outside, and drink red wine as I read poetry by the fire.

romanticise your own existence. 

juneacademia:

When Emily Dickinson said “How dreary to be somebody”, and Daffodils said “It’s been raining inside my head again”, and Oscar Wilde said “Behind sorrow there is always sorrow”.

juneacademia:

fuck literary gatekeeping, read whatever you want.

nobody asked but this is my face

juneacademia:

the inherent romanticism of being thought of.

a lovely, wicked place.

find yourself a lover like a dark night and spilled red wine. one that scrawls poetry along your skin with their lips. love is written all over you.

juneacademia:

Dark Academia Playlist

a little dark, a little whimsical, tunes to make you feel like the main character in a film.

• roslyn — bon iver, st. vincent
• the secret history — the chamber orchestra of london
• les mémoires blessées — dark sanctuary
• into dust — mazzy star
• clair de lune, l. 32 — claude debussy
• show me how — men i trust
• eyes on fire — blue foundation
• over the moon — the marías
• falling asleep with a book on your chest — lullatone
• solo — five mile town
• tchaikovsky: swan lake — pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky
• altogether — slowdive
• cigar & a 78 — five mile town
• visions of gideon — sufjan stevens
• thinking of you — cosmic child
• headache — grouper
• if i’m asleep — five mile town
• dark — daffodils

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fuck literary gatekeeping, read whatever you want.