[queerbookwhore]

The problem with academia is the idea of perfection. The idea that our grades and intelligence define our worth. That if we aren’t perfect we don’t know who we are. I see this culture at my school all the time. The competition for the best grades, for the most work. Kids burn out all the time because we are so invested in what school thinks we need to know rather than what we want to learn. Take a break from your school work and care about something you want to care about, not what they tell you to care about. School doesnt create individuals, so we have to become individuals all by ourselves

[classicsclique]

how do i tell her that (i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. i will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. i will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time. i will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. i will love you if you don’t marry me. i will love you if you marry someone else, and i will love you if you have a child, and i will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and i will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights i prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios i have mentioned. that, beatrice, is how i will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way) in a subtle way?

[academiwitch]

okay so. I've been really low on motivation and all of my plants have been dying and I haven't had time to do my craft so I finally forced myself to clean, repot some plants, and do a quick meditation, and my candle claimed that someone was in the room??? like it was flickering violently and I asked if someone was with me and it flickered and I told it to stop flickering if someone was in the room with me and it did. I then put up a protective bubble and told whatever was in my room that nobody is allowed in without an invite and I'm frankly too busy for this and now my candle says it's gone but that seemed too simple? witchy friends please help

[shinji--moon-deactivated2017123]

What do you think all writers have in common?

an overwhelming and insatiable longing for something more than this

[detailedart]

1. Fallen Angel, by @3rdeyechakra / IG: @bbychakra92 | 2. Fallen Angel, 1868, by Alexandre Cabanel.

[flightlessartist]

felt like drawing some women and some bugs you know how it goes

[relicmeddler]

Morning Routine

[thelogicofthetrance]

Peace, you never seemed so tedious As now – no, never quite like this.

~ Sappho

Views of Galleria Borghese, Rome

[itsanidiom]

“You don’t believe in anything.”

“I believe in you.”

[modern-austen]

— Tu ne crois à rien.

— je crois à toi.

[your-obedient-phantom]

Oh to be a ballroom dancing ghost in the haunted mansion

[renaissance-art]

Botticelli 

[adgb-collected]

[ex0skeletay]

Detail from marble floor, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, Italy, 17th century   

[books-and-studyblr]

Academics

In popular culture: wear tweed/plaid/some sort of bland pattern; often in suits; pristine appearance, maybe with wild hair or ink stains; drink tea and coffee; constantly reading books for work and pleasure; erudite conversationalists; love what they do

Me: mostly wear sweatshirts and leggings with a messy bun because if no one needs to see me then screw getting into nice clothes; my blood is tea at this point; ink stains were surpassed long ago; spend a lot of time crying over theory texts and papers; eat a lot of ice cream and watch a lot of Netflix to avoid work; love what I do

[girlofdogs]

an academy full of selected gifted children who study greek and latin, potentially have super powers, and are morally ambiguous? umbrella academy is dark academia i rest my case

[victorianaest]

To be honest, I want to learn all my life ! Like knowing about forgotten queens or architectural miracles. Studying foldklore and old philosophical beliefs. Learning dead languages and translating The Divine Comedy.

I just want to learn.

[academiwitch]

happy new school year ladies!! let’s all make this the school year we get it into our brains to drink water, not skip meals, and become so academically arrogant that neither our foes nor our imposter syndrome can stop us from acheiving our goals