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aesthetic pleasure seeker

[reinerist]

The Beatrice Letters

[atiqua]

Poetry is just beautified grief.

[so-its-a-writblr-deactivated202]

Me with all the books, photos, playlists, videos, aesthetic boards, mood boards, & other crap I need/want to create my story.

[pir-ado]

x pir-ado x

[nemfrog]

[recaption]

[melisica]

[frachella]

unknown

[dandyelions]

i know i have reblogged this already from someone's post, but i couldn't find it in my profile anymore and i am very much in love with oscar's handwriting. also seeing how much he worked on this novel warms my heart, idk

[electrix-blog]

Beauty for Beauty

“Aestheticism -  late 19th-century European arts movement which centred on the doctrine that art exists for the sake of its beauty alone, and that it need serve no political, didactic, or other purpose”

- an actual movement based on the idea of art for beauty and beauty only. 

[a-fools-feels]

i think we don’t talk about dreams enough.

when we go to bed, our marvellous minds take all the information they have stored during the day, re-examine it, and make up hours and hours of stories and tales to keep us company while we sleep. they take our fears and anxieties, and they try to make them more rational, easier for us to understand. they take all the pleasant events and make us relieve the best moments. they invent new scenarios every day, picking faces of people we’ve seen during the day and using them as characters in our own personal stories.

some find premonitions in dreams, some find relief. some find rest, some find stress. they’re not always good, but they’re unique. if everyone in the world had the same dream as you, there would still be billions of different interpretations, billions of different outcomes.

dreams have been with us since the dawn of time, because our silly, wonderful brains needed to stay active, even when the body seemed to give up from exhaustion. dreams have scared, inspired, accompanied living beings for as long as we’ve existed.

just, dreams. always taken for granted and yet so breath-taking.

[belovedhestia]

CALLING   ALL   MODERN   AESTHETES   AND   DANDIES  

(  or   simply   people   who   would   die   for   beauty )

Thank you for making it this far. Before I proceed, I want to give some context!

I have just entered my last year of high school, and I’m taking an Extension English course which constitutes of a major project that I must send through the the exam centres as part of my coursework.

This is a large, and quite hefty, task. I have chosen to create a moral short-story fiction piece centred on aestheticism, dandyism and the appreciation of beauty. 

A part of the project is to present a detailed logbook outlining the research process, audience, purpose and form of the piece that you are presenting. 

I thought that, by reaching out to my own community and asking a few questions, I would have a chance to stand out, and get to know my target audience a little better. 

If you would like to help me out, then please:

1) When submitting your responses, state your name (it does not have to be your full name if you are uncomfortable with sharing that; a nickname will do just fine) and age.

2) Submit your responses via email to: [email protected]

3) Be as detailed as possible! I’m incredibly interested in all of your answers

4) if you would like to, PLEASE GIVE THIS A REBLOG to spread the word around!

QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:

What does aestheticism mean to you, personally? How does the appreciation and inflation of beauty affect you?

As a 21st century individual, how do you balance aestheticism with the modern world? Do you think that this personal return to values developed in the 19th century is a direct response to a modernised society?

Do you believe that, sometimes, these traditional aesthetic movements may be taken to extremes?

What have been your main inspirations within these communities and movements? For example, to where do you attribute your style, certain interests, mannerisms, etc?

Would you say that the aesthetic and dandy movement is predominantly Western, or has been popularised by Westerners?

Would you personally be interested in seeing a reflection of aestheticism and dandyism in other cultures, religions and non-Western psyches?

What literature attributed to these movements have you enjoyed?

Do you believe there is an inherent disregard for morals within the aesthetic movements, perpetrated by the literature that shaped them (ie; the Picture of Dorian Gray?)

[thesarosperiod]

who gave oscar wilde permission to write stuff like “death must be so beautiful. to lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. to have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. to forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. you can help me. you can open for me the portals of death’s house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is” with such ease? to touch my soul so casually? like who gave him all that talent and can i have some

[alekhachugani]

The feels! I can’t 😫💜

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“But the mind always wants more than it has– one more bright day of sun, one more clear night in bed with the moon; one more hour to get the words right; one more chance for the heart in hiding to emerge from its thicket in dried grasses–as if this quiet day with its tentative light weren’t enough, as if joy weren’t strewn all around.”

— Holly J. Hughes, from “Mind Wanting More,” Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

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“Memory of summer is winter’s consciousness.”

— Weldon Kees, from “Early Winter,” The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees, ed. Donald Justice (University of Nebraska Press, 2003)

[sk-lumen]

Venusian aesthetics:

pale rosegold silk, the softest of materials to wrap around your skin.

rosewater as face mist, perfume, on the pillow for sweeter dreams.

iridescent silver nails, like seashells.

layers of delicate silver/gold necklaces glimmering around the neck, to accentuate its slender length and shape.

rose crystal quartz jewelry sets, for that extra magic.

silver glitter body spray, for a touch of celestial spark.

the sound of oceanwaves, harp melodies, lyre, the soft voices of men and women singing in unison.

sunday morning vibes with sunlight streaming into the room.

handwritten letters to your soulmate, a future lover, a forgotten friend or your child self; letting go of burdens, confessing dreams, sharing reassurances of comfort.

blush-colored faux fur coats.

honoring the temple of your body, offering nourishment which makes it happy, applying your favorite lotion that makes you feel like a goddess.

walking as if you are light and weightless floating aloft, with the assurance of your wide-stretching wings at each side.

[thezeroquotes]

“Let someone love you just the way you are - as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe you must hide of all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

— Marc Hack (via thoughtkick)