BLACK ACADEMIA

blacker than night i.b. • film student • writer this side blog is run by a black woman

[ifewashere]

- fever 103, sylvia plath

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La Sonnambula (aka: Night Shadow), 1946 ballet

[gothish]

a cold december day

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: A page of a play. It reads as follows, "Theseus: Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend. / Herakles: I fear to stain your clothes with blood. / Theseus: Stain them, I don't care." End text.]

Herakles - Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson)

[secretempires]

Dylan Thomas’ Writing Shed, Laugharne

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Pergola with Oranges, c. 1834, Thomas Fearnley (Norwegian, 1802-1842)

[arinewman7]

Bat Brooch

Art Nouveau, European

Gold, plique-à-jour enamel, diamond, c. 1905

[peoplehood-deactivated20211003]

SOULMATES

Lang Leav, Soul Mates / Emery Allen, Become / Dacia Maraini, Dreams of Clytemnestra / Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name / Marina Tsvetaeva, “No one has taken anything away” / Dave Malloy, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

[luxus-aeterna]

𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 | iridessence photography + gold frame photography

[academiastuffs]

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

[sirgawin]

The Holiday (2006) dir. Nancy Meyers

[thefirenze-deactivated20190517]

“Wuthering Heights is surely the most beautiful and most profoundly violent love story. For though Emily Brontë, despite her beauty, appears to have had no experience of love, she had an anguished knowledge of passion. She had the sort of knowledge which links love not only with clarity, but also with violence and death – because death seems to be the truth of love, just as love is the truth of death.”

— Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil (via unangeapasse)

[the-sweet-hopeful-deactivated20]

golden concepts of dark academia: an aesthetic

[antoniettabrandeisova]

Red and White Grapes Growing Against a Brick Wall (detail), Grapes by Giorgio Lucchesi (Italian, 1855–1941)

[xecarez]

[aqua-regia009]

Autumn of Mountain (1993) - Yuqi Wang

[paperstorm]

I found these pictures of women of colour in the 1920s and they made me happy because you see them so rarely in the modern romanticization of this era x